I need a festival episode!

[KrisGranholm]

After going on another "serious" anime stint, I need to lighten up. And there is nothing better than a festivial episode. Anyone got recommendations for great festival episodes?

[CrazyAsano]

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Kris Granholm said:
After going on another "serious" anime stint, I need to lighten up. And there is nothing better than a festivial episode. Anyone got recommendations for great festival episodes?

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There are some very heartwarming festival scenes and/or episode(s) in Elfen Lied.

[Njr Scrawl]

Maison Ikkoku has a very good festival episode. Box 2 or 3 IIRC

[aquapermanence]

Any of the three Tenchi festival episodes should do the trick. There are also sports fest and culture fest episodes in Azumanga Daioh. And practically every episode of Mahoromatic centers around one holiday or another, so you can take your pick. Finally, if you're desperate, Hand Maid May also has a festival episode.

[Legion]

I always thought the festival episode in Generator Gawl was pretty funny.

[AbeChinchilla]

Tenchi in Tokyo has a great two-parter festival episode.
The first episode is about Tenchi and his classmates getting ready for the festival, and the alien girlfriends going to Tokyo, to mess it up.

The second episode is more of the actual festival and includes the whole legendary kiss thing. Heart-breaking ensures!

[ScorpioEyez]

the last episode of World Of Narue is a fun festival episode.

[TuxedoFred]

The Kimagure Orange Road festival episode is a good one. I don't remember which volume it's on though.

[fractured78]

Chrono Crusade has a great festival episode.

<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>Except when it ends you want to eat some prozac.</span>

[Fencedude]

How bout the HiME Festival...oh, nevermind...

[Shsway]

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TuxedoFred said:
The Kimagure Orange Road festival episode is a good one. I don't remember which volume it's on though.

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If you mean the one where the leads get involved in a class race (I think for a sports festival), it's episode 23 of the series, which would make it disc 6. Or maybe you meant the "I Was a Cat, I Was a Fish" OVA, where there is a brief depiction of a summer festival at the beginning.

Magic User's Club has a culture fest eppie, the eighth one in the series, but there's a sort of prelude episode just before it. I was watching that just the other day. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[ohtori_akio]

Sailor Moon usually has great festival episodes.

The best one is in Sailor Moon S when Eugeal (think that's how it's spelt) gets her first mission. <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>Sailor mini Moon also appears in this ep and it's funny as!</span>

[TuxedoFred]

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Shsway said:
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TuxedoFred said:
The Kimagure Orange Road festival episode is a good one. I don't remember which volume it's on though.

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Or maybe you meant the "I Was a Cat, I Was a Fish" OVA, where there is a brief depiction of a summer festival at the beginning.



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That's the one. I thought it might be one of the OVA episodes, but wasn't exactly sure.

[jecca-neko]

Azumanga Daioh has a couple of cultural/sports festival episodes, though that probably wasn't quite what you intended...

[perigee]

Episode 18 of Cardcaptor Sakura (http://sakurabme.com/com/ccs_summary/ccs05_e.htm#eps18) features a nighttime festival with a little bit of romance and magic.

[Sensuifu]

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aquapermanence said:
Any of the three Tenchi festival episodes should do the trick.

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First suggestion that came in mind.. especially for the haunted house scene.

[Captain Impulse]

Isn't a festival episode a requirement of ANY harem series? I'm having trouble thinking of a harem series in which there wasn't one.

[jecca-neko]

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Captain Impulse said:
Isn't a festival episode a requirement of ANY harem series? I'm having trouble thinking of a harem series in which there wasn't one.

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Good point.

That makes me wonder then, though this line of thinking is slightly off-topic - is going to a festival a common date thing in Japan (not in anime, in real life)?

[Njr Scrawl]

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TuxedoFred said:
The Kimagure Orange Road festival episode is a good one. I don't remember which volume it's on though.

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Or maybe you meant the "I Was a Cat, I Was a Fish" OVA, where there is a brief depiction of a summer festival at the beginning.



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That's the one. I thought it might be one of the OVA episodes, but wasn't exactly sure.

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One of the days in the first KOR movie is a festival day - in fact a very important day that adds to the drama. Not light entertainment though. /images/graemlins/knowital.gif

While not a traditional Japanese festival per se, the 2 OVA story Spring is for Idols/Hearts on Fire (same DVD) is a kind of pop festival.

Hyperdolls /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif
it's a 2 episode ova with the second one being a festival /images/graemlins/wink.gif
At the end of happy lesson, they have a festival.
There's a festival before the end of Neo-Ranga's first season.
In Martian Successor Nadesico there's a "Geki-fest"

There should have been a festival episode for Cromartie /images/graemlins/sad.gif

[Captain Impulse]

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There should have been a festival episode for Cromartie /images/graemlins/sad.gif

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Wow...just the thought of that made me laugh. I can see Takeuchi freaking out about getting motion sick on an amusement park ride (OK they usually don't have rides at Japanese festivals, but entertain the thought).

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The Alaskan Assassin said:
There should have been a festival episode for Cromartie /images/graemlins/sad.gif

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Wow...just the thought of that made me laugh. I can see Takeuchi freaking out about getting motion sick on an amusement park ride (OK they usually don't have rides at Japanese festivals, but entertain the thought).

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You know i just realized something this morning, there was a small scene of them at a sports festival. Still. I would have loved to see a culture festival. See them run a café.

"That's not a coffee urn!"