Thread 281176415

Anon, you wouldn't... ESCAPE the tower (missing out on endless comfort in the process), right? Ms. Tanabe wants to give you an award, and it'd be very rude of you to leave without accepting it.

Episode 5's hype was real. KyoAni found a way.
If you're not watching CITY, I feel bad for you.

>>281176453
>Episode 5's hype was real.
best episode of any anime i've seen in a while, and from an artistic standpoint probably THE best honestly :1

CITY The Animation? More like TOWN The Animation!
Do not deny what I say, it's clearly the truth.

>>281176453
That escher panel needs to be turned into an animated 4chan banner with a "you're here forever" tagline

Look at this fucking goober.

>>281176547
you fucking r-tard, CITY is way too big to just be a town

Is it a cat or a bunny?

>>281176547
The Tachibanas's are so wealthy they can probably buy statehood

>>281176608
It's a tanuki.

>>281176614
now hold on, i may not have ever seen a tanuki in real life or even a photo of one, but mario's tanooki suit looks nothing like shimaneko

>>281176595
Everything not in colour is clearly part of the CITY that our little TOWN merely orbits. Also,
>r-tard
Call me that again, and the show will be demoted to VILLAGE The Animation, and then eventually UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY The Animation. Do not cross me.

>>281176608
It's a mimineko, an earcat.

haha i bet nagumo's shoes have dirty toeprints on the insoles haha i bet they smell haha i bet her feet are really smelly and dirty after she wears them haha gross haha who would want to smell or lick that haha weird haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZKXlbbAeLQ
Hi! I'm a Tsuchinoko!
People always seem to be looking for me, and I'm not sure why! I'm always running around town, trying to lose some of this weight. But no matter how much I exercise, I'm still wide! Ah! Maybe they're looking for me so they can tell me how much my hard work inspires them. Everyone... I'll work hard for your sakes!
The next episode of CITY is episode 6!
You shouldn't have any trouble finding it!

>>281176781
>But no matter how much I exercise, I'm still wide!
Why is Hiro so fat? She ate the whole episode!

>>281176730
>Everything not in colour is clearly part of the CITY that our little TOWN merely orbits
>colour
this is a lie, because there are many parts of the CITY here that are not visible that we've seen in previous episodes
>Call me that again, and the show will be demoted to VILLAGE The Animation, and then eventually UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY The Animation. Do not cross me.
what are you, evil hitler? why would you even say something like this, anon?

Was that the same blue bird spirit at the end, flying away, after the special ED, that came and visited the original Tanabe at night to bless him and his progeny?
I think the modern day Tanable has made her ancestors proud.

>>281176948
>Tanable

>a large majority of the episode was animated by one man
HOLY

>>281176984
The absolute madlad.

>>281176984
>>a large majority of the episode was animated by one man
WHAT

>>281176984
No fucking way...it would take 7 years hand drawn for one man to do all that

>>281176984
Yes, by me

>>281176976
DOPPIO

>>281177074
anon, would you sit at the tanable?

>>281176984
You caught me.

>>281176415 (OP)
This episode achieves a level of magic so wonderful that anybody trying to do the usual 4chan contrarian shtick is on the same level of a cockroach. But even a cockroach is one of god's creatures and therefore better, so they are on the level of a horrible criminal, one who's crimes can not even muster edgy fans who support them for political reasons, because their motives are just utterly beyond comprehension and disappoint anybody wishing to assign moral justifications to. And even that criminal is better because they do not have the mental capacity to do good, and in a cruel fate, are acting in their own disturbed nature. No, they are below both of these, and are on the level of a deranged criminal who has been reincarnated as a cockroach for thousands of years, being given the sisyphusian task of doing something good with the time they have on this earth, but have made no such progress because they are just that big of a fucking loser.

>>281177008
>>281177010
Apparently about half the episode was done by Tatsuya Sato

>>281177221
huh. what a fuckin trooper

Also shout out to the one bunny waitress who was drinking on the job.

>>281176984
Give that man an award!

>>281177221
I assume the first half, and only because literally everyone else at the company was working on the second half.

>>281177184
A Wako infestation would be much cuter than a cockroach infestation. I want to hold her, and pet her, and feed her a leaf.

>>281177305
>I assume the first half
and that half still had outstanding animation to begin with, kyoani is not staffed by humans

where is the zoetrope poster when you need him?

>>281177365
>I want to hold her, and pet her, and feed her a leaf.
i want to create an altar in her image and kneel before it

>>281177404
Last thread. >>281166194

Effort: the Episode

Giant Buddha feet

>>281177061
>this episode was 28:10 long
WTF how did I not notice this?

>>281177581
They must have run it without ads this time. I was wondering why it was an entire gig in size.

Can someone check if they missed editing out the reflections of the staff in the window panels of the mansion or towers

>>281176984
>Tatsuya Sato, the ace of the studio's Osaka branch, animated around half the episode himself.
Pretty crazy if true

>>281177688
The tower windows were matte black

>>281177746
So, you're telling me that Tatsuya Sato is the modern day William Tell?

>>281177281
Whatever gets the guest to drink

>>281177778
Basically, fully yes

>>281176453
I'm watching it, but where was the fun?

>>281177909
In the other tower

That old time aftercredits part was weirdly, actually touching.

>>281177599
>this time
It's always that long

>>281176415 (OP)
>>281176453
I lost it when I noticed they are stuck on looped stairs

>>281177909
I'm sorry to tell you that you have been filtered

Good Niikura frames

>>281176415 (OP)
They nailed it? I could hardly keep track of everything in the manga where I could flip back and forth, I can not imagine managing to do it in animation.

>>281176781
Paramedic, what's a Tsuchinoko again?

Man, these subtitles are terrible. I know the typesetters probably get paid shit-all but there's so much untranslated text in the tower scenes. Half the punchlines aren't translated.

Also, I wish they moved the subtitles up to whichever scene actually had dialogue.

>>281178167
The problem is usually that their web player doesn't support precise enough subtitle positioning to handle signs or background dialogue.

Did they really just introduce three new lolis with zero explanation?

>>281178250
One on the right is Wako's age

So this episode will get a Sakugablog post right?

The artstyle of this show makes the dead pixel on my monitor really noticeable

>>281178250
This is my only complaint. I wish they didn't skip the introduction of the Adataras and Shia

>>281178296
I don't buy it

>>281178007
The same thing Tanabe is rewarding in modern times, and the reason we see so many branching parallel stories breaking off from the initial acts of kindness, it all began with the first Tanabe. It's how the CITY was built out of a VILLAGE. Being generous, being kind, raising people's spirits, and rewarding those who do the same. It multiplies. It spreads. It grows. It snowballs. Even the blue bird spirit and Buddha show up to provide blessings eventually. The frames are just a metaphor for this wonderful virtuous cycle.

>>281178250
At this point I believe Kyoani intended this anime to be for fans of the CITY manga and assumed you already read it. I highly recommend any anime only to read the manga. There's so much from this episode that you missed. I do question the decision to move the introduction of Tekaridake earlier when he's not involved in the tower arc when they could've done the introductions of the Adatara family and Shia instead.

>>281178139
>More importantly, how does it taste?
It’s not actually real Snake, it’s just an old Japanese legend.
In fact, creatures resembling tsuchinoko have been part of Japanese folklore since prehistoric times.
>…
>Legendary meat eh? I’ll have to keep an eye out.
*Sign* Believe what you want Snake.
>Great!

>>281178396
She was in Wako's flashback in one of the earlier episodes.

>>281178344
It was in one of the pvs, maybe next episode?
>>281178396
Respect Shia

https://imgchest.com/u/yuukoshusband the archive has been updated! uploaded all OC that i could find, i'm sure there's some i missed from today + the threads from the past week.
there surprisingly wasn't much this time around, though i'd imagine more will be created in the coming days : j

>>281178296
Yeah I remember her in some flashback in the 1st episode with Wako, but I almost still assumed that this was now a younger sister, but I guess she’s a legal loli actress or something.

>>281178296
Oh shit, she's the broom guitar girl. I didn't catch that at all.

>I laughed
>I cried
>I got confused
>but I embraced it
What an episode

Top 5 episodes of the last 10 years, jesus christ.

>>281178412
>At this point I believe Kyoani intended this anime to be for fans of the CITY manga and assumed you already read it.
Looking at anime only people's reaction in the official hashtags on Xitter says otherwise. People are loving it

>>281178611
And there's still so much they missed

>>281178625
It's a one cour adaptation that's skipping over half the manga, people are well aware. Does that matter though? No, because the quality of the adaptation is great

it's time to resume the manga

sex with shia. brat correction. creampie.

>>281178659
>Does that matter though?
It does because with so much going on this episode, it'll leave them confused about some things that manga readers understand.

anime only's are missing out man

>>281178741
Again, literally all the reactions I'm reading on Xitter and Reddit say otherwise. Many are rewatching the episode. What's so difficult for an anime only to understand in many of the split screens? It's piss easy to infer the information. You will obviously get confused a bit on first watch, but on rewatch it's easy to pick up on details. I'm not sure why you're trying to speak for other people when they're saying the opposite of how they felt

>>281178303
Yes, kViN is, predictably, absolutely fucking jizzing all over himself on Xitter about this episode.

>>281178736
So true, anon!

>>281178803
>I'm not sure why you're trying to speak for other people when they're saying the opposite of how they felt
Because someone in this very thread is asking about characters they haven't seen before

>>281178830
>one confused anon represents a bunch of other people

>>281178796
There was a brief Nagumo ass frame this episode

I cant stop smiling at this anime. Every episode is absolute gold.

>>281178250
>>281178830
as one anon said before, this isn't their real introduction. there's a cut with their normal intro scene in PV2

>>281178857
You think all the anime-onlies actually understand who those characters are? They're just not questioning it. To actually understand everything that's happening this episode, you need to read the manga.

>>281178864
I saw that, but it's only on screen for less than a second iirc

>>281178890
Yeah it’s only like 2 frames

KyoAni really do be flexing on every other studio like that.

>>281178886
>They're just not questioning it.
They are, but who those characters are will get recontexualised in later episodes, and trying to infer what's happening in those scenes isn't that hard

>>281176453
This is the type of sequence I would expect them to pull off for a final episode, since it feels like a culmination of the core idea of the show of having all these different stories that intertwine in a city. I like it, but it feels oddly wasted here. It kind of makes me wonder what they are going to do for the last episode, though.

hehehehe

Live action tower?
The live action model backgrounds with characters animated overtop is interesting.
Kinda funny he just admitted it's to keep people from escaping.
I thought the girl climbing the tower might have moved but I guess not. The spinning camera around the model is a lot, if they had done it in stop motion on top of that, damn.
I would guess all the paintings are reproductions since the real mona lisa is tiny.
Would you wait for your fabulous thankings or would you try and escape anon?
Quite like the idea they are so rich they employ these weirdos to sit in a tower all day just in case someone tries to escape.
Dead
That's the second time we've seen one of them by a giant robot.
The famicom with CRT refresh rate is a nice touch to show the tower progress.
It would have been nice if the lazy localizer had even bothered to translate the game screen though.
As expected of a butt.
Lol, now a four way split. Now five. Now six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
This is way too much shit on screen. All the jokes being missed.
Good lord that's a lot of small animations.
Cute dork got her free food in the end.
Very where's waldo feeling shot. It's nice that every one is still animated.
That was a nice segment at the end.
Kyoani really put in a lot of effort for this. It's amazing to look at every week. This episode might be the best one of the show, who knows yet though.

https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190808832/#190816545
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190735219/#190750444
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190759271/#190759763
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190797241/#190799082
Six years ago, we told you: KyoAni always finds a way.
You didn't listen.
And now they have officially found a way.
We told you so.

>>281176453
i keep forgetting

>you can actually see Wako climbing the tower.
That a nice little detail.

If you missed it, Tanabe has fallen in love with Tatsuta, the eldest Adatara son. And it's no surprise she did because what a man he is.

>>281179000
she's wearing a bald cap to obfuscate her identity

>>281178982
Yep.

>>281179019
don't they get end up getting married or something? seems like a weird thing to put in the margins

>>281179019
I noticed that on my 3rd rewatch.

>>281178570
alouette from MMZero

>>281179050
Why is it a weird thing to put there? Just rewatch the episode, that's literally part of the fun

>>281179050
There's going to be a lot more of those two later

>>281179081
Hope so. I want more with the Adataras.

This /city/ city in this City anime is my ideal city! I would love to rent a City apartment here to run my City bussiness from!

oh... oh no

>>281178953
>Quite like the idea they are so rich they employ these weirdos to sit in a tower all day just in case someone tries to escape.
If I was rich I would do that

Soon...

They know

>>281179112
Every single thread, Mr. Kim

>>281179377
>bottom right corner
Hey it's Quiz King! I bet even a lot of manga readers didn't notice that.

>>281179159
She gives out a LOT of awards. By the law of large numbers, there's probably a few dozen escape attempts every single day.

this the first instance where i think the manga looks better than the anime. while the animated version didn't look bad, and still looked very pleasing; the original's shading really gave the cave extra depth, particularly with the tunnel in the background and the wall in the foreground
also i can only imagine how long it took to do the shading on this panel, i've tried to do stuff like this in the past and it takes HOURS to cover even a small amount of the background

>>281176415 (OP)
>wako is there celebrating nagumo in the fantasy
>but not niikura
what the hell is her problem?

>>281179377
This is bad storytelling, but since there's no story to be told I guess that's fine.

>>281176984
FORCED

>>281179676
nagumo and niikura had a lover's spat, give them some time to sort it out

>>281179676
She knows that Niikura is still looking for that pendant.

Here's the anime version of THAT scene. I wondered how they would do it, and Kyoani managed to creatively fit in a lot with all those different bubbles merging but not everything. Nobody made a webm of the full scene including the bubbles part, and I would've done it myself, but it simply isn't possible to fit all of it in under 4 MB.

>>281179743
Now here's the manga for comparison

>>281179759
Easier to read version.

>>281179814
Look at Tanabe captivated by Tatsuta in the last page. So cute.
>Tacchan...

As I feared, last episode they cut one of the funniest jokes from the manga, so I'll be dumping the chapter. This is chapter 16

>>281179870
Oh, good catch!

i really hope this isn't skipped and they find a way to adapt this gag to animation

>>281178982
Their backness was already confirmed for me with Hibike S3, CITY feels like an even more bombastic victory lap. Despite everything they're still finding a way. It makes me so happy.

>>281179619
Yeah that look good but kind of shading would be tough and I see why they'd opt to keep continuing with hard, solid colors.

>>281179759
I like the waitress that quick caught the glass tray and watched the other girl get thrown to the ground. Doesn't look like she made it into the anime.

>>281180082
End. If you're enjoying the anime, read the manga. You won't regret it.

>>281180005
>would be tough
it wouldn't just be tough, it'd also be horrendously time-consuming. difficulty is just half of the challenge with traditional shading, it's also very tedious and to my knowledge arawi does his work the old-fashioned way (on paper); so he likely also has to do it slowly since the risk of fucking it up is a lot higher than it would be if you did it digitally.

>>281179959
I mean, Maid Dragon S2 confirmed it, but this is some new heights shit. They're officially back and better than ever, and that's beautiful.

riko a muderer

>>281178942
>This is the type of sequence I would expect them to pull off for a final episode
And they should have done that. I was surprised last week when we moved to Nagumo being kidnapped because I was sure this would be the season finale.
Instead we got it now, when a considerable part of the characters involved are barely known or even introduced at all. The whole enmity between Nagumo and the landlord only appeared in one quick scene before this.
It was a complete waste to have this when we basically only know 10 characters by name at this point

>>281180223
It's always the quite girls

>>281180262
Not the somewhat girls?

>>281180273
never the decisive girls

>>281180258
They're apparently going to try and cover this, the race, and the Izumi Riko rescue arc all in this season and I knew for a fact that the race at least wouldn't be the first of those 3. I do wish they had two cours so they could adapt more chapters though.

>>281179743
So many characters... and not a single one to care about... they really should have used this for the last episode.

>>281176453
Actual fucking cinema, I am going to actively shill this shitty to people I know now

To the anon(s?) in the previous thread who were trying to convince me to switch from VLC to MPV >>281175658 >>281175805 I downloaded MPV and I'll try it out for a week or two.

>>281180446
This made me think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

So now that KyoAni has reaffirmed that they are still the best anime studio and it isn't particularly close, who is the second best anime studio?

>>281180653
Shaft, they proved themselves to be back with Ninkoro last season

the fact that all the genga lineart is drawn with brush pens makes this episode extra impressive

>>281180719
I love Shaft, but CloverWorks has been way better this decade, even if they had a rough start. For example, in this very season (and regardless of what you may feel about the manga), Sono Bisque is receiving a -pretty much- perfect adaptation. There is also Kaoru Hana, but I've only watched one episode, so I can't say much about it for now. I need to catch up there.

>>281180656
heh

It gets so hectic towards the end that it gets impossible to keep track of all the little details and interactions. I can't imagine what an enormous pain in the ass it must have been to storyboard and animate this whole sequence.

>>281180656
where was this in chapter 3??? i missed it

Do we know what the interaction with Ecchan/Matsuri and the soccer team was? Just Tatewaku and Matsuri sibling teasing stuff? The girls are actually skipping school still, aren't they? Or is it after school and that's why the soccer team is practicing? High school jocks hitting on cute middle school girls? Anybody have any insight?

>>281180908
Yeah I've been saying Cloverworks is the new KyoAni for a while now.

>>281180446
that was both me :p

>>281180908
CloverWorks hits are good but the way they handled shit like Wonder Egg doesn't give them that same status in my mind.

>>281180653
I'm not going to take a definitive stance, but I think Madhouse should at least be part of the conversation.

She's like a bratty child having a tantrum

>>281180943
It look like his friends were teasing him when they met up, so they probably teased him too. And yeah I guess they were wandering long enough that school got out since other students showed up to the party at the end as well.

>>281181096
Whipe your dicke out Niikura

>>281181088
Frieren was obviously a perfect adaptation, so that's reasonable.
Looking at their recent history, though, they aren't quite as consistent as Cloverworks.
They'd be #2 by a considerable margin if everything they made was Frieren-level.

>>281176453
>everyone having whacky adventures
>the jks just strolling through the woods without a care in the world :D

>>281181036
They've put out a fucking shitload of quality content since Wonder Egg though. Like, a crazy amount of good shows.

>>281181096
Wife

>>281181036
Wonder Egg was beautifully animated and directed though, it just had a god awful story.

>>281180925
I'm a resident collage maker
You might have caught me in the hibimeshi threads making them for the food montages, or you may have seen some of my others in various threads around
I am dreading it, but I'm going to have to go through the episode scene(s) by scene(s) to get the best screenshots and make a supercolage of this arc. This is my greatest challenge yet

ooohh this panel'll be pretty in animation, i'm sure of it

>>281181388
>Wonder Egg was beautifully animated and directed though
I agree there, but the overall experience made a lot of people disregard that. Same fucking thing happened with Yorukura, and I really like that one despite everything.

Was there production notes like the last four episodes?

>>281181522
I think YoruKura was just hurt a lot by airing the same season as Girls Band Cry, which had a similar story concept that was executed infinitely better, and also really innovative 3D animation.

>>281181415
Godspeed, Anon.

volume 5 was great, the horse race is going to be so fun when it's adapted

>>281181415
Godspeed, there was a lot of creature paneling through that went along with specific movements. So put them close together or connecting them in some way might be cool.

I didn’t like the gimmick this episode. Makes it too hard to focus. When it turned into bubbles it was kino tho

>>281181567
Being honest, while the overall execution of GBC was better, I think the directing of Yorukura was way better than GBC's. One of the main problems I had with the direction of the latter were the goddamn concerts, as they felt fucking null to me.
At the end of the day, I personally liked Yorukura more.

>>281181735
I wouldn't want it to be every episode like this, but once, with the theme of everyone interconnected in a CITY that was built specifically on giving hospitality and kindness to everyone, so that it would spread and grow and multiply, I think it's brilliant. The characters just keep connecting, and spinning off more stories.

Holy fuck man. I loved the first 4 episodes but this one was on another level. Feels like I just saw one of those historic influential episodes that people will be talking about and referencing 20 years from now. I had a blast watching it the first time and then again rewinding and following each individual arc, not to mention poring over that final Where's Waldo shot for all the little details. Shit like this is why anime exists. FUCK I love this series.

>>281181735
There was nothing to focus on though, just a bunch of noise.

the OP is continuing to grow on me, slowly
the ED is already fantastic, however

What's Tatewaku packing?

>>281181854
There was a lot to focus on. The anime just condensed a bunch of different plotlines from the manga together.

>>281181886
Izumi Riko's so lucky.

CHECKEM

Good episode

>>281181969
keep at it Niikura
you'll get there someday

>>281181886
He saluted, damn

>>281181862
I fucking love the OP but I've always really enjoyed anything with those MIDI type swing horns

I'd watch this anime. Arawi should make this his next manga.

>>281182060
He seems to like drawing mecha.
I'd read the hell out of a full series by him

>>281180258
Every land lord is evil

>>281182107
Just something comfy, with some lolis and a giant mech. No battles or anything. No world-ending threat. Maybe they go on a journey together, some kind of adventure in a sparsely populated area, and their mech is the only way to get around.

If anyone's looking to make more webms, Wako's climbing animation was really cute in this bit as she explained how she got there.

Why is Wako so cute? She adorabled the whole episode!

>>281179759
>>281179743
For some reason I always thought the person getting spooked by the Tsuchinoko was Mio but in the anime the person's hair is brown so I guess not

how the fuck did this episode even happened in the manga?

>>281182275
why don't you read it and find out for yourself? there's chapter dumps in the archive

>>281181735
I kinda hated it to be honest and I was surprised to see how absolutely universal the praise has been. I obviously agree that on a technical level it's an incredible accomplishment but as a watching experience it was just stressful and tiresome for a show that is generally aiming to impart glee.

gee mimineko, how come kyoani lets you have TWO split screens?

>>281182327
You're meant to watch it again and again and see new things each time. It's full of little moments that are cute or funny. Think of it like Where's Waldo.

>>281182327
Do you have the autism?
I think most of us were probably like
>whoa that's a lot
For like, five seconds, then realized
>guess I'll just rewatch it
then watched only the big/featured parts during the first viewing.
Being easily overstimulated is a hallmark of the autism.

>>281182327
>but as a watching experience it was just stressful and tiresome for a show that is generally aiming to impart glee.
speak for yourself, i thought it was fucking cool! a lot of fun to find out what was happening in each segment and for me it was satisfying to just admire the sheer effort and care put into that entire part of the episode.

>the new episode
i have never been this confused watching anime before
i can't tell if that's a good thing or not

>>281182343
One is of the Adatara delivery van. The other is of Mimineko. They just happen to both be together at this point, but aren't always.

who are the loli twins with the sexy cat socks?

>>281181969
You and I had the same idea when we saw that.

>>281182421
joe's daughters

>>281181969
69 with Niikura...

I have a great need to see a wet bunny Wako

>>281182421
They're the Adatara twins. Their oldest brother was driving and making the alcohol delivery. Their grandpa was the old guy spying on the Makabe restaurant in the first episode. Their oldest sister is the manager or something for Shia, the 20 year old that looks like the twins. And their other brother is the modern-day William Tell. Their dad was in the limo with the other old guys including Mitsuri dad.

>>281182275
over many seperate chapters

>>281182492
that's incredibly detailed... i didn't expect this to have so many characters having actual interactions with each other
back in Nichijou all the different stories were pretty much their own thing

>>281182538
They have a mom too, but I don't think we've seen her yet.

>>281182538
Yeah, the manga always felt like it did a really good job of feeling like the city was an actual city. A lot of characters that interact with each other. It's kind of lost in the anime since we don't get to know the characters as in depth.

>>281182516
I tried this once and the little MSG flavoring packet is overpowering, couldn't choke it down

>episode 4 made sure to use all the crossroad eye catches as the framing for the ultimate animated piece at the end(the animated crossroad with all the characters interconnecting)
>this episode had more and more scenes pile on until the big bubble moment that eventually climaxes with the party to tie in with the ending's point about good deeds and hospitality making the city grow bigger and bigger to where it is now
such brilliant framing devices, you really cannot compete with kyoani's artistry there.

I kneel, KinoAni

>>281182565
eh, as an anime-only i've been getting that feeling since episode 2
i would say they managed to do a great job adapting that aspect

>>281182516
This fiend knows no shame

>>281182602
>animated entirely on paper
the quickest way to an artfag's heart, that was beautifully done

>>281182723
>720p
Why are you watching anime on a potato laptop or a phone? Are you poor or retarded?

>>281182375
Not as far as I know. What you described was my experience too, but the thought of having to rewatch it multiple times to catch all stories when I still have at least 4 other episodes of anime to watch today just annoyed me as I was watching. Maybe it'd have hit different if I had watched CITY last or if it aired on an emptier day.

fuck now i want a JRPG with this art style

Man rejects the local sultry JK

>>281182748
You should only watch CITY.

>>281182748
>but the thought of having to rewatch it multiple times to catch all stories when I still have at least 4 other episodes of anime to watch today just annoyed me
But CITY is better than those other shows.
The thought should be "oh, I get to enjoy AOTY even longer than usual today!"

>>281182762
Wait, this just reminded me of something and now I wonder if it was the same person. Didn't we get a brief shot of somebody groveling in front of Tanabe?

>How do we adapt an entire volume of content in 30 minutes?
>Have several chapters worth of anime play at the same time!
Sasuga Kyoani

>>281182762
His heart was already taken by Wako when her felt her hand

>>281176453
Let’s be honest, it’s not that great. It’s just frames playing side by side. A very lazy way to show the interconnectedness of the city.

>>281182788
I really like the manga, and this adaptation has been great, but so far I'm liking Ruri more. Puniru is really good too.

>>281182745
Anime native resolution is 720p, only a retard would pick 1080p.

>>281182933
Let's be honest, you haven't watched the episode

>>281182949
>Anime native resolution is 720p
no show in the 2020s is displayed in 720p natively, most every series (and pretty much any animated one) is produced with 1080i/p widescreen in mind.

>>281182820
Bold and interesting, but meaningless and void of substance.

>>281182933
I feel bad for you because you're not watching it.

>you are not watching it
Why pick this routine? Doesn't fit the topic at hand.

Best show of the season hands down, no samefag spite campaign will change that

>>281182949
Kyoani has animated in native 1080p for like 10 years now

Because you're so obviously just the same troll who's been trolling every thread, and obviously aren't even watching because you wouldn't say such objectively wrong things about it.

>>281176736
i believe this is already niikura's job!

>>281181850
>historic influential episodes that people will be talking about and referencing 20 years from now
That won't happen anymore. No such thing as an authority. No such thing as discourse. Every opinion treated with equal weight and moving faster than the speed of sound. Seek out the real connections you have in your life and never let go.

>>281181096
>rawr
xD

>>281183205
god I miss scene girls now
fucking hated them back then

Honestly, they can reasonably fit every single story the manga did in order to get the mega payoff where the whole CITY is there, but this is a good episode.

It still suffers from the recurring issue of characters that haven't been actually introduced simply showing up. Anyone that says it doesnt detract from the experience is honestly coping. Awari wrote it like that for a reason. I know theres budget and time limitations at play but that doesnt make it good. The Tanabe party happens in what, volume 5? Theres dozens of chapters of character introductions and buildup to those wonderful panels. By then youre we'll acquainted with a majority of the characters and their place in the story. Its the whole reason why its so satisfying to see all their stories converge. Its masterfully done. The anime is clearly "making up" for not being able to do the buidup properly by making the whole episode very hectic and detailed. Its good, even great visually. Definitely gets better on a rewatch after you've seen the whole anime and are fully acquainted with all the characters. But a first time viewer isnt getting the same experience they would have gotten reading the manga.

That all being said. I enjoyed the episode.

I think I'm gonna re-read the story time.

>>281182949
yeah, in 2012

>>281182933
>It’s just frames playing side by side
>frames
a frame is a still image of a video, they do not move unless arranged in a sequence.

>>281183075
>openly admitting it
Ok then. I just finished watching the episode, just saying.

You really never could understand City all at once.

>>281183280
I agree with your points, but anime-only watchers may view the show more like a puzzle. Even though the manga is never confusing about what motivates the characters or when events take place, I could see someone noticing how the show makes a point of having side characters walk past one another and thinking that makes the lack of certain details deliberate. Something like, if everybody in the city is part of a new adventure, wouldn't it make sense to meet them at different points of their stories, rather than always the beginning? I've seen it happen before, like with how people have given a lot of thought to Haruhi's broadcast order despite that being an anime-only decision.

Or maybe by the end of the show all the remaining character dynamics are introduced, and viewers just have to stick it out for a while longer.

>>281182933
really makes you think

wow amazing beautiful episode wow 10/10
I love the soundtrack, it is very engaging and lovely amazing!!!!!!!

>>281183483
you can feel the anger behind this post

I missed these kind of just brain off enjoyable type of shows

>2009: the same storyline in 8 episodes
>2025: 8 storylines in the same episode
POTTERY

>>281183543
Im not angry I really liked it. How could I be angry after staring at sweaty Niikura for 30 minutes?

>>281183565
Kyoani found a way

>>281183551
But the citychad keep telling me the show is 2deep4me...

>>281183633
Both are correct

>>281183606
Will this be animated?

>>281183633
You'll figure it out eventually.

this thread has a disturbing lack of Wako

>>281183319
i've already replied to you before, but i'd also like to shed some light on the extended panel sequence from a (relatively) experienced artist/editor's perspective.
i can tell you right now that what you saw was NOT lazy by any means. synchronizing all of those scenes and making sure they all flow together, designing +animating them, AND the numerous transitions between them all; takes an ungodly amount of time and is anything but low-effort. most of the time taken to do something like this is during storyboards, because it all needs to be laid out by hand. sure once it's all planned out most of the tedious work is those transitions, but getting that scene boarded (remember, it's several minutes long) and ensuring it all flowed perfectly must've took kyoani months of fine-tuning before it was even ready to animate.
now it being lazy from a story perspective? i can actually understand this argument (though I disagree heavily) but don't look at it that way! look at that sequence from the perspective of an artistic achievement, and pushing the genre forward with new and ambitious techniques. : )

screwed up my spacing with the final paragraph but what are you gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>281183689
Wako is all around you.

>>281183820
Nagumo's big ballsack

>>281183689
Please wait warmly.

>>281183746
>>281183820
He's not going to care and will just say some other dumb shit, he's been threadshitting since the first teaser trailer

>>281183843
>He's not going to care and will just say some other dumb shit
well, then i hope my post convinces anyone else who thought that scene was somehow lazy

>>281181969
>>281182432
Will Niikura find her missing doubles after 1 million hours in Krita and Aegisub?

>>281176415 (OP)
>>281176453
Literally Cocomelon for tweens

>>281181969
>>281182432
Will Niikura find her missing doubles after some number of hours in Krita and Aegisub?

>>281183947
kino

>>281183947
She's as good at getting doubles as she is at getting her pendant back

>Ramen dude came back
I’m glad

>>281183947
Classic Niikura

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>>281176415 (OP)
Alright, I'm gonna check this anime out. Looks like it's on Prime.

>>281182933
mindbroken retard

>>281183947
high effort post

>>281184381
Is the background supposed to be a magnetic field visualizer? Inspired.

>>281183746
As a matter of fact I don't have a single (you), and I'm not sure what you are talking about, but if the key word here is "lazy" I would assume it has to do with the content and not the visuals, putting together a bunch of random scenes with random people that lead to one scene only seems tedious to do so, as you say, but won't require major planning which would in fact make it "lazy", now you say you can understand the criticism towards the content not being handled in the best way, well, that would be my only criticism because I cannot care for visual flare without getting invested into the story, but that's me.

>>281184417
you should watch the episode and try thinking next time

>>281184381
It's really hard not to make a sex joke about this webm

>>281176453
Felt like I was watching NFL RedZone when they go to the octobox
sasuga KyoAni

>>281176547
What was he saying here?

This anime is a work of art. I'm grateful for it. The visuals are amazing and it's polished without feeling soulless. What an amazing watch.

>>281178429
I love MGS3 Paramedic so much!

>>281180460
This should've been Absolute Cityma. You are not getting an award and hospitality will be denied.

>>281176984
You're gonna need to give a source on that. That's unbelievable if it's true.

>>281185064
so rare to see nichijou production materials
RIP Nishiya

>>281182949
>>281182998
>>281183074
>>281183290
This takes me back. Does any studio even animate in less than 1080p today? I remember around 2010 a native 1080p mastered anime was novel, I think Henkeko or Nyaruko-san or something were the first, with one at 1080p a season.

Last I checked was in 2018 where I remember Megalobox was mastered at 480p for max VHS quality, with some percentage (a third?) less than 1080p. I don't even remeber the .jp site to check the native resolution.

Surely that everyone including the animators are using 4k monitors has killed sub-1080p, right? I presume the native res is closer to 3200x1800 for ease in drawing.

>>281184758
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSvc2quTh4&t=18s

>>281185382
?
Not sure if recently but up to 2020 anything above 720p was upscaled until proven the contrary, like certain series going up to 910p, maybe that changed recently but I don't know.

>>281185507
kyoani has animated in 1080p for a while now

>>281185064
this is actually pretty helpful for knowing how to properly draw the girls, thanks anon : )

>>281185597
this is very well drawn, whoever drew this i want to give them an award

>>281176984
>>281177746
Good lord, he did a phenomenal job at it.

>>281178796
I just put the whole manga on my ipad for a nine hour flight I have in a couple months.

Apparently the twins host this commentary series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTNhweghpLi2ZOHDJPmmDB49H4X5fXLXp

>>281179959
I believe this is called "recycling animation"

>>281179743
It's possible but you'd lose so much detail in the process it wouldn't be worth it.

>>281185597
Great drawing. Ty anon

Nice Shorts Wako

Wako Upskirt

>>281185507
The vast majority of shows were >720p well before 2020. See: anibin
I don't know where you're getting your information from but it's wrong.

test

>>281185507
>>281186399
iirc it wasn't really about whether the studio did it in 1080p(or better) or not, but broadcasts(and web sources) were ALWAYS 720p/1080i

>>281186446
Streamrips have never been 1080i. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>281186532
>What the fuck are you talking about?
What the fuck are YOU talking about.
Because you'd have to be an actual retard to think something labeled 1080p uploaded by crunchyroll or any of the other hackfraud platforms through 2010's and early 2020's were ever actually a proper 1080p source.

>>281186572
They were *not* 1080i.
You have been downloading 720p based on incorrect information for likely over a decade now.
Everybody point and laugh at >>281186572

>>281178741
People who liked this are more likely to read the manga as well. This is a manga ad after all

Six hours after watching ep 5 I'm still internally gushing. Pure kino, absolute cinema.

These threads fucking suck

>>281186572
You could have done the following like 10 fucking years ago instead of just blindly believing whatever incorrect information you read:
>download the 720p streamrip release of a show listed as >720p by anibin
>download the 1080p streamrip release of the same show
>play them both back with mpc-hc or mpv default settings in fullscreen with a 1080p display
>take a screenshot of the same frame with both releases
>compare
Had you taken the <5 minutes to do this yourself, 10 years ago, rather than simply blindly believing incorrect information like a moron, you would have seen very fucking clearly that the 1080p release would be sharper, with more detail.
That's all you had to fucking do. 10 years ago.
Instead you've been downloading inferior releases for like a decade or more because you're a lazy fucking idiot.
Holy shit.

>>281186626
>This is a manga ad after all
Too much effort for just a manga add. I am almost sure that they will announce a season2 .

>>281186637
>filename

Today's episode was unironically the second greatest episode in anime history behind Non Non Biyori's Flatty-san episode.

>>281186724
Aren't they smashing through the source too fast to do that?

why is blud spending so much effort trying to revise history?
webrips were always 720p/1080i because that's what broadcasters got and studios weren't going to provide a new and different source to some podunk web service

>>281183300
A frame is a rectangle that surrounds something, or metonymically, something framed, a rectangular section of a larger canvas.

>>281186758
The manga has 200+ chapters and at most the anime will only cover half of them I think.

>>281186767
[HorribleSubs] Working!!! - 01 [720p].mkv (A 2015 release)
mpv with:
profile=fast (so, bilinear upscale)

>>281186767
>>281186963
[HorribleSubs] Working!!! - 01 [1080p].mkv
mpv with:
profile=fast
As you can see, this is significantly sharper/more detailed. This is far superior, visually.
You should feel very stupid now if you have been downloading 720p releases for 10+ years with the belief that they are no better or even worse than 1080p releases.

>>281186963
>>281186982
I haven't seen a beatdown like this since Tyre Nichols.

>>281186940
The manga has 186 chapters and the PV confirmed they're adapting stuff late in the manga. They're probably trying to adapt the whole thing.

anyone interested in buying a bridge

>>281187120
>The manga has 186 chapters
Are you sure? I've checked 2 sites that have 200+ chapters

Goodnight SHITTYs

>>281187181
I hope you have a city night

>>281187155
The initial run is 186 chapters. Arawi is making new chapters because of the anime but it's probably not going to be a full return like Nichijou.

This should've been a three-parter because this episode was borderline unwatchable with so much shit happening on the screen if you don't want to rewatch it twenty times just to see all the stuff happening on the smaller screens.

>>281187286
I literally had to rewatch the multi-screen part once.

>>281186982
From what I remember, CR would of course upscale to 1080p if their source was natively 720p. Butt then instead of using the source for 720p, they would downscale the 1080p upscale to 720p.

>>281187286
>if you don't want to rewatch it twenty times just to see all the stuff happening on the smaller screens.
That's a good thing. Rewatch value is always a positive.

>>281182255
Probably not but it could be possible that it was supposed to be Mio but someone messed up.

For anime onlies, if you have a sharp eye, you may have noticed that one of the chefs at the party was the owner of the restaurant Makabe was a regular at before it closed down (I'll be very impressed if you did). The manga shows why. Here is chapter 47.

>>281182936
I watch those two and some more. I just accept I can’t watch them all on the same day so I watch those two while I wait for City and accepted I will have to finish CITY later. It is not a race, just take it easy and enjoy the show.

>>281187603
End

Hope I remember how to crossboard post, important video
>>>/wsg/5940232

>>281187614
Thanks dumper

>thread is for CITY: The Animation
>it's more about the manga
nobody cares that you read the manga

>>281187653
It's about both. Who cares, have fun.
>>281187643
Heh.

>>281187373
The source CR was given for that show wasn't 720p, though. That particular show (Working!!!) was actually promoted as being full 1080p, hence why I chose it as an example.

>>281187653
It's literally giving context to something that happened in the anime

>>281187669
so you're saying you cherrypicked a very specific series to try and misrepresent something while ignoring the hoards of shows that were not native 1080p? While also ignoring the godawful plague of bitrate starving through that period of time?
How very interesting.

>>281187653
It's literally an excuse to bump the thread

>>281187765
The thread doesn't need help getting bumped when it's already on page 1

>>281187669
I thought you guys were arguing over whether or not you should ever downloading 720p. Not that a source could never be native 1080p.
I thought you were making the point that you might as well download 1080p regardless of the native res. And I was adding to that point by saying how CR's 720p isn't even the original 720p. Might as well watch an upscale rather than the downscale of an upscale.

>>281180719
I enjoyed Ninkoro but that's not enough for me to say SHAFT is back when it didn't get much attention from general audiences. They've been a zombie studio kept alive by Monogatari and Madoka sequels for too long. It's too soon to determine what impact Ninkoro will have on the studio. It may just be a fluke. Plus, after they used AI in Monogatari, it's going to take more to earn back my goodwill.

>>281187542
i liked the way they hinted at this in the anime, you can see something fall when makabe jerks the door before his twilight freak out

>>281187840
>Plus, after they used AI in Monogatari,
Where?

>>281176453
As someone that hasn't read the manga, I really loved the way they did this episode. Makes me want to rewatch it a bunch and just focus on each little story. What an absolutely fun episode.

>>281182602
>not barefoot
Weak shit

>>281187653
its literary

>>281187758
Check anibin on internet archive. Way more shows were >720p native than not, even in 2015.
>bitrate starving
The 720p releases were also bitrate starved. They were also downscales. The Funimation ones were even very badly downscaled.
>>281187796
>I thought you were making the point that you might as well download 1080p regardless of the native res.
You should download 1080p whenever the native res is >720p. The result will be greater detail/sharpness.
Back when anibin was an active thing, the right way to go about it was to download 1080p for anything anibin listed as >720p.
Now that anibin isn't a thing, if you don't feel like being a turbo autist and doing his testing method yourself, you're better off just downloading 1080p for everything, as *most* shows are >720p native these days.

>>281176453
If you weren't watching CITY up until this point, I understand why, but yeah anyone who missed this episode is missing out big time. This and last week feel like when it properly went from CITY: The Animation to CITY: The Adaptation

>>281187653
Mangafags don't understand most people have not read this 500 times prior to the anime, always happen.

>despite being tippy top tier kino, CITY is still being slept on
I blame and hate normalfags

>>281188414
Of course it is. It doesn't have "action" in the genres list.
Normies gonna norm.

>>281177746
Based Sato. I bet the director was jealous.

>>281176453
I hated it. This is the weakest episode by a lot. The only one that's made me feel an emotion other than total joy (that emotion being total annoyance). If I wanted to watch ridiculous multiview nonsense I'd put on ESPN and be bored to tears by that instead. Half of the mini-plots were pointless, the other half would have been better with the focus on them.

It's well-animated, but then the entire series has been so far. So if that's all it has going for it, it's not much of anything.

>>281187489
Not when it's forced in such an obnoxious manner. I almost don't want to rewatch it out of spite.
You could cut half of the screen off the first episode then play it out again with the other half visible, that doesn't mean it has rewatch value.

>>281188414
do you want city threads to turn into /dbz/ or /csm/? lol

>>281188554
I want it to be popular so actually-good things are rewarded and effort is seen as a positive thing to put into a series as opposed to a begrudging expense. The threads will be ruined by retards and extremely dedicated autists, as above, regardless

>>281188583
If it gets too popular, the soul will get sucked right out of it to squeeze out every last available yen, amigo. The quality (or lack thereof) of threads on 4chan is of little concern in comparison. You should want it to be appreciated, but true popularity ruins everything.

>>281188583
mainstream anime has been shit ever since cel died as a medium, and following that so did the quality of anime fans themselves drop

>>281188613
>mainstream anime has been shit ever since cel died as a medium,
Even during that period, a lot of the popular stuff was shounenshit.

>>281188624
yeah but at least it didn't make your eyes bleed

>>281188602
>>281188613
I guess so. And I do really hate normalfags, so maybe actually they don't deserve CITY anyway. Talented weirdos will make good things every now and then regardless, so maybe it doesn't even matter. I won't wish for it to be niche but maybe I won't lament it anymore because fuck those retards who slept on it anyway. Thanks anons.

>>281188613
>and following that so did the quality of anime fans themselves drop
Nah, /a/ during 2003-2007>>>>>rec.arts.anime

>>281188634
It made my heart bleed by being mindless shounenshit.

>but the animation is stellar
You can have stellar animation and an engaging story at the same time. They've done it before with Koe no Katachi, Violet Evergarden, Hibike Euphonium and Haruhi. Don't blame the viewers for finding comedy hit or miss.

>>281188733
Who are you quoting?

>>281188733
>knk and VEG
Nope

>>281188815
He who copes with the lack of popularity this anime is demonstrating.
>>281188886
The numbers say otherwise. Ok, you personally disagree with that. Nothing changes.

>oh please look at the number of drawings it's 16k in an episode
Not really a huge deal nowadays

>>281188919
>numbers
Same can be applied to semen player and shonen shit doesn't mean it's good
>you personally disagree with that. Nothing changes.
Same applies here

Call me a retard who got filtered but I didn't care for this episode at all. I really enjoyed last episode after feeling ambivalent about the first 3 so I was hoping I would enjoy the rest.
Visually it was impressive and very well executed. I think my problem is that I simply don't care about most of the characters, and the humor is more miss than hit for me.
If it was all or mostly Wako, Eri, and Matsuri being cute and goofing around it would be so much better.

>>281188958
It's impressive if Satou did half of it alone. It's only a rumor right now though.
>>281188984
You could stop complaining that a niche show like this isn't popular any time, you know.

>>281188992
I think manga readers can't appreciate how hard it is to care about a bunch of stories going on at once when you're only acquainted with half of them and the other half are brand new, in what's already a decently disconnected show. They got a lot of buildup over many chapters into the sequence. They'll also tell you this is your fault for not reading the manga, and that's probably the case.
Still, these stories could have been strong enough to stand on their own instead of being relegated to 1/8th the screen and something a new viewer isn't going to care about.

>>281189041
>You could stop complaining
I haven't though, infact i couldn't care less about it popular or not, responded to the knk and veg compared to city from your post

>>281189123
You don't care and that's why you felt tge urge to reply.

I'm sorry, everyone, but I would be lying if I said I didn't hate this fucking episode. The series was going perfectly so far until this episode went all avant-garde. It felt like a complete butchering of the source material, they included like a dozen subplots from the manga and reduced them into tiny frames in the corner of the screen for seemingly no reason.

It felt like this was the final episode, and they ran out of budget, except this wasn't the final episode, and it probably took a lot of work to make those tiny animated segments just to waste them like that.

I also didn't like how they introduced the granny who in the manga is Nagumo's landlord that she's always avoiding, but here, nobody who hasn't read it has any idea who she is or why Nagumo was intent on not submitting to her. It was all just so random and unnecessary. Not to mention Shia and the sisters being introduced in that tiny box gag so you don't even know their names (can you even call this a gag?). I like Kyoani and Arawi, but this was simply not it,

>>281189204
Not really, just like you mentioned how it's not possible to blame to the viewer if they don't find the comedy of this show engaging while giving an example of veg and knk as how these two can provide beautiful animation and engaging story at the story time which imo they don't.

>>281188414
certain anons will never realize being too popular isn’t a good thing

>>281189239
It's a stretch to say I hate the episode, otherwise I agree. I do hate the sequence, but the rest of the episode (even the bubble ending of the sequence) is genuinely excellent, as the rest have been.
You're putting into words what I've been struggling to say as a reason I don't like it. It feels like a waste of what should have been strong independent bits, and it's only episode 5, we're not running out of time any time soon here.

Is all this shit in here just because kyoani is winning again?

>>281189239
Agree, this entire show feels like staff during pre production were thinking what they want to do rather than thinking how anime viewers and fans would want to enjoy it, no sane viewer who got into a show is going to rewatch it over and over again. Disconnected adaptation

>>281189280
I guess it's a stretch to say I hated the entire episode, since I was enjoying it until the point where all the weird meta stuff started happening, my opinions about the bubble segment towards the end are mixed, on the one hand I could see myself enjoying it on its own, but after the whole boxes segment I was just sitting there thinking to myself "what the fuck is this shit?"

>>281189239
>so far until this episode went all avant-garde
But I like that, I like when anime is more weird and experimental.
>>281189308
>Agree, this entire show feels like staff during pre production were thinking what they want to do rather than thinking how anime viewers and fans would want to enjoy it,
Anime was the best when every director thought like that. You wouldn't survive some of the 80s ovas.

>>281188520
I really don't understand how this was greenlit by Kyoani. Does anyone know the domestic audience's reaction to it?

>>281189332
>>281189324
I don't particularly have an issue with it being so avant-garde. Avant-garde can be good. This was a miss, though. Avant-garde doesn't mean its automatically good. I just can't get over the subplots glossed over by this sequence which deserve their own chance to shine.
Maybe that time will come, who knows what the next few episodes will bring.

>>281189324
>I like when anime is more weird and experimental.
That's fine if the anime starts off like that, and it's what's expected like the Animerama trilogy. However, there is a time and place for that, and it certainly wasn't here.

>>281189369
>vant-garde doesn't mean its automatically good.
But is means it's better than a normal anime.
>Maybe that time will come, who knows what the next few episodes will bring.
I hope the rest of the episodes are exactly like this. Not with he exact same setup but I hope they experiment a fucking lot, especially with practical effects. I don't need a page by page adaptation, I already have the manga for that, anime adaptations in this age should do new stuff.

>>281189414
>That's fine if the anime starts off like that,
I am ok with it changing in the middle as well(not okay with it changing at the end since by that point I probably don't care anymore)

>>281189425
>But is means it's better than a normal anime.
Why? If it tries something avant-garde and fails horribly, then it just downgraded itself. The story is strong, it deserves proper execution.
Experimentation for experimentation's sake is idiotic, it needs to have purpose. Thinking that it's good is literal first-year liberal arts student behavior.
Not really related, but I do agree about the "practical effects", they're awesome. Practical effects isn't the right word but I know what you're getting at. It's really only the simulcast sequence that I have problems with.

>>281182933
You are correct, the people replying to you are simply coping

>>281189456
>If it tries something avant-garde and fails horribly, then it just downgraded itself.
Nah, even then unless it's something horrible(which this episode wasn't), it's still enjoyable and more memorable then something simple.
>Experimentation for experimentation's sake is idiotic, it needs to have purpose.
I agree and most experimental anime, even bad ones, have some purpose.
>The story is strong, it deserves proper execution.
But we need this anime to experiment and you know why. Don't make me spell it out for you.

>I didn't like it for pseudointellectual autistic reasons so it was objectively bad and a failure
Fucking wild

>>281189498
You think something executed simply and straightforward can't be good because it wasn't experimental? You are a retard. I would hate to see what your cooking is like.

>>281189498
It's memorable because it's fucking BAD. People don't appreciate having shit foisted on them that they didn't want nor sign up for. CITY is a slice of life with some light humor added a la Nichijou, not some OC anime where the studio can do whatever they want with it. I don't know if Arawi signed off on this or not, but it feels disrespectful to the source and to the fans. It reminded me of the original ending of Evangelion, in the way it made be feel but at least that was an anime original.

>>281189535
Whom are you quoting?

>>281189543
>You think something executed simply and straightforward can't be good because it wasn't experimental?
When have I said that? Why are you putting words in my mouth? I thought you were a honest person but here you are insulting me because of a made up scenario in your head. I said that we need such anime to experiment not that simple anime are bad.

Finally found a way to watch this episode.

>>281189593
When did you say that? How about 10 minutes ago, retard?
>But is means it's better than a normal anime.
I'm disappointed too, I thought this discussion was going somewhere, but more and more it's apparent you are one of those types who is obsessed with the "experimental" even when it drops the bag, like it did in this case.

>>281189598
it really did feel like a shitpost whether they were going for that or not

>>281189332
Overwhelming positive just like here.

>>281189598
I wasn't going to pull the subway surfers card, but I was thinking about it during the sequence.

>>281189625
Are you blind? I said it would be better than a normal anime not that normal anime can't be good.
>>281189560
That's the exact problem. The industry barely produces any original anime anymore so the only way I can get the experimentation that was available in original anime is in manga adaptations that try to do different things(that's why I rarely watch manga adaptations that don't try to do their own stuff instead of just page by page adaptations since I've most likely already read the manga)

Can't satisfy everyone

That was kino with the split screen what the hell

>>281189641
>youtube comments
I was referring to the japanese imageboards, I'm sure that normalfags in youtube comments are the same no matter where in the world they are from

>>281189678
Well, no doubt at least part of the intention was to spur discussion, and it's definitely doing that. I hated half of this episode, but by the end I thought "everyone's going to either love that part or hate it". Seems to be the case so far, I've only ever seen opinions on the extremes.

>>281189700
>I was referring to the japanese imageboards,
If you think the anime is bad than the japs most likely like it since they have garbage taste. It's the same shit.

Wow. A virtually universally positive reaction from /a/ for hours and hours and hours after the episode. Very rare.
Then, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, one anon after the other flaming it.
Totally organic and not samefagging.
Totally not a buttangery third-worlder who is jealous KyoAni doesn't animate juvenile battleshonen.

How did it even look in the source material?

>>281189708
People could at least be civil about it

>manga readers
I'm sorry but this episode and the series as a whole just doesn't work if you don't read the manga
>anime only
Wow this episode was even better than the last! I can't wait to see more of that character they introduced this time!

Is this really how it's gonna be every week? You don't need context for everything that is happening, plenty can be inferred and the rest is either not crucial to understanding the overall scene or will be recontextualized later.

>>281189712
I am so fucking sick of samefagging turboautists on every board getting triggered by shit all the goddamn time and devoting their lives to ruining any threads about it. They're like 4chan school shooters.

>>281189712
There was criticism within an hour. That was, of course, after scholarly thinkers had time to digest and process and come to the unfortunate conclusion (they fumbled it). Meanwhile easily-impressed zoomers, such as yourself, flocked to make your insipid opinions heard. KyoAni is capable of fucking up. Nobody likes a fanboy.
Don't bother denying your zoomer status by the way, I can tell because you jumped straight to the "thirdie" cope.

>>281189790
>You don't need context for everything that is happening
Well, that was part of my issue with it. Without the context, why the fuck would you care about 75% of what's going on during that sequence? With the context, I'm left wishing 75% of that sequence got more attention than just being shoved to the bottom corner of the screen.

>>281188554
we need to know how nagumo and wako powerscale

>>281189831
SHITgumoRATs don't already know? Is that what you're getting at?

>>281189712
I only had the chance to watch it this morning so I don't know what to tell you

>>281189828
>thirdie
Nta but he is right, the internet has degraded a lot now that every country has access to it. I fucking miss the 90s.

(You) hoped the fire would kill KyoAni. (You) posted on /a/, saying KyoAni was done. We told you KyoAni always finds a way, but (You) didn't believe us.
(You) were happy when the fire happened because (You) don't like the genres of anime KyoAni animates. Because (You) perceive those who like those genres as your enemies.
(You) were disappointed, even angry, when Maid Dragon season 2 and Hibike season 3 were just as good as the seasons which came before them.
But now? (You) are absolutely furious, because KyoAni found a way. (You) are absolutely furious, because KyoAni actually came back better than ever. (You) are absolutely furious at the near universal praise KyoAni is receiving here and on social media. (You) are absolutely furious that KyoAni is producing the clear AOTY and possibly AOTD.
(You) are mad as fuck.

>>281189877
(You) posted cropped futa porn.

>>281189828
>Well, that was part of my issue with it. Without the context, why the fuck would you care about 75% of what's going on during that sequence?
Because it's visually compelling and you're interested to see where it's going? Without context why care about anything? At this point why care about a "proper introduction" without context beforehand, an intro to the intro? Everything has to start somewhere, I think it's interesting to start some character stories in the middle of a scene instead of having to do introductions nonstop, certainly for this kind of story.

>>281189876
Sure, that's true. An unfortunate side effect is that it offers disingenuous zoomoids a cope to hide behind.
>>281189877
It is AOTY, in spite of how badly this episode flubbed it.
I lived in Kyoto when the arson happened, those were scary times

>>281189911
>reductio ad absurdum
i accept your concession

Shit anime is so unfunny it's unreal.

>>281189914
>An unfortunate side effect is that it offers disingenuous zoomoids a cope to hide behind.
We used to call thirdworlders out way before zoomers had access to the internet.

>>281189928
You just don't have an answer. Can you not enjoy a story if it's not completely front loaded with exposition?

>>281189828
>"scholarly thinkers"

>>281189935
Would you like it better if they tripped over each other and had a hilarious misunderstanding because it looked like they were about to kiss, and then an alien attacks? Go fuck yourself.

>>281189945
No, "we" didn't (airquotes because you weren't there), because the thirdies didn't have internet access, so there was no need to do that.

>>281189935
I liked Nichijou because it at least had jokes, this show is liked only by the most autistic loners who are content when there's cute girls on the screen so they don't care about the fact that there are NO FUCKING JOKES IN THIS SHOW

>>281189959
Let me prove a point

>>281189877
I didn't do any of that

>>281189877
Uh nice bait clown, hibike season 3 was not nearly as good as season 1.
But I don't even know if this should be called bait, it feels more like bait parody.

>>281189956
>airquotes because you weren't there)
I was there just not on /a/.
>because the thirdies didn't have internet access, so there was no need to do that.
They started slowly getting access to it in the 2010s.

>>281189081
Agreed. Someone earlier said the party was in volume 5, if that is the case it's kind of a shame they're rushing through everything so quickly. "A decently disconnected show" is a good way to put it, which is ironic and unfortunate given that a large part of this episode seemed to be about the connection between all of the different characters in the city.

>>281189928
>>reductio ad absurdum
are you implying that's a fallacy?

>>281189828
>KyoAni is capable of fucking up.
They've been fucking up since forever. Like with cutting out so much shit from Clannad, way more than they cut from City. How the fuck did you not expect this?

>>281189965
i could choke out this pencilneck with my index and thumb

>>281189950
Why should I answer, so you can blow it completely out of proportion into a total strawman again? Someone without context won't care "where it's going" when half the sequence is just looping images. They'll only care about the fleshed out parts, including the story that was already in progress and massively disrupted for this gimmicky sequence. The context is important. Even in this very thread you see anime-onlies missing the entire point about some of the plots within the sequence.

>>281190000
Kek this, I bet he wasn't even here when clannad aired.

I see the KyoAni arbitrary hate train is indeed still running decades later

>>281190000
Checked, to this day I refuse to watch Haruhi because of endless 8, and it's mindboggling how some anons defend it due to sheer nostalgia

>>281189956
>Go fuck yourself.
You sound mad. Maybe you are underage and don't know how to argue, but this show is shit and you can't make me change my mind.

>>281189959
I didn't liked nichijou neither, but it's a masterpiece compared to this.

>>281190017
>>281190000
>>281190030
Well that's my fucking point, they have fucked up before, I am trying to do away the insane fanboyism in that post. What are you being so argumentative about? We are in agreement.

>>281190042
>Didn't liked
ESL-kun........................

>>281189935
>>281189959
>>281190042
This guy is the actual samefagger that's been plaguing threads since day 1

>>281189414
>waahh stop having fun director-san

>>281190071
(you)

>>281189935
>>281189959
>>281189965
>>281190000
>>281190017
>>281190030
>>281190042
Hey poster, please leave my City thread alone

>>281190019
Right now it's obviously just one samefag or one Discord channel. The ratio of negative to positive posts jumped very, very suddenly and unnaturally.
KyoAni just released the best episode of anime they've ever released, post-fire or pre-fire, and they are hurt feelings and butt ranged.

>>281190055
>Well that's my fucking point, they have fucked up before,
My point is that they have always fucked up. How is this special when 90% of their adaptations cut a lot of shit from source material, you retard?

>>281189877
never understood arsonfags hoping the studio would die when it happened in the middle of the violet movie production and it not only got finished regardless but also mogged everything else that year production-wise

>>281189828
>/dbs/ lingo
Bro...

>>281190100
what the fuck are you talking about? it isn't "special", i just chose this example because it's from City which, in case you haven't noticed, is the subject of this thread.
are you autistic or something? do you always argue with people who agree with you? shouldn't you be going after the KyoAni worshipers if they are committing such grievous offenses in your eyes?

>>281189712
>>281190019
>train
It is at least 90% one guy. Every time a mass shitposter get IP wiped you see most of the posts like these instantly wiped from multiple threads, even threads of other anime. There is a hand full of fags responsible for 90% of the shitposts on the entire board. Report and move on.

>>281176415 (OP)
This episode was a surprise after the other.
CITY the CLAYmation was fun, and the screen-split was insane: I''m not enough of a ADHD zoomer to process all of that, but I tried.

>>281190148
Are you illiterate or dumb? You've written
>KyoAni is capable of fucking up.
as in they have a good track record but they sometimes fuck up. The thing is, their whole history is a fuck up. City is not special compared to their other fumbles.
>do you always argue with people who agree with you?
With retards yes.
> shouldn't you be going after the KyoAni worshipers if they are committing such grievous offenses in your eyes?
I've already argued enough with them in the past decades.

>>281190181
I don't think you're intended to process all that in one viewing. It's pretty clear you're intended to rewatch parts of it.

>>281190158
You understand that people have differing opinions from you, yes? People are going to dislike things you don't like. If you're writing off every criticism as samefagging, you're doing more harm to the show than the people criticizing it. Criticism is a good thing.

>>281183483
Fuck off, frognigger.

>>281190010
I didn't do that and I gave you an actual answer as well. You're approaching this like I'm a manga reader saying the additional context from the manga doesn't matter when I'm actually one of the anime-only viewers you're referring to and I DID enjoy seeing where it was going. I didn't need everyone's name and backstory to lunderstand that they were all converging on one point or to be interested in seeing how it happened and what the final result was.

>genre aside (so, not judging anime for being fujoshit), KyoAni has made ONE (Munto) bad anime in the history of its existence
How can one studio be this based?

>>281190193
>as in they have a good track record but they sometimes fuck up.
That is an interpretation of what I said. It's not the correct one, and it's not the only one. Of course, since you are autistic, you have zeroed in on your interpretation as the only one. That is a hallmark sign of the disorder, you realize.

>>281189708
This is the only place on the entire internet I've seen anyone say anything negative about it (beyond being unable to follow it) at all and I'm not inclined to believe it's genuine because the main pusher is an avatarfagging giga autist.

>>281190197
Being unable to accept criticism is part of having aspergers or having schizoid tendencies, that's maybe why he thinks it's only a person who doesn't like this anime.
He may or not be also a tranny, so that's why you shouldn't push him harder so he doesn't kill himself.

>>281190257
To be fair, it's only a 7.84 right now at you-know-where.
But then again, to be fair, that's to be expected of a battleshonen hell website.

>>281190257
Well, that would be because you are an idiotic fanboy and cannot resist the urge to lump everyone criticizing the sequence (or the episode, or the show, or the studio) into one samefag.

>>281190246
>It's not the correct one, and it's not the only one.
Then what's the correct one? What do you think about their track record you retard? When a normal person says that someone is capable of fucking up, that someone is perceived as a person with a good track record, maybe you are the autistic one.

>>281190158
I guess I belong in that 10% because I didn't read the manga and these threads gave me the image that a ton of good plots from the manga were condensed into those small side panels that only served to make the entire viewing experience abysmal.
Also, what the hell are people even doing talking about shit in the past tense as if they'd been posting on this site for more than 3 years? Everyone on /a/ is a blatant newfag nowadays.

>>281190301
>Everyone on /a/ is a blatant newfag nowadays.
On 4chan as a whole

>>281190257
Go back to your circlejerk then fag

>>281190205
It's interesting you say that. I was originally going to include a line about my two anime-only buddies who watched the episode after I did, and their feelings about it were basically the opposite of yours. That's what was informing my version of "someone without context". I figured nobody cared, though.

>>281190315
Midori desu.

>>281190301
>he past tense as if they'd been posting on this site for more than 3 years?
Speak for yourself

>>281190299
The correct one is pointedly obvious, I shouldn't have to tell you - were it not for your condition, you would already realize your mistake. I'm not going to enable your condition by spoonfeeding you either. Sorry. I know you want an argument, but there isn't one to be had here. As I have repeatedly pointed out, we're on the same side of the coin.

>>281190358
>i-i w-won't tell you
You are coping so hard right now. You are basically admitting that you first post was retarded. Here anime they've butchered: haruhi, air , kanon, clannad, k-on, hyouka, veg, kobayashi, hibike.
>you want an argument, but there isn't one to be had here
Of course there isn't one because you are too retarded to participate in one. You are also a /v/ tourist , it seems.

We'll wait until Sunday to meet up again, goodbye

>>281190410
Woops, sorry. This is probably more your speed, right? You strike me as the frog type.
There's no argument because I am not autistic, so I don't argue with people who I agree with. That's silly. You are being silly.

first and only time an anime catered to me. I don't know what everyone else's problem is

>>281190455
Just like every other thread on 4chan, it's always one person

>>281190461
Damn Wako... dressing so seductively... something must be done about her................

>>281190461
the artist who drew this is plappable

>>281190464
Take your meds.

>>281190491
>>281190497

>>281190440
Oh so you are a zoomer, you should have said that at the beginning. No wonder I had problems getting through your thick skull.

>>281190440
Do you also agree that nichijou is garbage?

>>281190532
You can keep trying, but it won't work, Anon-kun. We agree with each other. It's so easy to admit it, why won't you?

>>281190543
I've kind of lost my interest in arguing with a zoomer. Whatever, I guess.

>>281189700
They are loving it too.
ああ、京アニすげえ
もうこれしか言えない

まったくよくわからんが、最高の感動をありがとう・・・？？

このアニメまだ人類には早いだろ

>>281190591
>y-you're a zoomer!
grim

>>281190000
cope and seethe

>>281190603
>acts like a zoomer
>n-no I am not one
Lol.

>>281190602
Ok, but what are they saying about the sequence itself? That's pretty general, and things I'd all agree with, the hiccup for me is the sequence. Is there even a point when we're at autosage and my comment is 2 hours old at this point?

>>281189700
You're so pathetic and downbad to be validated on your shit taste. Here's your retarded thought process:
>god this shit sucked, I hope other people thought the same as me
>n-n-n-n-normalfags d-d-on't count!!!11! I need people like me on JP 4chan!!
>they like it too
Stay malding.

>>281190702
This is coming from Mr. "Everyone who dislikes it is the same person"? Who is malding?

>>281190702
wut? go outside, retard

Waste of talent. He should be more experimental on stuff that sells.

>>281190702
Not that anon, but you sound really mad just because someone does not agree with you.
Everything okay?

>>281190745
>>281190727
>>281190725
all me btw

>>281189625
Why haven't you answered to >>281189675?

>>281190748
not even possible to post that fast consecutively

>>281190771
What if I use my cloning ability?

>>281190771
What if I use my cloning ability?

>>281190805
>>281190806
m-masaka!

>>281190727
You first
>>281190725
>Everyone who dislikes it is the same person
Is your reading comprehension terrible? I am saying you're pathetic for saying normalfags don't count, just because you don't like the notion that 90% of the people watching the show like it. You're desperate to seek validation that the episode was bad. So yes, seethe more, ESL-kun.

>>281190805
>>281190806
n-nani?!

>samefagging this much
Not gonna make it.

>>281190805
>>281190806
>samefagging a thread to death is impossible though take your meds

>>281190806
>>281190805
no.... no puede ser.....

>>281190739
This is airing exclusively on one streaming service and KyoAni probably got paid out the ass for that, so it already sold.

>>281190770
>answered to
ESL-sama......

>>281190896
WPM bitch.

>>281190894
What streaming service is that? My friend's server full of pirated anime?

>>281190805
>>281190806
Nani??

>5 episodes in and people that dislike the show are still watching it
>thread quality is still in the toilet
>source purists have nothing interesting to say but whine about skipped chapters
>Mr Kim and yuuko poster are the only funny guys
Tsurune S2 and Eupho S3 threads were of much better quality than whatever garbage goes on in here week to week.

>>281190967
Prime.
KyoAni got dem Bezos bucks for exclusive rights.