Sukeroku seems more and more like a budding alcoholic. Like that friend of yours from college who's always a little more eager to go drinking than anyone else. He's not an alcoholic yet, but mostly because he doesn't have any responsibilities to interfere with his drinking. But you can just see him on that gradual downward spiral towards addiction. The one thing it's outweighted by is his passion for rakugo.
Kikuhiko says his master told him to break up with his geisha girlfriend, but... It doesn't seem very convincing? He was already pulling away from her before the trip, and the master seemed rather in favor of them being together. And then he gives a small speech to Sukeroku about how he doesn't realize how hard it is for Kikuhiko to be around him, and Sukeroku interprets it as just talking about rakugo, buuuut Kikuhiko acts like SUCH a wife to him, he's quite obviously always been in love with him.
Miyokichi meanwhile... It seems like she at least suspects that Kikuhiko is gay, but for her that's just fine. The two of them (mostly) get along together well, and considering that she's a former prostitute and current geisha, a sexless but affectionate, secure marriage is obviously pretty tempting.
Actually yeah going on to ep 9, Kikuhiko breaks up with Miyo, she's not unfairly pissed, and her revenge is... immediately going after Sukeroku. She knows what that means.
Sukeroku definitely has self-control issues about, basically, everything. At least he's not a violent drunk.
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Can someone give me context on redraw Sailor Moon? Who started it, and why?
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Finished season one of Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinju. Whoof!
I definitely don't think it was a perfect season, some of the earlier stuff I honestly had to kinda power through, especially the early performances which are like long stretches of "this guy's not a very good performer yet." They're still important episodes and do a lot of character-building and thematic groundwork, and they're well made and well structured... But still, it's kinda dry.
By the later episodes when our boys are at the height of their powers pretty much all the performances are great, even as there's this growing sense of approaching doom and it's all very, very good. And then ep 13 got me teary eyed basically through like the entire episode, for several different reasons. It's kind of shocking to return to the modern(-ish) day after the show's so thoroughly created the world of Kiku's prime, it actually feels kind of alienating, which is of course the point.
One thing I didn't actually care for was the actual shinju moment in ep 12. Almost everything leading up to it was brilliant, but the moment itself feels kind of weirdly melodramatic and improbable, it didn't really fit with the emotional realism of the rest of the show to me. Although all of the like leading factors to it and then the the consequences of it were very well done.
There's quite a lot of mirroring and symmetry in various characters' stories, I sure hope we'll get more of Konatsu in s2. Our protagonist Kiku was born in a geisha school, but couldn't actually perform because of his gender. Konatsu loves and his been surrounded by rakugo her whole life, but similarly can't perform because of her gender.
Anyway, yeah, definitely an excellent quarantine watch.
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One thing I didn't actually care for was the actual shinju moment in ep 12. Almost everything leading up to it was brilliant, but the moment itself feels kind of weirdly melodramatic and improbable, it didn't really fit with the emotional realism of the rest of the show to me. Although all of the like leading factors to it and then the the consequences of it were very well done.
There is maybe a reason why it seemed melodramatic and not realistic. It might be because Yakumo was telling a story and was unwilling to tell the unvarnished truth. Maybe you'll find out in season 2. :P
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Leave Shinji alone, the kid is doing better than most of us would in his place.
absolutely not, no
No, really, the kid mostly just falls apart to himself but still keeps trucking until he completely cracks.
I've generally had a rule of thumb since fifteen years ago. Whenever someone says Shinji was "a pussy" or "a wimp" or something similar, chances are I can probably ignore anything else they say about media and not miss very much. And I don't even like Evangelion! It's a bad show! But it's kind of an useful indicator, like clams in the water.
As for the actual meme... hm. I don't think I have a favorite anime. But for one that I enjoyed quite a bit... "crowdsourcing beats aliens".
nope, too late, you're branded as a neon genesis evangelihead now
Wouldn’t that be a Neon Genesis Evangelical
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Alternative answer:
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Leave Shinji alone, the kid is doing better than most of us would in his place.
absolutely not, no
No, really, the kid mostly just falls apart to himself but still keeps trucking until he completely cracks.
I've generally had a rule of thumb since fifteen years ago. Whenever someone says Shinji was "a pussy" or "a wimp" or something similar, chances are I can probably ignore anything else they say about media and not miss very much. And I don't even like Evangelion! It's a bad show! But it's kind of an useful indicator, like clams in the water.
Well, the thing with Shinji is that he ran out of self-worth (or never had any to begin with) and is waiting for the people around him to tell him whether he's worth keeping alive. Anybody who actually has any sense of self-worth is gonna do better. Now, the question is whether any of us, given the same upbringing and treatment, the same life, essentially, would fare any better? No, because then we would be Shinji, and not ourselves.
(Unless we isekai'd ourselves into Shinji's body, but that's a fanfic for another time.)
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Sukeroku definitely has self-control issues about, basically, everything. At least he's not a violent drunk.
I think it was part of a draw a day thing
"I WILL BE YOUR SLAVE FOREVER IF I FAILED TO APPRAISE THIS CORRECTLY"
Fuck, that's some high-stakes antiquing
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I definitely don't think it was a perfect season, some of the earlier stuff I honestly had to kinda power through, especially the early performances which are like long stretches of "this guy's not a very good performer yet." They're still important episodes and do a lot of character-building and thematic groundwork, and they're well made and well structured... But still, it's kinda dry.
By the later episodes when our boys are at the height of their powers pretty much all the performances are great, even as there's this growing sense of approaching doom and it's all very, very good. And then ep 13 got me teary eyed basically through like the entire episode, for several different reasons. It's kind of shocking to return to the modern(-ish) day after the show's so thoroughly created the world of Kiku's prime, it actually feels kind of alienating, which is of course the point.
One thing I didn't actually care for was the actual shinju moment in ep 12. Almost everything leading up to it was brilliant, but the moment itself feels kind of weirdly melodramatic and improbable, it didn't really fit with the emotional realism of the rest of the show to me. Although all of the like leading factors to it and then the the consequences of it were very well done.
There's quite a lot of mirroring and symmetry in various characters' stories, I sure hope we'll get more of Konatsu in s2. Our protagonist Kiku was born in a geisha school, but couldn't actually perform because of his gender. Konatsu loves and his been surrounded by rakugo her whole life, but similarly can't perform because of her gender.
Anyway, yeah, definitely an excellent quarantine watch.
Yeah. Bottom right panel says ニコ which is the onomatopoeia for smiling, and then the bottom left says ドキ which is your heart beating.
Carry that weight.
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Leave Shinji alone, the kid is doing better than most of us would in his place.
absolutely not, no
NGE is definitely not my favorite anime for one.
Alone
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No, really, the kid mostly just falls apart to himself but still keeps trucking until he completely cracks.
I've generally had a rule of thumb since fifteen years ago. Whenever someone says Shinji was "a pussy" or "a wimp" or something similar, chances are I can probably ignore anything else they say about media and not miss very much. And I don't even like Evangelion! It's a bad show! But it's kind of an useful indicator, like clams in the water.
As for the actual meme... hm. I don't think I have a favorite anime. But for one that I enjoyed quite a bit... "crowdsourcing beats aliens".
I actually just started rewatching this.
Steam
Space opera harem
Wouldn’t that be a Neon Genesis Evangelical
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
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Fate/Stay Night?
Well, the thing with Shinji is that he ran out of self-worth (or never had any to begin with) and is waiting for the people around him to tell him whether he's worth keeping alive. Anybody who actually has any sense of self-worth is gonna do better. Now, the question is whether any of us, given the same upbringing and treatment, the same life, essentially, would fare any better? No, because then we would be Shinji, and not ourselves.
(Unless we isekai'd ourselves into Shinji's body, but that's a fanfic for another time.)