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i didnt even know city got an anime! i read some of the manga years ago since i loved nichijou back then too. i'll check it out, thanks.

The thumbnail caught me so decided to click, stayed for peak

This anime is not what I was expecting or hoping it to be, I wanted Nichijou season 2 and that isn't this. But man, did I love this show. I loved talking about this show. I loved sharing and making memes about this show every week. And I just love these characters so much. Basically all of them made an impact, way more than Nichijou's ensemble ever did, and the way they all connected and made this CITY such a wonderful place was just so beautiful.

I do have some complaints. They should've gone two cour and adapted more of the manga. They shouldn't have reordered the things they reordered, or at least not so egregiously in a couple of cases. But this will still forever be one of my favorite anime and one of the most skillfully-animated anime I've ever seen. Somehow, KyoAni found a way. I'm just glad that it happened.

That said, I completely disagree with most of your thesis. There's nothing random about this comedy. Nichijou did the random thing. This is deeper. There is meaning behind this. It's interwoven and layered. And in many cases the set-up for the punchlines just come after the punchlines. It's not random comedy, but inverted comedy, much of the time, and they also know how to really stretch out a joke beyond the limits you thought possible, almost on the Arrested Development level. And it's not even really a comedy, not really. Yes, it's rip-roariously funny at times. But that's a side effect of life being funny when really this is a meditation on life, and acts of kindness, and the effects they have on others on a CITY-sized scale. Maybe I sound like a madman. But I've red-stringed-on-the-corkboard on this, extensively, and I've got it figured out rewatching this series over and over. I've also read all the behind the scenes production notes from the studio to find out directly what they were intending. KyoAni didn't just do this willy-nilly, or adapt the manga in a straightforward fashion. They didn't set out to make CITY into an anime. They started with a specific mission, a message they themselves wanted to convey, and used Arawi's work as their vehicle, with his collaboration. That mission was never a comedy. The comedy just happens because it's funny. It's also a tragedy, a drama, a slice-of-life, and multiple character studies in this particular summer of their lives. I'd define it as polislogia: the study of a city. And that CITY is good.

What you've nailed here is the quality of the animation and particularly on the character acting. And that is as to be expected from such a legendary studio, that has cultivated this specific skill, and preserved it even through tragedy and loss of key talent. You really can't talk enough about the sheer volume of things KyoAni did in this series that raises the bar for the entire industry. I don't know if this series really made a huge impact on the general public, it's kind of a niche show. But I guarantee you every animator in the business watched this series and was inspired by it, week-after-week, and it's been hugely influential. KyoAni basically went out and systematically kicked the butts of every other studio on the block, made it look easy, and then quietly rode off into the sunset. The style of it, the techniques they used, the audacity of the direction. In every technical regard, this is a landmark. Everyone else went back to school on this show. If nothing else, it will make anime better in the future.