Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5634

dude i am more impressed by you are able to read so much into the plot :D (not being sarcastic i am serious!) i was wondering why the monsters are getting smaller lolol

and yes the crush of MC........well in fairness none of the characters' action/dialogue have logics in them lol, how the fuck she just got away with that lol

This was a strange one for me. Let's start with the things I have very clear opinions about.

First of all, animation. I think I can say, with good faith, that this was the most astounding display of animation when it comes to animating crowds and give off a lively flair I have ever seen in a TV show. I think it even tops quite a number of movies I have watched in this regard. The amount of scenes where simply dozens of people, cars, tanuki^^ etc. were moving was completly out of proportion. In addition to that, the animation never stuttered, was always smooth, no marginal errors. On top of that it added some beautiful sakuga from time to time. My gosh, where did P.A. Works take the money from for this?

Secondly, music. It was simplistic, minimalist music but it fit the anime very well in both, the sad as well as the up-beat department. Especially the up-beat department with its minimalist, 8bit-music with some jazz/sould thrown contributed extensively towards the lively atmosphere. The soundtrack for the Ebisugawa brother felt like straight out of a pokemon dual trainer encounter. :D

Now to the parts I was a little bit more split about. The story had a rather generic basis with the brothers search for what happened to their father. It was spiced up by politics and very well executed though, so I give them that. Overall I think it was decend. They did a good job at selling a rather unoriginal story as something quirky and new.

The characters should lead a series like this and they did. However, while they all felt very distinct and excentric, they also felt strangely flat. Maybe it was because there were too many important characters for such a short series? I don't know, it didn't bother me too much but it was a thought that crossed my mind while watching at times. There was a little development they squeezed in which was neat. The actual interaction between all the characters was a strong point of the series. It was very energetic, emotional driven and the excentric attitude of the characters made up for some great comedy that didn't feel out of place.

The setting was ok. My major complain with the series though is how they handled the whole aspect of eating creatures that have human level of intellect, speak their language and live basically side by side as friends. It's a very difficult topic imho because where do you draw the line? People usually don't give a lot of thought about eating animals, let alone the conditions the animals are in before they get killed. However, there is a huge outrage to anything involved killing humans and even more so when it is about eating people. So what's the problem. While the anime adressed some of this by adding inner monolouge for the tanuki about getting eaten it generally went far too casually about this imho. The humans basically had all their insane ideas or didn't care at all, which is fine, but then the show has to add more dialouge from the other side. The tanuki never really engaged in a dialouge about this topic. A prime example is when Yasaborou said down with the professor on the roof, which was the only situation where such dialouge happened, Yasaborou basically brought no counter arguments. He was sitting there like "Why would you do that?" "Isn't that bad?" "Hm ok fine". lol I think for a serious and difficult topic like this, the show went way too casually about it and sold it as a part of the setting, rather than a point of discussion. It might be different in the source because the source has much more time to tackle this issue. However in the show it bothered me quite a bit.

What I didn't get the whole time: Why are the feeling of the red haired girl handled this way? It's like Kacchon doesn't know but she shouted it out to everyone in ep1. Am I missing something?

Bleh but it is everyone else as well. They are acting like they figured Chidori's feelings out themselves. It was so damn blatant what she said in ep1. But whatever. Those love couples just levels up the stupidness of this anime. The episode also had some glorious Trigger quality again (sliding while running, yay). I also love how in anime, flat chest girls can suddenly have boobs when needed. Anime girls are amazing. They have different sizes according to the situation.

they took away his pain as a kid so it wouldn't get in the way of the positive feelings for their test but what ended up happening instead is he became apathetic, detached from the world, disinterested in anything and anyone.
Blue haired girl started to change that, She, and his memories from before, has..'made him move forward' a bit. Still mostly apathetic