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Mikagura School Suite
The Mikagura School Suite is a a boarding high school, where each of the students must join an after-school activity club. The representatives of the clubs then battle between each other with their special abilities, and the results of these battles influence school life of all of the club members. The school only allows clubs of the cultural type. Based off a series of popular Vocaloid songs by Last Note, the story begins with Ichinomiya Eruna, who is a freshman at Mikagura High School, and shows her first days at the new school and how she interacts with various other students who all belong to a different school club. (Adapted from the Vocaloid Wiki) |
04-12-2015, 12:50 AM | #2 |
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LET'S [TENSION MAX]
Episode 01: Spoiler: show In all, I liked it and am looking forward to more based on what little I know of the songs and story. (Not a big fan of the ED remix though. Something about the chorus feels off.) Since I did it with MCA, I'll also post related music along with the ep. Here's the original Houkago Stride: Spoiler: show
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04-12-2015, 03:02 AM | #4 |
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Oh my. This is a debut show?
/wonders what Mikagura means
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It started airing a week ago, although subs were slow to come out as FUNimation is handling them. (I've still only seen the raw version.)
There's no special meaning as far as I know, it's just the name of the school, like Kouyouen Academy (or however you spell it). Maybe Talon can tell something about the etymology, although it's written in katakana so I'm guessing it's made-up in this case. The full series name is Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku (ミカグラ学園組曲).
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04-12-2015, 07:16 AM | #6 |
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I would think Mikagura is written as 美神楽, Mi being the "Beautiful" prefix and Kagura being the famous dance. A number of fictional characters have borne the name Kagura, and so my initial thought -- given the name of the school -- is that someone named Mikagura is who the school was named after. But given Yuki's information about this being a cousin project to Mekakucity Actors, I can just as easily see the reading of Mikagura being more literally "the Beautiful Dance" and that the story you're about to watch is the titular beautiful dance between characters.
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To be clear, Mikagura has nothing to to do with Mekakucity Actors outside of both being based on Vocaloid song series written by different producers. The stories and characters are completely separate.
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The mi there is the politeness prefix. You're probably familiar with o- and go-, as in ocha, obentou, goshujin, and gohan, but another reading as seen here is mi. It's much rarer than the other two; the only example that immediately comes to mind is Mikami Shrine (御神神社 Mikami Jinja, "O' Gods' Shrine") which is a play-on-words of the mountain it's situated near, Mt. Mikami (三上山 Mikamiyama, Mt. Mikami).
So her name, Mikagura, would halfway literally be O' Kagura (as in "O' Gods", not as in Irish O'Clanname), fully literally "O' Gods' Entertainment." While were on the topic of wordplay, her last name of Seisa, 星鎖, literally means Starchain. 星 hoshi star, 鎖 kusari chain. Read Seisa as it's onyomi. Thing is: it's a made-up name straight out of the Book of Doppel. There are much more common words that approximate its reading and may factor into canon or fanon plots:
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Seisa is her given name, Mikagura is the family name. Sorry I've been kinda inconsistent with making that distinction. (I'm still learning most of the names myself.)
It's interesting she has a name related to stars, considering it's a different character who's member of the astronomy club. I am kinda curious now if their names have anything to do with their specialties. Just for fun if you want to take a look, these are the students' names without giving anything away about them: 一宮 エルナ Ichinomiya Eruna 御神楽星鎖 Mikagura Seisa 九頭竜京摩 Kuzuryuu Kyouma 赤間 遊兎 Akama Yūto 二宮 シグレ Ninomiya Shigure 藤白おとね Fujishiro Otone 射水アスヒ Imizu Asuhi 湊川貞松 Minatogawa Sadamatsu 八坂 ひみ Yasaka Himi
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Ah, okay. As much as I use Japanese name order myself, I'm unsure as to why I would have assumed you did it in Western order. Maybe because you usually do or something and I subconsciously knew that? No idea. Regardless of which is the surname and which is the given name, a) you've got the meanings to work with and b) I feel it's kinda thread-derailey but ehhhhh I haven't seen the show so ... ^^;
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Been catching up on this and just got to Episode 6. It's been good so far. Nice characters with really good designs, the abilities are cool, and it's just been enjoyable to watch, but it's not perfect. Eruna, every once in a while, gets to be a bit much, but it's not often enough to have a big impact. Really all that's been lacking for me is the fight scenes. I figured the animators either had a lack of budget or were just kinda lazy from the uncolored unimportant characters, but it really shows, and it pretty annoying, when it comes to fight scenes. The what happens in them is good, the powers are good, but just the way they're animated isn't. They're paced pretty poorly, and it seems to me like there just isn't enough fighting, with too many still parts with little movement even when the two characters aren't talking.
The thing that really got me though, regarding Episode 6, was: Spoiler: show
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Finished this up tonight. Overall, it was another case of really good potential with poor execution. The pacing felt all over the place, especially in the last two episodes, Eruna...honestly got to be too much (I still like her but it never felt like she could have a serious moment ever. You can still be upbeat but have a serious moment. All her stuff was pretty much just hyper uppity and had very little serious impact when it felt like it was supposed to), Otone...
Spoiler: show So yeah, I'd say personally it's a 6/10 by more or less sheer virtue of what it was trying to do and the fact I still had fun with it despite its numerous flaws. And Himi is the most adorable thing ever omg
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