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View Poll Results: Hanasaku Iroha - Episode 9 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 10 | 16.95% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 24 | 40.68% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 17 | 28.81% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 8.47% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 1.69% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 3.39% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2011-06-04, 21:41 | Link #108 |
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Mmm. Shrimp tempura. Probably my favorite food in existence. Never tried fish tempura, though.
How unfortunate for multiple people to be having weddings in the building Ohana is looking through. Almost as if there exists an omnipotent writer out there, setting up these obstacles for Ohana to hurdle over. And I can't forget about how Ko was also searching for someone important to him - these parallels are too good to be true. It's funny, though... Ohana finds Tohru, but Ko gives up and goes back to Tokyo. I was hoping Ohana's recklessness would have rubbed off on Ko, so the viewers would finally have a reunion between separated friends. Still, I think the time isn't right for them to meet again anyway. They have to develop their relationship slowly; this episode, they went from sending text messages to talking with each other on the phone. Heh... I think Ohana and Ko can understand each other better when they're far away from each other, rather than close together. Wouldn't it have been just marvelous if Ohana passed out in Tohru's arms? :P Episode 9 Rating: 9/10! |
2011-06-04, 21:45 | Link #109 | |
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The real coincidence is the spike of last minute guests the very day Tohru's absent and Ko's coming. |
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2011-06-04, 22:02 | Link #110 | |
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Now, it is strange Kissuiso would be booked exactly full in advance - not one customer too many or too little. At the same time, the mystery guest seems to have rushed her mother into staying at Kissuiso. Logically, wouldn't the mystery guest have wanted to see the inn at it's busiest, rather than being the only customer and receiving the inn's full attention? Ohana says it all. A good inn needs to lack discrimination between the social, political, and economic status of their customers. But they do need to discriminate upon their specific needs; for example, the mystery guest didn't like fish. So yeah, I can safely postulate the mystery guest actually asked those people to stay over. |
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2011-06-04, 23:55 | Link #112 |
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There are alternatives to fighting... and bribery is not the only alternative. Is it unreasonable to assume this mystery guest has the influence to ask for some favors from regular customers?
Even if you consider the possibility the mystery guest fully reimbursed her associates, then you should take into account the mystery guest probably has enough money. Part of her job, after all, is to evaluate inns at their peak performance. The magazine she works for should pay for work-related expenses. Do you really think the mystery guest would have been able to write a complete and accurate review if she were the only customer in the inn? Many inns can serve one customer well - inns who will serve all types of customers equally well are the ones which distinguish themselves. I doubt one person can inspect every important aspect of an inn by themselves (without looking suspicious). Taking different opinions into account makes the review more convincing. |
2011-06-05, 03:23 | Link #113 | |
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A TV show about, say, how Takako or someone like her revitalizes businesses might consider hiring extras, but TV budgets are bigger, and they wouldn't pay the inn for it - they'd explain it's part of the publicity they're getting by being on TV. |
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2011-06-05, 12:45 | Link #114 | |
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All the reviewer has to do is ask politely. |
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2011-06-05, 12:54 | Link #115 | |
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For that matter, an inn isn't a bar. A "regular" is a someone who takes an annual vacation with his family there, not someone who comes every day after work. Where do you find people taking random, expensive trips at the last minute just so a reviewer can see what it's like when it's busy? |
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2011-06-05, 12:57 | Link #116 | |
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It's more likely that loyal customers who have a certain type of affection of the inn saw that inns the area were to be reviewed, and by looking at the time between magazine publications they might have figured out which weekend was the most likely, so they decided to go then. Their reasons could be either a) they thought that service would be upped several times and hoped to get more bang for their buck, or b) they wanted to cheer the inn on, and to know if the review will be based on a normal day, a disastrous day or an unusually good day (if it's an uncommonly bad review of a normal or good day, they can immediately discredit it and cancel their subscriptions to the magazine in question. If it's a disastrous day and the review is bad, they can comfort themselves with the knowledge that "their" inn was having a rare off-day). |
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2011-06-05, 15:33 | Link #118 | |
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It's sort of like TV during sweeps (when new episodes are churned out to get viewers so that TV stations can have expensive commercial spots, as the viewer count is counted during sweeps), you get a new, interesting experience in a package that you are familiar with a likes. |
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If anything, the only reason Kissuiso got suspicious was the overwhelming influx of customers. Quote:
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I don't think I'll ever convince you that an obsession is not required to stay over one night at an unextravagant, but still pleasant inn. |
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