Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m looking at about a half foot of snow that had the temerity to land just outside my window, and preparing to stay enshrouded in blankets until the spring thaw. However, while it’s far too cold and blustery to currently enjoy my own city, it’s never a bad time to check back in with CITY the Animation, and see how its lovely community is making the most of their own summer days.
After the screen-splitting animation extravaganza that was episode five, CITY’s most recent episode returned us to the production’s usual mode, wherein we learned a great deal more about several of this city’s most prominent families. Having already met so many members of this community, we’ve reached a point where each new scene demonstrates either a new point of connection (like Ryota’s family situation) or new facet of an old friend (like Wako being responsible for Mr. Happiness). This in turn emphasizes what must surely be CITY’s most fundamental theme: that we are simultaneously wildly unique and deeply interconnected, a communal organism that is greater for each eccentricity of its component parts. Fostering those connections and celebrating those quirks is essentially the work of being a community, and CITY’s every episode demonstrates the incidental joys of that process. Let’s head downtown!