(L) Suzuka

[aikming]

yeah. Two more episodes till finale.

[mit7059]

Still, no one seems to know will there be a second season or not? If not is there a place where i can get translated Suzuka manga?

[Arnyer]

The manga got licensed not long ago. It was being scanslated, but progress was pretty slow. Only 2 chapters made it out.

[mit7059]

i have got to learn how to speak japanese, then i would never have this problem.

[Kaoru Chujo]

1. Definitely no second season for a while. There is just not enough manga for it. Whether there ever is one will depend on how the manga evolves from where it is now.

2. Honoka gets even better in the manga. She has a future that will be played out in future episodes of the manga, since something happened for her that is not in the anime.

Spoiler for Honoka in the manga after the end of the anime:

She went on a photo shoot with her friend Nana and one of the photos turned out so great that she is going to be a model, or even an idol, herself.

3. I think the people who are so frustrated and angry with Suzuka are just not thinking of things from her point of view. Try to put yourself in her shoes: the high-strung young rich-girl athlete with the dead lover and the new guy who is so much like him. Once I found out about her history, her apparently ridiculous behavior began to make more sense.

[AnbuItachi]

i love suzuka's behavior. it makes this anime so much more interesting! this is one of my favorite animes and i realllly hope there will be a season 2. realllllllllllllllly hopeeeee though i doubt it =_=, its one of those animes that i like more than the manga. sort of like fruits basket

[Arnyer]

In reply to the Honoka spoiler...

Spoiler for Honoka:

Really? I have to say...I'm uncertain about that. It's really hard for me to visualize Honoka enjoying or being happy with that kind of career. I guess you could see it as a vehicle for promoting her self-confidence, but the idea of Honoka hawking MP3 players on TV (see Nana introduction episode) is really...disappointing.

[D_Street]

Does anyone one watch Suzuka?

[Calca]

Suzuka Thread

Boy you post a post in the fansub section that should be in the GA section now you're posting a post in the GA section that should be in the fansub section.

You're really not making a good impression Sparky.

[VC Matsumoto]

Ep 23.

I wrote this in our "lost" forums......man 94 pages of comments gone! ...
Yamato was focusing purely on his athelitic ambitions while still getting peeved at Suzuka
for her callous behavior. The "holding on the back of the shirt" scene was very nicely done
..the ice queen is melting!

VC

p.s. Man, I'm so glad i save all those cool Manga shots displayed at the old forums!
If you guys want to see them posted again... let me know...I'll do 3 at a time until
I exhaust my supply

[Radiosity]

Originally Posted by Arnyer

In reply to the Honoka spoiler...

Spoiler for Honoka:

Really? I have to say...I'm uncertain about that. It's really hard for me to visualize Honoka enjoying or being happy with that kind of career. I guess you could see it as a vehicle for promoting her self-confidence, but the idea of Honoka hawking MP3 players on TV (see Nana introduction episode) is really...disappointing.

Spoiler for Honoka:

So totally agree on this point. Honaka is beautiful, certainly, and definitely Model-material, but personality-wise... no way, I honestly can't see her in a model and most definitely not an idol role. She's shy, blushes easily over little things, and has very little self-confidence. Just having a photo turn out to be good doesn't justify such a drastic change to her character I feel.

Who knows though, maybe they'll manage to pull it off with style.

edit: I guess she does have the cute-blushes easily-innocence thing going for her, which would no doubt be a clear winner in an idol role...

[D_Street]

After the 26th ep. is there going to be a send season. I have heard there is not to much of the manga left, but will this series become a closed project. I really like this anime and it is going to suck if there is not going to a second season. So anyways i think Suzuka likes Yamoto, but she is to scared to admit it. Also there is one scene in the anime where she say she would go out with him, but she plays it off as a joke. This is in ep. 15

[aikming]

Dont think there will be a season 2, at least for now. The whole 26 episodes cover from chapter 1 up to about/approximately/estimated chp 72. So to have another season of 26, it requires about 70 more chapters. The manga is running chapter 90 next week.

About Honoka, we certianly dont see anything about her and the photo shot aftermaths. The mangaka concentrates on yamato & suzuka relationship at the moment. There are some new stuff which is spoiler, so i wont cover here. Go to manga~suzuka thread if you want to know more about the manga.

[Pellissier]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

And Suzuka has good reason for her indecisiveness. If you understand her, you can't blame her.

Spoiler for why Suzuka is so indecisive about Yamato:

She was in love with a guy a year older who was a great sprinter and a flake, but died in a traffic accident the day after confessing his love to her. She has been visiting his grave every week or so for the past couple of years, since he died.

She likes Yamato, but she feels that if she gives in to her feeling for him, she will be being unfaithful to her dead lover. Her intense training and success at track is in part her tribute to her former lover.

So it's really, really hard for her to start going with Yamato, especially since he is so much like the other guy. But she can't give him up, because she does in fact love him. This a very human situation, and she's such an intense and disciplined person that it's tearing her apart.

I definitely agree with your statements here.
In fact, I never judged Asahina badly, I just think that she's been too harsh with Yamato more than once, but it's an auto-defense more than an "attack" to Yamato himself. (the shirt scene is a clear example: she bashes him but then regrets and apologizes since she realizes she has actually exaggerated).

And I really liked how you depicted the situation in the last 2 lines of your spoiler-tagged post. That's the same as I see things myself, and that's also why I do like and respect Suzuka's person so much.

[fynefilo]

I finally got to watch episode 23 and it was a nice episode. I wasn't able to read the posts on it from the old thread, though, which is a shame.

[Pellissier]

Originally Posted by fynefilo

I finally got to watch episode 23 and it was a nice episode. I wasn't able to read the posts on it from the old thread, though, which is a shame.

Don't worry about that. You haven't lost much, speaking of it.
When the forum went down, the fansubbed episode 23 wasn't out yet, so there were just some "spoiler-tagged" opinions.
Nothing if compared to huge discussions on previous eps

[DryFire]

I don't know if someone post this before, but does Suzuka have enough popularity in Japan to warrent a second season assuming enough manga is published?

Anyway I"m pretty sad one of my favorite series will be ending soon.

[am1n]

Originally Posted by DryFire

Anyway I"m pretty sad one of my favorite series will be ending soon.

Me too
Is suzuka a popular anime ?

[gameoffreak8]

Originally Posted by am1n

Me too
Is suzuka a popular anime ?

Yes. Suzuka is a popular anime and Suzuka is my best favorite anime.

Originally Posted by DryFire

Anyway I"m pretty sad one of my favorite series will be ending soon.

I argee with you

[ForeverGoNe]

Originally Posted by Pellissier

I definitely agree with your statements here.
In fact, I never judged Asahina badly, I just think that she's been too harsh with Yamato more than once, but it's an auto-defense more than an "attack" to Yamato himself. (the shirt scene is a clear example: she bashes him but then regrets and apologizes since she realizes she has actually exaggerated).

And I really liked how you depicted the situation in the last 2 lines of your spoiler-tagged post. That's the same as I see things myself, and that's also why I do like and respect Suzuka's person so much.

But there are moments in the series that make you go: 'ugh'. Yamato's actions are indecisive at times and Suzuka can get bitchy. Probably one of the best moments in episode 23 was Yamato finally fending for himself after taking so many spiteful comments from Asahina. I could see the fire in his eyes, oh yes.