It looks like Kids on
the Slope is gearing itself up for a finale. Given that there are only two
more episodes left, I would expect it to do so. Yurika has left with Jun to
Tokyo. And Sentaro has been turned down by Ritsuko. Thus Sentaro is left in the
cold with the two girls he liked through the series. Meanwhile, Ritsuko and
Kaoru are moving forward.
What I found really interesting about this particular
episode was how the music contrasted with the show. The background music ran
with what was going on, but the music Sentaro and Jun played, dueling each
other, was very much contrasting with the more tender and laid back feeling of
this particular episode.
Besides that, and I haven’t talked about this much at all,
but the animation in this series continues to amaze. Everything else looks
pretty much the same in terms of quality, but both this and Folktales from Japan continue to stun me
in terms of animation quality. The character designs are perhaps the best of
the season and the subtle backgrounds alluding to a 1960s Japan makes this show
great.
Overall, we see a pretty realistic depiction of awkward kids
being…well, really awkward with each other. Ritsuko is finally figuring out her
feelings, Sentaro is being Sentaro, and Kaoru, who acts the most mature among
them, is being perhaps the least mature in his actions. And the backdrop of the
politics of 1960s Japan with Jun is absolutely brilliant. No one thing stands
out as making this show amazing (like with the colorful visuals in tsuritama or the pacing and quality of
story in Space Brothers), but the
little things add up to make this one of the standouts of the spring 2012 anime
season.
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