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EP. REVIEW: Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

fantaselion wrote:

Arale Kurashiki wrote: It's not funny because it's not actually a comedy, it's an excuse. Like so much other recent anime and manga, lol. THERE IT IS! THE LOL!!!

I don't even know what that particular post is even supposed to mean by "it's not actually a comedy, it's an excuse".

At the same time, he's secretly super jacked, and all these girls have crushes on him too, because even though he apparently has such a “scary face” and doesn't even care about what other people think of him, he could totally get laid if he wanted to.

And I agree with Blood that part of the fun is just listening to Uzaki talk. She speaks... according to background info,spoiler[ she's not supposed to speak with an accent]... yes, a spoiler on this show, the irony... but that's not normal accented Japanese. Part of it is the slang she uses but she also runs words together...
Right, I think of the main accents of Japanese as Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto and as a non-speaker, I can't break it done any further than that. Central, North, West and to me, Uzaki sounds north.
And the voice actress is from Osaka. In regards to the spoiler bit, it's not an ideal situation.

Animegomaniac wrote:

And I agree with Blood that part of the fun is just listening to Uzaki talk. She speaks... according to background info,spoiler[ she's not supposed to speak with an accent]... yes, a spoiler on this show, the irony... but that's not normal accented Japanese. Part of it is the slang she uses but she also runs words together... Right, I think of the main accents of Japanese as Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto and as a non-speaker, I can't break it done any further than that. Central, North, West and to me, Uzaki sounds north. And the voice actress is from Osaka. In regards to the spoiler bit, it's not an ideal situation.

She speaks perfectly "normal accented" (i.e. standard Tokyo-based) Japanese. The only thing that's remotely remarkable is her clipping the "desu" to "ssu", which is something lots of people do in casual speech and isn't really associated with a specific region nowadays (although it is said to have originated in the Tohoku region, as a local adaptation of the standard "desu" in a region whose dialects traditionally lacked such politeness markers, so I guess there is a grain of truth to her "sounding north").

As for the "main accents", Osaka and Kyoto are both Kansai dialects and the differences between them in terms of pronunciation and grammar are fairly minor - and the differences in vocabulary and the overall cadence of speech tend to get exaggerated in media in accordance with the wildly different stereotypes associated with the residents of the two cities. The most traditional way to divide Japanese dialects is East vs. West, with Kansai dialects seen as most representative of western Japan and Tokyo historically having an eastern dialect that was strongly influenced by western ones. There are also other ways of subdividing the Japanese language area that treat certain dialect groups as distinct enough to be excluded from the overall East/West dichotomy. Some confusion may also arise when translating literally from Japanese because A) in common parlance the traditional speech varieties of the Ryukyu islands are treated as dialects whereas in linguistics they are usually seen as separate languages, both from Japanese and from each other, and B) Japanese speakers tend to use the English word "accent" in a very specific way, meaning "pitch accent", which has its own regional groupings that don't always neatly align with divisions between dialect groups.

Hands up who else thinks Cute (and occasionally heartwarming) Slice Of Life and/or Adorable Fanservice (with Action) Series that cater to Healthy Adolescent Male Fantasies should be reviewed by an Anime Fans who are not feminists who detest cuteness/sexiness/Moe, and actually LIKE said genres (and accompanying Character designs) enough to give them a fair, impartial go?

Because Animenewsnetwork reviewers of late has repeatedly tried to smear series like "Fire Force", "Nekopara" and "Uzaki-chan" as unwatchable "sexist" garbage, when they are anything but, simply because they are non-feminist works that allow male viewers to vicariously live out erotic but ultimately chaste and harmless (if not often heartwarming) boyhood fantasies of love?

Only the Japanese would think of subdividing their speech between "Tokyo" and "not Tokyo".

And with this sort of "West versus East" thinking, Osakan isn't even a choice?[...] It's as bad as putting Joisey, Bronx, Brooklyn and Boston as all the same sound.

What I hear is not precise diction and there's a lot of apostrophes and drawn out sibilants; Uzaki isn't representing Osaka, she's repressentin' it.

I think of Kyoto as flowery and airy, archaic but flowing. Osaka is all brash, crass and brass and only Tokyoites... wanting to raise Tokyo Japanese as the PROPER way to say the language... would put the two together. To me, it's comparing light honey and thick oil with "Tokyo" being baselined as water.

Because Animenewsnetwork reviewers of late has repeatedly tried to smear series like "Fire Force", "Nekopara" and "Uzaki-chan" as unwatchable "sexist" garbage, when they are anything but, simply because they are non-feminist works that allow male viewers to vicariously live out erotic but ultimately chaste and harmless (if not often heartwarming) boyhood fantasies of love?

The anime has been pretty faithful so far. All these jokes and scenarios come right from the first few chapters so far: the vibrating chair, the stuck in a bush, the cafe owner. Was it the same reviewer? Whoever reviewed the manga might not have as much of a hang up on boob joke as who is reviewing the anime. Although I suppose it's easier to notice jiggling boobs in animation than in still images (the massage chair scenes, for example) Boobs are just one aspect of her character, though.