City Is Not Nichijou, And I Love It
This wasn’t exactly what I expected going in, but I’ve really learned to love it week by week. City is a manga by Keiichi Arawi, author of Nichijou, now being animated and produced by Kyoto Animation.
00:00 – Expectations & Reality
03:33 – Visual Comparison
09:09 – Comedy Comparison
10:32 – Smoothing Things Out (Comedy & Slice Of Life)
12:55 – Music
14:10 – What’s It About?
15:06 – Characters
19:29 – Episode 5 OMG
22:07 – Final Thoughts
23:22 – How To Support It
24 Comments
OMGMGMGMG
Nichijou is my favorite series of all time, but only 9 episodes in and City might be coming for the throne. Thank you so much for giving this wonderful series justice here on youtube.
This video is SO GOOD, thank you so much for sharing it! Got yourself a new sub! Praying on your success! Jesus loves ya!
Cheesebwagger
I feel like City has all of the elements Nichijou had, but they've adjusted the levels a bit. Increased the wholesomeness while (slightly) decreasing the absurdity, upping continuity and interconnectedness while lowering the break-neck gag-2-gag pacing. It's the same core dish, but with a bit more sweetness and a little less spice.
helvetica standard without nichijou
The Yandere Simulator cameo in this video was unexpected.
Episode 5 had me rolling in utterly befuddlement of HOW FUCKING HARD they commited to their absurd premises, their wild characters and their way of presentation. The gloves are off. You had 4 episodes to get used to what stuff this series pulls. Strap in. And it gets wilder with each 5 minutes, until the cataclysm of those last 5 minutes completely shocks the fuck out of you.
im hearing hidamari sketch music in the backround
future hidamari sketch rewiew? 👀
Gonna be my hottest take yet.
I love Nichijou, but CITY is way more relatable, has better art style and is funnier for me.
Take this from someone who read most of the CITY manga.
In short
If you're watching a series by the same creator who did a banger
Watch it with a blank mind
City had me crying from laughter the whole time
Really nothing at all like Nichijou, aside from a few aesthetics, and general absurdity. But that's okay! CITY has been amazing, easily the anime of the year. Much more contemplative, much deeper, much more more willing to stay with a moment and have a character bear their soul to another, or realize they just aren't ready. And I feel, even with half the episodes, that I know the characters so much more in CITY than I ever did in Nichijou.
KyoAni found a way. There are individual frames of CITY that are going to forever be burned into my brain, because of their beauty and complexity. A lot of them. This was a masterpiece. And I've gone frame-by-frame on quite a few scenes just in awe of their animation talent. Never mind the insane work that is episode 5, or 9, or 12, or 13, where somehow they exceeded even the most wildest of expectations of what is even possible in this medium. No other studio would have dared. Okay, maybe one or two, for a single part of a single episode only.
And it's not just the technical achievement. This series made me laugh, this series made me cry. For 13 weeks this CITY was my happy place, and I've already spent hundreds of hours talking about it, making memes, or just rewatching certain scenes over and over. I love basically every one of these characters. I have grown very attached to all of them, and recognize that they, too, deserve an award. Their personal struggles and triumphs are just a small part of the tapestry of the CITY, an interconnected web of relationships and events.
I've actually found, while watching this, that I compare it more to K-On than Nichjou. Nagumo as a Yui, and Niikura as an Azusa. But the vibes often lean heavy into the feeling I get from Non Non Biyori, at least from episode 5 onward. There's that sense of kindness, and making your own fun, that comes through in many of the scenes. There's a similar moment that happens at the start of the last episode of CITY in particular, that really made me feel like everything that happened was worth it, that it was important, and that the characters all had been fulfilled by the experience. Certainly I in the audience was too.
Nothing
Literally nothing comes close to how stupid yuko is and how funny nichijou is😂😂😂
This one is great too.
Nichijou is still the best. Some of the character interactions and jokes in City felt forced. Perhaps unnatural. Especially with the purple-haired girl (Ecchan), I immediately skipped her parts in the anime. Especially when she started speaking English.
One thing that carried on from Nichijou is the distinctly japanese humor that you can't quite get unless you're japanese or familiar with the culture, leaving you unable to understand a lot of jokes and puns
meowl
At risk of putting a giant target on my back… i think i might like City BETTER than Nichijou??
I have only seen the series through Youtube clips, but from everything I have seen of it, I can only call it as "Wholesome, the Series." Also, thanks for mentioning "Dragon Maid," because I have really, REALLY grown to become a huge fan of Miss Kobayashi and her "I ain't got time for your crap" attitude, paired squarely against Lucoa and the other dieties.
I needed this anime so much, it definitely became one of my favorites along with Nichijou!
I keep forgetting this show exists. Nichojou is my favorite comedy anime of all time. Need to watch this.
Izumi's idiotic laughter is soothing to the soul
CITY looks heavenly.
i like your hat