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SO CUUUUTE

yes, it's true, it's a bit difficult for me to play without translation :(

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CITY THE ANIMATION

(Anime)

sketch comedy by Keiichi Arawi

Era: 2020s

Rating: A

Plot: The odd daily lives of those living in a very odd City.

Length: 13 episodes (covered from #13 to #25)

Thoughts: Nichijou is a show I think of quite a bit, mostly for it's surreal tone and incredible animation, but poor ratings and physical sales mostly meant it tanked pretty hard, so it was a surprise to hear a few months ago Arawi's follow-up City would be getting an adaptation, and even more, it looked absolutely incredible just from the tiny teaser. And that's where you have to start, visually it's proof you don't need to overwork your staff to make background art with hundreds of layers. No, you overwork them to make backgrounds with very clear lines, then fill them with vibrant colours with no or very limited use of shading. It is very reminiscing of the Ligne Claire European style of comics, and at a time most shows really go for broke in the background art and details like light bloom and reflections (Ruri Rocks ran at the same time, and it is excellent in it's own way), it's safe to say there isn't much like it. It really picks up the dynamic style of the manga and kicks it up a notch, and if the disastrous Uzumaki is what happens when you try to bring to life the pages of a manga and utterly fail, City is what happens when you clinch that assignment and could easily use screencaps to do an high quality anime komikku version of it.

The source material should be familiar to anyone who read Nichijou - it features some of the same dynamism and joke construction, where a mundane event often turns into bizarre situations, very often by compounding them on top of each other. It was set from the start this would be a single season 13 episode show that would cover all on the story, and so some stories, such as the goal that escalated into one of those bizarre sequences of events were cut short (or squeezed in the outstanding episode 5), while others that could probably be well adapted into animation, like the tantrum contest, Kamaboko's Jumping Girl manga, Niikura teasing Nagumo with ghost stories, or the complete election arc (likely because it uses characters the shortened adaptation didn't have time to develop) were completely cut. At some points it changes order of chapters, like Nagumo walking in on Niikura filming her morning routine as the real start of their YouTube channel, before the Mambo no. 5 sequence, which works much, much better, and I if I still think Ecchan saying her goodbyes to the city and to Matsuri would have been a perfect ending for it, the last episode where they meet in the airport, followed by an incredible musical number really proved me wrong . As some stories are harder to imagine animated, don't know if there would be enough for more 9 episodes, but I've felt a few jokes felt a bit flatter because they include a callback or are in a way part of the punchline to a joke that was not adapted.

But for all this to work, you need to have characters, and if in Nichijou you were limited to the school and the Shinonome Lab, a larger and more varied cast allows for different stories to be told, from the Mont Blanc College room mates, with Nagumo and Niikura often picking on each other, Niikura frustrated the girl who made her mission to beat every club in high school at their own game and she fell for now mostly lazes around, aimlessly waiting for horse race results, until she sets her eyes on something (usually some make-money-quick opportunity) and stops at nothing. Meanwhile, Wako is smiling happily, her head lost in some cloud. After that, there's maybe my favourite sketches in every episode, Matsuri and Ecchan, two middle-schoolers who are able to yes, and... from any strange place their ideas go, including the later's reluctance in saying to her friend she and her family are leaving, Wako's sister Izumi, who's permanently falling asleep (after spending all night tinkering with some invention) and makes the whole city fall for her anytime she wakes up and smiles at them. There's also Tanabe, their rich heiress who worked as a policewoman until she broke her leg and now goes to large extents to rewards those she sees as doing good for the community, whether they want it or now, and created the race as an excuse to ask Tatsuta Adatara out, the mostly tragic adventures of mangaka Kamaboko Oni, struggling with deadlines and lack of ideas, dragging his fan and long suffering editor Todoroki, split between sticking to him, getting Wako published and also having all-star BL author Daisuke Naganohara (heavily implied to be Mio from Nichijou) on board. The show really has a large cast, and because they're not all girls in sailor suits, it really feels that way, and also because it avoids forcing every character to interact, each has their own bubble and if they have no reason to interact (some chapters transition from two characters coming across the street)... they won't.

So, it is an extremely good looking and well animated show, with a large cast of endearing characters that are well contained inside their own stories and yet... I kinda feel something is missing. Might be some sketches dragging a joke a bit too long or some weren't that good, but there were some parts of the show I didn't felt like I was having fun, and while it may have not outranked Nichijou, It's certainly going down as one of the best adaptations of this era. At least visually,

Recommended to: Probably going to be one of the most cited anime of this decade, so you are likely to see it sooner or later.

Plus:

It looks absolutely incredible

Great cast of characters, in the true sense of the word.

Minus:

Some chapters can run too long and become a bit dull, and some jokes on the adaptation don't land as well

Very much like Nichijou, it can become very hit or miss depending on much you like this sort of humor.

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