Anime: Porphy no Nagai Tabi

Enjoyable WMT but definitly not the best in the bunch. Let's say better than Peter Pan no Bouken but absolutly not equal to masterpiece like Akage no Anne or Little Princess Sarah. The animation is top notch as we can expect from Nippon Animation with goergeous despicition of European landscape. On the sound departement, the seiyu did a good job but the music that made a heavy use of keyboard could be at time irritating. Story and plot devellopment is really the weak point of the anime. The evens often feel disjointed as it seem like they forget to put some linking scene and dialogue. Also, some scenaristic device use too often became very frustrating and almost borderline idocricy. Most of all, at many time the dramatic impact feel water down (expecially in the mafia part) and it really affect the way the character emotion are convey. That's principally this point that separated it from the classic WMT masterpices. Still, Porfy and Mina are really likable character than made this serie recommended! Infinite thanks to Licca to bring us Porfy!