Myself; Yourself - Episode 4 Discussion / Poll

[KholdStare]

I'm not sure if it's fillers or not, but that was a very funny yet interesting episode, so it's a 10/10, the first time I've given an episode of this series this rating. I really didn't expect this episode to be that good and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by Saleh

If she stays for too long then she could develop feelings for Sana too . Hanako's voice was a bit mature for 10 year old.

BTW did someone notice that production crew forgot to animate some frames between 13:15-13:17 on raw?

Hinako, not Hanako.

Are you talking about Hinako hitting Sana? Yeah, that looked weird. I just reasoned that it was too fast to see.

Originally Posted by DragoonKain3

I mean, you were really checking out your twin, not once, but twice, right? *dodges rotten tomatoes for implying incest*

maybe a third girl as their paths in the game. So I find it amusing that with this one episode alone, they revealed Shuusuke's 'girls' in the game.

Best part though was the ending preview. I was rotflmao at that, considering I'm a big Higurashi fan, and the VA doing the preview is none other than the VA of Rika. XD

I've thought about the possibility too.

Yuzuki, perhaps? (The teacher)

So that's what it was! I thought it sounded familiar...

[outcast_within]

that was some sucky episode completely not in line with the great first episode.

It felt like one big filler. and at the end we have one thing that isn't filler and that is him wondering if he really doesn't love somebody.

and i'm all for loli but it's no fun when they are actually ten :P

[fict_ticious]

It was a fun episode. But lol, ten years old. I hope they don't ditch Hinako completely.
Kinda funny, Nanaka and Asami have absolutely no lines this episode, and lulz at the Tamura preview.

Originally Posted by Midonin

Cooking and breasts I can understand as wooing methods, but voodoo?

There have been sillier things in anime, I tell you what.

Yuzuki, perhaps? (The teacher)

Want. Very badly.

[totalnet]

Spoiler for left wrist:

While watching the sub from m.3.3.w, I notice around 10:35 time frame, when Sana puts his left hand up, he doesn't have his watch on. Guess what, there is nothing on his wrist. And this while he talking to 2 guests in his room. But he does have the watch on his left wrist whenever he's outside in public.

[Frazzlehoon]

I loved the Higurashi-ish preview. >:]

Too bad Nanaka didn't see Sana hugging Hina. :P

[jdlkem]

yay higurashi!

sana is descending unto the dark world of pedophilia. Possibly.

Spoiler for pedo:

1. he undresses in front of her in the privacy of his own room
2. he "accidentally" falls on her while partly undressed
3. he initiates the hug w/ Hinako

-___-

well it seemed like everyone was getting along together this episode. i wonder if everyone is as friendly as it seems to me...

[Major1138]

Enjoyable episode - I thought it was amusing how when Shuu was describing his "perfect girl" he was pretty much thinking of the opposite of his sister, and how said description is suspiciously like Aoi.

I also noticed how well everyone seems to get along, and to be perfectly honest, I hope that the series draws the inevitable conflict/drama from a source other than something which causes the group to break up. It's pretty obvious that there's something we don't yet know about them, but I'm getting the impression that one of the big themes of this anime is how your friends are important, so hopefully it doesn't into a melodrama about friends betraying each other - which can be done well, but I don't think it would fit in here.

[grey_moon]

Spoiler for thoughts on epi 4:

hee hee at first I thought Shuu liked Aoi, but then he said softly spoken, then I thought Nanaka, but then he said not violent... I think he just wants a big breasted Yamato Nadeshiko . He does say there is someone he already cares about.... I hope it is not incest!

Great episode as we get even more insight into Aoi, did her hand book represent anything apart from looking really childish? I wonder what the actual real life success rate of a love hand book is? If anime is anything to go by, then should be banned.

Shuu seems like a pretty decent bloke, doesn't mess around, dumped her nice n clean, shame we didn't get to see the blood bath.

[Mef]

ok ,after this episode the anime is dropped for me
it was kinda boring to begin with but now they managed to make a 10 year old girl who "should" be a child to a child with breast or some thing like that wtf and I hoped to finally see a girl I might like in this kind of show.. but again too old
and as the show itself isnt very entertaining Im dropping it as I said before

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

hee hee at first I thought Shuu liked Aoi, but then he said softly spoken, then I thought Nanaka, but then he said not violent... I think he just wants a big breasted Yamato Nadeshiko . He does say there is someone he already cares about.... I hope it is not incest!

Actually I don't think he was describing any of those girls. He was purposefully describing the exact opposite of Shurei. (And he was looking right at her as he thought about it.) Perhaps he was describing the opposite of what he wants, or perhaps he wants a girl to be as different from his sister as possible. You decide which. It is just coincidence that some of what he said could be applied to other girls. So, yeah, I'd say his sister is the person he cares about. We can only hope that the feelings are not incestuous.

[sasuke13]

Originally Posted by Frazzlehoon

I loved the Higurashi-ish preview. >:]

I hear ya! =D "Hey Shuri, I think you got the wrong TV show! ^^;;;;"

[4ran]

Oh the sub is out i'm coming back after watching the episode !

[Pellissier]

A bit unexpected from episode 4 to develop a complete side story with the newly introduced character. Didn't like the story much, but Hinako was a good character. Now I wonder if she will have some other role other than this (or perhaps they presented her since they need to show the characters from the game?).

I was a bit disappointed that while all the main characters had some screentime, Nanaka had none (she did appear, but I think her seiyuu wasn't even used this time). All in all it was a funny episode and a good way of spending 20 minutes.

The preview, with Yukarin mimicking her Higurashi style was absolutely out of the blue, and fantastic. I lolled a lot , especially with Sana's remark "haven't you got the wrong tv show?". Yay for references

[Mgz]

Originally Posted by DragoonKain3

Shuusuke, you got a thing for Aoi don't you?

not really, his perfect girl is the opposite of his (abusive?) sister, and Aoi is just happen to fit the bill

THis eps makes me LOLLLLLL alot so I rate 10, kinda cute.

also there is some development about the picture frame, and Sana turns sad in the end of the phone conversation with his mother "It's not like that x2"

[sasuke13]

Originally Posted by Mgz

also there is some development about the picture frame, and Sana turns sad in the end of the phone conversation with his mother "It's not like that x2"

It's seems like his conversations with his mom, like in the Shuffle! anime, with Rin and the model boat, Sana and the development might progress from there.

[monir]

What happened here??? Was the show waiting to get its own forum before it went off-topic? Where is my favorite girl for whom I actually bother to watch this show? And why does the preview for episode 5 make me want to think the show is now trying to be funny? Higurashi sound-alike preview that is going to undertake horror theme with an attempt at comedy, perhaps, because the Halloween is next week? Pfffft...

I suppose that's enough question for one day. Disappointed in the series and its sudden direction at things just when my fave girl was making the show a bit interesting. Hopefully things will be back on track from episode 6 because episode 5 should be another off-topic one.

[arkxkra]

This episode not bad, have some fun also, but still can't feel any thing from the main route.

[NoSanninWa]

Main route, side story... I don't really care. I enjoyed this little digression. This episode did what it usually takes 13 episodes to accomplish. We followed a story from first crush to confession and rejection. It was interesting to see her whole doomed love so quickly.

Now I'm wondering if she is going to become attached to Sana romantically. After all, they did become very close in the course of this.

[Sorrow-K]

Serious laughs at the Higurashi reference in the next ep preview.

I was rather indifferent to all of this. It was ultimately a filler episode, even despite a few glimpses at something deeper than superficial in Sana and Shuusuke, but it had a few enjoyable moments. I thought it was good that they kept everything after a certain stage in Sana's point of view, and didn't bother showing the confession, but rather had Hinako relay the events to him afterwards. "Everyone cries" may have been a slightly trite message, but the fact that the creators knew full well that the impact of the confession was more important than the confession itself, and thus focused on things like that by keeping it all in Sana's point of view, was rather impressive.

Not sure if I like the fact that next week's ep looks like more filler. At 13 eps, filler should be kept to a minimum, IMO.

Originally Posted by DragoonKain3

Shuusuke, you got a thing for Aoi don't you?

Either that, or you're not being honest with yourself and saying the exact opposite of the girl you truly like... I mean, you were really checking out your twin, not once, but twice, right? *dodges rotten tomatoes for implying incest*

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

Actually I don't think he was describing any of those girls. He was purposefully describing the exact opposite of Shurei. (And he was looking right at her as he thought about it.) Perhaps he was describing the opposite of what he wants, or perhaps he wants a girl to be as different from his sister as possible. You decide which. It is just coincidence that some of what he said could be applied to other girls. So, yeah, I'd say his sister is the person he cares about. We can only hope that the feelings are not incestuous.

I'm with NSW on this one. His description was almost certainly independent of Aoi, IMO, and nothing more than a complete opposite of Shuuri. And I can't see the incest thing happening. I'm going to go out on a limb here and make the claim that Shuusuke was genuine in wanting a girl the complete opposite of his sister. I think they're just too close for anything questionable to be going on between them. Although, this is anime(TM), and in most harem we see these days, sibling relationships aren't much of a barrier for romance . I'd hope this anime would at least be above that...