Sparrow’s Hotel Episode #10 Anime Review

Sparrow’s Hotel Episode 10

What They Say:
The series revolves around Sayuri Satō, the new front desk worker at the Sparrow’s Hotel — “the closest hotel to Heaven.” Her special features are her large breasts and her skills of assassination. She takes down people who cause trouble in the business hotel with those skills, but she is in fact very unskilled when talking to the male hotel manager, and often bites her tongue.

The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
While storms can wreak havoc with hotels in terms of what they have for people coming in as many cancel reservations, there’s something to be said for the wonder in Sayuri’s eyes as she enjoys the terrible force of a big storm. Of course, the hotel makes out with those that need rooms quick since their time in the city is now all screwed up, and that has our favorite manager super excited since the influx of sudden people means they’ll take advantage of the many services, from massages and beer to pay per view channels. The chaos of it all is pretty fun and the financial side in the managers eyes alone is fun to watch.

In Summary:
Similar to past episodes, it has some nice ideas to work with but it doesn’t seem to really understand how to work the short form format all that well with its three minute run time. The idea of so many people hiding out and taking rooms is cute and there’s obvious a financial reason to be excited about it, but it’s almost done in a very superficial way and it misses out on some of the fun that could come from Sayuri interacting more with the customers. The series continues to behave like this, which is a bit frustrating, since it has some potential but just goes for the simplest of gags and half heartedly executes them.

Grade: C-

Streamed By: Crunchyroll

Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.