ganba ganba!

hmmmm I'll try to be there I guess

Reminder for tomorrow, everything's ready now.

Seven hours from now!

FOUR

my fast internet ran out so i won't be watching this one
sigh

TWO
>>84160
Satanic ISP throttling.....

NINE

>>84164
ELEVEN?

ONE

NOTHING WRONG WITH ME

>>84168
damn i was trying to recall that one, vaguely remembering a song whose first verse started with counting......
anyways, starting in FIFTEEN MINUTES

By the way, it's a timeloop, and since the first few episodes elaborate on the same core it remains understandable even if you arrive a bit late.

>>84168
1. Violent
2. Brocon
3. Flat
4. Bedwetter

Uhh.... well, that was something. These surreal shows really fly over my head because I struggle to pay attention to the talking and talking and more talking. I understand why someone said it was different from Monogatari in that it showed things instead of just relying on plot dumps of text, although it did have a lot of talking.
I feel like I can't judge stuff like this because my brain isn't wired to enjoy them. Some nice visuals, I guess.

>>84172
Nekone is a good girl! She's got a prickly shell to her, but she's very sweet and kind and smart!

>>84175
she should be nicer to kiwru then

Nekone is a very nice girl! Very strong for her young age! (and I seem to have derailed the thread with my choice of image, but I regret nothing!)

>>84176
Kiwru is a dunderhead!!

>>84173
The last couple episodes are extremely narration-heavy, that much is very true, although if you look at, say, episode 3, there's a lot of events taking place that in Monogatari would've been spread out across three episodes or more:
¥joining the bike club
¥sucking at it
¥deciding to work for a better bike
¥purchasing it
¥getting it stolen
¥failing at the race
¥being inducted into the birdman club
¥training montage
¥getting rejected
¥final encounter with the thieves
And several other smaller things sprinkled along. Monogatari is way, WAY slower than this. Across episodes 1 through 9 the longest stretches of dialogue are only a couple minutes long at most, like the one which I pointed out as one of the most important scenes out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIDMk2MaII
But it doesn't stop to explain to you that Higuchi's desire to travel is inspired by his reading of Verne and the pins he placed on his globe while going through it, that's left up to the audience. That the castella is a symbol of loneliness is only very briefly said in passing and too early to understand its meaning. What the show does focus on and dedicate a fair amount of time to is Watashi's (yes, that's his name) comically biased inner monologue, and I'm grateful that they made it so blazingly fast. Imagine how insanely worse the pacing would be if they slowed that down. And compared to SZS, where the characters spend a lot of time voicing their thoughts on the current topic (not a criticism, mind you), Tatami is much more made up of goings-on with or without narration (which I think serves a nice dual purpose in moving things along more quickly while also showcasing Watashi's mental state).

I enjoy its speed a lot, and sometimes I spontaneously rewatch some of its episodes simply because they're quite fun, and forever one of my favorites.
>>84179
Kiwru is CUTE and CUTE boys deserve love.

>>84182
Yeah, I could see why people would like it. I think it might be one of those things that's extra punishing to marathon since I start to have trouble paying attention to the symbolism stuff you mentioned.

They cameo'd this in one of the episodes. It's like a summary movie of the series but not

>>84184
Compared to what usually gets talked about as 2deep4u stories, Tatami is actually very straightforward. The core message is to not let harmful fantasies distract you from what's next to you, and to go and do the thing. Watashi generally errs not because he's aiming too high, Ozu aims even higher and is successful nonetheless, but because he's utterly incomptent at adapting to his situation. Again in episode 3: first instead of training to become fit he spends two years investing into the most expensive bike available knowing that there's thieves abound, and after losing it and being recruited for being a failure suddenly he gains the motivation to work out, ruining his opportunity. It's not that buying a fancy bike or getting swole are bad things to do, it's that he doesn't understand the situation he's in and his delusions keep getting the better of him.
>>84185
Yeah, it appears as a book in-universe. I'm gonna watch it tomorrow, just finished Ping Pong and will suya~.

>>84182
Events in Monogatari take more time because there are a lot more characters to introduce and develop. The events of Tatami get rushed through because the nuance of them isn't really important at all and most episodes start with getting Watashi to the same miserable point as every other episode, just in a slightly different way. All of the other important pieces are relatively static so there's not much need to spend time on them past the fast-forward-mode setup, it would just get in the way of showing Watashi's endless fuckups.

>>84185
>It's like a summary movie of the series but not
I'm gonna have to disagree with that after watching it. The first 2/3rds of Night is Short are a carnival, where lots of zany things happen but the otome has no internal conflict while senpai remains a background character throughout, it's only at the last stretch that we really start to tackle his shortcomings. They have in common that they aren't asking out the girl, but their reasons are radically different: senpai's already pursuing the otome while staying at a distance because of his fears, he's more of a regular insecure dude, while Watashi has his fantasies that make him go off and pursue something else entirely, so the way that the two resolve this ends up being different as well even if the result is identical. Senpai's not even fundamentally in error like Watashi is, as he successfully got the book and that's a big deal. His approach is heavily flawed, but his objective is feasible and fulfilled without needing the same kind of re-evaluation.

Also, I learned that the title is a reference to a popular 1915 song, that starts with「命短し恋せよ乙女」. Neat.

>>84193
Monogatari is slow because of its dumps and pauses. Whether it's crucial character developments, oddity lore, or more backstories, they're all equally slow, but unequally relevant. Ping Pong manages to handle three or four times as many relevant concurrent characters as the average Monogatari arc, but it runs a tight ship since they're all competing over the same prize, and what it examines is their motivations and development.

Isn't the author for this the same person who wrote Uchouten Kazoku?

>>84220
Looks like it, yeah. Tomihiko Morimi, also setting it in his local Kyoto.

>>84185
That's a separate thing with different characters and story, they just share the setting as well as production staff and original author.

>>84220
Penguin Highway too.

>>84218
>Ping Pong manages to handle three or four times as many relevant concurrent characters as the average Monogatari arc
And I don't remember anything noteworthy about any of them outside of the two main guys and Chinaman. I'm pretty sure the dragon guy was just "dude who trains hard and is good". Monogatari best girl arguments persist because a lot more time is spend building them up and differentiating them from each other. It's not that one is better than the other, they're just doing vastly different things and taking different approaches to suit their goals.

>>84191
I might stream it tonight, 7 of 8 EST. I'm waiting for a sound system part to show up

>>84231
>It's not that one is better than the other, they're just doing vastly different things and taking different approaches to suit their goals.
Okay, I can agree with that.

>>84232
the other anonymous (>>>/aut/3780) was going to stream at 8pm est, if you start at 7 or later it'll overlap