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Apr 09 2011

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“You are a goat.”

Keima… wrong show!

(The first few minutes threw a lot of weirdness at us, including the guy who rode a goat and was guided by someone who looked like he was from the British parliament… well… at least we got that plot point out of the way early. And I liked his conversation with the teacher, “You are a goat.” Zing!)

“Me… me too!”

I was hoping Sasahara would ride by in his charming white goat and give Mio a “Kiraboshi!” But drat. Though I wonder how she would fantasize about the honeymoon… would the goat… uh, watch? I did get a good laugh from this segment– just such a ridiculous but pretty accurate teenage girl crush fantasy. “He rides a goat! I’m in love~”

(Would be about 2X better if Best Coast’s Crazy for You was playing in the background. Kyoto’s been doing a great job with BGM with this show, but really we need Best Coast to nail down exactly how Mio feels about the Boy Who Stares At Goats.)

And I think this guy has a crush on the teacher who is pretty incompetent.

Really, really like all the eyecatches for Nichijou. Kyoto did a great job. Stylish and breaks up the episode… more importantly, I don’t feel like they force stretch anything this episode to fit the length and thusly felt properly paced whereas Nichijou 00 felt a bit slow at parts and Raki Suta felt really slow at parts.

If K-On! and Raki Suta are about cute girls doing cute things, then Nichijou is about adorable girls doing adorable things mixed with some Zetsubou-sensei… except it’s done by Kyoto so the gags flow better and less abruptly than a Shaft version.

(Basically, Nichijou is Kyoto Animation doing something better suited for Shaft. Like Shaft wouldn’t make it more adorable but will have more randomness and visual gags. But, right now, I’m very, very happy with Nano and Professor. They are awesome. They are the Pinky and the Brain to the rest of the Animaniacs.)

I spoke too soon. Mesousa!!!

(Oh well, at least he’s jumping the shark. What else has jumped the shark recently? Charlie Sheen, NCAA men’s basketball title game, Twitter, and using roentgen as a measure of radiation.)

The OP is well done and stylish; the song is catchy and peppy. I liked it. Probably one of my favorites of this season. If there’s anything Kyoto can knock out of the park, it’s an OP/ED. And, of course, adorable girls doing adorable things.

Speaking of adorable girls doing adorable things, how does a girl throwing a frisbee for dog sound? Sounds wonderful… until… well… let’s just say I was both laughing and shocked. Great gag scene.

Also enjoyed the scene where Nano was stuck on the roof and starts to break down over nothing. Fantastic. She is cute enough to wear a meido outfit, which begs the question: why doesn’t she? We need more clumsy, robotic meido to counterbalance Matsurika this season. Also, all robotic meido should have the ability to shoot out their USB-equipped toes. Just sayin’.

(Something I didn’t like about this episode: lack of Sakamoto-san!)

So I guess the yellow bird is some sort of mascot for this show. Or. It is some sort of sinister brain slug! That could explain why Yuko is so dumb and lazy… of course, nothing to do with the fact she’s a teenaged girl.

(Animation is stellar. It’s a simple style, but it is fluid, unlike A Channel, and the camera is quite lively. There’s always plenty of background movement, which is something Kyoto does much better than other studios. Just fantastic. Especially when watched on a 46″ TV. And makes me want to upgrade to a 52″ one.)

Cute and adorable. We need to get Milk Inc. to start running another Got Milk? campaign with anime characters… or would milk mustached Mio Akioyama be too much? This is what the Japanese milk industry to counter the radioactive milk scare caused by Fukushima Daiichi.

(Maybe this episode could have done without the nuclear explosion gag… but we got to see Nano tripping! Mmm…)

The whole sausage bit was so well-executed and awesome. One, I can’t believe they can react with such Gundam Meister-like reflexes. Two, that sausage still looked delicious. Three, the three/five second rule is a lie! I kinda was disappointed we didn’t get the obligatory upset stomach scene after Yuko eats the tako-sausage.

Such soulless eyes. Such radioactive salmon. Such foreboding.

So adorable~