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Polar bear cafe
24/4/12 21:27I'm surprising myself by following, not just one anime, but two this season!
The first is Sakamichi no Apollon, which I'll probably squee about another ten times. The second is Polar Bear Cafe, which (like Sakamichi no Apollon) is available streaming on Crunchyroll for you folks within the viewing area.
It's a show about an extremely lazy panda who goes out looking for a job at his mother's insistence (he asks at the convenience store, "Which of these [job-searching books] has jobs where you can earn money without working?") and finds a cafe run by a polar bear. "Oh," you think right away. "So the show is about how he gets a job working at the polar bear cafe and he makes friends there and grows as a person. Err, panda." No. This is not actually what happens. But he does become a regular at the cafe, along with a penguin, a sloth, a llama, and other anthropomorphic characters. (The world of the show is mostly populated by humans; the presence of animals who run cafes and live in houses passes without explanation.)
It has a very highly refined sense of the absurd, plus a handful of truly terrible puns, and all in all I can't remember the last time I've laughed like that at an anime.
I could see myself actually getting back into anime fandom. Perhaps, maybe. If I actually get better at locating the things that are worth watching.
The first is Sakamichi no Apollon, which I'll probably squee about another ten times. The second is Polar Bear Cafe, which (like Sakamichi no Apollon) is available streaming on Crunchyroll for you folks within the viewing area.
It's a show about an extremely lazy panda who goes out looking for a job at his mother's insistence (he asks at the convenience store, "Which of these [job-searching books] has jobs where you can earn money without working?") and finds a cafe run by a polar bear. "Oh," you think right away. "So the show is about how he gets a job working at the polar bear cafe and he makes friends there and grows as a person. Err, panda." No. This is not actually what happens. But he does become a regular at the cafe, along with a penguin, a sloth, a llama, and other anthropomorphic characters. (The world of the show is mostly populated by humans; the presence of animals who run cafes and live in houses passes without explanation.)
It has a very highly refined sense of the absurd, plus a handful of truly terrible puns, and all in all I can't remember the last time I've laughed like that at an anime.
I could see myself actually getting back into anime fandom. Perhaps, maybe. If I actually get better at locating the things that are worth watching.
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