Nichijou episode 18

All I can say is yet again a hilarious episode of Nichijou! I didn't imagine in my wildest dreams it would be funnier than the card house in the other episode where Yuko and Mio's hearts' come out of their mouths. I was immediately standing corrected when I saw Yuko doing the most realistic and human thing I've ever seen in the show. Such as thinking someone's talking to you and responding only to look like a schmuck, then she plays it off. Or performing an act of kindness like give up your seat for an old person and, them knowing what your doing, not accept before you can say anything. The way she got up acting like she was getting up for her stop is so humanly funny and I've done the same stuff! The train doors not opening on the side she was thinking opened killed me. Who hasn't done that!? Try pushing a door open and then when it doesn't budge you don't want to look stupid try muscling your way through before you read below the handle "pull". Then like the girl on  the train, there is always that one someone that sees and snickers behind your back. I can vouch for Yuko on the talking to a statue while your not looking thinking its a person, I related to that the most. To make matters worse the girl following, Misato's younger sister, keeps laughing or sweating from trying to hold in her laughter. I LOVED IT! I could relate in so many ways, as Yuko's animation and reactions were too human for their own good. Mai's terrible map for Yuko to Diaku Burger was also giving me a quick laugh. Trick-or-treating a week after Halloween! kids these days lol.

There are tons of funny snippets like Mio knowing how to order coffees perfectly unlike poor Yuko who is mixed up about the ridiculous sounding sizes and styles of coffee that one has to be a regular to be able to order.

I can't order either lol, I'm most like Yuko

Or the coffee isn't coffee coffee, but I will go through the main laughers or jokes, but I recommend you watch the show! The next long joke was men with numbered hats trying to appease the princess. A guard would call out lots and a person would try to entertain the princess but in failing to do so is dropped from a blimp and more than likely fall miles to their death. Some guys wouldn't be able to even finish their routine before being dropped. As the top tier routines and men fal to their demise the others wonder what chance they have if the others failed and they had better routines. They all say what they were going to do, the funniest being one guy is like "I was going to split chopsticks with my butt cheeks" LOL!!!! That had me really laugh hard in real life. Then the bada*s shows up all cool with a duck floatie around his waist who is confident he will succeed. As he walks up with an arrogant aura he is dropped from the floor with a bad fall as he hits his head, flips, it looked painful. Then the next lot is called... no-one goes up and then someone sees a lot with a number for the person supposed to go and looks around as everyone wonders what the next person's routine is or where they are. This person obviously doesn't want to go, keep in mind the bada*s just failed. Then a man steps out and you wonder will he succeed? he has a duck floatie around his waist and we just saw someone doing the saame routine die and this guy is like I know I can't win. lol everyone just thinks you poor bast*rd. Even the guard laughs where both he AND the victim fall. The guy with a cheer leader routine gets the f*ck out of dodge. He throws his cheer leader pom poms over the blimp, in a moment of rebellion. They fall on Mio's blue hair with the pigtails and flap her pig tails out of the way. yuko then wakes up... It was Yuko's dream! she IMMEDIATELY says " I'll go stand in the hallway!" when she might not have even got caught making a ruckus but she's so used to getting in trouble she knows the routine and just fusses up lol! Keep in mind i laughed this whole six minute skit, and then the ending credits.

I think in episode 7 or 8 there was the same kind of skit with the men in green and numbered hats, I'm going to go watch it again!

Episode had everything, helvetica standards, the works. We even see Misato get screen time with Kojiro and move her relationship forward, she even refrains from shooting him with the rockets in the pic at the top but instead vies for the fake tank cannon air soft pebble bullet with some affection. Misato's little sis also knows Misato is in love with Kojiro. This episode drove the main plots and relationships less and went more for funny skits which I don't mind at all! One of my favorite episodes easy, beside the mosquito and Yuko losing her money ones. In the coming episode it will probably delve into poor biscuit 2 who is ignored and the professor even eats his fuel source....biscuits. Go figure. For once it is as it seems. The teacher counting longer for the students really was sweet and i actually smiled and was like aaaawwwww! She was counting to ten to finish the test normally but then saw a cute little girl feverishly trying to complete and cut her a break, counting like "oooooooooooone", so instead of one its like three seconds, very cute! Oh Sakemoto got his scarf back! good for you but like When Kenny dies in South Park we don't know how he got back, or in the case of the scarf when it was returned but I'm the only one who even mildly cared so I'll excuse myself as I go get in a ball in the corner of my house and rock myself to sleep.

-Relic P.S. I will have to re-watch this as so much happens I don't remember all the good comedy for such a good show! Take it easy ;) and WISH your dreams were as funny or memorable as Yuko's, hell I wouldn't wake up again....wait that sounds like something I shouldn't jinx myself on. I'll be back again...hopefully.....after I find some wood to knock on.

Nichijou-over view

To start...I've missed a week or two, again sorry. I'll just go through the funnier or more important ideas of the show. First off the crow... that crow made me want to play wiffle ball or what ever you call it. LOOK AT THAT SHAPE! Looks like the cups I use at water coolers with a corrugated top! lol. oh I thought that was rich indeed! More importantly poor Sakemoto! not being able to talk without his scarf and all... Then the part when the 'crow' flies off was funny. I find that to be one of the funnier things in this show. When characters say something and then just take off or go the wrong way lol! Like the teacher Manabu who when faced with an emergency turns a blind eye when the incident is during something revolving around his love interest Izumi(the shy teacher and councilor) in one way or another. This time Izumi's younger brother, Makoto the go-soccer player, discovers Manabu is head over heels in love with Izumi. After some black mail and threats of letting all of Japan know Manabu's secret, Manabu concedes to Makoto's demands. But not before Manabu told the red bow wearing girl (I think her names Annaka or something) to draw hair with a black marker on the poor mohawk kid, Tsuyoshi, who fell(literally) victim to the science teacher, Nakamura, who is trying to capture Nano. After which the science teacher impulsively cuts his hair off. I definitly lol'd at the whole scenario. The loud "ehhhhs!?" between Annaka and Manabu. The fact she will agree to using the marker to draw hair. Him running off in the wrong direction AGAIN but this time correcting his direction while running full speed! I hope his love becomes a bigger plot in the coming episodes. Its always very funny.

The other long running gag is Mio drawing yaoi of Kojiro and some other dude. This time a police officer says he's looking for clues to a counterfeiter using money to buy out of vending machines. Mio has a suspicious purse one thing leads to another and the officer thinks she has counterfeit money. The whole scene is funny since Yuko defends Mio who then discounts what ever counter Yuko just had. Mio trying to bribe an officer who thinks shes confessing to the crime, none of it makes sense lol! THEN the officer tries to get the purse which throws Mio's yaoi drawings into the air. officer is reading it and then Mio blows his chest open with a vulcan power punch. He probably died as he fell to his knees. Yuko is then seen reading a page RIGHT when you thought Mio had them all. Yuko is laughing as she spins into the universe trying to make sense of what her eyes are seeing. then she too falls to one of Mio's mighty wrestling leg grapple spins. Then an old gentleman in a top hat smiling simply catches it, not having even seen anything and is then jump kicked in his teeth. Then Kojiro's goat is seen eating a page as he too is spun by the leg like Mio and i'm sure I heard the goat's back snap in half. That kills me aqs it is an innocent goat who can't even read. The scene ends with Mio walking by the guy with an afro, Tanaka, who is like holy crap, what is this a massacre?! and Kojiro then grabs his goat who is walking like a "newborn", a hilarious quick sentence by Kojiro. ohhhh the humanity! If Mio likes Kojiro I wonder what will happen between the gatling gun wielding tsundere Misato Tachibana and Mio who like the same person. Also we almost NEVER see Misato's friends the green haired one with the pony tail for example. It shows her whispering to another girl in the first opener like saying "Misato likes Kojiro" so I kind of like the character but she has little screen time dedicated to her. I bet towards the end a lot of drama and questions will get wrapped up. love with Izumi and Manabu, go-soccer club getting off the ground and if that quiet girl likes the founder, love triangle with Kojiro at the head, Nano losing her key on her back, Sakemoto getting his scarf back unless its like what south park did with Kenny where he is just back alive, and next ep. Sakemoto has his scarf. Would love to see these plot holes closed up by the end. Love it. Hope this little over view is fine with anyone who reads.

-Relic P.S. It's good to be back ;)

Nichijou#15

Nichijou! I always look forward to watching this wonderful show! I absolutely adore and love the clean comedy and basically the nonsense that ensues when the ensemble of characters get together. I found the scene when the male teacher, Manabu Takasaki, takes off to help out a passed out chemistry teacher very similar to the part in a previous episode when the boy with a natural Mohawk takes off from a fortune teller person who asks to be payed for mediocre information and the Mohawk boy can't pay! Very funny. To think manabu would completely rid himself of any and all teacher responsibility to snoop on his love interest Izumi and her little brother no less! He is such a jealous type it was hilarious how each thing she said he thought was some sensual reference and he slowly dips into madness as the hijinks continue. Don't you think he was over thinking what disheveled was!A Chinese red dress is what he considers disheveled? I found the long t-shirt no pants on dirty room, just woke up look on Izumi in his fantasy to be alot more appropriate...and sexy lol but I'm homely myself(biased!) I like that the girl Annaka I think, is so quick to go draw pupils on a human beings eye balls!especially after the sound of being surprised like,NO I won't do that, eeeeeh!? Lol it killed me even more when the teacher realized he couldn't allow this and was like Wait!! Hahaha! Then the "what is their relationship!?" from manabu and Annaka quickly replies "that's Uzimi's younger brother" and an immediate sprinters stance in the wrong direction!oh man true comedy! Hopefully their love blossoms as they are quite cute in their relationship thus far(if that is what you would call the one sidedness of it :) )

Anywho, that madness aside...Why must Nanno suffer!?!?I feel so bad for her! Poor little robot/cyborg/care taker/school girl/outcast/whipping boy! I want her to have her key(that little do-hickie on her spinal cord) off her do bad. Why doesn't she just ask someone and the suffering would be over all ready...but alas!that doesn't make for good t.v. But I assume this trouble of hers will be resolved by the end...I hope poor Nanno and damn that cute sadist professor! Haha.well a good episode and as always I can't wait for next week!!! Not to mention, I really enjoy the openings. They fit do well with what's happening in the intro animation. I like the first one better still...kinda but the second intro song I love the yodeling thing the guy does towards the end of the opening! Though the intro for the first one had better lip matching with the girl and guy singers to the corresponding character. Wish iTunes had it hahaha! Well till next week!
-Relic