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Merida
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Everybody would get over their lizard phobia in an instant in the face of that much cuteness! But is Isao the same dragon little Tazuki encountered (probably not, since the dragon showed no sign of recognition)?!
Well, now i'm really curious how the show is going to introduce our final main character and his cute creature. We've briefly met him before, but none of the others seem to have any kind of connection to him. How do the cute creatues choose their "owners" anyhow?! |
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Lactobacillus yogurti
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It's like with cats. You don't choose the cat. The cat chooses you. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Episode 6
Did anyone else find it disturbing that Kaede uses a mandrake as an alarm clock? Clearly mandrakes don't like to be pulled out of the soil by the 
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Merida
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^Yeah, that looked a bit too much like mandrake abuse for my taste, maybe not sleeping in a coffin might make waking up easier already?! Also, isn't she not just putting herself but everybody else within hearing distance in danger with that kind of alarm? But well, Sora doesn't seem to mind for some reason and he's usually the hyper-responsible type, so perhaps there's something we're missing...
That aside, the interaction between Mii-kun, Conny and Isao is getting more adorable every week (how is that even possible?). I can't wait for the final memeber of our little family to arrive! |
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Niello
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The mandrake didn't try to head back to the soil after it was pulled up so I highly doubt it was in pain. The shriek looks more like a defense mechanism. If the shriek spreads tot he neighbour Sora and Kaede would already be getting an earful from them. Having a sound that travels far also mean it's more likely to attract oblivious people and that's not good with the secrecy the creatures want to build. For that reason the hearable range of the shriek is probably quite short, but within that small area the intensity is high. Sora probably didn't know this or exaggerated the damage it could do. Obviously it will still be dangerous for people who encounter it.
If not hen mandrakes have been abused in every piece of fiction they appeared in, poor guys.
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Gina Szanboti
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I didn't say being out of soil was painful, it's being pulled out of the soil that seems to distress it. If someone yanked you out of bed by your hair, you'd scream too, but when they let go you wouldn't climb right back into bed.
Well, yeah, maybe mandrakes are always being abused! (I felt bad for them in Flying Witch too) We've never gotten the story from the mandrake's point of view, now have we. Maybe Mummy will change that... |
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Niello
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Nooooo, Lauren don't miss out on the after credit scene. If anything this episode has a surreal ending that makes Mukumuku even better. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I'll say! Where is his trunk? oO That's the one feature that seems to be a constant over all the various renderings of baku, but Mukumuku's has been truncated! ::flees:: From the first time I saw him in the OP, I thought he looked like a Belted Galloway plushie with a starbelly (having the belt broken by a spot on the sides is not uncommon with Galloway/Angus and other crosses). So while I can't stop thinking of him as a bovine at this point, I am glad to finally learn what he actually is supposed to be. Yes, I too am curious about the scar or birthmark on his neck. It's obviously connected to the nightmares, but how and when remain to be seen. |
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Merida
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Lauren wrote:
Being no stranger to bouts of insomnia myself, i felt so bad for Daichi! And his parents just kicked him out after the doctors weren't able to find a cure?! I wonder if the scar is somehow related to this... 
And yeah, don't miss the after-credit scene! |
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Revolutionary
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Nice use of Ganon's theme in the beginning of episode 7!
Anyway, yes this series is flipping adorable. I can't get over it. However, I, like some others here, am bothered by things like Kaede's glasses personality. It just seems completely thrown in for no reason whatsoever. Also, the way these creatures were described to decide to come to people in a previous episode doesn't seem to make sense with how Isao came to Motegi. Of course, we don't know much about her yet, but I never really got the impression that she had been made known about the creatures beforehand like Tazuki had. I haven't finished the new episode yet, curious if that's going to carry on with the new character, of if it will be explained with him. |
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Brand
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I'm pretty sure that pudgy unicorn is actually supposed to be a kirin.
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Merida
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This episode killed me with the cute! First we got supernatural daycare (eat you heart out, School Babysitters!
 ) and then Mii-kun making friends with the child oni was the most adorable and heartwarming thing ever (well, at least until next week's epsiode).
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CrowLia
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I wasn't a fan of this episode tbh. The whole daycare thing felt very artificial, and the further the show goes into making the human-monster relationships feel parent-child rather than human-pet it gives me a weird unpleasant feeling that I can't quite describe.
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Gina Szanboti
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^ That's odd, because I'm feeling the opposite. It's nagged at me that they sort of treat these clearly intelligent beings (who can read and write!) as pets, so the more they treat them like children, the better I feel about it.
I loved the episode, especially their misinterpretations of each other's charades. And the kirin's flashing its cosmic butt like a firefly. I have to wonder how this oni-child, who looks identical to Conny (i.e., I assume they're the same age) is doing so spectacularly on his own in the forest (nice digs in that tree!). In contrast, why was Conny like a lost puppy who needed rescuing? The only thing that truly bugged me was that it wasn't clear whether or not Motegi ever told the others what she'd overheard. Maybe those guys explain my previous question... |
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AholePony
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This week's episode was a real snoozer for me. I'm here for cute Sanrio product placement, not angsty back stories that are handled poorly >
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