I don't hate it, but Nichijou is fine fit for a show that I think couldn't be less funny but I (tried) to keep watching for the OP/ED. After seeing the second OP though, it wasn't that hard to drop it.
Sorry Nichijou fans.
Eh, No offense taken. Seems to get pretty polarized criticism all 'round.
I love both OPs (prefer the second a bit more) and I couldn't love the show much more than I already do. However, over the months, I've been able to see where the "noep" side from others on the show comes from.
But expect future vocal Nichijou praise from me...and gifs...many gifs.
Well, it's mainly self-censorship these days but still -
In Japan, under Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Japan people who sell or distribute obscene materials can be punished by fines or imprisonment. Article 175 was included in the original document in 1907 and remains relatively unchanged.[3] Showing pubic hair and adult genitalia was once considered obscene.[4] It is not uncommon for pictorial magazines to depict nude women with their genitalia airbrushed over in black, and video pornography routinely depicts explicit sex scenes with the participants' genitalia obscured by mosaics. The amount of censorship of the penis can vary, for example, the entire penis may be blurred, or as little as part of the glans. Until the 1990s, the entire pubic region, including hair, was deemed obscene and unpublishable.
I figured that was a given for long-time anime watchers. Breasts are everywhere, but genitalia is always censored unless it's a child's for some strange reason.
I'm used to censorship in anime, of course, I just wasn't expecting it in Kemonozume since it aired on a pay-per-view channel and was relatively uninhibited until now.
I don't know what's worse, the bad the score given for this or the fact that you wanted to kickstart a BD release of this filth!
I actually called it EVA 0.1 when I watched it. Although that's not to say it's anywhere near that level of quality.
I almost wish this show was creepier, because it's pretty much distilled boredom right now. Even by the standards of aimless slice of life, this show is so incredibly uninteresting. I had trouble staying awake through this episode.
That ep FLEW. Talk about breakneck pacing. On one hand, I not just appreciate, but love the briskness, on the other; It's quite easy to tell corners were being cut. Still, I align more with the former so I have to say I really enjoyed that ep. The random cut to the gate, conversation, and back didn't at all sit well with me, but the actual content was interesting. I do hope that the logic behind
seeing the gate/obtaining the knowledge = not having to use a transmutation circle
is eventually explained, unless it's just that clear cut. That's the one thing that always eluded me with the bits I've seen of this story.
This was my end of the bargain with EmmanuelMunoz that got him to watch the first episode of Real Drive. I have zero knowledge of 80s shoujo or the important writers, directors, and artists involved with works of this genre and time period, so I'm not going to be able to type the most informed of impressions. Pretty much all I have to pull from are some visual similarities to what I've seen of Ikuhara's work, so I'm suppose that I'm witnessing some of the primordial ooze from which Utena and Penguindrum would eventually emerge. The movie was pure class, pure fabulous, and I enjoyed it for what it was. I suppose I'll implement some visual aids with commentary to give my impressions
So, uhh, right of the bat, the movie is really showing its age with that cascading freeze-frame of poses. Between the music and some of the artistic choices, it all feels very 70s or even 60s. Sparkles, washed-out pastel freeze frames, panning around still images, a hell of a lot of beige and orange. Violins and electric guitars with that rattlesnake sound effect. The aesthetics and musical scoring of this era generally gives me the creepy-crawlies, but here it's just part of the fabulous.
The movie takes place in 1860s France, and the place is so damned French that the school dormitory is overgrown with grapes. Perfect for a bunch of rich dandies that laze about in their dorm rooms as they bask in each others' adolescences. My school only ever had poison ivy and wasp nests...
So this is Marion, the protagonist. The film establishes pretty quickly that he's supposed to be the coolest kid in all of France. He makes every girl in town wet just at the sight of him, and if he does anything remotely cool crowds form to witness his splendor and women practically throw themselves at his feet. He's an incredibly good actor who seems to be helped immensely by his inhumanly-fabulous beauty, because in reality he's really just a pasty virgin nerd that plays chess in his dorm room with some other dudes while taking about Rationalism, which they all use to sound more mature than they really are and explain away why they can't get laid. They all want Ledania, the pure and innocent mayor's daughter, but she only has eyes for Marion like every other woman. Problem is, Marion can't get a clue and won't shut up about Rationalism.
Marion settles scores with enemies in the traditional fashion, by
playing chicken in front of an oncoming locomotive
. The townsfolk are a really shitty influence on him, camping out in droves on the hillside to cheer him on and tell him that he's beautiful and perfect and king of the world for
scaring the fuck out of the poor engineer and potentially causing a horrific trainwreck had there been some kind of fuck-up when the engineer braked
So after some basic character establishment, the real fun begins.
Off the train comes Sarah, who sees Marion and takes a sudden interest in him, inviting him to her mansion. Marion, being a totally awkward child, ignores her request, but THE DOOR TO SUMMER is about to open. Marion dramatically runs out into a rainstorm one night after going crazy trying to comprehend sexuality. He passes out, presumably from all the blood in his brain rushing to his dick, and falls in a puddle of water exposed to the elements. The next morning he wakes up to find himself naked in Sarah's bed.
How did this come to pass, you ask? Well, apparently Sarah
is a raging shotacon. Seriously, this is the most shota thing I've ever watched, and yet it's still so fabulous and classy and reserved that I couldn't even care
. All in the span of a few minutes, Sarah
gropes his ass, gives him a sponge bath, restrains him when he tries to flee, strips in front of him, and fucks him by force
. Let's not even consider
how she found Marion in the storm and what she did after stripping him naked in his sleep
gets Marion's johnny in her door to summer after some resistance, and he totally drops the Rationalism pretence once he gets a taste of the nectar
. We're then treated to a protracted but unfailingly-classy
sex scene
complete with sweet elevator music and lots of pans across huge watercolor drawings that all symbolically express the same thing. As it were, Marion
decides not to give a shit about anything or anyone else for the next week and shacks up in the mansion with Sarah as they engage in shotalicious bliss
. Marion's friends, still firmly entrenched in Rationalism, begin to wonder why the normally-dutiful Marion has been hanging out with an older woman for a week, so they pay him a visit, where they encounter this:
So stuff happens, the boys in Marion's group range from accepting to really pissed at his new lifestyle, and the most pissed of these, Lind,
discovers that Sarah's patron, a wealthy count, will be returning on a certain day. On that day, he intercepts the count at the train station, informs him of his mistress's infidelity, and the count summarily scoops him up into his wagon and takes him to the mansion.
Marion feels hypocritical about denying the kid the fulfillment of his sexual awakening when Sarah had done the same for him, so he runs to find him but oops, he's already slashed his wrists and drowned himself. Jacques from the Rationalism club blames Lind for the death because Lind tipped off the Count and generally fucked up Marion's romance, so the two challenge each other to the duel we see in progress at the beginning of the movie.
Predictably, Marion
stands between the two of them at the last second and takes their bullets, gravely wounding him
. And that's it.
Well, uhh, that was certainly all melodramatic, at least in a good way. I feel like taking some kind of dig at AnoHana since we've been mocking its popularity so much today, but I don't necessarily know that the two types of melodrama are directly comparable since Natsu e no Tobira's melodrama appears to be more rooted in genre conventions and isn't meant to be overtly manipulative, just FABULOUS. I'm kind of surprised that the film took the subject matter to the extent that it did, but from what little knowledge I have of pre-90s anime, what was considered acceptable to depict seems looser then than it generally is now, and it was ultimately really tame and tasteful by today's standards.
More than just the
sexual content
, it was pretty clearly a coming-of-age story loaded down with tears and sparkles and flower petals and impossibly-beautiful boys. There's probably a lot that could be said about the themes of
sexual awakening and the statement that reason has no place in love and desire
, but I don't want to go too far into essay territory and this post is already several times longer than I was expecting it to be.
She has her moments and potential, but she annoys me so much with that whole Tabuki/fate thing. If she gets over that at some point, I'll probably start liking her.
I probably should not have said ruined. They just make every adaptation Shafty and most of they series they are adapting do not fit with Shafts style. The biggest offender recently would be Dance in the Vampire Bund. They totally changed it for their style and they took out everything I liked about the manga. Another would be Arakawa Under the Bridge, they made their style overwhelm everything else though I did enjoy it more then Dance. Finally any SHAFT sequal except for Nisomonogatari. Bakemonogatari does fit with with Shaft's style so I can enjoy that. It would benefit Shaft if they just make a original animu with their style.
I can only imagine how god awful an original anime made by SHAFT would turn out. That's a terrible idea!
Also, anime adaptations are just that - adaptations of some material. I don't see why it's problematic that they would have a different style, unless that style makes the works actually bad.
I can only imagine how god awful an original anime made by SHAFT would turn out. That's a terrible idea!
Also, anime adaptations are just that - adaptations of some material. I don't see why it's problematic that they would have a different style, unless that style makes the works actually bad.
Actually no. It would be a fantastic idea. Shaft has a really good sense of style. They could make something pretty special. Especially if given a real budget.
That reminds me about the one hentai with the mutant yam, and the only way you could kill it and free the girls was by a fresh mix of reproductive fluids to burn it away.
That reminds me about the one hentai with the mutant yam, and the only way you could kill it and free the girls was by a fresh mix of reproductive fluids to burn it away.
This is awesome. Someone once told me this was shit. such lies. Such goddamn lies.
I love Tylor's attitude, a mix of laziness, ingenuity, absent mindedness and genius.
How he's able to talk his way around things. Amazing.
This is awesome. Someone once told me this was shit. such lies. Such goddamn lies.
I love Tylor's attitude, a mix of laziness, ingenuity, absent mindedness and genius.
How he's able to talk his way around things. Amazing.
I love the fact Hikaru is essentially a clone of Tsubasa from some alien metal. That's usually not what alien chicks who just crash landed are in anime.
This is awesome. Someone once told me this was shit. such lies. Such goddamn lies.
I love Tylor's attitude, a mix of laziness, ingenuity, absent mindedness and genius.
How he's able to talk his way around things. Amazing.
Actually no. It would be a fantastic idea. Shaft has a really good sense of style. They could make something pretty special. Especially if given a real budget.
I think they are a very style happy studio. The way they put scenes together is pretty appealing to me.
Also, sadly, youre right that they wont ever get a great budget because most of what they make really sells.
I think they are a very style happy studio. The way they put scenes together is pretty appealing to me.
Also, sadly, youre right that they wont ever get a great budget because most of what they make really sells.
It's not true that "most" of what Shaft makes sells a lot. Most of their shows either do merely OK (Hidamari Sketch) or bomb (Natsu no Arashi). They've only had two major hits: Bakemonogatari and Madoka Magica. Of course, both those shows sold far and away more than anything else over the past decade.
It's not true that "most" of what Shaft makes sells a lot. Most of their shows either do merely OK (Hidamari Sketch) or bomb (Natsu no Arashi). They've only had two major hits: Bakemonogatari and Madoka Magica. Of course, both those shows sold far and away more than anything else over the past decade.
I almost wish this show was creepier, because it's pretty much distilled boredom right now. Even by the standards of aimless slice of life, this show is so incredibly uninteresting. I had trouble staying awake through this episode.
Have to agree. It's just barely keeping me watching it.
There's just nothing interesting going on, and no interesting interaction between characters.
And the crappy CG doesn't help, dragging down my overall impression of the show.
