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EP. REVIEW: My Deer Friend Nokotan


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bassgs435



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2024 2:44 pm Reply with quote
I still enjoy the show. I see all the complaints and go: "OK. Still funny". Too bad it's not working for some. I guess given the marketing push, it can be dissapointing when it doesn't work as expected. But, it's still funny for me. So, will keep watching.
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maric



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:36 pm Reply with quote
TheReticent wrote:
Though in the second episode I did laugh at Nokotan ascending to heaven while the tune 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' plays. How many people in Japan are actually going to know that song?


I think it's actually pretty known in Japan (there's even a Japanese version with 2.5m views on youtube). I remember it featured pretty prominently in both Night on the Galactic Railroad and Anne of Green Gables as well
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TheReticent



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:13 am Reply with quote
You learn something new every day! From what I remember, it was also played in Titanic as the last song by the string quartet as the ship sinks.
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YagamiBlackstone255



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 2:35 pm Reply with quote
This show went from being delightful quirky fun to being the next EX Arm.
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bassgs435



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 2:40 pm Reply with quote
YagamiBlackstone255 wrote:
This show went from being delightful quirky fun to being the next EX Arm.

How? This is an exaggeration. Why is it that if a show isn't the peak of the medium and it's genre, it's automatically utter trash and the worst thing ever?. What happened to nuance? Where did all the numbers beetween 0 and 10 go on the scoring scale?. I feel people are too extreme in their opinions in both ways: they're too quick to throw shows in the "ultra garbage" pile or the "super peak fiction" pile. And nuance is dead.
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YagamiBlackstone255



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 4:36 pm Reply with quote
I wasnt speaking of what I felt about the show I meant THE REVIEWERS take on the show. And that's a pretty good question actually, the reviewer didn't give a numbered review, but some sort of meme that's supposed to be funny? I was defending the show, it really doesnt deserve this treatment and it doesnt paint a good picture of ANN. I understood EX Arm was awful but this didn't really warrant it.
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bassgs435



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 5:07 pm Reply with quote
Oh OK. Sorry for the misunderstanding then. About the reviews: we can blame marketing. Marketing leaned too much into the meme brainrot shitpost angle and now reviews are following that spirit even if the show is not quite that far into the meme shitpost brainrot as could be expected, instead being more like a more absurd and gag based typical CGDCT
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jdnation



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 5:12 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, I have to echo my feelings about the show growing less enthusiastic with each episode.

Ep 1 was great. 2 and 3 were pretty boring. 4 is better with several good chuckles. Hopefully it picks up.

Nichijou, this ain't.

OP is still catchy though.
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YagamiBlackstone255



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 5:41 pm Reply with quote
jdnation wrote:
Yeah, I have to echo my feelings about the show growing less enthusiastic with each episode.

Ep 1 was great. 2 and 3 were pretty boring. 4 is better with several good chuckles. Hopefully it picks up.

Nichijou, this ain't.

OP is still catchy though.


The best and saddest part is that Nichijou was a flop in Japan, but people abroad loved it.
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 7:03 pm Reply with quote
Christopher Farris wrote:
That doesn't make any sense, girls can't eat paper!


We learned that a while ago in K-ON! (or was it K-ON!!) when Ritsu failed to eat the receipt for Sawako's old guitar.
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tintor2



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:31 am Reply with quote
Drugs in this anime? No wonder deer can be considered such wild animals. Shikanoko is responsible. Still, the one that killed me was the second episode for putting an even more insane siscon than Yuri from Spy X Family.
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Jose Cruz



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:14 am Reply with quote
Piglet the Grate wrote:
Christopher Farris wrote:
That doesn't make any sense, girls can't eat paper!


We learned that a while ago in K-ON! (or was it K-ON!!) when Ritsu failed to eat the receipt for Sawako's old guitar.


It was in K-ON!!.
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zfunk



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 9:37 pm Reply with quote
I didn't learn there was dub till I read this latest review. And the dub is not bad, same with the show, it is not bad.

Some of the more stupid stuff I find endearing, no pun intended.
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 9:58 pm Reply with quote
According to this article, the wrapping paper for deer crackers is edible: https://www.japanesewiki.com/culture/Shika%20senbei%20(deer%20crackers).html

You will have to splice together the URL, since something in the coding does not like the parenthesis.
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tintor2



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 6:58 am Reply with quote
What the heck is going on with Shikanoko's life? She just entered into a zoo, shared time with the animals and left.
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