Not every anime is created equal. If you keep up with seasonal anime, you’ll have noticed that almost every season has one or two very short anime series that only exist to promote whatever source material they’re based on. Yes, there are full length anime that do this at well, but at least there you can still some semblance of a story. How much can you do in two to three minutes on the other hand? Not enough to waste much time writing on them to be honest. The three examples here I coincidently finished watching back to back in June, hence grouping them together like this.
Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki Yonsatsume (#27) is the fourth season of Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki, about a Tokyo high school boy who moved to Nagoya, where he clashes with the titular Yatogame-chan, very proud of her hometown. Based on a manga, this is almost incomprehensible as its humour is deeply rooted in the peculiarities of the Nagoya region and its various rivalries with other cities. It also doesn’t help that it has build up a huge cast over the previous three seasons. I watched it more because I’d watched the previous series than out of any real interest.
Urawa no Usagi-chan (#28) I watched because it was getting a sequel in the Summer 2022 anime season and then I never watched the sequel. I did watch the special (#29) though. Apparantly created to promote Urawa City in Saitama, Japan, it does so through the antics of a group of high school girls in the same club. Usagi-chan is a cheerful idiot, her friends similar sort of stereotypes. animation wise its mains strength are its gorgeous backgrounds. They clearly did their research.
Jantama Pong (#30) is not intended to promote a Japanese region or city, but is an ad for an mobile Mahjong game. this one takes the route of throwing wacky shit at the viewer until they capitulate. In the first episode for example they threw a truck at the mahjong temple so it got isekaied with all the characters in it. Another one ended with the world destroyed. Glad they went this route because I know nothing about mahjong except the few bits I learned from watching Saki.
(It’s late November and here I am blogging about series I finished in June. Bloody hell.)
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