As juvenile as the comedy was it did kind of made me laugh. There’s really not much reason why anyone should find Ueno-san wa Bukiyou to be particularly amusing – it’s a short (half-length), it’s crude, it’s loud, it’s modestly-budgeted. I can honestly say that was the best anime episode about drinking pee I’ve seen in many a year. I’ll be watching though, so if things take an unexpected turn for the better I reserve the right to change my mind. It just doesn’t seem very likely we’re going to get any real surprises here, for better or worse, and if this season is like the first it’s not going to give me a whole lot of grist for the writing mill.

I don’t see a lot of scenarios where I’d cover this one – I only blogged the premiere of the first season, though I did watch and mostly enjoy it to the end. Hanae ends up being sent on an errand by himself (with Hairball) and naturally gets himself in trouble along the way. The premiere has a comfortably familiar premise, with Hanae and Haruitsuki heading off into the Underworld to answer an SOS from the Legislator, who’s using a dubious injury as a pretext to enlist some help in doing his job so he doesn’t have to. Ashiya will still be childlike and clumsy, Abeno will still be tsundere towards him and Moja will still be the best part of the series.

I’m not expecting a whole lot to change in the second season because frankly this isn’t the sort of show were things typically do change very much. Whatever the reason it’s nice to have Fukigen no Mononokean back – apart from Kaji Yuuki’s usual grating performance it’s quite a relaxing and whimsical way to kill 22 minutes. Information collected is aggregated and anonymous.Pierrot’s amiable little Shinto series returns for another season some 2.5 years after the first one aired – which I must say is a bit of a surprise to me, since it seemed to be a classic one-and-done manga promoter anime. These cookies enable us to provide better services based on how users use our website, and allow us to improve our features to deliver better user experience. Marketing Cookies are placed by third-party providers with our permission, and any information collected may be shared with other organizations such as publishers or advertisers. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. We use the information collected to evaluate and improve the performance of your shopping experience. They also enable use of the Shopping Cart and Checkout processes, assist in regulatory and security issues, measure traffic and visits, and retrieve order information for affiliate commissions. These cookies are required to use core website features and are automatically enabled when you use the site. You can use this interface to enable or disable sets of cookies with varying functions. We use data cookies to store your online preferences and collect information.

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