Six minutes to live
(This review contains
spoilers!)
After last week’s ridiculous episode,
I thought that Space Patrol Luluco would need to pull out all the stops to do
it one better. Well, if that is to happen, this episode wasn’t the one to do
it. Don’t get me wrong, it was still a good episode with a lot of laughs and
fantastic animation. It’s just that following last week, it felt a bit weak.
This week put the rest of the cast on
the backburner, focusing primarily on Luluco and Nova’s relationship as they
made their way to discount Hogwarts in the continuing search for Ogikubo.
There, they met with a witch named
Sucy, who poisoned Luluco and told her she had six minutes to live, forcing
Luluco to go through the stages of grief in record pace. Her indecisiveness on
whether she wanted to accept her death or not was really funny, but it did
start to get a bit tired the longer it went on.
Still, it’s nice to add some more meat
to the relationship, even if Nova remains the most boring character on the
show. I suppose that the humour in him is sort of just how bland and nonchalant
he is about everything, but I personally don’t find it all that funny. I’d much
rather spend time with Midori or the Chief than him.
Unfortunately, that was all that was
really in this episode. We didn’t get any leads on the location of Ogikubo, and
while I found Sucy a decently funny character (especially her counting down how
many minutes Luluco had left), I doubt I’ll remember her the same way I do the
shapeshifter from last week.
Even if this was a weaker episode for Space
Patrol Luluco, especially riding on the coattails of last week, it was still
leaps and bounds above several other comedy anime in quality. One thing I
especially love is that it never really falls back on the same easy jokes we’ve
seen so many times in comedy anime before. It’s always surprising, and always
funny. The ending reveals of the actual timeframe for the poison and how Nova felt
about his kiss with Luluco were both perfectly done, and Luluco’s reactions
were hilarious. The expressions on the characters will never stop being funny.
One less-than-stellar episode is to be
expected in every show, and for Luluco to go 8 episodes before we hit it is
impressive, especially for a comedy anime. Still, I hope we can bounce back
next week and see what else lies ahead for our Space Patrol crew.
FINAL SCORE
7/10
Good
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