The episode starts with a flashback of when Ric was younger. It was Parent’s Day and Ric had written a speech about his father. He titled it “Dreams.” Even though his father was the first to clap for him while in the classroom, on the ride home he didn’t seem to like it at all. More >
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  Samurai! Woow! Impressions: The first half was a lot of fun, but the second half was all Star-For-Brains Moon-For-Brains and left quite a lot to be desired. Going from a giant Fist of the North Star parody to 10 minutes of listening to him monologue while Kou makes silly faces is well past shooting yourself in [...]
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This was a great episode.  Not only did we get some more character development for Ric and some development on Ric & Nino’s relationship, but we also got some great laughs!  Truly my faith in SHAFT has been restored.  Anyway, this episode shows what happens when Ric’s employee’s try to see what he’s been up [...]
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Again, we have another week where the opening monologue isn’t a quotable life lesson. Rather, we get insight into the [...]
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The last episode of Arakawa Under the Bridge ended with about the closest this series can come to a cliff-hanger, with Kou seemingly recognised by a couple of individuals from outside of the world under the bridge... an undesirable state of affairs for our protagonist, for obvious reasons.The two people in question turn out to be Kou's secretary and his assistant, which of course makes life even
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At first, I didn’t think much of this episode. It seemed too heavy on the drama, too light on the comedy. But it’s in situations like this where blogging a series can really change one’s mind. The more I thought about the episode and as I rewatched it for taking screenshots, I grew to really [...]
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Episode 52: Teacher Under the Bridge: So Ric is finally setting up his new “job” as being the school teacher for under the bridge and finally getting rid of his title as a leech given to him by Star....
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  Say "ahh." Impressions: Eh. I’m not really sure how to feel about this episode. I do think that it was definitely better than most of the early ones, but almost all of the jokes were so predictible that the whole thing felt completely phoned in. Every character immediately fell back into their usual stereotype within [...]
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Summary: Carrying out his resolution to become a teacher, Recruit sets up his classroom under the bridge. Though the Iron Brothers and Nino are his only pupils, Recruit remains hopeful that he can at least knock some common sense into the Brothers. His efforts are quickly derailed by their incessant questions, however, and things get even [...]
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This week Ric finally opens his school and has an epiphany about the nature of ‘common sense’. So driven by his desire to discard his ‘leech’ image, Ric ploughs on with his idea to set up a school Under the Bridge.  His classroom takes the form of a blackboard and a desk set up in [...]
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Just as I decided to paste the opening message of each episode to start my Arakawa posts it throws up [...]
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Lines I thought I'd never hear in anime: "It's not like I just want him for his chloroplasts!" Seriously, was kind of twisted genius is Arakawa Under the Bridge, and how does it make me laugh louder every week?Anyhow, I digress - After figuring out his vocation under the bridge last week, episode seven of the series sees Ric start up his school, although admittedly the first day's attendance
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Arakawa Under the Bridge is one of the lighter and fluffier anime of this season. However, underlying that gorgeous autumn palette, lovable Nino, and comedic randomness is a rather serious social issue. Call it occupational disease or simply “watching it … Continue reading →
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This episode was all about the laughs. There were little bits of development in character and plot here and there, especially at the end, but the stars were Stella and P-Ko, who both provided plenty of laughter in the episode’s 2 parts. Also, Nino narrated the opening lines this time instead of Riku, and though [...]
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  Or the lack thereof. Impressions: This took a bit of a stange direction at the end. Not surreal. Surreal is normal for this show. Removing the OP to give P-ko a soapbox to rant for 90 seconds and then having Kou’s old life pop up as he has a crisis of the brain and wonders about [...]
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Summary: The lights come up on the church stage, revealing Hoshi and Recruit who are poised for their musical showdown. Hoshi declares that their contest will be decided by Nino’s expression, and starts off with one of her favorite songs. Her reaction is favorable and Hoshi thinks he has the competition locked until Ric starts in [...]
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This week we get our music battle and Ric continues his search for his place in the Under Bridge community. As suspected, Ric has the skills to be a concert violinist – one can only imagine the effort he put in to get that good.  His performance marks him as the clear winner of the [...]
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First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans [...]
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After some quite beautiful words on the nature of human relationships from Kou, episode six of Arakawa Under the Bridge gets back to some serious business - Namely, the Eurovision song contest that is the musical competition between Ric and Star.While Star looks to have won the day with his wonderfully penned song about girls haircuts, Ric's violin playing abilities prove to be sufficiently
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(No, that’s just the title of this post – the title of the episode was 6Bridge, as usual). Even if they’re born in the same galaxy, born on the same land and live in the same time, the probability that any 2 people meet is so low as to be called a miracle. Laughing, being [...]
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