Nichijou looks like your typical moe schoolgirl anime archetype but pretty quickly you come to realise that's completely wrong. Nichijou is more like an acid trip. It's totally random, bizzarre and most importantly - hilarious. If you're looking for a new Lucky Star then you're sadly mistaken, it's more along the lines of the classic Azumanga Diaoh if you ask me - and only when Osaka is having weird dreams about the Chiyo's Dad, the cat-thing.
While some of the humour might not be understood because it's a really obscure Japanese thing, or it's just too downright weird to be that funny (one of the episodes
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Aug 4, 2011
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira
(Anime)
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As of the first episode of Kira, it's absolutely terrible. I knew from the trailer that it was going to be bad but the whole thing turns out just to be an extended eroge sequence involving each of the main girls in turn.
DEEN have an opportunity to make an OVA for Higurashi, one of my favourite series, and they make this... this... abomination. Maybe the three episode arc will be vaguely less disgusting but going off this first episode I don't even know why I should bother continuing to watch it. Rei had a similar thing with a silliness fun episode at the start but the ... |