loli, short, flat, quite, wearing black tighs... good.
yuri, possesive, vindictive, armed with metal bate... treat carefully.

I've been trying to write a post about this show describing my views on it for the last 5 minutes and I think Surtic's post summarizes it well.

Those fucking tights. This show could be about anything and i'd still be watching it.

Also, Tooru's slightly too big sweater is utterly moe. The scene where she tries to stop the other girls from hugging her was just too much for me. I had to pause the video at that stage for a breather.

>>2968
those fucking tights indeed.
Hard choice between whether i like tooru or nagi more so far.

I though it wasn't that great, it has potential but, I dunno, it seems it relied way too much on being cute rather than being funny or having nice characters.

The first episode was cute but not particularly funny. If the yuri subtext sticks around so will I.

Reminds me of Manabi Straight.

I found this show really.. warm and inviting.. it gave off a familiar feel, and not in the "same shit" kind of way, but more like, a second season that never was to a nice anime from days past..


>>2986
I see I wasn't the only one, I was reminded of mei by Yuuko most of all.

Where does it place on the K-On - Minami-ke scale? As in, is it heavily relying on 'cute girls doing cute things' or is it more slice-of-life-ish? I'm sort of interested but I feel like it's gonna be another case of 'in your face' cuteness.

>>2993
It's basically K-ON 2.0.

>>2998

Damn. I was sorta interested but this kills it for me. Well, gotta wait for Working S2 I guess.

I love how they were shocked when they thought Run likes to eat parakeets but immeadiately calmed down when Tooru explained she just likes poultry. Then Yuuko began to talk about BBQ as if she never mentioned how much she adores animals.

One of the funniest scenes I've seen in anime in a long while, even though it was obviously completely unintended.

It's kyoani's style taken to the logical conclusion by another studio, is what it feels like it. Still not as highly budgeted and as well animated though.

I like it.

I'm not seeing how this is K-ON 2.0. I hated K-ON but found the first episode of A Channel enjoyable enough. I guess people these days do think any slice of life is a ripoff of K-ON, just like a few years ago they used to think any slice of life was a ripoff of Lucky Star.

>>3004
Because it's more about little girls being cute than it is about their daily lives.

>>3005
You can't judge that on the first episode though.

>>3001
I liked how they were imagining the sizzle of meat being cooked and it turned out to be Run's ringtone.

also, Tooru = Nagi > Mugi cosplaying Mio > Run cause Run just doesn't seem interesting so far

>>3005
I'm not sure I would agree with that but either way K-ON didn't invent anime about cute girls being cute. Also like Surtic said we've only seen the first episode, which was focused on introducing and establishing the characters.

Like others have said it was very cute but boring. I'll give it another 2 episodes to "grab" me

>>2986
>>2988
Hate you guys so much. Manabi Straight is up there with my favorite slice of life shows, and this was nothing like it.

My penis wasn't ready for this.
Besides that scene, this episode was so damn adorable, because it was literally just them doing cute things during a rainstorm.

>>3205
This is exactly my fetish, girls wearing unzipped hoodies with nothing underneath. I died.

So this is gonna the next radical slice of life; those jewells specially developed for us sickfucks who love to see cute (little) girls going trough the most ordinary daylife, while nothing ever, ever, ever happens...

It could be just me, but this one isn't still very convincing, is it? I mean, it is extremely early to judge alright, but with Lucky Star and K-ON I was badly hooked from the very first minutes of the first episode (Azumanga took me a little bit more to get accustomed to). I guess Ichigo Mashimaro's excellence on showing pure, pristine and meaningless nothingness is still hard to match.

>>3208
I found it good for slice of life. It's got a pleasant atmosphere and nice characters, with decent enough humor. The first two episodes have kept me hooked the whole time, whereas a lot of slice of life will have at least some moments that feel a little boring.

This show is just so cute. I can't stand how cute it is!

I'm so fucked up that when the missing panties thing happened all I could think about is the doujins that could result. Also the guy staring at Run after she was in the rain

>>3213

>The first two episodes have kept me hooked the whole time, whereas a lot of slice of life will have at least some moments that feel a little boring.

If it's not a little bit boring it fails at being slice-of-life!

Second episode was good. First episode was terrible. (That's just my opinion of course.) It's hard to express the tremendous gap in how much I liked the second ep compared to the first. I probably would've dropped it after first one but I have a habbit of watching everything all the way through. If all eps will be like the 2nd one I will be damn glad I didn't drop this.

Whenever I look at Yuuko I get a mighty deja vu feeling (screencap related). I feel like I've seen a character with almost same looking, narrow irises fairly recently but I can't figure out who it was. I think it might've been someone from Shiki but then again characters in Shiki had rather narrow irises in general. Also, her hair looks totally like Masao's hair which adds to the deja vu feeling.

Also, I feel the need to point out how half assed some of Kotobuki Minako's lines sounded. I like Yuuko and I think Minako did a well job overall at nailing the right voice for her but I hate sloppy voice acting. Minako, I am disappoint.

>>3220
I honestly can't look at Yuuko without seeing Mio.
i mean, she's literally Mio with Mugi's voice.

>>3218
Doujin would obviously be Tooru dragging Run into an alley and hot yuri rape

>>3222
>Yuuko... literally Mio
Yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious for most of us; it had like moe kyuns everywhere.

>>3218
I thought up my own little story about this last night in bed, with Tooru and Run. You know the rest.

>>3222
>>3225
Not really. They are certainly similar characters but they're still fairly different. For example Yuuko is a lot less meek and therefore a lot less annoying.

The sizzling ringtone caught me off guard this week, that was funny.

Episode 2 was way too cute.

This show is going to spawn so many lewd doujins. Tooru with her sweater and nothing underneath!

>>3278
More like a massive amount of Tooru and Run yuri doujins.

>>3284
Some of the first of which will involve Tooru raping run on the street after noting she's not wearing pansu.

>>3285
With a baseball bat

>>3284

>massive amount
>yuri doujins

Pick one. Even for series like K-On 'straight' doujins outnumber yuri and it's not even close. Yuri doujins are usually few and far between.

>>3287
You make a very good point, even with source material like k-on with no guys to be found, they stick random no name faceless men in, or in the case of touhou, they make the girls grow dicks.

This saddens me deeply.

yandere stalkers stalking yandere stalkers stalking yandere stalkers the anime.
And Nagi.

also, nurse is one creepy bastard.

This show makes me depressed because I will never be a cute Japanese girl hanging out at school with her friends ;_;

Getting a beach episode next week

I love Run's derpy eyes and Tooru's sleeves. So moe~

>>3663
that girl's such a troll...

I looked in the mirror this morning and noticed I have tooru's exact hairstyle, down to the weird spiky bit on the back

Poor Tooru

Yuuko's so cute that even the characters can't stop talking about it

I like how Tooru's character has evolved a bit. Now she actually acts like Nagi and Yuuko are her friends, and not just 2 people out to take her delicious Run-chan away

Yuuko took everything that was good about Mio and none of the bad

>>3762
I don't know about that, but I do know that for some reason looking at her makes me feel happy inside. I don't normally go for tall big boobed girls, either.

DAT

>>3760
Breasts~

I'll never be a cute, underdeveloped japanese schoolgirl going to the beach with her friends

>>3765
weeharooooo~

>>3762
what was bad?
her fate?

I thought this show was pretty boring at first but now it's become one of my favorites of the season next to Nichijou

I really can't believe it took me 5 episodes to realize Yuuko speaks in Kansaiben.

Trespassing is the new moe!

>>3857
I was so expecting some kind of alarm, or security guard, or the police to show up or something. Though what was the nurse doing there that late at night?

>>3765
You could be a cute, underdeveloped japanese schoolgirl going to the beach with her friends, while still feeling empty.

this show always makes me smile

You guys never get tired of slice-of-life series about Japanese school girls doing everything Japanese school girls do in slice-of-life series about Japanese schoolgirls, and nothing else? How many per season are there?

Please, do not take me for an average hater (I'm a super hater), but my alarm starts sounding when there's a beach episode, or a public bath episode, or a karaoke episode, or.. well, those episodes may very well be of the criteria of what makes a slice-of-life show about Japanese school girls indeed a slice-of-life show about Japanese schoolgirls; personally I had enough after Azumanga, and could only digest one per every second year maximum since then. My point, my point is, um, I'm a hater, uh, deal with it okay? Okay.

I'll probably watch it when nobody is looking.

>>3970
>You guys never get tired of slice-of-life series about Japanese school girls doing everything Japanese school girls do in slice-of-life series about Japanese schoolgirls, and nothing else?
Nope

>>3968

>You will never overcome your social anxieties and sing a song in front of your friends like Tooru.

Watching cute girls do cute and/or cool things is the entire reason I watch anime in the first place.

>>3968
This show always puts me in a good mood... which slowly fades as the reminders of the real world the seem bent on making me depressed, return to crush my hops and dreams once again.
I wish shows like this aired every day.. or at least lasted longer then a season or two.

>>3974
You know what is worst? to imagine (or find well-done doujins about) how those characters' life will become after higschool...

This shows relay purely on elements from an over-stylized picture of mundane daily life. But as life passing by corrupts and breaks down everything and everyone, the shows going on further in the same (careless) path would become less and less credible each chapter, hence starting to fail at offering us escape and comfort. That's why I think it's prefferable to have many -effective- stories about pretty much the same, than a long but failled one.

I'm also (finally) enjoying this one show a lot, btw.

Post edited on 21st May 2011, 11:18pm

>You know what is worst? to imagine (or find well-done doujins about) how those characters' life will become after higschool...
I love those

>>3968
I was so expecting Tooru to be completely unable to sing and cause awkwardness, that was a pleasant surprise.

The replies in this thread are confusing.
Randomly watched ep.1 (before reading this) and thought this was absolutely terrible. Couldn't find characters either cute or funny but only retarded, and I'm saying this as a Hirasawa Yui supporter.

I don't think I'm accustomed to the genre so that may be the issue here. Finally dropped Lucky Star around 15 eps when boredom overcame the jokes, loved K-On! for everything from moe to rhythm to heart-warming stuff, fairly enjoyed Ika Musume overall, and that's about all I know about cute slice of life shows.

Will try to continue watching this since you say it gets better (was thinking of fastforwarding the next eps to see if it did), but honestly the only thing I could like by the end of ep.1 was the outdoors scenery.
The underage looking thing doesn't work as well as it did in Lucky Star because it's taken way too far (I'll pretend they're actually in middle school then but still), and the rhythm is nonexistent. All characters are slowpokes, and the 4koma cutting adapts very poorly with horrible breaks between each story (then again that might be a common feature of these shows so pardon my limited knowledge).
I want to think all of this intends to make the atmosphere soothing and endearing, but I'm unable to concur.

I understand how someone who dislikes moeblobs will naturally dislike K-On!, but I'm honestly confused at how you could find A Channel better in any situation, since to me it's basically a much weaker version of the same thing.

I hope my question is taken seriously.

>>3991
There was a question in your post?

>>3995
his question seems to be "why are you watching this when you could watch k-on"

>>3995
"what could make you like this better than k-on?"

I personally don't like it more than K-on, but that's only because K-on is probably my second favorite anime of all time.

I like A-channel because it makes me feel better. That's really all there is to it. It's not particularly animated well, but it's animated cutely. There's no over arching story, but who says there needs to be one? There's very little character development as every character except tooru seems to be exactly the same as when it started.

All that said though, it still makes me feel good when I watch it. I don't expect a great painting to have good sound effects and an amazing special effect budget, and I don't expect A-channel to get my adrenaline going or engage me intellectually, or leave me awestruck by its beauty. I expect it to fulfill that odd hunger in the back of my brain for incredibly cute charters presented in a way that's appealing to men instead of just women, Something the western market completely lacks and I had to find in anime in the first place.

If you don't like A-channel it simply isn't for you in the same way as Burger King isn't for people who dislike fast food burgers. It's crappy food and will kill you if its all you eat, and no one will defend that, but some people get genuine enjoyment out of it.

>>3996
becuase I already saw k-on?

>>4000
I don't think I've seen many people call this better then k-on, I loved k-on, but I also really enjoy this.
I wouldn't say it's better, but I guess I'll toss in my 2 cents and say the character art style, for one.
this show doesn't have the fetus hands and overly messed up body proportions the k-on did.
this show also doesn't have the over saturated in your face marketing (yet anyway)
the girls of K-on have their faced on everything from underpants to leg pillow things.. and of course a billion figures.
also, k-on got really depressing in the last half of season 2...

>>4013
>this show doesn't have the overly messed up body proportions the k-on did.
Bobbleheads aren't anatomically correct.

>>4014
But they are cute, fetus hands, not so much.

I've replayed this scene at least two dozen times already.

I also imagine it's Noël from Sora no Woto singing. I find that it's more cute that way.

So moe, my brain is stop

I find A Channel much better than K-ON and find it sad that every slice of life show is now compared to K-ON as though it created the genre.

>>4021
People have been doing that forever with azumanga.

I watched K-ON only for Yui. I only liked it quite a bit when Yui was derpy moe~

I watched A-Channel for Run-chan derpy eyes and Tooru's sleeves. It was like watching K-ON except with less wobbly derpy moe~ and more moe~ in some other places.

I wouldn't say which one is better than the other.

i love this anime to death. episode 8 was literally the best part of my week

Good morning!

you came to the wrong neighborhood punk

>>4053
While I find her design cute, her personality is less than cute. I have to say that the whole possessiveness isn't very endearing.

That 'fight' was over something insanely silly, but it was adorable.
I can't help but be happier after i watch an episode of this.

Also, she became one of my favorite characters

I only watch this for Yuuko's accent.

>>4069
That's my favorite part of the show.

I like seeing Tooru get flustered about things because we get to see her sleeves flap around

Sweet sensation

holly monkeys...

Did everyone watch the A-Channel specials?

>>4195
Specials?

http://www.tokyotosho.info/search.php?terms=A+Channel+special&type=1&size_min=&size_max=&username=

( ﾟдﾟ).oO(>>3856)

Tooru has a very interesting fashion sense...

i, for one, think she looks fantastic

>>4195
uniform and movie ones? they were fun.

Turning everything into moe, trash included, even if it doesn't resemble trash at all.

Anyone else notice how much they pick on yuuko?

She doesn't seem to be bothered by it at all, but I still feel a little bad for her.

  Did anyone else get a deja-vu-esque feeling when they heard this week's insert song? It sounds like something straight out of SZS but the feeling is stronger when I listen to the song in A-Channel only. After comparing it to SZS songs the resemblance isn't as uncanny as I expected it to be (honestly, I thought we're talking plagiarism levels here).

If I hadn't watched A-Channel and someone would tell me it's a leaked song from the new SZS OVA I would probably believe them.

Omamori (most underrated ED of SZS by the way) related, I think it's the closest you will get to that insert song. Parts of Koiji Romanesque sounds somewhat similar, too.



And it's over now I guess. Was fun while it lasted. I wonder whether we'll get S2 someday.

I have to go now. My planet needs me.