Anime as Shovel-ware

GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class

Synopsis:
Comedy depicting the everyday life of five highshool girls majoring art and design; hard working but absent-minded Kisaragi Yamaguchi, overachiever Miyabi Ohmichi nicknamed “Kyoju (Professor)”, tomboy Tomokane whose firstname is unknown, hyper-active Miki Noda and cool observer Namiko Nozaki with witty remarks.

(summary taken from http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20090605_anime_2009summer/)

Looking at the characters for this, I was kind of hoping that it was just a joke on the part of whoever translated the synopsis, but I imagine it’s accurate.  This is where a lot of anime series lately seem like they aren’t even bothering anymore; they take the same cliched characters that have been in hundreds of other animes and are basically cut and pasting them into different backgrounds with slightly different jokes.  Since the same seiyuu are often used for the same character types over and over, these characters even sound the same from anime to anime.

This might be a really good anime or they might just use the standard shortcut of shoving so much moe into it that you ignore the fact that it has no originality or story to speak of.

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