Fronzel
I watched this TV series because I enjoyed the movie and expected it to be a fuller treatment of the ideas seen there, like the pathos of Chie being a tough girl who’s actually carrying the sadness of her separated parents and her deadbeat father leaving her to earn money by operating the family’s tiny grilled meat restaurant by herself. However, only a handful or less of the series’ episodes touch on these ideas, and all are within the first 15 episodes. The storyline about the separation of Chie’s parents reaches a conclusion surprisingly quickly and has surprisingly little effect on the series after. With Chie’s motivations neutralized, she’s reduced to playing straight-man to her father, Tetsu, whose antics as an overgrown juvenile delinquent takes over the series completely. Given…
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