English Dub Review: City the Animation Episode 11

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Always get your vases appraised!

OUR TAKE

If I had a nickel for every anime episode I watched on a Sunday that had segments involving characters doing a vlog and pretending other people are documenting them being normal and quirky, and then getting other characters wrapped up in it, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice, right? Anyway, it’s another quirky ass day in City town, including Kamabako the manga artist getting scared about being replaced by a star author, only for that author’s manuscript to turn out to be too risque, then having Wako interpreting between him and his editor that there are no hard feelings. A bunch of animals convene in the sewers to discuss how safe living in the City actually is, and, as mentioned, Niikura and Nagumo try to go viral by posting videos of their daily lives set to Mambo No. 5 by Dámaso Pérez Prado. But as expected, this niche Japanese cartoon is not going to get the rights to play a classic bop from the nineties, so it’s gotta be the off brand version. Oh and the “evil barber” from a few episodes ago finds out the stuff people trade him is actually really valuable, except for a vase that may actually be cursed. And thus concludes me explaining every joke because that’s all you can really do in a show that’s a bunch of skits.

Well, okay, maybe there’s something else we can pull from this. The vlogging parts are really just more of these girls having wacky fun times, aside from the follow up to chase for that weird rabbit, which then leads into the scene where said rabbit finds a bunch of either extinct (such as the Ibis) or urban legend animals (such as the Tsuchinoko) and talks to them about the safety in the city. But then there’s the shogi game segment that doesn’t really have any connection to anything, except that maybe one of the competitors was in that Riko Izumi fan club a little while back. And then there’s the barber, who we saw a few episodes ago as well when he was describing his strange business practices of taking items in exchange for haircuts, and also the rabbit was there too. See, everything is kinda sorta connected! Now we wait for the final two episodes and see if they too can tie some things together for me to talk about.