Comments on: Minami-ke Okawari: when second helpings don’t taste as good

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:33:48 +0000

Episode 7 and 8 were pretty good, Episode 9 had the epic Hosaka-ke incident… then things went downhill again, although they had a nice bright spot in Episode 13 with Mako-chan showing up at school… as Mako-chan. I can’t believe they didn’t make more of that, in order to focus on Fuyuki. That, and Episode 10 did refer back to the last season’s Episode 13 with the Juice Incident.

Kana’s frightened expression makes it VERY clear she remembers what Hayami-senpai Did Last New Years. The ‘ohshitnotagainnotAGAIN!’ face did the trick for me… but they failed to capitalize on the opportunity.

Mako-chan got the most development of anyone in Okawari… which is a bit of a shame, since it meant they could beat his Mako-chan into the ground, even if it had its moments like Episode 4’s discovery of fetish clothing, and Episode 6’s meidofuku. Which returned in Episode 13.

By: Hanners

Hanners — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:30:51 +0000

I think the only episodes I really liked of this were the last couple, where there was almost (shock, horror!) some kind of plot for a few minutes. Aside from that, I still liked the main trio of characters as personalities, but grew increasingly frustrated at the writers inability to actually do anything with them, it was a real waste.

For me, this second helping was more akin to an air pie with no pastry.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:49:44 +0000

Things got better about a third of the way through… just because Fuyuki didn’t show up, and we got some of the old style humor back. Then they had to bring him back in, and add ‘drama’… which was then forgotten about all the way till the last episode or so.

I think the best episode of Okawari has to be the pool one, if only because Chiaki got to be violent with everyone, and we had a REAL Hosaka delusion, complete with imagined Haruka. And Fundoshi men.

By: manga

manga — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:59:45 +0000

Well, I haven´t finished the first season yet, but I do feel that I won´t be watching the second series since it just feels so weird and bad.

And sure, Mako cakes are a lot to watch and all that “hey in reality I´m a girl but I dress like a guy!!” was fun the first time. But now? Nah.