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Perfect 10 | 17 | 31.48% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 17 | 31.48% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 13 | 24.07% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 3 | 5.56% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 3 | 5.56% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.85% | |
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 | 0 | 0% | |
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2011-09-18, 20:26 | Link #41 | |
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In real life, there's a restaurant I go to fairly regularly, maybe once every month or two. I've been going there regularly for years now, and all the workers there know who I am the moment I walk into the restaurant. Once I go into this restaurant, my "every flight and fancy" is almost immediately catered to. If I say "I'll have the usual", they know exactly what I mean (and my usual will come with extra sour cream and salsa because they know I splurge on that ). If I'm there with a crowd, the waiter or waitress will bring out a large pitcher of Diet Pepsi even if I don't ask for one, because they know that's what everybody in my family and immediate circle of friends likes to drink during mealtimes. I've at times considered stop going to this restaurant because it can be a bit pricey. But the level of service (and quality of food of course) keeps me coming back. I really don't think that Sui is wrong for keeping a record of all of her regular customers, and tailoring everything to suit their distinct personalities. That sort of service is attractive to a lot of people, including myself, and it can offer a real competitive advantage. "Dogmatic idea" or not, maybe its the right idea. Also, we don't know why, exactly, the Inn has been struggling financially. It may simply be a lot of newer, larger competitors recently opening up drawing customers away from them. If so, Sui's "special touch" might be the only thing keeping the place going at all, as in many areas, it just can't compete with the larger Inns and Hotels. So I frankly think, based partly on real life personal experience, that you're selling some of Sui's ideas short, and possibly jumping a bit to conclusions. There's nothing necessarily wrong with sentimentality. Many people have sentimental feelings for certain things, and a wise commercial enterprise can take advantage of that. By the way, the restaurant I somewhat regularly go to has been going strong for years, and in an area where two major restaurants recently closed due to lack of business. Again, there's something to be said for holding to an ideal approach to customer satisfaction.
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2011-09-18, 23:22 | Link #43 | |
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The reason so many people think Satsuki should take over is that when she visited last time, she gave Sui several concrete suggestions of how to improve the inn without abandoning the things that everyone loves about it. She has the forward-thinking outlook that Sui lacks and the sensibility that Enishi doesn't have. When you have fights breaking out amongst the staff, morale is in trouble. Just compare the way everyone was acting in this episode to the well-oiled machine we saw in both the OPs. |
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2011-09-19, 10:55 | Link #47 | |
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Enishi's methods are removing the extra quality of the service and are essentially turning Kissuiso into a normal inn. This is not what these people came here for, and I seriously doubt any of them are going to come back. Why go to Kissuiso instead of a bigger, more modern and possibly cheaper inn like Yunosagi if the service is the same?
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2011-09-19, 11:47 | Link #48 |
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Don't worry; you're not. I loved that choral music at the end coupled with a lingering shot of gorgeous scenery. It really gave the impression of relief after hard, intense work that I'm sure the characters felt.
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2011-09-19, 11:47 | Link #49 |
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Every time that old couple has come to the inn before, the rooms were probably between 60-90% empty (in fact, there have been several "So and so is the only guest registered" moments during the course of the series). That might be nice for them to have a large ryokan all to themselves, but it's not good for business. If you have the biggest local festival of the year and the biggest review in the inn's history at the same time, isn't it natural that a few temporary concessions would have to be made during the few days the place was 100% booked? If that old couple can't accept that, they're the ones with a problem.
There's a definite sort of fantasy world that characters in HanaIro live in, but I'm never sure whether the POV of the show itself shares it and I'm not sure it is, either. Life isn't a perfect black and white experience, and you can't run an inn exactly the same way you do when it's 10% full when it's 100% full. If you continue to draw a huge increase in guests, you hire more staff and try and get as close as possible to the old way. What's happening at the moment is a sort of perfect storm and it's silly to expect everything to operate exactly as normal.
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2011-09-19, 12:06 | Link #50 | |
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Ideally, they should probably have hired temps for the rush season. |
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2011-09-19, 13:16 | Link #52 | |
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Anh_Minh is right about how the ideal solution would have been hiring temp workers, but that would have resolved the conflict a bit too easily, so I can see why the anime narrative didn't go that route. The buffet idea I thought was, on the whole, a decent idea given the circumstances. There was a bit of a trade-off there: One elderly couple didn't like it, but another customer was wowed by the quality of the buffet food (because the cooks were taking a first-class approach to it, which isn't always the case with buffet food). Here again, though, temp workers could have solved the bad side of the trade-off (i.e. a "If you'd prefer to not eat at the buffet and rather be served in your room, just make that request to the front desk" sort of deal, and the temp workers could handle this). I have to admit that I would have been darkly amused if a big sumo wrestler had been using the Inn at the time, saw the buffet, and said "Time to chow down!"
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2011-09-19, 16:02 | Link #53 | |
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2011-09-19, 20:49 | Link #55 |
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I probably was the only one who thought Ko would show up and decide to help out at the inn, esp since when they were showing Satsuki going to/arriving, it seemed like they were intentionally showing her talking/arriving in such a way as if it was to hide someone behind/next to her.
I take this to mean that, in the end, Ko is a more important aspect to Ohana than Kissuiso is. The fact that they saved it for last means it's the big finale; the defining point for Ohana's future. I mean, even though she pointed out that how everyone was thinking in terms of "beating Okami" was wrong, she wasn't really a critical factor in all of this compared to other drama-filled arcs. She didn't feel like the same girl who took a train all the way to Tokyo to hunt down a cook to come back and save Kissuiso. |
2011-09-20, 12:42 | Link #57 |
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Decent episode, but annoyed at how everyone was acting, especially giving Ohana the cold shoulder for helping the bonburi festival like they're suppose to.
It definitely showed a decrease in service overall. No idea why Enishi overbooked the place like that when he knows the inn can't handle that many customers normally. Was also annoyed in the one scene when Tomoe sprains her ankle, and Enishi immediately thinks to ask the union for help. So he attempts to screws the union over during the movie deal (even though it turned out to be a scam), and refuses to help the union set up the town festival (that the inn is also a big part of, all of their customers are thanks to the local festival there), then when they have a small problem, its the first thing he looks to, to want help. If I was the union, I would have told him "too bad" It was all worth it to see Satsuki in service uniform. :3
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2011-09-20, 12:57 | Link #58 |
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It was an enjoyable episode. Enishi really is pathetic though... poor guy.
Now then... let's resolve things with Kou and say farewell to this lovely series that, even though was not what we expected, was still enjoyable.
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He worked on the principle of "if we have the room, we accept them". He didn't figure out until too late that his staffing isn't made for something like that. Quote:
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2011-09-20, 18:19 | Link #60 | ||
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This isn't the town's first bonburi festival, and not the first time they had more than 2 customers. We seen them stressed with like only 4-5 rooms of customers. Quote:
All we seen is Enishi giving the finger to the union. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if the union gave him the finger back next time he asks for help. The only reason they're still included is because Sui keeps going and apologizing for him. And the Union were willing to take on risk in the movie deal, they were all gonna pitch in for the production budget, but Enishi said "yea, we're actually going to take on the entire budget, so we don't need you" and tried to hog all the benefits for himself. And in the end, it almost straight out bankrupted the place. All the other hotels are also busy with above-average customers, and they were all able to send someone to help preparations.
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