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sourpatchthekid
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Yeah Osomatsu-san's 1st episode officially doesn't exist anymore, not even on the Japanese blu-ray. |
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meiam
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Really like this, not enough to rematch the same thing twice (I just skip to the stuff I think are gonna be different, the VA skits was great), but it's a ton of fun.
Half the joke don't land, but who care when the next joke is only 10 seconds away. |
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shterraarson
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Personal favorite jokes so far:
1. Are you upset? I'm not upset 2.Do it. 3.Felt cut outs, idol song 4.Attack of the POPU-CLONES 5. 7:00am Rage 6. I AM GOD 7.Feeding pigeons |
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DJStarstryker
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Yeah, count me as one of the people who simply doesn't get this show. I generally try to give shows at least 4 episodes before dropping it if I don't like it. A few shows have gotten 2-3. Pop Team Epic is, and likely will always be, my personal record holder of how fast I dropped it. I couldn't even put up with half of an episode.
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Shadowrun20XX
 Posts: 1935 Location: Vegas |
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Ya got to be seasoned to get the jokes. Its full of obscure references you had to live through.
You aren't missing much, explaining them is a waste of time. |
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encrypted12345
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Streaming services usually only get the most typical version of a stream, which usually means the most censored version of the stream. It's the same reason why fan service heavy shows are censored on Crunchyroll.
Some shows you just "get", and this is a prime example of that. Don't worry about giving this the three episode rule. One episode should be sufficient if you're compatible with this show or not. I was kind of expecting the review to give a question mark rating because of that. Even I can't really give a letter rating based off my personal tastes. All I can honestly say is that I was entertained. |
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Animegomaniac
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I've seen antihumor before and I found it to be funny though that may be an oxymoron. Guy follows ant for ten minutes in a twelve minute show... though that particular episode was 20 minutes to account for the size of the ant segment. It was a very small ant, you see... I mean you couldn't see it. Later repeats took that out so you can't see it. Do you see?
What I saw of Pop Team Epic was Reference Humor or "Oh I get that reference. Ha." humor. Completely repeating the episode was closer to antihumor but it's also just repeating the Reference humor. If the second half was just the two girls staring at each other, that would have been antihumor. Reference humor is for the audience while antihumor is on the audience. Let's see how finely I pin these two down... Antihumor desired audience reaction, Andy Kaufman levels of troll: "Where's the joke?" Reference humor desired audience reaction. "That's the joke." Or in short, if you figure out where the joke should be then it's not antihumor, it's just not funny. |
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Jayhosh
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Stop being a sheep and expecting other peoples' opinions to have any relevancy to you and just watch it yourself. Anime of the season right here, the best shows are always the ones that rustle the most jimmies. The OP is unironically amazing. |
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XerneasYveltal
 Posts: 668 Location: Philippines |
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My comprehension towards Pop Team Epic is quite so limited, and yet, it never ceases to make me tweet much about it.
In my book, "so bad, it's good" sums up the best way to describe Pop Team Epic. They say it's trashy as hell, and yet, it's also deemed to be a guilty pleasure to check out. |
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Zin5ki
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The second episode is a notable improvement. To see the fourth wall suffer a constant onslaught in its first sketch, to the extent that one questions whether this is still anime at all, really helps to set the tone of irreverence. The confrontational Love Live parody and Instagram fortune-teller proved to be the icing on the cake.
At a low dose of fifteen minutes per week, I think I can enjoy having my comedic expectations betrayed so heartily. |
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AksaraKishou
Posts: 1410 Location: End of the World |
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I was going to make fun (just a bit) of Ai Kago, but when searching a bit... damn, that girl didn't have the easiest of lives... 
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Sahmbahdeh
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Best jokes in Pop Team Epic so far in no particular order:
-The super-long xylophone -Clone Popuko and M-Bison Pipimi -The futon that forces you to fall asleep -Waking up at 7PM -Hitman Popuko/Pipimi -The storyboard gag (and the zoom-in at the end was excellent) -"I'll die if I see a spiky word-bubble" -The episode 1 Hoshiiro Girldrop fake-out (and running gag) -How impressively hideous Bob Epic Team is And while not really jokes per se, the stop-motion dance sequence was legitimately well-done. Mad props to the team for fully committing to the ridiculousness of the premise. Also, the OP is legitimately one of the best of the season. |
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Lyrai
Posts: 173 Location: Potatoes (Idaho) |
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There's heavy speculation that Bob Epic Team is made by the same people who did the GAL-O SENGEN Music Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M). It's apparently their thing, purposely hideous art style.
Honestly I find it purposely hideous to the point of having this bizarre charm. Like it's so purposely bad on purpose that it wraps around and becomes charming. Also I just kind of hope one of the segments is a remake of the Galo Sengen video because I still love it. |
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TheCanipaEffect
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It's not really speculation lol, AC-bu is in the credits. |
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Yazu13
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Okay, I somehow made it through the first episode out of morbid curiosity, and I'm actually impressed this even exists. Somebody had to greenlight this, then a team had to animate it, voice actors did the voices, a television station had to willingly broadcast it, and everyone got a paycheck for one of the most aggressively nonsensical things I've ever witnessed. It's like a meme that went out of control, or a prototype AI made a script for something using random internet knowledge and Japan animated that script. I don't think I can handle any more, but I do know what I'm showing someone if I ever need to torture them in my basement.
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