Indeed, despite the intellectual heaviness way in the background, there’s no great philosophical drama overarching the story.

In one regard, I often laughed audibly because the presentations of such a theme were legitimately funny, and in another I laughed poignantly because the show just gets it. Take, for example, the ebb and flow of people that sift in an out of your life as you pass along through the years, which the show foils through the Narumi/Hirotaka pair and the Hanako/Tarou pair in many ways. The story plays with terribly complicated and nuanced themes, yet does so with a deft and humorous hand. Peel back the onion a bit, however, and the series blossoms into a charming commentary on the evolution from child to young adult to working adult.

On a superficial level, Wotakoi is a slice of life comedy with a sweet dose of romance tucked away pleasantly behind its veneer. Wotakoi is definitively one such diamond among the rough, aimed precisely at persons like myself who have stepped beyond our childhood anime fancy and now live in a very different world. Picking the sparkling shells off the shore of mundane sand is what has kept me coming back to anime time and time again, and I’m always amazed at the creativity and ingenuity talented Japanese authors can conjur with a modest budget and a open mind. Yet, behind the tidal wave of triviality, there has always been a market for something more. Countless generic shows are reproduced and repackaged to keep the scene fresh for an ever-revolving door of youth for example, the marvelous trash of Green Green which I was unfortunately exposed to during my teenage years could parallel any number of modern stock shows. In some sense, there exists a stigma that anything animated is for children, and therefore anime as a whole must be targeted toward children. Story: It is a bit strange, as someone who has been watching anime for over 20 years, watching the push and pull of the Japanese medium evolve over time.

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