I have been watching Sayonara Zetsubou sensei lately. Also Pani Poni Dash! is an interesting watch.

• Hidamari Sketch
• Lucky Star
• Non Non Biyori
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
• Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka?
• Tanaka kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

Hidamari Sketch is very underrated and is much less well known than it’s contemporaries like Lucky Star, but it’s basically the comfiest thing ever. Any CGDCT/SOL could work for this (Nichijou, Yuyushiki, Kiniro Mozaiku, K-ON!, …) but I specifically chose shows with a slower tempo.

I don’t know of a source explaining why he chose this artist name. It does seem to be his real name according to the japanese wikipedia article (本名: 新井 圭一), however the kanji do not dictate the use of ゐ over い. So it’s most likely an artistic consideration (as does happen often with artist/stage names). He chose to use a hiragana version over the usual kanji version to begin with, which could also be done for style.

I watched a whole show (shikanoko) this season. So yea banger season, almost never happens lol.

She’s gonna have to mop the floor with Sakurako after this.

Interesting mix of western and eastern calligraphy in the title. They do connect strokes within characters and also between characters (especially in kana shodo), but those flourishes are definitely western.

The best I can make of it is through deepl: it maps ぽやぽや to “carefree”, “carelessly” or “pampering”. “すぐ” precedes it meaning “immediately”, “at once”, “right away”. Taking in the context: it is done on paper and not digitally, and that there is some whiteout at the bottom. Also the hair colour goes outside the lines. All this combined makes me think that it means that the drawing was done “from a loose hand”, meaning with some pace and without excessive construction like a detailed sketch. I don’t think it is done completely without sketching though, as the top left strand of her right (our left) twintail there seems to be a sketchline the inked lines.

Lots of Akarins including sleepy Akari 🥰.

Our blond gremlin turned 13 yet again lol

Me realizing I will be gin-chan’s age not so far into the future (where did the time go):

Also don’t you dare be single if you are a day older than 25 in anime lol.

I thought so, they are probably just milking the popular title with this new stuff.

Crazy, Fairy Tail above nokotan. Sometimes I forget how action brained the average anime fan is. I watched all of FT before this release and I remember nothing from the last 50% of it. I guess they fought a lot or something lol.

As a slice of life guy I don’t really watch long anime anymore. Years ago, Jojos was the last one over 100 ep that I saw. The longest slice of life anime I have seen is the terrific and absolute classic “Hidamari Sketch” coming in at a bit over 60 eps.

There seem to be a bunch of versions, I have no clue which ones are real, edited, actually used, remakes, etc.

Yea, I have seen it quite a few memes and media lately.

Nice perspective on this one. I like the roll too.

I haven’t seen the episode where the first three are introduced yet. Apart from being slice of life I wouldn’t say the shows are very similar. However, the blond girl (Koshi-tan) is a tsundere, in the student council and voiced by Fujita Saki (Ayano).

When I see her with her recorder, I remember the opening scene of season 1 episode 1. I think it is the very best opening scene I have seen.

The title is indeed Chinese, the translation said it reads “Ababababa” which is something Kaos-chan says when she is shocked or gets anxious (examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvlZ0oEtaM).

Let’s all love Lain!