Comments on: Minami-ke Third Season Air Dates Confirmed

By: Tyciol

Tyciol — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:10:34 +0000

This pic is awesome! Why do I not remember it!

By: Garland

Garland — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:09:17 +0000

I'd say it's not so much better (if I did say so before, it was in a fan-ish euphoria and doesn't count) as much as the design.

Okawari! is a lot more "anime-ish" than what Minami-ke was. A lot of the hair-colors are changed to more shiny, unusual hues (to the best of my memory) and steps were taken away from the rather peculiar drawings of mouths, etc...

Was a long time since I last read it though. In my opinion, though, I agree with you. The second season was vastly inferior, look-wise, to the first. It just felt... synthetic.

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:41:28 +0000

It's not controversial, it's just that the first season looked so much better and better presentation as a previous poster said, then when it was time for a second season they gave it to a different animation company and looked like crap compared to the first.

By: Saouri

Saouri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:24:10 +0000

I don't know this anime. Why is "controversial"?

By: Smiling Magician

Smiling Magician — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:07:30 +0000

i personally liked okawari and i think, though the art style was more mainstream, the animation quality was ramped up with more frames per second and more animations in one shot, making for a more organic and energetic anime. the comedy is just as good and i think the emo kid was a nice little "what if" for chiaki, though he was slightly annoying.

By: rargy

rargy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:03:31 +0000

I also thought the first season was better. Not in terms of animation but the overall presentation.

By: Garland

Garland — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:38:04 +0000

Okawari suffered from many things, poor animation being one of them.

Others are:

Far too little Hosaka

No leaf-mouths

Emo neighbour-kid contributing absolutely nothing to the story (why was he even in there? Potential love-interest for Chiaki? Failure!)

Far too little coverage of the second Minami family.

Far too little of a lot really...

...well, at least we still had Mako-chan and his lovable drag.

So to actually come to the point of my comment, I'm glad that at least Dome is on the case. Hopefully we'll see the return of the old style as well.

By: dood

dood — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:55:02 +0000

The first season was awesome.
Okawari's animation was crap (why people in the background are black [even some with lines were partially black]).
The show was slightly funny.

By: XSportSeeker

XSportSeeker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:44:59 +0000

I have yet to continue watching the first season... but anyways, that pic is awesome.