Holy mackerel! I think it’s inevitable that a series that goes for volume laughs the way Osomatsu-san does is going to have some ups and downs, and for me this episode was a bit of a valley.  There have been mostly peaks so far so the occasional letdown isn’t remotely […] Read more

Nope, not my imagination – it’s definitely getting weirder. If you’d told me two months ago that Osomatsu-san was going to be a bigger hit than Haikyuu’s second season, I would have laughed almost as hard as I laughed watching this episode.  But impossibly enough that’s exactly what Stalker is […] Read more

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

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