{"id":614,"date":"2006-07-30T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=614"},"modified":"2006-07-30T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T16:26:16","slug":"binbou-shimai-monogatari-the-story-of-the-poor-sisters-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Binbou Shimai Monogatari (The Story of the Poor Sisters) – episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A Day for Yukatas, Fireworks and Candy Apples”<\/p>\n

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Poor sisters clearly live in some alternate dimension where 25 minutes feels like an eternity.<\/p>\n

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Kyo and Asu are impoverished sisters who have made a vow with their deceased mother to forever watch out for each other.
\nOn the day that the story begins, the fireworks festival comes to town. Asu plots out a course of attack while Kyo goes out and spends Asu’s savings on a yukata. Misunderstandings ensue, solved only by the power of sisterhood.<\/p>\n

It’s strange to see Sakamoto Maaya back in action in anime after years of small roles in a time of her life devoted mostly to making music. Here she is in lead roles in two ongoing anime: Ouran High School Host Club<\/I> and Binbou Shimai Monogatar<\/i>. She even uses the same voice for both characters, despite Kyo not being very gender ambigous. Kaneda Tomoko, best known to the world at large as being Chiyo-chan in Azumanga Daioh<\/i>, turns in her best “little girl” performance as Asu.<\/p>\n

Not that anyone will notice, because the anime loving community hates anime that covers poverty in any capacity because they don’t like “pity”. A story is not based on pity, but pity can motivate you to care for characters. It’s unlikely that they want<\/i> your pity because, as Mario Puzo will tell you, poor people have their pride, too.
\nAsu and Kyo are determined to make a go of it, so if they knew that all of the people on the internet were spitting on them for not having any money, they’d stab them in the face. Actually, I’d really<\/i> like to see that anime. Still, this fact does not change that you could easily add “-bin” to the title of the episode.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of the scenery design, looking a little too much like it had been done with crayons or something, even though it has to be a deliberate choice in this magical age of digimation. Still, it looks okay<\/I> and it even gets away with the “you can’t see the man’s face in that photo” technique because his face has literally been blacked out with a marker.<\/p>\n

Binbou Shimai Monogatari<\/i> has an interest level, but this first episode did<\/i> go on way too long. The abject poverty of the sisters isn’t going to make you cry, but it might be a bit too much to watch all at once.<\/p>\n

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