Dat hair… Tsuritama, as usual, proves pretty adept at jerking my emotions around.  It has an interesting habit of giving you massive amounts of exposition and plot development in short bursts, and spending the rest of the time squarely focused on developing the character interactions at a leisurely pace.  What […] Read more

Please, NoitaminA store – sell Duck-brellas! I don’t think there’s any question that Tsuritama is the most emotionally dense and emotionally accurate show of the season for me.  I’m continually astonished at the utterly natural way the characters’ feelings for each other develop and change, and at the sheer amount […] Read more

The questions sure piled up this week, but there weren’t many answers to go with them. A funny thing happened without my really realizing it – in spite of all the terrific anime this spring, Tsuritama became my favorite new series.  It’s certainly the one I look forward to most […] Read more

How is it possible for an anime to make me smile so much in 22 minutes? It occurs to me in watching Tsuritama that if the four main characters were girls, this series would likely be hugely popular.  It’s superb on so many levels and quite unique, and deserving of […] Read more

There’s so much infectious warmth in the air, there are definitely times when  I really wonder if Tsuritama could possibly be a Nakamura Kenji series. I hear this show get referred to as a “slice of life” an awful lot.  Part of it is just that the term has become […] Read more

In a season full of quality anime of all styles and genres, Tsuritama remains strangely and wonderfully different from all the rest. I love the fact that Tsuritama is so markedly different from anything that Nakamura Kenji has done before, yet still retains the essence of who he is as […] Read more

Do I love Tsuritama after two episodes?  “Yes!” Ryan commented here last week that the premiere reminded him of Wes Anderson, and I think that was an excellent call.  There’s a very definite “Rushmore” feel to Tsuritama – from the focus on the perverse side of adolescent life to the […] Read more