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What They Say:
Urawa no Usagi-chan is an original series centered around the daily lives of 8 girls in junior high school in Saitama prefecture’s Urawa district. Usagi, Tokiwa, Minami, Sakura, Midori, Kojika, Saiko, Misono – Enjoy watching their unique personalities play off against each other as their fun-filled school life unfolds.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
The opening installment of this series had its pluses for me in that it was certainly relaxed, and my general curiosity with Japan even after all these years made it so that I enjoyed the tourism aspect with the live action visuals with anime coloring over it. Story wise, there’s not much here, though we got to meet Usagi and a few of the others that populates the show. Here, it’s just the simple kind of interactions that exist as it gets underway with mild humor about speech patterns with Minami in talking about Tokiwa, which has some fun since Minami goes on about how Tokiwa is like an ogre. Again, there’s not a lot here but we get the kind of simple youthful light look at these kids and their high school lives.
In Summary:
I can’t say I had any real expectations about this series since it was promoted as a tourism kind of thing and there was almost no publicity about it beforehand that was noticed. With Usagi as its central focus, we get a few character interactions here that gets us a little more familiar with the archetypes as they exist and it works well enough in that kind of light touch aspect. There’s no depth to be had here, nor any real characterization, but it provides a kind of smiling and empty calorie kind of show that’s easy on the eyes and little else. Which amid so many other shows, it certainly makes for a bit of a break.
Grade: B-
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
