2011-08-30, 23:44 | Link #586 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kyoto, Japan
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It doesn't look like Aki is being dominated by Kukko to me. It looks like he's marking time and putting up with her nonsense until she pisses him off badly enough to get hurt.
Not much happened on the surface, but there was a lot bubbling up underneath this week. Koushirou is indeed a stand-up guy - and finally, someone on-screen points out Hibino has a rack! He hints to Kyouhei that he's going to have to get in the game on one side or the other - but what are the sides? Hyuga vs. Kuga? I don't think so - too simple, and I think Kyouhei and Koushirou will end up on the same side. I can't help but think Aki has the right idea - blow that place off the map. Unhappiness seeps from the pores of the village and clings to everyone who lives there like a bad stink, even if they leave.
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2011-08-31, 00:35 | Link #587 | |
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But if you must have a justification for it, Hibino's dad is probably telling customers that Utao's his other daughter. Even in the US you can get away with employing child slaves as long as they're your kids. |
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2011-08-31, 00:48 | Link #588 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2011
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Is it child labor if she's not getting paid?
After all, anyone can do volunteer work. Quote:
They probably won't begin a new season until the manga concludes. I'd give it a year or two. |
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2011-08-31, 04:59 | Link #592 | |
worshipping the pantyhose
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines
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Kanon is it? This is the police. We'd like you to come with us to the station. Wait, are you disgracing her big ones, suggesting that the flat teenage Hibino is better? (what happened to her mom anyways... it doesn't look like Hibino grew those things at an early age, did her mom like pass away and pass on a few things as well?) A few things I forgot to mention of this scene: Hibino went ponytail again! And I'd be lol'ing if the girl on the right of the graduation photo is Suou-chan, looks like she dyed her hair |
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2011-08-31, 12:06 | Link #595 | |
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No, there should be a better way than this, imo. This anime has drawn a philosophical contrast between how Aki views the dolls and how Utao views them. I don't think the viewer is meant to agree with Aki's approach to them. With that in mind, you can help the village without destroying it. Just because Aki isn't entirely unsympathetic doesn't mean he's completely right in his desires and objectives.
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2011-08-31, 12:27 | Link #598 |
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It's not about being "right" in the moral sense but being "right" in the pragmatic sense. I don't really see a way Aki and co. could ever get away from what they have been through (the harrowing experience will always haunt them) but they could at least lead a somewhat "normal" life and at least make an attempt at finding love and healing their hearts (I doubt it'd achieve much success) but they can't even do that so long as there is that village trying to "collect" them or otherwise meddling with their lives. So wiping it off the map is a valid - dare I say the only - thing they could do. I don't agree with it but I wouldn't condemn them if they did exactly that either. So long as they are sincere about it.
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2011-08-31, 12:32 | Link #599 |
I'll end it before April.
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We already know that not everyone is like that in the village. The main problem is mostly the elder and some influential people. "Wiping it of the map" is not what I call a "good solution". It's just the easiest one for people who don't care about other. Futhermore, if Aki killed all of them, he would spend the rest of his life in jail : what a great achievement for him (to be fair, it should already be the case )
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2011-08-31, 13:02 | Link #600 | |
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Bottom line - I don't think Karakami is "fixable" - it's a place of evil and has been for centuries, though obviously some good people live there. While of course Aki would be in the wrong to wipe it out with everyone in it, he may be in the right of it in the eventual goal. When good people like Kyouhei try to leave it, and good people like Koushirou try and fix it from within, they're doomed to fail - they're inevitably drawn back into the cycle of violence and paranoia that surrounds the village. The only way to free the good people associated with Karakami in the end is to get rid of the Kekkashi system and the village that was built around it.
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