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Old 2009-02-05, 19:31   Link #441
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hm i dont know, the episode was alright, but im still not happy.
michiko is portrayed as such a passive characers, its really rare you actually see her do something, shes always saved by someone, or saved by luck, or she messes up... the only time we saw her kick some butt was when she was beating up some weak losers a few episodes ago.
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Old 2009-02-05, 19:47   Link #442
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hm i dont know, the episode was alright, but im still not happy.
michiko is portrayed as such a passive characers, its really rare you actually see her do something, shes always saved by someone, or saved by luck, or she messes up... the only time we saw her kick some butt was when she was beating up some weak losers a few episodes ago.
She might be this way because she was horrible abused or because she's only nine years old.
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Old 2009-02-05, 20:46   Link #443
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She might be this way because she was horrible abused or because she's only nine years old.
He was talking about Michiko, not Hatchin...
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Old 2009-02-06, 19:56   Link #444
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hm i dont know, the episode was alright, but im still not happy.
michiko is portrayed as such a passive characers, its really rare you actually see her do something, shes always saved by someone, or saved by luck, or she messes up... the only time we saw her kick some butt was when she was beating up some weak losers a few episodes ago.
Somebody is forgetting about the final scenes of episode 2 and 6. And 10.
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Old 2009-02-07, 00:30   Link #445
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He was talking about Michiko, not Hatchin...

I misread it then.
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Old 2009-02-10, 20:36   Link #446
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Episode 15 was extremely average... No development at all of characters or setting. And there seemed to be some parts where the quality of the animation dropped suddenly. I'd really like to like this series, but at the moment I'm only following it for completion's sake.

And the animated Volkswagen Beetles.
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Old 2009-02-10, 21:06   Link #447
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Episode 15 was extremely average... No development at all of characters or setting. And there seemed to be some parts where the quality of the animation dropped suddenly. I'd really like to like this series, but at the moment I'm only following it for completion's sake.

And the animated Volkswagen Beetles.
Episode 15 had really nice music though.
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Old 2009-02-10, 22:08   Link #448
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On the contrary, I thought this episode developed Hatchin a lot. In one episode she learnt about love and its loss, and I think it was handled in a very cute way. Too bad she realized her feelings when it was too late. On a side note, I seem to have missed something... didnt episode 14 end with the old guy capturing Michiko? What happened? Did he just let her go because he didnt kill her with one bullet? I'm kinda confused. Double episode this week though, woo-hoo!
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Old 2009-02-11, 02:50   Link #449
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This episode was rather good IMO, one of the best of the slower ones. Episode 13 was below average (and what have pyramids to do in Brazil, WTF?)
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Old 2009-02-11, 11:29   Link #450
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I rewatched the ep and I now feel that the Michiko-Hatchin relationship was shown to grow a bit in this ep. Whereas in earlier episodes, Hatchin was quite ineffective in defending herself from Michiko's temper, this time there was some give and take in that respect.

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Old 2009-02-11, 16:24   Link #451
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i just heard 16 AND 17 came on this morning. they must be hurrying to finish this up.
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Old 2009-02-11, 17:52   Link #452
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i just heard 16 AND 17 came on this morning. they must be hurrying to finish this up.
Well IIRC they pre-empted it many times too...
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Old 2009-02-11, 18:43   Link #453
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Episode 15 was extremely average... No development at all of characters or setting. And there seemed to be some parts where the quality of the animation dropped suddenly. I'd really like to like this series, but at the moment I'm only following it for completion's sake.

And the animated Volkswagen Beetles.
im inclined to agree.
overall i must say that unfortunately it seems the first episode of the series was very indicative of where this was going after all.
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Old 2009-02-14, 20:20   Link #454
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This anime should be more famous, it's so good though. But I though it's not some goods that teenies like to watch. Usually they do like echi more than such realistic anime.
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Old 2009-02-20, 10:47   Link #455
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episode 17 was finally an excellent one again and i liked 16 for its grownup characters.
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Old 2009-02-23, 00:05   Link #456
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16 and 17 were good compared to 15, but 18 trumps all of them, Atsuko's getting quite interesting, and Hatchin is showing the strength of her character more and more recently.
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Old 2009-02-23, 09:41   Link #457
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18 is pretty much what more of the series should have been like. the series is 20 episodes right? considering this is one of the last eps, im a bit disapointed. they only just reached the point where you can consider them a team...
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Old 2009-02-24, 00:17   Link #458
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Seiyuu sound great, but hatchin sounds too old
I do hope that the voice actresses can protray them well since I read somewhere that they are live action/drama actresses.
Okay, I'm coming to this thread late, which is why I'm going waaaaaay back to such an old post, but somehow the start of this series got past me. Apologies if this ground has been covered before - I looked through the thread but didn't see it.

Hatchin is played by Ohgo Suzuka, who is one of Japan's best up-and-coming young actresses. She was in Memoirs of a Geisha, playing the younger version of Chiyo, Zhang Ziyi's character. One of the best-known scenes from the movie is of her running through all the torii gates after the first time she met "The Chairman." She also won a Japanese Television Drama Academy Award for playing Niko aka "Sexy Voice" in the live-action version of Sexy Voice and Robo.

And she's only 15-1/2, so I'm really amused by all these complaints that she sounds too old.

Maki Yoko, who plays Michiko, has a pretty impressive drama resume, too. I wonder how these two decided to give anime a try, and how they got hooked up with this project. It's quite a feat.
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Old 2009-02-25, 19:07   Link #459
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18 is pretty much what more of the series should have been like. the series is 20 episodes right? considering this is one of the last eps, im a bit disapointed. they only just reached the point where you can consider them a team...
22 episodes
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Old 2009-03-12, 17:08   Link #460
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Very instense episode this week not sure if next week is the last episode but the show really picked up on the action.
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