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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were restricted to the premise, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become. Though most of that could be chalked up to the decision to use Flash which limited much of the animation.potential.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were restricted to the premise, with the rest being turned into a GrossOutShow, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become.
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SoBadItsGood: If you ignore the "purists". It's actually pretty funny.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were restricted to the premise,with the rest being turned into a GrossOutShow, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become.become. Though most of that could be chalked up to the decision to use Flash which limited much of the animation.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were restricted to the premise,
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* FanBoy - Several appear throughout the series. An episode focuses on Mikey getting kidnapped by a duo of teenage fanboys and becoming a member of their club held in their mom's basement!
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment - Being a show within a show, the crew of ''Lily Mu'' frequently lampshades the bad points of the television and animation industry. Looking back, it's amazing how close Ozu's tendency to fire his employees and close the studio reflect what happened to Animation Collective in 2008!
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment - Being a show within a show, the crew of ''Lily Mu'' frequently lampshades the bad points of the television and animation industry. Looking back, it's amazing how close Ozu's tendency to fire his employees and close the studio [[HarsherInHindsight reflect what happened to Animation Collective in 2008!2008!]]
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* DidNotDoTheResearch - More cultural errors than you can shake a stick at. The most apparent happens to be the main hook of the show: despite being set in Tokyo, Japan, no one speaks Japanese beyond an [[JustAStupidAccent accent]], and the attempt to mimic authentic Japanese anime is rather a miss. Of course since it's a ''parody of anime'' no one was really expecting it to be. To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were mainly for the GagSeries, that eventually turned into a GrossOutShow, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become. Apparently, there's a Golden Nicktoons Rule that the humor has to keep the attention of sugar-induced children.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch - More cultural errors than you can shake a stick at. The most apparent happens to be the main hook of the show: despite being set in Tokyo, Japan, no one speaks Japanese beyond an [[JustAStupidAccent accent]], and the attempt to mimic authentic Japanese anime is rather a miss. Of course since it's a ''parody of anime'' no one was really expecting it to be.
** To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey) came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
*** Also, really GOOD animators charge more, so maybe it's that they couldn't afford people who could animate the show like a real anime, and instead went for inexperienced naive graduates. Ironic, considering anime animators work for beans in Japan!
** To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey) came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
*** Also, really GOOD animators charge more, so maybe it's that they couldn't afford people who could animate the show like a real anime, and instead went for inexperienced naive graduates. Ironic, considering anime animators work for beans in Japan!
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**be. To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey) came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
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** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey) came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
*** Also, really GOOD animators charge more, so maybe it's that they couldn't afford people who could animate the show like a real anime, and instead went for inexperienced naive graduates. Ironic, considering anime animators work for beans in Japan!
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* NeedsMoreLoveShallowParody - Characters [[LawyerFriendlyCameo resemble famous anime stars]], but the parody pretty much stops at appearances.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Many consider ''A Christmas Mikey'' and ''Mitsuki Butterfly'' to be the episodes with the strongest undercurrent of drama.
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* HoYay - Yes Man is just a ''biiiiit'' too willing to obey Ozu's every whim, even if it's purely because he was practically bred to be his personal assistant by occupation. He also sleeps literally underneath him! Ozu seems to also return his affections at times. The subplot of "Mitsuki Vanishes" is essentially about a couple breaking up and making up again.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real AnimeTropes JapaneseMediaTropes or Western AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were mainly for the GagSeries, that eventually turned into a GrossOutShow, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become. Apparently, there's a Golden Nicktoons Rule that the humor has to keep the attention of sugar-induced children.
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* CrazyAwesome: Gonard.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Yes Man.
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* TheWoobie - Mitsuki is the straight woman in a cast of idiots in a wacky world... sometimes she needs a day-long pat on the head.
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** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey)came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - ''KappaMikey'' had the brilliant idea of mixing a WesternAnimation American in a {{Anime}} and {{Animesque}} Japanese setting to create a unique FishOutOfWater story. The only problem? The show ''barely, if at all,'' utilized any real AnimeTropes or Western [[AnimatedTrope Animated Tropes]] AnimationTropes that would've made it a unique blending of the two mediums. Any Anime related things were mainly for the GagSeries, that eventually turned into a GrossOutShow, certainly not the GenreBusting concept it could've become. Apparently, there's a Golden Nicktoons Rule that the humor has to keep the attention of sugar-induced children.
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Missed Moment Of Awesome (now Offscreen Moment Of Awesome) is not \"they SHOULD have done it, it\'d be cool.\" It\'s \"they DID do it, and you never got to see it.\"
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* FanBoy - Several appear throughout the series. An episode focuses on Mikey getting kidnapped by a duo of teenage fanboys and becoming a member of their club held in their mom's basement!
* FunnyAneurysmMoment - Being a show within a show, the crew of ''Lily Mu'' frequently lampshades the bad points of the television and animation industry. Looking back, it's amazing how close Ozu's tendency to fire his employees and close the studio reflect what happened to Animation Collective in 2008!
* IdiotPlot - the episode where the filming conflict is that there's not enough room for everyone in the team car. Rather than try to write in a transportation upgrade, they completely ignore the problem until Mikey ruins the shot by trying to get into the car with everyone else. This is the sort of thing a show introducing a new character to the core cast would have thought of before they even knew who the character was.
* MissedMomentOfAwesome - A show inspired by anime has ''no parodies of anime titles'', other than the character designs?!
* FunnyAneurysmMoment - Being a show within a show, the crew of ''Lily Mu'' frequently lampshades the bad points of the television and animation industry. Looking back, it's amazing how close Ozu's tendency to fire his employees and close the studio reflect what happened to Animation Collective in 2008!
* IdiotPlot - the episode where the filming conflict is that there's not enough room for everyone in the team car. Rather than try to write in a transportation upgrade, they completely ignore the problem until Mikey ruins the shot by trying to get into the car with everyone else. This is the sort of thing a show introducing a new character to the core cast would have thought of before they even knew who the character was.
* MissedMomentOfAwesome - A show inspired by anime has ''no parodies of anime titles'', other than the character designs?!
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The theme song ''''rocks.'''' It blows the rest of the show completely out of the water!
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The theme song ''''rocks.'''' It blows the rest of the show completely out of the water!
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* BrokenBase: A tribute to anime or Some think it's a wanna-be anime? Up to you.funny parody of anime. Others think think it has too many fart jokes and poorly executed use of Flash animation.
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* BrokenBase: A tribute to anime or a wanna-be anime? Up to you.you.
* DidNotDoTheResearch - More cultural errors than you can shake a stick at. The most apparent happens to be the main hook of the show: despite being set in Tokyo, Japan, no one speaks Japanese beyond an [[JustAStupidAccent accent]], and the attempt to mimic authentic Japanese anime is rather a miss. Of course since it's a ''parody of anime'' no one was really expecting it to be.
** To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey)came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
*** Also, really GOOD animators charge more, so maybe it's that they couldn't afford people who could animate the show like a real anime, and instead went for inexperienced naive graduates.
* YourMileageMayVary - Some think it's a funny parody of anime. Others think think it has too many fart jokes and poorly executed use of Flash animation.
* DidNotDoTheResearch - More cultural errors than you can shake a stick at. The most apparent happens to be the main hook of the show: despite being set in Tokyo, Japan, no one speaks Japanese beyond an [[JustAStupidAccent accent]], and the attempt to mimic authentic Japanese anime is rather a miss. Of course since it's a ''parody of anime'' no one was really expecting it to be.
** To be fair, many anime are also guilty of making everyone, in every country speak Japanese. It just makes it more accessible to the audience.
** As far as the animation goes, maybe this troper can shed some light. At school, a guest speaker who worked on some cartoons (including Kappa Mikey)came to give a presentation, and noted that the quality of the animation was a side effect of creator/producer Larry Schwarz pulling some legal move that allowed him to keep a large percentage of money, but kept the show from receiving funding from Nickelodeon. Because of that, the show couldn't afford more animators for the animesque scenes.
*** Also, really GOOD animators charge more, so maybe it's that they couldn't afford people who could animate the show like a real anime, and instead went for inexperienced naive graduates.
* YourMileageMayVary - Some think it's a funny parody of anime. Others think think it has too many fart jokes and poorly executed use of Flash animation.
