Of all people, it was Furuya-kun who best summed up this episode of Space Brothers. I was wondering how Uchuu Kyoudai could possibly follow up the emotional crescendo of last week’s episode, which hit me like a freight train. I should know by now not to doubt, because between the […] Read more
That was definitely a three-hankie episode. I’m still not happy about the way the moment was teased and delayed, which felt a little bit beneath Uchuu Kyoudai’s usual standards. But if there’s one thing I have to say about this show, it’s that it gets the big emotional moments just […] Read more
The wait continues… To be honest, I was very tempted to watch the preview first this week, as it was the part of the episode I was most looking-forward to. I went in a little peeved at the way the Mutta storyline is being teased and delayed, which feels cheap […] Read more
Truth be told, I’m a little worried about where Space Brothers is headed from here. This is without question one of my favorite shows of 2012, but when your favorite moment of the episode is the sign-off from Sanpei Yuuko after the preview (“Nan ja kore??”), you know it wasn’t […] Read more
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that cliffhanger coming. The decline of public interest in the space program has been the source of a lot of sadness for me over the years. There was once a time when Americans were glued to their TV screens every time anything NASA-related […] Read more
“I feel so light. No weight on my legs… No weight on my chest.” I’d like to say I wondered if this episode would break me down, but I pretty much knew that it would – it was really more a question of what would be the trigger. And interestingly, […] Read more
Another week, another gem. Ho, hum. One of the things that stands out about Space Brothers is the attention to detail – not in the animation (I love the space shots but the backgrounds do get a little fuzzy in four-cour anime with limited Blu-ray sales) but in the writing. […] Read more
There are a couple of currently airing series where the gap between how brilliant they are and how much discussion they get is particularly large, and Space Brothers is definitely one of them. And I confess, I’m guilty myself. An interesting bit of trivia about this week’s episode: astronaut Hoshide […] Read more
Having scene the Space Brothers live-action film I sort of knew what to expect this week, but the anime version definitely exceeded the film – and my expectations. In some ways, this is the moment Uchuu Kyoudai has been building up to for 30 episodes. It sounds funny to say […] Read more
The tension level jumped quite a number of notches this week, that’s for sure. If anything, this week’s episode was about confronting the elephants in the room that Space Brothers has been avoiding to some extent up to now. In the first instance, the nerves of the family members as […] Read more