eating

Fifth of 12 entries for the year’s “Twelve Moments in Anime” project.

Higepiyo was a spring series that I was instantly interested in because it had a bearded chick with the temperament of a warrior (voiced by Romi Park) living at a grade-schooler’s house. I had mostly forgotten about the show until yesterday but I watched some more of it tonight and still found it entertaining. The stories in each five-minute episode are fairly simple (e.g. Higepiyo furnishing his own room, which is actually a topless tomato box) but the humor works for me and that’s all it need to do. The same standard holds for the also-5-minutes-long Naked Wolves, which is about a sumo wrestler travelling around the world to acquire moves so he can avenge a loss in the ring.

My favorite moment so far was in the fourth episode, where Higepiyo pushes Hiroshi (the boy) to finish his school lunch quickly so both of them can have seconds. Their competition is the school bully and the dish is yakisoba. Higepiyo wolfs down a lot of it, then turns toward to the bully and his buddies to stun with a pig nose drawn of his face. Once Hiroshi wins and gets a second plate, Higepiyo suddenly realizes that there’s no meat in it and expresses his dismay. The whole affair stuck out to me since I consider myself to be moderately passionate about food.