Realife_Brahmin
Slice of life. The music is cute. The art is deliberately minimalistic (in fact, quite odd). Shin (New) Atashinchi brilliantly brings out the complexity in the most simple of situations in the day to day life of a family of four. If you ask me, the main protagonist is the mum, Tachibana-san. Several episodes discuss her sixth senses, innovative deductions, cute, clumsy mistakes and her oneness with household chores. Not to mention her outings with her friends. One episode which discusses her ongoing depression especially strikes me. However, Mikan, her brother Yuzu and her father's lives are almost equally discussed, whose middle-school life, high-school life and office life provide a refreshing change to the narrative, (Yes, one 23 minute epsiode is divided into 3 everyday short stories)
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