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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -5| This is stupid, kayos90 sucks!
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You are going to holy shit for quite a few episodes.
The holiest of shits.
Such a weird show really. It provokes a lot of discussion by the looks of it.
The production on that show is a mixed bag - some of it actually looks pretty great, which just makes some of the horrific perspective failure and composition issues all the more obvious.
When you look through all the other things Tokuma Shoten deal with, in terms of anime releases, you're essentially just looking at Ghibli movies and Ghost in the Shell. You can probably see why they'd assume things are worth perhaps more than they actually are!
Unfortunately a Yotsubato anime doesn't seem likely
It's too bad because if KyoAni made it it would be one of the most amazing things ever.
We'll always have that fake .gif someone made.
This hurts so bad.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
doki doki
Also I don't think I remember the girls using that power ever again in the show.
GitS licensing is weird, though, in as much as every GitS production thus far has been made with heavy involvement of Western money from the outset - this goes all the way back to the original Ghost in the Shell movie, where Manga Entertainment was a major investor in the production, and continued into SAC when Manga and (specifically the US branch of) Bandai Entertainment were also investors on the production committee, tying up foreign rights from their origin. I'm kind of curious to see how ARISE pans out in this respect.
Ghibli stuff has been more than proven to be worth the money in terms of licensing. It's the closest anime has to a global house-hold name on a studio-level (by which I mean, discounting Pokemon).
Dennou Coil is kind of just this weird thing they produced once without foreign investment.
This hurts so bad.
I would be all over a Yotsuba& anime. ALL OVER.
You've seen the original series? Its quite good.
fair enough
From The New World - 02
This rabbit hole runs deep (゜o゜
I can't say I feel bad about that little shit who got err... disappeared but I get the feeling its not as simple as that.
The manga portrays these events in a different manner. There, they make it pretty clear that...
It is as simple as that!
(Not really a spoiler. It's something the manga would show you at this point.)
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
This amuses me greatly! :3
Dedication Through Light
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Needs the accompanying part of them eacking up their things then running out.By the way, where is this gif from?
Need to do my yearly rewatch of angel beats, I miss it.
To be fair, Nichijou is very hit and miss, and the misses are what I was talking about. It does have good segments like the aforementioned House of Cards scene. As the ability to even talk about comedy is under dispute, what makes this inconsistent nature worth mentioning is that the misses all exhibit similar failings, and steps to make them stronger are easy to think of. Like I said, it has a really bad habit of going for wild reactions just for wild reaction's sake while also thinking that if some is good, more is always better. Some skits REALLY overstay their welcome this way and become tiresome as a result.
So you don't like humor that would be missed by a five year old. Noted.
Damn, now I kinda want to go back to my Daria av. JUST FOR YOU.
Regulus Tera
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The dangers of idols going for them younger markets.
dat copyright infringement
You can tell they are 'merican because they are blonde and patriotic and all that shit.
Woah, Ando worked on this? The things you find while staff whoring!
The problem with that is that, when you end up with a show like Tamako Market, I end up being in discussions with people regarding whether or not the show is actually funny. Because, you know, there's not a joke unless SOMEONE IS SHOUTING ABOUT IT, as far as anime goes, and I kind of like a bit of dry, understated humour every now and again.
Different Ando. 安藤正浩 is an animation director at ACGT. 安藤真裕 is the action animator and famed director of Sword of the Stranger associated with BONES. You can tell the difference because the BONES Ando pretty much never does animation direction. Instead he upgraded from animation to storyboards and actual direction.
Regulus Tera
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And here I had my panties off already.
Worse is when Person A does something silly/absurd and Person B is then obligated to explain exactly why it is silly/absurd every time and this is never acknowledged by Person A so you immediately start this over.
Thinking of Yuri Seijin Naoko-san in particular here. Contrast to something like Hare nochi Guu where there is actual back and forth, even if one is trying to fuck with the other at each step.
Can't say I'm much of a fan of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure approach to comedy. It actually mars one of my favorite Nichijou sketches (the principal and the deer).
As hot-blooded as the action in that sketch is, the stuff I find the most amusing are the circumstances around it.
I just couldn't stop laughing at the idea that the principal for reasons entirely unexplained inexplicably suplexes an (equally inexplicable) deer
It's just... man. Laughing at the utter absurdity of the situation in an otherwise normal setting.
I think my favorite type of comedy in anime is the inappropriate-person/action-repetition type of gag or skit. When someone does something or says something completely inappropriate or out of place, and then everyone tries to ignore that person by continuing their conversation or activity normally, only to have the person do/say it again, and again, and again, and at some point I just lose it. Obviously execution is key here, but when done well, nothing makes me laugh harder.
I have a habit of blurting out "sandwiches" at work. Its a ridiculous thing to say at random but for some reason I just started saying it one day. Now its like my catchphrase. I got the nickname " alien".
Suddenly, your Takane-favouritism is starting to make a lot more sense...
Takane is a silver haired goddess from planets unknown.
Get your own catchphrase! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4OPr_QxoFg
Maybe Oz dealt with anime better conserning how they started out - but then again it doesnt explain the UK. I tend to think that OZ dont care much about the content because their animation business is a bit weaker than the rest of the west. Or it could be that they are the only other media companies that allow Aberigonals and Asians to work in said media unlike in the US and sometimes UK.
Watching Takane in Puchimas made me think that they must be the same person.
doubt that.
porkchop sandwiches is a superior catchphrase, however I started doing this quite some years ago while eating some kind of sandwich. It was really good and I was like "OMG SANDWICHES" and it stuck. In all honesty its a really stupid thing to say to begin with but what can you do?
Probably because houston is a much larger population area to gather talent from that is only 4 hours away.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Nah, his skin's much tougher than any outside toxin could fight against. ^^;
Now if I consumed as much moe cuteness as cajun I'd be labeled a biohazard.
She was Yurume in Yurumates, I think.
Oh wow. you're right! I must check that out!
OMG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-adSKqI2CwE
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGHHHHHH
I'm so watching that!
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Dirty Pair: Project Eden
A fucking terrible movie and a collection of amazing music videos.
Basically everything I love about 80s anime and everything I hate about it all wrapped up in about a 1 hour time frame. A completely uninteresting, dull, nonsensical storyline that was honestly painful to follow wrapped around an absolutely amazing soundtrack with awesome scenes set to the tunes.
I guess it was worth my time but I would have been better off just watching the music bits on youtube.
A fucking terrible movie and a collection of amazing music videos.
Basically everything I love about 80s anime and everything I hate about it all wrapped up in about a 1 hour time frame. A completely uninteresting, dull, nonsensical storyline that was honestly painful to follow wrapped around an absolutely amazing soundtrack with awesome scenes set to the tunes.
I guess it was worth my time but I would have been better off just watching the music bits on youtube.
CornBurrito
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Be prepared for a slump of bad episodes. But seriously keep up with it past those episodes (5-7?) and you'll be rewarded.
Ultimadrago
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Where was the discussion and analyzing?
Oh finally, here's some.
I always find the term "hit and miss" an odd keyword in discussion for Nichijou because I have trouble finding a comedy that "hits" (I'm guessing this means "Makes me laugh hard") on all or 99% of its more obvious, overt "gags." Yet the show in particular gets the phrase tacked onto it plenty. The exclamations are key to Nichijou's approach to exaggerating reactions to everyday events. In questioning and taking familiar events at crazy value in a normal ending. I wouldn't want it any other way (generally speaking, as there are rough and overly long skits) and I don't believe having everyone keep the volume down would necessarily make for a stronger work. If the type of reactions aren't working for someone, it's an understandable that it will only grow more as the show goes on. Having it stand as the majority makes it even more applicable to being an unresolved pattern for the viewer. Touching the possible solutions aside, it would be optimal to have more of a variety in the focus of skits besides only volume and "intensity". It works great in terms of what the show revolves around, but bettering a possibility to find different cogs of a skit to focus definitely wouldn't hurt. That would mean turning down the volume and finding a different way to display the events that doesn't involve "freak outs" every time. Nichijou doesn't involve that every time, but there is a lot of shouting.
To go on the other end of the spectrum I find Daily Lives of High School Boys has a worse time handling its type of monotone everyday humor well (regardless of same director and more, it struggles to be as good as even earlier Gintama, which excels in that very tone, many times). It also has underwhelming exclamations many times which I don't find cleverly nuanced usually, but simply flat. Yes, you can have a flat loud joke, but you can also have a flat level-tone joke (or more) just as easily.
All this said, there are a few skits that I find do stick around longer than I feel needed. The "Book Smash" is the first one that comes to mind. Some really did hold the clock in terms of execution and do cause for an active desire to be walked off-screen. I don't recall enough to shake many sticks at, but it is present and hampers on the scene itself and time for different scenes.
Moral Panic
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Some of Nichijou's jokes are dreadful. They have loooooong sections with the robot girl and hakaze that are just bad joke after bad joke.
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