dinsdag 13 augustus 2019

(Average+) The Helpful Fox Senko-san

Series in one sentence:
Child wife gleefully infantilizes a 40-something man with a fur fetish.


Series in more sentences:

A fox demigod regrets her failure to save the life of the human who treated her wounds back in feudal times, and sees her second chance with his look-a-like relative in modern time Japan. 

She intends to serve and pamper the overworked man for all eternity.


Difficult to say what I thought about this. It was scratching the surface of pedophilia, though the anime managed to dance around it every time any of the characters did or said something inappropriate.
The man's tail obsession and narration during some of the pampering was weird to sit through, though. I think it would've been better if he simply liked pets in general and didn't comment on the "soft hands" of a creature that in every way looks like a human child.

His moments of infantilization weren't charming to me, either. I understood the anime's message that sometimes adults should revisit their childhood, but you're able to get pampered without lying down in a fetus position on the lap of a little girl..
Despite all this, I liked the guy. He had a nice design and his voice actor was pleasant to listen to. The fox demon, on the other hand, was what fox demons always are in animes; a little girl who looks 10. The show kept mentioning she was over 800 years old as an out-of-jail free card, but I think would've helped more if her voice actor was an older-sounding woman.

Throughout the series the question was raised what the relationship between this fox and man is, and I still don't know. I really don't want these two to be dating, but in a way, it's what the show encourages? Yet it isn't? Confusing. 

The fox's past was endearing, but very little time was spent on showing it.

This anime had a full 5 stars at Crunchyroll, and this surprises me. It had the potential to earn that rating, but didn't deliver, in my opinion. It's a 3 to 3 and a half, really.


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