Review: Animals “Wallet”

Money talks.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

After the events of Green Day, Pigeon Heights becomes a kingdom run by Pigeon King Phil who lords over his domain with an iron feather. That said, Pigeon King Phil’s kingdom is anything but safe, with the local Yakuza roaming the streets and a terrorist group known as ICEES threatening mass destruction. The latter does just that with a local bar mitzvah and nearly has Pigeon Heights by the balls had it not been for a fat little fuck named “Wallet” who, earlier in the episode, is tasked with protecting the king from all who threaten. After an intense battle, Wallet returns to his bird bath with a magic potion that brings back to life a very special someone.

Our Take

I left a decent amount out of the recap because there’s a lot going on in this week’s episode. In what is by far the most ambitious presentation creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese have done up until this point, “Wallet”, stylistically, is a very stark departure from what we’ve seen in the last two and a half seasons for the show and the results are solid. The fight scenes showcase talents we really hadn’t seen up until this point, and the plot was well-balanced with building us up to the underlying premise of the episode all the while having a lot of fun in character development for our eventual hero. The anime influences are apparent, Hayao Miyazaki fans will eat up more of the Wallet-centric scenes than anything else, and while the Street Fighter-esque fight scenes have been done quite a bit in other shows, I was way more engrossed with Wallet’s character up until this point to really let it bother and instead was able to enjoy the fruits of my watching labor. The opening with this week’s episode saw Phil and Mike fucking around with a banana that I have no interest in seeing in conclusion cuz Christ only knows what that banana is doing right now, and this is the third episode in the row where Phil has had a character presented as gay which is an interesting dynamic and one worth following to see where it’s going.