I mean, come
on, how could that not be the main
picture? I’m such a child.
Now, as you
may infer from my previous posts, I’m a bit of a fan of the person who wrote
the manga for this anime. Why? She wrote the manga for Fullmetal Alchemist. I’ll
let that sink in.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is my
favorite anime. In terms of sheer
fangirl love, it definitely tops my list.
But why did I love it? Epic
animation, great soundtrack, wonderful characters, and a MASSIVE story.
So, after
writing a huge story about conspiracy, murder, and alchemy, Arakawa moved on to
writing a story that seems to be decidedly much smaller in scale. A slice-of-life comedy about some people in
an agricultural school.
So, don’t
expect this to be the next FMA. But,
once I made the adjustments to my expectations, this is still perfectly fine.
This doesn’t
have the talented folks at Studio Bones (well, they haven’t been making great
shows lately, but they still have high budgets) behind it, and instead has A-1
Pictures. A-1 Pictures are okay in my
book, they’ve made some crap, but, for the most part, it was very nice-looking
crap and the problem lay with the source material. I would say that, overall, they’re very
slightly above average in terms of appearance, with the very pretty Sword Art Online, very interesting
artistically Shin Sekai Yori and Tsuritama, and average Servant x Service and Working!!.
I would say
that this is probably at the level of their ‘average’ level shows. This isn’t exactly damning, however, as even
their average shows still usually look pretty nice for slice-of-lifers.
THIS
ENDURANCE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS! …sorry about the capslock, that just had to
be said. This show has an Armstrong. Please tell me he rips his shirt off and
tackle-hugs people.
I respect
Arakawa for not just making the same thing over and over again, as I can say
that you can tell that she wrote the manga (characters drawn in the same style,
similar sense of humor), but it’s actually very different in terms of actual
plot and characters.
I probably
would’ve been annoyed if all of the characters were expys of various characters
from her most famous work. But they’re
not, thank goodness.
Our main, Hachiken,
is fairly entertaining to watch. Most of
this episode was typical city-boy-in-the-country stuff, but his reactions were
pretty funny. But he’s not too
over-the-top, either. He sort of hits
the sweet spot of not being too bland but not too ridiculous, either. The show seems to be hinting about something
in his past that led to him enrolling in this school (even though he apparently
has no interest in farming), and I’m curious to see what it is.
I want this
to get a dub so badly. I could crank the
volume on my laptop really loud and play it in public, because Hachiken must yell
‘anus’ at least ten times over the course of this episode. Don’t worry, though, there’s a perfectly
innocent explanation behind that: he’s just traumatized because chicken eggs
come out of their anus. Yes, I know that
I’m really mature, you don’t have to tell me.
The other
characters haven’t gotten a huge amount of development yet (it’s mostly just
been focusing on him), but, if there’s anything I can trust the writer to do,
it’s to write and develop good characters.
So, overall,
color me somewhat excited for the next episode.
This is fun and pleasant to watch, and it will probably get even better
in the future. And the cow is really
cute.
Hachiken…
Ha-chiken…
Ha-chicken…
Ha-CHICKEN…
Oh, I get
it.
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