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Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai (My Master Has No Tail)
Manga Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai (My Master Has No Tail) is getting an anime adaptation. Plot Quote:
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2022-01-06, 05:19 | Link #2 | |
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2022-10-08, 09:27 | Link #6 |
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Loving this so far, cute bumbling tanuki and sharp-tongued fox are a great combination, with a few shoujo-ai hints. Something like a more light hearted Eccentric Family, with flying boats, Tanuki society and encroaching modernity. If only Raphtalia had been in a decent show like this, where she could actually be a traditional tanuki rather than a degraded sex slave. It appears as if Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū treats its female characters terribly, so its good see one female Rakugo performer without any needless fuss about it, or unhelpful unplanned pregnancies.
The Rakugo certainly doesn't carry over too well, but I can tell its meant to be funny. Is it necessary to essentially repeat the same story at the end, because Japanese audience would also find old stories hard to understand? Last edited by Ghostfriendly; 2022-10-08 at 10:12. |
2022-10-29, 05:13 | Link #9 |
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'Good and bad days to propose a lovers' suicide'???
Rakugo would always be introduced as 'slightly idiotic tales' by Mr Penguin in Shirokuma Cafe, and some of them more than slightly, but the yakuza story from ep 4 plausibly got through to the antagonist. The 'fortune telling teahouse' in ep 5 actually came across as a credible illustration of human fickleness that a skilled performer could make quite a show of. Loving Mameda's antics, her drumming and her quiet chemistry with Bunko. The shamisen transformation was hilarious and made for quite a steamy ending. |
2022-11-19, 20:06 | Link #11 | |
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Did anyone else notice that the leaf on Mameda's head changed color with the season? It was green before, and this week it was yellow. What's the leaf there for, anyway? Does it have something to do with tanuki mythology? |
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2022-11-23, 18:34 | Link #12 | |
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The outlines of Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu really struck me as another story about self-centred idiots. The only appeal of the tengu in Eccentric Family was to show what lovely furballs the tanuki were for putting up with their arrogance. Last edited by Ghostfriendly; 2022-11-24 at 14:57. |
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2022-12-03, 02:11 | Link #13 |
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It's spring, and Mameda's leaf is back to green.
"Jugemu" has a special and prominent role in Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. It's the story Konatsu does for Shinnosuke's school, the first time she performs rakugo in public. In Rakugo Shinjuu, women absolutely positively do not perform rakugo, which I suspect is closer to historical reality than this show. But then, in a universe where foxes and tanuki can do rakugo, I guess women can as well. |
2022-12-13, 16:55 | Link #14 |
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Sentimentalising the old days when folk respected nature and the gods usually means glossing over everything that was worse, but it's an unsurprising point of view for a fox spirit. An usually intense episode 11 to hint at the darkness outside Mameda's happy-go-lucky world, as well as giving Bunko and her master some impactful depth of character.
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2022-12-19, 07:45 | Link #17 |
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I would watch Rakugo Shinjuu if there were characters knocked-off from Bunko and Mameda, though I get the impression that Yakumo had a much more deep and personal understanding of women than a user of prostitutes, likewise selling men a distorted image of femininity.
Utaroku reminds me of the story where Dustin Hoffman went to great trouble embodying a character, while Laurence Olivier just acted; Mameda's well-expressed professionalism in carrying on over the noise is as valuable to a real artist as 'brilliance'. Although anyone who could make people laugh at some of the stinkers in these Rakugo stories would be a brilliant artist indeed, though frankly pretentious to make this fuss about the right to recite comic monologues. British music hall had its 'memory men', as well as Billy Bennett and Stan Holloway, who are similarly dated but as wise and at least as funny, without fancy titles or inheritance disputes. Everyone a little bit of a cultural chauvinist, as the song went. Especially the 'these foreigners are crazy' dismissal of Mameda's thoughts on the afterlife - Mameda's views as an super-Japanese magical tanuki are naturally going to differ from the Japanese 'monoculture', which, like Middle-American and English culture have never been shared by all the people. Whatever Mameda wants to do, I like her; I don't like Utaroku or any of the Rakugo Shinjuu characters. Still, his clap-going-on-too-long was quite effective. Kirino's cat impersonation was quite nice, and nice that Bunko and Mameda seem to be reuniting in the next episode. |
2022-12-19, 14:36 | Link #18 | |
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And yes, one of Yakumo's strengths was his ability to portray female characters in his stories. |
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2022-12-20, 13:09 | Link #19 |
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Bunko and Mameda could transform into men if necessary, because Tanuki and Kitsune are cool like that, or use their performance skills to impersonate men, like the immortal Lady Oscar. Or proudly perform as women because there's a place for serious stories like Lone Wolf and Cub, that show how cruel and unfair the the world has been, and is, but also a place to say that past and contemporary prejudices never deserved to exist. Masses of human injustice and stupidity always remain to be written about, as in Shishou wa Shippo, even if New York cops in FAKE can snog on a busy street without comment.
If we're going to talk about other series involving rakugo, Shirokuma Cafe memorably portrayed modern amateur rakugo as a ridiculous bore. Shishou wa Shippo is indeed a fairly light series on character development, where I didn't think Bunko's backstory in ep 11 was much foreshadowed in her earlier conduct, except very generally in her prickly attitude and generally applicable comments on progress. With all her master's baggage, ep 11 seemed like it was from a different series; a hard focus on Bunko and Mameda's relationship might have been better than introducing a new character every episode, all related to the master whom protagonist Mameda has no relationship with. Still, the events and aspirations of the show have been unobjectionable, commendable, cute and amusing. |
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