He knew. He knew from the very beginning.
You know, I don’t even especially feel like writing this. I expected the moment at which I could make fun of KyoAni’s inevitable blunders to be a glorious one, but I only feel dull and somewhat sad. All things considered, Chuu2 wasn’t exactly KyoAni at their best.
My DEAD DAD DRAMA face.
In most regards Chuu2 reminds me of the impressions I had on Tari Tari – it looks nice, the characters are good, and the comedy side is working. Yet it never really got anywhere, and the drama slapped the viewer in the face like a wet sock from around the corner. Also, the characters were only getting worse as they were developed instead of the other way around. Add to the equation the last two episodes that were about as subtle as this:
I didn’t consider Hyouka a masterpiece or the pinnacle of KyoAni’s prowess, but if anything it did extremely good work at handling all the subtleties. Hell, the finale was pulled off so finely and with such taste that I can barely believe such a thing is possible as far as Japanese animation goes. You just don’t see that happen. And while the comparison isn’t entirely fair, Chuu2 was like the polar opposite with its quickly escalating yet predictable and lazy drama that hastily climaxes in the standard fashion with the textbook tricks like sex with a 10-dollar secretary.
Long story short, KyoAni produced the show exactly the same way as any other studio would have done. It isn’t a bad series, but from around the halfway onwards only the graphical splendor sets it aside from the mass. If Garupan was the biggest positive surprise, then Chuu2 is the biggest letdown. Like Tari Tari, it has its merits but on average is a superficial and forgettable experience.
Guess what’s up next? Oh yes, it’s the K-ON!! season 3!
[00:58] <@Kurogane> also Yuuta rejected Inschuu2tality
[00:58] <@Kurogane> fuck him
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It can’t be K-ON!, it has males in it. And old people.
“the drama slapped the viewer in the face like a wet sock from around the corner”
“that hastily climaxes in the standard fashion with the textbook tricks like sex with a 10-dollar secretary.”
Have I mentioned I love your writing style?
The show would’ve been much funnier if Yuuta wasn’t such a tsukkomi/straight-face the whole way through, but that would have required a wittier writer…. We could’ve easily replicated Black Rock Shooter with a hammy male character having amusing imaginary fights every day, but no, they had to put the inevitable reveal for her initial delusions in the last episode instead….
Still better than Hyouka for me. I mean, I didn’t like Hyouka because the story was boring. That’s not really KyoAni’s fault.
But I’m growing tired of KyoAni always doing the same moe-type animes and making all girls EXTREMELY similar.
“That’s not really KyoAni’s fault.”
Generic Nova™ response: Ultimately, it’s up to the studio to decide what to do with the source material, so if they decide to go for a faithful adaptation despite the flaws the original is marked with, the studio in charge is to blame.
Stealing Nova’s lines is plenty fun.