Forum - View topicTying the Knot With an Amagami Sister (TV).
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Blood-
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Well, of course, your anime palate will never become refined and discriminating as mine, you philistine! Heh. Just to be clear, I do not consider my recent aversion for okay (or worse) anime to be a refinement of my taste. Refinement suggests that your senses become educated due to repeated exposure to a subject matter and you become more adept at discerning quality and appreciating nuances. That's not what has happened to me. If I had to use an analogy, I'm like a dude who was eating a certain diet and then unexpectedly and almost without reason, that diet started to cause physiological distress. Like hives and the dry heaves. In the past, I have always been aware of when I was watching an okay (or worse) show. And I was fine with that. It was still scratching an itch. So it's not like I'm suddenly realizing, "wow, this stuff that I thought was so great before is actually crap!" That's refinement. With me, it was just a sudden mental realization that I just can't with you (you being okay or worse anime) any more.
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smurky turkey
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You can very much burn out on a hobby by doing too much of it or just simply growing tired of it. I used to love playing open world videogames and at some point I played enough of them that just seeing a map with icons to clear made me want to turn the pc off.
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Edjwald
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Here's a reference to Tying the Knot in case anyone came across this board looking for one. Post episode...6? 7? I'm relieved and a little confused that the youngest sister wants to move to Tokyo the following year. Is this a short running manga?
Anyhow, back to the side topic about hobbies and preferences changing. I used to love comic books, but it's probably been twenty years since I read one. Gimmicks where characters were dying and coming back and heroes were becoming villains and villains were becoming heroes and so on were happening every week, until the characters themselves had no intrinsic character. Massive crossovers between titles became commonplace, until I had to read twenty five different comics to follow one storyline. Every popular character or team was expanded into twenty plus titles and spin-offs, and every character had three or four clones or replacements waiting in the wings. At the same time, the comics themselves became ridiculously expensive, and I can only imagine how much one costs now because I never see them in book stores or grocery stores or gas stations anymore. Point being, I burned out and never made the transition to manga that some people have. I guess it was about ten years after dropping comics that I stumbled across anime. I also don't watch TV shows as much as I used to. Every television season, I used to check out new shows on the three or four main networks the same way I check out anime every season now, but the way everything fragmented under the streaming wars destroyed that easy to maintain habit. I used to love watching small independent films. I had a small theater that showed nothing but those in my neighborhood, and there was the IFC and the Sundance channel (to be fair, there may still be) and videos at the video store that were easy to comb through for new releases. Now, the small theater has gone out of business and independent films have become much scarcer without dvd sales to prop them up, and most of the the franchise crap being put out in theaters doesn't appeal to me. I abandoned cable for Roku because my cable company kept charging me insane amounts of money for live fights I never asked to watch, or put me on bundled service plans I never asked to be put on. They had this neat little scam going on where, if I didn't check a box in small print hidden somewhere in my bill, they'd charge me for things I never watched or wanted, and trying to wade through customer service to cancel it was a nightmare. More like customer disservice. It wasn't about signing up, it was about not not-signing up, until I had to scour every bill like a paranoid schizophrenic looking for signs of conspiracy. I think the last new tv show I watched was Nobody Wants This which I liked a lot and binged in a day or two, but it didn't make me want to comb Netflix looking for similar shows. I've got two shows - The Diplomat and Murder Mindfully in my queue which I'll check out when I'm in the mood. I guess what I'm saying is, sometimes my preferences don't change so much as the things I enjoy change or become distorted, usually under the pressure of commercialization. Blood's current phase might be a reaction to the increase of anime shows that has occurred in the last few years. Being a completionist might have started to have an effect something like aversion therapy. |
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Piglet the Grate
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Sheesh, as a medical student Makoto Takeda should know the importance of time in getting professional medical attention when badly injured, so her first action should have been to call for an ambulance, not first aid for minor injuries then planning to climb down a cliff in the dark to look for the fall victim. Bad as Super Cub Episode 11.
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Piglet the Grate
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This show throwing anyone else for a loop? (sorry)
Could we be getting loli yuri, as the ED hints? |
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Edjwald
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Every now and then I'll catch up to the point where the dub stops, and I just saw the episodes were we find out more about Yae's background and she then fires shots across the bow in terms of laying an open claim to the MC. Which I'm fine with. I don't know that I'm into this anime enough to really be all that passionate about shipping, but I have nothing against it, and I'm rooting for Yae despite all the hints that the redhead is who the MC's going to wind up with. I haven't watched the CD, but I hope no loli types show up.
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Piglet the Grate
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Wondering now if a happy (at least to the fans of one of the "sisters" - always losers in a harem show) ending is planned, or do the three of them suffer some sort of cosmically ordained and implemented demise?
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dm
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It's a lot of fun that they're mixing up the body-swap with Torikaebaya, the story about the siblings who switched genders. The animators and voice actors are also having fun switching the persona of Yuna and what's-his-name.
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Piglet the Grate
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But the show is too wholesome to go into all the implications of the temporary body swap (a different type of show would have included school locker room scenes) - those alone would almost dictate Yuna and Uryū eventually getting married.
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dm
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I think, in the manga, Uryu is explicitly careful to avoid such scenes. There are a few nice bits in the show with them both dealing with issues brought on by unfamiliar anatomy. I loved the scene with Yuna doing research on the web about male toilet practices, and Uryu being completely flummoxed by putting on a bra (“I have to do this every day???”).
I’m also enjoying the tantalyzing bits with the fox-masked spirit who is obviously playing tricks on Uryu and each of the sisters. I think there are hints that the spirit is tied to the girls’ adopted mother (and is known to the Moon priestess, who we see remarking at “your tricks” before the Amagami shrine). The one opportunity I think they missed was Uryu being delighted at all the extra studying time he was getting while stuck in the time-loop with Asahi. |
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Piglet the Grate
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No doubt helped by his realization that Yuna would eventually find out if he took that "advantage" of the opportunity. One wonders if the two were able to avoid looking into a bathroom or dressing room mirror while partially or completely nude while their bodies were switched? Will not go into the other considerations in Uryū's* decision making as they are too close to the very contentious real world issue of public bathroom/changing room usage (and hopefully no one wants to have that OT discussion here).
Yuna and Uryū have been forced into a de facto form of very close physical intimacy** that even married real world couples would not have. *If I recall correctly, Uryū is the only boy in the school, so Yuna would not face the same issues. **To go into "less wholesome" territory, did either give into the temptation to experiment on how certain physical stimuli affected them while occupying borrowed bodies? |
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dm
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Something about this show (and the manga, which I started reading before picking up the anime) hits a sweet spot for me.
This show is still a harem, and has the "each girl's route" structure. I like the depth of the looks we get into each of the young women's lives -- maybe it helps that we get three episodes each instead of the usual two, and also that the women all have support networks in addition to their sisters -- even if those networks consist of only one person (and that person sometimes a rival). But I'm enjoying it, for all its attention to tropes. |
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Piglet the Grate
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"Be careful of what you wish for, because you just might get it. - Anon.
Thinking this wish will come back to haunt Shirahi. On the other hand we get to see Shirahi in her underwear. |
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dm
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Gosh, the Kuragami shrine seemed almost Greek with its carved lintel (complete with almost-cross in the middle).
Shirahi is such a sweety, it’s sad to see her so melancholy. |
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Piglet the Grate
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Episode 22
By inference the wish Shirahi made at the Kurigami Shrine in Episode 21 was to have Uryu living at the orphanage and be her boyfriend. So did this alter the past to the situation that we see in Episode 22, or create an alternate reality? Hopefully, this will be answered in a future episode. |
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