Anime Review Oh Edo Rocket

Welcome to Edo -- Tokyo, that is, circa 1840 -- where fireworks are banned and so are many other forms of fun. What's Seikichi Tamiya, the town's scrappiest and most ambitious fireworks-maker, to do? Break the rules, and in the ballsiest way possible. He's building a rocket which can reach the moon -- all for the sake of the pretty young girl he met the other night who's, well, not from around here, to put it mildly.

The back cover for Oh! Edo Rocket describes it as "a show about FIREWORKS and ALIENS!" That's factually correct -- it contains both of those things -- but it's also chock-full of many other things than I can comfortably run down in a space this small. More is jammed into this show's twenty-six episodes than any dozen other shows might share between them.

Constant readers may remember my Anime Course for Newcomers, where I divided up shows based on how easily a non-anime audience would be able to approach them. Oh! Edo Rocket is at the steep end of the curve for such things (one of the "advanced course"), but its raucous charm is contagious enough that it might well draw in a much broader audience than you'd think.

Read our review and see what this most eccentric but endearing show is all about.

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