Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - Episode 3 Discussion / Poll

[Kairin]

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[Stark700]

Ha, those thieves messed with the wrong guys and girls. However, I'd say that the real hero for this episode would be Kokopo, the giant bird. Not only cute but also tough when she needs to be.

[Om Nerabdator]

need more thief girl, other than that awesome episode and i love that bird thing ^^

10/10

[Random Wanderer]

The pink-haired girl has feathered ears. Interesting.

I was hoping Kuon would take a hand in stopping the thieves, but apparently the final credit has to go to the chocobo kokopo's crush.

[Requiem-x]

And here I was thinking there's no way that fat bird could be cooler than a giant tiger. Boy, was I wrong

So, now we have a sister-type, who might also be a fujoshi, and what seems to be a mix of Karura and Touka (Please be as cute as the latter). Not bad at all. On another note, the series also manages to stay classy (and hilarious) during a bath scene, quite the achievement.

Next time seems to be more slow paced stuff, which is fine, though a bit weird for anyone who remembers what happened in the first series

P.S: Right, this is the first time I post in an episode thread, so to make it clear, Kuon is glorious. That is all.

[Geburah]

Kokopo trollface on the river was so epic that almost fell of my chair xD

[aohige]

Is fujoshi princess a fad now?

last season we had Pina, and now this lol

[Anh_Minh]

The male friendship thing sounded more like an excuse than fujoshi-ness, though.

[Requiem-x]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

The male friendship thing sounded more like an excuse than fujoshi-ness, though.

Check the preview. That's all I'm going to say.

[Seihai]

I'd tap that bird if you know what I mean. So fluffy. I can already see plushies going on sale.

[Incest Emblem]

First 2 in Haku's harem: effeminate courtier and giant bird

Giant bird is awesome, so no complaints.

From Kuon's comment about the relative sizes of the capitals, I'm guessing Tuskuru is a relatively small regional empire, with the original Utawareumono taking place over a corner of the land mass. That's one way to avoid conflict with the original game's empire: Just make the setting bigger than the original setting implied.

[HayashiTakara]

I feel cheated, why isn't the masked guy the main guy from the first series? >_>

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Incest Emblem

First 2 in Haku's harem: effeminate courtier and giant bird

Giant bird is awesome, so no complaints.

From Kuon's comment about the relative sizes of the capitals, I'm guessing Tuskuru is a relatively small regional empire, with the original Utawareumono taking place over a corner of the land mass. That's one way to avoid conflict with the original game's empire: Just make the setting bigger than the original setting implied.

The first Utaware was in Japan, whereas this is clearly in China, so yeah, probably.

[Incest Emblem]

...What makes you think this is set in China?

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Incest Emblem

...What makes you think this is set in China?

Just deducing from clues

1. We already know the map of Japan from the first Utaware, and this massive land and nations of Kujuri & Yamato is absent.
2. While the first Utaware's world was heavily based on ancient Japan (most notably, Tusukuru is Ainu), this False Mask's setting while having a Japanese name for a country, is Chinese in clothing and architecture. I saw the game's screenshots too, and they were entirely Chinese.

EDIT: Looked up wiki to see if anything supports this,

Spoiler:

Tusukuru is said to be on a small island on wiki, but the map from the first game puts Tusukuru right at Niigata prefecture of main island in Japan.
Since the main island is the biggest island of Japan, obviously it's not referring to it as "small" from context of the Yamato empire, so I would think Yamato exist in mainland China, or at the least on Korean peninsula.
Of course, unless, a huge island appeared near Japan after the collapse of human civilization, which is entirely possible too.

[MeanMachine]

Originally Posted by aohige

Just deducing from clues

1. We already know the map of Japan from the first Utaware, and this massive land and nations of Kujuri & Yamato is absent.
2. While the first Utaware's world was heavily based on ancient Japan (most notably, Tusukuru is Ainu), this False Mask's setting while having a Japanese name for a country, is Chinese in clothing and architecture. I saw the game's screenshots too, and they were entirely Chinese.

Actually, there was a map published in a japanese gaming/anime magazine ( I guess the map is probably included in the game manual) and it shows that Yamato is based in the lands around the real world Sea of Okhotsk, so in other words, Yamato is set in real world far eastern Russia. You were close, tough.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by MeanMachine

Actually, there was a map published in a japanese gaming/anime magazine ( I guess the map is probably included in the game manual) and it shows that Yamato is based in the lands around the real world Sea of Okhotsk, so in other words, Yamato is set in real world far eastern Russia. You were close, tough.

Ah, interesting. The anime DOES indeed look pretty cold.
The culture is clearly Chinese based though, perhaps with a dash of Mongolian.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by HayashiTakara

I feel cheated, why isn't the masked guy the main guy from the first series? >_>

Because that would be too obvious? Relax. There's no way Hakuoro won't factor into this somehow.

I continue to love seeing the expressiveness of the girls' animal features. It's delightful every time their ears fidget. I was also amused by how Kuon seemed to be eyeing that general as he rode away. The look on her face and the way her tail was waving back and forth seem to suggest something, at least, which I'm reading as speculative interest.

In other news, Haku's complete lack of reaction to Kuon having charged naked out of the bath is worth a laugh. Can't blame him girl, you brought that one on yourself, and he didn't even seem interested (which makes me wonder what's wrong with him ).

[Flower]

Okhotsk? !O_o

Uwah...no wonder it looks so cold...

Anyway, another enjoyable episode on the whole, though the courtier shtick got old pretty fast for me.

My only complaint is that we did not get more screentime for Kuon...also, was very thankful Kuon did not clobber Haku for seeing her like that. Thank you for avoiding that cliche! Kinda refreshing, actually.

[Random Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Flower

My only complaint is that we did not get more screentime for Kuon...also, was very thankful Kuon did not clobber Haku for seeing her like that. Thank you for avoiding that cliche! Kinda refreshing, actually.

Kuon seems to have a decent sense of fairness. I can't see her getting upset at him for something that was her fault. Maybe if he'd leered at her or something, but that's not really Haku's style anyway.

Or you could look at it as saying that the author doesn't need to resort to cliches like that to characterize Kuon, because she's already shaping into a nice, unstereotypical character of her own.