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Perfect 10 | 35 | 39.77% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 30 | 34.09% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 18 | 20.45% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 3.41% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.14% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 1.14% | |
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2012-02-07, 16:17 | Link #121 | |
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I know the class did try to stop Kouichi from acknowledging Mei at the beginning but they probably should have just flat out told him instead of beating around the bush. Weird thing is Nurse was finding out stuff about Mei, she's dead. Heart Boy was about to tell Kouichi the truth, he's dead. As far as I know Yukari was the only one who wasnt going to tell him anything about Mei, weird that she died.
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2012-02-07, 16:19 | Link #122 | |
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Looking back at episode 4 though, Akazawa has this line (talking about how Sakakibara is messing up their plans) Akazawa: This is a lot like the situation the class was in two years ago. Does that mean we need new countermeasures? This could indicate that performing the countermeasure while the curse is happening can prevent it, OR the curse never happened and the class was wise enough to prevent it. Knowing the events of two years ago should provide us with some new insights. |
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2012-02-07, 16:32 | Link #123 | |
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I pick Aunt Rei.
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2012-02-07, 16:35 | Link #124 |
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If countermeasures could stop the curse while it is happening, then they could just openly tell Sakakibara to ignore Misaki. I would guess that at least the class believes that countermeasures cannot stop the curse once started, but rather just prevent it from starting.
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2012-02-07, 16:52 | Link #125 | |
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This also poses obvious problems with simply ignoring Kouichi immediately on arrival if they decide to do that. As a new student who has no idea why he's being shunned, he's likely to force the issue and ask lots of questions.
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2012-02-07, 17:41 | Link #126 |
Guess what time it is?
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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The personification lecture was a nice backdrop to the action.
The series is going in the direction I was hoping to see, but we've gone over that already. I'm glad we now have new insight into the creepy visit from the class reps to Sakakibara's hospital room in episode 1. Asking him if he'd ever "lived" there before, and getting antsy at his uncertain answers. He was suspected from the very start. I wonder if that's why they were reluctant to speak with him, or if it's just that they couldn't give him countermeasure orders without acknowledging Mei. Sakakibara's mother is the through line, as expected, and it begins with the first class to "invite" the dead into the class. |
2012-02-07, 17:53 | Link #127 | |
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My guess is, thay dont really know, if it will stop the curse or not, its more like they cant lose anything by trying. |
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2012-02-07, 18:51 | Link #129 |
iceman
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: CO, USA
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A love between two people who are the only ones that recognize the presence of each other... rather romantic
The show's horror factor just went plop when I found out that Mei existed. I was hoping that she was a ghost, an existence close to what Mei herself explained about the extra person. By the way, maybe the protagonist is the dead person who joined Class 3. Hes gonna end up killing everyone, including Mei . And finally, we know whats going on. Took only half a season.
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2012-02-07, 19:16 | Link #131 |
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The issue is still, they ignored Mei to prevent the curse since the class increase by 1 way back when. Kouichi now increases it by 2 so it was bound to happen even if they didn't ignore Mei.
No wonder countermeasures girl kept asking about his past and where he lived.
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2012-02-07, 19:41 | Link #132 |
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the reason they didn't ignore Koichi at first is because he was an outsider and ignoring him would MAKE him more curios e.g ask a lot of questions and all those other stuff. asking Koichi to ignore Mei would mean that they would have to acknowledge she exists and that would be a breech in the rules.
the class was clueless what to do with the arrival of Koichi.. i'm thinking Mei's cousin was the first death of that year. well, at least Koichi is a little happy that Mei ACTUALLY exists.. he must have had an eye for her. she is pretty and cute, after all. Well, Mei and Koichi can accompany eachother while they are being ignored. the pacing of the anime is making me think this will span 24 episodes. (I hope.) |
2012-02-07, 21:00 | Link #133 | |
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We don't really know if it works that way. The actual number of students in the class may not matter as long as they subtract (ignore) one to make up for the dead person who shouldn't be there. I mean, the "extra" student in the class shouldn't be there because (s)he's dead, but there's nothing supernatural or out of the ordinary about a transfer student, right? |
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2012-02-07, 21:57 | Link #134 | ||||||||||
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Man, one day late watching ep. 5 and wow, amazing stuff happens. Actual explanations in clean, concise language! And an answer to the Mei question as well. And an actual good reason why Kouichi's been kept in the dark all along! Even an oblique wink at the lack of elevator safety devices (if you count "it's an old building that has undergone many recent renovations" as "lots of corners have been cut in the construction and we're lucky the elevator had cables at all.")
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Truthfully, the situation was headed for disaster the instant Kouichi was added in as a new transfer student. Everybody (including his aunt) kept saying, "follow the class rules," but nobody would or could actually explain them to him. It would take a lot of very careful phrasing to be able to explain, obliquely, to him what to do without being able to actually say it. (This also explains "I'll tell you next month"...if Class 3 got through May alive, it would mean that the curse didn't trigger through Sakakibara, and therefore they could give him the straight facts.) Quote:
So basically, if the curse story as Mei explains it is correct, then it's all on the principal for transferring the new student into Class 3. If he'd gone into any other class, there would be no problem (and indeed, he'd be free to talk to or about Mei like anyone else in the school--it's only class 3 that's affected). Plus, he came in a month late. The dead student should have been there since April 1 (unless it was scheduled with the school from before April 1 that Kouichi would come in later).
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2012-02-07, 22:01 | Link #135 | |
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Also, the only classmate to speak up about Misaki openly to Sakakibara had a heart attack before he could say anything and died. |
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2012-02-07, 22:04 | Link #136 |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I've made a characters/seiyuus page for this show, with pics of characters and of their seiyuus, and a bit of info about each seiyuu.
This is an interesting cast. Not many famous names. Takamori Natsumi (Misaki Mei) was Akari in Jewelpet Tinkle and Subaru in Houkago no Pleiades, but is a late starter, at 25. Her voice is working for me. They have filled the lesser roles with a number of seiyuu who do more film/TV dubbing than anime. I think they tend to be capable actors.
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2012-02-07, 22:07 | Link #137 | |
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The person who is ignored must be chosen beforehand, because they have to decide to ignore someone and that act acknowledges them, thus has to happen before the dead person is added. Since the person that is being ignored must be chosen before the dead person is added, the person being ignored is guaranteed to not be the dead person because they were chosen out of a pool of people that are all not dead. |
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2012-02-07, 23:51 | Link #139 |
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Age: 43
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I was glad that this time, the death shown in this episode wasn't something that made me fear something(like sharp-tipped umbrellas or elevators).
The OP started almost right away so there wasn't a problem with transition from a teaser this episode, which helped keep up the atmosphere in this episode. And the episode also did a fantastic job keeping up the atmosphere as it laid little hints and gave some much needed information. Mei was especially moe in this episode, and it helped that we, the audience, now know that she's alive and not a ghost. And it seems like Mei and Kouichi are going to try and piece together the truth about Class 3. Knowing that this is the 5th episode in a 1 cour series, I have to say that I have no complains with the pacing as we are getting some answers, some assumptions are proved wrong and we still have some unanswered questions. Episode got a "Perfect 10" from me(or around a 9.5 rounded up). This is one of the best series this season(although I suspect it may do better here in America than in Japan). |
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