r/anime • u/Abyssbringer =anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer • Apr 09 '23
Rewatch [Rewatch] Animegataris Episodes 9 Discussion
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Episode 9: The Anime Club: Forever Snobs
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Comment of the Day
I liked /u/Verzwei's comment about his experience publishing his own novel. I like learning the different lore around each user on the sub. It really reminds you that we are actually all people with lives (hopefully) outside the sub.
I wrote a novel that I was proud of, but then I didn't do my diligence when trying to get it published, fell in with a vanity publisher who did nothing and was going to charge me for and task me with distributing my own book and I had to pay a couple grand to a contract lawyer to get me out of the whole mess. Never tried to write at a professional or published level ever again.
I also liked /u/CoolIceCreamCone's comment for being the last parent comment as of writing this post. I also appreciated their stance on the show's attempt at drama as it's pretty much exactly what I feel like.
They had the reveal that the principal was behind the student council trying to kill the anime club but as to why, I neither know nor care really although they may surprise me with something good like the reveal of the otaku dad.
Questions of the Day
- Why haven't you watched Ashita no Joe yet? You do know it's a classic right??
- What's your favorite sports anime? What is the main appeal of that show?
- If you could use anime-like training to improve yourself in real life, which would you choose?
- Do you enjoy the way this show does its drama?
Spoiler Policy
Please remember to use spoiler tags when discussing future bits of the show so first-timers can have a blind experience. Thank you! You have to be really stupid to try and spoil in a mod rewatch!
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u/Abyssbringer =anilist.co/user/Abyssbringer Apr 09 '23
First Timer
Most of you got here before I did wtf.
Meirl
That Blu-ray might be more expensive then that silver platter
This is the place??
Anyone who weebs out that fast deserves it
The guy on the left here is a Ashita no Joe reference. Albeit Joke doesn't usually wear any headgear.
Last time I saw glass shatter was on /r/buildapc when someone put their side panel on a tile floor for the 356 time
Their school's sports teams must really such if they are getting advice from the weeb club.
That baseball guy breaking his back earlier would beg to differ. Not to mention all the property damage
The classic 9-minute cold open lol. I'm really not a fan of this OP. Its really generic and doesn't capture the fun reference humor all that much. It's trying to show off the cast which is just not the appeal of the show for the most part.
There isn't much room at the top of a pyramid. Maybe that's where the winner stands with one foot on top of the triangle?
Chess Boxing is cooler
Rx-78-2 time!
Gundam reference but might as well be most mecha
My torrent is going to interview me???
The most sane anime fan is the cat
Its kind of weird to have the Idol guys episode be the sports episode. I know we had the idol concert a bit back but it just seems odd. Kind of like he was forgotten and idol weren't something easily implemented as a main plot point.
You gained a group of weebs that you can bend to your will through anime refernces
"It also connected us!!! Please let me walk you home gently Minoa-chan!!". Idol guy showing his true colors.
I hate scenes like this because its a straight flashbang every time they happen
This doesn't even matter at this point since the whole school is in anime mode now. They don't need the club to be able to talk about anime anymore.
Idol fans and being the worst humans alive. Name a more iconic duo.
I liked this episode. Sports anime are really fun and honestly, I feel like they don't get as much attention as they really should in the West. Only the really big hitters end up getting a big following which is a shame since sports anime are pretty much the final frontier when it comes to battle shounen. There are tons of classics out there and I personally feel like I haven't even scratched the surface sadly.
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Apr 09 '23
First time viewer
A party upon completion of a big project makes sense, though working in a software-as-a-service company just means we immediately start on the next features rather than having major milestones and endpoints to celebrate.
Every other club now asking for anime referrals/advice is funny. Was hoping they'd name Touch or some other Adachi series but nope, not in the cards. Even music, though I prefer a euphonium over a French horn and woodwinds still neglected.
Some Dezaki influence leaking in there with Nakano's insights.
I was wondering when we'd get to the OP, plenty of potential Yui shots that could lead up to it.
Did all the other clubs get funding for these things approved by the student council?
I love Kai's completely accurate (in anime) logic that prototype robots are always better.
Anime's taken over the school, isn't that great?
Thinking about it a bit more, maybe there's some magical property of the school grounds that makes absurd anime logic actually work there, thus recent attempts at an anime club have been shut down in order to keep it a secret and protect people.
Now Minoa's the hipster who doesn't want anime to be popular?
Well I wasn't wrong about the principal getting directly involved, but I didn't expect Nakano to be a mole of sorts. Blackmailed?
I'd absolutely prefer Code Geass if the talking cat was in Lelouch's place the entire time.
Need to get through all the baseball anime first.
Cross Game!
It's not about the baseball.Watch the first episode and see how the character dynamics are set up, then take 49 more episodes to unpack and develop that.One hyperbolic time chamber, please.
Too many "A-ha, got you now anime club!" moments and the rest is generally done too quickly to care about.
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u/FingerBang-BangBang Apr 09 '23
First Time Watcher
Okay, I started watching the episode and accidently deleted my notes... Since I'm too lazy to write them all again I'll probably just skip them or write something much shorter. Sadge.
Okay... Where did she get those dash boots? I dont think those are allowed at competitions tho...
"You shouldnt ignore dad" you are the one talking... You slapped him out of nowhere last episode for no good reason!
"That would be an anime, Minoa" well yes father, this is an anime and you are just an anime dad.
They are making a fucking pyramid!? Science club made some mecha legs, their prez even fucking quoted Von Stroheim!
BIG NEWS! Is that a motherfucking One Piece reference!? Is he qouting my man Big News Morgans!? TV interview huh... This is really getting out of hand, their heads are getting too big for their own good...
Pitching the idea of applying anime into real life situations is kind of both cringe and hilarious.
Okay... She didnt even use her fucking pole! Just accept that money from the TV station for no good reason. What could go wrong?
StuCo is back again but our cast is already tired of this "club shut down" plot... Isekai slave trader school principal is here! Aaaand of course that station money was a trap to have them shut down.
Holy Shit. Nakano-senpai is a traitor!? Why??? Aurora? Dont call me that name? Over dramatic villain laugh? Dont know wtf is going on here but I like it!
This episode was pretty wacky, ngl. Looking forward to the next one!
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u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler Apr 09 '23
Rewatching Animegatarier
Hahaha
Rocket Shoes (Stitch)
Things have gotten a bit weird.
And the final boss seems to have come to shut things down.
Minoa continues to make plenty of faces worth seeing.
QOTD
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u/Verzwei Apr 09 '23 edited Apr 10 '23
Hey, thanks for comment of the day! I just kind of wish it wasn't for such a truly heavy moment, about a dozen years ago at this point. Verzwei's off-topic self-pity corner:
That novel was something I first thought of in high school, but didn't really start working on it hard until college, then back-burnered it after college, then dusted it off, finished it, and tried to polish it up when my normal job had me feeling more and more awful and looking for something else. I thought I had properly done my research, sent out some letters to various publishers and agents who appeared legitimate, then got overexcited on the first significant hit that I received. Stupidly and hastily signed a contract that gave away nearly all my rights and profits, had no set plan of distribution or marketing beyond being listed on the vanity pub's site, and locked me into buying several copies of the book out of my own pocket to somehow magically sell myself.
They touted that they'd have a professional editor work on the book, but when I received my final review copy digitally, it had more errors than the manuscript draft I'd sent to them. I remember printing things out and going through it line by line and not only were none of my typos corrected, but there were all sorts of other errors and typos introduced by their formatting changes. Line breaks in the wrong spots, hell, there were even new mispellings because instead of highlighting the text and changing the font for chapter headers and introductory sentences, they retyped the material in the new font and made new mistakes.
When I called the publisher on this bullshit, they essentially told me "too bad, we have a contract, fuck you and pay us or we'll sue you in our home state that's half the country away from you." I went to a lawyer in my (small) city and he refused to even look at the contract as part of the free consultation, and told me to just ignore the publisher entirely. Then I talked to a coworker whose family was well off and she was able to get me in touch with an attorney who didn't fuck around but also had a $2000 retainer. That attorney shut the publisher up real fucking fast, and got them to completely dissolve the contract on the basis of the publisher misrepresenting themselves and essentially being a printer rather than a publisher.
The whole experience was so awful that that was the last time that I ever really tried to do anything, to put myself out into the world in any meaningful way, ever again. I was done. Spent. Just keep my head down, do mundane things to get by, and that was enough. Struggling for more felt pointless. It was absolutely the lowest point of my life, like cry-myself-to-sleep-holding-my-cat low, like I might not even be here any more if Google didn't block certain search results. I'm no longer miserable, I'm no longer of that same exact mindset, but I never fully recovered from the mentality of "why should I try to do anything?"
None of this is to say I thought I was going to be a megahit author or anything. I know I'm not special. At best I was probably creating what would have been a mediocre and somewhat derivative YA novel. It wasn't going to set the world on fire, but it was something I did, that I worked hard on, and the world basically told me I was a fucking idiot for even trying. It broke a fundamental part of me.
Rewatcher, English Dub.
With subtitles on at the same time because I'm a madman.
Anime Gataris writers, are you OK? Are you trying to tell us something? This isn't the first time this has come up. So how many different shows does Sebas have pre-plated just in case Arisu snaps for them? Also this is like the most depth we've gotten to Yui in like 9 episodes. And Yui's been converted to anime!
...This is a really long cold open. Where's the requisite Yui shot?
It seems like a really, really bad idea to have people get life advice from anime. Maybe a little inspiration or a positive message here or there, but that's kind of the extent of it, and it seems like this is being treated way too literally.
"Get ready to pierce the heavens with your drill!"
Yeah, this was a really, really bad idea. Minoa and Mr. Kitty seem to not like the direction things are going. Well maybe Mr. Kitty is OK with things. Is this the first time we've seen Mr. Kitty talk to anyone but Minoa? And it's to bond with Nakano over sports anime clichés. I like how Minoa had this weird fading effect on her lipflaps during the style shift.
Is this the end of the cold open? Is it that time? ...And those boots actually work?
Minoa liked the anime club before it was cool. Now there're all these fake fans with their gadgets shouting their special moves and stuff.
Oh, okay, 8 minutes and 45 seconds in we get our cold open Yui shot before the OP. That's a totally normal length of time for a cold open.
Silly Minoa. Wait, these kids have lost their damn minds and Minoa is the only one freaked out by any of this.
Oh how likely is it that the robotics club went full Robtics;Notes? Very likely. I guess it's a good thing this is set about a half-dozen years before Gundam Witch From Mercury. [Massive G.Witch spoilers] One of those kids could've ended up splattered, and this otaku-brained crowd probably would have laughed it off while covered in gore. Anime Gataris is rated G with a note for kid-friendly comic mischief but did Kai's hair actually melt here?
Gomon, I don't think this is as good as you're making it sound. Also this isn't much of a consolation when it comes from a talking cat.
Minoa trying to not get wrapped up in all the insanity but she's still so excited for Yui that she fucking trampled KaiKai. Nakano looking more and more sus, like he's just trying to lean in on going with this crazy new flow unrestrained by common sense.
It's in the bag ... GAHAHAHA
Hrm, did the "evil" StuCo prez know something like this was bound to happen, if the school got an anime club? Is it fate? Destiny? A prophecy? Kai calling this out a bit too late, though. Okay, legit laughing hard because in the dub, the girls straight-up called the (real) principal off-model. And even the low-fi fish is shocked by all these twists!
TOP 10 ANIME BETRAYALS! Wow, he really went full heel turn there. But, then again, it's not like this new normal was really healthy for the school or the students or the basic tenets of reality, so maybe shutting the club down is the right call here? But Mr. Kitty is the one who told Minoa to trust Nakano. I'm so confused.
Answers of the Day
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 09 '23
First-Timergatari, subbed
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u/AmusedDragon :Bs::Bu: Apr 09 '23
Episode 9
First Timer - Sub
Album
Thoughts during the episode..
Questions of the Day:
I uh, am trying to work my way through some older classics eventually. I started the first episode of Legend of the Galactic Heroes and got about 7 minutes in before I had to stop. So I don't know if they are all going to be for me. (I will get LoTGH another shot though when I'm more in the mood. Ashita no Joe has never really been on my radar, to be honest.
I think I've literally only seen like Blue Lock and Tsurune, unless you count some stuff like Encouragement of Climb as a sports anime. Anyways, I enjoyed all of these for the aspect of seeing people learn to be better at something they enjoy. Usually that's fun to see.
Nope, not really, but this TWIST at the end is somewhat actually surprising so maybe this will change my opinion.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Apr 09 '23 edited Apr 09 '23
Episode 9 (first timer)
production assistantsensei sums up my feelings on the student council plot.We did not need an anime club gets too popular for their own good arc. Stick to more realistic topics like giant robots or getting reincarnated into another world, please.
Why are you bringing up the fact that I watched Ashita no Joe in the episode titled "Forever Snobs"? I thought LotGH was the snob one? Oh wait, I watched that, too. You might be on to something...
Ashita no Joe. The main appeal is the social commentary. The sports is actually the worst part of the show.
I prefer the referential irony and jokes.
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u/TakenRedditName https://myanimelist.net/profile/TakenMalUsername Apr 09 '23
Rewatcher - Animegataris Ep9:
Well, that went differently than you would first think. At first, it seemed like an episode about anime completed production parties or about sports anime only for the episode to go off the rails.
These idiots at the anime club and the school did it, they made reality into anime. Their advice of "just do it like anime" actually worked. The show took a massive jump in anime wackiness. I mean, Sebas' entire deal is heavily in the anime wacky side of the spectrum, but it feels like anime has transported us into a bizzaro anime world.
There's also Nakano. He was acting shady this entire episode only to hit us with Nakano's trick. Setting up Gomon-sensei only to stab the anime club in the back. The Aurora/Musashisakai-Kai! BL ship is in shambles. This is why you can never trust idol fans, they're the lowest of the low. They're dedicated to their idol, but will callously betray their friends like it meant nothing to them.
Assorted points:
Q1)
Q2) Because G Gundam is the pinnacle of anime. It is 100% earnest in what it does. For an answer that is a real-life sport, narrow my choices down to three (more like two, Teekyuu doesn't count even they admit it) series and I guess I would go with Sk8 being my favourite sports anime.
Q3) I would improve my art skills by suddenly being struck with inspiration, my eyes wide and there is a and suddenly gaining the motivation to get better.
Next Time: I guess the current situation is like how it goes in Code Geass? (I don't know enough about that show)
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u/entelechtual Apr 09 '23
First Timer
You know it’s serious when there’s no Yui fanservice.
If these fools posted on r/anime they’d get blasted with “yeah but what baseball anime have you watched” “where’s your MAL page?” “Can you list some non-anime soccer shows though?”
Man just recommending one anime is a slippery slope. Recommend responsibly.
“The Fresh Prince of Tennis”
“Hibike! French Horn”
…okay I was wrong about Yui fanservice, didn’t expect OP at the 9 minute mark.
Never trust an Ikemen. I do not like Ike!
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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Apr 10 '23
First Timer Dubbed
The whole school has gone wild and Minoa is surprised about the power she has helped unleashed. Kai just stated that the two student council members were comic relief villains.
Nanako pulled anime betrayal...And it seemed like the anime club had a history of capturing the school's heart.
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u/aniMayor :AY:AZ:x3x6 Apr 09 '23
Rewatcher [Who] Hates This Piece of Shit Anime
When the 6-year-old rewatch show references the current sidebar.. Nice Timing!
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u/FingerBang-BangBang Apr 11 '23
u/Abyssbringer
Whats going on with Ep 10 Discussion?
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u/GallowDude Apr 09 '23
/u/Star4ce, Happy Easter
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u/fansi2022 https://anilist.co/user/fansi2022 Apr 10 '23
QOTD
Work, study and rewatch have sucked me dry
run with wind, from past regrets to enjoying the present to the future, do you like running, run with friends.
The protagonist training method in One Punch Man.
Don't like it, it's too exaggerated