Maybe stop going to casinos, my guy.
Two down, six to go.
Impressions:
This one missed the mark pretty hard too. Starting off with a hanging is certainly a choice, and he doesn’t do himself many favors from there. He’s told he needs treatment or he’ll die, so he instead runs off to gamble away money at pachinko while complaining that he’s in a mountain of debt for SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON. Yeah, I’m sure that Japan’s healthcare and social safety net are not ideal, but you’re refusing treatment, borrowing money to gamble it away, and giving a whole oblivious woe is me speech about it. This doesn’t give the impression of a pitiable protagonist to whom we should have empathy. The only thing that he’s not contributing to his own plight immediately is his house being randomly bulldozed, which is to the point where it’s just silly. But all the rest isn’t.
Right from the get go then, it’s on shaky ground with an unlikeable protagonist who’s determined to do his best to be miserable, even with the occasional stroke of good luck that he just barely misses, which maybe is supposed to be a gag? He stumbles into a group of ‘wacky’ fishermen and blankly stares until all of a sudden, the animation kicks in, and he feels alive for a moment. I get the feeling the quirky group of locals are meant to be the hook of the show, but they were largely just the same boring club mates you find literally every one of these hobby things. The friendly handsome dude, the tsundere who is also the source of silly faces and the only character making the argument that this might be a comedy, the regular girl. And like all other hobby shows, it tosses out the barest minimum of what they could look up on Wikipedia. This is a lure. It lures. Oh, great. Now I know about fishing and am entranced forever.
