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Might be worth mentioning the show's crew in the OP. I mean, I noticed this because Mari Okada, so that might be something other people care about. Edit: Also bus porn made me laugh far more than I expected. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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And he has it right next to the tissues, too! He must cry a lot when watching it.
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Jul 21, 2019 20:52
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Viridiant posted:I wish this teacher wasn't playing along with Hongo, it's still gross even if he's not into it. Yeah, I get that. From a narrative prospective, though, it makes total sense. He's tried going "Nope, nope, nope!" and Hongo's still been in. If anything, she escalated. He can't go to anyone, because starting a conversation with "So, it turned out I was sexting a student..." is a good way to get arrested. Basically, his approach options are severely limited. And the whole situation is even more messed up because, well, he can't claim 0% interest. As soon as he found out she was a teenager, he was running for the hills, but when he just knew her as words on a screen, he was attracted enough to agree to meet in real life. He tried to downplay it with the whole "I thought you were a middle aged man and I was curious what kind of weirdo was doing it", but he was in before he knew the whole deal, making his denials more difficult to sell. Add on that she's desperate for proof she can write thanks to the scumbag editor, and it means she's not giving up easily. Mari Okada is good at complicated incredibly messed up situations.
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Aug 4, 2019 04:06
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theGrooseofLegend posted:Personally, "being earnest in your work and considering your friend's happiness makes you boring, actually" is the frosting on the poo poo cake. Somehow, I doubt that a guy the show has actively called out as a pedo creep, whose shots are framed like he's the devil, will be shown to be absolutely correct.
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Aug 18, 2019 06:44
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Coxswain Balls posted:Milo seems to have something going on with the lady teacher, and I'm wondering if Hongo is gonna screw it up in the worst possible way that will make Yamagishi wish he could have just nipped the whole thing in the bud instead of continuing to humor her. Not always, but it is something she's good at. You'll get a lot of people recommending Anohana, I think, and it's really good, but the biggest interpersonal trainwrecks happened before the show proper starts. They still manage some, but they don't have as much room to fall as they might. If you want an awkward trainwreck with a bodycount, she was the head writer for a Gundam show recently. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. It's pretty good. A bunch of teenage mercenaries try to make it big. Questionable decisions, war with the space government, and mass death ensue. It's got more Nagai (the director of Anohana and several other anime Okada worked on) in its development than some of their other collaboration, but several major characters and arcs were her work according to interviews, including the ending.
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Aug 18, 2019 10:09
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Coxswain Balls posted:Sonezaki is the frikken best, and I hope she lightens up and becomes friends with the cool girl in her class. The cool girl seems to think they're friends already, and Sonezaki is much more accepting of that by the end of this episode. Things are obviously going to go wrong soon, but it's nice that at least some things are going right for the moment.
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Aug 24, 2019 11:58
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Coxswain Balls posted:Apparently it's bad decisions week. They're teenagers (and Milo). Faster to catalog when it isn't bad decision week. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Aug 30, 2019 22:54
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Yawgmoft posted:I guess this show won't let more than one couple be happy at the same time. At the start of the episode, both Kazusa and Sonezaki were in happy relationships. It's a new record for the show, even aside from Sonezaki's new friend and the milquetoast looking guy.
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Sep 2, 2019 00:41
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Makatka posted:I said "literature" though. I wouldn't be surprised if Back to the Future was based on a book but it doesn't seem to be. And I've never heard of Dog of Flanders, so there you go. Back to the Future isn't, but it does have an amazing novelization. On topic, apparently the Moomin books are popular. Japan's got a lot of foreign literature in circulation.
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Sep 2, 2019 21:04
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Paracelsus posted:Was Jujou the gyaru? Yep. Also, if I was paying attention correctly at the start of the episode (which I might not have been), she was also the writer of the book that beat Hongo to market. Makes sense since the editor they were looking for someone experienced in, well, loving, over literary style.
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Sep 7, 2019 09:37
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Shyrka posted:Eagerly awaiting seeing Milo covered in hot dogs next episode. Poor Milo. Right after he testified to defend his students, too. If his suffering wasn't so funny, I'd really feel bad for him.
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Sep 14, 2019 04:43
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Coxswain Balls posted:Best option would be Saegusa, but from reading the room it seems like Okada doesn't do endings that are completely satisfying for our protagonists. I wouldn't say that. She definitely does emotional endings, but I can think of a bunch of shows right off the top of my head that were overall satisfying. Anohana had Menma's ghost moved on, which is sad, but also what ghosts are meant to do, and she did it after helping her family and friends recover from the tragedy of her death. Hisone and Masotan had everybody live, and the main breakup get fixed, even if Hisone's survival was only revealed in the last shot. And in IBO, she was the one arguing for the ending we got... which was considerably happier than the alternatives on the table. She's got a deserved rep for tearjerkers, but she doesn't just do tragedy for tragedy's sake in the endgame.
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Sep 14, 2019 21:47
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Wark Say posted:TBF, the ending we got still felt like they got off light. While Orga was often good at thinking on his feet and making the most as he went, the fact that some of the crew of Tekkadan + Kudelia survived after he sided with Macky still feels like a dadgum miracle, because Rustal was a ruthless (if somewhat pragmatic) mo'fo. Yeah, the last five episodes were heavily revised after discussion between Okada and the director (her longtime collaborator Tatsuyki Nagai). In the original version, everybody died. Presumably, Orga's "Change our names, fake our deaths, move to Canada until this blows over" plan wasn't how he'd originally react to disaster.
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Sep 15, 2019 23:39
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And we're done. (Well, there was apparently an epilogue chapter of the manga, so we might get something in OVA form, but I wouldn't bet on it.) Surprisingly solid ending considering how much it needed to wrap up. And of course It fit.
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macabresca posted:Since when the scanlations stop with the official release? Pretty often, if it's a more niche release. If there's just one or two people translating a manga, then there's a fair chance they started out of love for the original material, and when a legit option hits the market, they actually want it supported. It's nowhere near a guarantee, especially with the wealth of motives in scanlation, but O Maidens does strike me as one that's more likely than average to get people who care about that kind of thing.
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