Summer Evening

Miken: This episode felt less of the “going home” story this series was before to an adventure for Yuuki and Mirai instead with little coming from Mari. Sure, it’s fine to stray a little bit, but since this is only an 11 episode series, I would’ve hoped that Bones would use their time in a more productive manner that would bring them closer to home rather than closer to a kid who was just introduced this episode.

As for Kento, it’s like they ditched realism for a bit just to make him a robot nerd despite his relatively young age. Sure, he had that life-changing event when his family was saved by rescuers using robots, but it just felt so…scripted and unnatural. Then there’s his insistence on saving that one robot that nearly got him killed. I don’t know about you, but most middle-school children around here would be more focused on saving their own skins rather than a robot’s.

Speaking of the robots, it seems my feeling from the first episode was right — they are back this week.

As for Yuuki, he sure picked a good time to have sunstroke /sarcasm/. I mean, we just got through Mari having anemia last week and Mirai having…bowel problems not so long before. Honestly, it’s like they’re keeping this as a cycle. Sure, it’s to be expected that people will become sick in such conditions, but the way Bones is playing it makes it seem more trite and less like an actual realistic series.

Well, they have 4 more episodes to pull this off. Let’s hope Bones can deliver with more compelling material and stop dawdling. They’ve got a wonderful setup here and it’d be a shame if they let it all go to waste by telling the stories of every other person they pass on the street. I assume we have at least one more episode of travel, possibly even two, before the kids reach home. I’m saying this because they’ll probably need time to have the kids react to meeting their parents again (or not) as well as get Mari home to her mother and daughter.

Miken’s Enjoyment Level: 8/10
Miken’s Anticipation Level: 9/10