Spy X Family Season 3 – 06
It’s truly stark just how much more charming SpyFam is when it focuses on the kids. You couldn’t ask for an episode to spell that out much more clearly than this one, which had Eden segments on either end with a big steaming turd in the middle. There wasn’t a lot to the first one – just a three or four-minute farce about Anya, Damian, and cakes. But the silliness which works with 1st-graders just comes off as insultingly stupid when it’s adults. And the dynamic between Damian and Anya – the tsundere and the esper – is the most fun in the series, Anya is actually pretty clever to try and work the hanky thing into a house visit – anything to stay ahead of Mama and Plan C – but Damian isn’t biting.
That whole middle segment can suck it. Another preposterously stupid adult acting stupid for the sake of the plot. Annoying Fiona being annoying, a brilliant plan that anyone could see through in seconds. It’s not like SxF is incapable of decent chapters with the adult cast (Loid more than Yor generally, though last week was pretty good). But only when those chapters are at least semi-serious.
The final chapter – a cliffhanger – is interesting because it goes to a place the series goes relatively rarely. That is, a deadly serious arc set at Eden and starring the chibis. It starts out larky enough, with the kids on a field trip and Anya trying to work her own version of Loid’s clinic scam on Damian (with zero success). Bill and George – two of the funniest characters in the series – even make an appearance. Damian is planning to give Anya some cakes – ostensibly to shut her up about the handkerchief, but obviously other reasons too. But his henchmen spot them and put the kibosh on that plan.
The kidnapping thing? We’ll see – serious and the kids is a rare combo so we don’t have a huge track record to go on. Still, anything that gives us DamiAnya, not to mention in the sort of environment we’ve never seen it, has the potential to be a level-up.
Ranma ½ (2025) – 06
There’s no sugarcoating it – Happosai is awful. Manga readers and viewers of the original series have been dreading this moment from the start, but no amount of wishing could make it not happen. Rumiko wrote it, he’s gonna show up. One might have hoped Happosai might get toned down to reflect a different era, I suppose, but judging by this episode that doesn’t seem to be the case. He’s here, he’s the worst character in the series by a parsec, and he doesn’t get any better.
If there’s any saving grace, it’s that Inoue Kazuhiko is playing Happosai this time, as his original seiyuu – the great Nagai Ichirou – passed away in 2014 (as fans of Hunter X Hunter know well). Inoue is about as good a voice actor as anime has ever seen, but I don’t think even he can make a silk purse out of this pig’s (and not P-chan, either) ear. Nagai couldn’t, and he was one of the few in history I’d rank on Inoue’s level. It’s a thankless duty, but I’m not worried about it tarnishing his career or anything – he’s well beyond worrying about that.
I have no idea why Rumiko found Happosai funny, but it’s not as if this was an uncommon trope for animanga of the time. I don’t have a lot else to say about the episode – what else matters, really? At least we got a bit of Ryouga, which feels like the first time all season. For me, I just have to make peace with the fact that Ranma ½ simply isn’t going to be as good a lot of the time. Happosai isn’t in every episode thank Goc, and he’s not usually the main focus. But he’s here and will be a frequent presence going forward. It’s a shame, but blame the mangaka, not the anime.
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