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Winter 2018 First Impressions #10 - Gakuen Babysitters


Mars Terra

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The anime today is called Gakuen Babysitters, english School Babysitters. The story is that Ryuuichi Kashima's parents died, but him and his little brother Kotarou are taken in by a chairwoman of a private academy with whom they have never met, also being able to study there in exchange for Ryuuicihi helping out at the daycare club.
Ryuuichi Kashima is the male protagonist and he has the personality that you would expect of one. He is essentially left in the dark about the daycare club until he arrives, though everyone else to whom it may have concerned seems to be aware, it's essentially a club that takes care of the female teachers' children created by the chairwoman herself who I will talk about in just a bit. Considering Ryuuichi had this basically thrown at him, he handles the situation pretty well.
Youko Morinomiya has probably the most ridiculous hairstyle I have ever seen in a anime, but I guess that's just common for elderly woman look in anime. She is shown to care quite a lot about people. She created a club so that the teachers can work without having to worry about their kids, She takes Ryuuichi and seems to care a lot about him and his brother.
The caretaker before Ryuuichi showed up is Yoshihito Usaida, he seems to be more of the cool guy, but he also seems kind which is evident by the fact that he takes care of the kids and would of stayed with Ryuuichi if he asked even after his shift is up.
So with Ryuuichi on the job, he has multiple kids to focus on and there is a lot of chaos, it goes like about what you'd expect and may come across as awkward for some. Now to talk about about the kids of the daycare, the main focus of the episode is Kotarou who starts to feel lonely when his big brother's attention is shifted to everyone else, which was presented a minute after he started playing with them, which is too early to present the problem and they should of waited until later. Taka Kamitani is pretty aggressive and it would be easy to label him a brat, Kazuma Mamizuka is the shyest kid and it looks like he's about to burst into tears at any moment, I know he's supposed to be a crybaby but I find this to be overkill, Takuma Mamizuka is his twin brother and he seems to be kindhearted. And Kirin Kumazuka seems to be rude to her peers but nice to Ryuuichi.
After most of the kids go home, Ryuuichi finds out that Kotarou has a fever and with the help of Hayato Kamitani, the older brother of Taka, he takes him to a hospital. It turns out that it's caused by stress to a new environment, Ryuuichi goes to call his parents and this is when it finally sinks in that his parents are dead, perhaps because he didn't want to accept it but he was acting pretty cheery for most of the episode. He realizes that Kotarou needs him and the two cry together as Youko comes to take them home, them falling asleep after she does.
It has a pretty light-hearted tone, and although the first episode had some emotional moments, I don't think it will break too far from this. The episode ends with Ryuuichi introducing himself to his new classmates, so although a large focus will likely be on the kids, there will also be some more characters his own age. I think this will add more complex storytelling that would likely not be present if it were just about the kids, but while I don't think it will be bad, I don't think it's going to impress me either. That's all for this post, but if you haven't already please check out my impressions on Mitsuboshi Colors and Slow Start. On tuesday, I will return with more impressions. So with that, have a wonderful day.

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