Short Synopsis: Recap
Highlights: Strangely enough, this was EXACTLY what this series needed…
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
Okay, so I’m obviously not going to summarize this recap-episode in detail. What I do want to talk about is everything else that happened here. I rated this episode high for a very good reason, because this episode may very well put itself on the short list of great recap episodes. The thing is that Porfy no Nagai Tabi has obviously turned a bit stale for the past two arcs. Porfy didn’t really grow, how he ran into the right people felt a bit awkward, and the drama nor the slice-of-life matched up to what we saw in the earlier parts of the series. The creators have shown that they can write great travel arcs (the abandoned city-arc was just amazing), but for the past months, Porfy lost a bit of its spark.
And that’s why it’s so great to look back at the amazing earlier parts of the series, when all of the characters still were alive/not missing. Porfy also had a very good reason to be nostalgic: at the airport of Rome, he ran into none other than Barnes, who had picked up rumours about a Greek boy that was lost in Italy. He then delivers him a letter from Zaimis, so this indeed was the perfect place to put such a recap. And of course, that little teaser at the end of the episode, that showed that MINA IS STILL IN ROME was just icing on the cake.
This really reminds me of the third arc of Les Miserables (about the first similarity that I spotted between the two series after their introduction-arcs): I remember clearly that very annoying episode where everyone in Paris kept nearly running into each other. And at the same time, it was such a great way of building up, for when the characters finally met with each other. Overall, this episode formed a pretty nice conclusion to the first half of Porfy no Nagai Tabi, and although we may have a few more boring travel arcs in store, the fact does remain that it’s still building up for the moments in this series that really matter: the reunion with Mina and Alecia. Porfy no Nagai Tabi doesn’t have the grand story of Les Miserables, but at the same time it’s much more personal, and I love how the two series are so different from each other, despite being both World Masterpiece Theatres.
Those are some pretty backgrounds
I still cant believe NO ONE is subbing this excellent series!!?!?!!!?….. 🙁
Hopefully Live-Evil will someday down the road,as they have a habit of subbing WMT related shows.
This is why I am holding on to all the HD raws…
Oh,and thanks for blogging this !
1st: you people need to stop beeing surprised that no one is subbing this everytime a new episode is aired. get used to it, only few people like this anime
2nd: if you hope that LE will sub this, why are you holding on to the HD raws? LE does not release ASS and the also encode in HD
Why ?
……Are you serious ??
Stupid question actually.I am a member of two subbing groups right now(both have been around for over 5 years),and have been a member of others over the last 10+ years.Many a group will want down the road,to do a series,but will not have access to the raws,and so will drop it a second time around because of that.I have been in that situation before,as a subbing group member.And seen other groups go through it.
A group wants to do an older series,but cant,because no raws exist,or the ones that do are low res garbage.
I am not surprised ‘every time’ a new episode airs,that yet still,no one is subbing it.I am disappointed though,and will continue to be as long as that is the case.All I wanted,was to express that.If you don’t like hearing that,fine.Oh well 🙂
Cant wait to see episode 32 !