Nothing is worse than a song stuck in your head that you hate.
What They Say:
“The Lantern Festival Should Be Round”
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Cats and baskets and boxes is always a favorite thing of mine, though I have a cat that has no interest in either which is just bizarre. We get some cute stuff at the start here with Poyo being all part of a basket design for a bit, but it then shifts to Kuro’s owner who talks about how her cat handled baskets when she was a child. Since that was back during World War II, it has an amusing twist to it with why she didn’t like baskets. The show also shifts gears well to spend time on the festival that’s coming up and some of the silliness of it with the song that’s sung and how dangerously addictive it can be. Seeing the men freak out over it once Moe starts to sing it is priceless since they know it’ll be stuck in their heads.
In Summary:
Poyopoyo has some cute moments here and the cat himself is well used in certain places with the whole fur standing on edge gag, but the episode as a whole just feels weak and less defined than it should be. It has the requisite number of cute gags to be sure but it’s not really standing out beyond that. Something just didn’t click well here for me, though I did smile and enjoy a lot of it. It just didn’t have that extra oomph or enough Poyo to really drive it home as a very fun episode.
Grade: B-
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.
