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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- The biggest selling point of this series is the ability to do very interesting animation of motion. So the scenes in the gym have been a highlight of each episode. But this time basically nothing happened in the gym, and even the action that could be seen was extremely limited. After the stellar success and excellent production quality of Yuru Yuri (2011) and YuruYuri♪♪ (2012), I guess it was natural to think that the combination of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT) and a Random School Club (RSC) was a sure-fire recipe for success. When I say "RSC", I mean some random, ill-defined school club. So I don't mean a series like K-On!, which is CGDCT, but which is set in a legitimate school club, specifically the light music club. As far as I have been able to determine, Yuru Yuri was the first CGDCT which was set in a school club that was basically random. Another example of CGDCT is Teekyuu. But Teekyuu is set in the tennis club for a school. So that is a legitimate, well- defined club. It is not RSC. But the CGDCT+RSC that followed after the two seasons of Yuru Yuri were Yuyushiki (2013), Kitakubu (2013) and now "Tesabu" (2013). Please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that there have been three failures in a row. As much as I love all of these series, I am forced to admit that not too many other fans are joining me. At this point, I don't feel too much optimism that CGDCT+RSC will ever return to its former glory. |
okanaganNov 26, 2013 9:05 AM
| I think Aiura is another good recent example of iyashi-kei school comedy, but episodes were like 3 minutes long. Still it's a good show, you should try it. Love Lab and A-Channel are kinda related too. Yuruyuri and Yuyushiki were pretty popular though. Today's Tesabu was better than last week's, as always my favorite scene is the ad-lib, the VAs sure are having fun. Yua went into some weird territory again (they sure have freedom) and Koharun was finally bullied for her ability to say funny things in a boring way. Poor Koharun. About the gym scenes, I get the feeling that they were planning to do a lot of things with those but dropped them altogether later. I'm guessing they don't have as much freedom to do what they want as they did with gdgd Fairies (magic, lots of freedom to do weird funny stuff). Still, listening to Tesagure! Radio-mono it seems the staff guys aren't very good at jokes after all; they have a section where the staff has to come up with some atarashii clubs, and most of the time they fail hard and end up being made of by the VAs. Also now that you mentioned Kitakubu, somehow I'm really missing that show. I loved the atmosphere and how the staff had a lot of freedom (I heard it was mostly an amateur staff). Sadly a lot of people disliked it vocally. |
| Yuyushiki did really well last I checked, and was a stellar series. I'ts unfortunate that Kitabu was less popular, bu it was inevitable as a lot of the humor was much more high level than usual. This show has barely been subbed, it's a short, and it's in full on 3DCG. That's three strikes against its potential popularity. The first one only really affecting fans outside of Japan, while the other two affect everyone. It also doesn't help that the show has less plot than these shows normally do by quite a bit. It's just four VAs sitting around a table and talking about random stuff basically. Other similar shows tend to have more scenes that involve actual actions and scenes that relate to character fleshing/growth. I'm not all that surprised it's not doing too well. I wonder how Teekyuu is doing though? It's made it to three seasons so far, so it must be somewhat popular. |
vampko said: Yuyushiki did really well last I checked, and was a stellar series. I'ts unfortunate that Kitabu was less popular, bu it was inevitable as a lot of the humor was much more high level than usual. This show has barely been subbed, it's a short, and it's in full on 3DCG. That's three strikes against its potential popularity. The first one only really affecting fans outside of Japan, while the other two affect everyone. It also doesn't help that the show has less plot than these shows normally do by quite a bit. It's just four VAs sitting around a table and talking about random stuff basically. Other similar shows tend to have more scenes that involve actual actions and scenes that relate to character fleshing/growth. I'm not all that surprised it's not doing too well. I wonder how Teekyuu is doing though? It's made it to three seasons so far, so it must be somewhat popular. I think it's fairly popular in Nicovideo (they upload the episodes there too). |
| Only now did I realize that the lyrics of the OP actually describe the visual images shown on the OP !! Silly me.... I would have thought more clear reference to Tennis Prince when they talked about tennis club, but I guess they cannot go too far.. Still I love how the 4 characters basically fully establish their personality. I actually had some good expectation of what to expect from each of them now and they have not disappointed. The facial impression CG seems to be continuously improving too. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| I am quite curious about how well "Tesabu" is doing compared to other anime series. In particular, I want to compare it to the previous examples, of CGDCT+RSC: Yuru Yuri, Yuyushiki and Kitakubu. As far as I know, the best available objective measure is Blu-ray/DVD sales. The only method that I am aware of to access the numbers is through Amazon Stalker. I was looking at the numbers the other day, but I have not pulled them together in order to present them here. In addition, I was making comparison with some other series which are presently popular, just to get a feel for what the numbers mean. The procedure involves a number of steps for me. If there is somebody here who knows a faster way to access these numbers, I would be happy to hear about it. Another relevant anime series is Non Non Biyori, which is the spectacularly-popular CGDCT series at the moment. But of course it is set in a small school in a rural area. There is no club. So it is not CGDCT+RSC. Apparently, CGDCT+countryside is a very successful concept. Regarding their facial expressions, I find it hard to be objective. For me, I am able to relate to these characters at an emotional level. They are human and relatable to me. Indeed, the four different personalities are very easy to distinguish. Regarding the lyrics, vonPeterhof mentioned this after Episode 3. At that time, I came across this version of the OP where somebody had added the lyrics in English. But note that you have to activate the YouTube "CC" feature in order to see the lyrics: (They can be turned on and off.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NHwqqaGpU What a cute idea! |
okanaganNov 26, 2013 9:24 AM
| Tesagure is doing better than most expected in terms of Stalker prediction but it is still low at slightly above 1k. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Okay, thanks. If Amazon Stalker is predicting above 1K, then I see that as good news for fans of "Tesabu". 1K is certainly "poor". On the other hand, it is not "crash and burn". Tesabu has done poorly. On the other hand, it is a radical experiment. The fact that Tesabu has not been a disaster means that it has enough of a following for the production team to be given a chance to make another series using the same technique. I forsee them being given a slightly higher budget. Perhaps they can spend a bit more time working on some aspects to improve the entertainment level. Frankly, Tesabu is the anime series that I am most excited about at the moment. I am very eager to see what these people are going to create next. Frankly, I think that the 3DCG is good enough at the technical level. But I would like to see more detail added in the backgrounds. I would like to see proper character designs for the supporting characters. I would like to see more action scenes, and not 100% of them in the gym. The concept of 15 identical sisters is innovative. However, it is a very thinly veiled excuse for being too lazy to design a few more characters. My impression is that character design requires a bit more effort in 3DCG than conventional 2DCG character design. But this is just a guess. |
okanaganNov 26, 2013 10:11 AM
| A dubbed version of Episode 8 finally was posted on the streaming website that I usually watch. Unfortunately, they used the audio track for Episode 7. So now I can see Episode 8 and read the subtitles, but I can't hear the correct audio track. This makes the situation worse than before it was subbed, since it is harder to enjoy it without audio. As far as I know, the original non-subbed version of Episode 8 is no longer available. What's going on? |
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