![]() ![]() If nothing else fairly believable basketball is pretty much my hand-stamp for entry with Ahiru no Sora. Things did get better after that distressing moment, but the jury is still very much out in the department as far as I’m concerned. ![]() Other than that it was another pretty solid, entertaining if unspectacular episode. I’m still having a bit of a struggle relating to Sora as a protagonist both because of the performance and how familiar the archetype is, but Momoharu has possibilities. Even more, Chiaki remains the one that really interests me and I’m quite interested in seeing what happens when he steps on the court. He looks like a back to the basket, old-school center to me, but I suspect he has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. As to covering future episodes, we’ll see – I may need to buy-in a little more to feel motivated, but I’ll be watching at the very least. There’s a chance this will be my last write-up on Radiant too, though it likewise airs on a slow anime day so the bar is a little lower. I’m enjoying the second season but it’s not wowing me, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything on the level of the best parts of the Rumble Town arc. We also haven’t seen Dragunov for a couple of weeks, and his considerable screen presence is missed. I’m noticing that the pacing this season is strikingly more deliberate than it was the first. I suspect this all ties back to it being much more faithful to the manga, and in general I’d say this is a positive change. It does require a bit of an adjustment though after the jackhammer plot progression of S1. Speaking of that fall – is it me, or is the Draccoon totally like something out of AtLA? Caislean Merlin has been rather a leisurely stroll so far, despite the tumble Seth took at the close of the last episode – things are being allowed to develop at their own pace. My favorite part of this ep, I think, was that odd and strangely captivating conversation between Seth and Grimm. Grimm isn’t exactly the life advice sort of adult, but I was struck when he responded to Seth’s expression of his envy over Grimm’s ability to hide his presence by noting the cost – the “distance” between he and society. He was clearly trying to teach the boy a little lesson there, and that’s definitely the softest moment we’ve seen from Grimm – who’s quite an interesting and mysterious character on the whole. Of the three shows in this post, I think No Guns Life is probably the one I’m most likely to continue covering.
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