nichijou 18
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“Why won’t you tell me I’m awesome? I’m super awesome! Hey, how awesome am I?”
“About as awesome as the Chichibu Mountain Range… Then, you’re as awesome as the Nullarbor Plain.”
Mmm… also… Milford Sound… Stonehenge… Mount Kilimanjaro… Amazon Rainforest… Grand Tetons… Grand Canyon… White Cliffs of Dover… Dynamo Donuts.
“Once I’ve secured her, I’ll have some real fun with her…”
How is this not attempted rape?! She’s tried to roofie poor Nano so much even the writers of The OC are shaking their heads in disgust.
(At times, I wonder if Nichijou is an all ages anime… not sure if this type of attempted drugging qualifies as “drug use” or “afternoon special”. On the next very special episode of Nichijou, the evil teacher tries to roofie Nano. Except she’s an android. And I’m not exactly sure if roofies can be applied to androids.)
(Biggest stretch bar none of any movie franchise: how can you not tell the difference between a T-800 and a regular person? One weights like 20X more than a human, and one is attracted to magnets. I’m all for believing SkyNet will rise, but I’m not digging suspension of basic physics to make a plot contrivance go.)
I remember teachers doing this. Ah, nostalgia.
(More importantly, I remember when I got points on tests for writing in my name. The good ol’ days.)
Professor is such a troll. A snacking troll. Mmm… delicious snack biscuits. I just think it’s funny how Professor managed to build Nano– a delightful android– and is now following it up with crap like Biscuit #1 and #2. Reminds me of Harrison Ford: 1977-1997… Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Patriot Games, The Fugitive, Air Force One. 1997 to now… crap, crap, and more crap.
This sequence was awesome. I didn’t think they would go back into this world, but I wonder why the goons don’t just rush the poor princess. There’s only one of her and like seventy of you. I’m sure you can take on a little girl. More importantly, I enjoy her quick trigger finger… she’s like a lazier Simon Cowell. I also like how they just plummet through the sky (again, physics would say opening a door on a plane at that high altitude would suck a lot of people outside)… I was hoping they would do the Wile E. Coyote thing where their jaws and legs drop first followed by a “Help!” sign.
Awesome. I just want to know if he is wearing any pants or just the inflatable duck. Also, duck penis.
Best part, of course, was Yuko going, “I’ll just go stand outside.” Poor Yuko, she can’t win. Just like those green jacketed goons.
Just love all the Yuko fail facepalm scenes. Why don’t we have a fail Yuko meme yet? Feels overdo, or would that overlap with the Jean Luc Picard one too much? Anyway, with the money they spent on costumes and train tickets, they probably could have bought some candy. (And, yes, I was hoping that some penguins would board the train and start spraying cockroaches.)
(Speaking of facepalming, I watched live action Hayate, the Taiwanese version, and it’s terrible. First crime is that it’s an hour long. Just too long for Hayate-level antics. Second crime is that Maria– MARIA!– doesn’t wear a meido outfit. Third crime is that Nagi is tall. Oh, Izumi is genderswapped, and there’s apparently no traffic on Taiwanese roads.)
Biscuit #2 can read books fast… except if they’re DRM’ed eBooks. Then you’re SOL. You’re better off re-enacting a Yuko facepalm at that point.
(Note to Professor: It’s Shark Week!)
I have no idea what Helvetica Standard is supposed to be about except I saw that it is its own spin-off manga now. This just makes me wish Kyoto would make some sort of heartwarming slice-of-life-ish anime set in a rural setting.
(Oh wait. They’ve done this? Three times? And people complained? Mmmm… dozo! Have a starfish!)
Like how they went back to the coffee joke and pulled off the predictable scenario of Mio acing the coffee test. Brings the gag full circle– though I kinda wish we had Mai sitting in the back watching Transformers on her laptop to complete the Starbucks experience.
(Seriously? Why do people watch movies at Starbucks? Maybe next time I’ll watch some Queen’s Blade in one…)
(And coffee was featured in three segments… mmm… does Keiichi Arawi have a caffeine and rasslin’ addiction?)
Three MVPs…
1. Princess.
2. Yuko.
3. Biscuit #2.
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I still can’t tell if I misunderstood the gun skit. I’m sure I must have though because the conclusion I jumped to was far too dark for Nichijou.
Green jacketed goon + inflatable duck is a total setup for some very wrong cosplay opportunities in the near future.
Well if you consider the luck of Yuuko in this show and transfere that to the lady looking for an old book…she found it, only to have had someone cut out all the pages to hide a gun. We don’t actually see or hear her reaction to seeing what was inside the book either. She just sort of stops at that point, then the scene ends.
Interesting that she actually has a nose.
Hey! Cowboys Vs Aliens was not crap!
I assumed that the book skit was, in classic Nichijou style, that she finally found the book but it had been hollowed out for the gun, but yes, there could be some darker meanings if you wanna read into it I suppose.
Gotta say, despite some good parts, I think this was one of the weaker episodes of Nichijou so far.
“physics would say opening a door on a plane at that high altitude would suck a lot of people outside”
A small hole will blow people out of a fuselage
The television program Mythbusters examined this belief informally using a pressurised aircraft and several scale tests. The Mythbusters approximations suggested that fuselage design does not allow this to happen. There has been no scientific verification of their results: conclusions obtained by Mythbusters should not be taken as scientifically conclusive.
Flight Attendant C.B. Lansing was blown from Aloha Airlines Flight 243 when a large section of cabin roof (about 18′ x 25′) detached; the report states she was swept overboard rather than sucked through the hole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.....ompression
The coffee sketches are nice in that they stand on their own and are accessible to non-Japanese audiences – they don’t require familiarity with the characters or Japanese culture to be funny.
Also, props to Mai for the treble clef troll map.
Nakamura is such a failure of a villian though. Worse off than that teacher that tried to wreck the bread sales under Sousuke’s watch in Fumoffu. He was least was foiled by traps before he inflicted the fail on himself. Nakamura just does stuff out of habit that causes her to fail (drinking the spiked coffee herself the first time (she didn’t need to dump her own coffee first to give Nano some). Not checking your targets the next two times, and then sipping the coffee to keep it from overflowing the last time).
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I still wonder how Nano reacted to the note Nakamura left for her.
Starbucks + Queens Blade = “Wow I must be a troll because im actually thinking of doing the same thing, just to annoy the hell out of the “meat market””. My auto reply when they ask me to “GTFO” will be “But im not done with my coffee”. Then ill make a sad teary eye face with extra emo. What will they do? Even better have two friends film it.
2nd post.
Just standing there and asking “what Helvetica Standard is supposed to be about” is totally going to turn into a massive blow that you simply can not block.
Get to the #19 review. Baka . Yes we love you.
Hint “Self referencing, just like every other joke in the series”. Im just saying.
They should do a Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou anime. And I’m not just saying that because I want to see some Alpha x Nano fanart.
That might break poor Nano’s processor, having more and more robots around while still denying she’s a robot.