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Anime Character Guessing Game, Q2 - 2019 (with final scores)


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getchman
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2019 6:06 pm Reply with quote
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Errinundra
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 4:04 am Reply with quote
Stepping in. This could be quite difficult.

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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 2:55 pm Reply with quote
Hint #1: spoiler[She is deaf, mute, and perhaps mentally handicapped.]
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Calathan
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 6:25 pm Reply with quote
Is it spoiler[Keiko Tazaki from Donguri no Ie]?
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 6:40 pm Reply with quote
Calathan wrote:
Is it spoiler[Keiko Tazaki from Donguri no Ie]?


Correct

The first twenty minutes are possibly the most gut-wrenching anime scenes I've ever watched - up there with the burning house scene in Barefoot Gen. Different though, in that the characters aren't at risk of dying, but their situation is both dreadful and seemingly hopeless. The rest of the film relates how spoiler[the family picks itself up from the depths of despair.]

So, how did you figure it out?
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Calathan
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 10:07 pm Reply with quote
Errinundra wrote:
So, how did you figure it out?


I searched the encyclopedia for pages with the word spoiler[deaf], and that anime showed up and seemed likely. So I looked up images from it, and even though there wasn't much online about it, I found one image that had that character in that outfit.

Here is the next character:

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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 10:11 pm Reply with quote
spoiler[Big Madam from Tokyo Ghoul?]
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2019 10:49 pm Reply with quote
HyugaHinata wrote:
spoiler[Big Madam from Tokyo Ghoul?]


Sorry, that is incorrect.
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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 8:17 am Reply with quote
Hint 1: spoiler[She is a very minor character, but inspires a major character to try writing a book.]
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Hint 1: spoiler[She is a very minor character, but inspires a major character to try writing a book.]
Hint 2: spoiler[This presumably fake psychic appears briefly at the start of a recap special for a show whose main character has actual psychic powers.]
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Cam0



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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Is it spoiler[Kirari Sophia from Mob Psycho 100 Compilation OVA?]
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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 7:31 pm Reply with quote
Cam0 wrote:
Is it spoiler[Kirari Sophia from Mob Psycho 100 Compilation OVA?]


That's correct.
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Hint 1. spoiler[The other main character considers her annoying.]
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Hint 2. spoiler[She works as a maid.]
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