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Apr 1, 2011 3:44 AM
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I enjoyed Ojisan no lamp a lot but not this one. This one was just an average anime imo. Well, the fight scene was quite good but not the jokes. It wasn't funny at all.
Apr 1, 2011 7:32 AM
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Extremely funny with top-notch direction and a really great narration. It was definitely at a professional level and very creative, thus far better than the first one.

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Apr 1, 2011 8:38 AM
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omg the cat defeated everyone! ^ヮ^ ♥

Quite a nice episode. ♥♥
Apr 1, 2011 8:55 AM
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Absolutely adored this. I liked Ojisan no Lamp, but this was just so incredibly fun and enjoyable. I loved every minute.

I would love to see more of this style of animation/story. 10/10.
Apr 1, 2011 2:52 PM
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This was phenomenal. Simple, imaginative, and doesn't step on its own feet.

Was this really so hard? Why can't there be more anime like this?
Apr 1, 2011 3:21 PM
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Better than Ojiisan no Lamp, at least Japan Anime have brighter future in these young animators
Apr 1, 2011 5:05 PM
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Feels a little bit like Dragon Ball what with the cheerful little fighting prodigy (that adults curiously lack inhibition in fighting), weird old man and goofy jokes. As far as martial arts comedies go, I guess that's a quite a good influence, but it struggled a bit to maintain interest after the opening sequence and before the series of fights that made up the second half.

Unlike The Old Man's Lamp, this one could easily get spun off into a TV series or something. I guess I'd be pretty interested in seeing that and see how it would deal with room to grow.
Apr 1, 2011 7:59 PM
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It was nice, I liked it. If it spun-off into a series, there is a guarantee that I'd watch it. But this was a nice little thing.
Apr 3, 2011 12:20 AM
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This was really fun to watch. I just wish they made that Super Robot scene into its own anime. :D
Blergh.
Apr 3, 2011 8:26 AM

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I actually quite enjoyed it and loved the troll cat ending at the end. XD

I was surprised the show had some well-known seiyuus like Fujiwara Keiji (Kizuna's grandfather) and Yui Horie (the interviewer girl). Also, I liked the voice acting of Sakura Ayane (Kizuna), who recently did a debut with Yumekui Merry.

Also, the quality of the animation was pretty impressive. It looks kinda crude on the surface, but it had a lot of good movements. :)


K-ON!!?


Looked sort of like Gundam to me...


It's Sagat vs. Makoto in Street Fighter IV!

Apr 3, 2011 1:35 PM

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Did you like the K-ON and Gundam parodies? I thought they were the weakest moments of the whole thing. It's only shallow parody; "This things looks like this other thing". I was hoping for fresh things with these four short films, so cheap backwards-looking for the mere sake of a poor joke disappointed me.
Apr 4, 2011 5:56 AM

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6/10 for this.

It's ok but it didn't have a solid story like Ojisan no Lamp.
Apr 4, 2011 3:13 PM

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shadowsword said:
6/10 for this.

It's ok but it didn't have a solid story like Ojisan no Lamp.


The show is supposed to be a piece of satire making fun of cliches in the typical shounen battle manga/anime where characters always tend to compete in a some kind of pointless martial art tournaments. I actually enjoyed random parodies and some of the trollings in the show.

Apr 4, 2011 5:19 PM

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stevewiess01 said:
shadowsword said:
6/10 for this.

It's ok but it didn't have a solid story like Ojisan no Lamp.


The show is supposed to be a piece of satire making fun of cliches in the typical shounen battle manga/anime where characters always tend to compete in a some kind of pointless martial art tournaments. I actually enjoyed random parodies and some of the trollings in the show.


this. the story about the cat was also damn funny...loled so hard on the rusty nail :D
Apr 5, 2011 10:35 AM

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stevewiess01 said:
shadowsword said:
6/10 for this.

It's ok but it didn't have a solid story like Ojisan no Lamp.


The show is supposed to be a piece of satire making fun of cliches in the typical shounen battle manga/anime where characters always tend to compete in a some kind of pointless martial art tournaments. I actually enjoyed random parodies and some of the trollings in the show.

How is this a satire rather than just a comedy? It does one of the hoariest shonen cliches perfectly straight; "having something to protect makes you strong". And it's not as if children or girls as martial arts story protagonists are anything new.

And if its satirizing fighting anime, why are there parodies of Gundam and K-ON? They're still badly thought out.
Apr 24, 2011 6:18 AM
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I didn't even make it to the one third of the episode, got bored very early. Just after the opening, in fact.
Apr 8, 2012 10:33 PM

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You have to got through the house cat first. LOL I enjoyed this so it was OK for me. 7/10
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Dec 24, 2012 5:26 PM

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I loved it! Definitely wish that this had more episodes and wasn't a short. It didn't waste any time at all. The fight scenes were very well doe and I loved everything about it - I caught myself smiling like a fool a few times.

9 out of 10 for me.
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Feb 6, 2013 12:25 PM

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These fighters should die of shame for getting beat up by that half-pint and that cat.
Apr 14, 2013 10:30 AM

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I would love to see a series from this *_*
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May 24, 2013 4:58 PM

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Was quite to see some variation in art styles, and the backstory/song was pretty neat! Quite nice and lovely special in general!
Oct 27, 2013 5:33 AM
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It dragged in the middle, but the beginning and ending were fantastic and the visual style felt like an amazing mix of Mind Game and Wind Waker. A solid 4/5.
Feb 4, 2015 12:42 AM

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Well AIN'T that a giddy little thing

GOOD FOR THE HEART! TV series demanded.
Jun 16, 2015 1:15 PM

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Average and forgettable movie. The part with the cat was probably the best part of it.

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Nov 14, 2015 11:52 PM

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it seems all the action-lovers gathered together...and this is the product out of it...



Jan 24, 2016 2:58 PM

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This was pretty awesome! It's definitely the best out of the four, even a hair better than Ojiisan no Lamp! It was very entertaining from beginning to end.

Apr 24, 2017 10:23 AM

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Jingoro the real OG! Loved it except for that portion where ojii-san was rambling about random jokes to the reporter that no one finds funny. I really like how pure the story is, totally wouldn't mind to get a series out of this story.
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Aug 26, 2018 4:32 PM

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I thought it was funny and the martial art was pretty good too. The art is awesome, while the characters are watchable too especially the old man and Kizuna.

Speaking of Kizuna, that girl is strong for taking on those guys, at almost 13 she was able too to kick those grown strong guy's asses. The cat took the movie in the end, what a badass looking too, that scar ( made me want too). The chant of their dojo made my day too, how I wish I belonged to the wadachi ju-ken school. Don't forget the finger fighting of the father and the jiji when they fighting.

The only sin is that it wasn't longer, 8/10.
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Jan 1, 2019 5:50 AM

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Very good animation demo. The comedy was fun sometimes.

Enjoyment: 4/5
Score: 6/10

It's terrible to read "too short" every time I'm reading opinions about a short movie, no matter how conclusive it was. Or even if telling a story was the point.
May 23, 2021 4:51 PM
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The animation was amazing and the only good thing about it. The comedy was so atrocious especially the cat part, which was so horrible. I like the main girl but then you realize she is acting like a generic shonen protagonist, it's so cringe. Overall, extremely disappointing. Obviously, I was not expecting this to be as good as Ojiisan No Lamp, but this one was not even close. 3/10
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