Nichijou has one major advantage over Lucky Star and K-On: it’s creative. This isn’t just slice of life, the creators try to make something creative out of everyday situations, like bringing fishing metaphors in when characters are talking about their grades, to some strange woman who refuses to explain why she’s got this giant wind-up on her back. This is the kind of slice of life that could potentially make these characters interesting and is more than just random talking.
At the same time though, it also has something that has been annoying me about Kyoani series since ages: characters trying way too hard to be cute. Half the cast here was like “ooh, find me cute! Look I’m cute. I do cute things to prove that!”
That, combined with the way in which half of the jokes of this episode fell flat, made this episode rather boring after about seven minutes. It’s a shame, because the first two minutes started off this episode really well with interesting animation and a fast delivery, but after that the characters just lost their steam. The animation still is pretty good: nether amazing but I also spotted no flaws.
At this point I’m still hoping to run into the next GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class, which is what I consider to be the best amongst the “random slice of life around a group of girls”-genre. I was hoping that Nichijou would at least come close to it with its creativity, but alas. The TV-series will have to put in a lot more effort to remain interesting.
OVA Episode Rating: 7,5/10
psgels,your review has been copied by someone
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Sorry for the spam psgels,but is that site being blogged by you?It even has your Letter Bee and Gosick posts!!
That asshole is not Psgels. He’s being robbing anime blogs here and there. Look at how any post just copies from more blogs. He’s leaving the links to the original sources, but that doesn’t detract from what’s he’s doing: theft.
Given the scale of copyright infringement that surrounds this hobby, I think the hyperbole is a bit much.
I’ve known about that guy for a while now. They’re basically feed scrapers who take popular feeds and put them full of advertisements. m has a point, but it still remains very annoying, and I’ve yet to find a way to shut this guy up.
I thought it was a great preview. Lots of existentialistic/ironic comedy and lots of calm slice of life with a light, quirky sense of humor.