(CR) Kemono Friends

[serenade_beta]

Congrats on the increasing popularity in Japan! The upcoming official guide book even became Best Seller No. 1!
It's a shame the Western audience doesn't realize the quality of this anime, but well, they can continue hyping themselves with hype and miss the true gems.

Spoiler for ep5:

Humans -> Animals who specialize in thinking
Good animals -> Eventually leading into the topic of how humans are bad for the environment?

The interviews this episode were surprisingly easy to understand. Not really that muffled.

[Magewolf]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Congrats on the increasing popularity in Japan! The upcoming official guide book even became Best Seller No. 1!
It's a shame the Western audience doesn't realize the quality of this anime, but well, they can continue hyping themselves with hype and miss the true gems.

Spoiler for ep5:

Humans -> Animals who specialize in thinking
Good animals -> Eventually leading into the topic of how humans are bad for the environment?

The interviews this episode were surprisingly easy to understand. Not really that muffled.

I think they did most of the interviews over the phone but the two this time were in person. Or at least that is what it sounded like.

[serenade_beta]

BTW, the reason some characters have dead eyes (Toki, the new character at the end of ep5) are because they came from extinct/endangered animals. Apparently, this setting existed since the game was around.

[Only Anime]

We've now run out of OP characters but new Friends of the week keep coming, apparently. The Friends were once real animals. We've learned that before but it has never been stressed so much like in this episode.

The "professor" is what? A human, a very smart Friend, or the park's main computer?

[Random Wanderer]

This is unexpectedly interesting. I was not expecting the darker undertones of a post apocalyptic world underlying the cutesy park full of anthropomorphized animals. I wonder where this will go.

[Only Anime]

EP 1: 1.2 million views on NicoNico, twice as much as Konosuba (although I don't know if that's a fair comparison).

The future of the franchise may be decided when the Blu-rays of the series start releasing next month.

And call me a cynic or pessimist but if that success really translates into BD sales and they're going to make a second season, spin-off or what have you, it won't have the charm of the original. So I'm indifferent towards that possibility.

[Random Wanderer]

Well well, someone finally has some idea of what Bag-chan is. Well, Tsuchinoko had a guess as well, but she didn't feel like sharing it. Shoebill-chan seems more inclined to talk in a useful fashion.

Next week's episode is titled "Japari Library." So are they going to make it there at long last? Will all their (and our) questions be answered? Will Raccon ever catch up? Keep watching to find out!

[Flower]

Ep 06

The wisdom of the shoebill!

-_-

What is it with Japanese anime and shoebills anyway?

Anyhoo, kinda interesting episode, and I wonder what Racoon was holding there at the end with regards to Lucky-san? Hmmmm.

[RRW]

Originally Posted by Flower

Anyhoo, kinda interesting episode, and I wonder what Racoon was holding there at the end with regards to Lucky-san? Hmmmm.

Is a feather that is similar to one that Kaban hat have

[serenade_beta]

I searched for an image of a real shoebill and had a giggle. In a way, the anime's is pretty loyal to the original source and in another way, it is far better to look at.

[Iby]

Originally Posted by Only Anime

EP 1: 1.2 million views on NicoNico, twice as much as Konosuba (although I don't know if that's a fair comparison).



And call me a cynic or pessimist but if that success really translates into BD sales and they're going to make a second season, spin-off or what have you, it won't have the charm of the original. So I'm indifferent towards that possibility.

Well...
http://blog.honeyfeed.fm/gakkou-gura...million-times/
And then Gakkou Gurashi! Vol.1 sold 3,751 copies.

[serenade_beta]

Well, considering Kemono Friends got absolutely no hype from the start, I'm sure the sales will at least be higher than anyone expected.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Flower

Ep 06

The wisdom of the shoebill!

-_-

What is it with Japanese anime and shoebills anyway?

Wait, have they been in other things? I actually had to look them up, because this was the first time I remember ever hearing of them.

Anyhoo, kinda interesting episode, and I wonder what Racoon was holding there at the end with regards to Lucky-san? Hmmmm.

It appears to be a feather like the one on our amnesiac protagonist's hat, which caused Lucky Beast to play a recording when he saw it.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Wait, have they been in other things? I actually had to look them up, because this was the first time I remember ever hearing of them.

They have. The most immediate that comes to mind is the currently airing Classicaloid.

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[serenade_beta]

One more thing, though I don't know if it affects the sales chart, but the anime is being sold as a book. It's an official guide book that happens to come with 2 episodes of the anime each. Which is why if you try to find it in the Rankings for Amazon, you will need to look at the Book section
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsell...ef=zg_bs_nav_0
And as you may expect, it's already sold out. And it seems there was a resupply, but its also sold out.

Also, I'm not sure how much profit goes to who, but the episodes on NicoDouga (which require payment to watch) have incredible number of views and comments.

[Iby]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

And as you may expect, it's already sold out. And it seems there was a resupply, but its also sold out.

Isn't first volume supposed to come out only in March though (according to its page)?

Originally Posted by Amazon

Product Details
単行本: 40 pages
Publisher: KADOKAWA (March 25, 2017)
Language: 日本語
ISBN-10: 4041054443
ISBN-13: 978-4041054444
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars 10 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #5 in 本 (See Top 100 in 本)
#2 in 本 > コミック・ラノベ・BL > イラスト集・オフィシャルブック

[Dawnstorm]

Originally Posted by Random Wanderer

Wait, have they been in other things? I actually had to look them up, because this was the first time I remember ever hearing of them.

The typical way they're used is that they stand stock still staring at a character, until they either suddenly spread their wings (but don't fly away), or lift their bill, or let out a squawk. Even in Shirokuma Café, where all animals speak, the shoebill was quiet and just staring. (He was the editor of a magazine, and his human reporters magically understood what he wanted, just from where he positioned himself and what he stared at.)

Basically, anime shoebills are there to creepily stare at you. (As this episode of Kemono Friends demonstrated.)

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Dawnstorm

The typical way they're used is that they stand stock still staring at a character, until they either suddenly spread their wings (but don't fly away), or lift their bill, or let out a squawk. Even in Shirokuma Café, where all animals speak, the shoebill was quiet and just staring. (He was the editor of a magazine, and his human reporters magically understood what he wanted, just from where he positioned himself and what he stared at.)

Basically, anime shoebills are there to creepily stare at you. (As this episode of Kemono Friends demonstrated.)

Ah. Well, good to see that tradition is being upheld, then.

[darkchibi07]

Is this show quickly becoming a "super popular" show in Japan in such everyone outside of Japan are baffled why?

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by darkchibi07

Is this show quickly becoming a "super popular" show in Japan in such everyone outside of Japan are baffled why?

I don't think it's that much of a mystery. I'm reasonably sure that it's become popular because its cutesy, animal-girl theme park exterior seems to be hiding a dark, post-apocalyptic scenario that almost no-one in the series realizes due to their situations, in which our protagonist may be the last human alive.