{"id":10561,"date":"2014-09-30T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2014-09-30T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:27:46","slug":"barakamon-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2014\/09\/30\/barakamon-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Barakamon Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ending wasn’t bad<\/em> exactly. Barakamon<\/em> (Funimation<\/a>) is still my favorite show of the season. But it left me vaguely dissatisfied, with a feeling that this could have been even better.\"Messy<\/a>
\nGuardian Enzo<\/a> is a big fan of the manga<\/a> and has been complaining all season that the anime<\/a> focused on the humor but left out all the best character-development stories. To which my immediate response was “So what? The anime stands on its own. It’s hilarious!”
\n\"Pummeling\"<\/a>
\nBut the last two episodes toned down the comedy and focused on the character development, which gave just a taste of what I had been missing.<\/p>\n

They probably did the best they could given that they only had 12 episodes to work with. I suspect that they could have done better with 24, maybe even making this a classic. It’s not impossible for a seinen<\/a> anime to get 2 cours. Last year’s Golden Time<\/em><\/a> got that and Mushishi<\/em><\/a> will have completed 4 by the end of the year.
\n\"Burnable,<\/a>
\nStill and all it’s not a bad show. The ending is sort of heartwarming, but not too heartwarming. As I see it, Handa has made it only about half way from being an annoying insecure artist to being a fully-realized human being. That would leave room for a sequel if they get the money for one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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