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EP. REVIEW: Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto


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Stark700



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:58 pm Reply with quote
This is one of my favorite shows of the season so far. Quite a nice adaptation with good OP song, themes, and animation. I think the show sells its comedy pretty well too.

Sakamoto's personality is very fun to play around with and I think the show so far did a fairly good job at that. Seeing the manga is complete, I guess we're getting a full adaptation? Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:10 pm Reply with quote
This is probably my top pick of the spring season. I've always had a soft spot for well-written one-note characters, and Sakamoto is one of best examples of this archetype I've seen in quite a while.
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Gina Szanboti



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After two episodes, my take on Sakamoto is that he's spoiler[an alien or some sort of kami on walkabout. He's from a school no one's ever heard of, he talks to animals, can sort of fly, and muses that mankind is an interesting species. He's clearly not from around here... Smile] Whatever the case may be, it's inoffensive fun, and not boring so far.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 1:18 am Reply with quote
Gina Szanboti wrote:
After two episodes, my take on Sakamoto is that he's spoiler[an alien or some sort of kami on walkabout. He's from a school no one's ever heard of, he talks to animals, can sort of fly, and muses that mankind is an interesting species. He's clearly not from around here... Smile] Whatever the case may be, it's inoffensive fun, and not boring so far.


The spoiler[alien] thing occurred to me, too, though I'm not sure I necessarily want this to be the case. Personally, I hope they keep things simple and refrain from delving too far into his backstory. Even if his origins are spoiler[otherworldly or extraterrestrial], it might be funnier to see this broadly hinted at instead of explicitly spelled out.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:00 am Reply with quote
So far this is my second favorite running show next to josukes horrifying series killer adventure. The comedy is extremely refreshing for me. Especially because I can't stand most anime comedy premises. I laugh at gintama a lot, I like the jokes in bleach, sometimes get a rough laugh at other Shonen series but can't stand moe comedy or whatever you call it. This on the other hand is something to laugh your arse off even as someone who feels more attached to Western comedy than anime/ish jokes
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The MC's "secret techniques" are hilarious. He is too damn perfect Very Happy
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Sakamoto still has nothing against Tonnura.
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This is a fun watch. So far each episode managed to make me laugh out loud at least once. In ep 1 it was the fire incident and in ep 2 it was when his fanboys made their order at his work place. Sakamoto is a very cool and eccentric lad. I like his secret techniques.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:44 pm Reply with quote
This show and Tanaka-kun are so much alike. Their main characters are opposites, but the comedy in both is fueled by eccentric side characters interacting with them in a variety of ways, based upon how their eccentricities clash. I love both shows, and how that both can stay fresh.
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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 5:05 pm Reply with quote
I agree that episode three is (currently) the strongest of the bunch. I haven't laughed that hard at an anime since the Osomatsu-san finale. The thumbnail image alone is enough to crack me up.
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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 5:58 pm Reply with quote
sunflower wrote:
This show and Tanaka-kun are so much alike. Their main characters are opposites, but the comedy in both is fueled by eccentric side characters interacting with them in a variety of ways, based upon how their eccentricities clash. I love both shows, and how that both can stay fresh.

I also like to compare these two series to Handa-kun (next season for anime viewers, but the manga's available now). There are so many comparisons to draw between the leads and the way their classmates interact with them... I think Sakamoto and Handa are especially fun to compare, because both have a similarly esteemed reputation among their peers, yet the protagonists' personalities create such different results.
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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2016 10:54 am Reply with quote
Ah, this is such a good show, they just picked a simple, funny concept, and then did it well. I kind of can't get over that it's theoretically seinen, though. Some of the character designs are seinen, but mostly it feels like a genre parody aimed at fujoshi to me, with his over the top special "techniques," and female targeted fanservice.
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Furthermore, while it succeeded in impressing his female admirers, the portrait he drew of Aina looked like something a child would draw. He also had no qualms about taking excessive advantage of his local grocer's free sample tables.

It was actually quite good for a quick sketch that depicted "both [her] inner and outer faces."

The other thing was a bit more intriguing. I read it as most of the people who described what he'd been doing were unreliable reporters, essentially seeing the glamour of Sakamoto and giving their own interpretation of what they were seeing. His layered flashbacks showed what he was actually doing. So putting up safety barriers became "a perfect miming act," evaluating store displays (including the free samples stations) became "a perfectly natural standing party," retrieving a stray cat became graciously allowing a lady the right of way. The see-saw repair was straightforward community service and I think the whack-a-hippo sonata was him just taking a break and having fun. No idea about the herding fish. Laughing

But a lot of Sakamoto's legend in general seems to be people embellishing what they've actually seen. Of course what they've actually seen is often pretty jaw-dropping without embellishment!
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At least once per episode, I'm driven to question whether Sakamoto possesses superhuman (or even supernatural) powers.


Same here, and I really hope they keep the audience guessing instead of explicitly revealing that he's some sort of alien or otherworldly being. So far, my money's on him being a cartoonishly capable human, but I don't have the best track record on these things. (I actually believed Karasuma from School Rumble was an alien right up until the end of the first season.)
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2016 1:49 pm Reply with quote
Episode 5
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Sakamoto's (feigned?) ignorance of Hayabusa's bad vibes...

I think he was aware - a little birdie told him.

I still don't quite get why he nailed Kubota with the baseball, but the shirt ripping reminded me of Rocky Horror Picture Show when the audience yells to Janet, "More bandages! This man is hurt! We need more bandages!" Smile

I most enjoyed the girls turning into attack dogs to score the prize of a Sakamoto mold.
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