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I still don't think the Kana bra scene was that lewd. It was really brief. I thought of it as a throwback to the olden days, when that kind of thing had no erotic connotations; we saw Kana in her underwear because she was foolish. As "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga" taught us: "Panty flashing has been around for a while -- as far back as Wakame of Sazae-san, for example. She was always pantyflashing! But that was only to indicate that she was a little girl."
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I dunno. It just ... rubbed me the wrong way. Did not feel tasteful. I agree with you 100% about what you've said regarding the partial nudity in Season 1 -- it was just showing the girls being girls and being at comfort in their own home to boot -- but I feel like there it was handled much more tastefully and much less ... I dunno, "wolfishly."
I've written quite a lot on this, and that can give the wrong impression, so please do take my word for it that I wasn't that that bothered by it. It lasted all of, what, two seconds? The episode overall was good, classic Minami-ke. I said 7/10, didn't I? So yeah. I am very much enjoying having our favorite family back on television. It's just ... I have my concerns regarding the new studio's agenda, that's all. ^^;
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Watched episode 2. I thought it was an improvement over the previous episode. Maybe the first episode had those forced-ass jokes to re-introduce the characters? Also Kana had some good lines this episode.
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I watched Episode 02 and loved it. But before I write up that post, I'm posting here to say ... I finally got around to getting digital copies of the volumes I was missing and checking out the volumes I do own, and ...
Holy cow, I owe Asread a huge apology. 'Cause y'see ... I never made it as far as the final volume I own (Volume 4), and just now I was looking through it and ... Spoiler: show So yeah. I am, uh, majorly embarrassed and majorly eating crow right now. *digs a hole and crawls inside* But I'm man enough to admit when I've erred, and err I did! Asread, I apologize. I accused you of things you were not entirely guilty of. That stated, your animation still sucks the big one compared with Daume's and the new guys'. ^^; And Season 2 remains the weakest season by far. Oh, and I'm not taking back any of my complaints about the tastelessness of your S2E01. Coharu-sensei's treatment was much more tasteful! EDIT: Will be posting a lot more tomorrow, both on Episode 02 and the manga. Just wanted to edit this post to say ... I skimmed through Volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6, and I never once saw Fuyuki. I did see some things which turned up in Season 2, so while I did unfairly accuse Asread of concocting one thing, I don't think I'm being unfair to accuse them of inventing Fuyuki. But we'll see.
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I've been working on my manga post, but I'm going to switch gears to my Episode 02 thoughts post because Episode 03 is already out!
Episode 02 was great. Not every scene was great, but all scenes were at least good and there were a few moments which I just loved. Four seasons in, it looks like S3E02 will defend its crown as the best second episode of a Minami-ke season ever, but let's see what S4E02 had to offer, shall we? Spoiler: show Overall, it was a solid episode, an easy "8/10 - Very Good" for me. The bits with Yoshino were by far my favorite, especially that first one. Oh man. Really looking forward to watching Episode 03 now. HITOMI, HERE I COME!
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Decided to pump out my reply for Episode 03. The manga post is on its way, I swear!
Episode 03 was pretty good. I'd call this a classic Minami-ke S1 or S3 episode. No one scene was mega-super-OMG epic, but each and every scene was good, and you can't ask for better than that when there as many as scenes in one episode as there were here. This episode featured the first full return of Hitomi since her debut episode in Season 3. It also had quite a bit of fun fanservice (of all different kinds!) for the fans. More details below. Each spoiler box corresponds with a different scene. Spoiler: show Spoiler: show Spoiler: show Spoiler: show Spoiler: show *Phew!* Long. Very long. But fulfilling. When it's a show you love so much, and a show others love too, and you want to discuss it with them. Ah ... God bless Minami-ke.
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YO! Sorry I haven't been around, but I can assure you that I enjoyed this week and last week's episode. Even in a show that's all about cute girls doing cute things, Minami-ke is proof of how male characters can MASSIVELY improve the dynamics of the story. Some shows are so paranoid about having some harem lead waste of life that they just do away with them completely.
And I totally agree that even if there hasn't been an A+ scene yet in season 4, all the bits have been solid. Very subdued and gentle humour, it really does have a season 1 feel to it. I'm sure they'll bring out some big guns before the season's up.
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Hitomi is indeed cute as HELL. I knew this since last season, but this episode I was actually considering her as being able to out-waifu Haruka. But then they did the bit with the missing donut, and Haruka made the cutest facial expressions of all time as she inquired about the location of her donut, and I just ... I JUST DON'T KNOW!!! I can't choose!
That's an astute observation about the girls' body language with certain guys. It would be pretty funny if Hayami secretly liked Hosaka (it looks like we'll be seeing some hijinks from those two in the next episode). But I'm still an ardent supporter of Atsuko having a crush on him. I swear on me mum's life that this was a thing in season 1, but it fizzled out in subsequent seasons ;_; this shit is the closest I've ever come to shipping, and I didn't even do that back in Pokemon days. Just the idea of this eccentric guy, who is really sweet and handsome and deserves some love, but doesn't get any because his bizarre behaviour scares off all the girls, except for one girl at school who does see the value in him, is just SO ADORABLE! Why, why did they have to tease me with this storyline in season 1, and then just drop it completely?
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IIRC they drop another "Atsuko would crush on Hosaka were he not so eccentric" hint in S3. It's not long -- lasts maybe only a few seconds -- but it's another of those "he kinda looks sort of cool ... oh no wait, never mind >_<" moments. Forget what episode though. Obviously it's not the (amazing ) shogi-analogized "let's make friends with Haruka's friends!" scene. It's some other time.
The other thing with Hosaka, and we've had this since S1 too, is how Haruka mistakenly believes that Maki likes him and that he likes Maki. (Like in that "SUKI DA! SUKI DESU!" scene.) So he's kind of got a bit of a triangular pyramid thing going on with those three friends: - Haruka: he worships her, she doesn't even know and barely seems to register his existence - Maki: she hates him, but people seem to think she likes him; he asks her for advice on Haruka but people seem to think he likes Maki - Atsuko: she kinda has a soft crush on him, he has no idea and she only exists as "friend of Minami Haruka" on his radar As for Hitomi vs. Haruka, oh, it's 100% still Haruka for me. But yes, Hitomi is very, very cute and it's like ARGH that Natsuki seems to only have eyes for Haruka. To use a Romance of the Three Kingdoms analogy, I feel like Hitomi is a Zhou Yu ("a talent that comes along only once every century") but that Haruka is like Zhuge Liang ("a talent that comes along only once every millennium"). It's like, alas, poor Hitomi! That you had to be born in the same five-year window of time centered around Minami Haruka's birth! She'd have Natsuki in the bag, or so I'd like to think, were Haruka not in high school with them. I dunno. The whole gag with Natsuki seems to be "those narrow eyes don't see the world around them -- the world right before their very nose!" and that Hitomi (whose name means eye, or can mean it when used generally; specifically means "pupil (of eye)") sees Natsuki's world, reflected in his own eyes, better than anyone. Tangent. Point is, I get the feeling that maybe even without Haruka, Natsuki wouldn't see what a good thing he has right in front of him until it's too late. Like I said, that smile of Hitomi's just melts me like butter. But Haruka is undefeatible, and she had her own HRNNNNNGH cute moments in such scenes as Touma trying on her old middle school clothes.
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Episode 04 ... I enjoyed it okay, but it felt really forced, which is a shame. Hosaka and forced don't work well together at all. Might say more after I push out that two-week late manga post I've been putting off finishing. I did like the episode, don't get me wrong. But it felt even more forced to me than Episode 01 did. I think Episode 02 is still my favorite one this season.
Looks like next week's episode will take us back to Kana's group. I'm more interested in Chiaki's and Haruka's groups, but I welcome some much needed and long overdue development for the youngest Minami brother and his crush on Riko.
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Episode 04 was amusing, but the trend of recycling (paying tribute to?) past gags continues.
-Hosaka and the sweat fantasy (as a side note, I wonder if he was paying attention when he was informed that Haruka has sisters not daughters? Or was he too far off in la la land?) -Hosaka crafting the plate for Haruka, and then pondering whether he can bring happiness to Haruka with the kettle alone, and then we see her making noodles with kettle water. This resembles the time in season 1 when Hosaka passed up buying the beef, because it obviously would not meet her high standards, only for her to buy the exact same beef herself at the end of the episode. -I could have sworn they already had a gag where Chiaki became a teru teru bozu. If not, then I'm remembering it from the manga. Hitomi had a hot outfit on when she was over at the Minami house. Damn Jimmeh.
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Spoiler: show Despite complaints of the episode making a lot of references to older material that at times felt a bit like they were pandering to us fanboys, there was a lot of important "character plot" stuff though that went down in this episode. Spoiler: show Episode 04 also seems to officially (?) put the final nail in the coffin for any hope I might have had that Minami-ke would not be like The Simpsons (in keeping the girls perpetually the same age and in the same grade with the same classmates forever and ever). It's clear from this episode that we are well past the opening ceremonies in late March / early April. The Japanese rainy season is specifically referenced as taking place in this episode, and it is usually in June; so even if it were an early year or something, we'd still be in mid- to late May by this point, long after the opening ceremonies should have been held. Now you might say, "Well maybe the events in this episode are taking us back in time to spring? Maybe it's an out-of-order episode?" But that doesn't line up either. Hosaka doesn't begin cooking until the autumn and doesn't master (or near-master) it until that Christmas, yet this episode has him already a master chef. Chiaki doesn't meet Touma until after the summer, yet here Touma is, in the late spring / early summer. Likewise Natsuki doesn't meet (and develop a crush on) Haruka until after Touma has met Chiaki and started regularly hanging out at their place. Yet this episode gives us a Natsuki who is already head over heels for Haruka. Basically, all the signs point to this episode both being on the cutting edge of the timeline and yet also being long past the time we should have started a new school year. And so that means ... Sazae-san-style storytelling a.k.a. Simpsons-style storytelling. OTL ^^; Oh well. I'm not going to completely give up on hope for seeing the girls actually grow up and stuff, but it's looking less and less likely with each passing day. (I mean heck: we already even had two different Valentine's Days by the end of Betsubara. ^^; )
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Nah, Atsuko has known about Hosaka's infatuation since season 1. Remember, he had pulled her and Maki out of volleyball practice to grill them about Haruka's "children". I never gave much thought to the amount of people who knew about his fixation on her, really. Obviously it would become a big deal if it got back to her!
The biggest plot development of this episode would be Hosaka finding out the truth about Haruka's "children" ... if indeed he was paying attention. Judging by his lack of a reaction, he wasn't. Another recycled bit I forgot to mention. When those girls are sitting around talking about how Hosaka is good looking, but there's something wrong with his brain (after he starts musing about the nicely browned eggs). This is just like in season 1, when a group of girls say he looks pretty good as long as he keeps his mouth shut. Then he starts pantomiming the pasta making, and the girls say, "Never mind, he's weird even when he doesn't talk." I seriously doubt all these scenes we're seeing are in the manga. It looks like the studio is taking classic bits, putting a slight variation on them, and throwing them out there. Like their own twisted version of filler.
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You'll have to forgive this post for being three weeks' dated in some paragraphs. ^^; I decided it would delay it too much further if I tried to overhaul it, so I'll just leave things I wrote in the past as they were.
Minami-ke Manga Observations Anime progress: Seasons 1, 2, 3, and Betsubara took us roughly up through Volume 6 of the manga. I say "roughly" because some scenes which showed up in the first six volumes did not get an anime treatment in those first four animated outings. What's interesting to note though is that Volume 6 of the manga contained many of the scenes which were used in Season 3 ... yet it didn't go on sale until June 23, 2009, the same day Betsubara was released (naturally, since they were co-packaged together). Keep in mind, Season 3 aired before, from January 4 to March 29, 2009. Now granted, manga tankoubons are collections of published chapters, and Minami-ke being no different from most is serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine. But my point is, it's a safe bet that a lot of what went into Season 3 was hot off the presses. You can sort of back this up when you consider when Volume 5 of the manga went on sale: March 17, 2008. That means that from March 2008 (when Volume 5 of the manga went on sale) to March 2009 (when Season 3 of the anime wrapped up), Sakuraba Coharu was writing chapters which had not yet been anthologized -- and yet many of these showed up in the third season. To me, this suggests that we not only have Volumes 7, 8, 9, and the recently published 10 to work with: we also have the currently-being-serialized chapters that will one day go into Volume 11 to work with as well. This should mean we can hope for at least two awesome seasons of Minami family goodness before the show goes back into hibernation. (See Volume 1 thru Volume 6 samples below.) However, there is something else which is important to note, and it's something of concern. ^^; When Daume adapted Minami-ke into an anime, it's clear to me now that they cherrypicked some of the greatest scenes from Volumes 1, 2, and 3. In just thirteen episodes, they "covered" (if you will) three volumes' worth of ground. Well, these new guys, Feel, are kind of pulling the same stunt Daume did. They're grabbing material from Volume 7 ... and Volume 8 ... and Volume 9. ^^; We're only two episodes into Season 4 and already we've used scenes from three of the four books which had been untapped until now. While I enjoyed Episode 01 and greatly enjoyed Episode 02, perhaps as a result of this cherrypicking, it's ... a little worrisome for the prospects of getting a lot more Minami-ke animated before things go back on hiatus again. I was kind of hoping that five volumes (7, 8, 9, 10, and the material currently being written that'll become 11) would mean we'd be set for three seasons at least. Now it's looking like we might be pressing our luck for even getting two high-quality seasons. ^^; If Feel pulls a Daume and "mwa ha ha ha! >3" grabs the very best scenes for Season 4, it'll make Season 4 epic, sure, ... but it'll leave an eventual Season 5 as high to dry as Season 2 was. X_X (See Volume 7 thru Volume 9 samples below.) Manga samples: I thought it'd be great to share with you, my fellow Minami-ke fans, some of the stuff I came upon in my cursory travels through the volumes. Manga Art Comparison - Then and Now: Then 1, Then 2, Now 1, Now 2 While Sakuraba Coharu's artwork remains very simplistic, his ability to draw human beings has admittedly come a long way since his Kyou no 5-2 days. Those first two samples come from Volume 1; the second two, from Volume 9. But there's something important I want you all to notice: please look carefully at the art style of the characters in the more recent manga volumes! Does it look familiar? It does to me. It looks like the spitting image of the so-called "new Studio Feel faces" we see in Tadaima. In other words, the new faces aren't Feel putting their own studio's touch on the finished product: they're actually manga-faithful character designs. Well ain't that something? Sakuraba Coharu has come along so far now that studios no longer have to prettify his drawings for the home audience. His drawings stand on their own two feet now and are easy on the eyes, easy enough that Feel is pretty much just lifting things straight off the pages of the manga and then adding color and motion to them. Valentine's Day Part II: 1 This scene showed up at the end of Betsubara, when Kana mistakenly gives Fujioka chocolate, unaware of the significance in what she's just done until Keiko points it out to her. The Curry Fairy: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 This scene shows up halfway through Volume 6. Credit has to be given where credit is due: Asread did a phenomenal job translating this epic scene from manga to television. They embellished the song lyrics a bit, to say nothing of the part with the Minamis gathered around the dinner table. (In the original manga, all we get are two cels, and one is of an empty dinner plate. ^^; The other is Kana asking for seconds and Chiaki demanding "Tell me what you thought!") There is one thing they left out though which makes me kind of sad, and that's Coharu's omake rakugaki after the chapter. He tends to do this after every chapter, and the one he supplied for the Curry Fairy chapter is priceless. Haruka tells Maki, "Chiaki says she saw the Curry Fairy at the supermarket yesterday! " And then Maki replies, "If it's the Curry Fairy we're talking about, it seems he's turned up in the 3rd years' classroom." In other words, she can smell the smell of curry coming all the way from the 3rd years' classroom, just as Hayami worried about, and the mysterious student who's responsible is already being called by some "the Curry Fairy," just as Hayami warned Hosaka about. On page 110, Hosaka sings the Curry Song. The lyrics in the manga are in cels 2 and 3 of the page, and they go: Quote:
Hosaka inspired by Hayami's shogi analogy: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 This classic Season 3 scene shows up at the very beginning Volume 6. Maki's face on the upper-right hand corner of page 14 is priceless. One thing you can really appreciate from this same page though is how wonderfully the anime tends to embellish or elongate things from the manga. Like, in the actual manga, Hosaka only calls Atsuko's name but once in the library before she spots him and drops her books. He also appears to come straight for her from the side of a bookshelf. But in the anime, there's that amazingly whispered "atsuko ... Atsuko ... Atsuko ..." from behind the bookshelf, and then Atsuko bends down and *insert horror SFX here*. Impostor Fujioka teddy: 1 This comes from Volume 9 of the manga, a clear representation that by Episode 02 of Tadaima we've already dived deep into uncharted waters. Remember that Volume 6 was the last volume covered by the anime (including Betsubara!) until 2011. So Studio Feel has four volumes to work with -- 7, 8, 9, and the recently-published 10 -- and already they've reached for Volume 9 material for use in Episode 02. Kana, Haruka, and the kotatsu: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 This scene showed up at the end of Episode 01 of Tadaima and comes to us from Volume 7 of the manga, the first of the untouched volumes. Well, untouched until now, that is. Please do notice how in the original manga treatment, very little of Kana's bare body is shown, it's in the bottom right corner of its comic cel, and it's only shown for one cel. Her midriff is also completely covered -- her breasts are half clothed by the kotatsu drape, making her less exposed than she was in her swimsuit even in Season 1. Chiaki on femininity: 1 This scene showed up in Episode 02 of Tadaima and showed up in (you guessed it) Volume 9 of the manga. Makoto takes off the hairclip: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 This scene from Episode 02 of Tadaima shows up in Volume 8 of the manga. And with this, we have proof that Studio Feel grabbed from Volumes 7, 8, and 9 -- three different tankoubons -- in crafting just the first two episodes of the fourth season of the anime. ^_^; Chiaki's consciences: 1 As a bonus treat to you for reading all of this -- you did read all of this, right? -- here's the color two-page picture at the front of Volume 8. (Bad Conscience Chiaki is to die for! *drool*)
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I dig the old art style. They're both good though. Triangle mouth is triangle mouth!
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Spoiler: show With all the evidence added together, yeah it's pretty much confirmed. She's gay as Walen Smithers at this point. Also I was just re watching the last episode of season 3 (because the bit where Chiaki has a bad dream that Kana left and never came back, so she clings onto her for the whole day is the cuuutest and saddest bit ever), and damn ... I used to think season 3 looked good, but it really does look like crap compared to season 4. Their heads and everything are all screwed up. And of course the scrawniness ...
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Yeah, I was pretty shocked myself when I revisited Okaeri. I think it's just that Okaeri had overall better designs and better animation than Okawari did, and that's why we feel like Season 3 was pretty-ish. But yeah, if you look at Season 3 right after looking at Season 4, it'll really stand out how pretty Season 4 is.
Thing is, though, Studio Feel cheats a bit. They're able to give so much attention to the character art because, in so many scenes, the background art is just a simple two-color or three-color pattern. They've taken advantage of Sakuraba Coharu's own laziness (?) in drawing up the manga with generally only people and the bare minimum of foreground objects (like a kotatsu or a bicycle) to ground the scene. Daume (God bless them) may have had very simple animation, but not only were their character designs charming, Daune also had the decency to always animate the environment the girls were in. Studio Feel cuts this corner, and at times it can be rather noticeable, but it allows them to focus more time and budget on the character animation.
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One more thing, about Kana not seeming to have any interest in Fujioka. There WAS the part in the very first episode of the first season when Kana received the love letter from Fujioka, and she seemed excited about the prospect of parading around Fujioka as a trophy boyfriend. Of course Chiaki ruined all that by twisting it into a letter challenging her to a fight.
I can only see advancement in the plot coming at the VERY END of the series. Like, Koharu decides to end the manga and gives us a bunch of juicy confessions because hell with it, he doesn't have to deal with the aftermath. That, or he gets really old like Jim Davis and decides to give one of his characters a break because he's tired of writing non stop heartbreak for 30 years. But Charlie Brown never ever got to kick the football ...
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He can do a confessions fireworks show at the very end if he likes, but even if he leaves the aftermath up to fans' imaginations, there's no way that everyone can have their happy ending, not without some serious character changes.
For instance, let's look at Keiko and Riko. These two became friends back in Season 1 when Riko used to ask Keiko for advice pertaining to Fujioka. Over the course of the first three seasons, Keiko always had that sort of "lesbian librarian" vibe to her but not one you could really support with solid evidence. She and Riko were just friends, right? And Keiko's never exhibited any longing for Kana. But then Season 4 comes along and starts throwing out hints left and right that Keiko may in fact be a lesbian. The blushing when Miyuki cutely asked for help studying. Fujioka's daydream depicting Keiko and Riko as a couple. Keiko not wanting to be alone with Kana at a restaurant in public. It's still not official -- we have yet to hear Keiko's own internal monologue confirm that she is attracted to Riko -- but as speculative fans we're all ready to roll with it. Well, say we're right. Say that's the case. Say that Keiko does in fact have feelings for Riko that transcend friendship. What about Riko? Riko has done nothing all series long but demonstrate heterosexual feelings for Fujioka. She seems like a fairly typical girlie girl, unlike someone like Hayami who, sure, I could easily see being revealed to be bi. But Riko would have to be revealed to be bi for her to happily pair off with Keiko instead of Fujioka. And despite all this time they've spent together, we haven't had a single sign that Riko is interested in Keiko like that. Not a single blush, no physical intimacy (the closest thing being those skirt grabs she does), nothing to indicate that she likes Keiko as anything more than a friend and confidant. tl;dr if Keiko confessed to Riko the only way that that could possibly result in those two pairing off would be if Riko was bisexual, either already aware of it and ready to go or else made to realize it as a direct result of Keiko's confession and having to confront the thoughts in her mind / feelings in her heart that result from it. And you can copy and paste this for a lot of the couples. Another easy example to see that not everyone can have their happy ending is all the couples surrounding Haruka. Coharu has pretty much given every single guy who crushes on Haruka a second eligible partner:
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Hayami's sexual orientation is still up in the air. Outside of the one famous incident, I don't recall her ever showing attraction to another girl. People can do crazy things when they're wasted ... for now, we will tentatively label her as bi-curious.
Haruka is too angelic. It would be very jarring to see her get together with a guy, so I don't think it will ever happen. She is married to her sisters and always will be.
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In episode 04, Atsuko once again blushed when Hosaka exposed himself. No other girl does this. It's a sign I tell you!
I can live with most of the cast remaining single for the duration of the story, but Hosaka NEEDS some love. Ideally he'd get Atsuko or Haruka, but even Hayami or Maki would be cute. Or some dark horse no one expects (Hitomi?). He is a good man and doesn't deserve this Imagine how lucky Chiaki would be if Kana got together with Fujioka (as prophecized), Hosaka got Haruka, and she got to live with daddy Fujioka and the Curry Fairy!
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Episode 06 of Tadaima was one of the sweetest and yet most heart-breaking episodes of Minami-ke I've ever seen. I think it's safe to say that it is the saddest episode I can recall seeing since the Season 2 finale, and may well be the second saddest overall pursuant to it. Taking the discussion in turns though, let's get through the first two or three sketches (which were mildly humorous but nothing too major) and work our way towards what to me was the meat of the episode. Spoiler: show So yeah. A great enough episode that I feel I'm not cheating now to say that Minami-ke Tadaima is thus far an overall 8 out of 10 experience, but one hell of a sad episode there in the end. I should totally see where this happens in the manga and if things continue on after the chapter ends or what. Manga Comparisons: So, I checked the manga. Some interesting things. Spoilers thru Minami-ke Tadaima Episode 06. Spoiler: show
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