Comments on: Minami-Ke Okawari: Seconds? No Thanks, I’m Full…

By: Krunk

Krunk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:03:08 +0000

Ahh…. That explains why season 2 came out so quickly after season 1. I was wait… there’s another season of Minami-ke already!?! Awesome. I haven’t had time to start watching it yet, and now that I find out it’s nowhere close to the original, I’m feeling even less inclined to watch it.

By: Kinoshita

Kinoshita — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:15 +0000

The more I think about it, the more it seems unable to live up to the first season….sign.

By: Spyhunter

Spyhunter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:41:34 +0000

If I can get past the cleft-lips and hair-horns, I’d like to watch the first season.

By: Mako-Chan

Mako-Chan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:45:09 +0000

There’s still hope for Okawari. The last few episodes weren’t terrible, though I enjoyed the first season more.

By: Hung

Hung — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:19:46 +0000

FYI, I just watched an episode of Potemayo, and it was AWESOME. Why can’t it get a (good) second season?

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:08:09 +0000

I’m going to have to disagree with everyone and say that it does not improve at all. I’ve been watching it from the start, and Okawari has just been consistently letting me down. I used to laugh my way through every episode in the first season, but now I just blankly sludge through every boring episode of Okawari. I feel like the second season is geared towards different fans or something.

I feel like Mako-chan is the only part of Okawari that is still funny, but he’s not really that funny. A lot of the jokes feel cheap and the infusion of fanservice seems out of place. There are no more brilliant jokes like the tera-bouzu moment at all. I didn’t even think Fuyuki was that bad, considering how unfunny everyone else has been.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:45:17 +0000

Hung: He’s anime-original, and a piss-poor addition. It’s like they decided they needed another boy with issues, and then decided to make him so completely unentertaining (unlike Hosaka, Makoto, and Fujioka or even Takeru) that he pisses everyone off by being on screen. As another blog commentor put it, the boys in Minami-ke tend to be ENTERTAINING and they serve the purpose of the series (comedy/humor/slice of life) well. Fuyuki… doesn’t – he’s boring, he’s bland, and he drags down the mood like an anchor.

I think that’s why the more recent episodes have been better, to be honest – I haven’t seen him much since episode 6 or so.

TheBigN: It’s not slice-of-life that bothers me – if it did, I wouldn’t have loved Honey and Clover. It’s FUYUKI that bothers me… like a harem manga loser lead in a show that didn’t need one.

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:24:39 +0000

There also seems to me more of an infusion of “slice of life” properties in this version, which can annoy people who don’t really like that sort of thing. :/

By: Karura

Karura — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:20:14 +0000

Yeah, I’m seven episodes into Okawari and it doesn’t seem as bad now as it did at the start, but I doubt it will ever match the awesomeness of the first season. And why did they introduce that annoying Fuyuki when the series already had so many great characters?

By: Hung

Hung — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:58:20 +0000

That’s good to hear. Because the emo neighbor kid is really pissing me off!