2025.8.23
Context: Kakkou no Iinazuke
(A Couple of Cuckoos)
It's a weird feeling. This might be the true mediocre of similar genres - it definitely can't be said as very good, but it's not horrible either (I'm looking at you, a certain unmistakenably trashy show). It has a few problems, undoubtedly. The rhythm isn't one of them - you aren't really supposed to focus on the rhythm part when it comes to 2-season long highschool love comedies by now; but none of my conspiracy theories about the entire situation really makes enough sense and doesn't rely on assumed info they haven't given us (e.g. they could reveal things like "oh the poor dad is actually from the same rich family as the rich dad and he just left because of a rebellious phase hissy fit" which would then explain a lot of stuff), and that really annoyed me.
The rich dad character is bad. Is he really 57, or it's simply because the author(s) needed a larger number? He somehow feels much less mature than the poor dad who's whole 21 years younger. I pretty much don't enjoy the "parent/older siblings being the overhanging schemer" trope ever since the trainwreck that's known as Oregairu
. Maybe it's just me getting old and have lost the patience for people who needlessly overcomplicate things, but Lord have mercy, you're directly meddling with highschool romance with adult power and authority, don't you feel at least a little bit of senselessness in this?
I sense an uptick of girls having complicated emotion pattern; I think this is more of a good thing than a bad thing.