(CR) Kanamemo

[Ashlotte]

Well that was alot of fun...Random musical numbers are always welcome to spice things up abit.

[SuperKnuckles]

The musical numbers done by the anime seiyuu allstars was just much too epic.

I just KNEW Rie Kugiyama would burst singing.

[Goofus Maximus]

That episode was a boatload of fun!

Of course, now I have "shinbun kuparu" running through my head...

[Ota-kun]

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[Deathkillz]

Originally Posted by Ota-kun

ONI! ONI!

And I must have watched the episode 5 times over by now and it still is surprising how entertaining it is
Of all of K Rie's loli voice acts, I have to say that Mika is her best character yet (surprisingly).

[Pellissier]

My train of thoughts about episode 4 was more or less the following, not different from the others:

Premise) summer, swimsuits, fanservice? Probably boring.

1) Oh, a song.
2) Oh, another song.
3) One song after another, how curious (and peculiar as well).
4) This ain't an episode, it's a musical!
5) Having my feet following the songs' rhythm.

Overall) a very enjoyable episode from a non existent plot. 9 out of 10

Perhaps anime should be a bit more daring, as for inserting these kind of songs here and there. Because usually the outcome is good. Just like DK, I thought at the last musical I'd heard before this one, and it was Kurenai ep.6, a totally different context, but at the end you can't forget it (neither the series nor the episode number). I also had a flash of Taishou Yakyuu Musume episode 1, where Kanae Ito's solo at the very beginning was astounding.
So yes, I'm all for this kind of use of one of the key elements of our life: the music. As long as it isn't overused, it'll be certainly fine. More so if this is the VA cast.

When I picked up this series, as first impression it vaguely reminded me of Kemeko Deluxe (crazy fun). Now it would be closer to K-On. Let's hope they can keep the good pace.

[Vexx]

Okay... I'm way behind the curve here -- just watched the first episode.

Incredibly unbelievable premise and combination of characters (e.g. a gradeschooler in charge of this lot of wingnuts?) .... but they're all so likeable it passes anyway. Okay... Haruka simply got annoying after about 10 seconds but Yume and Yuuki are incredibly sweet together.

Seems pretty obvious that Kana probably left the house before she was supposed to and the delivery men just confused her --- and that might be vital later

But anyway.... if Haruka calms down a bit I don't think I'll have any problems with the series as a nice way to spend teatime.

[Deathkillz]

But...but...Haruka is one of the reasons I am watching this
Then again...I had to get used to her first before being in the "acceptance" phase and now whatever she does is simply hilarious. Hope she will grow on you quickly there Vexx

[Ashlotte]

Aye...I came for the cute, but I stayed for the Haruka.

Her and our two faced loli are easily my two favorite elements from the show so far.

[Bonta Kun]

Originally Posted by Ashlotte

Her and our two faced loli are easily my two favorite elements from the show so far.[/FONT]

QFT!

I actually loved Haruka from the get go, she was instantly my fav.
My sense of humor allows for this type of crazyness to be accepted quite quickly

love the little bits with Kana making everyone break down in tears

The chief is a demon...even if she's cute
She's not even a little demon
She's a bona fide demon!
ONI!
ONI!

ahhh I love that song

[Ota-kun]

Wallies...so far

[Dop]

That was fantastic, the insertion of random musical numbers just lifted the episode wonderfully in my estimation.

Although while the translation of "hataraku shoujo" is to the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge accurate, the phrase "working girls" is an unfortunate accidental use of euphemism...!

[Midonin]

Episode 5, while no longer a musical (I'll miss you, Kanamemo: The Musical) was great and comedic from start to finish.

Typhoon naming discussion.
I'm not sure if Yume believes in the monk or Superman.
Yuuki's exceptionally clingy. Almost yandere-level, if this show took itself the least bit seriously (good thing it doesn't).
The giant teruteru being mistaken for a man making himself taller.
Haruka has a loli power level scanner built into her glasses.
Saki putting tape on Haruka's glasses to prevent her from going wild in the bath (that didn't work out too well).
And Hinata's penny-pinching is providing some great laughs as well.

Next week is telling stories around the campfire. Marshmallows are a must.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep5:

I was worried there would be a musical again, but the episode safely finished without one... Phew...

The long bath scene would have been good... But there was so much censoring (cat and white fog) that the long scenes turned into something annoying instead...
Can't see... anything... not even half of the screen...

The digest at the end... They ran out of stuff to animate and wasted away the remaining time.

[Kaoru Chujo]

Enjoyable once again.

Spoiler for ep5:

I thought the drawing was particularly good in ep5. Not sure if it was any different, but the scenes just looked good to me. And the way they did the clouds going overhead was perfect, and the rain washing down the windows. And there were many good angles -- not counting the abundant bath-fog.

The script was by Yokote Michiko, who did Princess Tutu, Genshiken, Valkyria Chronicles, etc. Episode storyboarded and directed by "Minami Haruka," which appears to be a pseudonym for someone. Perhaps someone associated with Minami-ke? Animation supervision by Suzuki Gou, who has been a key animator for a few years, did some eps of Shikabane Hime Kuro, and is now doing his first full show. And by Shimizu Yumi, who appears to be supervising an episode for the first time.

The final recap, saving piles of animation money, was surprisingly enjoyable. Reminded me how much I had enjoyed those scenes when they first went by. I wonder why that happened? Poor scheduling? Scenes they dropped because they didn't work? Planned from the start?

The director of this show is Takayanagi Shigehito, who directed various Galaxy Angel shows (A, S, and X) and did much work on Cardcaptor Sakura (storyboards, episode direction). The lead writer in adapting the comic was Nakase Rika, who wrote Junjou Romantica, Rocket Girls (which I liked), Fushigiboshi no Futagohime, and many episodes of Fruits Basket and Princess Tutu.

The characters have strong types and stick with them. And every one of them is enjoyable and sympathetic, even Horie Yui's Haruka, who is way, way over the top. If I cared about stuff like this, I'd wonder where she gets the money from for those magnums of sake. The final scene where KugiRie's character gets blown against the wall was a neat solution to preventing her from leaving. I laughed.

Too bad we didn't have another musical number, lol. I guess the final recap music video was this week's strange gift.

I'm particularly enjoying Endou Aya as Yuuki. A voice I could listen to all day. She's also great as Kajika in Hanasakeru Shounen. As she was as Sheryl in Macross F.

[Ota-kun]

I guess its still me doing the image hunting work

[Kaoru Chujo]

I just read a Japanese blog post on on ep5 that confirmed my feeling about the drawing (sakuga) being fairly good.

It also mentioned how the show deliberately avoids any real tension and just conveys heartfulness and good feeling. I guess that's why it has reminded me of Lamune. Which would be a good thing. That was another show that got very little respect from anyone but its few fans.

Spoiler for ep5:

The blogger also said he was happy to have the "ero kawaii" aspects of the episode, despite their being obscured by censorship.

[Deathkillz]

@ Ota-kun ~ I'll try my best

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

I'm particularly enjoying Endou Aya as Yuuki. A voice I could listen to all day. She's also great as Kajika in Hanasakeru Shounen. As she was as Sheryl in Macross F.

And I just love how versatile her voice can be. Just listen to her "Spanky" voice from Basquash

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

Spoiler for ep5:

The blogger also said he was happy to have the "ero kawaii" aspects of the episode, despite their being obscured by censorship.

I think that is a great term to use, "ero kawaii". I mean for something like this, I don't even want to see their full naked bodies since the censorship works its charms with the "mood" of the series. I really don't come here to watch ero as there are plenty of other titles out there that specialises that. I come here for the cute

ep 5

Spoiler:

I think I should call Haruka the master of parodies here

There was the scouter case (which was over9000), Burning finger glowing with the heat of moe, Jaws and then fist of the Haruka Star.

Overall it was a fun filled and relaxing episode to watch of nothing but randomness (like the teruteru thingy that scared some drunktard to hell) and cliches (in a good way). The same warm and fuzzy feeling I get from watching this episode as with all of the previous one is really quite refreshing. I just love all of the characters so much.

And once again, the censoring actually works here being blatantly obvious. Despite what we think a usual bath scene should be all fanservice, this was in fact done in a cute way. Ero kawaii, I am liking that term

The shy and gentleness of Yuki's feelings towards Yume is also very sweet to watch. Especially when Yuki couldn't help but hammer home the truth that she will never leave Yume's side



You can't have a bath without chugging milk afterwards~ one of the best cliches ever

[Ota-kun]

Originally Posted by Deathkillz

@ Ota-kun ~ I'll try my best

Can you keep up?

[Vexx]

100 points for the coiner of the term "ero kawaii" ....

When Kaoru Chujo mentioned "Heartfulness" - it made me realize that this show strikes a chord not only reminiscent of Lamune but also with Mahoraba: Heartful Days.