Well – mostly. Hard to believe it’s my second New Year’s in Tokyo already. I actually have a TV this time, so I decided to start out with the classic Japanese New Year’s Eve tradition – the Kouhaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Song Competition) on NTV. It would be […] Read more
That was the simple and profound ending that Gingitsune richly deserved. I was deeply moved by the last moments of this episode, and when a show can do that to me without anything overtly emotional happening, I know the writing is top-notch. It’s obvious enough why someone might be moved […] Read more
What a truly wonderful little series Gingitsune has turned out to be. Every season as a show that eclipses all the others in how much my esteem for it grows during its run, and this season it’s definitely this one. Part of it is that Gingitsune has legitimately gotten better […] Read more
It’s not how much plot you have, it’s what you do with it. Gingitsune continues to prove itself to be supremely adept at presenting the pure slice-of-life format in many different permutations. In a sense this episode is to the endless schoolgirl kuuki-kei series clogging our screens as Danshi Koukousei […] Read more
Someone really needs to take Miki Shinichirou down a notch or two – he’s just making everybody else look mediocre lately. Once again, I can only offer no defense of Gingitsune, only the same explanation I gave last week – this sort of thing either works for you or it […] Read more
My name is Guardian Enzo, and I admit it – I really liked this episode. If I’d read a detailed description of this episode before I watched it, or hell, even the whole script, I would have bet a considerable sum of money that I wouldn’t have liked it as […] Read more
This show is a kind of “The more you know” for Japanese spiritualism… This episode certainly didn’t pack the kind of emotional punch the last few have, but that’s fine – it didn’t try to. You wouldn’t want that kind of gravity for 13 episodes, I don’t think – especially […] Read more
It’s hard to believe I ever had any doubts about Gingitsune given how I feel about it right now. The trajectory for this show has been unidirectional since the third episode, straight up. And so has been my affection for it. I went into this season solidly ranking it as […] Read more
OK, I admit it, that one got to me a little bit. I think it should be said up-front, Gingitsune is not a show for cynics. At least, it’s not for cynics who don’t welcome the opportunity to check their cynicism at the door once in a while and bask […] Read more
I placed a lot of expectations for my future interest in Gingitsune in this episode, and thankfully it delivered. Some series are love at first sight, some more of a slow build. It’s definitely been the latter for me with Gingitsune, which started out with a couple of episodes which […] Read more