2017-02-23, 01:38 | Link #344 | |
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2017-02-23, 01:43 | Link #345 |
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Join Date: May 2010
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I find that I am enjoying the anime because I feel it is ... enriching the source material a bit while not really changing the essence of the narrative. The anime original elements have almost all fit nicely for me, and when (after ep 5, I think?) I got inspired to go back through the manga on a re-read I found it was a fresh reading that was interesting for me.
Personal preference wise I still prefer the mangaka's slightly odd art style as it somehow harmonizes with his sense of humor and one-liners so well, but yes ... on the whole I also think KyoAni is doing a good job here thus far.
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2017-02-23, 05:44 | Link #348 |
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Kobayashi appears deadpan and unemotive but she's really quite perceptive and compassionate. She offers Tohru the chance to go dragon, once full-on at the beach and once partially (tail and wings) at Comiket. She knows Tohru feels limited by the basic human-with-horns appearance she is restricted to in public and gives her the chance to be what she really is, a dragon, when she can.
Kanna's bug research report for school ("moist", "flaky", "crunchy") is going to raise some eyebrows when she hands it in. Yes, Comiket really is like that, only bigger (there are two halls, East and West as well as other spaces) and more crowded. The last Comiket I attended a few years back had over 500,000 attendees.
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2017-02-23, 16:54 | Link #350 |
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Having read the manga chapter that the beach portion is based on, I was waiting for the moment where she tries to eat the dog (with Shouta and Lucoa stopping her).
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2017-02-23, 17:39 | Link #351 | |
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2017-02-23, 21:47 | Link #353 |
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The idea that the poodle might be in trouble when Kanna became interested seems to have struck nearly everyone who watched this episode, myself included. The dog never registered alarm.
That's an other possibility worth considering. Tohru has stated on occasion that she has no use for deities. With Rahab and Leviathan referenced in this seventh episode, mentioned here by name this time, it seems clear once more that Tohru's position includes the god(s) of the Abrahamic religions - although I was too narrow in my earlier E.7 comment linking the legendary creatures to just one book from their scriptural mythologies. Given the circumstances it seems a little more doubtful that Tohru would have confused the creature she encountered underwater with Rahab from the book of Joshua, but that still leaves other books besides Job’s for sources of information about the ocean dwelling variety. Though Tohru here indicates having spend time in the ocean deeps, I'm not sure the way she phrased it in this episode can be interpreted as confirmation that she herself originates there. Neither, though, does the way it came up this time eliminate the possibility... Her origins remain the most enigmatic. Last edited by Verso Sciolto; 2017-02-23 at 22:07. |
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2017-02-24, 04:15 | Link #357 | |
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Tohru doesn't read religious texts, she just talks about the dragons as actual creatures and not just words in a book.
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2017-02-24, 18:38 | Link #359 | |
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Tohru doesn't read the texts but her experiences are shaped by those who inhabit them and thus inform us about her life, in addition to the lives of her companions, and her personal -former- adversaries. In the "Kobayashi" universe all myths are true and -though modified - still recognisable. Based on what is depicted, we can visit the places she has been and thereby recreate who she has been. Even if "who Tohru is supposed to be" turns out to be less specific than the other dragons who make an appearance here. There are maps and legends for these territories and even if they occasionally lead us astray, they're still interesting to explore, I think you agree, to some degree. Alastor added to the list of "candidates" for Tohru, together with the "Soul Reaver Games" for an invocation of the multi-verse and its creatures, with which both Tohru and Kobayashi may already be somewhat familiar, though from different perspectives. It might have been better if Kanna had Spoiler:
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2017-02-25, 08:11 | Link #360 |
is this so?
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Watched episode 7:
Another fun episode. So the Comiket is too much even for a maid dragon, she got so thirsty. XD Oh, and poor Fafnir-san.. I would have bought a copy of Curse Anhthology if I was there. Oww.. Tohru is a good "cosplayer" Photogs are piling up on her. That kind of thing happens to cosplayers with plenty of appeal or has a nice costume - or both in our cosplay community over here ^^ (which reminds me, I still have plenty of cosplay pics from Otaku Expo 2017 that need to be sorted ><). And lastly,,,, I think Tohru is friends with Rahab, or at least has good relations with that creature because she called out to it. Too bad it was the wrong person she called to... that Leviathan must be immensely powerful, because even Tohru is afraid of it.
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