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5 years ago
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BARTENDER (Shout! Factory Blu-ray, 2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Bartender-Blu-ray-Takahiro-Mizushima/dp/B07GNTRTBK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ0QMS4CRMYO&dchild=1&keywords=bartender+anime&qid=1613366497&s=movies-tv&sprefix=bartender%2Caps%2C223&sr=1-1
BARTENDER (2006) belongs to "the great good place" drama, "magical saloon" division. It's what we like to imagine about cocktail culture: the intimate faux-speakeasy as an oasis of sanity, civility, calm, and clarity where we can be our best selves while imbibing the best booze. Ryu Sasakura, soft-spoken virtuoso bartender, is the face of Eden Hall, a Ginza hideaway. He's part Sherlock Holmes, part Dr. Phil, a cocktail wizard who knows exactly what you need to feel whole again.
It's an anthology series about troubled people solving their problems with the help of a good drink and a sympathetic ear. Not that alcohol makes our troubles disappear, however much I wish that was the case, but that we all need a little help now and then. The characters on this show have a habit of breaking the fourth wall to address the viewer directly, a device that could quickly wear out its welcome anywhere else. Here it's used more as a satori-like insight that simply must be shared with the viewer: "It's all so clear now! Why didn't I see it before?"
Shout Factory's Blu-ray packaging is both deluxe and bare bones: you get a slipcase, four cardboard coasters, and nine color cocktail recipe cards, but no episode listing (the whole series is just eleven episodes) and no technical information on the discs themselves (they're 1:78:1, region A, and there's no English dub, just subtitled Japanese). The only extras are the usual clean opening and closing credits, and clean bumpers (Art Nouveau-style booze illustrations).
https://www.amazon.com/Bartender-Blu-ray-Takahiro-Mizushima/dp/B07GNTRTBK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ0QMS4CRMYO&dchild=1&keywords=bartender+anime&qid=1613366497&s=movies-tv&sprefix=bartender%2Caps%2C223&sr=1-1
BARTENDER (2006) belongs to "the great good place" drama, "magical saloon" division. It's what we like to imagine about cocktail culture: the intimate faux-speakeasy as an oasis of sanity, civility, calm, and clarity where we can be our best selves while imbibing the best booze. Ryu Sasakura, soft-spoken virtuoso bartender, is the face of Eden Hall, a Ginza hideaway. He's part Sherlock Holmes, part Dr. Phil, a cocktail wizard who knows exactly what you need to feel whole again.
It's an anthology series about troubled people solving their problems with the help of a good drink and a sympathetic ear. Not that alcohol makes our troubles disappear, however much I wish that was the case, but that we all need a little help now and then. The characters on this show have a habit of breaking the fourth wall to address the viewer directly, a device that could quickly wear out its welcome anywhere else. Here it's used more as a satori-like insight that simply must be shared with the viewer: "It's all so clear now! Why didn't I see it before?"
Shout Factory's Blu-ray packaging is both deluxe and bare bones: you get a slipcase, four cardboard coasters, and nine color cocktail recipe cards, but no episode listing (the whole series is just eleven episodes) and no technical information on the discs themselves (they're 1:78:1, region A, and there's no English dub, just subtitled Japanese). The only extras are the usual clean opening and closing credits, and clean bumpers (Art Nouveau-style booze illustrations).
couple of very good anthologies from a local small press I could recommend.