2018-05-13, 11:36 | Link #42 | |
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It was a good twist knowing both of those character were dead from the start, I wonder if that girl and her friends will stop bullying the other girl in school. It was spooky how Kitaro warn her about her bullying action. Sadly this is all he will do to stop the bullying. Speaking of which, I hard about hardcore DB fans bashing Kitaro before airing Just for replacing Dragonball Super.. So, how does Gegege Kitaro look now compare to Dragonball Super? Considering how DBS was heavily criticized for its writing and Gegege Kitaro does seem to have better writing, character and story.
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2018-05-13, 14:55 | Link #44 | ||
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2018-05-20, 01:16 | Link #49 |
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When Kitaro and Neko went into Mana's house, they didn't take off their shoes. Are yokai exempt from that rule?
LOL when Kagami-jijii said both Mana and Neko looked like his first love. But then I thought it would turn out that the Sand Witch was his first love... |
2018-05-20, 01:38 | Link #50 |
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wow after a pretty dark and mature previous episode we are getting back to the trackm of "old shounen style" with kitaro fighting the "monster of the week" and really much more light tham the previous one, probably previous episode have a lot of chances of being the "darkest episode" in this serie.
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2018-05-27, 11:28 | Link #53 |
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after this episode, i'm not too sure if i'm right however, i feel this serie is being a sort of "criticizing toward japan worklife", so far at last 3 to 4 episodes where about "work" and at last 2 where about "shit bosses" it's feel like this anime agenda is try to show to kids how crap is work in japan, how you have scums taking advantage of the peoples.
And poor yokai of "hard work", he become useless in a society where peoples already do it "naturally without his help and become somehow "immune to him", it was fun seeying the guy which was supposed to be the villian turning in the hero and also lol at that "shirikodama" , really funny episode but i can't stop to feel a "anti-hardwork" mentality agenda on that and how you can have scums taking advantage of it and make peoples working for x3 or even x4 times what they where supposed to work. Also in the end the guy get his "punishment for being greedy" and crap.
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2018-05-27, 13:22 | Link #55 |
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I've seen kappa back to School Rumble, but I never bothered to look into the legends until your suggestion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore) I'm glad I looked it up. It explains a lot even if the legend is incredibly weird. The cucumbers and wrestling are part of the lore as well, along with the plates on their heads. Kappas are also sometimes thought to rape women. I thought Cat-chick's and Sand-witch's reactions to their assault had a whiff of sexual fear about it not apparent in the male victims. This show is coming down hard on Japanese workplace culture. The kappas even formed a union! I find these themes pretty amusing. The ending was priceless.
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2018-05-27, 14:22 | Link #56 | |
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The japanese "slavery" work and bully aspects are really being strong on that show.
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2018-05-27, 14:39 | Link #57 |
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I might be wrong, but I think the kappa also represented non-japanese workers that might be treated badly (in an already bad working environment).
Also, I get the feeling that cat girl is feeding the leg fetish of future generations ^^; It was nice to see nezumi otoko (should I call him "mickey mouse"?) come with an smartphone app for the reports, now they only have to create a filter for all the ones without relation to yokai. |
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2018-05-27, 16:39 | Link #59 |
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That's all true, but none of this is an invention of the anime, you know? Mizuki was always pretty open about his views on social justice. It's just that the anime is doing a very good job of contemporizing things enough to make them relevant to what's happening in 2018.
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