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dash56
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His speech to the 2 kittens had me dying. And he's allergic
Oh Handa-kun, you just can't win. You're like the anti Parker Lewis. |
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lys
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I think this is a totally legitimate reaction. I cried a couple times while working on the manga (I letter it for Yen). (as an aside, i can't decide whether lettering gets me more or less emotionally invested in a manga: on the one hand I have all the distracting technical stuff to pay attention to, but on the other I spend so much more time with each page than a typical reader...) Getting this perspective of Handa's earlier years makes some of the stuff going on in Barakamon much more meaningful to me. I'm so glad he eventually finds a place and a group of people he can develop relationships with. |
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JaggedAuthor
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Even though everything came together as predictably as possible, I thought the latter half of episode five was one of the show's funniest segments. By-the-books amnesia stories tend to be most effective when headlined by characters with firmly established personalities.
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Silver4000
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Holy crap, I wasn't expecting them to show Dash. I'm pretty sure that he appeared way earlier in the manga, so I had lost my hope. All in all, this episode was a big present to the manga fans, with all those references throughout the entire episode.
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Morry
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Handa's future being surrounded by kids gave me a kick. I found episode 6 (and series in general) to be a lot funnier if you've watched Barakamon.
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Gina Szanboti
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Episode 6
Holy cow, did Tsugumi's dilemma give me flashbacks! In college I lived in a rooming house that had this really disturbed guy, who was kind of how everyone perceives Handa, except without the cool part. Always alone, moody, sometimes trying to fit in, but failing. One day in an effort to make conversation and try to make him feel like less of an outsider, I offered to do a palm-reading - just for fun, as I was openly cribbing from one of those cheap Dell pamphlets they sold at supermarket checkouts. Should be safe enough, right? They're always written so people will see themselves in everything and feel special, like horoscopes. So, confident that mostly positive things would come up, I forged ahead. As with Tsugumi's reading, every new line turned out to be something worse than the one before it, like "Well, this line shows that you have a quick temper...and here it says you are susceptible to health or emotional problems...um, ok, um...here, this line means...struggles, depression, disappointments... Hey this doesn't really mean anything you know."  I quit before I found a line that said he'd become a serial killer. (as it turned out, the police did end up taking him away after he broke into the managers' apartment in the middle of the night to rant at them for some paranoid transgression)
So this episode definitely hit home!  Also, I finally learned where that hideous dog in the OP came from. As for Kawafuji, he's one sadistic bastard who I'd really like to see get some instant karma. I didn't much like him in Barakamon, but now I'm starting to really hate him.
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chex mix
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Not only is Kawafuji garbage, it's basically impossible to find any segment he's in even remotely funny, because he's so gross and cringeworthy. Handa screwing himself over inadvertently because of a misunderstanding? Funny. Handa being exploited by a sadistic asshole who thinks it's amusing to manipulate and bully him in the name of lulz? Awful.
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Gina Szanboti
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I'm confused, did you like the joke or not? If it was worn out before the end, how is revisiting it a nice touch? At any rate, I loved that whole segment, but the best part of it and the episode was the カリカリカリ flowing out from everyone's pens like rivers, in their own personal fonts and colors. And the teacher wondering what the hell was going on.
Hirayama's Watamote vibe was pretty good too. |
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Peebs
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This show is such a huge hit or miss for me. The first segment was okay, not necessarily LOL. I think the grin on my face was more out of pain than mirth.
The second segment killed it. Was Hirayama an adult? A student? I prayed and prayed it was a student. I've seen students depicted in anime/manga as the ones in charge of a school library. I'm not sure if the manga makes the distinction clearer, but by the end she looked like an adult. And that makes her obsession and romantic focus on Handa so wrong. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet, much less the reviewer. |
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vonPeterhof
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1. Her shirt and skirt are the same style as the school uniform, even if the skirt is noticeably longer than those of the other girls. 2. She mentions at the start of the segment that she only does library duty during lunch breaks and after classes. 3. The members of the Handa Force (and, in one line, Handa himself) talk to her like to a peer rather than an adult: using "kimi" as the second person pronoun, dropping the polite desu/masu, etc. Might not be out of character for Tsutsui to talk to an adult that way, but it would be for the others. Plus, Kondō would have likely called her out on crushing on a student if she were an actual staff member. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Nope. I'm not even sure I finished the anime. Too painful to watch, and I heard it got even worse in the manga. 
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vonPeterhof
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At least Tomoko's situation does get marginally better, and some of the recent chapters contain a lot more jokes at the expense of characters other than her - including a girl who starts out in a situation very similar to that of Hirayama.
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dash56
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This was my favorite episode. I should feel bad but the everything that happens to Handa has me rolling. I especially loved the power punch followed by "He's sensitive!!"
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Silver4000
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Uh... they they skipped the manga club or whatever it was? Oh well, this is now Uncharted territory for me, so I'm quite curious as how its gonna go, and how it will end (I expect the polar opposite of Sakamoto #12).
I liked this episode, though they should've used more the rival school, and the other characters outside Handa Force. |
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MarkyMarc413
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Anyone else get a good laugh at the ED this past episode? I love it when studios change up the OP or ED to reflect what happened in the episode, and this one totally caught me off guard!
-Marc. |
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