So this chapter gives us some insight into when Yotsuba was even younger but still no information about her origins or what happened to her birth parents?
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So this chapter gives us some insight into when Yotsuba was even younger but still no information about her origins or what happened to her birth parents?
it's all based on the "boy/girl doesn't know how to express the feelings and acts like an idiot" setup, like boys pulling a girls hair in elementary school etc. this goes all the way to different -dere personalities.
I'm getting more and more convinced those people either were so sheltered or spergy that they never experienced it (happens), but are also way too dumb to even understand the concept.
of course men who want to women are better at it than women themselves, which is hilariously ironic.
It was an odd choice to make the sheep story the finale and redo the coliseum story the first anime covered.
My pet theory that I kinda doubt is the answer:
Depending on where they are in Japan, "An island to the left" could be Kyushu or Shikoku. But what else is "to the left" of Japan? The Korean Peninsula. Her parents were boat people fleeing North Korea. They didn't make it but Yotsuba did and was picked up by the JMSDF/Coast Guard.
That always was something about this series that fascinated me. They establish fairly early on that she's adopted, but they don't really delve too deeply into it. They leave just enough info to leave stuff to the imagination while focusing on what ultimately matters: Yotsuba is with a dad that loves her and is surrounded by loving and supporting people. Even Yanda, who on the outside Yotsuba has an antagonistic relationship with, inadvertently serves as sort of an older brother type figure. It takes a village to raise a child after all.
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I think there's a bit about Yotsuba being cared for by her grandmother, and adopted from her.
North Korea is also my pet theory, because it would explain why she seems to be missing so many mundane things, like not knowing what a swing set is.
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that makes more sense, I thought she was just retarded, but japan's racism filter WOULD see a kid from a different asian culture as a complete alien despite them not forming many of their conscious(4+) memories outside of japan.
Is it still a will-they-wont-they with the neighbor chick or is yotsuba still mom-less?
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There definitely seems to be an intentional contrast between the spider and her classmates, but from what I understand it's going to take a lot of time for it to have a payoff, especially since you'd usually have it to make the dragon spider's "rival". But if anything dragon girl actually feels bad for being a bully and unless her master dies I can't see her turning evil. It could be for comedy, but having one side working hard and the other getting everything for free is more annoying than funny.
Wait, does Gou's Rika want to move away from her friends or stay together? Since the former can be justified by the events she has seen being so traumatic that she can't stomach being near anyone from the village. Like, even in real life knowing someone who did a bad thing had a mental illness doesn't excuse it for the victims.
Also about Nagatoro, ironically the only fanservice is by a high schooler with the body of a 20 year old supermodel (discounting some of the omake). Besides that, the only thing people can throw at it is the author's earlier works.
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the opening to higurashi gou ep 16 was
well
it sure was something
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oh god it got worse
fucking funny how rena stabbing keiichi had to be censored with a black bar but they decided showing that in all its glory for ten minutes was perfectly fine.
the opening to higurashi gou ep 16 was
well
it sure was something
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oh god it got worse
fucking funny how rena stabbing keiichi had to be censored with a black bar but they decided showing that in all its glory for ten minutes was perfectly fine.
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There’s also China. Some islands in China are considered autonomous regions but claimed by them. Maybe her parents were escaping the CCP? Could they be Uyghurs? Hong Kongers? Pro-Taiwan Independence? Protesters that fly the ROC flag?
Yeah I really didn't want to see Rika getting her guts pulled out. It was bad enough when they showed her corpse in the original, this is going way too far. I'm still curious what Takano's going to tell her but they really ruined it for me by having Satoko play with Rika's organs. Fucking christ.
Edit: Don't tell me this is supposed to be a precursor to Bern and Lambda's bedroom talk in Umineko...
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She leaves Hinamizawa to go to St. Lucia Academy (why?), but apparently she's always wanted to flee Hinamizawa when she's never expressed that desire to before. Never mind that the whole point of her trying to get a miracle was so she could grow up and be with her friends forever. Great retcon.
It was censored on TV, but the uncensored version is what gets streamed online.
How does that make any sense? Higurashi is its own thing. Just because Umineko has more gory stuff doesn't mean you need to change earlier works. If this is supposed to be part of Bern's origin, this scene could've been framed differently and used discretion shots. These defenders are probably the same types that think "mature" means gore drenched titties with lots of swearing
I'm still holding out hope that it may be revealed to be the origin of Bernkastel, but it seriously makes no sense for Rika to be tortured over and over again.
I'm going to be honest that I don't mind the idea of Watanagashi being performed on someone in the series, but Satoko clearly didn't perform it properly, hence why it's so disrespectful. The ritual is supposed to be an appeasement to Oyashiro and to purify the guts being scooped out for consumption, and there's to be beauty to the act as it's a slow, delicate process. Using the hoe to hack away at somehow-already-exposed guts is not the right way to do it. Satoko would've seen Rika perform the dance at least once by 1983, she should've tried to replicate it. She also probably should've just started eating her guts in accordance with Higurashi lore, but nah, gotta just pull them out after severing her in half.
If the manga adaptation handles this scene better than the anime, there's no saving this anime. Ever.
The fact Fuuka went with Yosuke (Mr. Koiwai) and Yotsuba to get a backpack without even thinking twice is kinda suspicious. Kinda odd as there’s a significant age gap between the two. (She’s 17 and I recall Azuma stating Koiwai’s in his thirties) But consensual relationships like that aren’t unheard of.
For now though, she’s still mom-less.
Honestly, I never lied to myself thinking that this was one of Kiyohiko’s greatest works. I’m not sure if a real anime version of this green haired girl would do this manga justice.
And I have yet to be proven wrong.
Every now and again I remember my goal to own the Gurren Lagann Complete Blu Ray Collection. Hot damn, do I want it.
Late on this but I saw it when scrolling through to catch up:
It's mostly held up by its cast, and like I've mentioned before, I honestly can't think of a single character I actually hate thus far, and that's pretty damn rare, especially for a long-running shonen. Even archetypes that I generally dislike (Yuno being the edgy 2kool4skool rival, for example) are written so that I enjoy them (no matter how much he teases Asta, the two of them are still best bros). There's a great sense of humor throughout, but it knows when to take itself just seriously enough, and I enjoy where the story's gone. It also manages to legitimately subvert expectations of standard shonen tropes a few times along the way.
And yeah, the dub is considerably easier to listen to. Asta's Japanese voice is just really grating, especially whenever he screams (so, all the time). Apparently Funi put the dub on hold for a while, so it hasn't been on Toonami in a few months; hopefully they pick it up again soon.
I'd say it's one of the better shonen series to come out in recent years, and it's a shame that a lot of people wrote it off as just a Naruto clone when it was first coming out. A friend of mine talked about how he chose to begin reading MHA instead of BC after Naruto wrapped up, and he said that in retrospect, he wished he had chosen the latter. I have to agree; MHA had an interesting premise but ended up falling into the standard archetypes (I quit when it ended up in a fucking tournament arc and Deku was told how to win against his opponent and he literally fucked it up in the first second, my god how can you be that stupid), while BC started off feeling like generic shonen but with enough to set it apart and keep it fun. This meme still holds up:
Black Clover is a series that really grows on you once you get past the initial roughness. It starts out feeling like a generic shonen, but eventually you realize...well, it's a generic shonen, but it's a good one. There's nothing truly groundbreaking about it, but sometimes that's all you need. Asta is a relentless force of good that refuses to give up no matter what, and he ends up inspiring everyone around him to do better too, even a lot of the villains of the series. You can't help but like him after a while because he's just so pure of heart; ironic for someone who's pretty much got a devil inside him. It even gives him a plausible excuse for being clueless to how every girl seems to want his dick; he's of such single-minded determination to marry Sister Lily that he's oblivious to all others' advances.
It's mostly held up by its cast, and like I've mentioned before, I honestly can't think of a single character I actually hate thus far, and that's pretty damn rare, especially for a long-running shonen. Even archetypes that I generally dislike (Yuno being the edgy 2kool4skool rival, for example) are written so that I enjoy them (no matter how much he teases Asta, the two of them are still best bros). There's a great sense of humor throughout, but it knows when to take itself just seriously enough, and I enjoy where the story's gone. It also manages to legitimately subvert expectations of standard shonen tropes a few times along the way.
And yeah, the dub is considerably easier to listen to. Asta's Japanese voice is just really grating, especially whenever he screams (so, all the time). Apparently Funi put the dub on hold for a while, so it hasn't been on Toonami in a few months; hopefully they pick it up again soon.
I'd say it's one of the better shonen series to come out in recent years, and it's a shame that a lot of people wrote it off as just a Naruto clone when it was first coming out. A friend of mine talked about how he chose to begin reading MHA instead of BC after Naruto wrapped up, and he said that in retrospect, he wished he had chosen the latter. I have to agree; MHA had an interesting premise but ended up falling into the standard archetypes (I quit when it ended up in a fucking tournament arc and Deku was told how to win against his opponent and he literally fucked it up in the first second, my god how can you be that stupid), while BC started off feeling like generic shonen but with enough to set it apart and keep it fun. This meme still holds up:
