![]() ![]() That conundrum, like so much in this generally light series, has a sort of existential depth to it, and it’s an interesting topic to explore. Naturally this has the little boy feeling anxious and depressed, and Renshou and Natsume are the ones who end up helping out. He’s recently found out that supernatural creatures sometimes carry the same memories and personalities as their ancestors – a sort of reincarnation – and this has Kotarou worried that his father Joutarou will exist in another life feeling love for a woman other thank Kotarou’s mother, perhaps even having another child. Most of the first half of the episode was given over to the story of a character we’ve barely seen, Kotarou – the little son of the Ayakashi-Kan cook. The finale was very much in line with the series as a whole – utterly unconcerned with conventional dramatic structure, almost perversely so. One supposes that a studio wouldn’t adapt a manga unless they had some small hope that it would be a hit in addition to helping sell manga – but it sure doesn’t feel like it here. ![]() It’s hard to imagine we won’t see a sequel based on these numbers, but the writers will have to do a bit of wiggling to make sense of that now – not that it’s an insurmountable problem. ![]() I wonder if the guys at David Productions were somewhat surprised to see the series take off as much as it did, because it appears that they tried very hard to make a finale that was a true ending, as if this were to be last we’d see of the anime. Instead, this one seems to have pulled an inside straight and managed to score by appealing to a little of every group. My assumption was that the show would commercially flop for this reason, as shows are rarely able to succeed without targeting a specific demographic. Is has a fiercely yuri character, and frequent scenes of males cross-dressing. It has a cast full of bishounen, yet tons of loli fanservice. And that fits in with my strong feeling that this was a series with no single target audience. What that tells us, if history is to be believed, is that they were purchased almost equally by male otaku (who traditionally buy Blu-rays) and fujoshi (who usually prefer DVDs). But while that’s indeed interesting, the most fascinating element is that they were split almost 50-50 between Blu-rays and DVDs, which is almost unheard of. Very, very good in fact – about 11K in the first week. An interesting thing happened this week: the sales figures for the first volume of Inu X Boku came out – and they were good. ![]()
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