The place’s Sherlock Holmes whenever you want him?
I’ve a couple of major ideas as I mirror on the second episode of Shoushimin collectionTo start with, I might be affected person sufficient to offer this collection an opportunity if I did not have the time to Hyuka expertise to attract from? And secondly, would I Hyuka any catwalk if the pictures hadn’t been so lushly lovely? It has been over ten years since Hyuka (fuck me, actually?), and I have never rewatched all of it, so my recollection is inaccurate. However I do know (and I feel you possibly can inform from my writing) that I nearly needed to stop after a couple of episodes. In fact, that was through the busiest season in LiA historical past, so context issues.
That is a lot me can say – you received’t get an episode that higher illustrates the Yonezawa Honobu expertise than this one. It was about as trivial a thriller as you might ask for – “how did DB classmate make oishii cocoa with out dirtying the dishes?”. The issues that actually mattered – the theft of Osanai’s bike and the deadly assault on her muffins – are solely briefly talked about. It was actually irritating to listen to her faculty blame her for having her bike stolen, however solely as a result of it was a reminder that sufferer shaming is endemic to Japanese tradition. It has its roots in Bushido. If a samurai was murdered (or injured attempting to kill her), he was thought of responsible for letting it occur. That is why you noticed well-known individuals publicly apologizing for contracting COVID-19.
I’ve to say straight away that I am not a fan of Kengo thus far. He simply comes throughout as pushy and annoying. And Osanai’s humble persona is fairly clichéd throughout the board. If there is a fourth wheel a-la Hyuka it’s not apparent (Kengo’s sister doesn’t appear to be a giant deal), in order that leaves rather a lot on Kobato’s shoulders to hold the story. This entire “attempting to be regular” factor appears to be a riff on the Japanese proverb of the identical identify, “the nail that sticks up will get hammered down.” And judging by his dialog with Kengo, it in all probability comes right down to the youthful Kobato being cocky about being the neatest man within the room, and ostentatiously fixing mysteries of the type we noticed this week.
That each one sounds slightly damaging, I suppose, however I ended up getting extra caught up on this trivial affair than I ought to have been. That is Yonezawa too – he helps you to play the sport on his phrases and sometimes manages to make it fascinating. The truth that the entire thing wasn’t a problem Kengo gave him, however him simply being too lazy to do the dishes was fairly humorous. That sort of enchantment has a restricted shelf life – if I by no means care concerning the characters in Hyuka it would not have labored. However hey, Shoushimin collection has solely ten episodes to play with, however can come throughout as superficially interesting in a approach Hyuka would not have been attainable.
