Sleepy girls are so cute 🥰. One of my favorite lucky star scenes is when Miyuki visits Kagamin and Tsukasa just woke up. I also vividly remember seeing Kagami’s sleeping face in the first episode, that really struck a chord. And of course Akari is also very cute when she gets sleepy.

The first part is quite good but where he starts making conclusions he lost me a bit. It doesn’t really explore well why K-ON! has attracted this crowd as opposed to other CGDCT anime.

The argument that the nazis like K-ON! in particular because of its never ending purity (permanently 12) does not make sense. He even describes The Tale of Genji as inducing mono no aware in the viewer, which the character in the story lacks. But K-ON! has very clear themes of mono no aware build in. And the characters do grow up and do realise the end of their ideal youth. This is even one of the must pungent parts of the anime. I mod !kon@lemmy.world and the banner depicts just after that very moment. The value of youth has significance in Japanese culture revered for its fleeting beauty often compared to things like the falling of the sakura leaves and the light of the glowing bug that lives only for one day. You could say that like Genji doesn’t want to see the moving of time in the girl he likes, the nazis try to ignore the mono no aware that is present in K-ON!. But if this is the argument it wasn’t clear to me that this in particular is the argument that is being made. Coming back to the forever 12 thing, there are shows where the characters are in a forever N years old time flow (like Yuru Yuri) so if this is the appeal you would think they would have chosen a show like that.

I also feel like there is a bias in the west against mostly positive shows, put down as empty or just escapism. K-ON! is being compared to siren. And that only dark depressive and gritty media is cool and relevant. If you present an anime that is more positive than real life it is “just escapism” and “unhealthy fantasy”, but if you present an anime more negative than real life all of the sudden “it shows the nature of humanity” or something like that. Dark media is often descriptive, holding a mirror up for us to see ourselves in. On the other hand, fluffy media like K-ON! can be prescriptive instead, inspiring us to work towards a better self and world by giving an example of how things could be. For example in K-ON! instead of practicing very hard they drink a lot of tea. In a world mega focused on achievement, many could benefit from “wasting” a bit of time by drinking tea. There is even a whole arc where Azunyan doesn’t get that but she learns through time. Personally I take some Zen/Daoist messages from such things in CGDCT. “tanoshii wa tanoshii da yo!” - Hirasawa Yui

Of course, !kon@lemmy.world does not have any nazi stuff so come have a look 🥰

I have watched ARIA The Origination Picture Drama, ARIA The Origination sono choppiri himitsu no basho ni and ARIA The Avvenire. Aria always delivers. I only have 2 films left. I think I will save them for a bit later. I don’t want to rush a series like ARIA, I want to luxuriate in it.

Ow, very annoying, sorry to hear that. These Namori sketches will have the wrong source (same link) for a long while before they are correct again. Instagram is not very useable without account so I can’t find the right posts to fix it…

Huh, I didn’t think donmai could have the wrong source since normally you give it the source and it pulls the image from their itself… Can you not see catbox images?

They just put all the characters in one class. Otae is only 18 I believe so not that much older. Compared to dudes like Madao and Kondo. Also Zura is very close to Gin’s age (as seen in the flashbacks in the main series) so he is the same age as the teacher. And god knows how old Eli is! Don’t think to hard about it lol

JOI ga joy!

I really think it is time for you to bust out the sewing kit and try making one. You can practice on old bed sheets and wear that one to see if the pattern wears right on you. This one for example is quite close to this picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyKLEM4ywe8

So good and healing isn’t it 🥰. I did not watch everything after Origination yet. Did you watch recently?

The animation and art of Oomuro-ke is definitely a step up from Yuruyuri.

Glad to hear! I thought it was quite well known but clearly I’m in a bit of bubble when it comes to anime.

I wouldn’t really call Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight comfy compared to other CGDCT anime, but it is very underrated indeed. It has some strong moments when the iyashikei really hits like when Mikan and Mei are on the roof.

Almost all anime I really like are super stereotypical comfy anime, picking one is very difficult. The most underrated is Hidamari Sketch in my opinion. ARIA is also extremely strong. Non Non Biyori is a classic. For a lesser known one I put forward Tanaka wa Itsumo Kedaruge. Apart from that most good CGDCT anime have a strong Iyashikei component to them are very comfy. Classics are Lucky Star, K-ON!, Azumanga Daioh and Ichigo Mashimaro. For more modern takes on this type of anime the newer Kirara anime such as Kiniro Mozaiku, Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka and Yuyushiki are popular under “comfy bros”.

If only Kiniro Mozaiku had as many seasons as Jojos… I’m slightly biased since I mod !kinmoza@lemmy.world

Namori sensei always keeps all the doors open doesn’t she.

I don’t watch this and just found out that it is running now with this post. The 1 minute long pilot episode thingy had Mikashi voicing the main girl which made me interested but now they have swapped her out into a lesser role? That’s too bad in my opinion. Maybe I’ll try watching episode one.

Cool website. It doesn’t rank manga but I guess the anime adaptation is similar. Kind of funny how Yuruyuri is one of the easiest anime even compared to other slice of life. I did read Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei but in English.

I want to read manga but I never get to it. I also have this feeling that if I read manga I should do it in Japanese but last time I tried it was still too difficult and very slow with looking up kanji. I have 10 Nichijou volumes in Japanese at home.

Also Ayano is doing her best Akari impression in the second panel.

I had this in my queue for posting but I didn’t even see Yui et al. in the background!

Interesting to hear, I’m kind of the opposite. I re-watch this type of moments once in a while. The bitter sweet ones like the K-ON moment really get the heart going. And the sweet ones like the Gochiusa moment make me feel that there are good things in the world. Music is indeed very important to get the full iyashikei feeling.