![]() When asked what club she's going to join she responds by saying that she might Afterwards she checks out some of the club adverts, the strangest of which is someone flailing around in a seal costume. The series opens with High school student Andou Natsuki going in for the opening ceremony. Let's take a look and see what this studio can do. Thi year it was adapted into a twelve episode anime by Nomad, a studio that's only headed about a dozen productions, none of which I've seen. ![]() Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku is a comedic manga written by Kuroha and published by Square Enix. As a longtime fan of the genre, the best I can give it is a five, but for others I expect the score might be lower. Love Lab is much funnier, Kiniro Mosaic is much cuter, C³-bu is peppered with cool action (and just generally better). If you want to watch a schoolgirl show this season, you're best off looking elsewhere. With unfunny comedy, flat characters and zero in the way of plot, if it had more in the way of fanservice I expect this is what people who despise this genre entirely think it all is. Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku just isn't a good anime. it just presents us with a set of fairly unrealistic, underwritten characters to blather on about whatever the writer wants them to. ![]() This show doesn't bother trying to do that. Between all the random comedy in Yuyushki, it took the time to develop the characters and make the audience care about their friendship. The show doesn't really bother to ever develop them. ![]() Botan is a kind of weird mix of gamer girl and martial arts girl who is somehow able to do inhuman feats. Claire is basically Mugi from K-On! reduced to the dullest core elements. Club president Sakura is energetic in a decidedly generic way. Main character Natsuki is, as said, a tsukkomi, only there to play the straight man to the others and shout about how stupid they are. I usually like tsukkomi characters, but this one just comes across as annoying and shouty in the role-something that absolutely kills any comedy she's supposed to provide.īut what of the characters themselves? Well, they're pretty one note and reductive, reminding me more of the sort of characters you might see in a particularly bad harem anime than something like this. Well, most of them are passable, I suppose, but the voice of the club president has a weird grating quality to it and, more importantly, the main character is miscast and terrible. The big problem with the sound is in the voice acting. Music is okay I guess seems to do what it should and while the opening theme isn't something I'd call particularly great (mostly due to the singers), it does have charm and is peppy enough the original ending theme is really generic though, but it's quickly replaced by a better song a few episodes in. It doesn't fair much better on the sound end either. Even then Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku really is pretty cheap and generic looking though. The anime was produced by the studio Nomad, who looking at their credits, always has been kind of underwhelming, at least from the series of theirs I've seen. On the contrary, it just highlights the problems for the viewer to scrutinize as they watch. Drawing attention to the fact that your animation budget is small, your writers are dumb and lazy and your show isn't very popular isn't going to hide the fact that its all true. They're just really not here though and its in part due to the approach. One thing it really seems to love a lot is fourth wall jokes which is fine-they can be quite funny when done well. The timing is off and the jokes often aren't very funny in the first place. It tries really hard actually, but it just falls flat constantly. Here, every setup and punch line feels so very labored.Ī big part of the problem is that Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku is not very frequently funny. Yuyushiki got pretty random with its topics, but it made it feel entirely natural through the choice of setup and the brilliant way the characters played off of each other. The Going Home Club seems ill defined even next to the Amusement Club or the Data Processing Club and mostly just serves as a place for the writers to wring out the next comedic setup. can be an effective setup, as those shows both proved, but here it's not particularly well executed. Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku is about five high school friends who are part of a club that doesn't really do anything-basically the same premise as Yuru Yuri or Yuyushiki. They also help to highlight the many failings of the peculiar Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku, the one new schoolgirl series of the season I would not recommend. ![]() With quality production and interesting hooks those anime all work to reaffirm how much fun the genre can be when done right. With markedly solid new offerings like Love Lab, Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu and Kiniro Mosaic, the Summer 2013 anime season has really been an excellent showcase of schoolgirl shows. ![]()
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