Review: Double J

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 105
Alternate Titles:  だぶるじぇい
Original Japanese Release Date: 2011-06-28
Episode Length/Run-time: 4 Minutes
Summary:
A bunch of kids sit around in a school club for “traditional arts” and talk about what their families arts are.  It’s terribly interesting.
Review:
Double J is about a school club focused around the traditional arts.  The members have family histories of performing these arts which include thing like; writing the fortunes on fortune cookies, writing manga, carving the little divots on the ends of toothpicks.  The anime is very simple.  This short series, which has very short 5 minute episodes, consists primarily of the club members talking amongst themselves and also several short trips to different workshops where the traditional arts are performed.

The truth of the matter is that this is not a particularly good anime.  The short episodes do not allow for any real content or identification with the characters.  Also, the art is very poor.  In addition, the animation is choppy and it’s obvious that there was not much of a budget behind this series.  It almost feels more like a show that was intended to be commercial filler or something of that nature.  Either way, Double J is not a series that I can recommend to any viewer.  It just isn’t about anything of substance or length and so it’s a difficult show to recommend.