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Animegomaniac
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No, I think the scene having an audience who don't exactly know what they're seeing is what matters.
This. I gave Akebi a pass for immediately stripping out of her clothes to reveal her school swimsuit, I have no idea why Erika was wearing a wetsuit underneath her clothes underneath the waders. I've seen wholesome before and this isn't it. But at least I'm not trying to fit the series into a narrative it's not adhering to. |
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Gonzo_Deluxe
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I think the word people are looking for is "honest". Much like Judy Blume's writing back in the 1970s and 80s, the anime is honest about what tweens get up to, even if it makes the adults uncomfortable. It's not innocent, but it's not prurient either. It's almost as if it's being told by Akebi as an adult reminiscing about her school days to her own children. The odd lingering gaze doesn't necessarily represent a male gaze here. Quirks of memory, odd things that capture a child's attention. When I look at how this story is being told, it feels like an idyll more than anything else. If this was intended as an ecchi title it's not doing a very good job of it, so clearly something more is going on. Ref: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idyll |
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Kyiev
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i know that cloverworks have a lot of freelancers working with them but they should expand and establish more studio like what mappa is doing today
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darkchibi07
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In this show keeping up with its consistently good animation, this episode also gave us a sample of what a female-version of Free could be like!
Considering the girls are working on this sports festival probably until the end of this cour, I do wonder if we're going to see some really great animation show pieces on some of the sport activities in the future. |
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dm
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Episode 9
I've been thinking this since, I think, about episode three. The first two episodes caused me to wonder if I should continue with this series, but after the third episode the series firmly settled into a delightful, sweet, innocence. Plus, it's so beautiful. (I can't get over the gingerbread house that Komichi lives in.) |
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Shay Guy
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I haven't been watching this series, but I've been following the reviews out of curiosity. And I think they've made it clear to me that even in its improved, de-icked form, it's not going to be my thing.
The phrase "building blocks for making fantastic memories" jumped out at me in this review, because I've been becoming more conscious lately of just how much manga and anime makes reference to the necessity of "making good memories" (or some other positive adjective), especially ones with teenage casts. And I've honestly grown to find it kind of alienating. I will never know what it’s like to be a teenager with friends your own age, or with more than one friend at all. And I’ll never know what it’s like to be an adult who had an adolescence like that. And sometimes it seems like there’s just no place in manga for someone like me, or like the message overall is that “happiness” means never having to become someone like me. It's pretty much the same reason "seishun" has become my least favorite Japanese word. (Which has led the first Danganronpa game to become even more interesting to me, because it's in large part about the destruction of "seishun", and how one responds to it.) |
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Chiibi
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Oh look, Dan Schneider is directing anime now. FEETS!!!
Jokes aside....I was on board with it until the toe-sniffing scene. This is definitely too alienating and fetishy for me. What bothers me more is these girls look like they're 16, not 12. I absolutely hate the Artistic Age trope....it's very weird....if you are going to draw them tall with actual bust-lines, then put them in high school FFS. I'm a grown adult and 13-year-old Akebi is both taller AND bustier than me in my 30s. So like....WTH lol It really is a shame because as others said, the rest of the show itself looks gorgeous. But I do think it's funny people were bothering by the butt-slapping scene. That wasn't sexual, guys. Kids do these things. Have you never been around little kids? They LOVE to smack butts! Most kids are fond of the subject of butts (all potty humor really) in general and if there's a butt within their reach, they will smack it, normally yelling "BUTT!" as they do so. I did it to my parents as a kid and I also have seen kids do it to their parents. Kids think this is the funniest joke in the world, even more so when they are yelled at for this act. |
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