♠The Undertaker♠ wrote:Siren, is that a Tsuritama gif in your signature? I've really been wanting to watch it, but I don't have the time >.>
Oh gosh, do yourself a favor and watch it ~ each episode is only like 20 minutes long (if you're watching it somewhere that doesn't show commercials) so it goes by very quickly. I watched it over one weekend (only like a month ago)
I really can't even say enough about the show. I wasn't going into it expecting to fall in love the way I did (I mean it's a fishing anime about aliens WHAT), but I fell in love so hard.
First of all, the main character Yuki has crippling social anxiety. Throughout the show you see that he desperately wants to be around people, but he is terrified of interacting with them, and he's been so lonely throughout his life that when he finally has friends in his life he doesn't know how to handle it at all. When he tries to talk in a crowd, he imagines he's drowning. It's amusing, but as someone who knows first hand about social anxiety I was really impressed with how realistic the feelings were portrayed. My best friend throughout middle school had extreme social anxiety to the point that she frequently had breakdowns in school, and seeing Yuki deal with it was very close to my heart. Within the first episode I was cheering him on so much, I just wanted to see him happy. Then you have the other main characters - Haru the alien boy who is the most pure, innocent, wonderful soul in the world and Natsuki, their senpai who is struggling to move on after his mother's death 2 years before the series begins. Then there's Akira, a secret agent who is subjected to a lot of racism throughout the show (he's Indian) and has a pet duck named Tapioca who is his only friend. Like... there was no way NOT to love everyone. The supporting characters are equally as charming. My heart was just bursting with emotion from the first moment.
The first few episodes are setting everything up, and then suddenly halfway through the series the drama starts, and I have to say I basically wept nonstop through the last 6 episodes. It wasn't sad so much as the sadness that was occurring was very human and close to my heart. I admit to crying easily, though. But I was so absorbed in the characters. I just wanted to see everyone happy.
While it is about fishing, it's more about friendship than fishing. And NOT in the way that Free! is. I admit to loving Free! but this was a much more tender, moving experience. You watch these friendships start in the first episode and develop overtime.
With the exception of Tiger & Bunny, I've never enjoyed an anime more than Tsuritama. It was just a pure joy. Plus the soundtrack, man.
THE SOUNDTRACK.