Comments on: Am I the only person who likes Animal Yokocho? A short discussion on East Vs West children’s pop culture

By: Hopeless

Hopeless — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:43:33 +0000

Yes, it’s hard to deny the show’s greatness, and I only wish there was more of it subbed. As it is, I think there is a fairly substanial potential fanbase for the show in the West, but majority of us lack the necessery knowledge of Japanese to become fully-fleged fans.

By: Hung

Hung — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:59:54 +0000

Animal Yokocho is freakin’ awesome. It’s so funny and random. Japanese kids really have it great. Besides the cram schools and whatnot.

Also, I think Matthew likes the show too, because he (used to?) do summaries on the raw episodes he watched.

By: omo

omo — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:18:42 +0000

Not a fan of Aniyoko but I know as a matter of fact we just don’t see a lot of children’s programming from Japan here, and of the ones that I saw most left me an impression that they’re not really all that different than ones we get here. Also because a lot of the shows you like (and a lot of the anime-viewing crowd like, as their childhood favs) that are really dated compared to Aniyoko, so I don’t think the comparison is all that solid.

By: Necromancer

Necromancer — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:42:25 +0000

I love AniYoko, really wish it would start getting subbed again.

By: Galen

Galen — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:56:07 +0000

Dangermouse is mostly available on DVD, with the last seasons scheduled for release in Sept, 2006.
-Galen

By: rabidkimba

rabidkimba — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:24:02 +0000

I know I posted about translation just last entry you made, but my whole circle of friends that I work on projects on wanted to do this, except we all decided that to properly translate a pun-heavy comedy anime like Aniyoko was just beyond our capabilities. We all love the show, but it’s a pain in the ass to properly sub. Haven’t watched the afk subs in forever, but I remember them being good, so there’s always hope they’ll pick it back up now that haruhi is over, I suppose?

By: Sasa

Sasa — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:53:12 +0000

Hmm, I love the manga which is just as funny and random as the anime, and cuter, imho. Especially since the animation of the anime is rather bad while the drawing style of the manga is pretty good.

After 2 episodes, the animals just started to annoy me ^^;; I couldn’t stand their mean behaviour to poor Ami, even though I knew that it’s all for fun. Even though they do the same thing in the manga, it doesn’t annoy me that much. I simply can’t explain it ^^;;