Review of Arakawa Under the Bridge

At first glace, Arakawa Under the Bridge just looks like your averagely bizarre anime with a sketchy plotline and averagely bizarre characters. However, it's proved to be much more than that to me. Arakawa presents an environment packed full of character development and relationships that simply draw the viewer in. Arakawa has a large amount of characters, and the story, for me, revolves around how all the characters branch out and form relationships with eachother, but the truly unique aspect of Arakawa to me is the way the that relationships... grow. In the first few episodes, I thought that the romance between ric and nino wasjust a forced, cold, and unloving one, which I also believed would eventually lead to the show's demise. However, their relationship quickly strengthens and as the story progresses,you start to feel the love and romance between the two. Along with ric and nino, Arakawa develops relationships between all of the characters - in a very dynamic way.

While watching Arakawa Under The Bridge, the viewer is drawn into the hearts of each character and faces the obstacles presented to the cast while they make their residence under a great bridge that they like to call home.