Just like expected. For second episode of this season, I’ve found something to nitpick about, but not Porfy. This series has been building-up perfectly for the past two episodes. I like series that don’t play all of their cards on the table, right from the start, which is probably also why I like Ghost Hound and other mystery-series.
In this episode, we learn more about Porfy’s mother. It seems that she grew up in a rich household in some kind of city, her mother died when she was young and she doesn’t know what happened to her father, though when she married Porfy’s father, the two just didn’t have enough money so she moved back to the countryside. The only thing that she took with her was a fancy-looking watch. A letter from Porfy’s father also arrives in this episode, and he get back in about a week. Probably for Mina’s birthday, which is about to happen. He also sends two books along: one about cars for Porfy and one about the Greek gods for Mina. He probably guessed what they wanted from what they wrote in their letters to him. ^^;
Zaimis also gets fleshed out a bit more in this episode, as it seems that he often hangs out with the two siblings. It’s quite funny when the two of them have completely different interests, and he has to pay attention to both of them at the same time. It’s obvious right from the start that he likes Mina’s interests more than Porfy’s. The second half of the episode is about an owl that settles into Porfy and Mina’s bedroom. They name him Apollo, after one of the Greek gods from Mina’s book.
The thing I like most about this series is how genuine the relationship between Porfy and Mina feels so far. You can really see that they’re brother and sister, and not moeblob and geek, like you see in way too many series. Mina likes to follow Porfy around as well, even though she’s often angry with him, and Porfy in his turn is often distracted, but he does show signs that he watches out over his sister.
So far, there has been no earthquake. Judging by other world-masterpiece-series, I’d guess that it’ll happen around episode 12 or 13, though the end of the episode was a classic foreshadowing-scene, with a clear sky making way for a bunch of thick thunderclouds. Seriously, this needs to be watched. I’m still not sure why people find the length of 52 episodes too much of a commitment, and yet you never hear the same complaint about series like Gundam 00, Code Geass and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
Because people generally like series with action and people killed in violent ways. That only a few people watch series like this or Aria…
I mean, if it is fun to watch, even if the story sucks, people will likely watch more of it without getting tired. If nothing important happens, it is likely people will drop the series and don’t watch it.
By now I decided that I will follow this series, RAW if it must be. My Japanese actually rather poor, but just by watching the first episode and reading about the second one here, I know it really has to be watched. I’m looking forward to your further posts then, too 😀
52 episodes are not too much?!
The longest show I’ve watched so far was Eureka Seven which was 50 episodes, though I enjoyed it all the time and became one of my favoirte, that was definately a LOOONG show so I’ll never attempt to re-watch it again…
At least it gets some breaks in the middle like Code Geass and Gundam00, but I think 50-ish episodes in one row means little different from that.
Anyway, I think 52 episodes are too much in either way…
52 episodes are 24 episodes of tv series/dorama (since basically anime >> 23-24 mins per episode, and tv series is basically 54-57 mins per episode)
I was hoping that someday there will be anime that will not be called an anime; projected as a “tv serie” – golden globe class… maybe that’s too much 😉
Anyway, there’s no sub for this series… maybe you could spare the time, psgels 😛
A shame that no one is willing to sub this, really good stuff from what I’ve seen. Too bad all the sub groups are busy doing True Tears or Wolf and Spice, and while I don’t mean to badmouth those series, there’s absolutely no need of having every fansubber doing them. A shame really…
“I’m still not sure why people find the length of 52 episodes too much of a commitment, and yet you never hear the same complaint about series like Gundam 00, Code Geass and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.”
My answer: because intersting stuff happenes in almost every episode in those shows. Even if the plot is dumb (not the case), if interesting things happen, then it’s fun to watch, and people will watch the whole show. If interesting stuff happenes every five episodes…….it’s not so much fun…and most people tend to drop the show.
The backgrounds are absolutely gorgeous, and I like that the characters don’t have any shading – it makes the animation much nicer.
Well, i’ll check this anime now and again, as long as the RAWs are on veoh.
If we get subs, even better, but it’s obviously unlikely.