{"id":6001,"date":"2011-04-21T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2011-04-21T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T02:57:32","slug":"my-ordinary-life-anime-early-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/04\/21\/my-ordinary-life-anime-early-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ordinary Life–Anime Early Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t very well ignore a new show from Kyoto Animation. They don’t do very many and most are big hits. But I think they are getting in a rut. If you count both seasons of K-ON<\/em>, this is their fourth adaptation of a gag manga<\/a> about high school girls.<\/p>\n

\n\"\"Nichijou<\/em> (streaming on Crunchyroll as My Ordinary Life<\/em>) is a bit different from its predecessors. As we would expect from Kyoto Animation, the animation is very good. Also it is a very funny show. Unfortunately, in the words of the notorious Saturday Night Live<\/em> sketch, it’s not “funny-ha-ha”, it’s “funny-strange.”\n<\/div>\n

The character designs are very reminiscent of Azumanga Daioh<\/em><\/a> (the canonical gag manga about high school girls), but the tone is quite different. Azumanga<\/em> based its humor on believable characters in mostly-believable situations, occasionally punctuated by surreal dream sequences. In Nichijou<\/em> there is little need for dream sequences because everything is weird.
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\nThe main characters are three semi-normal girls and a robot. Mio (Mai Aizawa) is a slightly spacy blue-haired girl who seems to be the viewpoint character. Yuuko (Mariko Honda) resembles Azumanga<\/em>‘s Tomo, though she isn’t quite as hyperactive. Mai (Misuzu Togashi) doesn’t say much but she’s apparently very smart.<\/p>\n

Mio lives next door to the house of a mad scientist and her robot servant. “The Professor” (Hiromi Konno) looks and acts like a little girl–in fact she says that she is eight years old. Nano the robot (Shizuka Furuya) has a large wind-up key in her back and detachable limbs. She is constantly being surprised by the modifications that the Professor has made to her body.<\/p>\n

The other characters are completely weird. There’s the rich boy who rides his pet goat to school, the tsundere<\/a> girl who gets mad at him and pursues him with a bazooka, and inevitably a talking cat.<\/p>\n

It’s probably not a good sign that the most likable, believable and human-seeming character is Nano the robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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