12 Days of Anime 2019 – the Year of Fluff

I’ve changed a lot over the years. I recently wrote about how maternal I was becoming. I suppose that growing more sentimental goes hand in hand with that! I used to hate cutesy, romantic fluff. As far as I was concerned, it just got in the way of the good stuff (if you know what I mean)… In fact, one of my very first posts on WWB (waaay back in 2012 – dear God, don’t try to find it) was on that very subject. But, over time, as sex dwindled in importance to love, friendship, and commitment, I’ve slowly come to love fluff! This is reflected in the anime I loved most this year. 

Say “I Love You”. – a Wholly Frustrating Experience

Though I do try to keep my posts pretty positive here on Watashi Wa Bucho!! (there’s already enough negativity in the world without me adding to it), every so often I watch an anime so unpalatable that I feel it’s part public service to warn people about it. Say “I Love You”. is one such show. The way I look at it, time is a finite and, therefore, valuable resource. Anime, even shorter ones, represent a significant investment of your time. So aren’t you better off investing in those actually worth your time? Here are three reasons why Say “I Love You”. is not one of these shows… 

I Want More Anime like O Maidens in Your Savage Season!

2019 has seen no shortage of amazing anime. There’s been an abundance of big-money sequels, like Mob Psycho Season 2, Attack on Titan Season 3, and My Hero Academia Season 4, and even an incredible lineup of standalone shows, like Dororo, Demon Slayer, and The Promised Neverland. But, even though I’m a sucker for mainstream shounen shows like these, my favourite of all this year’s shows so far has to be O Maidens in Your Savage Season. Though Maidens will never achieve mainstream popularity, I think that it has just as much, if not more, to offer than all of the above shows. As such, I can’t help but wish for more shows just like it, as opposed to the third or fourth entry into an already sizable series… 

Character Spotlight: Rei Kiriyama and Hina Kawamoto

Artist: GeorgeTheOtaku

The second season of March Comes In Like A Lion (which I finished just last week) packs even more of an emotional punch than the first. Throughout its 22 episodes, I laughed, cried, and cheered as I shared in its characters’ many victories. Though the franchise has many wonderful characters (which is, by far, its greatest strength), my absolute favourite is Rei Kiriyama. That being said, Hina Kawamoto really gave Rei a run for his money during this second season. So much so, that I felt it would be a disservice not to jot down a few words about her too. Writing about more than one character might not be in keeping with Character Spotlight tradition, but the best thing about Watashi Wa Bucho!! (or I’m the boss) is that, yes, I’m the boss! This allows me to throw the rulebook out the window at any given moment, so there! 

Fruits Basket (2019) Episode 15 – Man-Crush Sunday

I’d like to apologise for the brevity of today’s post. This week my husband and I closed on our first home! Since then, all of our free time has been spent resisting the urge to strangle each other as we attempt to put together an entire home’s worth of flatpack furniture. So, yeah, my brain is completely fried! It also doesn’t help that this week’s episode was probably the weakest so far. It wasn’t bad, per se, it just failed to bring anything new to the table… We didn’t meet any new characters, we didn’t learn anything new about the ones who we’ve already met, and there were no new developments in the story. That being said, it did endear me to poor, sweet Hatori…