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I suppose that's one way you can respond, Sorawo.
Edited by RainehDaze on Feb 16th 2021 at 11:59:22 AM
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I saw someone post on Twitter that Sorawo made a deal with a demon for the ability to remember even the most obscure netlore, but in trade, she lost the ability to ever recognize a lesbian. And... yeah.
It's been fun.
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I mean, there's not too much to recognise in volume 1 on Toriko's end, at least. Though it's even worse that she seems to have no ability to recognise herself. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
From a screenshot I saw the other day, seems the anime, regardless of adaptation quality, has made it to the second chapter of v2 (which is about where I'm at)?
Edited by RainehDaze on Feb 16th 2021 at 12:18:41 PM
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Yeah, the anime has just wrapped up "Beach Night at the End of the World". However, it got there by skipping the entirety of "The Kisaragi Station Rescue Operation".
I'm not sure how far they're going to cover here. The OP shows characters and allusions to events that happen up to File 10, "Sannuki-san and Karate Girl", which is the middle of volume 3. File 11 is a huge one (takes up the second half of volume 3), and while they could cover that in three episodes, I don't think they're going to.
My off-the-wall guess is that the anime is going to ping-pong back into "Kisaragi Station Rescue Operation" from here, maybe do one more episode of filler, and try to wrap up on "Sannuki-san". Alternately, they could spend one episode on "Rescue Operation", one on "Sannuki-san", and put three episodes into " The Whispered Voice", but I doubt that will happen.
It's been fun.
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What is with this ordering? They did the Space-Time Man before Kisaragi Station, now they've done the direct followup to the rescue before it? That's... confusing.
I'll probably watch it anyway, I suppose, but that's such odd choices.
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I originally thought the anime switched the order of Kisaragi Station and the Space-Time Man so they can just have the rescue mission go immediately after Kisaragi Station and make Sorawo seem less callous for leaving the soldiers behind for a few weeks after she realized how dangerous the Otherside could get.
But then they followed Kisaragi Station with the celebratory Beach Episode that was originally after the successful rescue mission, and I was like, just how tone-deaf could you get!? Why the hell did you even bother to change the order!? o_O
Edited by Servbot on Feb 16th 2021 at 7:39:00 AM
I could recommend watching the anime, but definitely not as your only exposure. It's fun hearing the lines voice-acted, but it absolutely borks the pacing, the atmosphere, the order of events, and is just so firmly inferior an adaptation that I'm probably going to look up the director just so I can avoid any of his future projects.
It would be interesting to see "The Whispered Voice" animated, but I don't think there's any way they would handle it well.
It's been fun.
Another thing the anime's done poorly: It's really sanded off all of Sorawo's rough edges, and I don't just mean by blazing through the doppelganger section in "Space-Time Man". Almost none of Sorawo's jealousy or possessiveness make it on-screen, and they've almost completely excised the shadow of Uruma Satsuki from hanging over... pretty much everything that's happened so far. In other words, they've made a lot of stuff not make sense.
It's been fun.
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It's not like the anime's my only exposure, I caught up with the manga then bought the LN's. Speaking of... ninja cats was weird. Both the plot and "bought an agricultural machine whilst drunk".
Aww, I like Sorawo's rough edges. They're not so overboard as to make her completley unlikeable, but they're there enough that Kozakura can call her a psychopath with dependency issues and it isn't totally out of place.
Edited by RainehDaze on Feb 16th 2021 at 4:58:06 PM
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I was looking back through volume 3 to see where "Sannuki-san" left off, and I was reminded that the Wham Line from Akari about how Sorawo would look like Satsuki if she grew her hair out is still one of the best moments in a very strong volume.
It's been fun.
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I'll get to whatever that spoiler is... either tomorrow or sometime in two weeks, depending on whether I keep reading or keep getting distracted again.
My current plan is to finish watching the anime then read the novels because outwise I'm just going to dissapoint myself by the sound of things.
Tonight's episode is "Sannuki-san and Karateka-san", which means this is the last file that's shown in the OP (to my knowledge). I don't know what they're going to do now - there are no voice actors listed on any cast page for Migiwa, Urumi, or Satsuki, but there also isn't one listed for Natsuki, and she's been in the OP since episode 1. We'll just have to see. If they give "The Whispered Voice" its proper spacing, it could be really amazing to see animated.
It's been fun.
Well, I don't know why I got my hopes up. This week's episode confirms that we're going back to Kisaragi Station for the finale.
It's been fun.
I do have to ask for those who have already read the novels...
Is Kozakura still the gift that keeps on giving in print?
Oh yeah, definitely. And she gets some additional entertaining wrinkles later on, beyond just being snarky at her two idiots, when she starts falling for Sorawo in volume 3, as well as a hilarious misunderstanding in volume 4. I won't go into all the details here, but some totally accidental vague conversational hints end up convincing Natsumi that not only are Sorawo and Toriko a couple who routinely have Kozakura join them, they're also after Akari and Natsumi too. Of course this all flies directly over Sorawo's head.
It's been fun.
Well, Volume 6 is out in Japanese, and my copy should be arriving in a few more days. Gotta finish up Volume 5 before then.
Still no word on when Volume 5 will be released in English, I think.
It's been fun.
Volume 7, Funeral for the Moon, just dropped yesterday in English. That brings the EN series up to date with the Japanese novels until volume 8 is released in September.
It was a pretty low-key volume, which is surprising given that it involves apparently exorcising the specter of Uruma Satsuki that's been haunting Sorawo. Fortunately, it's also extremely gay, featuring things like Toriko taking Sorawo out for dinner and drinks on their (meeting) anniversary, with a hotel room included; Toriko giving Sorawo a hickey; and Sorawo possibly starting to collect more interested parties.
It's been fun.
Take one part Roadside Picnic, two parts urban legend and Japanese BBS netlore, and three parts budding lesbian romance, and you have Urasekai Picnic, a science-fiction and psychological horror series by Miyazawa Iori. Four of the five novels have been translated into English as of February 2021, the manga is up to 35 chapters or so, and the anime is currently airing, though it's not doing a great job.
Because we've been having a decent bit of conversation about the series so far in both Winter 2021 Anime and Girls' Love/Yuri, I figured we should make a thread. Let's try to be careful with spoilers for content that hasn't been adapted yet.
It's been fun.