A story predicated on a gimmick need not be defined by that gimmick. This same season I’m reviewing Handyman Saitō in Another World which I’d previously praised for not basing all of its humor on that titular concept. And here with Endo and Kobayashi, I’m hardly expecting the entire show to operate based on the running commentary of its own title characters. There are separate stories unfolding on separate planes of reality in this one, and I think they both have core reasons to be compelling, and naturally affect one another where they can applicably make each other more interesting.
But such understandings don’t mean that Endo and Kobayashi should be as cavalier with its primary gimmick as it has been with these past couple episodes, coming to a…
