Some quick first Impressions: Charady no Joke na Mainichi, Cookin’Idol Ai! Mai! Main! and Mainichi Kaasan

Charady no Joke na Mainichi

Short Synopsis: Our lead character tells jokes.
Chance of me Blogging: 0% (Um… yeah)
What is it with this season and series with five-minute episodes? This is the third one already, and to my surprise, all three of them have been strangely enjoyable so far. Charady no Joke na Mainichi looks very childish at first sight, with very bad animation, CG and characters, but then it really surprised me when it turned out to be surprisingly witty. The show’s only purpose is to tell jokes, and in that part it succeeded somehow.

Cookin’ Idol Ai! Mai! Main!

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is an incompetent idol.
Chance of me Blogging: -10% (No way)
Continuing the string of series with only five-minute episodes is a silly show about an idol who ends up presenting a cooking-show, but unfortunately unlike the others, this one is just baaad. And okay, I admit that I’m not exactly the target audience for his show, but that didn’t stop Chi, Marie and Charady from charming me. While I admit I liked the Cabbage-song, the acting here feels absolutely horrible, especially in the live-action bits are a pain to watch.

Mainichi Kaasan

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is in her mid-life crisis.
Chance of me Blogging: -20% (Absolutely not)
Oh my god… I thought it’d never stop! Mainichi Kaasan basically tells the story of an overstressed mother of two children and her every day life, but it just goes on and on for too damn long. The season started off with so many surprisingly good series of only 5 minutes per episode, and this series would have been much better if they compacted everything in bite-size chunks of these five minutes. Right now, the show repeats itself way too often, jokes often don’t fall or are badly timed and it goes on way too long. Never have I been this glad for an episode to end because it’s such an incredible chore to get through it. That’s not what a slice of life is supposed to be!