Review of Pop Team Epic
(Why the hell would you need a TLDR review?) It has come to my attention that Pop Team Epic is excruciatingly misunderstood. ----- Pop Team Epic In this review, I coded it so that I have to speedrun my Pop Team Epic review before MAL has a 504 Error. Can I finish my review before MAL goes down? Also, according to MyAnimeList statistics, only a small percentage of people reading this review have actually given this a helpful vote. So if you end up enjoying this review. Consider giving a helpful vote. It's free, you can always undo the vote later. Enjoy the review.Does Pop Team Epic actually try to be comedy 🤣 god 🙏 ? Well yes, but actually yes. However, one could look at Pop team Epic as more than just some gag anime. It is a way of life. The a(pog)ee (who tf makes these words) of being the most based anime known to man. I really can't explain with words of the centre of everything Pop Team Epic tries to convey to the viewer. But I will try to do so with this review, not only with words alone, I will try to deliver the feeling you get via this review. The ascendance of Pop Team Epic knows no limits. Look at today's mainstream anime, shitty isekai here, overhyped shounen anime there, bruh Crunchyroll Originals moment, other things no one asked for. But Pop Team Epic is more than that. It is on a platform of its own. Imagine the first episode of NGNL, you know, that one time Sora and Shiro were 2gud4dez nubz that they rekt them in like 2 seconds lmao. That is where Pop Team Epic stands in the animanga culture. And honestly, I have quite never seen anything as supreme as Pop Team Epic. Apart from my simping on Madoka Magica. Pop Team Epic is hands down the best thing this ｂ ｒ ｕ ｈ medium has to give.
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Narrative:
Story? Lmao. There is none. It is just shits and giggles here, there, everywhere. What I will say is that the larger segments, the ones by Space Cat Company, does provide for some top quality shorts. A wide variety of just random, though creative things slapped together to make for some interesting shorts. And you can probably tell that I am running out of things to say, because it mostly comes under enjoyment lmao.
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Bobunemimimmi !!1!
Ōdiōbizūaruzu:
bruh de vizual lukin lit, very variety all around and vry good. dey uze rl and animu. very creativity honestly, anime nowadays sticking to unbased and 🤢🤢. But Pop Team Epic no hold back, they will use everything from drawings that looked like they came out of The Amazing World of Gumball fanfics, to the beautiful comsic-like humans that bring a fallacious vision of one looking into one of Leonardo da Vinci's works.
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𝓟𝓸𝓹 𝓣𝒆𝓪𝓶 𝓔𝓹𝓲𝓬
Ears side of things, ngl, didn't remember any sound lmao, that is in terms of OST, if there was one to begin with, I have no clue. The main sounds did not disappoint, oh no siree, the super catchy OP and parody of Hoshiiro Girldrop sounds. Not to mention the based song that is "Let's Pop Together", literally has some of the best lyrics I have heard seen since just when I watched it. Bruh, why isn't all anime like this, smh.
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JAPON MiGNON
Jouissance:
Une petite chose que je voulais ajouter, c’est que l’anime permet à une variété vide de personnes d’en profiter, de Français personnes, aux mêmes, aux fans d’anime. Pourquoi c’est en Français. Je n’en ai aucune idée. Je ne peux que demander la déité derrière Pop Team Epic que de chercher une telle réponse. Merci à Collins traducteur pour cette tranlastion.
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🅿🅾🅿 🆃🅴🅰🅼 🅴🅿🅸🅲
In addition to the multiple languages that the anime uses. It also has some very clever ways to bring out enjoyment. The first thing being parody. Undertale, Super Mario Kart, using Wikipedia as a source, Jojo references, and YouTubers when they tell you to SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON FOR MORE, and reaction videos. Pop Team Epic never seems to run out of this to, well, things to take the piss out of, kinda like South Park but maybe not as outrageous. And it does it so casually as well. It again enforces how much the anime literally does not give one about the internet opinions of someone who happens to pass by the show. It just what it needs to do, and no one will stop it.
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ᴾᵒᵖ ᵀᵉᵃᵐ ᴱᵖⁱᶜ
Another thing to say about the enjoyment is that the anime already knows its position in life. So many times has it referred to itself as the "shitty manga" saying things like "why did this get an anime". Using my reddit r/funny knowledge it is clear that they are just parodying the unepic haters so much so that it just makes for more good content to add onto the gags the show already had going from the start. Who would have thought that the juxtaposition of using the haters mindset made for a good piece of farming jokes out of.
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𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘶
And well, the last pillar of enjoyment I have to go on about with Pop Team Epic is just the sheer amount of absurd moments that literally don't add anything to the plot that doesn't even exist. Kinda like Family Guy's cutaways but it does it better. Way better. One moment they are taking the piss out of haters, the next is just some surreal humour that breaks all sense of logic. As well as this, there is the greatness of parodying the romance genre. Not sure why they chose romance but they did. And it goes a little like
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Pop Team Epic, Cooking!
Recipe to make a good romance parody!
1. Idol girl wants to be an idol
2. Male MC suddenly comes across idol wannabe
3. Dumb encounters!
4. Getting to know each other
5. This review got unfunny long ago, but I don't care!
6. Love!
7. The End (and repeat for more money)
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But fr. The nonsense moments are just some of the most bizarre but well put together shitposts I have seen in a long while. More anime needs to take a page from Pop Team Epic's book. All in all. It is clear that everything was focused around the enjoyment part rather than trying to make very deep psychological story is very deep. Outstanding move.
Overall - 💯
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I don't know why it suddenly came to mind to write a review like this but it did. Straying away from the general MAL format of writing a review is just kinda what Pop Team Epic acts like within the anime medium as an anime, just felt that this was the best way to bring that around with words and layout. It goes to limits no one is willing to take, even if very serious people will watch this. Everything I said is actually my opinion. No cap. This is unironically one of the best things I have seen. Being that eccentric person isn't always a bad thing. 10/10.
For anyone wondering, it took 1h 42m 7s to write this from after the first sentence to the overall score. And I have no intention to properly proofread this review.
Fall in love next week!