Audience reviews
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Fishb0i
I always like to start my reviews off with a brief personal tangent, in order to give a bit of extra context for why I feel a certain way about a series. And this one...this one's got some baggage. In fact, despite not having watched a single second of the show until just yesterday, it wouldn't be too much of an exaggeration to say that this anime
ruined the past few years of my life.
Yes, really. Back in ~2019, I was browsing TV Tropes and managed to stumble upon the page for this show. Seeing the cover for the first volume of the manga, and seeing the two main characters flip me off, caught me off-guard and I closed out of the tab immediately. For the next few weeks, that was all I could think of, those two adorable anime girls telling me to eff off. Eventually, it was too much. I open…
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*Beware of minor spoilers ahead*
“Remeb'r this nay lodging,
F'r an addl’d sod
Ent'r nought but a sir,
Fain to taketh troll”
Dear god, I’d like to confess something before getting into this. At the point of writing this review, I have watched over 200 anime and read countless manga and novels in hopes of filling the hole left by said shows. Frankly, I believed nothing could really faze me.
Boy was I wrong.
In terms of what it offers, Pop Team Epic is like 4chan. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes annoying, and almost always trolling. You get to see pop culture references pulled for reasons you couldn’t find with the Hubble Telescope. You get to see crassly drawn high school girls with literal UwUs on their faces threaten haters of the show with spike-studded baseball bats. You get to see an…
Read at the sourceDarkshark7000
Yeah, not much really to say here its a pretty purely comedic anime, and I didn't really find it funny that's about it. I'm sure it's fine if you like the jokes but I laughed at like 1% of the jokes in the anime that's nothing but jokes so not really a huge fan of this one. In terms of overall quality id probably say it's like a 7 just because its job is that it's trying to be this like skit anime where it's just the constant jokes and I might not be into it but it does what it sets out to do pretty well so id say in terms of quality it's like a 7 but in terms of my personal enjoyment it's like a 2.
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POOp
there is no story, but that isn't the appeal to this masterpiece clearly.
I guess the best way to sum up what goes on would be to say everything is very stupid
every minute was so good, packed with references and shit posts
I found myself laughing audibly quite often
I think I enjoyed it because I found the things the characters to be very silly! Every second there is something dumb happening, if you think that would be funny, this may interest you
It feels like something out of a 6 panel newspaper comic (which might be what this is)
very cute anime >_< watch if you are .
Read at the sourceNextUniverse
(Why the hell would you need a TLDR review?)
It has come to my attention that Pop Team Epic is excruciatingly misunderstood.
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Pop Team Epic
In this review, I coded it so that I have to speedrun my Pop Team Epic review before MAL has a 504 Error. Can I finish my review before MAL goes down?
Also, according to MyAnimeList statistics, only a small percentage of people reading this review have actually given this a helpful vote. So if you end up enjoying this review. Consider giving a helpful vote. It's free, you can always undo the vote later. Enjoy the review. Does Pop Team Epic actually try to be comedy 🤣 god 🙏 ? Well yes, but actually yes. However, one could look at Pop team Epic as more than just some gag anime. It is a way of life. The a(pog)ee (who tf makes these words) of b…
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Pardon what I’m about to say… but what the hell did I just watch? No, seriously, what the hell did I just watch? It started out like a typical anime romantic comedy and then suddenly went into these strange chibi style mini segments with the school girls voiced by men. That was about 5 minutes of the first episode so what am I getting myself into?
The premise of this show (from what I gathered) was that it was going to try and parry as many shows as they could fit in a 12 minute episode as possible. They don’t really hold any punches. The original story was a For panel surreal comedy webcomic created by Bkub Okawa and I sort of feel like I am really missing the comedy part of the anime. This might be because of the gap between my culture and the culture of Japan. It just felt like it was…
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Poputepipikku is just shitposting . Nothing more than that . Do you believe that some shitposting will going to save the whole anime endustry ? I think the answer must be no but Poputepipikku showed out of nowhere and everyone liked it . Do I think liking somehing is wrong? Of course I don't everyone has his own personal taste . I just don't like Poputepipikku . The reson is the jokes are occasionaly hard to understand . Everything feels like it's repetitive and after a whole lot of shitposting (That's what i do at every social network) it gets boring . It doesn't ruin it's potential I mean a lot of shitpost lovers will going to like this because they have no life and all they do is shitposting everyday (that's sad) . Poputepipikku's main problem is after a while weirdness starts to be bor…
Read at the sourceDualsaga184
Overall - 5:
This anime has many flaws and one of the biggest ones is the way they split every episode into two parts. For the first couple of episodes I watched both parts and felt like I was wasting my time. There are only a few minor changes aside from the voice actors being swapped out, and it's just enough to feel like I probably missed a couple good jokes, but not enough to justify watching the whole thing.
Story - 5:
I'm also putting humor in this section since that's basically all this show is. There were times where this show legitimately had me laughing, but most of the time stuff was happening and it wasn't particularly engaging. I particularly disliked bob epic team.
Art - 8:
They did a really good job at keeping the style of the comics, and there were times where the effects…
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Pop Team Epic is the name. Offering jokes that make no sense its game. Like it or not, it's all the same. Your sense of humor is to blame.
Philosophers, fools and shitposters all around the globe have been asking this question recently, but also since the dawn of tragicomedy: What makes a joke funny? Is there a single factor that answers to this question? Everything can be funny as long as it is presented in the preferred way. Much like with anime series, it is all about the execution. But this is still all about personal preferences, perspective and knowledge. How can a popculture reference deliver if one does not know what is is referring to? The original question has been answered already hundreds of times: The funny was inside you all along. #deep #derp
Pop Team Epic is a series tha…
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[Pop Culture References + Meme + Anime = Pop Team Epic]
[Alternative Title – Memes, References, and High Quality Shitpost: the anime]
*Part 1 of Review*
(For those curious about this series, read this review):
STORY: Story? Who needs a story. Can’t have a story, if you never had one. It’s just random shit happening on screen because that’s how Pop Team Epic rolls. The series features a variety of humor, ranging from black comedy (i.e. gallows humor – my favorite type of humor) to surreal humor to anti-humor, and to meta-jokes and parodies.
The series features many pop culture references, such as: Earth, Wind & Fire, Pokémon, Hoshiiro Girldrop, Kimi no Na wa, Chrono Trigger, Kemono Friends, My Neighbour Totoro, Metal Gear Solid 3 time paradox, Top Gun, Initial D, Hellshake Yano, YouTub…
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This anime cannot be described by a score. its either a complete 10 or a straight 0. watch the first 2 min of the first episode, if you loved it youll love the whole series. if not, you should consider dropping it right now!
nothing more should be said
On the other hand I find the idol group story a bit lacking. what is it with Daichi not giving a f*** about sosogu and then the other episode he proposes and wants to go abroad with her!?!?! and what are they like 13??
overall I greatly enjoyed this anime and recommend to watch it with friends. regards,
shaharfranky
Read at the sourceMoomochi
Out of 100 Nobles watching...
80 were impressed!
10 were not Japanese enough to get some references
5 did not like all the CG
5 didn't like the use of their 30 minute time block
Pop Team Epic is a unique oddity in the world of anime. It rates so well for me only because I am reviewing it for what it is, a comedy. A comedy isn't necessarily held to the same standards as other shows which is likely why a comedy show will always have a place in anime's best shows of their respective seasons.
There is really no plot in Pop Team Epic. The show is an adaptation of a 4 panel comic that uses reference to Traditional Japanese culture, Pop culture, and strange non-sequitur to make it's jokes. The show fills around a 12-13 minute block with a bunch of shorts (many based on the comics source materi…
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[Will contain Spoiler]
My thoughts:
Poputepipikku is an Anime that try's to be funny, but surely isn't!
If you think, that throwing some very loose pop culture references and an unusual art together, you can dominate the market, then your wrong!
Poputepipikku advertised itself actually very good, I have seen trailers from this anime on Facebook groups for anime. But very fast the hype cooled down. Even the shitpost anime fansites abandoned this series since its just not funny!
I have seen several other anime that feature pop culture much better and more funny as a side gag (Which was allways refreshing). But the probleme here is, that Poputepipikku based his entire existence on pop culture, meme culture and silly jokes. But can't deliver any good jokes or dank memes.
It just waves very poo…
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"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Poputepipkku / Pop Team Epic...."
Who am I kidding?
At first I didn't feel the need to write a review for a short series such as this. But as I completed the last episode I began to realize not only did I sit through and watched the series to the end, but I was reaching for aspirin in a first aid kit near by.
Pop Team Epic is a show that revolves around Popuko and Pipimi. A show that constantly applies pop culture references and random bits of humor in attempt to create an identity for itself. What actually is produced is....I'm not sure.
Try to picture explaining what internet memes are to a blind man who also happens to be deaf using nothing but a flashlight to stimulate morse code. What you get is this poorly put together pro…
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ポプテピピック (Pop Team Epic) is far more phenomenal than most anime ever produced and released would ever be. It is a cultural celebration of anime as a whole from the adapted works of Bkub Okawa into many reaches of genre, style and presentation, and it's pretty shitty!
There's absolutely no need to dawn any thinking caps, judgemental barometers or even acquired tastes to appreciate everything Pop Team Epic has to offer, from the prospective yet tastefully dated memes and references, to the plethora of genres it covers from comedy to action, horror to romance, sci-fi to thriller etc., to the gunbelt array of studios and producers of each segment all representative of the vast styles of anime such as olden, CGI, modern, experimental, and everything in between, leads like Kamikaze Douga (haha s…
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Pop Team Epic is not art. It may be anime, if only in the most literal of definitions, but it is not art. It cannot be art. Art is a creative process, and there is nothing creative about Pop Team Epic. It is an amalgam of references strewn about in the most banal of ways. Skyrim exists. Totoro exists. Pokémon exists. That is all Pop Team Epic has to say. It just reminds you that better media exists, but in ways that are disrespectful and offensive to the time of the unfortunate viewer.
Pop Team Epic is a dreadful product. It is anti-art. It is anti-comedy. It is a middle finger to those who produce art because Pop Team Epic is devoid of creativity, vision, and passion; or to put it simply, something that is not art but wishes it was, and so instead it has to violently lash out towards.
T…
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I’ll preface this by saying comedy is subjective and you can like whatever you like. Maybe I’m just a low iq idiot who can’t understand the deep themes in pop team epic. Who knows?
This show was fun for about 1 episode, 2 at max. In the beggining it was kind of like ”haha this is funny because it’s shitposting and that’s not common for anime. Anime of the year amirite LUL.” But then you realize you’re a fucking retard.
In my mind, this show is built upon three things. Cool gamer references, random=funny humour and 4th wall breaking. The easiest thing to throw shit at is the random=funny aspect so I’ll start with that. Unless you’re still in the 4th grade you won’t find this funny. That’s just how it is. After you’ve experienced it one time it’s purely annoying.
And the cool gamer referenc…
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*This review will mention a number of jokes from the series, mostly in vague terms to minimize spoilers while still offering a point of reference to those who have already seen it*
As soon as I committed to watching Poputepipikku (Pop Team Epic), I knew immediately that I wanted to talk about it, whether by discussing it with others or, as I have now done, writing a full review of this strange beast. It was clear that my opinion on it was different from the prevailing thoughts of the community. Of course that’s not a bad thing; differences of opinion or perspective make such discussions far more interesting, as opposed to a circle of like-minded cult members all chanting “Yes, man! Yes, man!” in rhythmic turn.
Of course, in the case of Pop Team Epic, the scenario looks more as if half th…
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Ok let's first get the shitposting out of the way
Pop Team Epic is a better Yuri Genre story than Citrus, Are you mad?, Shut the fuck up and die, Your motherfucking life ends 30 minutes from now!, Seen it, Watch Pop Team Epic Thanks!, Eisai haramasukoi! AND Pop Team Epic is best anime of 2018.......
Sorry was thinking about Hellshake Yano...
Pop Team Epic is one of those animes that doesn't give a shit, this essentially being an anime short where it takes the piss out of pop culture from both Western and Japanese media, subcultures and hipsters alike with Popuko and Pipimi all voiced by countless voice actors from Mamiko Noto to Mikako Komatsu to Tomokazu Sugita to Hiro Shimono many of the pairings on both the male and female versions having anime references (and reunions) to them as…
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This anime is a work of satirical genius. From episode one, we have all these amazing references and jabs to other popular animes, and in episode twelve, we have jabs to the people who made the series themselves.
The series uses a wide variety of animation styles, from the usual ones by Kamikaze Douga to the amazingly bad Bobunemimimmi ones, which I say is amazingly bad because it literally satirises itself.
The ending theme halfway through the series changes from the normal ending to Popuko and Pipimi dissing the series before going on and singing. That's another key in this satirical genius.
The voice acting changes from the standard female voices to male character voices, which again, is amazingly great at satirising the series. And not only that, the voices actors are also connected…
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