(L) Michiko and Hatchin (new manglobe)

[karumofin]

Originally Posted by Tiran86

I would imagine 26. 26 seems to be the standard for this kind of show.

someone in this thread said its jsut 20 i believe.

[NickelXenon]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

Anyone notice some striking resemblance between Michiko's somewhat gayish friend (sorry, forgot the name) and Spike? It's all in the hair, man...

And worse then the sub foul-up with the Favela-city thing, was episode 4's written portuguese: whatever "do Pepê Lima". Well, she was a girl, right? Should have been "da", then. Still pretty funny, tho.

And the cat in episode 1 should have been Blanca and not Blanco, right? It had a pink ribbon, so it was a girl cat wasn't it?

[ZODDGUTS]

Originally Posted by NickelXenon

And the cat in episode 1 should have been Blanca and not Blanco, right? It had a pink ribbon, so it was a girl cat wasn't it?

Notice that as well. Also it was rather odd or dumb? that she said that blanco meant shiro (Japanese for white) considering that their in Brazil that line doesn't make sense. Think about it for a sec and you'll see it was rather odd to say, if the show took place in the U.S. and they were american saying that "White means Shiro" that would be just as dumb, except that it was worse with the line "blanco means Shiro" because they also got the gender name wrong for the cat.

[BetoJR]

Except that "Blanco" is not a portuguese word, but a spanish one (in portuguese, white is branco - I know, one letter, but still)... so the explanation actually makes some kind of sense. It's also a possibility on why a female cat was named with a masculine name, since the owner might not know it's wrong. Or the production team simply fouled up. Or the cat was, in fact, male. I mean, I have seen male pets adorned with ribbons around...

[ZODDGUTS]

Ah it seems Branco is used in Portuguese language both for Portugal and in Brazil. Heh not that much of a difference between Branco and blanco so I don't think the whole explanation was needed. Seems to me the production team just mess up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branco

[BetoJR]

Another possibility is that japanese-speaking people usually can't differentiate the "L" from the "R" when speaking, so...

[NickelXenon]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

Another possibility is that japanese-speaking people usually can't differentiate the "L" from the "R" when speaking, so...

That's what I was going to say. But I just kept laughing when they called the cat a masculine name while it was wearing a pink ribbon.

[WanderingKnight]

Another possibility is that japanese-speaking people usually can't differentiate the "L" from the "R" when speaking, so...

Exactly, that's another translation blunder.

Although I don't claim to be a master of Portuguese, I can somewhat understand it, but all in all they've been pretty faithful to it (I dunno about the bull-fighting though).

[NickelXenon]

Originally Posted by WanderingKnight

Exactly, that's another translation blunder.

Although I don't claim to be a master of Portuguese, I can somewhat understand it, but all in all they've been pretty faithful to it (I dunno about the bull-fighting though).

I've never been to Brazil, so can anyone tell us if they really do bull-fighting there? I speak Spanish so I can understand most of the Portugese in the anime.

[BetoJR]

No, we don't have bull-fighting like the one shown in the anime here. It was a funny scene, tho.

[Movskian]

Episode 7 impressions.

Spoiler for episode 7:

Noooooooooooooo! How come you survived this far being this stupid, woman!

I honestly don't know what the point of this episode was. Michiko, after breaking out of a maximum security prison and retrieving Hatchin for her dream of meeting Hiroshi again, shows doubt when a random flirt just asks her if "he really loved her", and is won over by the flirt. Hatchin, for whose life Michiko had risked hers in the previous episode, is shown nearly drowning and saved by someone else while Michiko was drunk. Ok, maybe Michiko is just too weak against cute guys, but it's hard to find a meaning for Hatchin's near-death scene, if not that Michiko can be unreliable at times. And both go against the whole image that the first six episodes had been creating for her.

Then again, it's not that Michiko has to be near her at all times, and she only showed up by accident when Hatchin was nearly killed by the kids' gang in episode 3 -- having had her sneakers stolen in both cases. Any connection? Anyway, it's more likely that she just has a healthy pride but is rash when doing things. Sounds like her surrogate "mother", actually.

As I said, I don't know what they tried to accomplish in this episode, but it surely had a nice presentation. The visuals were probably inspired by a riverside town in the Amazon, and there was that slow, old-style samba playing throughout it. I still haven't managed to find out its name; at least, we'll eventually find out when the soundtrack CD comes out.

I hope that the main plot advances soon. The official site has updated its Character section; there's a girl named Rita who will appear in episodes 9 and 11, and maybe 10 as well. This may mean that the next episode will also be an standalone, and then we'll have a three-episode arc, which will probably relate to the plot.

Something funny from episode 5.

... here, I'm going on with life.
Well, in the name of our years-old friendship,
Take care of that brat you see there.
Her name is Hacchin.
She's just like you see her,
tiny, disheveled, silly and honest.
To make things worse, she has a short fuse.
Sometimes she'll burn water with her belly button.
She eats anything, if you let her, she'll eat even trash.
She's left-handed just as she's right-handed.

I had to pause for a couple of minutes after reading this.

(Actually, it's written in the masculine and you can see a different name slashed over and replaced with "Hacchin", but it's funny regardless. )

Originally Posted by geebee

What genre of music would you guys call the opening song?

I want to say it reminds me of some lounge or jazz from the 60's.. at least in terms of the vocals. But is there a more specific name for this style?

Here are some other songs with similar sounding vocals. 1 2 3 4

I can't help about defining a style either... I asked a friend who's better than me at music, and he just said things like "this song sounds like a xxx, with elements of yyy, and this other is different".

As for the vocals, I believe they're prominent in bossa nova and MPB. Note that, today, MPB is more like an umbrella term for music that "sounds Brazilian" in a certain way—the comment about a "certain aesthetic quality" at the end of that Wikipedia article is quite appropriate.

BTW, those four songs were great to hear, thanks for posting them.

[karumofin]

now episode 7 was some rgeat stuff. after my disapointment with the previous two parter this episode was truly outstanding again. As far as I'm concerned they may as well skip the mainplot, because the standalone episodes have all worked far better then the important ones (1, 5, 6).

[Oxtail]

Grrr. I hate seeing Michiko as some idiot bimbo who gets played by some jerk with a couple of corny lines. It really lowers my opinion of her.

[ZODDGUTS]

Originally Posted by Oxtail

Grrr. I hate seeing Michiko as some idiot bimbo who gets played by some jerk with a couple of corny lines. It really lowers my opinion of her.

Pretty much. It was lame seeing her like that, glad hatchin said fuck this and left though she was saved later. Anyways didn't like this episode because of how Michiko acted, so easily played by a player.

[karumofin]

Originally Posted by ZODDGUTS

Pretty much. It was lame seeing her like that, glad hatchin said fuck this and left though she was saved later. Anyways didn't like this episode because of how Michiko acted, so easily played by a player.

i think the series has made it clear by now, michiko is no superhero. shes naive, shorttempered, irresponsible. Hatchin is really the smarter of the two, but also too young to make use of it herself.

The point of the episode? Well thats a bit hard to say, but in the end Michiko is shown realizing how stupid she has been (even before she fidns out about Hatchins accident), later we see her unconscious completely drunk lying next to a recovering Hatchin, so yeah, I think its meant to say she learned her lesson. Overall however I think the episode told us more about Michikos relation towards Hiroshi.
Its very interesting how such trivial resolutions are never shown but only hinted a the end of some episodes, a style I could get used to. We could have spent minutes watching Hatchin get rescued and how Michiko had her breakdown about how she messed up, instead its all just hinted very subtly, I like that a lot.

[karinvampire]

odd I think 8 and 9 aired today.

[Oxtail]

Originally Posted by karumofin

The point of the episode? Well thats a bit hard to say, but in the end Michiko is shown realizing how stupid she has been (even before she fidns out about Hatchins accident),

She only realizes it after the hairdresser basically bitch-slaps her and tells her to stay away from her man because she's just another bimbo being played.

The thing I hate about that episode is not that Michiko was weak and useless, it's that it trivialized the whole point of the series. She was about to ditch her quest to find Hiroshi(and isn't Hatchin only there to help find Hiroshi?) to hook up with a guy because of a couple of cheesy lines. It makes the whole premise of the series seem kinda inconsequential.

It would be like if halfway to Mordor, Frodo decided to trade the 1-ring for a bag of dried corn.

Or if Fuu in Samurai Champloo gave up looking for the Sunflower Samurai so she could have an affair with a cute married doctor in Nagoya.


I really really hope that's the last we see of pathetic Michiko.

[7Th]

Episode 7 Michiko was pretty much the Michoko we always knew. She was always childish, naive, selfish and without a clue of what to do with Hatchin. She is not a super-woman with resolve of steel; she is a strong woman that despite everything never grew up. Bruno was used to taking advantage of girls like her.

Michiko is easily swayed, and her temptation was very realistic and well-delivered.

[v1cious]

Originally Posted by karinvampire

odd I think 8 and 9 aired today.

yeah they did. 8 is the best episode so far.

[Oxtail]

Hmm. I wonder where the plot is going to go from here. I never realized the potential of Hatchin as a reverse trap before. Lol.