One pretty standard anime trope is that when a character becomes possessed or otherwise under the influence of a demon of some other baddie, that character’s usually bright, shiny eyes become dull and lifeless; their pupils disappear. Morita’s eyes have been like this throughout this show’s run…but so far, no possession.
At any rate, of all the anime series this season…Morita-san wa Mukuchi is definitely…one of them.
Rating: 2 (dropped)
Everyone wants to encounter love and live with it to the fullest. But isn’t it a wonderful thing? It can’t be helped if we get hurt. There are loads of things that won’t change. I want to be by your side.
Great, but wtf does that have to do with sniffing armpits and blowing a chance to lend a girl an umbrella? Sigh…
Rating: 2
Japanese high school girls don’t so much eat square meals as they just eat…whatever pops into their head at the moment. Sometimes it’s pan (bread of some kind), or ice cream. Or a parfait. The point is, on the whole, they like sweets. But they are also concerned with caloric intake. This segment just drives that point home. That, and Mayu seems to know what Morita-san is trying to say without actually having to hear the words.
Rating: 2
Mayu still hasn’t talked, but she made me want to eat grilled eel. That’s good for a 2.5, right? Also, a chain of sorts was broken; the four girls do something that seems oddly suggestive from a distance, but this time, there are no guys to comment on it. Also, I don’t believe this was in the OVA, so we must be in original material territory now! Unless I just forgot…
Rating: 2.5
Hana, who is shy, is initially weary of Morita, who is taciturn. But once Morita straightens Hana’s curly hair, Hana warms up to her more. And that’s pretty much it. Hopefully soon the series will expand beyond the content of the OVA, because I’m still getting Déjà vu from this.
Rating: 2
Ridiculously short…ridiculously inconsequential. Seriously, I’ve had yawns longer than this episode. The jist: Miki is talkative, Morita is still taciturn – and apparently okay with groping Miki. Rating: 2
Because the title is pretty much the premise, I was wondering how the producers would fill twenty-odd minutes per week. Now I know: they won’t. The new anime version of Morita-san wa Mukuchi runs a scant three minutes – a veritable tic-tac of entertainment. It took longer to write this review.
But I can live with this show if all it asks for is three measly minutes of my attention. It even got me wishing there were a few more anime as brief this summer. Of course, Seitokai Yakuindomo followed a similar formula, but it was a string of three or four minute bits spanning a normal episode length.
So it looks like we’lll only be getting the tiniest tastes of Morita-san wa Mukuchi from time to time. This first episode was merely a rehash of the beginning of the OVA released back in February. This is anime superleggera! Rating: 2.5
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