kanon 4
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The joys of warm (five finger discounted) taiyuki on a chilly day. Kanon 4.
Abstract
This episode is about unpacking. As in boxes. I wish I were kidding. More of the same for Yuuichi and his harem.
Notables
I never understood the appeal of sad girls in snow. As someone who spent twenty snowy winters in Michigan, I can tell you exactly what snow does: it makes all the girls dress up in like fifty layers of clothing. Down jackets, hypothermia, and frostbite are not moe. Let’s contrast this to, oh, Sunny California, where I saw girls rollerblading in tank tops and shorts yesterday in Golden Gate Park. I’m telling you: I wish they all could be California girls.
(What else is better than sad girls in snow? Killer lolis in snow.)
I like Ayu Ayu’s puzzled look at the taiyuki taiyuki. Maybe she’s wondering if they are spiked with rohypnol rohypnol.
Kanon 2006. Now 25% loli-er looking!
Kyon– err– Shota Yuuichi teases Loli Ayu a lot more in the 2006 version. Both the “Ayu Ayu” and his general demeanor is a change form the original’s straightforward Yuuichi who manages to get Ayu to open up that her mother is dead, hence why she is sad. 2002 Yuuichi responds with words of comfort and explains that his mother passed away as well. 2006 Yuuichi is not as understanding
(But I like Ayu’s tugging at Yuuichi’s jacket. They’re just behind Elfen Lied‘s Lucy and Kouta in AoMM’s Loli Couple Power Rankings™.)
The promise is made that they’ll both meet again in Tokyo University.
(For people wondering about the promise, here’s the spoiler: The reason why Ayu keeps calling herself “boku” is that she’s really a trap. That’s the real reason I’m against this remake: why have a Horie Yui trap anime when we already have Otome wa Boku… it’s Kanon plus lingerie minus snow.)
Nayuki looking pissed only makes her cuter. The tragedy of the original Kanon wasn’t the animation, it was that they picked the Ayu ending. Can we get Studio Deen to remake this remake? I want to see the Nayuki arc as well as the one where Nayuki finds out that she has a twin sister.
The biggest change isn’t the animation– it has to be Yuuichi. While the girls are pretty much the same as before (unless Mai decides to go Asakura on us and Nayuki goes Kaede on us), Yuuichi has gone from standard harem loser male to Kyon. Here, with Makoto plotting to get revenge on Yuuichi, 2002 Yuuichi is actually scared. 2006 Yuuichi is cool as a beagle piloting a Sopwith Camel.
Plus, out of the entire cast from the original series, only Yuuichi’s original seiyuu didn’t reprise their role. Instead of Atsushi Kisaichi, Kyoto plugged Yuuichi with none other than Tomokazu Sugita.
(And, no, that bottom screenshot isn’t from Inukami. Though it looks that way.)
Makoto looks really happy. If you replace the konyaku with a PS3, Makoto would look like one of the lucky 100,000 or so Sony fanboys lucky enough to actually purchase one this year.
(BTW, I saw a PS3 ad yesterday. I think Sony should have spent more money on manufacturing this sucker than making ads for it.)
Yuuichi in 2006 completely turns the tables on poor Makoto. Sign number #3,481 that you’ve been reading too many doujinshis? When you expect Yuuichi to say something like, “Well, if you’ve come here in the middle of the night for a snack, I’ve got a big, tasty snack for you. Ohohoho.” Sign number #3,482? When you’re disappointed that he didn’t.
Watching Makoto eat this as Yuuichi eggs her on is hilarious. Reminds me of Kyon when he brought his imouto to the baseball game to get back at Haruhi. In 2002, Yuuichi thought that she brought the konyaku for the two of them to share a romantic late night snack with.
Makoto gets bailed out by Akiko in both versions. Kinda. Akiko desperately needs to shop where ever Otome wa Boku‘s Mariya shops for her eveningwear.
Kawaii boxes! Asami would love those boxes. BTW, don’t the Polar Bear Express bear look like they have four ears? Or does it have zero ears with a meido bonnet gone horribly wrong on top?
(I think we need to remake this remake of Kanon. Instead of Yuuichi saying, “Maybe it’s about time to take care of these boxes,” he should say something like, “Goddammit, where’s my pr0n stash?!?” Heck, I’d even settle for, “Where’s my Death Note?”)
Anime: an art form where polysyllabic guttural tones are considered kawaii. Auuu~! Uguu~! Nii-pah~! Nya~! I have a great idea– maybe Makoto, Ayu, Rika, and Kankuro can start up some sort of an acapella group. Uguu~ uguu~ auuu~ uguu~ the lion sleeps tonight nii-pah~ nya~!
Loved when Yuuichi asked Akiko if he could deliver Nayuki’s lunch instead. Chance to see his own hawt cousin as well as other fit girls running around in circles with jogging bras and short shorts? It doesn’t take a traditional male more than a cocaine heartbeat to take up that offer. Especially if his pr0n is still in those Polar Bear Express boxes.
Exactly!
Nii-pah~! Nayuki’s definitely a track star– she’s been running through my dreams all night.
Yuuichi doesn’t disappoint as he asks Nayuki if he can stick around for a while and observe the club. If it were Keita or Keitaro, they would be pounded into the sky by now. (Yuuichi leaves after a short while… he must have been muttering, “In Tokyo, girls ran in jogging bras, not polo shirts.”)
How do you style hair in real life to get the Nayuki/Kaori look. It looks like the hair above the bangs go up and back down– that must be a lot of hair spray. Anyway, I wonder how Kanon was pitched around at Key. “Hey, I have a great idea for an h-visual novel! Let’s have it take place somewhere in the frigid north, and all the girls will be completely dressed in layers of clothing! And since it’s winter, they’ll never get to show off their bikini tan lines” “Genius! Our traditional horny male audience must be sick of girls in bikinis! Let’s go with this snow idea! With so many layers of clothing, we can even make a strip mahjong arcade game as a spinoff…”
Kaori asks Yuuichi to take care of Nayuki because she’s absent minded and runs herself to exhaustion. Doesn’t that sound a bit like Forrest Gump?
After seeing a boatload of 50 kg bags of rice at Costco the other day, I know why so many Americans drive huge SUVs: to transport 50 kg bags of rice from Costco.
(Back in Michigan, I usually drove around with a bag of salt in my trunk. It helped keep traction on the rear wheels when driving in the snow, and, if the car got stuck, I could use it to melt the surrounding ice/snow. Watching Kanon sure brings back a lot of weird memories for me.)
I’ll accept clumsy girls as a moe mode. Done and done. Uguu~!
Minor difference: Ayu has taiyaki with her in the 2006 version. Major difference: Akiko invites Ayu back home after this scene in 2006 whereas Ayu runs off looking for her missing object in 2002.
In 2002, the first time Ayu makes it to Akiko’s place is for breakfast when Akiko noticed Ayu rummaging through their garbage in the morning. Warrents mentioning.
Was Ayu always this clumsy?
So Yuuichi conscripts the girls to help him unpack. I’d love to have a scene where they unpack to discover stacks of eroge games, naughty DVDs, and posters like this one [mirror]. (BTW, am I the only one thinking that if they removed the girl on the far right, this would be an awesome poster? She really uglies this one up.)
Someone desperately needs some exercise. Definitely not a healthy girl.
Fits in with Yuuichi’s “Good grief! You’ll get fat!” Let’s all chip in and get Makoto a copy of Richard Simmon’s Sweatin’ to the Oldies.
Which dialogue do you think would work better here?
“Wow, Yuuichi sure has a lot of books on espers, time travelers, and aliens.”
“Why does Yuuichi have a stack of operating manuals for arm slaves?”
“I don’t understand the book on top. It just has a list of names in it.”
“The top is the photo album of Yuuichi’s trip to Romania with the twincest necrophiliac hermaphroditic vampiric killer lolis.”
(Funny how Firefox 2 has both “necrophiliac” and “hermaphroditic” in its dictionary yet doesn’t have “CSS” or “dialogue.”)
“Yuuichi sure owns a lot of Yanni CDs.”
I can’t believe this episode’s main plot point has been delivering lunch to Nayuki and watch Yuuichi unpack. Actually, this is one of the joys of anime. There is just no equivalent to the variety of pacing that anime provides. American TV seems to abide by the rule that stuff must happen– it makes for good promos– but life isn’t like that. There’s a lot of simplicity in life, and I think anime is one of the few remaining entertainment mediums where shit doesn’t have to happen all the time. Is delivering lunch and unpacking entertaining? It can be. Forrest Gump got it wrong. It’s not “Shit happens.” It’s “Life happens.”
(Of course, for an episode about unpacking boxes, I spent about an hour writing over one thousand words.)
“Mom told me that you had that hussy Ayu over earlier! Am I not enough for you?!?”
Whining for Her Homework Nayuki is actually pretty moe. Definitely has some Mikuru spliced into her DNA. This would be reason #561 why I like Nayuki. Reason #560 was Nayuki actually looks like a woman whereas Ayu still looks like a second grader.
Being such a good cousin, Yuuichi decides to go back to school to fetch her homework, remaking that this is the third time he’s gone there today (once to deliver the lunch; second to carry that heater to the club room).
(See, this is the type of skirt that I expect more from a frigid environment.)
If anime is a way to escape from the real world for 24 minutes, it’s probably as much of a fantasy for the poor fanboys in Tokyo to see an unobstructed night sky as having a harem. It’s a huge shame that from most parts of the developed world, the night sky just isn’t visible anymore. While I do rag on the snow, one thing about nowhere in Michigan is that I got to see the night sky with the Milky Way every night as a kid. Now, in Sunny California, I am lucky to see the brighter constellations (like orion) if the conditions are just perfect. Want to do something about it? Support the International Dark Sky Association.
Welcome Mai. I wonder if Kyoto is going to animate that annoying student council president now. Though I think it would be awesome if they just brought over Fumoffu‘s class president with tasty sidedish Ren.
For people who want a bit of action in Kanon, Mai provides some token action. For people wanting a bit of nekomimi meido in Kanon, well, I have nothing but bad news for you.
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lol@ IDSA
ISDA?
insane side dish attack?
awww, no neko? even though this seemed uneventful, it had a nice feel to it. I’m wondering what Akiko is wearing under that button-up she seems to keep covering her nighties.
I Don’t Steal Anime
kind of a slow ep, though still in pace with 2002 ver, how much of the game will be implented this time without mix paths so much that every1 get confused
Anybody else wondering how Mai’s sword was rattling in its sheath despite the lack of a sheath?
>>> Anyway, I wonder how Kanon was pitched around at Key
they actually have 1 for every season
spring of Clannad, summer of Air, fall of One, and winter of Kanon
(One is made by Tactics, before its production team split from parent company and formed Key)
>>Forrest Gump got it wrong. It’s not “Shit happens.†It’s “Life happens.â€
Depends on where you live and what you do for living, at work Shit = Life, for me at least.
I would have liked to see Ayu dumpster diving since it would have been a grand opportunity for Kyo Ani to animate her in ther natrual environment.
If you are looking for stars in California you can see the big dipper on certain nights in the bay area, other wise you best bet is to get out of the area. I know that since military installaions tend to be isolated Ft. Hunter Ligget and TRAPET at least have a bunch of empty acres. You could always volunteer for those YMCA camps.
No Nekomimi, but we do get BunnyGirls in Kanon. :p Not that fanservice is the main point of Kanon anyway…
Man, with your ‘spoilers’, your uninformed readers are going to have a very warped impression of Kanon. :p Reading this entry, I was thinking half the time, “What on Earth is he drinking?!?!”
Test
Cheers.
>>they actually have 1 for every season
spring of Clannad, summer of Air, fall of One, and winter of Kanon
(One is made by Tactics, before its production team split from parent company and formed Key)>>
And Planetarian is non-seasonal due to the apocalypse
>>>Reason #560 was Nayuki actually looks like a woman whereas Ayu still looks like a second grader.
*Remembers the Nayuki changing scene from ep 1* Heheheh…Nayuki definitely looks more like a woman.
To say the truth, the reason I’m watching the remake because it’s starring alternate-Kyon… Kyon should be the mold for next-generation generic harem male lead.
>>How do you style hair in real life to get the Nayuki/Kaori look.
Maybe cow licks?
And everytime Nayuki calls Yuuichi a “liar” she looks cuter. Even chibi Nayuki was cute.
Ayu>Nayuki … live with it…. heh
Ayu does look way too young for me to have any romantic interest in her, but on the other hand she *is* really cute. Frankly, though, all of the girls in Kanon are too young looking for my taste.
>>(BTW, am I the only one thinking that if they removed the girl on the far right, this would be an awesome poster? She really uglies this one up.)
No.
>the original’s straightforward Yuuichi who manages to get Ayu to open up that her mother is dead, hence why she is sad. 2002 Yuuichi responds with words of comfort and explains that his mother passed away as well.
Thank you for that nice spoiler for people like me who have never seen Kanon before. Guess I deserve it.
“The top is the photo album of Yuuichi’s trip to Romania with the twincest necrophiliac hermaphroditic vampiric killer lolis.â€
You forgot TRAP in the pile of adjectives.
I kept expecting a “Ponytails turn me on” from Yuuichi while he was watching Nayuki at track practice.
unfair! i’m totally sick today and you’ve been making me laugh too much! especially those Polar Bear Express boxes… :)
God I love how you write this stuff. Way to go! :D
Regarding your comparison of American TV shows with anime, Scott McCloud in Understanding Comics also came up with a similar comparison with American comics and Japanese comics by breaking down the type of different comic panels: while most scene transitions in American/European comics tend to be of subject-to-subject, there is a greater emphasis on scene-to-scene and aspect-to-aspect in Japanese comics.
http://en.wikibooks.org/w/wiki.....ing_Comics
>> For people wondering about the promise…
Please die ;_;
>> Can we get Studio Deen to remake this remake? I want to see the Nayuki arc as well as the one where Nayuki finds out that she has a twin sister.
SPOILER: It was the twin sister Ayuki, and not Nayuki, who did all the serial “hit-by-a-truck” killings.
>> Akiko desperately needs to shop where ever Otome wa Boku’s Mariya shops for her eveningwear.
Friggin’ quoted for truth.
>> Chance to see his own hawt cousin as well as other fit girls running around in circles with jogging bras and short shorts?
My thoughts exactly. Yuuichyon is awesome.
(Also, I proposed a new name for Kyuuichi)
>> Nii-pah~! Nayuki’s definitely a track star– she’s been running through my dreams all night.
It pains me that I am the only person who screencap’d her wearing bloomers back when Kanon Prelude was released. Yeah, I’m a sad person.
>> BTW, am I the only one thinking that if they removed the girl on the far right, this would be an awesome poster? She really uglies this one up.
Kinda. It does certainly need less Louise covering Henrietta’s gracious assets.
>> Which dialogue do you think would work better here?
“These are his favorite Kyon x Itsuki doujinshi”
>> (Funny how Firefox 2 has both “necrophiliac†and “hermaphroditic†in its dictionary yet doesn’t have “CSS†or “dialogue.â€)
Interesting remark.
>> This would be reason #561 why I like Nayuki.
Ayu’s also got some of that. Plus loli. I would still stick to Nayuki regardless. What was my point again?
>> Welcome Mai.
OMG is that sum Stand user?
BTW, she does provide usamimi. If they do show that, and then add some “Ni-pah~!” and I will happily bid farewell to this world.
>> Kyon should be the mold for next-generation generic harem male lead.
Kyon will be the role model for my children.
>> Thank you for that nice spoiler for people like me who have never seen Kanon before. Guess I deserve it.
That’s not a spoiler, it’s backstory.
>> I kept expecting a “Ponytails turn me on†from Yuuichi while he was watching Nayuki at track practice.
He wasn’t saying it, but he sure was thinking it.
>>>Yuuichi who manages to get Ayu to open up that her mother is dead, hence why she is sad.
Isn’t that a spoiler?
>>>Reason #560 was Nayuki actually looks like a woman whereas Ayu still looks like a second grader.
That’s the reason why fan boys like Ayu.
>>>Watching Makoto eat this as Yuuichi eggs her on is hilarious.
I thought it was kind of sad. In the sadistic hentai women torture way.
>> Isn’t that a spoiler? @ Beowulf
Backstory, I said above. I consider it as backstory because it’s not relevant to the plot. Now, if I were to spoil Kanon…
>> That’s the reason why fan boys like Ayu.
Actually, I mostly like her only because she kicks ass on Eternal Fighter Zero. Now that I think about it, I used to hate Kanon, but EFZ brainwashed me.
>> I thought it was kind of sad. In the sadistic hentai women torture way.
It kinda turned me on. Yes I’m a sad person.
>>For people wondering about the promise, here’s the spoiler:
You’re a horrible, horrible person. Keep at it!
>>maybe Makoto, Ayu, Rika, and Kankuro can start up some sort of an acapella group.
*World implodes*
>>>Backstory, I said above. I consider it as backstory because it’s not relevant to the plot. Now, if I were to spoil Kanon…
Ok, even if it were a backstory and it has nothing to do with the plot, the fact is that the fact hasn’t been revealed yet.
>>>Actually, I mostly like her only because she kicks ass on Eternal Fighter Zero. Now that I think about it, I used to hate Kanon, but EFZ brainwashed me.
Yeah, I use her on Mugen. She does kick ass for a non-haxored character.
>>>It kinda turned me on. Yes I’m a sad person.
I have several hentai recommendations for you, my friend.
Looking at the screenshots I realize it was high time for an anime show involving people with down-syndrome. After all the mentally handicapped of us like anime too!
>> Ok, even if it were a backstory and it has nothing to do with the plot, the fact is that the fact hasn’t been revealed yet.
You so wouldn’t stand reading 4chan’s /a/ for two minutes.
>> I have several hentai recommendations for you, my friend.
DOn’t bother. I have all of those :P
>>>For people wanting a bit of nekomimi meido in Kanon, well, I have nothing but bad news for you.
Well son of a….
Why the hell have I been watching this show again? :Þ
In the long run, I’d say Uguu~>Auuu~
For people who wish to compare the Game’s OP to KyoAni’s version of Kanon’s OP.
Kanon Game’s OP
Cheers.
>> The tragedy of the original Kanon wasn`t the
animation,it was that they picked the Ayu ending. Can
we get Studio Deen to remake this remake?
I don`t think so. I think the series restarted because one of the characters in the 2002 series died whilst wishing she could continue living in happiness. If that character also dies this time, I predict another remake in 2010.
>> Makoto would look like one of the lucky 100,000 or so
Sony fanboys
10 days to go. As if I`d even get one. Too pricey.
>> Well, if you’ve come here in the middle of the night
for a snack, I’ve got a big, tasty snack for you.
Ohohoho.â€
????? You mean I`m not reading enough doujinshis? Or reading the wrong ones?
>> I’ll accept clumsy girls as a moe mode.
I thought it`s one of the general forms of moe.
>>“Mom told me that you had that hussy Ayu over earlier!
Am I not enough for you?!?â€
I wonder how you managed to think up this one.
>> Definitely not a healthy girl.
She`s a little girl. It was proven that she didn`t get proper diet by her reaction to the word food in the first ep.
>> I spent about an hour writing over one thousand words.
I can`t help but be amazed at your sheer whilst sometimes inane writing ability.
>> (See, this is the type of skirt that I expect more
from a frigid environment.)
I`ve once debated with a friend over this topic since we`ll be facing our first winter ever in our life. He noticed that even in the dead of winter, your legs won`t really feel cold because it`s not as sensitive as, say, feet.
>> Support the International Dark Sky Association.
I prefer blue sky, as depicted in the anime. Or Blue Sky Edition of EFZ.
>> Mai provides some token action.
She always kills herself on me. Did I play it wrong? Might be another reason why the game restarts itself.
>>I don`t think so. I think the series restarted because one of the characters in the 2002 series died whilst wishing she could continue living in happiness.
Now THIS is what I would call a spoiler.
>>I can`t help but be amazed at your sheer whilst sometimes inane writing ability.
Ditto. I can hardly pull ~800 words in at least an hour an a half (strangely, whenever I have a time-limit essay exam, I can write at least 1500 words, in less than an hour).
>>I prefer blue sky, as depicted in the anime. Or Blue Sky Edition of EFZ.
Dark Moon is superior because of Ayu pwnage. Memorial has OMGWTFHAX Akiko, so it’s a tie.
1000 words is nothing, if you enjoy writing it( I mean heck, that is my average length for each Strawberry Panic episode I write about at hontou ni sou omou( first comments start at Ep05, essay-length comments start at Ep09)). ;)
That said, I am a little disappointed by some of the spoilers being thrown around. You got to think of the people who know nothing about Kanon yet. Their experience will be ruined if they read the spoilers in here.
Cheers.
Mai! Yay!
@Syock:
>She always kills herself on me. Did I play it wrong? Might be another reason why the game restarts itself.
Next time don’t ignore her lesbo-stalker-magical-girl-best-friend-forever. A threesome is fine too.
heard from some reliable source that first story arc will end at ep 9
and judging from ep5, and preview for 6, i guess it’s …’s arc
interesting…
guess kyoani gonna do the stack arc thing, hope it work out this time (which usually doesn’t)