Mai is the captain of the bowling team. She has a fang and a tendency to choke.
If you’ve heard anything about Turkey! Time to Strike this season, you’re probably already spoiled about the unexpected twist that occurs at the end of the first episode. To preserve the innocent, I’ll avoid detailing it explicitly here, but it’s the sort of thing I assume someone added to rewrites during the years the anime was in production. Consequently, one might naturally expect Turkey! to be my surprise of the season, certainly more so than Ruri no Houseki (Ruri Rocks), a show one might naturally expect to be about geology that turns out to be a show about geology.
Big hammer.
However, the surprising thing about Ruri no Houseki is how well it’s made. Basically every shot in the anime is high-effort animation that easily surpasses the sort of thing I’ve come to expect from “girls really enjoy a thing” anime. I’m also surprised at how much of a brat Ruri is. To me, Ruri behaves more like a spoiled elementary school kid than a high school girl, but maybe my perspective is skewed by years of exposure to unusually mature anime JKs. Thankfully, I don’t find Ruri grating, although I am about ready for her to chill out a bit. I am also learning about rocks at the same time Ruri is, but I guess that part is not surprising.
There’s gold in them thar hills!
So does this mean I really like Ruri Rocks? Well, not exactly. I sort of enjoy it, but I’m not positive that I would still be watching were it not for its exceptional production values. I do like it a lot more than Turkey! Time to Strike, though. It’s not enough for Turkey! to throw in a wild twist; it still needs to follow through in an entertaining way. For now…eh, I’m not quite on board. I’ll give Turkey! another episode or two, but they’ll have to be better than its second episode was. Ruri no Houseki, on the other hand, I could probably watch all season long, time permitting, despite not normally being my sort of show.
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