#not complaining about suwabe bc obviously i love him

[crehador]

finished uchi no shishou wa shippo ga nai and it was solidly okay (cute! fun!)

i always suspected i wouldn’t be able to give this series a fair shake, because it’s a cute little rakugo anime where the main character is a tanuki... so for me it’s going up against descending stories, which is of course the rakugo anime, and uchouten kazoku

descending stories and uchouten kazoku are two of my all-time favorites, so i never expected uchi no shishou to surpass them (and to its credit, it’s not trying to! it’s a very different show in genre and tone)

uchi ga shishou certainly didn’t get anywhere close to the level of those two series, but it was still cute and enjoyable!

bunko is very cool and mameda is adorable, i’m a total sucker for a dynamic like theirs, but at the same time i also didn’t get super attached to any of the main cast... bunchou and utaroku lore got me making the eyes emoji tho

predictably i picked this up mostly for the cast, because not only is it a rakugo anime it’s a rakugo anime with ishida akira performing rakugo which i will eat up literally any day (his performance as bon in descending stories is one of my favorites of his, of all time, which is saying a lot because he’s fucking kaworu)

i got chills when he started to perform, but his character doesn’t actually feature that heavily in this series and it just made me miss bon so so so much

in short, i’d say uchi no shishou is to rakugo what kabukibu! is to kabuki

it’s cute and it’s a serviceable enough introduction to the art of rakugo, but it’s a little bit all over the place and doesn’t make me lie in a puddle of my own tears for three months like a certain other rakugo show