[Srin Tuar]

Originally Posted by Ryusei

A couple things that pleasantly surprised me:

Spoiler:

when Uchida's girlfriend eyes the TV and Uchida is running under the rain on the TV screen, she does NOT notice it's him... it would have been a quite disappointing and mood killing cliche if she did...


Actually i find it quite appropriate that the girl died. During natural disasters innocent people DO loose their lifes, even kids, and in this the episode has been crudely but rightfully realistic. ...

Everyone did their best in the most moving way, and still it was useless, in the most cruel and painful way.
This episode is beautiful exactly because it stepped right trough the red line of "entertainement" and slammed the crude reality in front of our eyes.
Top score.

I have to agree with all you said there. This show is like cold hard reality, but in a way that is refreshing

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Spoiler:

The way everyone started teasing him about his hougen was revealing to me.
I had never heard "oen" == "dame" in okayama before, or realized that little things like that are a source of jokes/teasing.

Ive always felt that hougen seemed more intimate and sensual than hyoujungo, and this episode seems to reinforce that. Lovers speak to each other in hougen, while speaking standard japanese to everyone else.