Mikan Watch #137: Senko-san
From episode 1 of The Helpful Fox Senko-san. I think Author pointed this one out to me – it’s certainly not a show I watched personally, at least!
Anyway, full of busy today, so I’ll leave this one at that!
Anyway, full of busy today, so I’ll leave this one at that!
Although it is, I guess, worth noting that the show is based on a novel by Sachiko Kashiwaba. I have no idea how faithful it is to that book, admittedly, though in general I get the feeling that Kashiwaba is one of those authors that is so widely read among at least the folks that direct Japanese childrens cartoons that her influence is likely all over the stuff that isn’t even explicitly based on her books. Heck, there was a bit of an old to-do over Spirited Away bearing more than a little resemblance to one of her novels, even.
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Which isn’t to say that I don’t ever go back to some of this stuff – Medarot is one of those things that I’ve been sporadically picking off an episode or two of whenever I have an idle half-hour with nothing current or higher-priority to watch. Which is to say, I watch an episode maybe once every two months, mostly when one of the definitive anime sorts brings up how good/interesting its animation was again.
I’ll get around to finishing it one day. It might be in 2030, though.