After a while, all these endings just cut right through you. It figured that Gugure! Kukkuri-san would be the sort of show that’s good at endings – if you’ve seen enough anime you’ll know what I mean – and indeed, it delivered one that checked all the boxes and then […] Read more
Thank goodness the Tengu wasn’t around for all that. More than with any other series this season, I think, I find myself fervently hoping Gugure! Kokkuri-san gets a sequel. I like it very much, of course, but more than anything it just feels like this story has only scratched the […] Read more
There’s a lot more to Gugure! Kokkuri-san than meets the eye. Every season seems to have a series that sneaks up on you – the kind that seems pleasant and relatively trivial at-first, but eventually reveals a depth that surprises you the moment the reality of it hits. These kind […] Read more
How can 22 minutes of that not leave you smiling? Gugure! Kokkuri-san does the expected every week – make me smile consistently, and occasionally LOL. And this week it did the impossible, which was make me feel sorry for Inugami (though not by glossing over his true nature for plot […] Read more
Damn, that was one specific curse. This is an odd sort of show, the kind (always welcome) that doesn’t lend itself to easy characterization. More and more these days production committees want to churn out series that slot very nearly into demographic boxes, but it isn’t immediately obvious what box […] Read more
Yes, that is a Gugure! Kokkuri-san label. A commitment at last? So, nano desu. I was worried that the comedy well was going to run dry with this series, but it seems a pretty safe bet now that’s not going to happen – we’re already over halfway through and if […] Read more
This may be a weak season, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been pleasant surprises – and Gugure! Kokkuri-san is definitely one of them. This certainly wasn’t the funniest episode of Kokkuri-san, but it may just have been my favorite. There’s always been a creeping sense of something dark lurking […] Read more
G! K-s certainly gets full points for absurdity. This episode didn’t make too much of an impression on me, so I don’t have a whole lot to say. It was perfectly amusing and entertaining, but not nearly as interesting – or intermittently hilarious – as last week’s gem. I’d have […] Read more
In blogging terms, it looks like these series are two ships passing in the night. Gugure! Kokkuri-san – 04 Well, that was certainly an unexpected development. Going into this episode I really felt like this show was in need of some fresh ideas – Episode 3 had a whiff of […] Read more
Three episodes isn’t always enough… Gugure! Kokkuri-san – 03 Gugure! Kokkuri-san is going to be a tough series to decide on, blogging-wise. I definitely like it, but my concern from the beginning was whether the humor here would be a little one-note and hard to sustain over a full cour. […] Read more