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10/29/10(Fri)16:29 No.41850608  >>41850540
The only relevant English-speaking animation expert disagrees:
>I'm
also enjoying Hiroyuki Imaishi's latest effort Panty & Stocking. At
least it's full of energy. Every shot is packed with some interesting
action or joke. It seems like a return to the silly, slapstick,
all-out-crazy tone of Dead Leaves. This show feels a lot more like pure
Imaishi than Guren Lagan, though I'm not sure whether that's a good
thing or not. I'm not too keen on the 2D styling or the content, but I'm
enjoying the show nonetheless. Pure silly fun, like a cross between
Powerpuff Girls, Dead Leaves and Ebichu. The sperm story in episode 3
was inspired.
>I find it sad that
humor in anime always has to be as broad and simple-minded as possible.
The jokes in this show are funny because they're more risque and adult
and something of an improvement over the usual approach to sex in anime,
which irritatingly pussyfoots around the subject with bloody noses and
exaggerated shyness, but it's still sex and shit jokes. I want to see
humor with the sort of wry, understated wit of, say, My Dog Tulip, not
the adult version of preschool potty jokes. But at least Imaishi has his
own brand of humor that doesn't feel like any other anime out there.
Whatever you might say about the show, the fact is that Imaishi is one
of the only people in the industry besides Yuasa right now who has
enough talent to be the ground-up guiding vision behind a show like
this. The vast majority of people in the industry lack the vision to
come up with their own comprehensive visual ethos and approach to
animation the way Imaishi does. That alone makes this show vastly more
watchable than anything on air right now, including the above Bones
show. The skilled animation in that show feels so wasted.
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