Genres: comedy, romance, slice of life, supernatural Themes: goddesses, gods, school, unrequited love Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: Inari Fushimi is a middle school girl who’s never had a requited love, since she’s a shy, clumsy and not very bright. One day, she witnesses her crush Kouji giving a letter to her classmate Akemi. Shocked and saddened, Inari rushes to a shrine, where the goddess Uka-no-Mitama-no-Kami appears to her. As thanks for saving a fox pup, as well as out of pity for her plight, the goddess grants Inari the power to shape-shift. Number of episodes: 10 Vintage: 2014-01-15 to 2014-04-20
[quote]Seriously,
as cute as this show is, it’s got some moments of maturity and
character development that belie its sweet exterior.[/quote]
Reads like Funi is trying to sell people on the series but, with it being a sub-only, I can’t imagine the audience growing significantly. Funi conveniently did include a “litmus test” for this with that fox pic and as I failed that test the odds of me buying this are extremely low.
Did the Japanese saddle Funi with this show and they’re just doing the minimum to get it onto the market? That’s the best case scenario that I can think of for this…
maybe they can’t sit on anymore shows, got to make back their money spent anyway they can, even if it means releasing sub-only shows. Must be costing them a pretty penny sitting on Eva 3.33, grabbing A. Class, starting their theatrical division, etc…
I can play the “buy it subbed and hope it gets dubbed” game with Sentai stuff, but only because of ADV nostalgia. Funi doesn’t have an appeal like that…
If Funi isn’t dubbing this because the simulcasting numbers weren’t good enough then I’ll be irked as Funi’s streaming numbers must be (further) flawed due to the obnoxious walls they hide their streams behind. If they aren’t dubbing it because it can’t be dubbed (ahem) in their opinion then that’s just tragic.
I’m really hoping that this was just a casualty of the Japanese forcing the title on Funi as that won’t cause me to think ill of Funi for releasing another show “half-baked”.
