BRING IT ON! Back with some more slapstick! Today’s episode was pretty funny. Our four girls spend an entire day trying to find a suitable club to join, and go from baseball to tennis over to basketball, from sports to tea ceremony and even ikebana - Ayumi, Tadzuki and Suzu go wherever… Torako drags them to. She [...]
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Yeah, the new season of anime is here. First up on my plate is the slapstick, slice-of-life, school comedy Hyakko. Rating: 8/12 B+ Truthfully, this show didn’t wow like I was hopeing but I’m also fairly confident that this will become a show I like a lot. My confidence stems from the fact that this show’s first [...]
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Turns out it doesn’t suck! This is my first ever current Anime season post. So you can imagine I’m a little excited about it. Well, I’m a little excited about a few other things happening in my life right now, namely the otaku girl returning my phone call and my internet returning to working state, so let’s have a looksie at Hyakko. So basically the episode opens with a girl jumping out the window, and this blonde girlie here is obviously surprised. We find out more about this later in the episode. ...
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Title: Hyakko Studio: Nippon Animation Genre: Slice of Life / Comedy Ratings (out of 5): Story: ♥♥♥½ Animation: ♥♥♥♥ Characters: ♥♥♥½ OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥½ Overall: ♥♥♥½ Thoughts: Ayumi starts her first day at a swanky private school, but gets separated from her classmates and then lost on the enormous campus. She manages to find another one of her classmates, Tatsuki– who may be a liiittle [...]
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long walk. OP ED Neither OP nor ED themes did much for me, although they are pretty…hmm.. wild I guess. They’re like something you would hear in brutal samurai show, not in a slice of life one The first episode was about girls getting lost in the school and looking for their classroom (it’s a huge school)… they [...]
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I picked up Hyakko on a bit of a whim. I’ve been having trouble deciding what to watch this season, so I’m taking things as they come. My first impressions on Hyakko are dim. The first thing I noticed was the character designs, which I’m certianly not fond of, but the girls themselves seem like [...]
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Basically, four completely different girls whose only similarity is an intense lack in sense of direction. Since the shortest between two points is a straight line, that’s what they work with - and that means jumping out of windows, breaking into buildings, etc. Summary: Nonomura Ayumi, a very shy girl, is attending her first [...]
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Hyakko I really enjoyed the start of this series. It gave off a very amusing atmosphere and in general, it was very entertaining. The story seems to basically just center around school life, so it will be interesting to see what else they plan to do with the story. For the moment, the cast of characters [...]
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Not as crazy as I expected, but a decent start, especially once Torako (the main character) got introduced. Ayumi, a freshman at Kamizono High School, gets lost on the way to her class, and wanders around until she finds another freshman, Iizuka. After realizing that non-newbie Iizuka doesn’t have any idea where she’s going either, the [...]
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Breaking windows, jumping fences and knocking out teachers. Brings back good memories… I wouldn’t consider myself much of a slice-of-life fan, but considering the fact I enjoyed watching four girls looking for their classroom for 20 minutes, I think I’ll have to reconsider that. The girls are unique and interesting (I already love Toroka for knocking out [...]
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Four high-school girls in a slice-of-life series - Surely this is ground-breaking territory that has never been covered before! Yes, that's right, Hyakko very definitely has its sights set on following in the footsteps of series such as Hidamari Sketch and Lucky Star - Hefty ambitions indeed, but anyone who has been keeping track of this 'Blog will know my love for those two series, so I always
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Over the course of years I realized that voice acting can and sometimes does make or break a show. Another thing is that despite all of my forceful indifference towards Aya Hirano, I think she did make Manabi Straight a more fulfilling experience. It’s not that I liked her acting in particular, but I realized she [...]
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햑코 만화책 1권~3권입니다. 아...진짜 아마존 재팬 운송비 비싸네요.... 어쨌든, 지금까지 읽어본 "여학생들의 일상생활을 그린 학원 코메디물"로는 최고 중 하나였다는... 캐릭터들도 마음에 들고 (토라코의 오빠는 싫지만) 유머나 탬포도 좋습니다. 혹시 얼마전 방영한 햑코 애니 1화를 재밌게 보셨으면 만화 강력추천입니다. 개인적으로 만화쪽이 훨씬 마음에 들더군요. <크게 보시려면 그림을 클릭. 화살표로 다음 그림 보기.> 음... 그나저나 후리..글 전체보기
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Out of the many shows of this fall season, Hyakko immediately appealed to me, for the school life comedy premise sounded and looked similar to one of my favorite shows, Azumanga Daioh. Although hesitant to blogging it, I’ll try to share my scarce musings with you folks nevertheless. That landing didn’t go so well. The first thing [...]
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If anime is about the “WTF moment”, I think I have reached the stage of Nirvana. I just watched some of the new offerings of the fall 2008 season, and one anime struck out as one of the strangest anime ever. Instead of following traditional convention to pick a series based on prior interest, I [...]
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[Posted @ 2:16 PM]As mentioned, Tranquil Spring will be translating Hyakko the manga, it's currently in the QC-ing status and we should be releasing anytime soon. Meanwhile, please watch the anime too, it follows the manga quite closely and added some of its own elements to stretch out the minutes and scenes. LOL I can't remember how many times I've repeated that scene, it's just so funny when Torako had this 'ozmg, this feeling of burning pain' expression. 'It's broken, it's broken, aaaagggrrrhhhh, it hurts!!! It hurts woooaaahh!!!'-Insert sudden random line-'Oh, be aware of above.'LOL, random, but ftw opening.The OP, 'Suppin Rock [スッピンロック]' by Mana Ogawa is pretty catchy, I kinda like it especially at the Torako jumped out of window scene. It's just so smooth, that's scene's basically the heart of the manga. Link to offical Hyakko website.Hmm, I'm really lazy to type out a summary lol, I've still got 4 more assignments to go, so just go watch Ep1 raw or Mandarin sub. Oh well, let me sum it up in one sentence. Torako, Suzu, Tatsuki and Ayumi got lost in school and this episode is about how they found their way back to their classroom not without ending with Torako delivering a powerful left-handed punch on their homeroom teacher's stomach. -END- LOL. One thing I've noticed that the background scenes were very well done [both in the anime and the sketches in the ED], I think the production team had hired some professionals to do them up? Man, they were awesome. The animation and character designs were also true to the manga, kinda makes me feel like I'm reading the manga in full-colour and animated lol. LoL reminds me of Utena. Ahh, I can't wait for the other funny characters to appear ahhh XD. I particularly like the interaction between Torako and Tatsuki [For comedy relief] and later Torako and Touma [Put on your yuri goggles], XD.Hmm don't forget, Torako and Suzume [The master and the loyal dog], Torako and Ushio [Gangster combi] and many more perhaps. I'm not particular fond of Ayumi and Hirano Aya's 'hyper' pitch in the anime doesn't help much too lol. Aaanyways, the ED, 'Namida Namida Namida [涙 NAMIDA ナミダ]' by Hirano Aya, it's not bad, good for listening once in a while ... lol 'My lonely heart is my, zour lonely heart.' -Insert confused akayuki-If you don't watch da anime, Torako will let you have a taste of the fatal 'Left-handed Tora-Power Punch'!Next episode's about baseball, tennis and ... uh how to dress up like a tree?[Signing off @ 3:22 PM]
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Tenka Seiha: It was immensely boring for about 18 minutes, followed by a very brief spat of electric guitars and violence. […] I was rather underimpressed by this one. Not that his opinion is going to stop me from checking it out… But yes, signs are not good. I hate electric guitars and violence.
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OP: “Suppin Rock (スッピンロック)” by Mana Ogawa - Montage? Surely, this can’t be the real OP…at least, I hope it isn’t. The song itself comes off as pretty mediocre to me. It just doesn’t have much to it.
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Hyakko is a new comedic anime centered around four high school girls, or at least that’s what I’ve gathered so far from the first episode. Episode 1, “Audience with Torako”, starts with Nonomura Ayumi, an introverted girl who returns to the classroom the rest of her classmates just left in order to pick up [...]
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Hyakko = Maigo Monogatari (Lost Child Chronicles? XD) Torako Straight Left was pretty damn awesome though. The LEGCRACK made me wince hard. That being said, doesn’t seem to be my type of show though. It feels like a much more wackier Sketchbook to me. TheBigN would sure love it though. It’s his type of show. ©2008 [...]
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