Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m feeling altogether on top of my various professional responsibilities, and thus feel I’ve earned some sunny urban shenanigans. That’s right, it’s time for another episode of CITY The Animation, as Nagumo and her eccentric neighbors do their best to navigate adolescence, adulthood, and that awkward bridge in between. Our journeys may be wandering and our destinations uncertain, but as that irrepressible OP says, I’m sure we’ll all meet again eventually, laughing and smiling just like this.
Our last episode certainly offered plenty of reason for laughter, united under the thematic banner of “experiencing an idyllic summer vacation.” For our older trio, this involved a carefree trip to the beach ending in tsunami-strength meteorological devastation – for Tatewaku Makabe, it meant roaming the globe in pursuit of his beloved Izumi, encountering a variety of dubiously canonical hazards along the way. And all of this served as a sort of meta anti-climax, terminating in the absurd punchline that our local baseball team had not just competed in, but actually won the vaunted summer Koshien. But I suppose the feeling of missing out on a perfect youthful summer is in its own way the essence of youth, and I’m sure CITY will offer more similarly slanted wisdom in the episodes ahead. Let’s see what else this production has to teach us as we return to the streets!