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rfletcher
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In answer to the reviewer, I =am= someone who works in a(n American) hospital, and having some kids just sneak those drugs out of a drawer had me metaphorically screaming at my screen. There is just no freaking way that a major metropolitan hospital like this would leave those vials lying around: you need badge access and mutli-factor ID with privileges to get a damn aspirin.
I really, REALLY hope this isn't an example of how things work in Japanese hospitals. Of course, it's also possible that the writer is not aware of how things DO work in hospitals (or hopes that WE don't), in which case why in the world would you use one as the setting for your mystery drama? |
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timber
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Damn, that episode was an hard one for me to watch because it brought me down the memory lane. Some 30 years ago, I lost my 14 years old cousin to Leukemia and we buried him just before Christmas.
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Eilavel
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Yes, I did note that this is absolutely contrary to how drug controls would be where I live as well. However, the author is a practicing doctor; I let it slide as I genuinely don't know if this is excessive artistic licence or if Japan just has really lax control of substances in some places. Honestly, I don't think I'd be surprised either way. |
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Cuddylicious
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I'm getting tired of the dishonest behavior of some of the people who rate anime episodes on this site. The 10th episode of Ameku MD is not yet available on any of the streaming services but its "community score" is already at a low 2.4. (animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime/episodes/2025-03-06#ep32283-10)
It's OK that some people don't like the show, sure, but this dishonest behavior of trash rating an episode you haven't even seen yet is despicable . The last time when they postponed broadcasting an episode, the same scenario took place. I guess there is little that can be done as we work with an honor system? |
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omiya
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Dr Hope's Sick Notes has started covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOuQ3tZgw_4
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dm
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Episode 10
The reviewer’s comment about the music: I noticed that, too. I thought the music was diegetic, and the characters had just walked from the room with the music playing to another part of the house. What struck me as weird was that Takao and this hospital director had such similar music playing in their spaces. |
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blahmoomoo
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Also, I guess Takao didn't change after her experience in the previous arc, choosing to immediately push Kotori away when she heard he was being transferred.
Sure, she changed her mind when she discovered it was a mystery to be solved, but still. Whether I felt like that arc was worthwhile or not partially hinged on if it had any impact going forward, and it seems like it hasn't. |
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Philmister978
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Yeah, the animation these last few episodes have been... less than the norm for the series (already an inconsistent mess with many of the issues brought up here present more than a few times). It makes me wonder if these are going to be corrected or, due to being outsourced, remain as is.
Again, this isn't an issue just limited to this series, almost all of Project No.9's work have this problem, and arguably the adaptation of "Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?" has it as bad, if not worse than "Akemu" because it was an action show. |
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dm
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I didn’t notice any off-model shots, but there were a lot of panning over stills. Plus the conversation going on at the diner with the camera placed under the table, or hanging from the ceiling. The interesting framing was to make up for lack of motion, I guess.
For me, the “That’s so Dr Takao” moment was her scraping her vegetables off onto Kotori’s plate. I kind of liked the direction there, with the conversation being punctuated by her shoving a carrot to one side of her plate, one after another, building up to it. |
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Gina Szanboti
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There seem to be some real life cases of Vit A toxicity in children that Texas doctors are now dealing with because our esteemed anti-vax Secretary of Snake Oil has convinced gullible people that it's a cure and/or a prophylactic against measles. It's not. At least it didn't require geniuses like Takao to diagnose it.
While it's not precisely Munchausen's by Proxy, it strikes me as being damn near close, with parents righteously "doing their own research" and shunning vaccinations, thereby risking their kid's health for their own satisfaction that they're smarter than those doctors. |
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killjoy_the
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I liked how Kotori's immediate reaction to Ameku initiating physical contact is to be extremely scared and scream "no" in horror
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Greed1914
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I'm inclined to agree with the final summary in the review. The show stopped its own momentum. Stuff like the mystery around blue blood and a bitten off leg is a real mystery where the medical side is the key to solving it. Stuff like dismissing the idea of a cursed video to the point where it took the medical genius to come up with just watching the video for yourself is not. That feels more like someone dressed up some interesting medical factoids and called it a mystery.
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K.o.R
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Since when does a Star of David have five points, Takao?
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Exodus007
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Dunno why it's called that but it's legit what it's called despite being a 5 pointed star like shape. It's not the animes' fault. Source: I did some googling about it. |
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Gan_HOPE326
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It would be really funny if any of those doctors picked up on the diagnosis a bit faster because they're anime fans who watch this show and they got a refresher from it. Jokes aside, I get the final review. I didn't hate the show, it was a decent time killer, but the mysteries were just not that mysterious. I am not a medical professional and even I could see coming from a mile away both the cursed video (old enough to remember the Porygon episode) and the Munchausen by Proxy situation. The show also had some extremely dumb set pieces (the motorbike in the house on fire will live in infamy), some very wonky animation, and generally speaking questionable writing (whenever the mysteries weren't trivial they relied on contrivances). I guess I did like the characters though. Ameku feels like a pretty relatable depiction of an introverted-possibly-autistic type. |
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