Sakurasou’s struggle with itself might just be more interesting than anything its characters are struggling with. OP2: “Yume no Tsuzuki” (夢の続き) by Konomi Suzuki Cour 2 (or more accurately, what feels like season 3) of Sakurasou kicks off with an episode that takes us squarely down the RomCom path, complete […] Read more
Oklahoma isn’t the only place where the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye. Sakurasou is another series that probably had one more week to make up my mind for me one way or the other – and darned if it didn’t do a pretty good job of it. […] Read more
These two series are a textbook example of extremely different approaches to storytelling. Kamisama Hajimemashita – 11 Kamisama Kiss continues to be a marvel of consistency, providing solid entertainment every week while maintaining a near-perfect balance between humor and emotional depth. It’s easy to see that this is the work […] Read more
Hey – 12/12/12! How about that. Last one of the Century, Kids – seize the day. Most of you have a lot more of it left than we do here in Japan. Sakurasou no Pet no Kanoujou – 10 I don’t think there’s any doubt that this episode is another […] Read more
A wild hikikomori appeared. I won’t deny a bit if trepidation based on last week’s preview, but that was mostly unfounded – we didn’t have another Yuuko atrocity on our hands with Rita Einswoltz (Kawasumi Ayako). Rita (despite looking about ten years older) was Mashiro’s roommate when she lived in […] Read more
Whatever else you may think about it, watching Sakurasou is certainly never a boring experience. As this episode played out, I was reminded of the start of the old nursery rhyme “There Was a Little Girl” (actually a poem by Longfellow): There was a little girl, who had a little […] Read more
Alas, sunk by my own words… The waters the series is sailing into with that character are riddled with some very obvious mines, but I’m not going to assume the worst – Sakurasou is certainly well-written enough at its best to avoid most of them. Well, it was a nice […] Read more
That episode didn’t do much to clarify my uncertainty over what sort of series Sakurasou intends to be over the next few months. I might be swimming upstream on this, but the Nanami arc felt like a step backwards to me. It’s not so much that the last couple of […] Read more
The inevitable triangle seems finally to be upon us, and so far I’m not in love with where it seems to be taking Sakurasou. I’ve had the nagging feeling for a while that Sakurasou was a series torn between two impulses – one, to be a somewhat radical and certainly unusual […] Read more
Well, that was out first strong series finale of the season. Wait – it’s still October?? Sakurasou is a lot of things, most simply a very good anime. But it’s also an interesting mass of contradictions and an intriguing mix of genres. It really strikes me that this is a […] Read more