Well it's Hamtaro time.
And boy what a time to have Hamtaro indeed.
We get a very human-centric episode this time.
Laura's grandmother (the one who owns the sunflower field) is visiting her and her family.
She brought with her a small wind-up clock that emits a fun little tune when it hits the right time.
She had purchased the clock some 50 years ago along with a friend of hers who had acquired the exact same clock as a kind of memento to remember each other's friendship.
They vowed that they would see each other again and they'd be able to recognize one another with the clocks they own.
Well it seems that Laura's grandmother has made in annual visit from time to time to see if she can find her friend within the city.
She's having a difficult time of it though, she's not entirely sure if her friend even lives in the city, or if she has the clock to begin with.
Laura takes an interest in the story when she discovers that this clock is identical to one she had seen in a antique shop.
She goes to the shop with her family to see if she could find the item from earlier.
But the clock there is clearly different and her family simply believes that she was misinformed.
But Laura is not so sure.
So she takes her grandmother's clock to the shopkeeper and asked them if they had sold the clock identical to this one.
The shopkeeper confirms this and tells her that the clock was sold a few days ago.
Laura is excited by the news but decides not to tell her grandmother just in case the person who bought the clock didn't turn out to be her friend.
Now Laura has to go out into the world to try and find this Mystery Woman. Whose identity she's unsure of.
She knows what the woman's name is, but no idea what she looks like. She can only go on the vague information she has from a grandmother and of course the possible clock that she may have in her possession.
It turns out just going out into the city with a name and a dream really isn't all that productive. She tries asking a local police station if her name is on record.
But they can't find anything.
Her friend later on tells her that the woman's name could have been changed if she had been married and she may not even live in the city anymore.
Laura is incredibly disheartened by all of this.
But then wouldn't you know it; The two girls happen to spot a clock repair shop and they figured that if somebody bought an antique clock they'ed probably want to get it checked out at a local shop.
So upon inspecting that place they discover that there was a clock there owned by the woman they were looking for.
All they have to do now is go over to her place and greet her
It's only now that the hamsters finally become involved in the show that's supposed to be based around them.
Hamtaro wants to help Laura find this woman as well. So he gets the help of his local ham-ham friends and they go off to find the old Elder ham-ham who may or may not have information on the whereabouts of this mystery woman.
Of course he doesn't, he's something of an old senile fool who leads the Ham-hams up a large tree to sit in a park for a while.
Miraculously they do fine this random woman sitting on a bench with the very clock they were talking about earlier.
And it's only because of Hamtaros intervention in activating the clock that Laura and her friend stopped to find the woman they were trying to seek previously.
Once again a very convenient thing as they would have passed her by completely on the way to her addressed home.
They need to find this woman as quickly as possible because Laura's grandmother is supposed to be going home on a train pretty soon.
So at this point it's a literal race against the clock with Laura having to run to a train station and then get back to the park with her grandmother to meet her old friend.
Needless to say; Time plays an awful big component in this story. Both of the theoretical and literal sense.
And that's the episode.
The human characters are the centre of the story.
The hamsters are borderline useless (except for the one moment Hamtaro has to shine) and everything just kind of moves along at a convenient Pace.
The dialogue between the hamsters is surprisingly fun, The Limited funny introduction of the new elderly hamster is a nice addition.
Having more attention on the human characters is a bit of a mixed bag.
Although Laura generally has more interesting stories that her little furry companion, the voice acting with the human characters always comes off a little stale.
Laura herself is okay and your friends gets off pretty well, But her parents and grandmother. . . Not so great.
Especially given that the people working on this clearly didn't have any voice actors that were old women.
So you have these younger people trying their darndest to do an old lady voice without sounding like a stereotype. And it just doesn't sound quite right.
Overall with the fun episode. Doesn't really add anything to the greater world of Hamtaro but it gives a bit of extra character to a lady was only introduced an episode or two ago.
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