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This Week in Anime - The Adorable, Affirming Romance in Josee, The Tiger and the Fish




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Chiibi



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:08 pm Reply with quote
Oh, I loved this movie!! It was soooo cute. ♥ I'm only sad I didn't get to see it in theaters Crying or Very sad

Josee reminded me of Taiga a little bit with her fluffy brown hair, small frame and tsundereness xD
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:46 pm Reply with quote
Not actually streaming on Crunchy (or anywhere so far as I can tell) in the UK. In fact I think only one of the titles that were billed to have been released on Crunchyroll to this point is actually available (legally) in the UK.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:41 pm Reply with quote
Please allow me to react to the reactions.....
The opening montage is goddamned amazing.
What caused my heart to seize is not this:

but the (unintentionally) cruel way that Grandma Chizu ends the scene. Both Nicholas and Monique are quite correct: Even though she is not helping, her intentions are not malicious.
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it was nice to see a romance story that had neither high school students
And I was just as shocked as Tsuneo to learn that Kumiko is older than him!
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Tsuneo is trying to make money while studying marine biology at university.
I'm not so certain about this. Tsuneo's thesis advisor tells him that a professor in Mexico City is impressed with his (unfinished) seniors thesis on Turing Patterns. And Mexico City is in a mountain range ─ not the Gulf of Mexico.

And, finally, this

this

and this

all had me smiling. Smile Very Happy
Through my tears.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:22 am Reply with quote
I watched it almost a year ago and while the movie had a few clichés I really liked it a lot and the dub was really damn good (dubbed is the way I prefer to watch anime). I'd rate it 8 out of a possible 10 points-good stuff!!
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AZLeafCat



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:50 am Reply with quote
Thesarum wrote:
Not actually streaming on Crunchy (or anywhere so far as I can tell) in the UK. In fact I think only one of the titles that were billed to have been released on Crunchyroll to this point is actually available (legally) in the UK.


Anime Limited holds the UK licensee to Josee along with Your Name (which will be added to Crunchyroll on August 18 in select markets). So both films may not be available on Crunchyroll in the UK.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:37 pm Reply with quote
AZLeafCat wrote:

Anime Limited holds the UK licensee to Josee along with Your Name (which will be added to Crunchyroll on August 18 in select markets). So both films may not be available on Crunchyroll in the UK.


I'm never really sure why license holders sit on their properties. Is the theory that by not offering streaming they'll sell more DVDs? Or is it just a failure to agree terms (i.e. price) with the streaming platforms? Getting hung up on pricing is understandable if frustrating for consumers, but the idea that streaming robs you of other sales seems fundamentally wrong-headed to me.

I've seen Your Name, but Josee was on the list to assess for wife-suitability (she mostly hates anime).
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 8:21 am Reply with quote
Same boat, live in the UK - Wife isn't into Anime and will only watch Dubbed when I can get her to watch something.

She enjoyed "Weathering with you" but thought "Your Name" was pish, was looking forwards to Josee but foiled by region locking.

Paying for a CR subscription and getting "Not available in your Region" sucks. Paying for VPN software... Priceless.

She enjoyed it but thought the voices still sounded a bit childish
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:03 am Reply with quote
Penrhos wrote:

She enjoyed it but thought the voices still sounded a bit childish

I am going to have to re-listen to the dub.
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Duck Du Normandie
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:06 pm Reply with quote
Slightly off topic, but this:
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I'm not so certain about this. Tsuneo's thesis advisor tells him that a professor in Mexico City is impressed with his (unfinished) seniors thesis on Turing Patterns. And Mexico City is in a mountain range ─ not the Gulf of Mexico.


I don't know a Turing pattern from a sewing pattern, but I do know that a popular area of study in computer science programs, at least at US universities, is creating simulations for large, complex, ecological and biological systems. So I would totally buy him being a CS major working with a marine biology lab on simulating some ocean ecosystem or such.

But also, a school being next to an ocean is not a prerequisite for having a Marine program. I know that Bowling Green State in Ohio offers a marine biology degree. Many professors research animals/areas that are geographically nowhere near them. (There is a reason summer is often called the "fieldwork semester" at research universities.)
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:23 pm Reply with quote
Turing patterns were introduced by Alan Turing when he started focusing his attention on biology --- they come from a paper on morphogenesis, and are basically about how creatures have spots or stripes (hmm, I wonder if introducing the tiger is a conscious echo of the earlier mention of Tsuneo's paper).

So, I was jazzed when Tsuneo's paper was on those. Made me think the author knew their stuff.

Wow, what a wonderful, sappy movie. I should have recognized the O Maidens in your savage season character designs, especially when Josee gets flustered.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:51 am Reply with quote
dm wrote:
Turing patterns were introduced by Alan Turing when he started focusing his attention on biology --- they come from a paper on morphogenesis, and are basically about how creatures have spots or stripes (hmm, I wonder if introducing the tiger is a conscious echo of the earlier mention of Tsuneo's paper).

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I rewatched the film and then watched the commentary. I was mistaken about what the professor said to Tsuneo. He referred to Tsuneo's paper as an earlier essay, not as an incomplete senior's thesis. In the commentary the director said that the writers were throwing around ideas about what Tsuneo's major was and the idea was that it would either be oceanography or something similar.
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