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K-ON is certainly made for men but notably it is very popular among women. This is kinda rare for CGDCT. Maybe it has to do with the female director giving it a certain touch that resonates with women.

The appeal of CGDCT is not singular. Innocence is certainly a part of why girls are chosen. But also, it needs to be cute and to most only girls are cute. Neither is the innocence universally applied and there are often not so innocent girls included in the cast. For example Konata in Lucky Star says some really not innocent things yet she is a popular moe character.

In the end, dudes rather looking at girls than at guys is still an important factor I think. Somehow being straight makes you like girls more even if you are not romantically or sexually attracted to those girls.

Aaah Asobi Asobase. My favorite moment is Fujiwara speaking broken Japanese and then awakening her kobun. And quite an interesting colour palette the show has.

Because cars are quite complex and they move around they are time consuming and expensive to animate. Especially if a car turns and rotates relative to the camera, that is quite the job. They also are an object with familiar geometry so it needs to look correct and consistent, unlike character heads and faces for which we accept a lot of artistic liberty to be taken.

It comes down to some options:

• draw it well (takes a lot of resources)
• CGI but integrated very well by tracing over it by hand (also expensive)
• draw it using reasonable resources (probably won’t turn out very well)
• CGI but don’t redraw each frame (CGI will jump out as being CGI)

I remember the first episode of Non Non Biyori. Beautiful intro, one of my favorite introduction moments. The only thing that takes me out of it a bit are those ugly ass CGI cars lol. They really stand out!

For an example of good car animation? I don’t watch much things with cars in it but in Lucky Star episode 6 it starts off well. They are either drawn or CGI that is traced over. When the initial D parody starts, the outside of it is clearly CGI, but the inside is drawn/traced. When you see the camera panning around the car, you can see that it would take a lot of time to trace each frame to make it blend into the art style and background. Maybe the CGI look has to do with the anime they are referencing, I didn’t watch it.

Omg they’re even bigger than the Haruhi plushies from last month. And that girl gets to pose with all of them. I think they have outgrown her lol.

Ah yea, I do like michishirube!

I don’t remember what happened exactly anymore when they weave in the main story but I remember it being quite touching. I also love the ending theme and its music video on YT. It definitely reveals things not revealed in the main series so definitely a must watch for fans indeed.

I almost only watch comfort anime… So all my favorite CGDCT and Iyashikei anime.

Kogepan. From 2001, ten very short episodes of about 3 minutes, 4 if you include the OP and ED. About a bread that is baked too long and is burned. Most other breads are pristine. A story about silly anthropomorphised breads but it’s quite human. It is surprisingly touching, especially the last episode. Some say it is an allegory for being old in society, the burned breads being old and the nice breads being young. Personally I think it can be interpreted in many ways, and you can easily swap being old for your own way in which you are burned. I’d classify it as an SOL/Iyashikei anime. I like how the quotes roll in with the writing behind them. You can watch it on youtube.

Me watching Gochiusa:

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Apart from anime with traditionally sad scenes like Violet Evergarden or Gintama, I have the strange ability to cry about cute girls doing cute things slice of life anime 😅. Like Non Non Biyori, K-ON, Gochiusa. I really like the tender and soft moments. For example that scene where Chino-chan decides to lean against Cocoa-chan and Mocha-chan. It’s a bit sad, but mostly it is just so sweet and pure and tender.

To me one of the most precious effects an anime can have is when it makes me cry without the scene being sad. The queen of this has to be ARIA. Of course that one scene with Alice. But also just Alicia explaining why she doesn’t get angry to Alice. The iyashikei just hits so hard I start feeling that being alive is wonderful. Those are my favorite tears!

Ann 😭😭😭. Definitely my favorite episode. The letter to Gilbert did me in as well. When she looks at the camera I’m so done for…

The flat designs, the wafuku, those fricking title cards. I could go on. Upon seeing the poster, I decided to watch it without even knowing what it was about.

Had to look that up, vtubers? I guess vtubers are mostly drawn in a moe/chibi style indeed.

Hidamari Sketch, Nichijou, Sayonara Zetsubou sensei. And moe styles in general.

I wasn’t planning to do it but I rewatched Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei season one. I watched the first episode for some reason and I ended up just kinda watching it through lol.

I really really cannot choose a single one. Aria is a great choice though.

Technically everything can be a slice of life. But preferably it is used for stuff that focuses on daily life. Is frieren actually a slice of life or is this a case of shounen fans calling everything with less than 50% action a SOL? I also heard frieren is a slow show. Is it actually slow or just by shounen standards?