Spy X Family Season 3 – 10
I knew we were in for a down week on Spy X Family based on the preview. Not many series are as predictable quality-wise as this one – if you know the basic premise you can generally guess what you’re going to get. But given how low this series can go, this was sort of fine. None of the chapters were especially funny or engaging but none were offensively dumb, either.
The business between Loid and Austin was kind of a throwaway, but I suppose the intent was to show him actually working as a psychiatrist as we don’t get to see that very often. I’m not sure his advice to Austin-sensei was especially helpful – “flee like the wind” would probably be more clinically effective. But at least he was trying. Yor getting drunk with her co-workers was likewise forgettably inoffensive, though I always wonder how it is someone living a secret life could allow themselves to get publicly drunk like that. But then Yor’s third of the story has always made the least sense anyway.
Actually the best part was the short post-credit scene with kids. Ewen turns out to be a space otaku, and Anya too (though hers is strictly the interest of a neophyte). But Damian getting jealous over the two of them bonding was quite revealing (and his comment about rushing the space program very incisive for a first-grader).
Ranma ½ (2025) – 10
It’s all relative, I suppose, where Happosai is concerned. Any is too much, but strictly as a bit player like this week he’s sort of tolerable. And we managed to get one of the funniest episodes of the season despite his presence, so that has to count for something. In fact I’ll even go so far as to say he wasn’t the creepiest character of the week.
That would be Hikaru, another one of those Rumiko creations I kind of could live without. I’m not that crazy about Tatewaki-senpai either TBH, which makes this episode something of a miracle success. After all, that’s three of the four dudes up for playing the part of Romeo opposite Akane’s Juliet. But you can guess who the fourth is, and that dynamic is what really made this ep work. And it was helped by a nice comic turn from Fukyama Jun, yet another big name joining the cast (as the drama club president).
Poor Akane got stuck playing Romeo in grade school (the role she’s still better suited for, in truth) so kind of wanted to savor the flavor this time. Ranma is only interested (or so he tells himself) because the winning school in the drama competition gets a VIP trip to China (he thinks). The dynamic here is very different than with Ryouga, who despite the P-chan thing being a little skeevy is basically a lovelorn romantic. All three of Tatewaki, Hikaru, and Happosai are lowlifes so in effect, Ranma is protecting Akane. I also think he doesn’t want to kiss her not just because he’s shy, but because when he does, he wants it to be in a situation where it means something (and she really wants to do it).
Also, the gags here were some of the series’ best this season. The whole tape thing, the fathers getting involved, Ranma switching roles, and finally the twist with the China “visit”. This is kind of elemental Ranma ½ – the romantic tension of the main pair and machine-gun slapstick from one gag to the next.
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