Spy X Family Season 3 – 11
Any episode with Yuri is starting off in a pretty deep hole as far as I’m concerned. Fortunately this was maybe the least worst appearance by him, because after the first six minutes or so he’s not used in his creeper context but professionally. The fact is that he works for the Stasi and that really shouldn’t be laughed off – this is not the sort of person the story should be humanizing. But when things go into espionage mode he is after all working for the enemy so it’s harder to whitewash him.
What’s going down here is that an Ostanian mole named Wheeler has been found out, and fled the country with a sheath of documents that could but Loid and his whole spy network in danger (which is in point of fact a perfectly realistic scenario). The Ostanian security service is planning to collect him, leaving it to the WISE embedded in the country to stop that from happening. Naturally Twilight gets the most dangerous assignment, posing as Wheeler in order to buy time for his colleagues to intercept the real dude. This stuff is not my favorite part of Spy X Family to be sure, but it’s perfectly competent for what it is.
Once more the kiddie corps are relegated to the post-credits scene, which finds Anya and Becky visiting the zoo. No huge laughs here, but that bit with the cage (the most evil animal indeed) was clever (I was thinking it might be a mirror). Once Anya gets over her disappointment at not being there to catch the animals (whether or not to then eat them I’m not sure) she seems to enjoy herself.
Ranma ½ (2025) – 11
I never met a comedy that couldn’t be made funnier by adding a duck. Or a character for that matter. Mousse isn’t a huge favorite of mine, but this new angle definitely ramps up the laugh factor with him. It’s also a reminder of what a lowlife he and his snarky obaa-san ally are. There are quite a few of those in Ranma ½ in fact (not least Ranma’s own father, as far as I’m concerned).
This is another of those eps with the screwball factor turned up to eleven, which is a very good mode for this series. Mousse’s latest scheme is to take out Ranma using Akane as bait – except since he’s half-blind he kidnaps her new pig plushie by mistake (never let it be said Ranma ½ skimps on casting – Inada Tetsu plays the pig doll). He calls out Ranma to meet him at the Chinese acrobat show at a local shrine festival (Shampoo too), and Akane tags along as Ranma stubbornly refuses to promise to fetch her pig back (poor P-chan, supplanted by a new love).
The twist here is that Mousse has gone to the Jusenkyo training ground and managed (after one step) to fall into the “Drowned Duck Spring” (you know the drill, though having Yamadera-san explain it is always worth your time). The whole Chinese acrobat show is a clusterfrick of ridiculousness (that tiger, ROFL), building up comedically to Shampoo telling Mousse that she hates him. Mousse is such a bakayarou that he doesn’t realize Ranma is on his side here – getting Shampoo off his back would be well worth helping Mousse. Except he’s beyond help, pretty much.
Can it be true – has Akane really turned into a duck and joined the transformation parade? Some of you know and some of you don’t, but far be it for me to assume one way or the other so you’ll just have to tune in next week to find out. Which is the final episode, by the way, which calls out what a strange decision it is to do this reboot piecemeal like this. Unless they seriously cut things short we’ll be here till like 2033 at this rate…
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