Osamake is now an experiment, the series has effectively deteriorated into a test of mental fortitude as its ability to churn out creatively bankrupt text and banal characterization is evidently, only getting stronger.
Riding on firm storytelling fundamentals can still consistently steer your twenty minutes of content into pleasant places, especially if that content is orchestrated in a way where it speaks for itself.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song returns in impressive fashion, summoning the theatricality of its very early material and glazing it over with a level of empathy that’s reminiscent of the Sunrise arc’s bigger narrative strokes.
Shadows House returns with a pleasing third episode, plump with a variety of smaller assets that generally make methodical narratives like this work.
Fumetsu no Anata e finally gets started and the wait was well worth it – already beginning to glisten with the particular blend of sensitive properties that make Ooima’s writing internally click and succeed.
Yes, he’s 26, and yes she’s 17 – all preconceived notions of age gap will instantly be in play for viewers, but the premiere of Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou is fairly solid in terms of build and delivery regardless of where those assumptions fall.
While we still have some lingering Winter shows wrapping up, leading us off is Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song which delivers a praiseworthy premiere, neatly painted in smooth narrative strokes and aesthetic embellishments.