UlasanAnime.com – Revisiting Full Metal Panic – Fumoffu feels timely, perhaps enough to warrant a blog post.
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Kyoto Animation’s latest comedy, Lucky Star, seems to have captured the attention of some viewers.
A while ago, over a year by now, a popular media retail chain was undergoing closure. I visited one of their more urban branches and found some volume 1+box sets gathering dust at a reduced price. As a small reward for finishing school and enjoying a few days of break, I watched it on television. This would be my third or fourth time enduring the overly energetic, tsundere performance of Satsuki Yukino as an animated counter-terrorist with otherworldly antics.
With the unusual news of a director change for Lucky Star, it occurred to me to re-evaluate just how funny Fumoffu truly is, rather than relying on my perhaps overly positive memory of it. It felt like killing two birds with one stone. I’ve also been feeling a bit listless lately, spending too much time staring at the computer, whether for World of Warcraft or other tasks.
And it is still funny. The initial shock factor has diminished, as I recall too much of it, the series being quite memorable. However, it also feels like a show that benefits from an audience; watching it alone is somewhat akin to eating a meal by yourself.
The inherent sharable nature of anime is something Kyoto Animation excels at imbuing into their works. Even that random dance sequence… Someone must appreciate that kind of content, and it clearly shows.
