Crossing Time

KANLen09★ 7

Fumikiri Jikan feels and looks like something that's made out of a passion project with said unknown studio and all the things that you could ever have with a decent production. With that said, this is the best 3 mins short in the season, the others are all trash, Tachibanakan Triangle is pure yuri but mediocre, and the "I don't know whose freaking idea to turn this into an anime" Alice or Alice, a tragic disaster of a lolicon. With that said, there's no story here, since all of the stories are presented in an omnibus format, it means that every episode is its very own story,but with the same setting around the railroad crossing. It's good, but there are others better out there. The art and animation is surprisingly good, considering that the people behind this have the will to present something out of motivation, and it's not the half-ass deal-breaker. The music is minimal with just the OP, and I can see why: the stories are given much context and screentime, that the focus reigns on the different characters that come into play, and probably some sprinkles onto certain scenes and such. In the end, this is a good short to invest your time with, and it takes only a half hour to complete everything in a sitting.

LegendAqua★ 8

Fumkiri Jikan is at best similar to Tsuredure Children in many respects... As in Fumkiri Jikan centers on a certain train crossing and all the characters waiting for the train to pass go about their daily lives, be it romantic or a chance encounter Fumikiri Jikan takes advantage of a seemingly mundane place to something of a place of great to crazy character interactions. Fuikiri Jikan DOES have some fanservicey episodes, especially when it involved Mashima Eriko, Tanishi for some butt shots with some yuri baiting with Ai and Tomo, but it's by the by tame in comparison for the most part. Now certain characters do actually getmore episodes and it's not just one-shot characters every episodes, from the aforementioned Ai and Tomo getting bookends of the anime about their "friendship" to the texting siblings Misaki and Takashi getting a couple of episodes to themselves. LA kinda gets the point that the majority of the characters are one off characters with their own quirkiness about them but Fumikiri Jikan ALSO brings up the entire notion of the "chance encounter" and that you cannot meet the same person twice in the same place in place as well, it IS a train crossing so it makes much more sense that more students and working men and women would cross it more than the more eccentric one-shot characters shown in Fumikiri Jikan. The animation done by EKACHI EPILKA and this is EKACHI EPILKA's first venture into animation and they did pretty well even for a short, from the typical character designs to background work The voice acting on the other hand was quite good, from Sayaka Senbongi and Yui Ogura as Ai and Tomo to Yukari Tamura and *ahem* NORIO WAKAMOTO in one episode. The voice cast is a good mix of veterans and new voice actors but LA quite enjoyed the voice cast with Sayaka Senbongi being LA's favourite voice actor for this anime short with Suzuna Kinoshita as Misaki as the second best in LA's opinion. Fumikiri Jikan was the quite pleasant anime short revolving around the daily commute of the people surrounding a train crossing and LA says this about almost every good anime short but it won't take much of your time to watch them all. With the daily commute, lots of different be it romantic or wacky interactions abound and Fumikiri Jikan capitalizes and for the most part executes it well enough.