See, that’s the Nichijou difference, Nichijou didn’t just have arbitary faces, all of the facial expressions were a reaction to something understandable, sure they were exaggerated, but they were still valid reactions. In order to do so, they came up with wide variety of scenarios and an obviously wide cast to. With modern, advanced super animation techniques at their disposal, more and more anime are incorporating facial expressions, but sometimes it’s overkill, sometimes there aren’t enough, so, I bet the anime people think long and hard about that kind of thing.īut, the Nichijou creators, high on unicorn blood and goat spit, decided that no number of facial expressions is enough, and that they must incorporate as many faces as possible. Not that facial expressions aren’t normally dismiss-able or anything, just that in Nichijou, a lot of the humor comes from the exaggerated reactions. The facial expressions were really, really important. Sure, it added to the randomness, but I wanted to see more of the cast! Having said that, it did give us breaks and these breaks might have helped us enjoy the show more (see the link I posted of ajthefourth’s Nichijou post).Īs I said earlier, there were plenty of awesome facial expressions in this anime. I also somewhat disliked the random scenes of a tree doing nothing, or something else just standing there. The classroom interactions between the students especially Yuko, Mai, and Mio were absolutely hilarious!Įlaborating on what I said earlier, I found the gags in the second half to be pretty boring, it might have been because of language issues, but still the word of the day gags didn’t do much, neither did the Professor/Nano rock-paper-scissors game and Helvetica standard wasn’t that great either, it had its moments, but they weren’t very consistent. The second half of the season took a turn, and the short gags for the most part lost their sense of humor, BUT, scenes involving the Professor and Nano greatly improved, and the classroom, oh boy. So, I basically watched the last six episodes of Nichijou today, several days after it finished.
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Yesterday, I downloaded episodes 21-25 and while I was racing through them, I also downloaded 26. I watched them in chunks, and only got around to watch episode 21 today.
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Then when Nichijou was around episode 20, everyone was raving about how cool it was, so I went ahead and downloaded the newest 10 (eventually 11) episodes and let them sit there for a while. I started watching this show along with the rest of the anime blogging community for a few episodes, and then I just stopped, mostly because of school, but partly because those episodes weren’t the most exciting either (I think I was close to episode 10 at the time). Me and Nichijou have an interesting relationship. But, if you don’t care about anything I have to say, and are only curious as to what I thought of the anime, well, know that I really liked it, it had some lows, but overall it was great!