This one can just be considered as both a first impression as a review, since there’s only one episode of Takane no Jitensha anyway. It can easily be considered as the brother-anime of Yume da Maya Kidan: both are only twenty minutes long, both are down-to-earth with supernatural elements, both have produced on a short budget, both are about accepting your younger sibling and both aren’t bad by any means, though they’re not really something special.
Takane no Jitensha offers a small look at the live of a boy called Takane, and the sort of problems that any boy of his age has: getting a new bike (jitensha = bike) because his current one is old and his friends keep beating him. The things here strike especially close at home. The other half of the airtime adds in a bit more excitement. The realism disappears a bit, unfortunately, but it remains an enjoyable story.
This review is short, because there’s hardly anything interesting to say about this series, but if you’ve got twenty minutes to waste, you might as well give this one or Yume da Maya Kidan a try. In terms of slice of life, Takane no Jitensha is better, while Yume da Maya Kidan is better with the supernatural stuff (especially the Tanuki in Takane no Jitensha came from nowhere and delivered one heck of a deus ex machina).
| Storytelling: | 8/10 |
| Characters: | 7/10 |
| Production-Values: | 6/10 |
| Setting: | 7/10 |
