Osomatsu-san the top-ranked series of the Fall? SHEEEH! Anime is a funny old thing, sometimes. Here I was thinking Osomatsu-san was going to be a niche title at best, maybe not even subtitled or streamed, and now it seems a lock to be the biggest surprise hit of the season. […] Read more
“Slack-jawed” is not a self-description I use too often when watching anime. But this show… Did that episode really just happen? I mean – damn. Osomatsu-san had already stamped itself as a dark comedy, but holy crap, that ep just grabbed the audience by the back of the head and […] Read more
When you get down to it, this series is some pretty dark stuff. If nothing else (and in truth, there actually is a lot else) Osomatsu-san is making me very curious about the original – it can’t be this out there, can it? This show is a black comedy to […] Read more
Who knew Osomatsu-san was going to be such a black comedy? Osomatsu-san – 03: This show is, if anything, getting weirder. And filthier too. With a switch to the short vignette format this week (seemingly temporary) inevitably the episode is going to have more ups and downs. The “Saw” spoof […] Read more
Context is important, but humor can be universal. It’s funny the things that strike a chord with you in watching anime, and how that impacts the experience of watching it. I have very little knowledge of the original Osomatsu-kun, as I said last week – and one of the remarkable […] Read more
Osomatsu-san may put your conventional ideas of how comedy works to the test. Osomatsu-san is the first of my sleeper picks this season (well – I only had two, and one of them turned out to be a short), and it delivers the goods with the funniest episode of the […] Read more