2013-04-19, 18:38 | Link #901 |
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Did I miss it, but how did Kanede sprain her finger?
Seemed they just went "oh she sprained her finger" and that's it without showing when it happened. ROFL, Arata is so damn serious business. Take it easy for a while. For the kurata team matches, does each pairing have the same cards on the field, or does each pairing have a totally random set of poems? Because not every poem is used right?
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2013-04-19, 22:48 | Link #902 | |
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Poor Shinobu. T_T Arata ignores her. She just wants to have conversation as an old friend. She even show off her cute Snowmaru underwear. When she tells him that she's leaving, Arata only asks her to watch the final. The final has several future Queen candidates, but they may not be at Shinbu's level yet. Shinobu seems bored, but she still listen to Arata. T_T
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2013-04-19, 22:57 | Link #903 | |
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well thinking back that seems to be the case since, remember in a previous match ( & some others IIRC) all pairs are down to 1 card (the luck scene) and it's all the same card (highly improbable if different pairs used different random set cards) so I guess it really is done like this.
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2013-04-20, 02:27 | Link #904 |
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50 cards per game, and I'm thinking that for team matches, each separate game (5 in a team) should have its own random set of cards. The anime just likes these multiple luck-of-the-draw moments and the scenes where all five members of Mizusawa swipe at the Chihayaburu card.
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2013-04-20, 10:04 | Link #906 |
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I liked how Shinobu didn't feel embarrassed undressing in front of guys. She only cares about Karuta... and snowmaru. Cute underwear by the way (they still make them her size...?). I'm glad Arata managed to convince her to watch the final. Her point of view will be interesting. She will surely change her mind when she realizes how passionate Chihaya and the others are. I assume she still remembers Chihaya since she pissed her off quite a bit last year, so looking forward to her reaction when she sees how much she's improved.
The Fujisaki guys are pretty funny lol. Taichi sees a resemblance between the captain and Arata but I can't say that I do. Not to mention they couldn't be more different on the inside. I never expected that guy to be such a hopeless pervert . Thanks to him we got to find out Kana and the Fujisaki coach's cup size. Although they're all a bit quirky, we shouldn't forget they're top class opponents. They're all A class save for Rion, so that means it will be almost impossible for Tsutomu and Tsukuba to win their matches. Victory lies in the hand of Nishida, Chihaya and Taichi. Nishida better not mess up once again. As I expected, Rion got to play against Chihaya. Even though she's only B class, it's obvious she will be a tough opponent. I'm sure Chihaya will win this time though. It's a shame Kana got injured. I'm afraid this will impede her in the individual tournament, or even prevent her from playing altogether.
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2013-04-20, 10:09 | Link #907 |
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I hope Taichi wasn't put off by that psychological line being drawn because it would be great if it actually pissed him off and made him more determined than ever to prove his opponent wrong.
Though maybe I'm just hoping for a cliché "Namen nayo!" scene. And Shinobu continues to win the show for me with her antics. I'm curious what she'll make of Chihaya's match.
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2013-04-20, 10:15 | Link #908 | |
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The writers and directors often choose probabilistically unlikely events to heighten the drama on screen. In Tsutomu's decisive match against Akashi Girls, there were six cards left of which two were on the field. All four unmatched cards were read first, and event that happens only 6.7% of the time. By the way, my search turned up this useful page on the Chihayafuru wiki with descriptions and illustrations of strategies and moves used in karuta.
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2013-04-20, 10:49 | Link #910 |
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How do they do that? How can the show make a simple set-up episode last for 23 minutes and make it feel like it's only 10 minutes long? I love these insights into the opponents' characters. It makes the competition feel much more personal.
I love that Taichi has cast his opponent as an Arata stand-in. Team play is Taichi's strong point. I hope that by beating this class A player, this ghost of Arata, he can get over whatever is holding him back in individual competition so that he gets the A class ranking he deserves.
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2013-04-20, 12:08 | Link #912 |
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With all the build-up we get of Rion as a player from past episodes, we should expect that she will be quite good, perhaps future queen contender. I assume that since her grandmother is a famous reader, her strength could be the same as Chihaya, able recognize the poem by hearing the first syllable through her super ears.
I find it funny that the Fujisaki's captain fantasize Kana and his Ice-queen coach. Well she is Hot though, so I guess we can see one of his motivation in joining her team. Speaking about coaches, it's quite nice to show the different personalities of most the teams coach. Like how Fujisaki's is cold and calculated. Hokuo is very supportive but very weak-willed, Akashi is so emotional and passionate, while the empress tries her best to support the team in a sport she have little knowledge of. (the nerdy school team's coach just want to get home) Queen Shinobu is always lovable. Arata seems to be the only person she takes seriously. Lol, that kiddy Snowmaru underwear. |
2013-04-20, 12:39 | Link #913 | |
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EDIT: Now that I think about it. Taichi might get to play against Rion in the B class tournament that comes after the team tournament...
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2013-04-20, 14:05 | Link #914 | |
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To be honest, the B class individual tournament is the game set that I'm looking forward to the most. Like Chihaya, I want Taichi to reach A class first of all their achievements this season.
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2013-04-20, 16:34 | Link #915 | |
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But the 25/25 split, OTOH, isn't the same. We've seen cards that some members of a team had to attack, while others had to defend. |
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2013-04-20, 18:34 | Link #916 | |
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That conforms to the description at Wikipedia
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It sounds like the match directors deal out fifty of the hundred cards, and the other fifty are set aside as "dead" cards. Then they would have to produce enough duplicate decks for every match with the same reader. That would be quite the painstaking task for those preliminary matches with lots of competitors. Now what? How are those cards distributed between the two players? The Wiki description suggests each player deals out half the fifty selected cards as her "hand." That means there should usually be duplicates in play in every match. I don't recall seeing that situation depicted in the anime so far, but maybe it came up last season?
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2013-04-20, 18:48 | Link #917 |
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What do you mean by "duplicate"? Each pair has 50 unique cards. Each member of the pair gets 25 cards out of those 50 (randomly selected, one presumes. They certainly don't pick which cards they get.). So what duplicate are you talking about?
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If the first method is used, then someone has to deal out the cards between the players. Perhaps some mechanism is used to choose one of the players to deal, and he or she does so. If so, I don't recall seeing that sequence take place in the show so far. It looks more like they each start with a preassigned deck of twenty-five cards which they lay out. If so, I don't know how that deck is determined. Still you're right that, if this method is used, there would be no duplicate cards. Under the second method, though, where each player deals herself twenty-five of the fifty cards, duplicates would happen all the time as long as the ordering of the players' decks was not predetermined.
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