Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

[Kraco]

Not an awesomely strong series as a whole, compared to some other slice-of-life shows. I think this story suffered from the same thing Claude himself suffered: It was oft too awkward, it failed to communicate enough (connect with the audience), it didn't have many friends, and it shut itself inside the familiar four walls too much. I hoped for much more based on the first eps, but at least this single season lenght didn't provide enough opportunities for the characters to really develop. Unfortunately I also felt like they failed to really tap into the possibilities the interesting historical setting would have provided.

It was a nice enough series but will not rank particularly high on my list. Au revoir.

[shinta|hikari]

This show lacked content. It just repeated what was already done in the first few episodes, and repeated stuff already explained in the middle as well. I think taking just 3-4 episodes from the entire show is enough to get the full enjoyment out of it.