Anime Review
I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying
It's a miracle! A full blown miracle! Marriage being portrayed in a positive light in modern media targeted at young adults! That's not to say, I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying isn't without its problems.Kaoru is a workaholic with her stay-at-home husband who is a huge nerd for all things anime. He spends most of his free time on blogs making an income from home and makes references to things even I don't recognize. Together, several 3-minute shorts featuring their antics and the story of how they met ensue.
The length of the shorts is perfect; I tend to be turned off of most 4koma based works because 30 minutes of random silliness is a lot to digest. And yet, I also find myself wanting more of I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying. The problem is the show tries to include so much in so few episodes, that it feels like its unsure what its doing. The whole gimmick of the show, a husband who is a massive nerd, gets tossed aside rather quickly in a stampede of side characters we never get to know very well. With only 13 3 minute episodes, the show should have focussed more on its most core elements and let people who enjoyed it find other aspects in the original manga.
There is some perverted humor (albiet almost entirely between married couples, which is refreshing in its own way in a world that acts like sex is boring once you've tied the knot) and one side-character is a yaoi artist who is brought up a few times for comic relief, but overall this series is a fun miniseries that leaves a smile on my face every time a new short is released. There's a genuine love between the main couple that gives the entire series a positive, heartwarming feel even as it stumbles to figure out its identity. With the entire series clocking in at under an hour, it's good enough and fresh enough to be worth the time each episode asks you to invest. Did I mention how happy I am to see a show with a positive view of married life?
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