∄: July 2011

Well its been about 8 weeks since I've watched this show. For six weeks this was due to being busy, and for the other two it was due to no longer being busy and hence being extremely lazy. So lazy that watching movies, playing games and even installing media player classic home cinema on my computer were not worth the effort. Easier to just lay in bed / on the couch and listen to whatever I find in itunes / watch whatever I find on TV first.

But anyway, I'm now no longer that lazy (although still too lazy to care about grammar and hence avoid starting sentences with but or placing long chains of clauses in brackets) and so Nichijou is on again. Episode 13 is subbed already by coal girls as I am writing this which probably means Japan is actually up to either ep14 or 15 - I haven't been bothered to check, mainly because I only have 10 episodes and am running low on downloads atm especially considering my entire family (including myself) is on holidays this week.

So anyway, Episode 6. I quite enjoyed this episode, although I think my enjoyment was aided by the fact that I haven't watched the show for a while. At the risk of sounding negative, I have to declare that this episode seemed a little more-of-the-same-ish in terms of humour, but I think every SoL/Comedy is like that really, even the greats like Azumanga daioh (cough I still haven't watched the last few eps of this even though I own the DVD. Or read the manga which I own. Actually what am I doing writing this blog now when there is Azu to be enjoyed?).

To be more specific, I think this is the episode where (bearing in mind that this is a 26 episode season) the effect of the show's unique quirks and characters has started to wear off. The show will still be good if it just maintains the status-quo, but if it wishes to be great, new ideas will be needed every few episodes. That isn't to say that patches of same-ish-ness aren't acceptable - I can't think of a television show (Anime or RL) with more than 3 or 4 episodes that remained as good as its premier throughout its air time.

I won't really go through each scene, because there were two I really liked much more than anything else, and the fact that uploads contribute towards my download limit notwithstanding, I'd like to spam the hell out of screencaps for these scenes.

The star of this episode was the principal. His character has popped in and out of various episodes, but it wasn't until now that he got his moment in the spotlight. What a moment it was too.

Double Creep

If you look closely, he's actually spewing blood. That's pretty damn hardcore violence for Nichijou.

Plan B

Determination, Resolve, Hope for third time lucky... If you're wondering, Plan B ended in much the same way as Plan A.

OMG KOUCHOU JUST GERMAN SUPLEXED A DEER. No I don't know anything about wrestling, I had to spend ages on wikipedia and google image search just to find out what this move was called. Who knew there were SO MANY TYPES OF SUPLEX

RL equivalent. Except that you have to imagine the dude in red is a deer. And that the dude in blue is a school principal.

Scene 2, now with 30% more redundant screenshots. Camping is never fun and I'm glad that Nichijou agrees :p So basically they cook, they spill, and no matter how hard they try to make the camping trip seem worthwhile, they only manage to make things worse :p The construction of this scene was nothing novel, the sequencing was predictable, and the reactions were standard Nichijou, and yet it was just so adorably hilarious.

BEST.

COVER UP/PANIC/TROLL WALK/SCUTTLE/FUMBLE/OSHI~/CRAB IMITATION

EVER.

Seriously though Yukko, where were you going to go with this one `_^ ?

Tokoroten. Yeah I didn't know what it was either...

Looks pretty sensational though, what are they complaining about.

Mai to the rescue, surely there'll be no trolling. Mai to the rescue, surely there'll be no trolling. Mai to the rescue, surely there'll be no tro~... oh the conclusion; it's so gloriously inevitable.