Anime-Gataris Episode 1 (First Impression)
Songs that describe this episode: F*** this S*** I’m Out, That Drop by Surilla, Absolutely(The Story of a Girl) by Nine Days, Another Night by Real McCoy, Calabria 2008 by Enur feat Natasha, You and Me by Lifehouse, Kingz of the Oldskool by Rave Ryders, Hard Landing by Yamajet, Pursuit of Happiness( Steve Aoki Remix)pai by Kid Cudi
I liked it. If you think this is about a normal anime club, you are gladly mistaken, well in some ways.
Anime-Gataris( often shorted to Ani-Garis) is about a girl named Minoa who used to like anime when she was a kid and she keeping on having dreams about it, which makes her want to know what anime it is. I think the dream could be a combination most of the shows she watched when she was younger, which were all the “popular” shows( the references, though..) Or it could be a crazy show with a lot of references.
Then she asks her friends if they like anime and the “rich, popular” girl named Arisu overhears her and want to meet in an abandoned art room. It sounds like she is going to be jumped, but Arisu just wants to talk about anime and Minoa has no clue what the heck she is talking about. That’s me when people start talking about the mechanics of videogames….But then they go and find the abandoned Anime Club, decide to restart it, and find new members. Sweet, the whole plot. Wrong!
In the room, there was a cat and weird beret on a chair. They give the cat food and leave it there. Minoa trys to take the beret home but she falls into a trance and loses it to the wind and doesn’t even notice. That was weird… And why does that club room look like a torture room?
Then we keep on getting close looks at that weird guy throughout the whole show. I have no clue who he is. He has that weird beret now since it blew away from Minoa. He looks suspicious. Did he sit here the whole day?
Then Minoa realizes she doesn’t have her phone and she runs back to the club room and she finds out the cat talks. RIP her. And that’s where we are left.
I feel like it had “ A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepard” feel( check it out, it’s interesting show). Shepard showed all the members that may or may not join the club, how the members join in different ways, and they are going to have more problems then what the club entails( example: That beret is going to problems down the line, will cause problems for the club somehow, which is more than the club name says.) Also in Shepard, the Main Character didn’t want to join the Library Club, but was roped in my someone. Oh and I forgot, in Shepard, they have a cat in the club room and he talks also. That paragraph looks jumbled. Basically, Shepard is similar to Ani-Garis.
Also, all those references, everywhere. Mobile Suit Gundam, Sailor Moon, Love Live Idol, and Girl who Lept Through Time. Then all the names of shows that they didn’t want to pay the copyright for using their names ( cough, cough Boku no Hero Academia, Angel Beats, Shirobako, and Re Zero) There was a few more refereneces, but I have no clue what the name of those animes are.
And also the butler’s name is Sebastian. But I also heard that in Japan, they called their bulters’ Sebastian. Maybe that is lie, but I thought they were going in for a reference to Black Butler because he comes right when she calls.
Full speed ahead to the next episode because it was funny to me. When they stepped on the cat, 2 or 3 times and acted so indifferent about it and the teacher being so extra( the class be like dafaq?).
But there still is many questions. How is everyone going to join the club? What does the beret mean? Why was the cat in the closet?
Possibility of Covering: Definitely.