best of 2009: #8

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#8: Minami-ke Okaeri

“With your flat chest, how long are you going to continue cross-dressing?”

Also wins for 2009:

  • Best Mako-cakes Being Mako-cakes
  • Best Hosaka Being Hosaka
  • Best Kana Minami Being Kana Minami
  • Best Haruka Minami Being Amazing

First ever anime to score three straight Best of Top Tens and the real non-joke #8 of 2009. I think it’s a tribute to both how broken everyone is on the show, and how much I enjoy their broken selves. Now this third iteration brought along its own quirks but still doesn’t measure up to the original Minami-ke. (Honesty, what does?) What does Okaeri have going for it? It got rid of the annoying neighbor kid Fubuki, for one. It focused more on what makes Minami-ke great: Mako-cakes, Hosaka, and Kana. (Still, nothing’s perfect… less Haruka fanservice and no Bible Black faces.) It introduced The Curry Fairy as well as backup waifu Hitomi.

Besides that, it’s the same old winning Minami-ke formula: low calorie slice-of-life comedy that focuses on the lives of three very entertaining sisters. And their very, very, very, very broken friends. I wish I could put Minami-ke in the top ten every year, but, alas. This might be it. Goodbye, and thanks for all the Mako-cakes.

12 Responses to “best of 2009: #8”

  1. 1 Apr 2010 at 4:07:09 PM dood

    Seriously when are you getting rid of the white background, my eyes are starting to bleed.

    I couldn’t even finished watching the second season, it was just unbearable…
    The original though is great nothing else to add.

  2. 1 Apr 2010 at 5:38:08 PM Decel

    Man that show was one of the best comedies since Azumanga

    I wish there was a sequel with a plot that advances further through time.

  3. 1 Apr 2010 at 5:52:41 PM black87

    All things Minami-ke are welcome. A lot of people hated both sequels but I found them quite entertaining anyway.

  4. 1 Apr 2010 at 8:03:01 PM Haesslich

    I was wondering when you’d get to this show. Especially with Mako-chan and Haruka and Hosaka being Hosaka. I wish Doumu’d been kept for the art, although Asread spent a LOT of time on Mako-chan towards the end…

  5. 1 Apr 2010 at 9:30:15 PM kat

    Best not-creepy-at-all smile. (Natsuki). Not creepy at all.

  6. 1 Apr 2010 at 11:13:07 PM quigonkenny

    Yeah, yeah, Mako-cakes was great, everybody’s broken, Hosaka is win…

    But enough of that. They just announced your runaway frontrunner for number one for Best of 2010.

    http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.....-green-lit

  7. 1 Apr 2010 at 11:51:18 PM Neriya

    It doesn’t stand up to the original though – there were a couple of great episodes (curry fairy tops it), but they were rather buried in a large number of humdrum episodes about Chiaki’s boring friends.

  8. 1 Apr 2010 at 11:56:53 PM Neriya

    Whoa, just saw quigonkenny’s link. This fills me with terror about the studio involved.

  9. 2 Apr 2010 at 1:22:39 AM cyruz

    #8? This was the worst sequel i can think of. =/

  10. 2 Apr 2010 at 1:28:54 AM Haesslich

    Cyruz: so you LIKED Endless Eight?

  11. 2 Apr 2010 at 10:58:38 AM kat

    Haruka’s looks + Hosaka’s visualizations/narcissism = Yamada from B Gata H Kei.

  12. 3 Apr 2010 at 6:42:19 AM Lights

    Why are there two #8 spots?
    Unless my eyes lie to me.

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