Damnit, Sakurazaki, quit having good ideas that won't be realized for a long time.
It's been fun.
You guys yuri shipping is pretty intense *sweatdrops*
Rbx5
@Sakurazaki: GODDAMMIT, DON'T TORTURE ME LIKE THIS UNLESS YOU'RE GONNA MAKE IT A REALITY.
^Yuri shipping is srs business apparently.
I'll turn your neocortex into a flowerpot!
Oh My
I can see it in my head...and hear it...ohhhhh~...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
wasn't the episode we just watched about why this is bad
Together Forever...
Its only bad if the people exist.
Oh My
Yes, yes they aren't real! DAMMIT LET ME FANTASIZE.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Alright, I'll be nice. Here's a nice picture
to help you with your fantasies.
Oh My
YES. THEY CAN TIE HIM UP AND GET INTO AN ARGUMENT ABOUT IT BEFORE HAVING HATESEX.
edited 17th Apr '11 8:19:30 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Together Forever...
Dude, don't post stuff like that when I'm at work and can't go to Danbooru/Pixiv!
...
What...
Okay, tied up... I did not expect that.
Then she advised him on how to tie her up... okay, he pathetically begged her to help inspire him for his story, and Ohana is so eager to please that she went along with it? Not really consistent with her character.
No wait... he actually did kidnap her. Willing Suspension of Disbelief is shaken...
Oh... he's just so incredibly pathetic that even after tying you up he just doesn't seem like a threat. Foolish Ohana, foolish. The dull knife is more dangerous then a sharp one. Just because he's pathetic doesn't mean he's not dangerous.
I guess I'll put this down to "weird things happen at hot springs", and Ohana being very very stupid (although in a way that does tend to coincide with her character- Ohana tends to be very earnest and impetuous girl who tries to see everyone as a potential friend if she just puts some effort into it.)
Let's move on. Okay, ridiculous chase scene- but not too unrealistic actually.
Oh here we go, the dramatic suicide threat that gets people to forgive him- or at least go easy on his punishment. Kirk Summation time by Ohana. But wait, he jumped! Wow, we get some actual drama. Some Mood Whiplash, but the whole show has been that, I wonder what effect his pathetic death will have on Ohana's character develop...
Oh wait... he's so pathetic he can't even kill himself right, and Nako just happens to be an expert cliff diver and lifeguard. I foresee hot Wet Sari scene coming up... there it is- and the pathetic guy is barfing his guts out in the foreground during the sexy scene! LOL, alright, that was a good one. You got me with that one.
Okay, now Ohana smacks him good and gives him the inspiring second Kirk Summation, and succeeds in Talking the Monster to Death. Oh and lets it slip to the other girls what he was writing about him.
Okay... and so the manager is going to let him work off his debt, instead of having him hauled off to jail.
Yeah...
I've seen this before in a lot of different shows... is it an old Japanese values kind of thing? That as long as a member of the group is still trying to make things right you don't write him off? Even if he is a piece of worthless loser trash?
Something like that?
Sigh...
This is not what I was looking for from this show. I guess if this makes him into the new Butt-Monkey of the show... I guess I can overlook it. But the 4th episode sure better get back on the serious character development and not this wacky hi-jink stuff.
PS: Whoever said Ohana is The Pollyanna, kudos to you. In fact I'm beginning to get Pollyanna vibes from the whole show. And like the original Pollyana, Ohana has a bit of Blithe Spirit in her too.
edited 17th Apr '11 9:51:26 PM by Sackett
I think you missed the entire point of that episode, to be honest. The whole scene on the rock spit after Nako rescued Jiroumaru was in order to establish that he'd learned his lesson and wasn't going to be useless anymore - call it a very minor form of Defeat Equals Redemption. Even the Landlady's statement before that was part of the lesson, albeit a very Japanese one - it's not proper to doubt a customer, so she didn't openly. A lot of this show is about form; the Landlady acts harshly to Ohana because that's the image she's cultivated, Minko worries about the form of her insults...
Anyway, my point is that I think you're misreading this episode. By immediately discarding Jiroumaru as a comic relief character, you missed a lot of important clues as to why the Kissuiso runs the way it does and what effect Ohana's going to have on its inhabitants.
A question, since I really do want to see your take on it: What significance do you think Ohana's 'revenge meal' has, both in Ohana's preparing it and Minko's eating it?
It's been fun.
Together Forever...
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What significance do you think Ohana's 'revenge meal' has, both in Ohana's preparing it and Minko's eating it?
They subconsciously want to fuck each others brains out.
Oh My
...stop saying what I wanted to say Setsuna!
More seriously: They're getting closer to that friend thing.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Aside from that, Sakurazaki. Though the journal finally gives us justification for our yuri-hatesex-goggles.
It's been fun.
Oh My
It really did. I went "Aww...Minko has raging hatelove for Ohana..." when I saw it.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Together Forever...
Minchi really should have been voiced by Hikasa Youko.
They say that hate and love aren't really all that different; in both cases you care immensely about what someone else is doing or thinking, particularly what they think of you, so...
It's been fun.
Oh My
They can also exist at the same time for the exact same thing.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Honestly, the whole eating the spinach thing bothered me... just because Nako didn't have to eat any taro. >_>
^^This is true, as well.
^They didn't have any taro with them. I'm sure she ate some when they got back to Kissuiso.
Well, I want to get Sackett's reply, so I'm going to bed now.
edited 17th Apr '11 10:42:43 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
Oh My
That is more proof of the raging hatelove Funnyguts...
Though it doesn't necessarily have to be romantic raging hatelove. I can dream though...DREAMING!!!
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Together Forever...
Nako'd also sorta-kinda fessed up/apologized, which Minchi had yet to do.
Also, while I'm positive that Nako would very much not want to eat any Taro if she doesn't have to, Minchi'd already heavily emtionally invested herself in showing Ohana that yes, she's going to eat that damn spinach. Remember her reaction when she first thought Ohana had bailed on the breakfast? It wasn't "oh good, I don't have to eat spinach", followed by "Oh fuck there's no breakfast", it was "SHE BETRAYED ME!"
So yeah, Minchi's emotions involving Ohana are all screwed up, and I'm sure she doesn't have the first clue how she really feels. I certainly know how I hope she really feels...
edited 17th Apr '11 10:46:01 PM by SakurazakiSetsuna
Oh My
I'm with you on all that Setsuna...really am...
Thank you for putting my thoughts into fancy wordy things!
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Funny: Hehehehe.
Setsuna: Ohhhhh~...
D:
I want that...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah