The first season draws to a close, but only to prepare for a second!
What They Say:
It is safety week and Atushi’s teacher encourages him to make himself known to the police and volunteers. What can possibly go wrong?
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With the season finale of Recorder and Randsell, which will have no gap before it goe sinto its second season, it’s again focused on Atsushi as he deals with his school life. Things are certainly complicated there in general but it’s even more so when he gets involved with the traffic safety side that has come up as part of a school event. While outside dealing with some of the officers running it, he does everyhting he’s supposed to do but the cute young woman running one of the points feels like he’s coming onto her and simply panics. Naturally, that goes bad and things go even worse again in a hugely predictable way the next day when he’s with Hina as nobody amongst the normals can understand his condition, making it easier to arrest him on a regular basis. It’s a cute gag the first time it hit but they use it so often in such a short span of time that it loses its effectiveness.
In Summary:
After this first season, I’m really still not sure what to make of this show. It certainly has some potential with what it can do but it seems to just get mired in the same gags over and over. Some of it has to just be the length that it runs but you can’t help but feel that it’s not sure how to adapt the original material. Or that the original material really is the same thing over and over, which is cute for a little while but then just bores you. With a second season not only greenlit but hitting next week, there’s no real break in the show and it’s certainly an easy enough one to check in on and see what it does. But it’s also not something that demands you watch it, which is unfortunate as it could have done some good, sharp and biting things.
Grade: C-
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Streamed By: Crunchyroll
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.