nichijou 00
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Sakamoto-san wanted a post written.
(By far the best scene. Sakamoto-san, Nano, and The Professor are cutely hilarious together.)
First impression? The Professor is Becky-sensei!!! What makes the comedic pairing better? Yes… it’s Hiromi Konno as The Professor and Taniguchi as Sakamoto-san… we have our Lucky Channel pairing back in our lives! If they can’t heal Japan, I don’t know what could.
(Talking cat… adorable pint-sized genius who isn’t a genius… how did Shaft lose out on the bidding to this? Are they too busy in their schedule with fantastic anime like Arararagi Under the Bridge Part 3, season 5 of Hidamari Sketch, and Negima to work on Nichijou? Oh well. This anime is definitely in Kyoto’s realm as well.)
Cute girls doing cute things (stupidly)? Yep… Kyoto’s Animation buttered bread. Though I think if I describe something as K-On! meets Raki Suta without music, most of my readers will head for the hills. Or watch some Star Driver. Approvoise, bitches!
(The floor… so dirty… nasty… Yukko sure drew the short end of the stick.)
(And, yes, I know there’s more K-On!, but all in good time… let’s not meltdown over it just yet.)
Animation quality is quite good. Kyoto doesn’t skimp on movement, and the colors are overly pastel-y but still attractive. The kicker? The BGM. Love it. A collection of classic pieces dot the musical landscape, and it’s always weird to hear it against the dumb things the girls are doing. Makes me wonder why Kyoto never bothered with Nodame… oh, yeah… she’s clumsy… but too old.
Adorable!
Still!
The Professor rocks. I just enjoy that tiny lab coat and how scholarly she looks… compared to how she acts. Cute girls doing cute things. And, yeah, enjoy how she blames Sakamoto-san and how she enjoys sharks. Will sharks with lasers replace shiny red fire trucks or just supplement them? Ohmygosh– sharks with lasers riding on shiny red fire trucks! ZOMG! Make it happen! I don’t know what to do with myself! Just too awesome of an idea! I can’t stop using exclamation points!!!!!
All the male classmates… totally strange hair. Mohawk? Afro? Justin Bieber? Doesn’t anyone have a normal cut anymore?
(Enjoying the mild hilarity of someone failing trying to comfort someone who fails worse. Isn’t this like Al Gore trying to comfort Walter Mondale?)
Tsukasa… is that you?
I want to watch more of Nichijou, but it’s definitely a show that screams 15 minute length, which of course will get stretched to 30, as per Kyoto Animation Regulations. It also seems like The Professor, Nano, and Sakamoto-san segments will steal the show, much like how Pinky and the Brain stole the show for Animaniacs. At the very last, watch this episode after watching episode five of season five of Skins (UK) is quite, quite different… just gives me a chuckle that young men all over Japan are watching three girls trying to sleep on a train while young men all over England are watching an emotionally bankrupt high school rugby player do coke off an aging hooker’s saucer-sided nipple.
One thing about this show… I keep watching it and thinking that’s a great show for post-earthquake Japan. Just something warm and comforting and not high in calories for people who have seen a lot of tragedy and horror recently. I mean, at least it’s something a family can come together and watch and enjoy.
And… and… so adorable!
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And… and… so adorable!
I want to take it home!
Err…
Too soon?
I’m perplexed. Where’s the surreal and ODDBALL humor that typified the manga?
Kyoto does not do surreal and oddball humor. They only do moe now, which is why no more FMP.
I get the feeling they are saving it for the series itself, since I believe they are going for 26 episodes. Best to space out the weirdness and put it on TV were you can get ad sales. This was sold with the manga, so the target audiance was already going to buy it. So no need to be wacky just yet.
Plus I imagine (this being KyoAni) they will follow the source material.
becky did the labcoat loli better (and had the chiwa saito advantage).
as much as i wanted to like it, this unfortunately didn’t strike me as remotely funny. and without humour I have no reason to watch it.
Screams 15 minutes, get’s stretched to 30, and I still can’t get through 10.
Kyoto had some good signs of life with the Haruhi Movie, which was well deserved after K-ON and Endless Eight, and now it looks like they’re just going to fuck around again.
This is ok, but now where near the standard I’d expect from KyoAni. It seems like their quality has been dropping. K-On wasn’t nearly as good as Lucky Star/Haruhi/Clannad, and this seems ever worse. The animation quality is also much lower, IMO. Even J.C. Staff has better animation quality than this.
This
It would only be too soon if a lot of people died to the meltdowns. A joke or pun on the tsunami would be too soon.
Incoming Lucky Star on Crack….
KyoAni being Shaft? What!?
The manga is like the troll manual. I have laughed and laughed and laughed some more at each page.