Extra Olympia Kyklos
別冊オリンピア・キュクロス
Demetrios was a young man in Ancient Greece who was a potter's apprentice, but also a rather timid otaku. Despite pursuing the arts, he was blessed with natural athletic talent. One day, he gets dragged into a village conflict. Demetrios contemplates how helpless he is, but then is struck by lightning! When he comes to, he is no longer in Greece, but a strange land where he can't understand the language and people look rather different. Yes, he somehow ended up 1964 Tokyo! Of course, Demetrios has no idea what Japan even is. What will become of him?! (Source: Crunchyroll)
Extra Olympia Kyklos is a tv short with 24 episodes, from Spring 2020, produced by Gosay Studio, rated 6.7/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Demetrios was a young man in Ancient Greece who was a potter's apprentice, but also a rather timid otaku. Despite pursuing the arts, he was blessed with natural athletic talent. One day, he gets dragged into a village conflict. Demetrios contemplates how helpless he is, but then is struck by lightning! When he comes to, he is no longer in Greece, but a strange land where he can't understand the language and people look rather different. Yes, he somehow ended up 1964 Tokyo! Of course, Demetrios has no idea what Japan even is. What will become of him?! (Source: Crunchyroll)
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Tags
- Surreal Comedy — Prominently features comedic moments that defy casual reasoning, resulting in illogical events.
- Mixed Media — Features a combination of different media and animation techniques. Often seen with puppetry, textiles, live action footage, stop motion, and more. This does not include works with normal usage of CGI in their production.
- Stop Motion — Animation style characterized by physical objects being moved incrementally between frames to create the illusion of movement.
- Athletics — Centers around sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, or walking.
- Historical — Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
- Foreign — Partly or completely set in a country outside the country of origin.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Nudity — Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.
- Time Skip — Features a gap in time used to advance the story.
- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Educational — Primary aim is to educate the audience.
- Seinen — Target demographic is adult males.