Kemono Friends just turned 9 years old
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>>285185981Sadly yes
Who?
Season 2 when?
>>285186273Sugoi>>285186314When we believe hard enough
I hope /our guy/ is happy with his wife
>>285184937Did you guys also liked Kemurikusa?
>>285187115I do
>>285187115I liked itWish it wasn't fucked over the way it was
>>285184937>9yoSo I can fuck her already?
Alright, I'll come clean with you guys. Season 2 wasn't that bad. It didn't have the magic of S1 nor the hype but it wasn't too bad
>>285187309It's okay, we all have bad taste sometimes
>>285187309Most of the characters were definitely meaner. I'm currently rewatching the first season, and all characters are at a bare minimum helpful. The bullying was exclusively in the threads.
>>285184937But she told me she was 19
>>285189536The Sandstar is silly like that
>>285184937>Kemono Friends, Gabriel Dropout, Maid Dragon, Konosuba S2, LWAgood season
>>285191907>Still hasn't been topped as a seasonMan, I wanna go back
>>285187115I liked it.Ritsu a cute.
>>2851849379 more to go...
>>285191907This was an insanely good season.>>285187115Yes
>>285191907grim
>>285187209did it also have drama, or was it just unpopular?
>>285197034Didn't pick up any steam because of Amazon's fuckery, which made the threads comfy for its season if nothing else, if a little slow compared to KF in its prime
fuck minekill frog this year
Has anyone else ever sabotaged themselves this hard over their ego?
>>285187079Won't forget mootWon't forget Grape
>>285191907Include Demi-chan
>>285197904Why are boats in anime always so fucking cursed?
>>285198086Boats only bring misfortune to Japan: Mongols, Portugese, Americans.
>>285184937Can't believe it's been that long. Literally some of the greatest anime-related memories of my life. And still kinda up there. Went to Tobu zoo, the Niconico cafe. So much fun and shared joy.>>285187209>The Cat Who Lived
>>285186314They skipped season 2 and went straight to 3. It's a mobile game that currently lacks translation, but even if you can't read what's said, you can feel the heaviness of the circumstances.>Dhole sacrificing herself to knock a dangerous cerulean out of a helicopter, only for her to revive as a different Dhole who's just confused as to why everyone looks so sad around her>That time while we waited for the next chapter to come out where Dhole was not on the story screen. That shit hurt emotionally.>That time where Dhole regained her memories, the OP theme kicked in, and you fought the absolute hardest boss the game has had>That new story where Cerval took center stage>A new cerulean copied Cerval's form, creating what was essentially a black Cerval and being called Ruler Cell>The constant unknown if Ruler was actually a threat or just a goofy recurring villain>That point where Ruler fucking revived the Cerulean Queen from the first game, holy shit>That part where Ruler gets killed by Queen, and asks why as she fades away. RIP Ruler, you could've been a Friend...>Kako being there as Queen finally dies for real this time, like a dark past has finally been lifted>The current story where a girl visits Japari Park as a visitor>She gets into an accident and loses her sparkle, which also made her lose her voice, showing that humans can be affected just like friends>Going around Japari Park to help her find and regain her lost sparkle and voice>She goes super saiyan out of nowhere when her sparkle returns>I have no fucking clue what is going on now, shit's wild
>>285187115Absolutely love it. Profoundly good auteur series.https://files.catbox.moe/gq942j.webm
>>285184937>9 years oldNice, old enough to fuck
>>285197034No drama. It's a niche auteur series, it wasn't designed for mass appeal, and wasn't expected to receive it. It was made by someone who loved what he was doing, for people who loved what he was doing, and that's the best possible thing.
>>285198204I didn't follow the story of 3 closely but I visited the thread from time to time and I'm glad it's still being enjoyed. I got tired of /a/ only ever being mad all the time
>>285198496The general over in /vg/ is kind of dead, focusing more on bringing up art and the vtuber stuff, but there's at least one anon who gives game advice by translating new friends or posts what enemy teams do. It's not an ideal "alive", but it's definitely not dead.
>>285198496>>285198677It's not ideal but KF is doing well enough with its gatcha to be considered "alive" and it's still plenty beloved to this dayAlso I'm pretty sure the other gatcha it had is still running and even got a western release, so there's that.
I crave another show with characters like KF and Kemurikusa. There's something charming about a collection of characters that don't quite understand how to be human.
The threads when THAT episode aired were amazing.
>>285198737>The other gachaAnon, I have bad news. If you're referring to Pavilion;>Chinese gacha releases>It does poorly and dies off with a whimper>Re-releases strictly for Western audiences with most of the shitty aspects removed.. and the cop girl removed for some reason too>Does moderately better, and has a couple of updates>Then it stagnated. No updates at all.>It's only playable right now with zero chance of any actual updates comingPavilion is basically a zombie. All the other games got their EoS too. KF3 is the only one that's regularly maintained.
>>285198958I was actually talking about Kingdom, which is still alive from what I can tell. Still, they're alive, albeit in the loosest sense, which at this point I'm taking what I can get
>>285198204I haven't caught up to the current content but I like how they hinted at KF1 with fake boss saying along the lines of "if a cerulean outbreaks happens outside the park, none of you can come and fix it, how is humanity supposed to defeat them?"I hope they have the balls to make the final chapter or an eventual EOS event the mass extinction of humanity.
>>285197034I remember it doing fairly well, it did had the controversy momentum as well as airing the same season as KF2It was a remake of a doujin anime the director did many years prior and it was really nice to see it getting the chance to get completed
>>285199166I always appricated that about Tatsuki's KF. How it all but implies humanity is gone, and the friends, whether they know it or not, are basically picking up the pieces of a lost world. And Kaban is the last flickering ideal of humanity
>>285198677>all the gacha generals killed off my dead game completelyYou guys are lucky to still have a general
Was picrel real?
Does anyone have the clip of the Donkey Kong Country song being performed by Toki?
>>285199945I fucking love all the Arai-san art, this little retard deserves it
>>285199945Usually I think it's a shame when a porn artist goes legit (good for them but bad for my dick) but in this case I think it's a shame that the porn artist is still doing porn instead of more of thisWhat ever happened to that other one that was like a doujin sequel to S1? Kemono Friends i or something?
>>285199738toki is a blessing to this world>>285199889https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWvb6efwpyA
>>285201497That's the Chrono Trigger one but that's nice too!
>>285199889>>285201497I found it... with the help of AI...https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30623986
>there is an actual database for stuff like thiscrazy!https://otodb.net/work/5085
>>285201742time to track down some ancient shit thats been deleted forever
>>285184937yiff in hell
>>285199738You doubted?You have no idea the kinds of fetish books that exist in Japanhttps://e-hentai.org/g/2565348/7fa1797317/
>*ring* *ring*>Hello?>WE ARE JAPANESE ANIME, TELL US ANIMAL FACT ABOUT RACCOON>what the fuck
>>285197034Minor Drama with the staff of KF Season 2. Some spiteful people.
>>285187309If this had come out as S1, I would've dropped it.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
https://mangadex.org/title/8f94d1e9-eebf-475e-adaa-b3b998a318d5/kemono-friends-2Reminder that an author attempted to salvage the cursed season and did it infinitely better than what was animated.>Kyururu is actually a good kid who's worth rooting for>Serval is lovable as hell rather than just being a side character>Caracal's emotions and personality are fleshed out so much that she's easily best girl>Armadillo and Pangolin aren't idiots who hurt others for the sake of their goals>Amur Tiger isn't just some mindless rampaging moron who fucking dies to falling debris from the sky>The entire jungle arc, which was the slowest episode, gets skipped over almost entirely>Kaban's chapters are wholesome as hell with her acting like a big sister to Kyururu>Domestic Dog doesn't get brutally beaten and left on her own>The hotel plays out in a completely different way>Manga author doesn't shit on season 1 like the cursed anime did>GSKB bullying is the only thing from season 2 that remains unchanged, but is even better in the manga because of how smug Kyururu is about it. Easily my favorite page from the manga.
>>285203476I hate how difficult it is to maintain a collection of these. I have a giant playlist that just constantly gets pruned by dmca, some of my favorites link back to creators who have disappeared, who knows they've made that's been lost. I've had to internet archive to find and old favorite in the past, but it's only worked once. I've started just copying my favorites myself, but I can't share them if they do end up deleted. Even catbox is acting in a way that makes it seem like I may be blacklisted for sharing an otomad here. Or there are just spotty server issues and I'm being paranoid.
>>285206580I've gotten in the habit of downloading anything I find really important that's likely to disappear.yt-dlp
>>285197904Many artists nowdays are sabotaging their own art with “do not repost or use in AI training” watermarks.
>>285206528for me it's https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/12790
>>285208453Based taste
>>285187115Hell yeah
>>285211204Somehow I like KF but I can't get into Uma at all for some reason
>>285212111They're two entirely different things, that's why. Kemono Friends is about animals that look and act like girls in an environment that simulates natural habitats for said animals. The friends are individuals, but are very much a stereotype of their original animals to the point of having similar biological needs (such as being nocturnal, being overly cautious, being a pack leader, etc). It takes place on a fictional island that acts as a sort of reserve for an incredible amount of species, almost like Noah's ark. The Focus is split between education (viewers and players learn about actual animals in the world) and varying types of adventure. It also has the crazy aspects of aliens, human extinction, post-war life, and more, all very well meshed together in such a way that nothing really feels out of place, even though it abso-fucking-lutely is.On the other hand, Uma Musume is about girls who embody the spirits of notable race horses. The story heavily focuses on athleticism with a very out of place idol aspect slapped on. The characters only share the names and some personality traits of their inspirations, but even then the characters are characters before they are horses. All of these traits are interesting (debatable) on their own, but the way it's mixed together can be off-putting. You may not be interested in the sport aspect, the idol aspect, or the horses in general, and the supporting aspects don't help one another. I don't want to sound like I dislike Uma Musume, but speaking as someone who has given the series an honest try (first two seasons and the mobile game prior to global launch), it's vastly different from Kemono Friends. The only similarities are the fact that they're cute girls with animal features.
>>285212415Well technically both are gacha games, I've never played both but I remember KF dearly, now with Uma I can't seem to get into it for some reason.
>>285191907Akiba's Trip was half-and-half, people wanted something different from the source and got that, but weren't happy.Urara took some time to get going but was very cute, I was initially filtered by the first episode.Nyanko Dykes.Ai Mai fucking Mii.Pretty stacked yeah.
>>285206528I might give it a go if Toki doesn't get humiliated at the concert
>>285199738>>285204766Thanks for the link
https://x.com/i/status/2006378121139011707Here's Tatsuki's newest animation
I let this happen, so we could enjoy the SUGOIIIII
Maybe the sugois were the friends we made along the way
>>285218205>>285218232>>285218258>>285218283LOOOOONG SERVAL
The margay cat is a special, special cat.
>>285219081That's one way to describe her
>>285219081>>285219181>Is named Margay>Is GayBRAVO TATSUKI
>>285219081I distinctly remember the name "Sharon-oneesan" (how cute is that) but not whether she was the first gaijin to appear in these segments.
>>285219181>>285219243Can you really blame her?
>>285219081Maryuri cat
>>285184937You look a like a friend who's good at keeping track of time!
>>285199945Oh shit, is that the horror doujin with the eldritch apartment building
you don't say it like thatyou say it like sugoi
I think about KF everyday (because Serval is my wife). Is Tatsuki doing anything new anymore, did he die after Kemurikusa?
>>285221086He's still around >>285216656
>>285222047>2 posts the entire year
>>285222124
Did that guy ever finish the 3D kemono friends game? I'm guessing not due to the drama
kemono friends was the best moment i had on /a/. nothing else compares
Mine Yoshizaki still hasn't posted on his twitter since the fallout.
>>285222182A lot of people dropped projects they were working on due to the fallout. The only big fan project that I can think of that released post Kadokawa was the fighting game.
>>285222182This game started long after the thing happened and is still being worked on.
>>285222203The week between 11 and 12 was unbelievable.
>>285222203Didn't /can/ happen that same year? That was fun.
>>285222466/can/? What was that
>>285222393What made it especially amazing is that most of /a/ didn't pay much attention to it. Threads were basically dead up until around episode 4 when it started gradually picking up, then it became #1 thread on /a/ and even mods were contributing
>>285212415I disagree with this evaluation, mostly the uma parts. The characters share personality traits of the actual horses to an almost autistic degree. Its just not very in your face about it but if you dig into the character quirks, you'll see its always tied to something the real horses did.The idol aspect is also not randomly tacked on. Horse races have award ceremonies afterward, whether or not it should be idol performances is simply a matter of opinion but its not even a big part of the series, unless you want it to be (which is the best way to handle it).Definitely KF and Uma are two very different series. Uma is a sports series thats hyper autistic about Japanese horse racing, KF is anime National Geographic (how accurate it is about the animals depends on whos in charge). Uma is hyper specific about a hyper specific genre of horses, KF is specific about animals in general. Not everyone will like both but I think its undeniable that Uma filled the power vacuum that was left after the Kadokawa drama. Uma S1 was more of a KF2 than the actual KF2 was in a weird sort of way.
>>285216656praisePresumably he's still working on a full series, on his(their) own time, just going at their own pace. tatsuki gets tapped to do a lot of little contributions, like these New Years Hentatsu segments they do appear on actual TV on New Years Eve, which is an extremely prestigious time. Rather than go out to party many Japanese gather as families and watch the TV specials all night, all the stars come out.
KF is still the only anime that I bought the entire bluray set + OST + artbook for
>>285222676That was the best part. Completely organic hype that was rare back then and completely unheard of now. I remember seeing this exact thread, clicking through the first episode, and scoffing as I headed to work only to realize weeks later it would be one of the greatest anime ever made.
>>285222676i remember abib was pretty assblasted about KF for some reason
>>285221086he did an animation for Hololive in 2023 and designed the cover for Comitia 150's cataloguefull focus seem to be on his project announced in like 2022/2023This is from the last Hentatsu:>So how's the progress?>If you could please patiently wait for it...
>>285222676ramblepost incomingThe consistency of "the pattern" is what's so amazing about this series. The first episode was just total meme fuel. It didn't get as much immediate attention here as it did natively, but it picked up pretty quickly. Then the second episode was still charming, and even had some additional janky animation, that "cutouts" scene where they just through out other character names. Just a sense of "lmao what is this weird kids show". But then there's a little hint, Jaguar running her little ferry service, that's like.. it doesn't register just yet, but a little spark that there's something going on here starts to take hold. Then episode 3 is Toki and it's just, holy shit, you're bowled over that this is actually something really special. And then there's all these perfectly subtle details of how the park is presented, that kind of "loneliness" that both captures the spirit of nature while reflecting on the first game that had already ended before the series was produced, but Kaban's growth across each episode paralleling the development of mankind (taming fire, song&music, cooking/agriculture, reading, etc). And on top of this is the incredibly potent nostalgia getting triggered in that it's actually "A show for kids--for adults", the cover design mimicking National Geographic and calling to mind Zoobooks, the "educational segments" on the eyecatch.. the whole thing is just stupendous.The first few notes of this song still hit me like a punch in the guthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEVQ-e_Jac
>>285222658April Fools lumping of boards together, /c/ and /an/ worked quite well with each other.
>>285222676>What made it especially amazing is that most of /a/ didn't pay much attention to it. Threads were basically dead up until around episode 4 when it started gradually picking upNo one did, at first.
Not that gdgd fairies isn't awesome too
mods were banning people for saying they didnt like KF lol
>>285222893#1 views on nico#1 in salesit was basically #1 in literally every category during its peak
>>285222926Dude, they had to scramble for merchandise to sell. The idiots in charge didn't realize what they had, even when they covered S1's production costs by selling KF washbasins.
Also the bridge between /a/ and 2chan was super cute>that same parallel with everyone screaming at the same time in both countries during the last two episodes
>>285222926Also the theme song just demolishing everything.
>>285222960even kf2 was fun with 2ch
Kemono friends is a good reminder of just how bad the anime industry is. It hasn't really changed for the better either. With kadokawa's deal, Yaoyorozu would've been royally fucked. I don't remember the details, but Yoshizaki was the main reason everything went to shit. He wanted to replace Tatsuki.
>>285223070i just don't understand how any KF fan could stomach watching season 2 after what happened.
>>285223091The only pleasure KF S2 offered was seeing Kemurakusa walk all over it in the ratings.
>>285223091I couldn't make it past a couple episodes, so I just blanked it. I didn't like that we couldn't ever talk about KF on /a/ anymore without it just descending into rage.I'd visited collab cafes and zoos in Japan during KF1's peak and everyone was having so much fun, is just felt so shitty to constantly trample over their feelings and constantly bring up how it was bad now
I thought I'd moved on after 9 long years and be calm reading these threads BUT I'M STILL SO FUCKING MAD AND SAD GOD DAMMITCAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH POTENTIAL KEMONO FRIENDS COULD HAVE? BUT THEN THEY THREW IT ALL TO THE FUCKING INCINERATOR AND IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE TO BACK UP ANYMORE. EVEN IF TATSUKI WERE TO COME BACK TO FIX SHIT MIRACULOUSLY IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE AS MAGICAL AS IT WAS WHEN THE ANIME FIRST AIRED. BUT IF THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS I HOPE I'M WRONG AND IT'S JUST AS MAGICALFUCK YOU MINE YOSHIZAKIFUCK YOU KADOKAWA
Post the earliest image in your Kemono Friends folder.
>>285223330I lost my Kemono Friends folder because my external unfortunately died several years ago.
>>285223091Nobody likes that trash, It was all just contrarians and shitposters. Notice how no one posts S2 screencaps except to criticize.
>>285187115reminderhttps://nyaa.si/view/1782446
>>285222960>wants to consume something but there's no translationwe really are one of the same
>>285223468i agree but i do keep a folder full of kuso bird edits because it was pretty funny on 2ch at the time
Niconico cafeThe wall was "photos ok" which is nice, there's a lot of stuff like this that never makes it to the internet though. During the Kemurikusa collab cafe at a different place, there were instead books that everyone could draw pictures or write notes in, and if you don't want to draw anything you can still just take them back to your table and flip through them if you like. But since there's sometimes personal information they ask people not to take photos of them. So there's just a wealth and wealth of Japanese fan doodles and loveletters that never sees a jpeg.
>>285223596Literally the only good thing to come out of that trash.
>>285223634i made a no country for old men edit if anybody ever saved it at the time, can't seem to find it.
>>285223631LOL
at this point I'm just happy it happened, I hold no grudges anymore
Its been a day and a half and we cant even get 200 posts. KF threads used to hit bump limits in an hour. No one even remembers this show anymore despite being the biggest anime of the 2010s...
>>285224527Most of the people who remember aren't on /a/ anymore, and the ones that are aren't often expecting a KF thread to appear.
>>285224639>Most of the people who remember aren't on /a/ anymoreThats the sad part. We always joke that 'you're here forever' but its often times not the case.KF doesnt get new fans either since there isnt hype to push them through the show looking "icky".
>>285224680I neither grieve for modern anime "fans" nor modern anime. Even in its day there were some people who just couldn't open their mind to alternative and niche art styles, even (especially) when they're intentionally chosen to evoke specific emotional states, which is the whole benefit of symbolic story representation in the first place. The idea that every anime needs to look like hyper overbudgeted 6 billion yen all-sakuga-all-the-time 60fps fight closeups or else it's "bad animation" is just a limited worldview I can't begin to associate with.
Kemurikusa s2 when?
>>285212111Same, I never had an interest in Umamusume because, as others here mentioned, it feels like idolslop to me.
>>285226549That's exactly what it is. If you've played Azure Lane/Blue Archive, it's the same exact formula except horse girls.
>>285226724Never played those, but at least I do like some girls in buruaka because their design is cute (a lot better than uma or any other gacha game). The gameplay doesn't seem compelling at all.
>>285223330
>>285226724Umamusume leans more in the sports shonen cliches, and horse history autism, then tacks on the idol stuff at the end. The gameplay itself is an unironic slot machine, but the ability to manipulate it to some extent is what clicked for Japan That said, Cygame’s willingness to delay it for years to change course and fine tune it was admittedly risky and a miracle that it paid off
remember when every single volume became a best selleri remember
Serval forever
>>285226908Good anime+actually affordable works wonders.
>>285226724>That's exactly what it is. If you've played Azure Lane/Blue Archive, it's the same exact formula except horse girlNo it isnt? 1 is a auto battle shoot em up, one is auto battle gun game #87936754, one is a raising sim slot machine.
>>285216656>any progress on anything?>please be patient and don't have any expectations2027 will be the year of Tatsuki for sure!
>>285227610Sometimes I wish I was rich so I could give him a huge budget to do what he wants.
>>285227664You are such a fucking retarded idiot holy shit.He got a huge budget from aniplex for a movie.Then he got a second huge budget for a TV series.Those budgets are what has been paying his rent and food ever since Kemurikusa ended.He's doing what he wants, that's why you don't see anything, because he can be as lazy and slow as he wants.
>>285227610What a little striped slug
>>285198204Shit, I didn't even realise it had a plot because every time I opened the threads everyone was just posting maid outfits and bikini lewds. I was super active in the Pavilion general when it existed, I kept the Friend library on my phone right up until the battery died. ;__;
glad I caught this threadI remember seeing posts about this on /a/ in 2017 but I didn't watch much anime at the time. I eventually went back and watched it after playing srb2kart years later and finding someone had sprited serval for the game. It sucks the only new stuff is gacha, but seeing people still making art and the S1/S2 continuations in manga format were really nice. There's something undeniably wholesome and happy about seeing friends be friends.
>>285187309season 2 is awful even outside of the drama that went through its productiontons of plot holes and lazy writing and OOC moments that make no fucking sense
https://litter.catbox.moe/y610twuw3o4qkbjg.mp4
>>285224527>KF threads used to hit bump limits in an houThere used to be new material to work with for nearly every thread; now there isn't.
>>285229432Not sure what I expected, but gachimuchi was not it.
>>285191907>Rewrite Terra routeIt was so low budget but I still remember closing the curtains and watching it with the lights turned off every Saturday. Having played the VN myself, it was my cult watch. Man, anime seasons are not like they used to anymore.
>>285198889we’ll never know why they sent B-2 bombers to Japari Park and what knocked them out from the sky…
>>285184937>9 years >Serval cats live about 10-12 years in the wild,
>>285184937>Rises from the ashes like a phoenix>Gets smothered in the crib anywayWhy did Kadokawa do it?
>>285231067Don't worry, the Sandstar can make her live longer due to her human genes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znlaiBB_CQs
>>285232197Kadokawa plus Yoshizaki Mine, be accurate anon. He is the biggest reason really why any of this happened.It was spite, and it will always be spite in the end. The most vile type of spite there ever has been.
>>285232974>He is the biggest reason really why any of this happened.Is this actually confirmed? Sometimes I hear "we only know rumors", at other times it's "yeah, it was totally mostly his fault".
>>285232385Cute birds
>>285233112Yes. Yoshizaki did not like Tatsuki being in control. That is why he abandoned his social media and lost all fan support. That's not something someone uninvolved does. What's shitty is that he didn't give a damn who worked on KF until it blew up. I guess he got what he deserved considering it basically ended his career.
>>285233112The answer is no, it is not actually confirmed.>>285233414has no idea what he is talking about, he is only repeating the popular suppositions and hearsay. No one has any way of know what actually happened, we only know the few scraps of outward behavior each party did.Supposition is not "confirmation".
>>285233414>ended his career.Keroro gunsou is getting a movie and the anime a remake. And isn't the manga still ongoing, too?That doesn't sound like a 10 on the career-death scale.
>>285233515Obviously we will never get 100% solid confirmation because that'd blacklist Yoshizaki even more than he already is, but there was more than enough evidence to show he was the reason the deal fell through.
>>285233555Keroro isn't remotely comparable to KF. He was working on that before KF. His legacy has already been tarnished. Nothing he does now will really matter.
>>285233555These feel more like desperate move to stay relevant than anything else honestly
>>285229432ＴＨＡＮK ＹＯＵ ＳＩＲ
>>285233640Uhhhhhh. Dude, I like Kemono Friends too, and it was a sensation for a year or two, but Keroro Gunso is like two orders of magnitude more successful. It's not even close. Keroro has tens of millions in sales. It has five fucking films and is getting a sixth. Come on, man.>Nothing he does now will really matter.This statement really means nothing at all. Feelings != reality.
>>285233687Stay relevant? More like he needs it to pay his bills. To be clear, I don't think Mine is this evil person that deserves to rot. He just made a poor decision not allowing Tatsuki do his thing. The guy even removed Tatsuki from his Twitter.It was painfully obvious it was personal.
>>285233892The point is that KF would've been infinitely more successful than Keroro. Keroro had 13 years over KF, so of course it was successful, but it wouldn't have compared at all to KF if they let it thrive.> It has five fucking filmsNearly all of Keroro's content came way before KF existed.
>>285233895The man has more then enough Keroro money to set him up for life. There's no reason to make a reboot anime and movie other than it to say in the public eye
>>285233687>getting a film is a "desperation move"You realize people don't just get a film because arbitrarily decide they want one, right? This is determined by multiple investment companies and media corps. They don't give movies to people whose careers are "over". There are lots and lots of people and decisions involved in this process. I know you're angry and want to get "revenge", but Keroro is inarguably popular and successful and the vast majority of Japanese viewers do not share the same eternal oath of jihad as you do, or are likely even aware of what transpired.
>>285234028Maybe, maybe not. Either way, your assessment is based in emotion, not facts.
>>285234055Yes. Keroro is an established brand and companies everywhere now are creativly bankrupt. This doesn't change it being a desperate move, it just gives reasons for it existing
>>285234055NTA, but getting a movie from an IP that has been around for 20+ years isn't as big a deal as you are making it out to be, especially an IP that already has 5 prior films. That just means they know it's guaranteed to make some money therefore they will continue to milk it.Also, companies deciding to fund movies can most certainly be seen as a desperation movie if they feel the movie will make the IP more relevant.
>>285235785gohan
>>285233892>Keroro Gunso is like two orders of magnitude more successfulWASEveryone already left MineEvery otaku with money is still pissed about KF. Keroro is doomed, just like KF2 and Shacibato
I wonder what she's doing now. I feel especially bad for the VA's.
>>285237885Her last main role was the human MC of Edomae Elf for whatever its worth
Would you watch a remake anime with 2D animation?
>>285239159Only if it was being done by a studio that were doing as a gift to Yaoyorozu.
Cute autistic drunkie snek
>>285239159I don't think it needs a remake. I like the original for what it is.
>>285239853Would Friends really fall for money, outside of the dumb snek?
>>285240120if boss started charging them for japari buns, most definitely
2 is overhated; the latter shorts are cute. 2 just had shittier deep lore, it being a soft reboot didn't take away the enjoyment for the episodic plots, but the dick riders for the original guy can't admit it. I say all this as someone actually there on day 1 and not some bandwagoning faggot
>>285234055>This is determined by multiple investment companies and media corps. They don't give movies to people whose careers are "over".Aya still gets VA roles even after her reputation completely tanked after Haruhi. They really dont care.
>>285237885She still gets roles but its weird. She gets worse the more professional she becomes. The "new seiyu moe" thing is real.
>>285240190Wouldn't it be better to just bring food at that rate?
>>285240423I'm sure you only liked KF because of the moe aspects. KF2 doesnt accurately portray animals in an accurate or interesting way that the first season did. Everything was surface level>haha seals like to play with balls, right?>ducks herd everything!>Roadrunner's BEEP! shirtThe only thing they got right was Caracal being bitchy but that was part of her character from the start and not creative inspiration from Tomason. Tatsuki clearly knows a lot and cares about animals. The writer of KF2 clearly hated dogs.
>>285240423The show took a shit on returning and new characters and was not tanoshii, even the people on the production team were sperg freaks.
Japari bun
>>285240423>I say all this as someone actually there on day 1 and not some bandwagoning faggotTemplate 312
>>285240423who is even left to pay you so you will shill this narrative
>>285184937Is the gacha still alive
>>285241228
>>285241925Kemono Friends 3 is, yes. Kingdom is still playable, but in no way is it alive.
>>285241925Somehow yes. All the arcade cabs are gone but the mobile game is still trucking on.
While on the topic of the gatcha, I've never been a fan of the "guest" friends
>>285241228Japari buns.
>>285242502Soft and squishy
>>285242008>>285242031What would one taste like...
>>285242657They have different flavors/food in them. The bun itself is just bread but what for example, japari buns that serval eats would probably contain some kind of meat.
>>285242947The real question is what they're made of
>>285242502Fat ass bear...
>>285243273
>Tatsuki is kill>Mine getting a new Keroro seriesLife just isn't fair.
>>285243517Tatsuki got comissoned by Cover corp for a few Hololive shorts, that's something
>>285243517i dont know a single person on /a/ that watches Sgt. Frog or has ever made a thread about it
>>285243681I know of one and saw a thread not long ago about the reboot. But it doesn't have as much traction here as KF, yes.
>>285243681It used to be really popular on /a/ pre-2012, or at least had a dedicated following.
>>285243681Seriously. Mine draws very cute girls but his name is tainted and his entire career is irrelevant. 27 years running and Keroro is still in the exact same position now as it was 10, 15, even 20 years ago.
>>285243681Every now and again I mention how it was a childhood manga of mine, and being so close to my heart meant learning the betrayal of Tatsuki hurt all the more
>>285184937Feels like the 5th anniversary was just yesterday.>>285240930As a fan of roadrunners, the design change disappointed me.
>>285243956I never read the manga but Mine Yoshizaki was one of my favorite artists back in the day, especially with Otomedius Excellent. I hate what happened
>mention Kemono Friends in Trickcal /vg/ thread>thread devolves to FUCK MINEI know you chibifuckers are here too.
>>285244116I've been meaning on picking up this game for awhile now. Of all consoles why did they make it exclusive to the 360?
>>285231067kemono friends x trickcal collab when?
>>285244388When I was active in the private torrent scene for games, someone uploaded a version that worked on PC. I don't know if it was emulation or what, but I was able to run it perfectly. I think any modern gpu made in the past 10 years should be able to emulate 360 though.
>>285187309S1 felt like its own thing you could watch for fun even as an adult. To me S2 felt like it dropped any and all effort and just became fucking dora the explorer the anime. I couldn't get past a few episodes in because all the characters were beyond beyond retarded. Like literal baby show.
>>285237108Mine’s name barely has any relevance to his own IP anymore except with the most dedicated fans who still follow the manga, the brand’s popularity is entirely from the anime and Japan is more likely to associate the series with the original voice cast than they are with him, which is why them getting replaced for the reboot is way more likely to cause controversy than whatever bullshit happened with KF almost a decade ago that most people either memory holed or weren’t aware of to begin with. Thousands of hardcore otaku could denounce Mine and the new movie/reboot would still do just fine because casuals nostalgic for what they watched in elementary school don’t give a solitary fuck and have plenty of money to spend. Some of you live in a bubble
Boycott the frog
>>285233892YeahNow let kemono live for 13 years instead of killing it and let see
>>285244133Haven't paid much attention to that stuff but it doesn't surprise me that some old KF fans would end up there
Nanoda
>>285243875wakaran
>>285228478KF2 is exactly the low budget kids show KF looks like. Swap the release order and KF2 would have zero drama and the entire franchise would have died a quiet death.
>>285224731I do question if I would have given the show a chance if it didn't tap into my nostalgia for ps1 games. I'm fairly open to bad visuals, but so much of the show just tapped into nostalgia of elementary school days.
I miss show with cute animals.
>>285245832Warm tongue
Why did they do it
>>285246448Kaban no! You're going to get KEKED out of Serval!
>>285246677good, deserved
>>285246954Punished Kaban,a bag denied of her friend
>>285234220>That just means they know it's guaranteed to make some moneyThat's the whole point, that's what "successful" means. Whether it infuriates you or not, Mine is successful, established, and well-liked enough that they'll still happily make movies of his works. There is no continuing outrage over him in his home country and never was. The opinions of a minority on /a/ or english-language twitter and the occasional 2chan sympathizer are not reality, and the behavior in the forum quarters is far worse than anything spoken out domestically.>>285237108>WASNo, Is. The level of success KG enjoys over KF is *not even close*. KG is a household name, every single adult japanese person I know knows it. KF is not. The only person who knows what it is is my wife and our friend+his girlfriend, and our kids, because we all went to Tobu zoo together during the KF collab event. At my behest, because I was the only one "otaku" enough to know about it. Outside of that it's extremely niche. Keroro isn't. Yoshizaki is doing just fine, even if fandom justice demands he oughtn't.>Everyone already left MineThere is zero evidence for this. It's in your head because you want revenge. And it's fairly repugnant because people like you brought the worst to this franchise.Case in point, webms like this >>285230192 are utterly repulsive. I wish I could believe that was a US branch office, but the pavement and directory suggest Japan to me, and there's nothing I can think of more contemptible than someone trying to march around holding an American-style protest with slogan placards. It tramples all over the countless thousands of people of people in Japan just trying to enjoy things and not have everything turned into a goddamn insatiable jihad that will never be happy until everyone else is as miserable as they are.tldr Knock it off.
catbox doesn't delete files my ass
Never watched kemono friends and now I feel like it wouldn't be worth it lagging behind without the communal experience
>>285247763I'd say it's worth it if you're bored. i was late to it (though pre-KF2). Kemurikusa is roughly the same plot but darker, almost as good despite the general lack of discussion that came with it
>>285247763KF is more than worth it, most of us were just there when it was in its prime and it was magical. It's still magical and worth watching, but its more muted nowwhich is pretty fitting for the actual series honestly
>>285247763It's a cute show that's worth finishing if you liked the first couple of episodes. If not, it isn't for you.
>>285247763Do it,it's fun
>>285249732My wife...
No one gives a fuck about new keroroJust like no one cares about new ranma, new yatsura or new kenshin
>>285247361>Mine is successful, established, and well-liked enough that they'll still happily make movies of his works.Again, >>285240567 . It has nothing to do with Mine himself being "well liked". Imagine bootlicking for a multibillion dollar company this hard. Kadokawa would put you, your wife, and all your hapa mutts in the ground if it made them money.
Post Serval's japari buns
>>285246954Sex with hagKaban
:D
>>285250432
>>285250786Tanoshiiii!
>>285200973quick waipa's +i ended 5 years agohttps://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/12790
>>285250786TANOSHI!
Why were there so many Dragon Ball Kemono Friends edits?
>>285184937i remember. it helped me cope with living with an abusive family, it was a good escape and i will hold it dearly in my heart cause of that, my online username is still named after a character!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9TWpjEwQM
Who is your favorite friend?
>>285251268Man, people used to soundclip, mix, and edit all this shit without AI. True SOVL.
Two birb singing on top of a polehttps://files.catbox.moe/v5gwdj.mp4
>>285245486>swap the release order and it would have died because nobody latched on to itbecause the second season was absolute shit even without the drama
>>285251529Gohan
>>285222915based mods
Serval is...
>>285251529wolf
So he ever doing anything ever again or...I liked kemurikusa I don't even care if it's the same story again
>>285251529Tiger
Kaban's butt
>>285252020Kaban has the best butt of all the friends
>>285252612just kemurikusa, but considering the speed at which he works, we'll all be dead before it's finished.
>>285251529I wanna doggystyle the dog
>>285251529>in the showGamer Fox>in general Snow Leopard because I love snow leopards.
>>285253945Cute kot
>>285251529Prairie Dog and Suri Alpaca. Only saw the anime, though.
>>285251529Forever Tsuchinoko, with Jag at a close second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ebbLvswnU
>>285223366*serval years ago
did any of you like the japari banquet collabs?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IpXVR2vC4Q
>>285253252>just kemurikusa, but considering the speed at which he works, we'll all be dead before it's finished.What is he working on? I never heard of any new Kemurikusa content.
>>285184937No Tatsuki No Tanoshii
>>285247361>Mine is successful, established, and well-liked enough that they'll still happily make movies of his worksWhat new works does he have in the pipeline?
>>285224527>KF threads used to hit bump limits in an hour.Virtually nothing does that now. There are just less of us here these days.But I still remember. Think I'm due for a re-watch, so the thread has had at least one good outcome..
>>285261121I can't imagine anyone from /a/ migrating to Reddit. I guess the 30+ crowd just aren't as invested in anime as they were when they were younger.
>>285261121New year eve radio did.
>>285261171I don't think its that, it's more newer fans sharing virtually no resemblence to fans of the past. Frankly if you told me 15 years ago, One Piece threads would be a den of the some of the most obnoxious and dense fuckers imaginable, I wouldn't have believed you
Does anyone have the image with Serval and the arrows? One of them says "smells like a cat".I lost my gigantic KF folder years ago. Thank you
>>285261293https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2XR7BLcoBYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsvgqRwUIc One of the most underrated EDs of all time.
At east the spamming schizo that shit up these threads is perma dead
>>285253281All friends are for doggy, it's simply in their nature. If anything missionary would be insulting as it's showing submission.
>>285260016A final Keroro movie for the old anime and a new rebooted TV series later this year.
>>285261121>re-watchI'm down for an /a/ watches KF again
>>285261596So nothing new, then.
>>285261483Saved
>>285261690Look at them go
>>285261395>One of the most underrated EDs of all time.Seconded. Just started my re-watch & can't believe I forgot about this. I haven't heard it in years. Brought a manly tear to my eye.
>>285261690>>285263447Beware, anons. The Striped Savanna Slug is behind only mosquitoes and hippos for human kills.
>>285263656So it's a friend who is really good at killing humans? Su-gooooiii!!
>>285261483What about cowgirl?
>>285263656>>285264037I love a woman that can kick my ass
>>285264808Hippo's sandstar is concentrated in her massive jugs
you weren't supposed to lewd the Friends
>>285265117Once things fell apart, the sacred order of treating Friends in such a way fell as well...
>>285265117It's the sandstar's fault for giving them such pervy bodies
>>285227738>He got a huge budget from aniplex for a movie>Then he got a second huge budget for a TV seriesOh yeah? Can you post any announcements made by Aniplex?>>285233597I think Tatsuki is the one who is blacklisted.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7n-aTGL_s
I'm still mad. I will always be mad.
>>285265427alpaca would never be mad
>>285265820Several sizes
>>285265444But she would be shy.
So Season 2, greatest fuck up of all time or GREATEST fuck up of all time?
>By the episode where the dog gets mauled to death, and then told to fuck off, the fans were sick of this shit.For me, it was when they tossed Bossu into the fucking drawer. It was the moment KF died for me.
>>285267987Makes sense to me
Threadly reminder to read Quick Waipa's continuation of S1 on Danbooru. It's, for all intents and purposes, a direct sequel to Tatsuki's Kemono Friends and understands what Tatsuki did to make KF great.https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3106826?q=pool%3A12790
>>285267987Only way it could have been worse is if Serval and Caracal showed up to help Tiger beat up Dog.
It really is nothing short of a small miracle Kemono Friends not only was as good as it was, but people agreed it was good or the very least admitted it was better than it had a right to be.Even the CG, micro budgeted as it was, still finds a way to ooze charm and show how much Tatsuki cared about the project, world, and characters.I honestly can't think of anything modern it compared to. Especially in this day and age where people shit on an anime for the smallest animation error.
If there's one thing I've learned out of all of this is that Japanese Business Politics will literally choke the golden goose with it's bare-hands if it means not having to admit guilt, fault or if it's an attempt to save face.You couldn't ask for a more profitable franchise. They were selling anything you could slap the Japari symbol on.Buckets. They were literally selling out of Japari-symbol laden buckets.
>>285268036>Business>to the point where nico users are now migrating to YoutubeWait a minute, does this mean that Kadokawa’s fuckup at least partially contributed to the rise of VTuber popularity in the west? Because that’s honestly kind of hilarious.
>>285268049Their fuck-up caused tons of the paying members who created content primarily on nico to get mad enough to cancel and migrate, so yeah. Indirectly.
>>285268036I guess it's true what they say, once one door closes another one opens
>>285268049>S2 made vtubers bigOk now I have one more reason to hate S2
The franchise is worthless trash without Tatsuki, trying to replace him is like trying to make a Castle in the Sky 2 without Miyazaki.
>>285268060and I'm sure if the company could do it all over again... the only thing they'd change is making sure that Tatsuki didn't dare post that he was fired on twitter.They wouldn't actually fix the fuck up itself, they just don't like that "that asshole" went and blabbed about it, and their bullshit got found out. I'm sure no one actually got fired over it either.
didn't yaoyorozu die or somethingdon't think they've done anything since kemurikusa
>>285267987Bossu went out like a BOSS; anything that contradicts that is ignore-able bullshit.
>>285268117They’re working on a theatrical film.
>>285268124Tatsuki and his two best friends Yuuko and Isa are the ones working on the movie, with backing from Aniplex, we do not know yet what studio is helping with animation, it can be 8million (former Yaoyorozu) or it could an Aniplex subsidiary like Boundary.
>>285268117The company was officially dissolved and all its assets taken over by a company called 8million headed by animatikn producer Fukuhara, so nothing much changed.
I never watched season 2. What exactly did it do to shit all over the first season and director? What are some examples?
>>285268152Story starts off with Servant not remembering Kaban, cut to Kaban living on the iskand she left at the end of the last series with the owls for some reason Kaban has a desk drawer full of "Lucky's" that are disposable since it turns out he's not really their friend I guess, fans took it personally the way roadrunner was shit on by Kyururu not drawing her at the end of the episode, domestic dog which has been waiting for humanity for thousands of years since humanity died off gets SHIT ON in the worst way in the series, mauled by a tiger to protect the first human she meets in thousands of years, getting told she's weak, the human she saved honestly forgot she existed seconds after she saved her, human tells her to go back home (basically fuck off), and domestic dog goes back to wait for humanity which will never arrive since humans died off thousands of years ago. Even when the meet again Serval doesn't remember Kaban, plus materials say that the island Kaban went to after the series didn't have anything on it and the rest of humanity was dead, so they just came back and their entire journey was pointless. They imply at the end that Serval was always Kyurur's friend before Kaban, and her liking Kaban was merely because she remembered Kyururu. And as soon as Kyuru came back she didn't care about Kaban anymore. The series is no longer about "each friend has their own abilities, their own strengths and weaknesses" instead Serval can just go SSJ and easily beat stronger animals, since there is no logic to individual strengths and weaknesses anymore. If you can enter Wild Mode you're just stronger than other animals. Wild mode was a thing in the original series but it was more open about how it worked, it wasn't just SSJ. Just every episode is a middle finger to the original series, the tone is entirely wrong, every episode is spiteful towards the Friends and not fun at all. Tiger dies at the end.
>>285268160Anon forgot to mention that after the climax Kaban remarks that Kyuru and Serval make a great team. She then meekly comments that she and Serval also used to make a great team. The theme from season 1 plays as Serval reacts with confusion and bids her goodbye while Kaban sheds some tears. Oh and also there's a talent show in which the judges just tell Toki her singing sucks, prompting her to leave the stage dejected.
>>285268160The only good thing that came out of KF2
>>285268160What the fuck
>>285268193This is what happens when a sequel is written for the express purpose of shitting upon and burying its predecessor.
>>285268203Reminds me of Halo
>>285268160nta but even if I already knew about this, reading through this post makes me sick again
>Someone asking "But what was so bad about season two, I never watched it" every ten postsPeople are just never going to accept what was bad about it until they see the dog episode. Until it gets posted people are going to keep asking.
>>285268232The worst part is that the dog episode was actually decent, until the end. Dog really deserved better.
>>285268241Only way it could have been worse is if Serval and Caracal showed up to help Tiger beat up Dog.
BRO TABENAI DE KUDASAI DO YOU REMEMBER???TABENAIYO AHAHAH
>>285268171>Oh and also there's a talent show in which the judges just tell Toki her singing sucks, prompting her to leave the stage dejected.this is when i dropped it, i actually felt like shit for the whole day after that and media usually never does that to me.
It was just perfectIts not perfect in the sense that its the greatest thing to ever happenIts perfect in the sense that it knows what it is, every element fits together, the messages are simple and well conveyed, it doesn't talk down to the audience, its easily accessible for all ages, its a golden story that has every element seemingly in harmony, even if its made on literally no budget at all. The characters are endearing, the story is endearing, it makes you care about it without coming off as forced. Its like an actor that goes on stage, does exactly what he's meant to do in the best way he can, and leaves just as soon as he came, leaving everyone wanting more.It had real attention to detail, inbetween story segments they even gave facts about animals, for the briefest moments it actually made people give a shit about animals and conversation efforts, by attaching cute anime girls to it. Zoos and conservation actually saw a major increase due to this anime, only to be destroyed due to an egotistical production company that didn't actually want this anime to succeed so they had to kill it off.
>>285268277It's essentially the perfect anime for all the reasons you've described. I love it so much.
>>285268277>More than greed it's actually that stupid belief of>If you make an error never apologizeThat the old coots at the higher charges have. You could've had the initial shitshow, fire everyone and do everything as it went, but as soon as you saw the writting on the wall they should've brought back him and his team, even if he's there just in-name, just to appease the infuriating crowd. It was a good lesson on how a conglomerate works, or capitalism if you want to go the meme way.
>>285268277>for the briefest moments it actually made people give a shit about animals and conversation effortsNot just for a brief moment. This anime is why I got a job in conservation now
>>285268214true
>>285268294very based, anon. i'm going to be doing the same thing, sort of. land management as opposed to direct animal conservation. I was never good enough at studying at university to complete my wildlife conversation course
I followed anons' advice and never watched S2, but I've got to admit that I kind of really want to, if only for this.
>>285268323go ahead & watch, pretend its not canon. s2 is alllll just a dream anon
>>285268323I regularly re-watch it just to remember how much I hate it and why
What caused the rebound? Demon slayer?
>>285268347Kadoka CEO and other board directors were removed.Virtually everyone involved vanished which finally pacified the rage
>>285268008There is no continuation, Kaban died on the way back to her home planet
Honestly the manga version of it fixes a lot of the problems but the damage was done with the animehttps://youtu.be/OJ6nP9ExLeY
>>285268377As nice as it is to hear the manga fixed things, the phrase "too little too late" comes to mind. Oh well, at least they knew to some extent they fucked up.
>>285268377manga versions are complete afterthoughts, so the author got to basically do whatever they wantedturns out they like Kemono Friends so they made something that was enjoyable to read
Dude, even without what happened to the creator most people still went into the series hoping it would at least scratch the itch they had wanting more Kemono Friends.By the episode where the dog gets mauled to death, and then told to fuck off, the fans were sick of this shit. That was the moment it was irredeemable. Literally dog get mauled protecting human from a tiger, told she was weak, human immediately stopped caring she existed seconds after she got mauled while she was still bleeding out, and then they just told dog to go home by itself. Half of the episodes were written like they actually hated certain Kemono Friends.Nevermind Kaban getting cucked, Serval not remembering her, Kaban's entire journey being rendered meaningless, and Serval's REAL friend being the shitty MC of season two retroactively and she only liked Kaban due to seeing her as the season 2 MC.
>>285268413>Nevermind Kaban getting cucked, Serval not remembering her, Kaban's entire journey being rendered meaningless, and Serval's REAL friend being the shitty MC of season two retroactively and she only liked Kaban due to seeing her as the season 2 MC.Holy fuck, I'm glad I dropped that garbage halfway through the second episode.Kaban is my favorite, and her relationship with Serval was one of my favorite things about the show.
>>285268413and honestly, I think fans would be way more receptive to season 2 if they didn't just shove Serval into the main party for no reason. If they just had new girl and Carcal traveling together in the same way Serval and Kaban traveled together. Just don't purposefully try to fuck with fans of season one and it would have been marginal at least.But the retards in the marketing department went "NOOOO Serval is the popular one, we gotta shove her into the main cast, and we gotta say she never loved Kaban when we do it".
>>285268440didnt they also fire the rest of the staff who sided with the 1st director?this whole situation is beyond retarded lmao
>>285268446Season 2 is literally founded upon spite.
>>285268446and bullied the rookie VAs into apologising for the 'misunderstanding'guess what happens when you make a bunch of cute girls who did nothing wrong look sad on camera
>>285268469Not to mention, saying "Sorry, YOU misunderstood" isn't an apology.
>>285268469I am glad none of their careers were ruined because of this.
>>285268413>Dudeif you paid attention to the stuff behind the scenes, you would have already known that you shouldn't watch S2 at all way before it started airing
>>285268496Vast majority of people cannot/refuse to simulate the outcome of things based on available information. The basic thought process of "there are actual feces in this room, therefore; if I enter it, it'll smell horribly" isn't there. Some of them will tell you "maybe it won't be so bad" or "maybe it's not really there" to try and rationalize their indulgence, and will only accept it AFTER the fact, while pretending they knew it would happen all along. This is partially the reason I detest being in active online fandoms -- this process gets perpetuated so often it becomes incredibly tiresome.
>>285268510No Anon, I never touched KF S2 either. Well no, I did watch the dog episode just to see for my own eyes how bad it was (it made a lot of commotion when it came out, understandably). But other than that I already knew S2 was a waste of time. I have no pity for the people who went in wanting to "give it a chance" when it was clear it never deserved one.
https://nico.ms/sm34768388I still remember the parody videos season 2 created, mocking it.
>>285268529https://nico.ms/sm34784610This one in particular
>>285268529>nico.mshuh?
>>285268553bought by microsoft
>>285268539Incredible.
Someone post that delinquent Kaban image.
>>285268036I'd love it if ninjas would take down all of these "muteki zaibatsu". Fuck up Kadokawa for making things no longer tanoshi!
It's still popular in my heart.
>>285268618Not after what they did with S2The director shit all over S1 on purpose and it can't be undone now
>>285268633on purpose?
>>285268642Of fucking course, do you even understand how much of a slap in the face are the last 2 episodes of the S2? There's a reason japan as a whole hated the sequel.
>>285268152>serval has magic amnesia and remembers she "traveled with a human friend" but "not much more than that">she and caracal meet/save kyruyu and agree to help find his home based upon sketches in his notebook>the sketches are clearly just a segue into different episodes>armadillo and pangolian are the raccoon/fennec detective pair except they both act like mean retards for contrived reasons>many episodes follow virtually identical story beats/resolutions as the first season>many first season references are hamfisted in a way that is spiteful (serval saying "don't eat me" and naming kyruyu after his stomach growling among other things)>they try to portray caracal as tsundre but she just comes off as a massive bitch>when first meeting in episodes 5/6 kaban and serval clearly know they've met before but both refuse to acknowledge it>cellins are said to be formed from the foundation of strong memories ("sparkle") with more powerful memories making more powerful cellins but this doesn't explain at all how the cellins that attack in the earlier episodes came to be>another PPP filler episode where they're mean to toki>pangolian and arma manhandle the PPP because they think they're hiding kyruyu for some reason>domestic dog has been waiting an unspecified amount of time for humans and promptly gets told to fuck off after saving kyruyu's life>all the friends gather at the hotel because of a massive waterborne cerulian that the writers just forget about during the climax>amur tiger, a recurring "beast" friend, is killed after being lured to the hotel to run interference against the cellins and her death is practically celebrated>kaban gets cucked by serval as they blast the season 1 outro
That would involve them admitting that they fucked upAnd a continuation of S1 would still get shat on unless they brought back Tatsuki which would involve them admitting that they REALLY fucked up
Kadokawa are retarded. That's why.
Seven years later and this shit is still the biggest scandal in the anime industry in recent years. Something that single-handedly spawned a cultural phenomenon quickly died off.I haven't watched S2 but I wonder how it would be if you look past your bias against it, though? Like, seeing it as it is.
>>285268682it's... okaythere's some good ideas and some bad ideas and the whole thing just kinda falls flat stumbling over itselfthe character designs are still cute though, for all his faults Mine's hard work on that shone through, which is why it hurts to watch
>Make series>Its originally a mobage, but an anime is planned right away>Made by creator of Keroro Gunso>It basically sucks, mobage shuts down almost instantly>It would cost more to stop the anime production than it would be to just go through with it, we already bought the rights to it after all>Lets just give it to a Lv1 rookie director, literally not pay him anything, not give him anything to work with, and tell him to "have fun">Lv1 director and twelve people work themselves to death making it the best anime ever.>Company already wrote the story off, so they don't give a shit anymore, so they literally let him do whatever he wants>Anime becomes a smash hit>Anime is the most popular anime in the last decade, has the highest ratings in ages.>Marketing department that wrote it off: "HOLY SHIT FOR SOME REASON THIS SHITHOLE SERIES IS TAKING OFF, QUICK, FIRE THAT RETARD DIRECTOR AND TAKE ALL THE RIGHTS FROM HIM BY FORCE, FIRE THE SHIT OUT OF HIM, FOR SOME REASON THE RETARD FANS ARE EATING THIS SHIT SERIES UP SO WE GOTTA CAPITALIZE ON IT WHILE ITS HOT">Creator of Keroro Gunso especially hates the director of the first season for "Making the series something other than what he originally intended" so he wouldn't work with them without them getting rid of him either>Creator said that he was MUCH more involved with the second season and it will be way better than what that shithole director could pull off, you'll all love this way better>Cut to season 2 coming out>Most hyped anime in years>Every single episode is a spiteful nod towards the first season and how much the creators hated the first season. They take every opportunity they can to say how much they hated the first season, they take constant jabs to it in the second season.>Turns out fans really don't like you shitting on something they loved>Season two is the lowest rated anime in all of anime history, literally>Popularity tanked forever>Literally dead series, due to spite
>>285268701>Banished From Hero Party But I Am Actually The Strongest
>>285268347All controversies will eventually disappear, especially if its inconvenient to keep being outraged. Kadokawa owns so many series that you'd basically have to give up anime and manga as a whole do avoid them. Most people dont have that kind of will power.
>>285268719daaaaam same vibes lmao
>>285268701>Creator of Keroro Gunso especially hates the director of the first season for "Making the series something other than what he originally intended" so he wouldn't work with them without them getting rid of him either>Creator said that he was MUCH more involved with the second season and it will be way better than what that shithole director could pull off, you'll all love this way better>Every single episode is a spiteful nod towards the first season and how much the creators hated the first season. They take every opportunity they can to say how much they hated the first season, they take constant jabs to it in the second season.How the fuck can someone be so fucking petty? Imagine running a promising new IP to the ground because you were jealous of the fact that someone else who you hired with the expectation to fail at the project actually succeeded and did it better than you ever could. Instead of swallowing your pride and just handing over leadership of the project to him while you still retained the IP rights and could make money off of it, you decide to fire the guy who was responsible for the series' success and insist that your vision is still the better one.
>>285268736It seem petty as fuck because not only he was taking a dump on the director and team of S1 but all the fans and viewers that made the popularity possible in the first place. I doubt he even attempted to apologize about it.Dude deserves to be hounded for his shit decisions for the rest of his career, though judging by the quality of S2 it will never recapture or out-shadow what was S1.
how many washbuckets did your favorite anime sell, huh?
>>285268763ALL OF THEM.
Huh? Why am I crying?
I miss the three cat mommy
>>285268799FATSAGGYCATTATS
FUCK the seiyuu shieldFUCK kadokawaFUCK mine
>>285268819I remember one of the VA posting just a tree, and people getting the hint almost instantly.
They undo the whole point of the ending of season 1, I fucking hate it.
Uma Musume stole the "new touhou" king's crown KF was holding at the time, KF won't recover to the powerhouse it was even if they will prostrate, apologize, return Tatsuki and pretend only S1 ever existed.
>>285268786
>>285268856Let's be honest, once the Tatsuki shit went down it was never going to happen.Umamusme is good in its own right, and if we had to pass the tourch, it's comforting and fitting it went to another kemonomimi franchise
>>285268856UMA PYOIUMA PYOI
>>285268856Nothing's going to be the New Touhou if it was corporately backed from the getgo and doesn't have anything beyond just one group
>>285268722>Kadokawa owns so many series that you'd basically have to give up anime and manga as a whole do avoid them.It's easy, however, to avoid ever paying for them.
>>285268529>>285268539There was such a good video documenting the entire KF2 fallout and the staff's Twitter meltdowns edited to the tune of LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR but the creator took it down.
It still bugs me out the thing with the audio drama and the extra episode, you see the extra episode is labeled as 12.1 and the audio drama is 12.4Something doesn't add up, where are 12.2 and 12.3?
>>285268896This was very funny
>>285268098>The franchise is worthless trash without Tatsuki, trying to replace him is like trying to make a Castle in the Sky 2 without Miyazaki.So, basically you are saying that Nadia the secret of the blue water is trash.
i'm still angry, but at least we got kemurikusa out of it.
Stop making these threads just to make me angry, cry, and murderous against the niggers that killed Kemono Friends..
>>285268934Tatsukifags, why isn't kemurikusa popular anymore either?
>>285268955It's been pointed out many times in the past; irodori made it clear weed smoke was a single, self contained story and there would be no more seasons. It's not like it lost any popularity, just no reason to discuss it anymore.
>>285268963Many "single self-contained stories" still get the occasional threads like lainNobody talks about kemu anymore and when a kemu thread is posted once in a while it's not even an actual kemu thread but a thinly veiled Tatsuki worship thread
>>285268856It's funny how Uma Musume also fucked everything up by asking people to not make lewd content because fuck you we're being paid by rich old men and they choose the rules. Meanwhile there's this guy who loves Tsuchinoko so much that he's still making lewd doujins with her.I still remember the futa doujin that came out like at the same time KF was announced dead. Poor unlucky timing. But great doujin nonetheless
>>285268955It is still popular and fondly remembered in Japan, the only place that really matters, for example, this isthe people celebrating the third anniversary of the start of the broadcast, with the tweets featured on that publication being only a small fraction of all the tweets published celebrating that moment.irodorich.com/archives/25920
>>285268856Nothing will ever be a new touhou, every big new anime phase like uma and blue archive are just slot machines that'll be shut off one day. At least Kemono Friends will be fondly remembered despite its controversy.
>>285268934was kemurikusa the unofficial KF sequel, and that world was what awaited once they crossed the water?
>>285268955What do you mean? I still see people making fanart of it all the itme on japanese twitter.
>>285269017Even the old doujin version gets some love:https://twitter.com/tekitounisusume/status/1488881041179742209
>What went wrong?Mine's glorious Nippon Honorru, folded over 1000 times. Fuck you, Mine. You could have, and should be, remembered fondly, but you just couldn't accept someone else taking even a sliver of the lime light, you hack fraud sack of frog posting shit. b, you fuck. b.
>Twitter EXPLODES after this sceneIt was a marvelous time indeed, or the time japan said "FUCK YOU AND YOUR NUKE ALERTS" to news delaying the final episode
>>285269039Okay it really sounds like he fucked up but he's still responsible for creating Aki Hinata and that counts for a lot around here
>>285268701>>Cut to season 2 coming out>>Most hyped anime in yearsNo it was not. Anyone that paid attention the whole fiasco was more interested in Kemuri and anyone that wasnt didnt even care about KF.
>>285269061He'll never remove that black mark, so even if he solves world hunger people will still remember him for his ego.
>>285269039I want to see the Friends in space.
luv that stout wakaran'ing kitty like you wouldn't believe
>>285269096these things are legit the cutest animals on the planet
>>285269096Based Jag lover
! miss 2017. I want to go back to having friends.
Tatsuki does something
>>285269145>Tatsuki does somethingKadokawa: "And I took that personally"
>>285269155Go back to twitter
>>285268889I'm talking about Japanese here. Even the concept of piracy terrifies them.
>>285269155based jordan
Personally, I think the entire franchise was always meant to be a failure from the getgo, in order for some convoluted scheme to hide investor money, like in The Producers.But then it actually became successful, and that's actually bad.
I miss the whole gang
>>285269199You might've been right. But that pesky Tatsuki had to go and put effort and soul into it, because he had a genuine passion for the art and storytelling.
>>285269199It's also interesting that the studio's artistic philosophy is pretty much the opposite of most of the industry. Feels like something that was really born from the Internet era, like people who made all those Vocaloid stuff and so on.
>>285269232Well, you are not far off, after all Yaoyorozu was literally made via recruiting Internet and doujin niche creators, for example, Tatsuki was first contacted by producer Fukuhara with a tweet asking if he could greet him at Comiket, with Tatsuki replying to it and accepting the request.https://twitter.com/fukuhara_ystd/status/279418287442522112
It warms the cockles of my heart. Serval-chan is so pure
I only saw season 1 back in 2019. I couldn't help but keep watching because it was sort of nice and relaxing to watch after work. The cg wasn't the best but the general atmosphere of the show kept me watching.
No Tatsuki no tanoshii.
>>285269096Jaguar always had this cool sister vibe to her, I like her alot.
Is Grape-kun the first non-human animal to have a waifu?
Starting a pride with Lion!
Saw the premise of S2 plus its cast and did a 360 and moonwalked awayIt was a cute S1, reminded me of children's shows
NOT TO MENTION THE THREE SIZES VA APPLICATION FORM AND YAKUZA MYSTERY
>>285269346Or the casting script plagiarism scandal.
>>285269232>Feels like something that was really born from the Internet era, like people who made all those Vocaloid stuff and so on.It was very fitting they used Vocaloid for Kemurikusa's ED.
>>285251228Serval's forehead M looks the same as a forehead M that a DB villain group wears
>>285269358the fucking what
>>285269376Literally what it says in the can, after Tatsuki was gone but before the second season was announced they did a casting seeking complete newbies in the entertainment industry to develop them as new idols and voice actresses for the Kemofure franchise, then it was made pubic that the casting scrip to be read by the candidates was literally wholesale plagiarized from a famous voice acting blog, with the reaction by the official staff of the franchise being to fall in panic, to say they were very sorry for their "mistake" and trying to contact the woman who owned the blog so they could give her a "proper" apology.
>>285269385fucking kek couldn't do a single fucking thing rightgenuinely soulless humans
>>285269346What about [TEMPLATE 25]? That shit was hilarious: literal kusokaa shills trying to defend the company's shitty decisions. One of them forgot to remove the TEMPLATE label from his script and posted it like that. Many keks were had.
>only got around to watching KF last year>missed out on all the memes and fun during S1 and the meltdowns during S2It is like I am Kaban wandering around Japari Park long after everyone is dead
>>285269199>hide investor moneyThe best way to launder two cups of instant ramen is to eat it
do you remember it when someone came up with the "template ##"? i think it was just trolling and a meme but it was pretty funny nonetheless? i forgot the actual number though. "template 23" maybe?
>>285269429>do you remember it when someone came up with the "template ##"?I miss the Shoebill rapists anon more.
Holy, this thread picked up.
>>285269061One "oh shit" wipes out a thousand "attaboys," anon.
>>285269429Some shill on Futaba responded to some criticism by copy-pasting a premade damage control template, but accidentally also included the title "template ##"If you remember the exact number you should find screenshots in the archives
Finished watching S1 a couple weeks ago. Man it was fun. The CG is quite a turn off for me back then so I keep sidelining it to the end of my backlog. Then this one thread about horror manga featuring pic related happened, finished reading it all in one go, then proceed to watch S1. Not gonna lie it's been so long since my weekend is that much of a fun.
>>285269436>the Shoebill rapistsI'm not sayng it's right, but I understand.
>>285269289
>>285268955Its a self contained story that was never meant to become a multi-media series that would go on forever. It's like saying why isnt Code Geass or Gurren Lagann popular anymore.It was an HD remake of their university project. It did very well for what it was and thats fine.
>>285269745>Its a self contained story that was never meant to become a multi-media series that would go on forever.Oh, please, S1's ending is a perfect setup for even more adventures.
>kadokawa: we need to make this drama die down but apologizing would harm our reputation. who can we make do it? i know! the amateur voice actors are literally the voice of the series. lets make them do it! the fans will surely love it and stop their hate campaign
>>285270047For what? Its a completely barren earth. A Kemurikusa S2 would just be creating a civilization and Wakaba breeding Rin. All of the atmosphere that made Kemurikusa Kemurikusa would be gone and it would basically be an entire different show. Not everything needs to go on forever.
>>285268152>>285268160I seriously can't believe anyone thought this shit was a good idea
>>285270251Oh wow, I entirely forgot about this.
IWTRS
>>285268160Literally the only good thing that came out of this mess were the memes where Kyururu being a fucking psychopath, the piece of shit road runner, and the dog getting shit own
>>285270368You forgot the part where Kaban is doomed to transform into Mirai.
>>285269429Pretty sure it was some assblasted janny
>>285270413
>>285270413The Kadokawa Defense Force really was that incompetent, anon.
>>285270425i'm pretty sure this was just abib chucking a tantrum
>>285270313
>>285270712where can i buy a japari rod
>>285270735
Member when you can buy anime on Steam?
>>285268277>Zoos and conservation actually saw a major increase due to this animeGoing to the LA Zoo with my dad when this was airing (I was underagedb& and didn't have a car or money) just to go to the serval exhibit was fun, except for the fact that the serval there was mindbroken by the habitat and walked around in circles mewing. It was really sad. There was an asian guy with KF merch there and we talked about the show and /a/ for a while before a old dude with white hair and safari clothes described to us just how broken the serval was. I never went back and I can't find any photos given that my hard drives died, but it might be fun if there was an occasion
A section of the /a/ Draws Soramimi Cakehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwXgmXr4ZkA
i want to rape shoebill
at least grape-kun didn't have to live long enough to see the mess season 2 ended up being
I’ll have two Japari Buns, a large Japari Bun, Japari Bread with extra dip, a bag of Japari Chips, two Japari Sticks, one with Japari Cheese, and a large Japari Soda.
Never forget FUCK MINE and FUCK KADOKAWA
>>285270837That sucks. The Serval at the Dallas zoo was so friendly that the zookeeper would walk him around on a leash and you could even pet it.
Despite everything, I'm happy KF existed and happy there's still some of us to know how special it was
>>285270983He's with his wife now
>>285268831>treeMe ah no get it
You are my friend
The week between episode 11 to 12 was a time that never happened before and will probably never happen again. I remember taking the day off work just to watch it and spend the entire day talking about it on /a/.
>>285269155YouTube comment level garbage
>>285269232
>>285269417That's the feeling I get watching everything I do. Hell, the entirety of anime as a subculture is like that; it hit its highwater mark in 2005 and we've just been wading around ever since, waiting for signs that this is still the place to be
Fuck Beyondsugoi for stopping commisioning Serval pics for Nia
>>285270929fuck yeah majormilk
>>285271244>it hit its highwater mark in 20052006-2011*
>>285271304a high water mark can't last that long anon. Everyone I talk to says that they got into anime, went to conventions, or moved to japan around 2005
>>285271257
Good bye friends
>>285271333
Even the English dub VAs were surprised about Kaban getting squashedhttps://youtu.be/gBKNSGCb44c?si=ynkgupgRl4n47SS4&t=584
>>2852713292005 isnt even a particularly memorable year for anime. 2006 was when Haruhi, Gurren Lagann, Death Note, and Code Geass came out. Theres probably a bunch others that I'm forgetting. That bled into K-On, Madoka, Monogatari, SAO, Love Live. A golden era can last a long time.
>>285271005So you're a friend who is good at following trains!
Aired during the same season
