2013-02-08, 20:30 | Link #422 |
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Have to agree with Retro's decision about the order. Oh man Sudo returns! Didn't expect Nishida to lose, especially that early, and to a first year rank A player. He had so many mental problems going on. He even had his sister dating Retro. Leave it to Chihaya to try and combine both strengths of the Suo and Shinobu. Taichi really has to persevere here. Kana might get a win, don't know about Komano, Nice assist from sensei. This keeps getting better and better.
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2013-02-08, 20:31 | Link #423 |
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Yay, "Boobie-chan." You go, girl. Sorry my nomination for you as best supporting character didn't make the cut at this year's Choice Awards, but you'll get another chance next year.
I choked up a bit when they all bowed to their sensei. I thought that was an especially touching moment of mutual recognition and respect.
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2013-02-08, 23:22 | Link #426 | |
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Thought this was a fantastic episode. One of the strengths of this series is you really don't know who is going to win at all. It's entirely unpredictable & I am always on the edge of my seat. Now I do hope Kana at least beats that boy she is playing, "boobies girl"? Someone has to teach that boy some manners. Now the weekly Chihayafuru withdrawal begins.
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2013-02-09, 01:14 | Link #427 |
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that was a very touching bow to the coach...
retro kun is right , what have you got to lose? they're already in the Nationals so why not give it you're all and get the trophy. man chihaya will really be unbeatable if she's able to combine suo & shinobu's strengths. and Go Kana-girl! she's the only one taking advantage of Sudo's reading style, i think she might even have same style as Suo being able to figure out Readers like that. again a wonderful episode.
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2013-02-09, 08:53 | Link #428 |
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At last a good word for Taichi's mom. She teaches him to be strong. And Chihaya appreciates that, too. A nice moment of connection. Taichi's rejoinder, about how we are all made by others, is an important point. As Chihaya played the match, you could see how much Shinobu figures as an influence. But for Harada-sensei, Chihaya was too much revisiting the past. So we get a turning point when Chihaya remembers Tsutomu telling her she has 21 one-syllable cards, and just listens, and takes the card with impossible speed. To learn from others, yet to be yourself, to play on a team, yet as an individual...these are the contradictions that power the greatest players. And Chihaya has not yet opened her heart to her greatest influences: Taichi and most of all Arata, who taught her to play. When she does, she will become unimaginably strong.
Miyauchi-sensei's description of karuta is a key moment in the anime. The central insight, in fact, and spoken by someone who does not know karuta well. Which is why Harada does not say it. Miyauchi has made her own journey, as well.
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2013-02-09, 09:23 | Link #429 | |
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Although technically speaking it is a bit idealistic as at least in the case when she said older and younger people can play equally this is not entirely true. I think someone older would have more of a chance against someone younger compared to many other things but young people still have an advantage in terms of speed & reflexes (the same I imagine as someone in better shape). Of course I guess you can argue that an older player might have the advantage of experience. I can't remember where I read it but I did read that usually younger players take the championships and like the anime portrays a strong player can win for many years. However all that being said I actually do ultimately agree Kana & the empress one of the most wonderful things about Karuta is that everyone can play together no matter who they are (well I guess as long as you can understand the poems). There really is a strong sense of community in the series. Where we have mainly focuses on the high school kids, we have met many other characters of different ages & backgrounds who have also showed us their love for karuta and that is a very beautiful thing. I also liked the moment with Taichi's mom and that was very good advice she gave. Although I am not a guy I will try to remember it for myself.
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2013-02-09, 18:10 | Link #432 |
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Another lovely episode. I particularly loved Kana in this one. I'm confident she will win this. Actually, for a while, I believed that it's the ones who Hokuo thought would lose who'll win, but Chihaya seems to be back in the game and I can't see her losing now that she's imitating Suo. It's fishy that Tsutomu's the only one whose match we haven't really seen. It might turn out to be the decisive one...
Can't wait for next week!
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2013-02-09, 18:16 | Link #433 | |
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I think we might see Kanade, Tsutomu and Taichi be victorious with Chihaya losing along with Porky. That would be a great boost to team morale.
Of course, Misuzawa could lose this event then come back to defeat Hokuo in the finals in the larger tournament. I wouldn't be surprised to see Misuzawa lose this time around at all. In fact, it would add a note of realism and drama if our young heroes and heroines were not always invincible. Quote:
I really wanted to have an animated version of this avatar, but damn Chihaya keeps moving her head up and down. I tried to find the right set of frames where she kept her face still, but gave up and just went with a single still frame. I may try again some time when I have more patience. (I do have the time at the moment, considering that there is two feet of snow plus drifts surrounding my house here in the Boston suburbs.)
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As a Westerner, I never understood the rationale for this at all. Since physical strength is largely irrelevant in these games, it seems purely a patriarchal notion about womens' abilities versus mens'. Women don't play professional poker at separate tables, for instance.
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2013-02-09, 21:19 | Link #438 | |
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Funny enough my friend (who I successfully got to watch this series) said the same thing to me today. But my interpretation of this (and I am just speculating) is not that they think men and women can't compete together but isn't it nicer for publicity to have two champions a man and a woman each year. After all don't men & women still compete against each other at other times?
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In championship contract bridge, there are separate women's events, but women can also compete in open events and earn points that apply to both the womens' rankings and the overall world ranking of players. Mixed pair events have been a common feature of competitive bridge for decades. In chess, there is again a separate women's division, but "[u]nlike most sports, women are able to compete against men in chess, and so some women do not compete for the women's title. Notably, the world's top rated female player for the past 20 years, Judit Polgár (and by far the highest FIDE-rated woman in chess history), has never competed for the women's title." As for shogi, Quote:
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