The Plight of the Comedy Anime
I love Potemayo. It was the best show to come out of the summer season. It flawlessly mixes cute moeblobs, really weird characters, and slapstick comedy. Every minute fills me with such ecstatic giddiness and indescribable happiness; I’m cutegasming every second. But, that’s the problem.
I have no idea what to write about Potemayo, at all.
In retrospect, this is a plight of most comedy anime I’ve watched. Muteki Kanban Musume, Negima!?, ARIA, Manabi, Hayate, Ouran, Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei (SUBS?!), etc. When it comes to anime heavily focused on humor I’m just at a loss of what to say. Obviously I enjoy them very much, but it’s tedious just to rewrite all the jokes and I don’t want to do many “OH GOD THIS SHOW IS AWESOME” posts.
A lot of this goes back to the nature of comedy; something is always funny when you see it but can be very different when you’re told the joke later. The only problem with my current way of blogging is that I feel it limits getting the word out about how great these shows are. I mean, does anyone talk about Muteki Kanban Musume, even though it was the best physical comedy in many years? Not really, and that’s kind of the problem. Any other bloggers encountered this same problem and found ways to counter it?
Example of Potemayo’s genius.
I had the exact same problem when I tried to blog Zetsubo Sensei (lol. subs, where, etc.) and there’s really no way to get around it. To truly appreciate the lulz in comedy anime, you have to watch it, no summary can effectively convey the jokes.
Which is why I blog loads of harem =D
Comment on September 11, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
Agreed. Relationship anime is fun to write about because you can speculate endlessly on how things might turn out, how stupid the protagonist is, etc. That’s why School Days seems to be so popular on the blogosphere. Comedy tends to be impervious to analysis; it’s the old saw about nothing killing the joke faster than trying to explain it.
Comment on September 11, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
Theres alot to be said about Lucky Star. Two reasons : you can relate, and dialogs are actually meaningful, if somewhat leisure.
Oh, and to hell with the Zetsubo crap.
Comment on September 12, 2007 @ 3:12 am
Zetsubou isn’t crap ;_;
though it is fairly strange….but I don’t think that necesitates a “crap” ranking, does it?
Comment on September 12, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Zetsubou is awesome
And agreed, Raw for 10 is out, sub is at 5 >.
Comment on September 13, 2007 @ 2:21 am
[...] So Umisho hasn’t given me sudden urges to swim [ or be naked ], but it is one of the better ones of Summer. I think it may have a contender if I decide to rocket through Potemayo, which I think I just decided on after reading Demian’s post. My only scuff with it is that Umisho is scheduled for a quick 13 episodes, so I hope the end leave room for more. [...]
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