FX Fighter Kurumi-chan Opens On Forex Trading And Despair
The premiere uses the cute-girls hobby template to stage gambling addiction and financial ruin, which puts it at odds with the bright promotional material and suggests the show's tension comes from whether it can sustain that contrast.
Reporting from 1 source: Beneath the Tangles.
The first episode of FX Fighter Kurumi-chan introduces Kurumi, a middle schooler whose mother loses 20 million yen trading foreign exchange and then hides the loss from her husband. Kurumi resolves to study forex mathematics so she can help once she is of age, while a friend warns that people who get involved in forex tend not to survive it long. Studio Passione animates; Takuro Iga scores.
The episode opens on a pink-haired girl begging for time to rewind as her foreign exchange position collapses, then flashes back: Kurumi is in her final year of middle school when a global recession hits, and her mother loses 20 million yen on forex and hides it from a husband who works away from home. Kurumi studies the mechanics of trading instead of getting a job, and a school friend warns that people who trade forex do not survive it long. Passione handles animation and Takuro Iga, of Oshi no Ko, the score.
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- Beneath the Tangles First Impression: FX Fighter Kurumi-chan