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| Might be interesting. Kitten apocalypse. 😺  |
| The anime is taking itself seriously with these genre tags of "Action, Horror, & Suspense". I've determined that the trick to enjoying this series will be to ignore all those and watch it as a comedy. If I don't, this will be unwatchable. |
| -JuLY-LION Avid enjoyer of Sci-fi, mysteries, and serious drama anime, although anything with good writing could probably hook me in. Love is War doesn't apply to any of these, but the dub still gets my 10/10. Anyways, Rio Futaba is best girl. |
| Whoever thought of the idea of a zombie apocalypse but instead of zombies its cats that turn you into a cat is a genius. Also goated title. |
| Go read Berserk and One Piece they're the best thing ever |
| I lost it when he acted like he was going to throw the cat off him and ever so gently set it down. lol |
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| The fallout advertisements of cats. Were what kept me engaged. Same with the street signs, building names/storefronts, etc. The whole "cat" person world normalcy. Was nice to see. Also the art is excellent. And as ^ the environment is too. I'll stick this one out for a bit longer at least. |
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| No cat no life The men look like they're straight from Hokuto no Ken, giving this an even stronger vintage b-movie vibe. I'm quite digging everything so far - especially the music, the overdramatic expressions and line delivery, the horror references - minus the cgi. Gaku is the goat (tiger?). |
 watching, waiting, commiserating |
MoonSpider said: It was like earlier this last year, I was showing my dad Mieruko-chan... where the art for the ghosts are really well done in the horror department, but the comedy comes from the situation of MC not being able to actively react to the ghosts around her, creating scenes that in-universe are suspensful but hit the right kind of dumbfounded-freeze-frame kind of scenes that I'm fairly certain are intended to be comedic, in a very dry comedy kind of way. My dad, however, when trying it, really just saw it as an interesting horror series. Overall, it seems like a hard line to play with, and largely subjective outside of whatever artist intention might be. Mieruko-chan is a horror comedy (+ a little Slice of Life and whatever else). It has various scenes and moments within it, separately, which are clearly intended to be scary and frightening or creepy as well as moments clearly intended to be humorous. Even without the ghost gimmick, there were scenes intended to be funny, like Miko's friend Hana's antics, and scenes intended to be scary or disturbing taken completely seriously (like everything surrounding the teacher, the shrine kitsune kami or whatever they exactly were, etc.) Everything I have seen from Nyaight of the Living Cat thus far suggests it's a pure parody. There is no scene intending to be genuinely scary and unnerving, but the whole thing is a comedy, with the source of the comedy deriving from the scenes intended to be scary to the characters but not to the audience, which because of the nature of the situation, just has the characters come off as silly and ridiculous for reacting the way that they do to the events they're faced with. Which is basically the whole underlying point and method/structure of a parody. Horror comedies generally have both genuine fright and laughs, not the laughs generated from the source of the fright not being plausible (not being plausible of causing characters' fright and reactions, I mean). Horror comedies are trying to tell a "serious" (or partly serious) story, that just also has comedy in it. With parodies, the story itself is one long running joke and nothing in it is played straight. I say and want to emphasize "intended", as in "intended to be scary" or not intended to be because it's still up to each individual viewer how they receive it. You and others can still genuinely be scared by a parody (hell, others can be scared from a completely unrelated genre or type of story, like a romcom, for idiosyncratic reasons like just one scene in it they find eerie and off-putting). And I'm not scared even by the 99%+ of horror aiming toward that as its intention just because I'm desensitized from binging all manner of horror from elementary school age and now you have to move heaven and Earth to get me to feel something on that front. |
WatchTillTandavaJul 13, 9:13 PM
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MoonSpider said:
It was like earlier this last year, I was showing my dad Mieruko-chan... where the art for the ghosts are really well done in the horror department, but the comedy comes from the situation of MC not being able to actively react to the ghosts around her, creating scenes that in-universe are suspensful but hit the right kind of dumbfounded-freeze-frame kind of scenes that I'm fairly certain are intended to be comedic, in a very dry comedy kind of way. My dad, however, when trying it, really just saw it as an interesting horror series. Overall, it seems like a hard line to play with, and largely subjective outside of whatever artist intention might be.
It was like earlier this last year, I was showing my dad Mieruko-chan... where the art for the ghosts are really well done in the horror department, but the comedy comes from the situation of MC not being able to actively react to the ghosts around her, creating scenes that in-universe are suspensful but hit the right kind of dumbfounded-freeze-frame kind of scenes that I'm fairly certain are intended to be comedic, in a very dry comedy kind of way. My dad, however, when trying it, really just saw it as an interesting horror series. Overall, it seems like a hard line to play with, and largely subjective outside of whatever artist intention might be.
Mieruko-chan is a horror comedy (+ a little Slice of Life and whatever else). It has various scenes and moments within it, separately, which are clearly intended to be scary and frightening or creepy as well as moments clearly intended to be humorous. Even without the ghost gimmick, there were scenes intended to be funny, like Miko's friend Hana's antics, and scenes intended to be scary or disturbing taken completely seriously (like everything surrounding the teacher, the shrine kitsune kami or whatever they exactly were, etc.)
Everything I have seen from Nyaight of the Living Cat thus far suggests it's a pure parody. There is no scene intending to be genuinely scary and unnerving, but the whole thing is a comedy, with the source of the comedy deriving from the scenes intended to be scary to the characters but not to the audience, which because of the nature of the situation, just has the characters come off as silly and ridiculous for reacting the way that they do to the events they're faced with. Which is basically the whole underlying point and method/structure of a parody.
Horror comedies generally have both genuine fright and laughs, not the laughs generated from the source of the fright not being plausible (not being plausible of causing characters' fright and reactions, I mean). Horror comedies are trying to tell a "serious" (or partly serious) story, that just also has comedy in it. With parodies, the story itself is one long running joke and nothing in it is played straight.
I say and want to emphasize "intended", as in "intended to be scary" or not intended to be because it's still up to each individual viewer how they receive it. You and others can still genuinely be scared by a parody (hell, others can be scared from a completely unrelated genre or type of story, like a romcom, for idiosyncratic reasons like just one scene in it they find eerie and off-putting). And I'm not scared even by the 99%+ of horror aiming toward that as its intention just because I'm desensitized from binging all manner of horror from elementary school age and now you have to move heaven and Earth to get me to feel something on that front.
| @WatchTillTandava ye, my point with that comparison was less that the actual style of comedy themselves were similar, but more to say that with both series the comedy can feel... underplayed, I guess? I'm not one to get into the whole nitty-gritty of what normally separates genres like horror comedy from horror parody, normally. I was just expressing that, somewhat in solidarity in response to someone else confused by the tags, sometimes these things are harder to pin down and that eventually a mod or contributor can have that "horror comedy vs horror parody" argument I'm not interested in having and tag it accordingly. |
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| Wait a sec, are you telling me Takeshi Miike is directing this? I might be intrigued to keep watching at one point just because of that but not for now. |
| Cutest, most hilarious horror anime of all time has just dropped. |
| Hah, the first episode was silly, enjoyable, and full of cats. Just as I imagined it to be. ;p Very fresh take on the topic of zombie apocalypse. I will give this show a try. |
| all the dislikes are from dog people |
| everyone should watch this |
| guess writer likes cat a lil too much cat pandemic , give me a break |
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