For Tsuritama fans, you can always go home again. I decided to pay another visit to Enoshima on my last day of Spring break. I’ve been fighting a nasty cold but I was able to make the trip thanks to the wonders of Japanese ibuprofen, which contains lots of caffeine […] Read more
Sometimes the reality lives up to the fantasy. This post was derailed by my untimely meeting with e.coli (or his cousin salmonella) but before I fell ill I’d spent the day on a return trip to Kamakura, wanting a chance to revisit on a sunny day and take things at […] Read more
Sucks to be a dude, ‘Cause Kokoro and Tari, Ain’t Tsuritama Read more
It’s fitting that a series that delivered more happiness per minute than any I can remember should deliver a pleasant surprise right after it finishes airing… In my series review for Tsuritama I said, “I haven’t totally given up hope that Tsuritama could surprise and do pretty decently by NoitaminA’s meager standards […] Read more
If you distilled pure happiness into 22 weekly minutes of sight and sound, you’d have something a lot like Tsuritama. There was an interesting moment during a Twitter Q & A today where someone asked the Tsuritama staff if they had any belief that the show would be commercially successful. […] Read more
What’s the worst thing about falling in love with an anime like Tsuritama? It ends. Leave it to the show that got pretty much everything right to triumph over the top boss that menaces every anime with aspirations – the ending. Needless to say, endings are really, really, hard – […] Read more
Can there really be only one more week to go? As the best series of the best season in the last few years winds down, I find I want to say less and less about it. Or rather, I need to say less, because Tsuritama leaves so little to chance […] Read more
“Defensive Universal Confrontation Keeprs”. The more you know. Every season (if I’m lucky) there’s one show that I totally and unreservedly love, and no matter how much I admire and enjoy the other top series, that feeling is always unique to that one show. Chihayafuru, Cross Game, Ikoku Meiro… For […] Read more
Though the plot is really heating up, I can already see Tsuritama returning squarely to its roots for the final arc. I’m hard-pressed to think of a show that’s been as consistent as this one has. Though there have certainly been stylistic changes, the overall quality has been remarkably stable […] Read more