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View Poll Results: AnoHana - Episode 6 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 25 | 31.65% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 26 | 32.91% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 18 | 22.78% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 12.66% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
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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2011-05-21, 14:58 | Link #123 | |
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Word. I have no idea how the speculation headed that way. I'd imagine Menma's wish is something simple and childlike. As I stated at the beginning of this show, Anohana is about simplicity and we will see if that changes when the show progesses. |
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2011-05-21, 15:41 | Link #124 | |
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Honestly, it's like people have been drunk with melodrama and pretense lately that they can't enjoy an anime about homely values anymore. It has to have a twist to tickle their senses. The tumor, the abuse, the murder, the paedophilia, none of those have crossed my mind for a second. You're free to hypothesize of course, but some of these are pretty out there. I won't rule out a future twist - and if there is one it's likely something to do with Menma's forgotten wish - but the chance of it being dark and twisted is pretty darn small if you ask me. |
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2011-05-21, 15:52 | Link #126 |
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Yeah I like angst as much as the next person but I actually like that Anohana is more laid back. It reminds me of Honey & Clover more than anything.
Okay sure there is a lot of drama but I honestly feel this is a moving on/growing up story but in this case the characters are moving back to each other. Although that being said I have no idea what Menma's wish is. Of course I do think it has something to do with what she called them to the club house that day for but other than that I have no theories and just want to see how it all turns out. I am not expecting anything Grim!Dark though.
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2011-05-21, 18:45 | Link #127 |
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After thinking about it a bit I am inclined to think that if the theory of abuse holds water I think it is much more likely to be between Menma's father and mother as opposed to between Menma and her father - for example if Menma saw her father physically abusing here mother. Of course this could lead to all kinds of variations as regards "why", but I also agree with Solace - it is true that my speculation IS just shooting in the dark for now. And I am notoriously bad at guessing where anime/manga plots are headed!
But for now I am still going to go with my theory in general and put the focus squarely on some sort of abusive activity between Menma's mother and father that she unknowingly stumbled across.
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2011-05-21, 20:12 | Link #128 | |
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If it comforts you in any way, my prediction (about paedophilia) was mostly made in joke. It could happen though! I'm looking at Poppo's trainwreck potential and I can't help myself but to make fun of him. |
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2011-05-21, 20:26 | Link #130 |
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While I certainly respect that some fans don't want this anime to get too dark (I myself share the same sentiment to some degree), I'm not exactly sure why the addition of child abuse (it wouldn't have to be sexual, by the way) would be making this show melodramatic.
I mean, we already have: 1. A teenage boy who cosplays as his deceased childhood female friend, including cross-dressing. 2. An (unsuccessful) attempted rape scene. 3. A hikikomori male lead that had quit school for a long time. And all of the above were presented pretty seriously, in my opinion. I would never underestimate Okada's ability and tendency to broach taboo and/or very touchy subjects, and with a certain maturity as well. Wandering Son and True Tears speak loudly to this, imo. Thankfully, Okada is generally very good at this.
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2011-05-21, 20:40 | Link #131 | |||
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Not really indecent, just more revealing than usual. It was Jinta who made things awkward, I think. Either way, he got himself some point there.
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2011-05-21, 20:52 | Link #133 |
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Anaru and that random guy in episode 5, where Yukiatsu saved here. At least, I think that's what Triple_R is referring to.
As for the child abuse thing, it'd bother me because it's so distinct from the other main characters. Most of the other conflicts are related to the group and Menma's death to the point where issues outside of this would feel like they're forced or the story would feel unfocused. Menma being abused as a child wouldn't really do much to progress the larger narrative; at most, it'd lead to sympathy for Menma, but that wouldn't really lead anywhere since it's so unrelated to the rest of the group. |
2011-05-21, 21:55 | Link #134 | |
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She obviously didn't feel anything about it at the beginning, or when Poppo and Jintan visited her place a few eps back. |
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2011-05-21, 22:05 | Link #135 |
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Actually, when I was watching the episode I was wondering if it was Menma, not Jinta who had the soap-opera disease. Calling everyone together to talk about something important, which ends up not being discussed, feels like a death flag to me (even if she's already dead) so I hope we do get more flashbacks about that day soon, maybe Tsuruko next?
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2011-05-22, 02:30 | Link #137 |
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I think the attempted rape scene can be more accurately labeled as enjo kosai. It was more like Anaru didn't know what she was doing exactly.
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2011-05-22, 03:53 | Link #139 | |
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2011-05-22, 05:29 | Link #140 |
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Very interesting, and sort of surprising to show a ghost who's actually afraid of what will happen when she moves on. I suspect that she might have some idea of what her "unfinished business" is, but deliberately forgot it out of fear of the unknown, and a desire to bring everyone back together again and be with them longer.
Naruko's getting to me more and more. There's not much worse you can do to a girl than spread rumors like that. I'm a little uncertain about how close she really is with her "friends", or whether to a good extent she just hangs out with them to have someone to be with. And then they let some guy take her away. And worse, as the only ones there they were obviously the ones who told everyone how she went off to a hotel with an old man she'd just met. It seems pretty clear that the girls were up for doing enjou kousai and going all the way. And a bystander who saw an older businessman walking with a girl who was dressed a little bit like that would think that. Tsurumi herself warned Naruko that the way she and her friends dressed was typical of those sorts of "gals". The way people like her friends are treated can be painful enough, but the way they treat people when they suddenly "find out" that they'd done something like that is horrible. This sort of thing is sometimes called "Second Rape" or something like that, as a person's image and psyche is violated over and over again by the way she's suddenly seen by people. BTW, one thing's been bothering me. Where the heck did the phrase "Ecchi, Sketchy, One-touch!" come from? I've heard it before several times but it just seems really weird. |
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