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View Poll Results: Amagami SS - Episode 20 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 3 | 4.55% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 4 | 6.06% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 17 | 25.76% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 15.15% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 11 | 16.67% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 9 | 13.64% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 3.03% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 1.52% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 9 | 13.64% | |
Voters: 66. You may not vote on this poll |
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2010-11-20, 14:45 | Link #41 | ||||
Twintails are wintails!
Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 43
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Whew... finally this pathetic Snorlax, err, Rihoko arc is over. Really, the two got to be related! When looking up Snorlax, I found this:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash%27s_Snorlax "During his travels in the Orange Islands in Snack Attack, Ash discovered a grapefruit orchard that was under attack by a Snorlax that was eating everything in sight, and was consuming many of the nearby islands vegetation within days." That sure does sound familiar Other than that - just as expected, nothing really happened. Rihoko made no progress whatsoever with her diet, as she's still completely lacking any willpower and thus still stuffing herself all the same Junich isn't any help there either, in the opposite, he even invites her to eating cake Also otherwise, no progress, e.g. between Rihoko and Junichi. It becomes Valentine's day, Rihoko presents Junichi cream puffs, of which she eats most herself (just look how quickly they're gone). It goes towards graduation, shot of Rihoko happily stuffing herself in the teaclub. On graduation finally, Junichi gives up his resistance against joining and joins the tea club (he was probably fed up with the seniors constantly pestering him about it... I really doubt he'd done it by himself, as Rihoko's phlegmatism already rubbed off on him ) Quote:
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If they wouldn't have included the Miya fanservice and the other stuff with the other girls, hardly anyone would've buyed the Dvd for Rihoko alone. Quote:
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Especially when compared to this Snorlax Rihoko arc
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2010-11-20, 16:08 | Link #42 | |
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2010-11-20, 16:20 | Link #43 |
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Watched this with my bestest friend, so it generally made things funnier. We were going throughout the whole episode when she would say diet every five minutes DIET WHAT.
We cried in the scene where Rihoko said goodbye to the tea club members, though. I cried kinda hard, it didn't last long, but I cried a bit hard ;__; It was sad. And I'm glad we had a friendship ending. Rihoko deserves love, but I think its better that way. Also, I hate how Haruka shows up in every episode for at least 2 minutes and they just totally made a timeskip and great ending for her arc, and they couldn't for Rihoko's, when it makes much more sense for Rihoko to have a sort of time skip or into the future thing. All in all, the heroine was great, the arc was fun, but the pacing was just bad, and the whole diet thing was eh, it never even got started, at least we see her working a bit on it by the end, though. Me and my friend were like HOLY SHE'S ACTUALLY STARTING D8. It was still a nice arc, though. I feel as if it was made to be just heartwarming and realistic. Arc order still is is: Ai >>> Sae > Rihoko > Haruka > Kaoru Now for my lovely Tsukasa.
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2010-11-20, 16:28 | Link #45 | |
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Seriously, Rihoko was such a sweet and endearing character. While the arc overall is the least good in terms of development probably, it has nothing to do with how enjoyable the heroine was.
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2010-11-20, 19:32 | Link #47 |
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Huh, well, at least now I know I won't be getting what I came into this arc for >_>
I'm still debating whether I should even bother watching this episode <_< At the very least, it's going to need some assistance, in the form of the recent Precious Diary manga's mini-chapter... maybe if I pretend that that chapter will be the eventual and logical result of everything that happened in this arc, regardless of what actually happens in the episode, I can pretend that the writers didn't just try to offend all the Rihoko fans in the world by not giving her arc a proper conclusion... |
2010-11-20, 21:01 | Link #51 |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Eh.. the ending was appropriate. Was it really that bad?
It couldn't reach a conclusion but it opened a possibility. But it boils down to this.. She was a female version of a "nice guy" And "Nice guy" is not a label to be proud of. There's a reason why these kind of people finish last. If anything Rihoko was lucky. |
2010-11-20, 21:30 | Link #52 | ||
Twintails are wintails!
Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 43
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Ai > Sae >>> Haruka > Kaoru (learn to use a brush, girl!) >>>>>>> insert a thousand '>' here >>>>>>> Rihoko Tsukasa looked nice so far, from what little I saw of her so far, so it shouldn't be hard for her to beat Haruka and Kaoru at least. I'll see if she can beat Sae and Ai as well. Quote:
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My reaction to this episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHgch9REbM
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2010-11-20, 22:31 | Link #54 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Boston
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The motivation for an omnibus romance is to explore multiple relationship possibilities, which didn't happen here. Nothing happened in this arc that couldn't have happened in the other arcs. However, there are some perfectly good stories where the main couple never gets together. Even with the friendship ending, this arc would've been fine if the writers had shown us things about the characters we didn't already know, or had the characters or their relationships with one another change and grow through their experiences during the arc. But neither of these happened. People graduated, a new member joined the club, people slept through things and ate a lot of sweets. It was a crappified version of K-on. If they were doing slice-of-life instead of romance for this arc, they should've at least done a good job of it. tl;dr: Nothing of value happened in this arc. Rihoko got the shaft, but so did the viewers. Way to screw up, writers.
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2010-11-20, 23:31 | Link #55 |
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So, which arc do you guys think sucked more, this arc or Sae's? I always though Sae's arc got more hate than it deserved, at least it was entertaining to see Junichi "train" Sae. I came to this arc expecting to see a childhood romance blossom and instead what I got was 4 episodes of the Tea Club trying to capture Junichi.
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2010-11-21, 00:20 | Link #56 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 41
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Just a reminder: we do have a special thread just for Arc Comparison, so please stop with all the "this arc was worse/better than other arcs" talk here. This thread should be about this episode and, as a consequence, this arc on a whole. Future posts that deviate off-topic will be deleted without prejudice.
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2010-11-21, 00:31 | Link #57 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Singapore
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So overall...the Rihoko arc was a decent arc. I gave this a rating of 8/10 due to just how kawaii Rihoko is . I, for one, am surprised that Rihoko is such a cute girl despite her clumsiness, but that's exactly what makes Rihoko such an adorable character. It's just too bad that Touka handled the script the wrong way, and gave this arc an ending with no clear resolution. Sure, the cast may have been trying to try something new, but at least give it a firmer resolution that it ain't gonna be of romance, but of slice of life. For this whole arc, it certainly gave us viewers the wrong impression.
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2010-11-21, 00:41 | Link #58 |
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 39
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I have henceforth decided to ignore this episode and use the chapter in Precious Diary as the ending to the Rihoko arc for personal blogging purposes.
So... which chapter was it again lol? Precious Diaries has been open in one of my browser tabs for weeks but I never got around to reading it.
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