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EP. REVIEW: My Happy Marriage Season 2




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tintor2



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:17 pm Reply with quote
The first episode felt refreshing since the fiance was overprotective of Miyo which contrasts the scenes I hated how the relatives related to the mother treated the girl like an object enough to have a fight over her. The scene of the bed was intentionally ambiguous though the author's Twitter account was laughing over that. The second episode reminded me of parts I disliked from season 1 since the motherinlaw was pretty much a Disney villain who trashes poor innocent girls especially over some big pride. I wonder how it would be if the fiance knew. Still, the plot involving the police kinda feels like if two completely different plots are clashing to take over the series which results in distancing the leads. I still enjoy it but the treatment of Miyo still feels exaggerated
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:42 pm Reply with quote
As someone who's read the light novels, it seems like episode 2 literally just speed ran through volume 3's content or left out a good chunk of it, probably in an attempt to downplay Fuyu's cruelty and make her more palatable. Like, the scene where they help the distressed man at the end of episode 2 happens near the end of volume 3.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 8:40 pm Reply with quote
Poor Miyo. She escapes from being treated like a servant by a harsh stepmother only to end up getting similar treatment from her mother-in-law. But at least she has Kiyoka and she has the resolve to keep facing Fuyu earnestly to try to win her over.

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that Kikuko Inoue is once again voicing Reina Ueda's mother-in-law or the fact that her in-laws are the Furukawa's from Clannad.
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YagamiBlackstone255



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:23 pm Reply with quote
I always get a bit of glee when I see actors do characters opposite to what they usually play. Belldandy and this evil Mother In Law are so far from each other character wise.
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:37 pm Reply with quote
MFrontier wrote:

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that Kikuko Inoue is once again voicing Reina Ueda's mother-in-law or the fact that her in-laws are the Furukawa's from Clannad.


Fuyu is more reminiscent of Yukino and Haruno Yukinoshita's mother.

Inoue sure does voice a lot of mother characters.
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YackDe



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:47 am Reply with quote
tintor2 wrote:
Still, the plot involving the police kinda feels like if two completely different plots are clashing to take over the series which results in distancing the leads.


I mean that's always been a thing about the series, a perfectly good Taisho era romantic drama that also has supernatural action mystery awkwardly stitched into it for some reason.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:16 am Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
As someone who's read the light novels, it seems like episode 2 literally just speed ran through volume 3's content or left out a good chunk of it, probably in an attempt to downplay Fuyu's cruelty and make her more palatable. Like, the scene where they help the distressed man at the end of episode 2 happens near the end of volume 3.


I definitely noticed that, and I have two working theories:
1) they didn't want to pile on the Miyo-gets-bullied misery again
2) they're going to try to make a run through what remains of the light novels

I'm a bit leery of the pacing, but I think it's working so far.
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FireChick
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:34 pm Reply with quote
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I definitely noticed that, and I have two working theories:
1) they didn't want to pile on the Miyo-gets-bullied misery again


I can definitely get behind that, especially since not only do I absolutely hate Fuyu, I hate even more how the the end of volume 3 spoiler[just...brushed off Fuyu's abuse of Miyo in an attempt to suddenly make her into an ally, which is not only absolute bullshit in that she's done absolutely nothing to earn it, it spits in the face of the series' message about how abuse is bad. "Miyo's evil stepmother is totes bad, but her mother-in-law is totes fine, even though she did a lot of the exact same things as Kanoko did!" Uuuuugh.]
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Eilavel



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:44 am Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
As someone who's read the light novels, it seems like episode 2 literally just speed ran through volume 3's content or left out a good chunk of it, probably in an attempt to downplay Fuyu's cruelty and make her more palatable. Like, the scene where they help the distressed man at the end of episode 2 happens near the end of volume 3.


Thats interesting. Honestly, that seems like a really good cut to me. I don't think this show needed to spend half a season doing what sounds very much like a rehash of Miyos initial story, only this time inflicted by a character we don't get to dump. Indeed, if it had I probably would have dropped.
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