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Horrible show(but not bad)

posted 16 years ago by Metal_Slug
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I first heard about this show and thought "Hey, seem pretty g*y if you ask me.". I mean that in the sort of kawaii way, little girls running around the school uniforms happy and cherry. Then I saw a few episodes and I was shocked! Not be the fact that is a good show but the fact that everyone seems to be beating each other and bullying EVERYONE, teachers beat the children to the point of crying! I mean seriously, can anime so damn cute that you can put anything in it and you would still be "Ahh thats so funny cause they are girls!".

Let me just take one really WIERD moment, the show with the Stuffed Animal Café, 2nd year culture festival, the little girl who dresses up in penguin suit goes up to the serious one of the two teacher, then just gets knocked over! When asking why the teacher responds with "I just felt like it."

I don't have a problem with the whole beating/bullying thing, don't get me wrong. Just that the show really proves that you can hardly take stuff serious if you paint in bright colors!

[–] Tweekums 16 years ago

Let me just take one really WIERD moment, the show with the Stuffed Animal Café, 2nd year culture festival, the little girl who dresses up in penguin suit goes up to the serious one of the two teacher, then just gets knocked over! When asking why the teacher responds with "I just felt like it."

I'm fairly certain that it was Yukari that pushed Chiyo-chan over, she isn't the more serious of the two female teachers

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[–] gcerda88 16 years ago

Hey anime isn't for anyone.

In order for to your dreams to become a reality your must first believe in it.

[–] west_tx_tapper 15 years ago

Every country and culture has always had some kind of physical slapstick comedy. The actions of the teachers and students in this show are not really any different from "The Three Stooges" or any Abbott and Costello film.

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[–] thetrev 15 years ago

I think the other thing is that the situations are so extreme (hitting a teacher in the face with a dining tray, teachers being close to clinically insane etc)that any reality such a scene might contain is lost, so they become comic through an "imagine if that happened at our school!" kind of fantasy. The show itself works because what is essentially a lifelike situation suddeny turns out to be caricature and extreme slapstick in a way which would never be real, so we know nobody is really getting hurt (like Tom and Jerry).

I do Punch and Judy puppet shows and some of the slapstick 'violence' I use is not too far removed from this.

[–] numberonecubsfan 15 years ago

Get out, topic creator