Wakako-Zake Episodes 11 + 12 [Final Impressions]

And so I realized, that I hadn’t done the final reviews for this series. However, I guess it’s more due to the fact that when it all boils down to it, this isn’t really so much a series as it is a bunch of commercials for Japanese food dishes. Still, I have a job to do, and that job is finish these reviews. So let’s finish our commercial reviews. One more time. And by that i mean review two at once. one more time…

So episode eleven is about Wakako ordering grilled fish. She orders Sake with it and comments about how there’s so much of it and how it’s so cheap.

She flashbacks to times when she went to restaurants with her coworkers and how the food got eaten too fast and how she was embarrassed to eat it a certain way.

She eats a whole bunch with her sake and is amazed how much is left even after all of that. And..that’s kind of the episode.

The final episode, episode 12 is about her eating Ginkgo nuts.

She comments about how the place she’s at has them break open their own nuts.

She talks about how the nuts are salty and…..(facepalms) goddamn it.

Okay, let me try again. She talks about how the nuts are warm and……………(gets up from computer and walks away for a minute)

Okay, I think I’ve got this. She then explains how sometimes it doesn’t work out and you end up busting a nut and…..fuck it. i’m done.

End recap.

But I do have to mention one more thing. It’s time for……….SHIRT ENGRISH!

Ah yes, the great English phrase that is…Haven…4 we met… oh yeah. all the time. You know, I just said that last week.

Anyway, let’s get onto the review segment

So yeah, the first episode had a lot less going on than the second one. The second one at least had nut puns. The first one kind of just talks about how she likes eating fish and how she’s glad she doesn’t have to share. The second one is about nuts. There’s really not much to say. The second one felt more like something may have actually happened, but I could have fever dreamed that.

Episode 11: 5/10
Episode 12: 6.5/10

Okay, so let’s get to the final review of the “series”

Head: There….really is no plot to speak of. A girl goes out and eats different food. I mean…there’s really not a plot. When 1/4 of the episode is opening theme song there isn’t exactly much…room..for…STUFF to happen. There’s no overarching plot there’s no real character development, she kind of just…..eats stuff. That’s the plot. So for the first time ever i’m just going to give this series an N/A for one of the three review parts

Head:   NA/10

Eye: Okay, while the main character was a little light on the character design (seeing how they don’t give her realistic eyes or even a nose) it was a cute stylistic choice and they did at least make the food look appetizing. So there’s that. There definitely was a calm serene feel through most of the series as if nothing was going to go wrong and just to sit back and relax and enjoy the soothing minute and a half ride you were in for. At the very least when I watched this show the music, visuals, and Voice acting let me know what I was in for. There were no surprises which could be both bad and good.

Eye 6.5/10

Heart:

Well….there’s not much to say. Wakako sure does enjoy her food. The only thing I got from Wakako was she seemed very timid and not very outgoing and the only time she could really be herself was when she talked about food. It’s almost kind of sad in a way as It almost seems that this is her escape from a world she really can’t be a part of. Of course, I may be looking far too deeply into this 2 minute episode show about food, but that’s how I feel. Overall though..it did its job. Not…quite sure what that WAS but yeah….

Heart 5/10

Overall Score

5.5/10

Would I watch this show again? Nah. Probably not. Would I review it again if I could go back in time? Hell no. There’s literally NOTHING to talk about. But…it was a fun experimental show, which for the first time left me realizing how impossible it was to review something. Which is an anomaly in itself. So….there’s that.

Well, i’m finally done. I…I think i’m going to take a break from shorts for a while. This show burned me out, at least for this season. I hope those of you either agreed with me or saw my points, or just enjoyed my rants overall. See you next time, but not in this show. Thank god.

-Hideki