Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home Movie

[bastek66]

So, who voices Spike Matsumae?

[HasuMasu]

^ He looks like that Johan guy from Monster.

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I wonder if the flashbacks with Satsuki will feel 90s? If teen Satsuki whips out a cellphone....

[Archon_Wing]

The first real man in this series.

Hopefully.

[Pocari_Sweat]

Wtf. PA actually making a nonfail male character for once. Impossibru. Specially not with the writer on board being infamous in her emasculation tendencies. Will still expect him to crossdress at some point in the film unless proven.

In all seriousness, I think he's Satsukis ex husband.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by bastek66

So, who voices Spike Matsumae?

Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

Wtf. PA actually making a nonfail male character for once. Impossibru. Specially not with the writer on board being infamous in her emasculation tendencies. Will still expect him to crossdress at some point in the film unless proven.

Obviously, it's all just a dream. And you're gonna carry that weight.

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Originally Posted by Pocari_Sweat

Wtf. PA actually making a nonfail male character for once. Impossibru. Specially not with the writer on board being infamous in her emasculation tendencies. Will still expect him to crossdress at some point in the film unless proven.

In all seriousness, I think he's Satsukis ex husband.

ex implies they were divorced. He died.. so the apt term would be late husband.

[Patriot's Blade]

i wonder if they also included extra bondage scenes

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by bastek66

So, who voices Spike Matsumae?

This character is voiced by Ryota Takeuchi.

Spoiler for identity:

He is indeed Ayato Matsumae (松前綾人), the future husband of Satsuki and father to Ohana.

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at least we know where Ohana get her curls..

@ultima

where'd you mine that info?

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by deadite

where'd you mine that info?

Various people who saw the movie and reported on it.

[Archon_Wing]

I have to admit, my expectations are pretty low given the Satsuki focus. She's a funny character as a supporting character, but casting her in a main role doesn't seem like a very interesting story, given the series where Ohana is not the focus ranges from mediocre to awful.

Essentially the series had Satsuki work to portray her as a rebel, the mom Ohana didn't respect, but in the end they actually had much in common with her free spirit blah blah blah. Indeed, if the movie does portray Satsuki to be just like Ohana when younger so they can reunite with then "oh, we're really the same" bullshit then there's really no point to watch it. But in the end, there's really no reason for me to give a damn about her.

Overall, this is the show's fault for completely failing to make rounded characters that serve their paper thin characterization. It was way too black and white, highlighting each character's inadequacies and you were really just led to think "My god, these flawed people are why Ohana is in the situation." That god awful inn arc with Yuina was indeed some of the most preachiest, one sided bs that just convinced me that they simply aren't able to make a point without using excessive hyperbole and ridicule of any opposing sides. That would be typical of Okada, but sure, she's not responsible for all of it shield will pop up, so I'm just going to bash on the final product.

Essentially, when someone can be summed up in a few not very interesting sentences, I don't really see a need to go off on such tangents, but then of course this is Okada and PA works who absolutely must need to leave every stone unturned regardless of how pointless and redundant it is. Sure, we could actually develop the characters we already have in the main cast but nope.

In retrospect, the extremely negative view of its own characters while minimizing their strengths combined with the lack of respect treated to them just makes the series increasingly worse every time I look back at it. And indeed I tend to remember the negative things first since the show would constantly remind you. It looks great though, but that's about it.

[ultimatemegax]

The official twitter account announced yesterday that the movie has grossed over 100 million yen thus far. For 4 weeks it was only playing in 4 theatres and it's only been in 13 more since 3/30. Not too bad IMO.

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More Ayato in this PV. You can really hear Satsuki's searing hatred for Sui.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZxVAVN190

[kentasaiba]

Anyone knows when the bluray comes out?

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by kentasaiba

Anyone knows when the bluray comes out?

It's not announced yet. My gut instinct says October 16th since the Bonbori Festival is held on the 12th this year and they can do preliminary sales there and it fits the usual Pony Canyon release date.

[ultimatemegax]

The official site updated today to announce plans to screen the Hanasaku Iroha Home Sweet Home movie at Anime Expo next week.

[AbZeroNow]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

The official site updated today to announce plans to screen the Hanasaku Iroha Home Sweet Home movie at Anime Expo next week.

It would be very nice if NIS America announces that they have licensed the movie at AX.

I would definitely buy it as I bought the first Box Set and will buy the 2nd one.

[ultimatemegax]

I saw the movie last night. Without going into spoilers, it surpassed most, if not all, of the series in my opinion. It packed so much into 66 minutes that you would be hard-pressed to say it was only an hour long. The overall story was wonderful and really gave a lot of depth to Satsuki's character. I won't say she's likeable, but this really fleshed out a lot of her portion. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who liked the show, regardless of how much you like it.

(also, a certain group on here won't be complaining about Spike)

[MogMoogle1]

I too attended the late night showing(man, goin to AX every day from sun up to sun down takes a lot out of you). Anyways, I would give it a 7/10, but the movie itself isn't bad at all. The visuals are excellent as always, the characters are up to their usual antics, and the pacing was great, but my only issue is that it doesn't introduce anything new plot-wise, aside from fleshing out Satsuki's character.

Spoiler for Light spoiler on how Satsuki's background is played out.:

So the movie is kind of an extended Hanasaku Iroha episode. Satsuki's past is revealed in bits throughout the movie and happens when ever Ohana goes and reads these old journals.

Home Sweet Home is definitely worth checking out if you have an itch to watch some more, but don't go in expecting anything like an after story, which I'm sure most of us here already are aware of it. Aside from that one dude behind me that snored during the movie, I very much enjoyed watching it.

Spoiler for slight off topic, but kinda relating to Hanasaku Iroha as a whole...:

So NISA announced at their panel that they are looking in to adding dubs to their anime releases, and possibly do that to some of the anime they have already released. I hope this series would be part of that consideration.