Zenigeba

For the first two episodes or so I thought, that’s a main character, such a total psycho. That label stuck with him, a label no one would unpeel from him for the entire series. And that Ken'ichi played him perfectly. But then I got bored. It was so stereotypical. And some of the scenes went on too long. Plus, it seems like the Japanese don't know how to handle a camera. For a while I didn't know whether to sympathize with him or wish him dead. Even now I don't know. But for the idea it carries, for the last few episodes where some parts really spoke to me and I really enjoyed them, and for the last episode where it showed what we might call a parallel universe, I give it 4 stars. But I hesitated because I really didn't want to see a screaming, drooling Futaro sometimes; it gets old. BOOM (20.01.2010)