Atsushi just tries to be a good little boy but it rarely works out that way for him.
What They Say:
The new teacher, Nukimura is uncomfortable with Atushi… size. But it’s not just Nukimura, the local P.T. doesn’t understand him.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After focusing a bit on Atsumi, this episode of Recorder and Randsell focuses on Atsumi to awkward effect. While dealing with Atsumi and her short nature is something that can be dealt with easily, there’ something more uncomfortable for people in dealing with a student that’s either as tall as them or taller and looks like a healthy twenty-something adult. It’s certainly not Atsushi’s fault that he’s this way and most of the time he doesn’t even realize things, nor does most of his friends. With the female teacher they have that transferred recently, from an all girls school no less, his actions just freak her out on a regular basis. Which is definitely awkward when it comes to him changing in the classroom with others and being just as outgoing as he always is. And similar to what happened to him ant Atsumi before, he can’t walk with girls his own age because he’s viewed as a real threat or predator. They’re playing it for laughs but there’s such an edge of sadness to his stories that’s just uncomfortable.
In Summary:
While that Atsumi segments of the series have been kind of cute to watch and inoffensive for the most part, the Atsushi segments are really hard to figure out because it’s whole design seems to be to freak people out to some degree. Or to just show that Atsushi has it the hardest to deal with, especially when it comes to people familiar with him. We get to see that through the new teacher and the people on the street that sees him with a classmate of his and gets the wrong idea. What the show needs to do a bit more for Atsushi though is to show him with his friends, like we’ve seen with Atsumi, in order to show that there are people that do get him and his situation. By just showing the negative like they do, it just makes watching him kind of painful to say the least.
Grade: C
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Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
