Audience reviews
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ajw215799
I had high expectations considering I love the genre and I heard this was highly regarded. Unfortunately this steaming pile of excrement is so utterly devoid of humor or competent writing for that matter, it makes me question people’s sanity. I can count the number of times I genuinely laughed at gags on one hand. I do like randomness humor but this was so random combined with the fact that the basic writing was so poor, it makes for one of the most painful watches I’ve ever had. And it’s a shame because somewhere in here is 12 very competent episodes if they were allowed to shine and by shine I mean heavily re-edited and rewritten.
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So my experience with Nichijou was pretty lukewarm in general, so here's to a lukewarm review. In as few words as possible, I would describe it as "a mediocre comedy with incredibly high production value and some golden moments interspersed between otherwise tryhard and sometimes tedious jokes".
As this is a comedy series, the jokes and comedic timing and such are criteria by which to judge its quality. Well, on that front the thing kinda flops for me, at least. Most of the scenes are far too drawn out and rarely feature a satisfying punchline, but you mileage may vary. Nichijou does try an interesting approach to comedy, which is certainly not to everyones tastes (even if it is, I don't think it's executed consistently well), so to get a general feel I recommend you just watch the first…
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Story
Nichijou is a slice of life, so there is not much of a story as to be expected. It is about the everyday lives of the central cast and the outrageous shennigans they find themselves it. Comedy is very subjective based on the reviewer and I can definitely say this is one of the least funny comedies I have seen in a very long time. The jokes lack a punchline for the most part and instead of ending on a high note, the jokes are sometimes dragged out as far as possible to pad out the runtime. They also get very stale as the story progresses along. There is nothing memorable about these poor sketches. The randomness of the humor feels far more obnoxious than anything else, like the creators are explicitly trying to annoy the viewer instead of entertaining them.
Art
The only good thing…
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My friends had hounded me for a while to give Nichijou a watch, but from the clips I had been shown on YouTube it just never seemed like my kind of humor.
So I sat through all 26 episodes and the OVA.
The animation team took an opportunity here when given the source material to go absolutely nuts to create over the top, intense, fluid animation sequences whenever that chance arises. There are a lot of sequences and shots to be impressed with, and I feel it's worth watching for those alone.
What I appreciated about Nichijou and the story it doesn't tell is that it doesn't go through your standard slice of life let's go to osaka/kyoto/komiket/the beach/hotsprings/culture festival scenarios. The world it takes place in is very self contained and that which normal high school girls like th…
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"A beautiful disaster-piece" is what I use to describe Nichijou. While watching, I couldn't help but find myself to be so engaged, eyes literally almost glued to my screen. That's how great it was. There are many things I loved about Nichijou which makes it one of my personally favorites..
I'll start right off the bat and say that what I loved most was the characters. In my many years of watching anime, many shows have come close, however none can touch the amount of likable and hilarious characters Nichijou provided with. A few of the things I liked and loved about the characters was that each of them "as the shows title gives it away" live their own unique daily lives. However, no life can be complete without any problems or distress, and that's were comedy comes in. I really enjoyed h…
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Overview:
This is an anime that I went into with high expectations. I was told OVER and OVER online that this was one of the funniest anime series to ever exist! I don't think I laughed once. I'm not just saying that I didn't get any sidesplitting laughs out of this, I don't think this series made me smile more than 2 times! Nichijou is certainly a series with an outstanding online reputation, but in this case I don't feel that the reputation was well deserved.
Background:
Nichijou was actually a bit of a flop in Japan and wasn't able to build a large Japanese fandom. However, it became a massive hit on the English speaking internet after 4chan latched onto it. For the last 3 years, Nichijou fans have been to /a/ what the bronies are to /b/! They are an absolutely devoted cult that rec…
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Nichijou means "Everyday Normal (Life)", and this anime is nothing close to that.
Are drugs illegal in your country? Well, most likely they are. But assume that you had access to all of them, then you bought one of each kind, and then you mixed them all in one big pot, and then you drunk a spoon of that drug-soup. The final effect? Something close to Nichijou.
You'll be living with a state of mind, where you imagine you're living in reality and experiencing all kinds of daily life, but actually you're lying on the floor and staring at the ceiling, yet you don't realize it. That's how it feels to watch Nichijou. For someone sane like me this anime is nonsense from beginning to end, but if you're drugged enough you'll call it slice-of-life or something like that.
Examples? Too many too me…
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Being a KyoAni project, the first thought that came into my mind when I saw the cover art for Nichijou was that it is going to be a comedy/slice of life filled with cute girls doing cute things. Luckily, there's much more to this anime. Nichijou is a sketch comedy, with a sprinkle of slice of life, set in a junior high school. While the title in English is "My Ordinary Life", Nichijou is full of the extraordinary.
There are two main plot threads going on throughout Nichijou. The first follows the trio of Yuuko, Mio and Mai as they try to get through the year at school. The second follows the Professor, her cat, Sakamoto and her robot, Nano as they attempt to run a working household together. Alone, these stories are enough to carry the series. However, this is a sketch comedy with recurr…
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"Our everyday lives may, in fact, be a series of miracles."
Nichijou is the anime adaption by Kyoto Animation of the eponymous manga by Arai Keiichi. In a way, it might be one of the most important series in recent years, and in another way it's just a loveable comedy dense in quality and unadulterated joy of the art of animation. At 26 episodes, setting and keeping the bar high can be a tough job, but Kyoto Animation tackles any issues head-on and what remains is an awe-inspiring amount of everything that keeps anime fans in the medium. Nichijou translates to roughly “everyday”, as in ordinary or regular. But the show stays true to the quote above and is able to present unique, bizarre and completely ridiculous situations taken from “everyday life” but turned up to 11.
Before I explain…
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Nichijou is a one-of-a-kind anime that exists not only to represent everyday life, but a wide array of social, emotional, relate-able, and some times down right daft modern day plights. As a generalization for anyone who can't be asked to read all of this: Nichijou is a bold, up-beat, masterfully crafted, immensely funny, refreshing; cartoon-esc take on modern day life. It breaks through the typical barriers of the SoL genre and breathes new life into the term "ordinary" -
As you will find out, if you watch: Nichijou is quite far fetched at times; as it seamlessly makes instant transitions from extremely dramatic, to extremely comedic, and maybe even to sad - all the drop of a hat!
Rendering it FAR from just, "ordinary life": which is probably what you expected when you came here.
So! A…
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I'm going to start out by saying this my favourite anime. It has made me laugh when I did not have the energy to talk, it has let me escape reality when I did not want to exist. Whenever I try looking for comedy anime similar, common recommendations like Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh appear a lot. Danshi Koukousei comes close, but Nichijou is an experience that outshines all of these by quite a margin. There is really no definitive genre to put this show in other than comedy, it is almost the epitome of it, because that's all it is: simple pure ecstasy.
Enjoyment:
It explores humour in ways I could not begin to imagine. For the most part, Nichijou uses the "traditional" anime gag style of comedy. This efficiency of this method has always befuddled me because it exploits the core of why h…
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When your entire show relies on gag comedy, and the majority of that gag comedy relies on subverting expectations, and most of those subverted expectations end with something random rather than clever, you've taken comedy and beat it down to its worst form. The lolrandom form, which is the form that Nichijou loves best. It's a sketch show, and all sketch shows are bound to be hit-or-miss. Nichijou is just a lot of misses with maybe a hit or two sprinkled in every five episodes. Maybe it's just my sense of humor, but a lot of the humor relies too heavily on being "randum", and being random alone, to me, isn't very funny at all.
Story: 1
There is no story. They attempt to build something resembling a plotline nearing the end but it just ends up feeling unnecessary. Nothing much to say here…
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This review will be hard to write, as I will probably laugh at certain parts.
Story: 8
So... Nichijou isn't much of a story, rather a collection of short stories, a bunch of them. These short stories are divided based on the characters. In the beginning we have mainly separate stories all happening around the same time, but are not interconnected. I found this a bit boring, just a collection of stories with characters who had no idea the other characters of the anime existed. Towards the end though, the stories become interconnect as the characters meet each other. These episodes were more interesting, seeing the stories all fitting together.
The only parts I didn't really enjoy were the Helvetica Standard, the humor was to weird or didn't have enough context for it to be funny (At least…
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If I had to sum up all of Nichijou in one word, it would be "beautiful." As a slice of life, this anime can't be for everyone, as most people like to have a story that is actually driven by the plot. But even if you aren't into slice of life anime, there is something in Nichijou for everyone to enjoy.
Story:
Every episode is a series of semi-random "moments" in each of the characters' lives. As far as an actual storyline goes, there is no distinct beginning or end to Nichijou. No goal, no real conflict - as to be expected of a slice of life, "storyless." However, at about the halfway point, I started to question whether all of Nichijou somewhat revolves around Nano and her dreams of leading a normal, everyday life (which is what "nichijou" roughly translates to). There are some really bea…
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How does one describe ordinary. Any dictionary will probably describe ordinary as "Something that is commonly encountered, usual" or something to that effect. So how does a show like Nichijou (which roughly translates to Regular Life) get a title like... well Nichijou. A show with robots, wigs, deer, and all manner of unusal things is anything but... ordinary right? Perhaps they titled it like this as a bit of a joke, to bounce off all the crazy stuff that is to come. But I think there is a little bit more behind the title than first meets the eye. Lets find out shall we?
Ok, lets start from the beginning. Waaaaaaaayyyyyy back in 2011, Nichijou first aired. I was in the motion of looking for something new to watch so I was keeping an eye on the new releases. When I glanced over Nichijou,…
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New generation anime sitcom has arrived…
A spiritual successor to two of my favorite anime sketch comedies of all time (Azumanga Daioh and Pani Poni Dash), Nichijou delivers the comedy 110% percent. Based on the manga of the same name, this is a perfect example of how a situational/sketch comedy should be made.
Anyone trying to find some objective story to this will ultimately blow their minds in front of their faces, as there is none. Hence Situational comedy, because its basically a group of people in high school and we’re there to watch the hilarity ensue. Typically things like this center themselves around a few main characters, but this series lends itself to a few dozen characters. For anime novices, I would recommend not to watch this sort of stuff considering, the sheer amount of…
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Nichijou is a comedic manga/anime/PSP game written by Keiichi Arawi. It's had very limited releases outside of Japan with the North American versions even being canceled for reasons I don't know. The question is, were audiences thankfully spared or are they missing out on something? I'm going to examine the anime to find out.
This is yet another comedy without an over-arching story. The episodes do have a definite order, however. The setting is that a bunch of characters live their ordinary lives. It's mostly about high school girls but there are some teachers, animals and other assorted characters as well. Now for the all important question: is it funny? The answer is on occasion. A lot of the humour just relies on complete randomness. And it's not randomness that leads to an amusing mom…
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Great animation won't save this slice of life comedy from absolute failure.
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Overall: If you are looking for the fast-paced, pop cultured infused humor of Lucky Star, the strangeness of Azumanga Daioh or the cuteness of K-On, look elsewhere. Nichijou features obnoxious characters, jokes that drag on and a uneventful setting.
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Story: There is no real story to Nichijou. Minor events that happen before are acknowledged later on, but don't have any impact.
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Characters: The characters fall flat on their faces. Obnoxious, their "character traits" are over-exposed and take away from the almost-jokes the series try to tell.
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Comedy: Most jokes drag on for too long and lack a proper punchline. Random jokes are just dreams or imagination from a character with no fantastic element. Unfunny r…
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Nichijou is to me, one of a kind. It emphasizes what seems to be the essence of slapstick comedy, but induces your favorite lighthearted scenario all within the same episode. If you were keen of Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, Hidamari Sketch, or Pani Poni Dash, then you would definitely know what I'm talking about. Except, Nichijou, or "EveryDay", takes a twist and turn every now and then to let you know this is not so ordinary, and from there, you're on a wonderful ride to a pure fun and blownout comedy.
Story: 7/10
Not at any point, did I criticize Nichijou for its direction of plot, because first of all, I knew what I was getting myself into, whoever reads the synopsis, or look at the cover even, can obviously expect slice of life and nothing else. It baffles me that there are still idio…
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Conventional wisdom has always taught us that more is usually better. We think that the more expensive car should have more completely unrelated features, the better ice-cream sundae should have a bigger pile of fresh fruit on top, and the better statistics report should be able to pull more numbers out of it’s arse. We compare phones by the multitude of apps it can run, our enjoyment of horror films is based on how many different ways the various victims die, and we often rate anime by how many story arcs, characters, subplots and themes it can cram into it’s 26 episode season.
As the modern entertainment sector continues to emphasize excess and surplus, Nichijou is a much welcome, and frankly much needed throwback to a more old-school approach to entertainment. Nichijou’s frugal yet di…
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