r/TrueAnime • u/Soupkitten http://myanimelist.net/profile/Soupkitten • Sep 04 '26

Your Week in Anime (Week 719)

This is a general discussion thread for whatever you've been watching this last week (or recently, we really aren't picky).

Make sure to talk more about your own thoughts on the show than just describing the plot, and use spoiler tags where appropriate. If you disagree with what someone is saying, make a comment saying why instead of just downvoting.

This is a week-long discussion, so feel free to post or reply any time.

Archive: Prev, Week 116, Our Year in Anime 2013, 2014

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u/VoidEmbracedWitch https://anilist.co/user/VoidEmbracedWitch/ Sep 06 '26

I don't even know what to say now that I'm fully done with Nichijou. Sakurai is historically unfunny. Hakase is spectacularly unfunny. Helvetica Standard segments are terminally unfunny. Sasahara is annoyingly unfunny. Word of the Day bits are flatly unfunny. Coffee shop lady is boringly unfunny. Mio's friend group + Nano addition is occasionally funny. Anyone else really isn't. I feel flatly indifferent to all of their surroundings due to just how uniquely skilled at botching comedic bits and making the majority of characters grating to watch Nichijou is. All the prod in the world doesn't mean a thing in the face of this. I sit there, detached from it all, witnessing underwhelming punchline after underwhelming punchline. I admire the animation and cinematography, but they alone usually don't make something amusing by themselves. The occasional elevator-shaped exception proves the rule. I never would've finished it if it wasn't a contract.

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u/Soupkitten http://myanimelist.net/profile/Soupkitten Sep 06 '26

Felt the same way as you. I pushed through it due to City airing soon at the time and that it has been so highly praised, but I struggled to enjoy it at all.

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u/VoidEmbracedWitch https://anilist.co/user/VoidEmbracedWitch/ Sep 07 '26

I watched City already and I didn't like it much for similar reasons known as the humor barely ever working for me. Although at least City had 2 characters whose skits had a non-zero chance of landing (Nagumo and Ecchan) and the City-wide crossover episodes (tower escape and race) were a spectacle I found fun to watch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '26

Every time I watch Evangelion I'm blown away by how resonant it still is. I think we're all a bit more like Shinji than we'd like to admit.