The Great Pretender Part 1
Here's the thing with this anime. I really wanted to like it cause by now if you're a loyal reader then you know how much I love con artist shows so I decided to wait until the full first half of the season was out on Netflix to watch it rather than trying to bootleg it and now that I've finally watched the whole chunk, I have to say that it was fun enough. I really liked the concept obviously and I loved the style choice of throwing in different languages and accents to fit the idea of these being an international ring of con artists but I kinda wish that we had stuck to it rather than wimping out after 10 minutes or so. The cons started out rough cause I wasn't especially interested in the first con but after a while I was able to settle in though I can't help but wonder if maybe it would have been better to have shorter cons so instead of 2.5 hours per con, one hour would do. That's about as long as a Leverage episode or a Confidence Man: JP episode and those con artist shows did plenty well. That way we could have focused a bit more on the characters who we could have gotten to know better cause we waited so long to introduce Abby and Cynthia's backstories and by that point I wasn't all that interested anymore. I know the plan is to break up the season into two parts (so we'll get the second chunk on Netflix around December or January) but I can't decide if that reason makes up for my problems especially since I didn't realize that there would be two parts until after I finished this first part. I did think was hilarious that Edamara kept trying to back out of cons and go straight but kept coming back like Boku did in Confidence Man: JP! Overall I don't think this will go on a list of my favorite anime of all time but I want to give it props for even trying out a concept like this.
Fruits Basket Season 2 Episode 21
Wow this episode guys! I think you know by now that I'm not especially a fan of Yuki and on the list of Sohmas I'd rather watch, he's fairly low so I was worried that with this being a Yuki-centric episode that I would be a little bored but in the end I shouldn't have been surprised cause this is Fruits Basket and if they could only do one thing right it's sad backstories! It's totally funny cause when I heard this was going to be a Yuki backstory episode, my first thought was that I thought we already knew his backstory but this filled in some of the gaps and also gave us the story behind the hat that Tohru keeps too. At first it seemed like Akito wasn't the horrible person he is now but over time he became terrible so part of me feels for Akito cause I'm sure that whenever we get his backstory that we'll see some horrible moments but the rest of me refuses to feel pity cause Akito took all the pain he was under and hurt others and that's not right. I did adore that all baby Yuki was a friend and that he was desperate for baby Kyo to like him but baby Kyo and current Kyo as well viewed Yuki as the reason for his misery and now all I want is for the two to actually talk and bond and become friends! It was also interesting that the hat that Tohru had was actually Kyo's but that Yuki was wearing it when they ran into each other cause we know from a previous episode that Kyo knew Kyoko which makes me wonder if Tohru knew him too but just didn't know that it was Kyo. I also want to shout out the fact that I called it last week when I said that Yuki sees Tohru in a motherly sense cause I was totally right. I'll also have you know that I'm holding back a joke about Kyo and being a dad cause this is a classy joint and all that.
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