These days anime fans are a a little revolutionized because it has just begun spring anime season and we are bursting with premieres. This week there are also some of the most anticipated series of the year between ‘Hell’s Paradise’, ‘Mashle’ and the return of ‘Dr. Stone’ and ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba’…
But if action isn’t your thing, this season we also have some very, very cute premieres ahead of us to keep an eye on. And without a doubt one that has not disappointed with its start has been ‘Skip and Loafer‘.
Just a small town girl livin’ in a lonely world
‘Skip and Loafer‘ is the story of Mitsumi Iwakura, a bright high school student from a small town in Hashikko, who has been accepted to a very prestigious Tokyo school and moves to the big city. Mitsumi has her whole life planned to become a successful woman (a girlboss full-blown), and that starts with having a stellar first day at his new high school.
Unfortunately, the first day doesn’t go quite as expected: she gets lost on the subway, gets dizzy, and is in danger of missing the graduation ceremony. However, Sōsuke Shima, a very popular boy from the same high school, sees the complete disaster that has become in just a few hours and decides to help her.
The story of ‘Skip and Loafer’ is older than stone and falls into many topics of other anime, between the girl quirky in which a tremendous maromazo and the tropes of opposites attracting are fixed… But honestly, if something works for me there is no need to reinvent it. Because the anime begins with everything we could wish for thanks to a very good rhythm and some protagonists with whom it is very easy to become attached.
Even though Mitsumi wants to be perfect (and no matter how good a student she is), she is a complete mess with a very natural personality and very catchy charm. For now the rest of the characters have been a bit overshadowed, including Sosuke himself, but for now we have the perfect introduction.
The other great point in its favor is the comedy, with very well measured times and the right gags so as not to harass you, maintaining very well the balance between the most cute moments and those that make you smile (or laughter directly).
Because ‘Skip and Loafer’ is adorable and it also leaves you so comforting that we often look for this type of anime from day to day. The animation of PA Works is also really nice and fulfills beyond the functional, especially with the expressiveness of the characters and in the strokes of comedy so well run I mean, let’s not expect fireworks and tremendous waste as if it were a MAPPA anime, but the style is cute and it fits perfectly with the story they are telling us.
The original manga of Misaki Takamatsu It already has eight compilation volumes since it began to be published in 2018 and the story is not yet closed, so we should not expect the resolution in one season from the outset. Now if the romance of ‘Slip and Loafer’ It’s going to set on a slow fire and it’s going to hold up just as well as the first chapter, it’s going to be a joy to watch.
if you seek an anime to leave us with a warm heart and more series like ‘Komi-san can’t communicate’ or ‘Kimi no Todoke’, this can be a great bet this spring. We will be able to follow it week by week through Crunchyroll, and it can already be said that for now it has started with everything we could want from an anime of the genre.
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