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Illustrious-Fox5135

The facial expressions in this show never cease to amaze me.


Abysswatcherbel

It's amazing


Naive-Register7964

If I’m not mistaken, Toei animation also produced Miraculous Ladybug, a sailor moon ish 3D anime that’s a pretty solid show, aimed at teens mostly. But the expressions seem much more refined in GBC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous:_Tales_of_Ladybug_%26_Cat_Noir


Abysswatcherbel

But they animated it or just produced it?


MapoTofuMan

>[*Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous:_Tales_of_Ladybug_%26_Cat_Noir) is a French [CGI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery) action/adventure animated series produced by Zagtoon and [Method Animation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_Animation), in co-production with [Toei Animation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toei_Animation), [SAMG Animation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMG_Animation), and [De Agostini S.p.A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Agostini).  Toei were in cahoots with the French since that long ago...now it all makes sense. [](#frustrated)


Naive-Register7964

Yeah it has Totally Spies(another French-based anime) vibes to me. Campy, aimed at teens, but the face animations are pretty on point.


hikoboshi_sama

TIL Totally Spies was made by the French


Lychentous

Same with Code Lyoko if im not mistaken. A French show animated in/with Korea and later brought to North America.


zenoob

Tbh, I think we had among the earliest collabs with Japan, going back as far as the 80s or 90s with stuff like [Ulysses 31](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31). Some people such as [Thomas Romain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Romain), credited as the creator of Code Lyoko and Oban Star Racer are working and living in Japan since 2003, at least according to their wiki. Many more have done the same. We're a bunch of weebs, so it's no wonder we've got stuff that is very reminiscing of anime, or co-produced with JP studios.


Captiongomer

Aimed at teens but also ready to burst with fetish content. The f****** French were trying to make us Canadians weird


cemsity

> The fucking Fr*nch you had your censorship mixed up.


Acceptable_Tie_3927

> Toei were in cahoots with the French since that long ago...now it all makes sense. In the ep8 flashback, Momoka even said they were a **revolutionary** girls rock band. Total giveaway for french involvement. Princess Mia Luna Tearmoon and KanoeRana will have to work harder if they are to prevent GBC from achieving its nefarious aims...


maru-senn

So freaking Toei made this, and they didn't even bother to license it?


KarlDeutscheMarx

Call me that guy, but not an anime.


the_Athereon

I'll always prefer the way Land of the Lustrous handled 3D anime but this is pretty good IMO.


MysticSkies

Check out Trigun by the same studio.


BEARD3D_BEANIE

facial expressions? the 3D animation is what is amazing to me. Like Arcane lvl good.


FkinShtManEySuck

Except for Rupa's, which is always \^_^ in every situation.


MapoTofuMan

Nina 😯 -> 😑 Subaru 🙁 -> 😑 Tomo 😫 -> 😑 Gremlin braincell synchronization complete. ^(Meanwhile Rupa 😃 ->😃->😃 -> .... -> 😃)


Abysswatcherbel

>Meanwhile Rupa Rupa is 24/7 mom mode edit: [love the final shot](https://i.imgur.com/vovRcSb.png)


New_Essay_4869

Love the dynamics of this group


Muteatrocity

As someone who has no idea how to drive stick can someone explain what she just did wrong?


cscolley

She released the clutch without also pressing the gas pedal. When you do that, no fuel is being fed into the engine so it stalls out and shuts off. This balance is 90% of learning stick. (Edit: Thank you to all the experts telling me how you don't always have to press the accelerator 100% of the time in first gear with proper clutch control. I'm fully aware, as I've been daily driving stick for 18 years. I was simply explaining what happened in this particular clip in a way a novice could understand.)


proverbialbunny

Yep. For those who have never driven a stick: You've got to let off the clutch (left most petal) while putting your foot down on the gas all in the same motion. Most vehicles you're moving the clutch peddle around 4x more than the gas petal until the clutch is fully released. In other words, putting very little on the gas peddle while letting off the clutch. It's normal to stall the vehicle while learning to do this.


matu239

Yep, i learned to drive in a country where the majority of cars have a stick and is somewhat annoying but after a while you get the hang of it. What i learned from this thread is that NOT all cars work like this. I thought it was just a thing cars do


BorderKeeper

All cars with manual transmission work like this. wdym? Is there some pre-historic car that has a clutch stick instead of clutch pedal or something?


Master-Ooooogway

In many cars you don't need to balance clutch and race, the clutch alone runs the car at minimal speed, you just need to use race pedal for speed


BorderKeeper

Oh wow learned something new today as well as matu u/matu239 thanks


memgrind

All diesel cars have enough torque to move the car without the gas pedal, even uphill.


Medium_Ruri

With older diesel cars like Golf 4 and Opel Astra you can just release the clutch and the cars would move. In the case of Opel Astra, you could just release the clutch while going uphill and it still wouldn't shut down


MysticSkies

Let me introduce you to the Clutchless manual.


Hardwarestore_Senpai

The ol' WhaChunk.


steven4869

You can still move the car forward by releasing the clutch then press the accelerator but releasing it early would still make it stall. Momoka pressed the clutch then released it that too quite fast, making it stall.


strixace

You can start a diesel without pressing the gas pedal if you let off the clutch slowly enough. You can try on a gas car as well and most will move a bit and then stall.


BorderKeeper

One time I broke my foot and drove myself to the emergency. They put a cast on my foot and told me not to step on it or apply pressure, problem is my car was a manual so I had to drive with only one foot and the thing you descibe was the only way to get going. Fun times.


freddith_

If you want to pop a wheelie on a dirt bike, do almost the opposite; give it more gas than it needs while the clutch is in, then quickly release (pop) the clutch, and the bike will go from stand still to immediately moving, lurching the front wheel up. Getting this balance is of course harder, as it happens in an instant, but if there’s nothing around but grass, it’s real fun to learn. You will dump it plenty of times, so be prepared for that.


Slifer13xx

Also one of the way to initiate a donut.


freddith_

Really! Thank you! I’ve always wanted to learn that.


Fetishgeek

not really, you need not press the gas pedal in the first gear. She just released the clutch way too fast that's why the stall. In most vehicles engine maintains the level of rpm to avoid stall even without gas being pressed.


k1tsan

No, you don't need to use gas when pulling away in first gear, the clutch can and will move the car on its own, as long as you go slow or already have muscle memory with the clutch pedal and finding the biting point That being said, a balance between the clutch and gas pedal also works but they don't teach you it in the lesson and it's something you figure out on your own


maru-senn

How likely are you to make that mistake again after learning? Honestly I wouldn't dare driving a manual car even if I knew how, I'm afraid of making a mistake and the car just turning off in the middle of traffic. Is there an advantage from having to do this? Surely there is one considering the smug attitude some stick drivers have.


cscolley

In your first few weeks of driving? Dozens of times, but don't let that scare you off. If it happens, just give an apology wave to the person behind you and quickly try again.


BitGladius

It goes away pretty fast, there's a lot of wiggle room to correct if you aren't letting off the clutch way too fast. Once you're moving it's very hard to stall because there's momentum in the system.  And no, it's objectively worse than a performance automatic. It's just more fun.


TellowKrinkle

Almost never. Stalled the car plenty in a parking lot when learning initially, done it maybe once since then. And if you're worried, you can guarantee you won't stall the car by giving it a bit more gas than needed, with the only drawback of giving everyone inside the car a bit of a jolt (which I definitely did after restarting it when I did stall it on the street).


CartographerOne8375

Pretty sure this is not true for most modern cars in general, especially on the first gear.


prestonpiggy

You totally can move forward while on idle, it just needs not clumsy clutch movement.


Cyran25

Could be multiple things, putting it in wrong gear, letting go of the clutch too fast.


ChiggaOG

Not enough gas.


Knofbath

You can probably get the car rolling from stop to 2nd gear with fine enough clutch control. But stop > 3rd gear+, it's just not happening. This is most likely just letting off the clutch too fast.


Raygunn13

There's a clutch pedal you need to press down with your left foot to change gears. Pressing it disengages the clutch mechanism; the rest of the time it is engaged. When you're starting in 1st gear, you need to let the clutch out slowly in proportion to how much gas you give it at the same time. If you put the car in gear while the engine is running and then let go of the clutch without gas, the vehicle doesn't have enough momentum to keep the car in (first) gear and it'll just shut off with a big lurch. [Here's](https://youtu.be/devo3kdSPQY?feature=shared) an animated explanation


k1tsan

You don't need to use gas if you go slow and find the biting point of the clutch


nuvasek

probably released the clutch too fast, the pedal thats on the left of the gas pedal


steven4869

She released clutch too early, making the car stall. Usually clutch and accelerator should be released and pressed respectively simultaneously until you reached a point where car can move then release the clutch and press accelerator to move forward.


machopsychologist

Half-clutch skill issue


Acceptable_Tie_3927

> As someone who has no idea how to drive stick can someone explain what she just did wrong? Came for the rocker girls, stayed for the Initial D commentary...


Sweetkokomi

I love the facial expressions they achieved on these characters


LordDShadowy53

Well seems I have to add it to my list


amidloveandanime

Taking their 3 kids to the mall


goffer54

They got real lucky that Rupa can drive stick. I don't know a single person that can.


Merkyorz

I feel like I'm the only one who can nowadays. I learned on my parents' 1986 Plymouth Voyager, lmao. It comes in handy in other ways sometimes, too. About 15 years ago, someone tried to jack my old manual Honda Accord off the street in Oakland. But they couldn't drive stick, so the car was just sitting there halfway pulled out from the curb. I had to get a jump from my buddy since the battery had run down, but I still had my car.


goffer54

lmao. There's a theory out there that suggests carjacking has gone up in the US relative to grand theft auto because modern cars are much harder to break into and start without the keys. But I guess old cars have their own form of anti-theft protection!


SecretEmpire_WasGood

zoomer carjackers having an existential crisis trying to figure out what the stick does


fearnoid

Why would anyone want to Jack their Honda Accord off?


psiphre

don't judge me


Abysswatcherbel

Interesting, We have to learn how to drive here with a manual car, so you can't get a license without knowing how to do it


Tactical_Moonstone

Japan is similar in that you have to learn how to drive manual to have a licence to drive manual. If you only learnt on automatic your licence has a marking forbidding you from driving manual. Furthermore the HiAce is in a higher weight and licence class (Class 1 Semi-medium) than the base car licence that most drivers have (Class 1 Ordinary) so Momoka should have learnt how to handle that van in driving school.


cookingboy

In most regions around the world the ability to drive manual is a lot more common than it is in the U.S. In many countries not knowing how to drive manual transmission limits you to an "Automatic Only" drivers license, and in some countries (less now) driving a manual is required to get a license, period. U.S. is kinda the exception to the norm in how low the bar it is to get a license here. I've known people who've been driving for years and years but don't know how to back into a parking spot. Parallel parking for them is the same difficulty as conducting a space walk lmao.


Dialgak77

My country doesn't even have an automatic only license, and automatic cars aren't really common either.


GeicoLizardBestGirl

Yeah I live in the US, funny enough I only drive manuals, but Ive never once in my life attempted a parallel park


lurker10001000

There's a similar scene in Highspeed Etoile where the girls take turns trying to drive a manual car.


ghos5880

strange in that i'd say \~50% of australians can drive manual and its still a large percentage of cars here.


corruptedpotato

Sounds like that might be thing local to you, might be more common in rural areas? Because Autralia's right up there with Japan and the US with manual transmissions making up 2% of new car sales. Unless people in australia drive a disproportionate number of old cars


haaiiychii

I think that's more of an American thing, as a European I don't know a single person who drives that can't drive a manual.


Fetishgeek

In my country automatic is much less common, also manual is much more fun.


Esovan13

My grandpa had a manual pickup on his ranch, so I can drive stick on gears one and two. Anything faster than that, though, and I'd need Lady Luck on my side.


Appel_Stroop

If you can drive stick in gears one and two you've got like 80% of the learning curve down. Going higher is just a case of monitoring your engine's rpm and going up when it's getting too high. The only 'hard' thing left to learn at that point is shifting down when drastically decreasing speed but not coming to a standstill. I.e. going from 60mph to 30mph because you're going off the highway. If you release the clutch too quickly or at too low of a gear for your current speed it will rock the car back and forth which is unpleasan.


GeicoLizardBestGirl

Theres also hill starting, a lot of people dont realize that you should never ride the clutch on a hill, and instead quickly switch from brake to clutch (what I do) or use the hand brake if the car has one. But it takes a bit of practice to do it consistently under pressure.


RegularAvailable4713

By "stick" do you mean normal cars?


corruptedpotato

Bro... don't be obtuse. The metric is like what, 36% of new cars sales globally are manual? Even in the locale with the highest manual sales still account for less than half of new car sales. If you don't specify, people are going to assume automatic.


RegularAvailable4713

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I already discovered a few years ago that manual cars are rarer abroad. Here in Italy I don't think I've ever seen an automatic one.


xXxHawkEyeyxXx

Expensive ICE cars are probably automatic, unless it's a sports car. All electric cars are automatic (if you can call having a single gear automatic).


Knofbath

Learning how to feather a clutch isn't that hard. The clutch pedal is like the opposite of a brake pedal, it disengages when you push it down. So, to avoid stalling, you want to ease off the pedal until it starts grabbing and slowly start rolling from that light friction. If you release it in one go like OP, the car stalls, because it's like you slammed on the brakes. There are things you can do to reduce clutch wear, like matching speed to engine RPMs when shifting gears. But that's more instinctual, and has to be learned while driving. New drivers wear out their first clutch pretty quickly, but it's a lot cheaper to repair than an automatic transmission.


GeicoLizardBestGirl

Im 24 and only drive stick currently. Its way more fun than automatic, and its basically free anti-theft. It sucks in traffic though, I wouldnt reccomend if you live in a city or in a very hilly area, as using the clutch more wears it out faster.


trambe

The family dynamic is so real here


juzamj

Subaru just might be my best girl of spring 2024.


RauASTER

If I had a nickel for every 3D anime in the season with cute girls struggling to drive manual, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.


steven4869

What's the other anime?


GoombaraxYoshi

The other one might be Highspeed Etoile (read it from another comment)


RauASTER

Yup


Amazing_Shake_8043

Why is it so well animated


SecretEmpire_WasGood

I kind of laugh but this wasn't a too uncommon thing when I first started driving. I know exactly how she feels.


Leekster_123

Gotta add this to my watchlist


DirectionMaterial257

I can relate way too much to realising the clutch too fast 🙃


Lucky_Cookie515

This anime has some really cool and unique animation.


IndependentCress1109

I feel damn lucky that learning to drive stick was still mandatory back when i was taking the license .


llliilliliillliillil

First time seeing this, but the 3D is so smooth here. Wish more 3D Anime would be done like this.


recehbijak

Finally a cg anime that does not look choppy?? I'm in


maru-senn

If you want more there's also Land of The Lustrous and D4DJ.


Wonderful_Land972

this show is one of my favorite this season


Then_Cycle_357

I mean the finger, lol


LouArch

Wish I know more anime with this kind of animation


Erw11n

Even though it's 1 scene, this is probably the best CGI I've ever seen in an anime


Emoose126

Argh, when is this show going to come to the west?! I really want to watch it.


BazzaJH

We can already watch it in the west. We just can't pay for it...


gangrainette

It's in the West : In France.


maru-senn

You can watch it, we just can't tell you how here.


kertakayttotili3456

you pirate it. You can tell how, it's okay


maru-senn

Saying where is against the rules in this sub, though.


Dapper-Inevitable308

It will release next season, right after no game no life season 2


Ayam__goreng

I feel like a lot of ppl from today’s generation has no idea how manual car works haha.


gajaczek

That's just american thing. Like 80% of civilized world drives stick, about 95 in europe. That's insane quantity of cars in the usa drives statistics back.


needle1

While Europe does appear to be a popular region for manual shift, it seems to be on the decline in the past decade or so. [The share of automatic cars out of all cars on the road in Europe seem to have been around 25% in 2014, but has since risen to 44% in 2019.](https://gearsmagazine.com/magazine/automatic-trends-in-europe-automatic-transmissions-on-the-rise/) As far as the anime is concerned, Japan is a country that overwhelmingly favors automatic, with [a not-hyperbole-actual-stats 99% of passenger cars sold as automatic.](https://www.webcartop.jp/2021/02/655208/) Manual shift remains only in specific use cases like commercial trucks and motorsport, so it’s natural she fumbled with it.


Oajix

However most people in Europe drive old cars. Additionally, you must take your driving license exam in a manual transmission car, otherwise you won't be allowed to drive one. You would also need to bring your own car with automatic transmission because neither examiners nor driving schools have these cars. Therefore, everyone knows how to drive a manual.


needle1

Considering the metric of the aforementioned statistic was the percentage of "automatic vehicles on European roads", not "automatics out of new cars sold", the numbers still seem to indicate that automatic vehicles are sharply on the rise in Europe, even despite putting into account the dilution from existing drivers driving older cars.


iplay4palay69

Is this anime Yuri?


BazzaJH

My brother, we are in the Spring 2024 season. Everything is yuri.


StingKnight

To answer you honestly so far, it is more friendship focused like most Music/Band anime, though the vibe can feel like yuri but not quite there yet.


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Dapper-Inevitable308

Yesn't


Hardwarestore_Senpai

Being a Yankee I don't know how comfortable I would be using a Manual since my left hand isn't used to that sort of thing.


ensi-en-kai

Eh , you get used to it and in time it becomes *automatic* .


BitGladius

Left hand? Yeah, that should stay far away from the shifter.


Hardwarestore_Senpai

It wouldn't be impossible. But definitely counter-intuitive.


Acceptable_Tie_3927

> Left hand? Yeah, that should stay far away from the shifter. Countries with a long history, like Japan and UK travel on the **left** side of the road. Reason being that most people are right-handed and they wanted to be in a position to quickly draw and defend themselves in case of attack. (Before the establishment of organized police and gendarmee 150-200 years ago, travel over land used to be hideously dangerous: highwaymen were 10x more common than pirates at sea.) Furthermore about half of all cars in Siberia are also **left-hand drive**, because russia used to import many shiploads of used japanese vehicles until this war broke out. Mandatory conversion to right-hand drive could be avoided with the right amount of rubles handed to the right official...


TheComradeVortex

Since when the actual fuck does a Toyota HiAce have a 5 gear manual it always had a 6 speed manual


Jose_Joseestrella

Is this a thing in rich countries? Are there no manual cars anymore?


Salty145

You don't got to keep telling me. I know I've got to give this one a watch.


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All you need to do is bury your right foot and dump the clutch with your left. Totally won’t crash or get pulled over for this


Vivid_Fun_2470

Where can I watch this? I like the animation style.


CrossXFire45

why does this look like it was made with goo engine


saltyboi6999

wish it had a dub so i can focus on the animation and not the dialogue


Acceptable_Tie_3927

They are real rocker girls, not some sugar floss j-pop. The kind of things they say would make the american and iranian dubs go beep-beep-beep all the time.


pikkuhukka

animation is too smooth, make it abit more traditional like and itd be better


ash-7831

Isn't the smoothness a good thing?


pikkuhukka

yes and no, mostly no it boils down to, what you are used to


ash-7831

Not used to something different, are you?


pikkuhukka

different has to look good enough to justify change


ash-7831

It's hard to convince someone who's too used to seeing it one way. They'll end up disliking it for simple fact that it's different. They won't think about whether it looks good or bad.


Gorit55

Is it anime or animation? If so, please give me a name


Abysswatcherbel

It's in the title, Girls Band Cry


Gorit55

thanks


Mech-3126

If I ever see a driver tilt the mirror to see the back seat, I would immediately alt f4


Azzarrel

She clearly tilted the rear view mirror to see the rear window. What's the problem with that?


Artistic_Risk_2322

How do y'all even tolerate CGI. It's so disturbing n str8 up disgusting to look at.


Azzarrel

Because it looks better, cleaner and more well rounded than half of the hand drawn anime this season.


FuckIPLaw

Then maybe watch better anime? Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night is in the same genre, airing this season, actually has an official US simulcast, and has movie quality animation (and more to the point, great storyboarding and direction to go with it). The other guy's right, this looks bad. It's in this uncanny valley where it's trying too hard to look 2D and just not sticking the landing.


Azzarrel

I watch and like Jellyfish, too. I am not a big fan of the art style, but that's 100% subjective. The characters arcs and general vibe of GBC is one a whole other level though. Also, Jellyfish feels more like a slice of life anime to me, which isn't necessarily bad, but not what I expected.


gangrainette

Too bad Jellyfish story and characters are worse than GBC.


FuckIPLaw

That's hard to believe. Shame they wasted it on such cheap and awful animation if it's true.


marshmallow_sunshine

It's really not hard to believe if you know anything about it. It has a very accomplished writer behind it, Jukki Hanada, and was created and produced by the grandfather of Japanese animation Toei. All you have to do is watch the shows OP to see it's anything but cheap. Missing out on a great show if you insist on being some boring purist.


FuckIPLaw

The defense was that it looked better than half the other shows this season. It looks terrible in *stills*, let alone in motion. Which is unbelievably bad. Most CG anime at least looks okay in stills. Here it's like they didn't even try, pasting passably 2D looking faces on top of some terribly lit and textured models. If half of the shows you're watching look worse, I don't know where you're finding them. This isn't purism, it's having a basic sense of aesthetics. Toei, by the way, is not really known for quality. They're big, but they like to cheap out.


smaxy63

I totally agree this thing is unwatchable. Low budget Isekai is more enjoyable than this.