2012-07-11, 00:28 | Link #87 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
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2012-07-11, 03:43 | Link #89 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 35
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This is my favourite show of the season. Less laugh out loud funny than Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, on account of indeed being more relaxed and distinctively cultural. On the other hand, for precisely those reasons, it's more consistent. JC Staff's clean/solid animation being put to good use here; I greatly enjoyed their other recent seinen comedy, Kill Me Baby, as well.
Also, dat ED. Holy shit, man, it's Hyadain + Momoiro Clover + the fucking Yoshida brothers. Too fucking gorgeous. Having read a small bit of the manga, I also feel like the personalities of each the girls came out really well as well. They're already quite distinctive in my mind, although of course we haven't seen anything yet. An attempt at a tentative ranking: Turquoise (Gan) = Yellow (Kigu) = Red (Marii) = Black (Kukuru) = Maroon (Tetra) Anyway, to explain a few trivial aspects of the puns/oral dialogue I picked up: - Within the first third of the episode, the girls first start off talking about "acting normally"/"things you do normally", and then move onto "casual clothing". In Japanese, the "normal" and "casual" parts were actually based on the same word, 普段 ("fudan"), meaning "usual". When you add 着 ("gi", i.e. "clothing") to the end, you get 普段着 ("fudangi") which is the aforementioned casual-wear. It's this sense of "usual" == things you always do which leads them to make the connection to "casual" == things you always wear, i.e. uniforms, pajamas. - in the second section, Tetra first comments that it's a bit "unexpected" that Kigu is listening to death metal. When Gan shows up in her gothloli getup, she asks "what's unexpected?" as a followup to that comment. However, Tetra and Kigu ignore her, commenting "unexpected" in regards to her clothes, which is what leads Gan to asking "what is?" again. Quote:
The lines which follow are basically all simple puns on "mandara" (most of them on "dara", which is an onomatopoeia for "slovenly" or "lazy"), i.e.: そこの有問だらだらしない。 "Soko no umon daradara shinai." 人生我慢だらけの略かも。 "Jinseigaman darake no ryaku kamo." 自慢ダライ様! "Jiman Dalai-sama!" When Marii appears: だらしない。 "Darashinai." And later: 成る程。有問だらしない。 "Naruhodo. Umon darashinai." - in the third part, a note about the "dogs are only good for practicing" joke: this was briefly brushed upon in the notes posted on the translator's blog, but shamisen (the instruments) are traditionally made with animal skin. The skin which produces the best sound is commonly considered to be cat skin, while dog skin is more common and lower quality; thus everybody's horrified expressions when Kigu mistakes what Gan means by "practice" and suggests her own dog for a participant. Last edited by Sol Falling; 2012-07-12 at 19:14. |
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2012-07-11, 11:58 | Link #93 |
Franco's Phalanx is next!
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Little England, Europe and Asia
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Both for me... some jokes and particularly situations, I found hilarious. But I agree the anime has a ton of little things about the culture that otherwise I would have never learned... e.g. pet-skinned shamisen
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2012-07-11, 16:24 | Link #95 | |
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And thanks for confirming, I thought I went crazy when I thought the Yoshida Brothers were in the ED too, YESSS!!
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2012-07-11, 21:40 | Link #96 |
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
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The main cast:
(l-r) Nanjou Yoshino, Sakura Ayane, Koiwai Kotori, Yamamoto Nozomi, Gotou Saori. Nanjou-san is the current lead singer in fripSide and was Maria Osawa in Canaan. Sakura-san was Merry in Dream-Eater Merry. Koiwai-san is also a songwriter; this is her second anime role. Yamamoto-san is also fairly new; she was Yukimura in Haganai. Gotou-san starred in a previous rakugo anime, Rakugo Tennyou Oyui, in 2006. To me, Nanjou and Gotou, with their very Asian faces, are two of the most attractive of all seiyuus. Nanjou likes to disguise herself with those cool glasses, lol. Check out this PV for another view. Gotou is deeply fey, but with a bit of steel behind her excessive femininity. I find this a difficult anime, depending as it does on Japanese puns for much of its humour. The translation I saw did a nice job making them work in English.
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2012-07-11, 21:44 | Link #97 |
Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
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I noticed that when the cast was announced. She was also in the previous Kumeta series as Ai Kaga. The difference in Yui and Kukuru is pretty large. Yui is your typical hyperactive protagonist, while Kukuru is... eccentric. She's got a good range.
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2012-07-12, 09:55 | Link #99 |
Psycho Falling Deep
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: The Anime World
Age: 29
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For an anime that is relying on having most of the episodes in one room with 5 girls talking.....It was a pretty godo episode in my opinion
Funny characters, breaking the forth wall, I like the fact that they know that they are in an anime and are trying their best to entertain us *Ahem* And when I say entertain, I mean entertain, if you're catching my drift *Ahem* But yeah A nice first episode.
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