Unfortunately this may be one of the last posts I write frequently, because tomorrow the holidays will end and school, as to be expected, will suck every last creativity out of me. Before, I wondered why I’m posting so rarely, one time per week and more, now I know: after you return from school, however great your thoughts in your head may be, you can’t write them down. You feel tired, and move the task ‘until tomorrow.’ And the tomorrow sometimes comes a month later… Anyway, that’s not exactly why I’m here right now: Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou, the silly anime where you don’t know whether some things were intended or not, had ended. Well, that happened a while earlier but I finished it only two days ago.
And what do I think? The wash basin joke didn’t get old after all. It’s a bit risky when you put such jokes into a consistent show. By consistent I mean that what happens or appears, stays. A good example for inconsistency is the Zucker brothers’ and Jim Abrahams’ Airplane!: They put a lot of jokes and puns into one scene, but let it be in the next one as if things never happened. This is a good style, and I like it — but when you put a joke into the core of a show and don’t use the inconsistency style there’s a risk the joke will become lame and old, making people roll eyes (for example the Johnny joke in Eden of the East). So there, I say the wash basin joke was at the border but managed to hold the forts till the end. All characters were also cute, and even the little codes they’ve shown were real and not some noob stuff. To be honest I found all the reincarnations talk confusing and too stretched, so for the story… It wasn’t big a deal but what matters is that the show was a light watch, something not to break the head about and relax.
The end episode was a bit too stretched though, with Digitalis reasoning her evilness with being alone, then getting a friend, becoming good, and yet still needing to go. If she had the power not to kill Koyomi and to act good at the end, why didn’t she stay?
And at last, the mage-killer ability, I shall call it the Kyon-syndrome. Scepticism is mightier than any magic!
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Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou, good one
Unfortunately this may be one of the last posts I write frequently, because tomorrow the holidays will end and school, as to be expected, will suck every last creativity out of me. Before, I wondered why I’m posting so rarely, one time per week and more, now I know: after you return from school, however great your thoughts in your head may be, you can’t write them down. You feel tired, and move the task ‘until tomorrow.’ And the tomorrow sometimes comes a month later… Anyway, that’s not exactly why I’m here right now: Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou, the silly anime where you don’t know whether some things were intended or not, had ended. Well, that happened a while earlier but I finished it only two days ago.
And what do I think? The wash basin joke didn’t get old after all. It’s a bit risky when you put such jokes into a consistent show. By consistent I mean that what happens or appears, stays. A good example for inconsistency is the Zucker brothers’ and Jim Abrahams’ Airplane!: They put a lot of jokes and puns into one scene, but let it be in the next one as if things never happened. This is a good style, and I like it — but when you put a joke into the core of a show and don’t use the inconsistency style there’s a risk the joke will become lame and old, making people roll eyes (for example the Johnny joke in Eden of the East). So there, I say the wash basin joke was at the border but managed to hold the forts till the end. All characters were also cute, and even the little codes they’ve shown were real and not some noob stuff. To be honest I found all the reincarnations talk confusing and too stretched, so for the story… It wasn’t big a deal but what matters is that the show was a light watch, something not to break the head about and relax.
The end episode was a bit too stretched though, with Digitalis reasoning her evilness with being alone, then getting a friend, becoming good, and yet still needing to go. If she had the power not to kill Koyomi and to act good at the end, why didn’t she stay?
And at last, the mage-killer ability, I shall call it the Kyon-syndrome. Scepticism is mightier than any magic!
Good show, like it.
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