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[BakeNeko-Chan]

Wow, just wow. That revelation in the latest ep... I did not see that coming. So many things make so much more sense now... God that was some brilliant storytelling.

I love this show so much.

[trang95]

I don't care what anyone says: This anime is a masterpiece.

 

The reconciliation scene b/w Konatsu and Kiku was what I have been waiting for all this time. Konatsu was just afraid that she was a burden to Kiku, but in reality she and rakugo were Kiku's blessings.

 

I love how no one's blood related to each other in this family, but at the same time they are so much closer than others out there.

[BakeNeko-Chan]

I don't care what anyone says: This anime is a masterpiece.

 

The reconciliation scene b/w Konatsu and Kiku was what I have been waiting for all this time. Konatsu was just afraid that she was a burden to Kiku, but in reality she and rakugo were Kiku's blessings.

 

I love how no one's blood related to each other in this family, but at the same time they are so much closer than others out there.

 

I agree 100%. I don't know how they managed it, but season two not only surpassed the first, it outdid itself with every episode. I'm blown away. People always want to talk about "the anime that saved anime", well, this is the one that did it for me. Recent years have had such a decline in overall quality, with some exceptions here and there, but SGRS just really stands out for me. Everything was executed so near flawlessly and there was obviously a lot of passion and care put into it by the writer and animation team. It's going to be hard for future series to match it, imo.

[TouKen4Life3g]

This anime shouldn't exist. It's making AOTY choice too predictable...

[trang95]

This anime shouldn't exist. It's making AOTY choice too predictable...

LMFAO.

Btw, what was your reaction to the big reveal towards the end?

 

You know, Shinnosuke's real father?

 

 

I agree 100%. I don't know how they managed it, but season two not only surpassed the first, it outdid itself with every episode. I'm blown away. People always want to talk about "the anime that saved anime", well, this is the one that did it for me. Recent years have had such a decline in overall quality, with some exceptions here and there, but SGRS just really stands out for me. Everything was executed so near flawlessly and there was obviously a lot of passion and care put into it by the writer and animation team. It's going to be hard for future series to match it, imo.

Can you believe that this was Studio Deen?! Notoriously considered to be one of the worst anime studios out there created this masterpiece... This just shows us that all a studio needs to do is to adapt more quality animes. I hope more studios will adapt josei and seinen mangas.

Edited by trang95, 08 April 2017 - 06:54 PM.

[TouKen4Life3g]

As much as they leave it "open," I thought it was handled really well and understandable on the circumstance. The last episode got me really curious and thought he has to be his son. It's well played and I like it didn't make into a drama because what you have is what matters. There's a lot of things I would love to say but basically, it's amazing on how it managed to keep the momentum strong.

I don't know if it will ever come to USA but the manga is. I never read it but the hell with it, I'll get them.

A lot of seinen and Josei gets adapted; it's just the pinnacle ones are handled terrible (Berserk). Not sure why they have to act it's too deep, because while they may be, just treat them like anime. That's all.

Edited by TouKen4Life3g, 08 April 2017 - 09:16 PM.

[trang95]

As much as they leave it "open," I thought it was handled really well and understandable on the circumstance. The last episode got me really curious and thought he has to be his son. It's well played and I like it didn't make into a drama because what you have is what matters. There's a lot of things I would love to say but basically, it's amazing on how it managed to keep the momentum strong.

I don't know if it will ever come to USA but the manga is. I never read it but the hell with it, I'll get them.

A lot of seinen and Josei gets adapted; it's just the pinnacle ones are handled terrible (Berserk). Not sure why they have to act it's too deep, because while they may be, just treat them like anime. That's all.

While I was not a fan of that revelation at all, it definitely with with the narrative theme. Nothing is confirmed. There are probably many other secrets the characters have decided to keep for themselves.

Oh yeah, that's right! The manga got licensed here. Maybe I'll buy it, not sure yet. Apparently, there was one chapter about Konatsu in High School that explains her relationship with Kiku better...

 

Don't remind me of Berserk. I can't bring myself to watch the second season.

[TouKen4Life3g]

While I was not a fan of that revelation at all, it definitely with with the narrative theme. Nothing is confirmed. There are probably many other secrets the characters have decided to keep for themselves.

Oh yeah, that's right! The manga got licensed here. Maybe I'll buy it, not sure yet. Apparently, there was one chapter about Konatsu in High School that explains her relationship with Kiku better...

 

Don't remind me of Berserk. I can't bring myself to watch the second season.

I would like to read and see how it stack up.

 

Sorry. Lol.

[BakeNeko-Chan]

 

 

Can you believe that this was Studio Deen?! Notoriously considered to be one of the worst anime studios out there created this masterpiece... This just shows us that all a studio needs to do is to adapt more quality animes. I hope more studios will adapt josei and seinen mangas.

 

I think it really shows how much the animation team cared about the story they were telling. I really love when that happens and you can just tell that a story was a real passion project for those involved. (HxH 2011 also has that feeling imo)

 

As much as they leave it "open," I thought it was handled really well and understandable on the circumstance. The last episode got me really curious and thought he has to be his son. It's well played and I like it didn't make into a drama because what you have is what matters. There's a lot of things I would love to say but basically, it's amazing on how it managed to keep the momentum strong.

I don't know if it will ever come to USA but the manga is. I never read it but the hell with it, I'll get them.

A lot of seinen and Josei gets adapted; it's just the pinnacle ones are handled terrible (Berserk). Not sure why they have to act it's too deep, because while they may be, just treat them like anime. That's all.

 

I feel the same. I have to disagree with those who say it was thrown in there for drama (and I have seen a few make that claim) because I don't feel that was the purpose behind it at all. In the end Shinnosuke's biological father is something neither confirmed or denied, even the mangaka herself has apparently not said one way or the other. But leaving the possibly open, regardless of how you may personally feel about it, makes for an interesting story, and that I think is why Konatsu skirted around the question even when asked directly. She's a storyteller and often the best stories leave room for interpretation and speculation and I feel that's really the message SGRS was going for as a whole.

 

At it's core, this is a story about storytelling, and one of super interesting things about SGRS, imo, is that the characters are such unreliable narrators. We can't really take everything they say at face value and the best evidence of that is the fact that Kiku's story and the entire first season's narrative gets thrown into question because of the lie he told to protect Konatsu. He twisted the truth to tell a good story and we can't know how much of it was actually true. It leaves you to wonder and raises so many interesting questions and possibilities. And the same goes for the question of Shinnosuke's father. It leaves questions and ideas and a story in there somewhere, but the truth is ultimately left for your interpretation. In the end it doesn't even matter what the actual truth is anyway because Yotaro's his dad in every way that counts, and Konatsu says as much. 

 

This turned out kind of ramble-y, but gosh I have so many thoughts about this series even weeks later.