Snapshots: Moegaku*5 January 14
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A quicker snapshot than usual, but I’ll make up for it by using twice as many screen caps! Here’s the new “educational” show Moegaku*5 (もえがく★5), running daily at 17:00 JST on Fuji TV.
The series is based on Learn English software, and now converted to television by director Takamoto Nobuhiro (also doing Hatenkou Yuugi) and screenwriter Watanabe Akira (Girls Bravo script). It’s a 15 minute show (12 mins without commercials) that runs every weekday, focusing on a different language every day (English, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, French). Each episode consists of two parts: 8 minutes of anime and 4 minutes of live-action studio stuff. The anime is about a magical girl called Tsukishima Moe (seriously), who runs around in Akihabara helping troubled foreign otakus buy the limited edition figurines they always wanted, while the studio part has Hirano Aya (Haruhi’s voice actress) learning how to say simple phrases in the featured language, by talking to an imported kid. Once she’s parroted the lines, a quartet of hip rope-jumpers take over and do a performance, then the phrases are repeated while everyone hops up and down.
I was sure nothing this season could be worse than Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-, but Moegaku*5 may just have it beat. The anime part is just silly garbage, and I’ve no idea why kids would be interested in Akihabara shopping, but the real gem is the studio sequence with Aya filmed in HD. Sadly her voice is in retarded kitten mode, which is pretty much as grating as it gets, and when she starts attempting to speak English it’s just too painful to stand. In fact I had to pause the video and breathe calmly every 5 seconds in order to survive the entire episode, despite its short length. Only watch this if you have a death wish, or an insanely profound love for plastic fantastic voice actresses.
Roger at 3:23 pm on January 14th, 2008
I think this is so weird that I have to watch a episode. But is this a kind of a kid friendly live action/anime ripoff of Moetan?
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/category/moetan/.
Also is this a step down for the Hirano Aya even though I assume she is making more in one episode than what I make in a year.
shadowblack at 3:25 pm on January 14th, 2008
LOL. Even before reading this I was planning on not watching this one. Looks like I won’t miss anything at all.
falconx0101 at 3:28 pm on January 14th, 2008
I don’t know, I may just watch this for shits and giggles.
[Famous Last words:]
“How bad could it be?”
Drakron at 3:55 pm on January 14th, 2008
I guess the “Writers Guild of America” strike is also affecting Japanese Anime series …
Roger at 3:58 pm on January 14th, 2008
I cut off a part of my post. Thank you Patrik for posting some live action screens of this show. I am laughing my a** off especially the expression on Aya and that “imported kid” face. She look like she thinking ” I am Haruhi f*cking Suzumiya why the hell am I on this piece of sh** show”.Also the jump rope picture with the guy with the afro.
solo at 4:17 pm on January 14th, 2008
hey what about Yatterman? any comments on that one?
Roger at 4:22 pm on January 14th, 2008
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/Snapshots/moegaku-1c.jpg
It look like she is thinking
“It’s all about the Yen baby”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REycCu49Vvk
tamahome at 4:43 pm on January 14th, 2008
Retarded kitten mode? I guess I know what you mean since I got tired of Aya’s voice when she was Misa in Death Note. I cannot un-hear her voice…
Omni at 5:18 pm on January 14th, 2008
My quick thoughts:
-The fat guy was hilarious.
-Moe’s voice makes my ears bleed.
-Hirano Aya was waaaayyy too peppy.
-The whole jumping rope thing was stupid (Rhythm learning lol)
-Was it really necessary for them to pimp Hirano Aya’s MonStAR CD at the end there?
Overall, this was hilariously bad, but as I suspected, it was worth watching one episode for that very reason.
game8910 at 6:03 pm on January 14th, 2008
LMAO i knew this would turn out bad…now all that Aya has to recover from what might be a terrible terrible job in this show is the next Haruhi series….GO HARUHI FTW!!!
KiraTakuto at 6:53 pm on January 14th, 2008
At least she’s not wearing the shirt from the concert.
Kaioshin Sama at 7:06 pm on January 14th, 2008
Terrifying….such that I must see an episode. I think the “Aya Hirano trying to speak to an imported kid” part sold it for me. Aya Hirano’s fall from grace is starting to mirror that of a western pop idol, but that’s what she wanted, to be a pop idol. So….
BROOKLYN otaku at 7:18 pm on January 14th, 2008
“”who runs around in Akihabara helping troubled foreign otakus buy the limited edition figurines they always wanted,”". . . hahahaha hilarious!!!! i gotta see this, at least once
Kaioshin Sama at 7:34 pm on January 14th, 2008
Me again because I forgot to say a few things. Firstly, The shows set is pure gold by the way. Secondly, for some reason it all reminds me of this old 80’s PBS series called Zoobilee Zoo.
Tensai Otaku at 8:12 pm on January 14th, 2008
Hirano aya chan….you are definety cute(kawaii) and I would go out with you for sure…but…please…..SHUT UP!!!
This is a very nice good show to teach all other countries on how not to obliterate other languanges and at the same time not form graduated stupid adults that thinks on their adulthood that they know how to speak other languanges and at the same time teaches wrong!!
in one expression:
Is just like someone giving you, your own shit to taste and you reply:
” UHMMMM…THIS IS SO GOOD…I´LL GIVE TO MY FRIENDS AND MY FAMILY TO TASTE IT TOO!!”
(LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL)
THAT WAS SOOOO….
SU + PE + SHI + A + RU = SPECIAL(AYA CHAN SPECIAL..REPEAT AFTER ME AYA CHAN SPECIAL!!)
Tensai Otaku at 8:33 pm on January 14th, 2008
HOLY SHIT look at this post.. the truth about animators and seiyuus and their slave works and salaries:
Seiyuu and Animators are Slaves, not Stars = http://www.riuva.com/?p=111
everytime you buy a dvd from a anime you are helping the SLAVE companies and not the real workers and actors!!SHIT I´LL NEVER BUY AN ANIME DVD ON MY WHOLE LIFE….WAIT I NEVER DID IT….Now I am reliefed!!!
I never thought a BAD thing(pirate and download for free animes) would be a very very nice thing….the crime compensates for sure sometimes.
Tensai Otaku at 8:35 pm on January 14th, 2008
I bet hirano aya is receiving nothing to act to dubb and to sing the ed or even the op music from her agency….OMG they´ve killed aya!!
” YOU BASTARDS !! “
Tensai Otaku at 8:52 pm on January 14th, 2008
I know , Iknow…you all are going to say:
” WATASHI NO TAMENI HATARAETTE!!!”
but wait been bullied by their own agencies…that´s why on the special of clannad with nakahara mai , when the director asked:
” what can you say as a sempai to all the professionals that are starting on the seiyuu profession?” than she stopped smiling and looked down at the flor and just said trying to smile again ” tsurai kamon demo GAMBATE NE ” = ” should be difficult and hard but never stop trying ” ….man I wanna cry!!those poor bastards….the animators too sleeping at work because they don´t have money to pay for their own seikatsu(their day lifes), their home bills…..how terrible!!
IF YOU BUY ORIGINAL ANIME DVDS YOU ARE AN ANIMAL STARVING FOR SLAVERY!!(LOLLLLLLLL)
deep momments by Tensai otaku(Direct from CNN BRAZIL)
Kaioshin Sama at 9:27 pm on January 14th, 2008
@Tensai: What in God’s name are you rambling about?
InitialDRulz at 9:31 pm on January 14th, 2008
I just watched the cartoon part (i have no Satalite installed >.