You are welcome to look at the talkback but please consider that this article is over 7 years old before posting.
Forum - View topicREVIEW: Please tell me! Galko-chan Episodes 1-12 Streaming
|
Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Fronzel
Posts: 1906 |
|
||
|
This and Pupipo prove a lot can be done in only a few minutes at a time. I wonder if it would have worked as a full-length show? Was there even enough source material for that?
A stand-out part is when it's revealed quite late that spoiler[the stereotype joke designations for the characters (Galko, Otako, Ojou) are nicknames rather than their real names (which was possible if the show was being silly enough). Does make the point about stereotypes vs reality.] Is it being overly-cautious to spoiler that? I am baffled by a sequence where both Galko and Otako are too embarrassed to say "uterus" and the punchline is that Ojou isn't.
I think Galko's figure rules that out. 
|
|||
|
|||
Northlander
 Posts: 901 |
|
||
|
Or the generally positive characterisations, good comedy, respectful... lessons, I guess? ...and... yes, admittedly, the girls themselves.
|
|||
|
|||
Levitz9
 Posts: 1022 Location: Puerto Rico |
|
||
|
I thought this would just be a show where the punchline would be Galko's rack every, but I appreciate the sincerity and kindness it has while it talks about constipation. Nobody is outright mean, they just don't know better. There isn't a single character you can't love in this show.
I also appreciate how the show pokes fun at the ignorance of highschool boys, like when they decide to watch an anime after Galko admits to watching it, not five minutes after they teased the class nerd for talking about it. Or the scene where Galko reminds a few boys that the "fat girl" in class and the "metal-head" have boobs just as big as hers (but they're not obviously lusted after because one is "the fat girl" and the metal-head basically doesn't conform to their idea of "attractive"). Again, the show doesn't pain the boys as "evil" or "mean" for this, it just points them as being superficial and ignorant. I love this show, and I hope I can pick up the manga in November. |
|||
|
|||
zrnzle500
 Posts: 3767 |
|
||
|
A great short, and if there was a for girls only sign on it, I was never deterred. And it comes from the best season of the Ultra Super Anime Time block, with Sekkou Boys and later She and Her Cat, though they are very different shows, especially the last one.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Fronzel
Posts: 1906 |
|
||
|
Someone should mention the one-shot extra episode coming up:
animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-25/please-tell-me-galko-chan-manga-to-bundle-original-anime-dvd/.105758 If this ends up published in hard copy I hope everything gets included for once. |
|||
|
|||
|
Parsifal24
|
|
||
|
This ended up being something I enjoyed although to me it felt like a smarter more condensed version of Joshikousei: Girl's High wich I also enjoyed but felt padded in some places.
|
|||
|
WingKing
Posts: 617 |
|
||
Also Tabi Machi Late Show and This Boy is a Professional Wizard - the latter was the only one of the five I didn't at least try, since I have no interest in yaoi, but they were all pretty different. I only lasted one episode with Galko-chan, though. Being a middle-aged guy and someone who's never liked scat humor in any form, it was very plainly stamped "NOT FOR ME" in big bold red letters. |
|||
|
|||
Takamachi Ryoko
 Posts: 332 Location: 東京, 日本 |
|
||
|
Seeing the story has an A is weird for me. But I love this show it's one of the funniest anime shorts I've seen, I like how adorable and innocent Galko is despite having a body of a 18+ star. Compared to the recent shorts, this one really stands on its own.
|
|||
|
|||
|
zrnzle500
Posts: 3767 |
|
||
|
Yeah after last winter, there hasn't been many shorts worth mentioning (Luluco and maybe this season's Saiki). I'd say last winter especially the Ultra Super Anime Time block was a golden age of anime shorts. That season gets us coverage of shorts and then the subsequent seasons have had a dearth of worthwhile shorts. *Sigh*
I forgot to mention them. I saw Tabi Machi Late Show, but I didn't watch past the first episode because it wasn't very...animated. [/quote] Last edited by zrnzle500 on Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:41 am; edited 1 time in total |
|||
|
|||
|
Animegomaniac
Posts: 4089 |
|
||
I'm glad to see someone remembers that show as I kept looking for it to get referenced in the review.What I love most about Girl's High is the character friendship dynamic that forms when two well defined trios come together to form a sextet that both clashes and conforms. For a series with about an hour worth's of content, it doesn't feel like Galko and co would get as complex. I wouldn't doubt that's funnier per minute but I'd rather see a full series of it even if it's only 10 episodes. Also, Girl's High has one of the top 5 best endings ever so there's that. |
|||
|
|||
|
Lemonchest
Posts: 1771 |
|
||
|
I enjoyed Galko, as many seem to, because it's characters had more to talk than the usual vapid, saccharine nonsense about love, friendship & stuff. Reminded me a tad of Chu-bra, an ecchi show that was more interested in discussing bras than breasts (at first, anyway). That said, it did only go so far & in a way still felt kind of safe, like a guy who's convinced he can handle the "real" things girls talk about because he read a copy of Teen Girl Weekly at the dentist that one time.
|
|||
|
|||
SailorTralfamadore
 Posts: 499 Location: Keep Austin Weeb |
|
||
|
Galko's figure is really not as unrealistic as you all seem to think!
A lot of girls develop early. And boobs usually are at their "full size" by the time girls reach late teens/early 20s, except for weight fluctuations (since boobs are mostly fat), so it's not unlikely that an older high school girl would have adult-size boobs anyway. |
|||
|
|||
|
zrnzle500
Posts: 3767 |
|
||
|
Aside from Takamachi, I don't think anyone here said or even implied she is unrealistically busty. I never really thought about or questioned it during the show but it does seem realistic to me if on the larger side. I think it is because the rest of her figure matches her bust and by anime standards she is large but far from the largest, thankfully.
And I think you may have shattered the dreams of some let's say petite women in their late teens/early twenties, even though it is the truth. Reminds me of a scene from American Dad of all things. |
|||
|
|||
|
Lemonchest
Posts: 1771 |
|
||
|
Galko's design isn't about being "real" or whatever, it's all about pushing the not judging a book by its cover metaphor in the most in your face way it can be done, by making her look like a blonde bimbo & then exhaustively going through a checklist of the ways she isn't one.
Trust nerds to get hooked on debating a cartoon characters cleavage. |
|||
|
|||
|
Levitz9
Posts: 1022 Location: Puerto Rico |
|
||
Yeah, Galko doesn't particularly ridiculous in context of other shows, but it helps that Please tell me! had some amazing body diversity amongst its women, moreso than I've seen in years. I mean, you had Galko, but then there was Otako's slim physique, next to the robust Nikuko. It was a regular cast of snowflakes. It's also some author appeal, too: I follow Suzuki Kenya on Twitter, and they have a tendency to draw women of all shapes and sizes (though with a seeming preference for the plumper side of things). |
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group