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Let’s all give Mission: Yozakura household a bit wave clap applause, everybody. This week’s episode promised us a “Jail Break Grandpa,” and that is precisely what it was. Mutsumi’s grandfather, Ban, is a hard-drinking, hard-partying villain who appears to frequently escape from jail to frequent the hostess golf equipment and paint the city pink. After all, Kyoichiro cannot simply let this insult to their household delight (and his expertise as a spy) go, so he decides to order Taiyo to scrub up the mess for him.
If I’ve any complaints about this primary half, it is that the entire routine feels a bit too secure for the components M:YF has established. I will not say I “predicted” the little twist in Ban’s introduction, as a result of I wasn’t precisely invested sufficient to actively guess what would occur after Taiyo completed his makes an attempt to seize his new grandpa or a to bond with him. Nonetheless, the episode put a lot emphasis on the entire “Grandpa is a criminal as a result of he runs from the grief of shedding his beloved spouse” factor that I wasn’t in any respect shocked when Mutsumi confirmed up on the finish with Grandma Keiko, who remains to be very a lot alive. It would not damage the episode or something. It simply makes for a Half A the place largely my inside monologue was, “Yeah, that is form of good, I suppose…” as I watched in passive silence.
“Yeah, that is fairly enjoyable, I suppose!” can be what I might say concerning the second phase, the place the Yozakura household leaves Grandpa to buy groceries at a mall. Observe that I changed the ellipses with an exclamation level, which implies that half B of this episode makes a small (however significant) enchancment over the primary half. Mainly, if we will spend about ten minutes chilling as an alternative of doing one thing notably loopy or inventive, I might relatively chill with Yozakura’s precise siblings. It is cute to see the household getting all their unlawful spy objects from this mall, and it additionally acts as a pleasant further little bit of world-building. And the truth that Taiyo’s household introduced him right here means his dad and mom had been rival spies, proper?
Anyway, we wrap issues up with a literal descent into the seedy underworld that lives beneath the mall, and the truth that Taiyo and Mutsumi’s harmless quest to return a misplaced woman to her household ends with razing the complete mall to the bottom is truthfully fairly humorous. It is a great way to finish an episode that will get higher as time goes on.
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Mission: Yozakura household is at present streaming on Hulu in america and on Disney+ in different areas.
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