I find myself startled at how absolutely brilliant Kurenai has turned out. The summary of the show as I was preparing for the new season did not entice me at all and I brushed it off to my will-watch-eventually queue. Little did I know as I picked it up to watch, that I had unexpectedly struck gold. 

Now, normally I don’t like little kid characters… well the ones who are really obviously brattish and at first, I hated Murasaki. But I think the pull of this show is Murasaki really growing out of this old disposition and learning to have more fun with Shinkurou. The whole cast of character around actually are wonderful. Yuuno with her obvious crush on Shinkuro, Ginko with her aloofness, Tamaki with her teasing, Benika with her cool autority and Yayoi with her stoicalness really bring a spark of life to this anime. 

I love the subtlety of the story telling… nothing outrageous happens. There are no big reveals just allusions, well accept for Shinkurou’s arm thingy. The animation is splendidly fluid and where the need for action comes to play, it happens well and looks great on screen. 

Episode 6 was an especially fun episode. When the idea of practicing for a musical came up, I was expecting Macross like music acts, but I was treated to hilariously bad singing (apparently all acted) and even when the quality went up, it was all natural and I liked that. A lot. Although I have some qualms about how weirdly they acted but hey, they were trying to do a musical. Particularly Yayoi, I enjoyed her coming out of her shell a bit here especially after seeing 5 episode of her loitering guarding outside. 

This has turned out to be one of my favourites of the season. I definitely want to see where this will lead.