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View Poll Results: AnoHana - Episode 8 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 86 | 72.27% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 15 | 12.61% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 10 | 8.40% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 4.20% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 0.84% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 0.84% | |
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 | 0.84% | |
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2011-06-02, 22:32 | Link #21 |
reads too much
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I think it makes perfect sense for this to be the first time Menma has shown herself to the rest of the group, she's been out of the loop for a few episodes so she didn't know how strained the group was becoming and how much pressure they were putting on Jintan. And as soon as she did know she did something about it, plus it was shown in the previous episode that other people could see Menma moving things.
As for Menmama, geeze, are there no therapists in this town? She's still grieving and it seems like to the point where it creeps out her husband and son (and kind of neglects him, I felt really sorry for that kid) and that really doesn't seem healthy. I wonder if she was the one who convinced her husband not to let the kids have the rocket (as opposed to Menma's dad not trusting high school kids with really powerful rockets, I mean, you saw that plan they came up with as elementary kids ).
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2011-06-02, 22:46 | Link #22 |
Seishu's Ace
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
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I got the sense that Menma's brother had been waiting to pour his heart to someone for years, and had no one to listen until Jintan wandered back into the picture. If Menmama resented the Busters for surviving when Menma died, it isn't hard to speculate that she resents her brother, too. Poor kid...
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2011-06-02, 22:47 | Link #23 |
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
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The emotional tension and unease was horrible and wonderful. Great job by Tomacchan in the confession scene. Powerful cliffhanger: show you the physical event, but leave peoples' reactions to next week. Nasty.
I didn't feel the "hatred" from Irena that Anaru did. Just despair and envy and "why her and not one of them?" Seems highly understandable. The kids didn't have the wherewithal to keep talking with her and explain that they really felt guilty and still loved Menma. Her lines could have been delivered in a more hateful way than they were, or perhaps it was me drawing the wrong conclusion from the seiyuu's tone of voice. Oura Fuyuka is a good voice actress: recently Otake in Five Leaves and Kifa in Legendary Heroes.
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2011-06-02, 23:23 | Link #26 |
Working the bags...
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Would have liked to seen Jinta turn that situation around and slam Yukiatsu into the wall. Then voice what he was agonizing over earlier that he doesn't think it's fair that he can only see Menma either...
On a lighter note. Since she can interact with physical things why not dump flower or some kind of substance that will give her shape, or would that probably really creep the others out too much...? |
2011-06-02, 23:56 | Link #29 |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 36
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Before this episode I just generally felt the show was decent to good[which caused me to be too lazy to read/comment], but this episode was just phenomenal in the emotional level it pulled with, and the execution of the drama both in the scenes with Menma's mother and brother, and Anjou. And of course the ending of the episode was excellent too, easily a 10/10 for this episode from me .
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2011-06-03, 00:04 | Link #30 |
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
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Amazing episode. 10/10
The whole episode was slowly breaking down my emotional barrier until the very end with Yukiatsu shedding a couple of tears and the fade away into the ED. My god. Ano Hana delivered an excellent episode just when I felt they needed to turn it up a notch again. Definitely the better Maria Okada anime this season by a good margin.
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2011-06-03, 00:10 | Link #31 |
.: A bad doggy :.
Join Date: Jun 2007
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I haven't been this emotionally drawn into a show in a very, VERY long while, and this episode just solidified what an amazing job this series is doing. I clutched my damn shirt during Anaru's confession scene, Menma's mother's breakdown was so saddening, and the group turning on Yadomi only to be proven wrong in the last few moments had me turn on the fan just to stuff it in my face to get some air after all that.
God damn.
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2011-06-03, 00:48 | Link #33 | |
.: A bad doggy :.
Join Date: Jun 2007
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2011-06-03, 00:53 | Link #34 |
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Join Date: May 2007
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I've always liked Haruka Tomatsu's voice and she has done a great job throughout the series but her performance during the confession scene was really something. Definitely one of the highlights of the series so far for me.
Nice to see the group finally got some proof that Menma's really there and Jintan hasn't gone mad.
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2011-06-03, 01:12 | Link #35 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: United States
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I really sympathize with Jinta and Mema's little brother so much its scary. Jinta should just put a blanket over Mema or have her draw stuff in front of Peace Busters to prove her existence again. This episode had me close to tears twice... |
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2011-06-03, 01:25 | Link #36 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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2011-06-03, 02:00 | Link #38 | |
The Anime Maniac
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 37
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Yeah, indeed, it's a very emotional episode this week, especially the end. When I saw Yukiatsu grab Jinta's shirt, I was like thinking "Come on, Jinta! Punch him back, man. Show him that Menma's the real deal! Be more aggressive!" I hope Menma does more things so as to further prove her existence From the start, I'm always convinced Menma's a ghost and not a hallucination, and all along, she is
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