The Way of the Househusband

JUST READ THE MANGA! This is my first time reviewing an Anime, This adaptation was really so anticipation and was so hype because it is unique that a Yakuza working as a Househusband. First of all the coloring of the anime was really good but the animation was so bad it is like a manga panel but the characters are being dragged out such as pretending it is moving. The VA was really good and the acting of all characters in every situation is outstanding. Many situations are too confusing due to another character appears and not even knowing who the hell they are or anyclue about them. But pretty much it was so enjoyable that an adaptation with 5 ep with 16 mins i laugh straight from beginning to the end. Overall I gave this anime a 7/10. hope that they may fix the adaptation of any manga panel such as running and improve it.

The way of the house husband is by far and away the best comedy to ever come out of Japan, and I will not rest until each and every one of my friends has experienced its gut-busting glory. A short and sweet story about a terrifying yakuza subverting expectations with a short and sweet anime, and I honestly cannot wait for season 2. I am seeing several people complaining about the adaptation, but honestly, I found it perfectly fitting for the kind of story Gokushufudou wants to tell, and whitout Netflix, I and most everyone would have never even paid the manga any mind. This isthe same thing that happened with One Punch Man season 2, with picky fans upset they didn't get an all-star animation team to turn short gags into sakuga, and completely missing the fact that the heart and soul of the comedy remained not only intact, but stronger than ever. Yes, the animation is sparse and the visuals are nowhere as detailed as the source material, but the voice acting, soundtrack, and directing more than make up for it, doubling down on the hillarious writing and unique atmosphere Kosuke Ono so expertly crafted. Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the opening and ending tracks? They alone work wonders to elevate the material and set the mood for the antics to come. I cannot fathom consuming this story without them, and I pity those poor souls who have. Watch this if you are a man, and bring forth your inner house husband!

Oh man, this one was one of my biggest disappointments of 2021. It even made me ask the question of “does this count as anime?” Well, we’ll get into all of that with my review of Gokushufudou and if this adaptation of the amazing manga of the same name is worth your time or not. So Gokushufudou follows Tatsu. He’s an ex-yakuza that used to be feared as the “Immortal Dragon,” but now he is a humble and professional househusband. It shows you his day-to-day life as a househusband and his interactions with the people that know him as the Immortal Dragon, his wife, and otherpeople in his neighbourhood, or end up interacting with him. It’s a rather simple plot and can set up some good jokes. On it’s own here, it's a solid set-up for its jokes to work. The characters are all a strange cast of people. You have Tatsu, a man who’s a professional househusband and doing regular day to day activities while still looking and speaking like a yakuza, Miku who’s Tatsu’s wife and has a Policure obsession, but is also caring for Tatsu and is trying her best to do cooking and other things like that, and Masa who’s Tatsu’s sworn brother and is still following him because he believes that the way of the yakuza and the way of the househusband are opposite sides of the same coin. The only personality between the three most important characters is Tatsu. The other two have that simple explanation I wrote as their entire character and it’s not shown much beyond that. The interactions between these main three make up a good portion of the jokes. The animation was well, not exactly there. You know those teasers and trailers they make for promoting anime or just the manga itself? The ones where they photoshop the characters so that it’s just the characters, then throw words and sound over it so that it's just a video without much movement. Imagine that, but there’s no detail in the drawings and the lip flaps move this time. That’s the extent of the animation they have provided. It makes me wonder if this even classifies as anime. It has all of the elements of anime, except for the animation part and it’s just disappointing considering the jokes are good. The animation is the main thing taking away from the jokes too. It’s kind of so bad to look at that you’re distracted from the joke. The art style of the anime was also really bad. It’s like the production staff traced the manga, but only traced the thick lines and made it worse. The colours were also quite bland and were generally a single colour without any gradients or anything. In addition, the lighting was also just kinda bad. The soundtrack of Gokushufudou was rather generic. The music worked in places for it to work, but it’s often the same tracks and gets rather repetitive. The sound design in Gokushufudou was also depressing. It’s like stock sound effects placed over what’s happening. The voice acting was the saving grace of this entire show tbh. The voice acting was really good. It was super over-the-top and allowed for the over-the-top comedic scenarios to take as much of an effect as the animation and sound design allowed for. Overall, this anime was not a good adaptation of the source material or a good anime in general. The jokes are good by themselves and are heightened even further because of the voice acting, but the animation, soundtrack, and sound design took away a lot of the fun you’d have with the show because they were distractingly bad.

Like many, I adore the Househusband manga series, and was incredibly excited for an adaptation. What I loved about the manga can still be found in this series. There's nothing new or unexpected, and the jokes are still really funny. The problem with the series is the animation style. It's looks incredibly lazy, and gives the audience nothing new at all if they've read the manga. Even if you weren't a manga reader, it's pretty clear that this is a low effort adaptation. It seems like it was rushed, with no real attention to detail and incredibly simple movement, backgrounds and transitions. I'd also have appreciateda better OP. It's boring and doesn't do anything to excite the viewer. I started skipping it after the second episode. Overall, like a lot of others, I'm just extremely disappointed. I wish the series had gone to a different studio or just hadn't been a Netflix original. For such a brilliant and well-loved series and cast, I really expected better. If it wasn't already obvious - read the manga!