Detectives These Days Are Crazy! ep3-12 [end]
Didn't expect this to be the one show of the season that I'd see to the end, but here we are. I always assumed it would have done more with its premise, but it seemed content to just amble along as a light-hearted comedy, with the characters doing odd-jobs, much in the mould of Gintama. Probably not one that I'm likely to remember in any great detail, but it had some good gags (the attempt to hold a wedding in the midst of a typhoon being a real standout) and, having been through some very trying times of late, it always took my mind off things.
Catch Me at the Ballpark! ep4-5
Probably go back to this for some light viewing now that Detectives is finished, but it feels like something best taken slowly. Its very rose-tinted view of trips to the sports game feels like it might get a little grating in large doses.
Lupin III: Part 2 ep63-64 (English dub)
64 was another case of 'nice idea, bungled the execution', with Lupin being challenged to rob a famous jewellery store on live television. There's an amusing race to the bottom between the store owner and Fujiko for who can manage the most withering put-down (needed a shojo slap though), but the eventual solution was just too goofy for me.
63, on the other hand, was absolutely great - probably one of the real highlights of Part 2 so far. Fujiko tries to convince Lupin to rob a dying billionaire who wants to leave his money to charity, only for Lupin to take the moral high ground and refuse, this one sees plenty of fun love/hate backstabbing inside Lupin's gang, culminating in a truly farcical robbery attempt at the end. You could have loaded this one into The Woman Called Fujiko Mine without changing much.
