Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-44228486-20191027161245/@comment-71.168.119.202-20191128063406

In response to the previous anon, this is all I have to say.

Now or my comments, I'm not exactly sure are hot takes, but really the only problem I have is Krabs' interview just kind of seemed pointless to me. Like yes, it was funny and used a lot of references but that's all it really felt like to me. Nothing was accomplished, it's kind of a thing I hate, which is pointless pandering. Pandering to fans of something is good if it's done well (LEGO Dimensions) or subtly (like the old-school references in the updated Sonic trailer) but if it's just the only reason something was done was to just haphazardly slam a whole bunch of references to something or that fans like together just to get it out of the way it isn't good. Case en point Weird Al's interview, it referenced a lot of stuff related to Weird Al's past and conveyed many aspects of his sources and references without being in your face about it. Krabs is just 'shows up, constantly spews nothing but references then leaves with pretty much nothing getting accomplished', it's doing fanservice, but it's not doing it well. It's just doing it for the sake of referencing things, this was one of the reasons why I liked the original KfaD1 vs. quotes because they're only things you'd get either after knowing the character well or with a bit of research and then you'd crack a huge grin at knowing how cleverly they were referenced, these? These aren't subtle at all. Johnny Bravo is a good case of not actually getting anything done actually working in tandem with the character so that it actually makes sense for the character, and he provided fanservice in a different way with of all characters, KO appearing, as while I personally am neutral on the show, tons of people love it and love to see it referenced, since it kind of has a cult following going for it like Gumball does. I just feel like Mr. Krabs interview, while still entertaining, was just sloppy, and that was a major turn-off for me, it out of all the interviews or News is definitely my least favorite, although the Aliens new characterization is definitely up there.

They're pretty much kinda unlikable now compared to the previous tournament, although I must admit Marcinaito was the only character that made me geniunely laugh out loud the most for some unknown reason, whereas Pitbull and Popoy.... Pitbull's on point, he's decent as he somewhat seems to have stayed the same, his rambling annoys me, don't know if that's meant to be the point, but it just makes it hard to read through, and holy grand dad Popoy. While Dancing Alien Team were obviously never one of my favorites (not to say I didn't dislike them then, I like all the veterans in King for a Day 1) in the original, they at least were a lot better, even if Popoy and Marcinaito's dialogue was often kinda interchangeable they were a lot more likeable and fit a lot better with their origin material, in Howard not speaking much since his is instrumental but being scary when he does like the jarring nature of his bass-boosted 'vines', Popoy being the most jovial and just wanting people to dance with no other intentions like the fad of Dame Tu Cosita was at the time, and Marcinaito just kind of being a generic mix of both with Howard's alien-related comments and Popoy's love of the dance, which also makes sense as Marcinaito didn't really have much of a characterization or even source material to work from, just a gif used to mock shitty virus ads and then put in a video with Antonio Rios for no reason. like I both get it and I also don't. Popoy after rereading his dialogue is kinda meant to talk like those Mexican dudes in idk, you kinda get the picture, like Latino dudes with small moustaches and Hawaiian shirts who wear shades all the time, swear and throw around gringo a lot, drive fast fancy cars and drink tequila, I'm sure there's a trope for that that sums it all up in one word, but I'd definitely say it's a MASSIVE change from their King for a Day 1 characterizations once you translate the Spanish text in that, about the rudest they were in that tournament was insult Al and complain about Professor K's outfit, but that was about it. Just hit me from left field is all. Made me pissed, but as you can see I kind of warmed up to it after figuring it out, their interview was just really awkward and passive-agressive although I'm pretty obviously sure it's entirely intentional since they don't seem to be meshing well and SOMETHING happened between them and Howard off-screen between tournaments that neither team involving them seems to want to talk about, and even then only to bad mouth each respective alien or aliens, it really seems like both J and Pitbull are trying to help them out, but it's really only working for Howard.

And finally, but not much of a complaint as it was kind of coming with his trailer, but I was actually kind of surprised about Piccolo's personality being based off his Abridged Series incarnation. I was kind of thinking they'd go for like his canon serious Dragon Ball version and though in chanspeak here and there like "chad", but this is actually kind of interesting. Never really watched Dragon Ball Z: The Abridged Series since I'm not really big on Littlekuriboh and by extention TeamFourStar's humor, and mostly because I just don't really give much of a crap about DBZ in general, not to say I hate it or anything. I'm just kind of turned off when it comes to anything related to it, but can still read about it or see clips of it in memes without, y'know like changing to something else. Same with Kingdom Hearts actually, I don't really care to know more than I do about it, and don't really actively seek out anything related to it, but I don't hate or dislike it, just any interaction with it basically just boils down to nothing more than pic related.Same opinion on Touhou music, it's pretty good, it's just not my thing. (unless it's some sort of mashup with something else and usually fan music like Bad Apple then) I pretty much just listen to Kingdom Hearts and legit Touhou music like "Yup. That's Touhou music." and like pretty much no other reaction, slightly more so for Kingdom Hearts. Sorry, dunno why I'm like that, but hey this is a board about controversial opinions after all. I still however say it's pretty interesting and funny that Kami is involved as well as Nail (who I don't know), and I'm assuming they have their Abridged characterizations as well.

Also Nico Nico's characterization was an interesting refreshing take, as I thought according to it/their/her bio Nico Nico only spoke via voice samples, meaning that Nico Nico could only directly quote things from there but as it/they/she proved that's not the case, and I was rather amused at what Nico Nico had to say in English as it kind of reminds me of a Homestuck character named Damara Megido who also speaks Japanese and is kind of the same way, only in reverse, is a dick to everyone in Japanese, (trust me, you do not want to translate it, but thankfully she pretty much only shows up in the interactive Flash game portions of the later comic, where it's impossible to copy-paste it into Google Translate) but is nice to people (abut condescending) in English. (There's even more irony in that since I mostly learned about a lot of Nico Nico Douga memes via Homestuck versions of them in shitposts by the fanbase back when I was really into it, namely Shall We Do It?, and some Miku stuff like PoPoPi and Triple Baka) But I'd say it's pretty accurate at showing that Nico Nico's not as innocent as it looks, which makes sense due to some of it's sources. To directly quote TV Tropes' page on the website (complete with original page links, which honestly just serve to inforce it) "Since comments scroll across the video instead of being forced to the comments section which you can ignore, naturally, this can and often is used in the exact way you'd expect. Thankfully, it's (usually) not a problem if you don't know Japanese." (Ironically and not concidentally GIFTs make up a huge portion of 4chan, and considering what TVTropes also says about anons often raiding and posting on NND.... makes a bit more sense why Nico Nico would act like that honestly, interested to see what happens if they're matched against Piccolo, who literally IS a meme from 4chan, even if he never actually references that) So ironically enough Nico Nico is about as close for me, being a former big Homestuck fan and seeing a lot of it's content in that form before the original (as well as the Damara-like crudeness contrasting it's cute appearance and regular personality) it's kind of an odd trip down memory road for me and while not really, kind of as close to a Homestuck rep as is possible in my opinion. Have a wholesome shitpost as consolation,and original of course for both comparison and because even though it's well-animated and funny I know for a fact pretty much nobody here will know anything about the Homestuck characters. (and also cause vocaloids are kawaii or neato or whatever idk .--.)

Also Mariya is total qt3.14 and aside from Daft Phunk and the veterans is actually the most pleasant musician character by a long shot. Kinda makes sense considering that if she was brought here from the past (1980 exact specifically as that's when the album that her photo is taken from, Sweetest Music, came out, thank you google very cool) and is also technically meant to be 64 in the present day, it makes a lot of sense that she'd have a lot better sport and reservedness than the other more recent musicians like Adam, who while I don't know or care to know much about Maroon 5 beyond what SiIva has already used or referenced before is actually still pretty good in his own right as he's pretty in-character for being the most "normal" out of all of the contestants and reacts accordingly to all the weird shit going on. (Also thanks to a quick age calculator, Mariya's KfAD version is either 24 or 25, as she was born on March 20, 1955, and was pulled from some time in 1980, as albums do not show specific exact dates of release to the day, only year, meaning her age could change slightly depending on if it was released before or after her birthday that year.)

All in all however, I'm pretty happy with the interviews though, those are just my thoughts on some of them, I thought it kinda good to go from the worst thing I had to say and end off with the best. Night y'all, hope this goes through, kinda worried about how long it is.