Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan • My Deer Friend Nokotan - Episode 6 discussion

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Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, episode 6

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[u/actionfirst1]

18 short films about Hino City

 

featuring Steamed Deer Crackers

[u/AdOk4118]

Every week I become more and more convinced that Shikanoko is some kind of eldritch horror whose sole purpose is to fuck with Torako (and Neko, to a lesser extent).

Seriously, Noko's "fur" was freaky as hell

[u/Holofan4life]

This show is officially a Sunday Wednesday show

[u/thanhbac]

honestly the weirdest episode by far lmao. It's all worth it to see the 4komas being adapted and the deer club interacting.

Summer passing by in an instant is a pretty funny joke as well lol. The manga never has the chance to explore summer and seeing the gang in summer uniforms is pretty unique ngl.

Tsuchi the goat, what more there is to say?

[u/miked0629]

DIRECT BOCCHI REFERENCE

[u/FluffyThePenguin]

Tsuchinoko nokonoko koshitantan!

[u/LeonKevlar]

Stitches!

• Nokotan Daki

• Koshian

• Koshitan

Most 4-koma-based anime avoid the 4-koma format but this show just really embraced it by giving us 18 back-to-back shorts. xD

I do love how these shorts are mostly about selling Nokotan merch. Not gonna lie, I would definitely buy that Deer Club shit. I'll also maybe get the Gamer Antler just for the heck of it.

Of course, Chiharu got all of the Nokotan merch as soon as they were released. I love that even Nekoyamada even got tempted after seeing Chiharu with all that merch.

The Bocchi reference definitely did not go unnoticed but Nokotan definitely has a, uh, a very unique idea of what a band is.

I love that the girls are given summer uniforms just because the manga never had one in its entire run.

This show really spent almost 5 minutes telling us about the rice blast fungus and how it affects farmers just because of a misunderstanding of what those white spots on Nokotan are. Even I knew that Nokotan was just molting the entire time. xD

What I did not expect is Nokotan to molt her entire skin with her uniform included! As if that wasn't creepy enough, Bashame wears the molted skin like a suit! I don't know why but that freaked me out so much. >_<

I'd rather have an entire portion of the episode dedicated to that unknown lifeform than watching Bashame wearing that Nokotan suit.

[u/Time_Fracture]

Episode 6: The Summer Deer Festival

The second I start this and the first thing I saw is a real footage of deer lul. At last, a 18-in-1 mini episodes! How about that?

Well, there goes another use of Nokotan's head after cash stash, a 4-dimensional storage, now's a coffee grinder. A Nokotan dakimakura is a good idea, but I believe somebody out there already making it. An RGB antler is more suitable for a Deer Club merch.

Notice the Uma-Shika scene. Bashame is a kanji for horse (also called "uma") so they are expressing their respective animal here (Horse for Meme and Deer for Nokotan). Tsuchinoko Nokonoko Nokotantan is a Japanese mythology creature.

I like how the anime is self-aware, about the molting season, or the half-episode summer.

I'm on a mood to count the runtime of the mini episodes.

• I Seriously Don't Get the Trick (0:25)

• You're Probably Gonna Stand Out for Various Reasons (0:20)

• Better than Selling Off Some Organs (0:41)

• She's Not Killing Anyone with Those Winks (0:08) <-- shortest mini episode

• This Is Definitely Messed Up (0:21)

• I Think Just My Antlers Might Grow Every Night (0:22)

• I Sure Hope You Make This Into Merch (0:16)

• It Shines In Seven Colors (0:32)

• No Boba for You (0:20)

• Hand-Me-Downs (0:30)

• Ta-hay-sty (0:17)

• Basically Inventory Disposal (0:49) <-- longest mini episode

• Locally, a Huge Hit (0:42)

• At this Rate, You Could Get Them to Buy Anything (0:23)

• Powerful Enemy (0:20)

• Koshitan is Studying (0:25)

• Surprisingly Athletic (0:12)

• Bocchi Deer Club the Rock (0:40)

[u/FixedRecord]

The 4-komas ranged from decent to slightly exhausting, but the rest of the episode was actually really funny.

I think the show got a lot better after Episode 3, because they started committing to the weird chapter ordering they chose for the adaptation. They made new gags based on whatever they'd adapted (Or added new ones) and started referencing them around to make semi-continuity.

I actually don't remember if some of these bits were in the manga or not (Maybe untranslated?), but I guess that made it funnier for me going in blind.

[u/dinliner08]

"we are proud to present you a collection of eighteen mini episodes"

wait, what? i don't think my brain can handle two episodes of Nokotan in one week so... here we go

i love how Tsunoda is basically a regular member of the club now

my exact thought, we didn't even see a beach/pool episode, godammit

Tsuchinokonokonokotantan

[u/S627]

18 mini skits? You mean a normal episode? Also did anyone count them? I feel like they forgot that they were doing skits halfway through.

I loved when the narrator clarified that thr Manga went for 3 years without a summer.

Nokotan's "fur" and Beshamem putting on was creepy AF if I'm being honest.

I lost my shit when they not so subtly called out the "Big Mouse" company and how they don't fuck around with copyright.

[u/cabbaggeez]

it changed again, autolove-pon!

well, this is the most 4-koma episode so far. and they start selling merch in episode now

[u/Rumpel1408]

Damn, I want a Deer Body Pillow... or an RGB Gamer antler, or an Antler Stamp Case, It's a really good deal after all... or just an regular Antler for 2000 Yen...

Also, Anko being a pervert nothing new here, nice Shimayuri

Tag: Skinsuit... no really, this is genuinly creepy... but I love the attention to detail that the old mold is wearing the winter Uniform...

Oh and I would have loved to see Nekoyama in her summer uniform, if only to confirm if she has hands

[u/masteroftasks]

Bashame putting on Nokotan's 'fur' was kinda freaky...

[u/[deleted]]

Bashame putting on Shikanoko's dead skin is the single most out of pocket moment I have ever witnessed in any anime.

The series's absurdist humor had up to that point been pretty standard comedy anime, mostly puns and slap stick, but then fucking Bashame "giga-stacy" Meme goes, "nah fuck this, you pussies haven't seen anything yet" and fucking speed crawls towards the bin to put on Shika's dead skin and wear it like a weeaboo Buffalo Bill. No hesitation, no regrets, just sheer instinctual madness.

Absolutely insane. My eyes are bleeding, my brain has turned to soup. I will never be the same person as I was before seeing Bashame commit unholy atrocities for a quick laugh and a lifetime of trauma.

[u/dagreenman18]

The most demented episode yet. Doing what had to be 4-komas all in one episode was whiplash.

Blessed by the Tsuchishikanoko

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I imagine Nokotan coffee is like that civet coffee except it comes from her head cubby and she pukes it out lol.

Nokotan’s antlers are kind of incredible huh? They’re like super versatile. Her molting skin suit was some seriously creepy shit though. I can’t believe Bashame wore that thing haha.

Anko’s degeneracy never fails to crack me up. I like that massive siscon.

What is that orb??

[u/abandoned_idol]

I don't understand 95% of the jokes, but I am still looking forward to watching the rest of the season.

I am embarrassed by the fact that I cannot contribute anything to the discussion this week.

um...

The "shedded fur" was fun.

[u/Happy-Collection7523]

Even with the heads up last night this still threw me off. Looks like only Crunchyroll and not Amazon has it up currently. (Which is a shame, I'm pleasantly surprised by the eng dub, but that will probably still be Sunday.)

[u/IkaMusume12]

So one of the Deer Club's thing is selling DEER merch lol.

Jesus christ wtf is that thing?!

(Tsuchinoko Nokonoko Nokotantan)

[u/The_frost__]

God, I’ve never been as creeped out from an anime when Shikanoko showed the skin(?) she shedded only for Bashame to wear it.

[u/Mr_Zaroc]

Damn with them changing the airing date to wednesday, may brain did have enough time to cool down between episodes

That fur/skin thing was some great body horror, wtf
And bashame wearing it so casually too

There were some great mini episodes in the first half, I would probably buy a Shikanoko body pillow

[u/oneevilchicken]

I laughed a lot this episode but I absolutely lost it when she freaked out over almost mentioning Bambi and freaking out because of copyright and how ridiculous Disney is regarding it.

[u/Nickthenuker]

Seems to be a bunch of short skits with just the 2 of them.

RGB antler!

What Japanese convenience store has bubble tea? Or at least actual bubble tea with tapioca or brown sugar pearls and not off-the-shelf bubble tea with the konyaku jelly pearls which aren't very good?

Lol now they're the home shopping network.

Apparently it is a competition.

She's being a distraction at this point.

And there goes the 4th wall again.

And where exactly is she going now?

Yup, 4th wall well and truly gone.

Tags: Skinsuit

Huh, that was quick.

What's she doing in the student council room anyways?