It’s going to be kind of hard for me to give a fair review of Someday’s Dreamers. The reason being that it’s an iyashi-kei show, and iyashi-kei puts me to sleep. Similarly, everything kind of flows together and it makes it hard to remember specific points to discuss later. I can really only remember feelings or moods, such as “Hmm, I think this has a little bit more conflict than these titles usually have”. Or perhaps the fact that I practically fell asleep and can’t remember specific stuff makes it good?
contrary to popular belief, i was not forced to watch this show because of the naked mans, but rather because the op comes up at random sometimes when foobar is set to random
The one thing that I can say about the show that was unquestionably good was the animation. It’s kind of surprising to me that a show where “nothing happens” ends up having more motion and higher-quality drawings than the majority of shows where things do happen. There are frequently shots where for example, someone will grab Yume’s arm as she is walking/running away, and she will then turn in that direction with all of the movements (torso, head, hair, etc.) that that entails. Unlike many other shows, this isn’t done as a set of static images, where perhaps we pan up from waist-height to see the hand holding the arm, then possibly fade to a static shot of Yume’s turned head. There’s actually movement going on! Whoa! I was kind of bummed when the show wasn’t one of the titles on the sakuga wiki’s list of notable titles.
That said, I was less bummed when I found out that JC Staff wasn’t doing Someday’s Dreamers and Read or Die concurrently. I was closing to being like “Dayamn, if they can do a show with such amazing animation as Read or Die and still have the resources to do this, whoa.”
Would I watch it even if I weren’t forced? I think I got one episode into the sequel back in 2008 before falling asleep.
Iyashikei?! Have you gone mad?! Watch Aria now, jeez.
Also, this:
- What if they send the magical SWAT team?
- I’ll mow them down!
- But if what if Chief Gippun comes?
- . . . (ellips and sweatdrop)
I <3 this show, and Summer Skies too~
it’s beautiful, yar.
mahou tsukai ni taisetsu na koto was one of all my all time favs. the slice of life feeling and iyashi-kei was wonderfully peaceful. so were the dolphin and the cross symbols when the magic occured. “kaze no hana yo, saa hiraku no yo~~ watashi no kono me ni haru wo misete~~”
A waste of their powers. They should enslave the mundanes.