This week we have a Minorin-centered episode, and at times it was rather hard to sit through. She’s alright in small doses, but an entire episode of her high energy rambling can really grind on you. It’s ok, next week we get to see Ami-chan so it’s all good.
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Wow…those are really freaking ugly uniforms
Much better, thank you
The whole poking out the eyes thing is pretty amusing, at least her abuse of the guy varies from time to time. Rather than just kicking all the time a good eye poking when he drools over Minorin seems warranted. She is definitely way more tsun tsun then other Rie characters, at least so far. The physical and verbal abuse she gives Ryuuji is just on a higher level, even more than Louise.
Anime hair never ceases to amuse me. Blonde mother gives birth to a blue haired son who is in love with a pink/purple haired girl and whose best friend has green/blue hair.
Scary!
When I was a kid I had training wheels on my bike for a long time, I guess I was kind of scared of falling. And of course after I took them off I took a nasty spill and I still have that scar. Regardless, I was a big bike fan when I was a kid, our neighborhood was pretty secluded and had few cars so it was good times.
/facepalm
I think she’s a bit too genki for my tastes. I like energetic characters to a certain level, but more along the lines of someone like Miyako from Hidamari Sketch. Minorin is just too out there for me, and like I said before I think she’s fine in small doses. However, and entire episode dedicated to her was a bit much at times.
For the love of God man, run!
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I’m in agreement. One appeal of the manga is that it doesn’t exactly focus on the characters like this (or atleast not after 12 chapters). I hope I don’t come off as a “manga/novel is better” person, because I am enjoying the anime.
This episode wasn’t bad. But I think it could have worked to portray Minorin less of an airhead and more of a down to earth person.
“It’s ok, next week we get to see Ami-chan so it’s all good.”
It’s either going to be her or Sumire. But yeah. It is all good.
“When I was a kid I had training wheels on my bike for a long time, I guess I was kind of scared of falling. And of course after I took them off I took a nasty spill and I still have that scar”
I’m so scared of bikes, that even though I learned to ride them. I haven’t ridden one in years.
“The physical and verbal abuse she gives Ryuuji is just on a higher level, even more than Louise.”
Despite this. I find Taiga less annoying than ANY of Rie Kugumiya’s other characters.
On that last cap. “MITSUUUU KEEE TAAAAA!”
That’s RITALIN. Ri-tal-in.
And.. well, I’ve said all I need to say on this episode elsewhere.
Maa, and I was expecting Haesslich to explode here as well. Let enough steam out already at poor Usagijen’s, Haess? Good, now go and sleep, lest we bother another blogger with our ravings.
Calawain: You’ll find a few things off about the episode, and I had a feeling something wasn’t quuuuite right. Thanks to Haess and research at other places, it seems that my intuition was vindicated. That’s right, the episode was 80% pure unadulterated filler, stretching a small scene in one book to one whole episode.
If you look around, you’ll see the reason for Haess’ WHITE HOT RAGE; not only was the filler too early, but the spirit of the expanded scene was lost (according to him, Taiga brought Ryuji to the restaurant so he could watch Minorin… to be NICE to him, and they’ve been doing it for more than two weeks). It was no wonder that the violence seemed out of place. Plus, the rather flat characterizations of the secondary cast (anyone not Ryuji) detracts enjoyment from the folks familiar with the source material (which I’m not)
And that’s not Ami, apparently, but someone named Sumire.
Myssa Rei: It’s more that I’ve said everything that needs to be said elsewhere. Let him go check Usagijen’s blog out.
Seriously, did they have to waste the third episode on a filler? And now Episode 4 doesn’t introduce Kawashima? If this thing was only 13 episodes long, it seems like an incredibly big oversight to take one of the more important characters out of a quarter of the show… ‘just because’.
http://that.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/tora3-01.jpg
Ugly uniforms? True that
And for some reason, this picture: http://that.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/tora3-05.jpg reminds me of Shana. I know Taiga is voiced by the same person who voiced Shana, but it’s still kind of nostalgic to see Taiga looking like Shana.
@Avisch
I haven’t ridden one in years either, in fact I haven’t done much exercise in a long while either. Too much work and law school.
@Haesslich
Yeah, I made an oopsie…
@Myssa Rei
Yeah most of the episode didn’t ring a bell so I figured chunks of it were filler. I did recognize the restaurant scene though. And if they are introducing Sumire in episode 4 and not Ami I’m going to be pissed. Who cares about Sumire, I want to see Ami dammit. In the source material she is very important early on.
@Haesslich
JC Staff always seems to make me rage with their adaptations. Filler in episode 4 -_-
Honestly, there were moments when I visibly cringed during this episode (not counting the scene with the creepy butt-grabbing man) because, well, Minorin is just made out to be so genki that it is unbelievable, and these kinds of characters need to be believable. I guess I got a little bit that they were hinting at some troubled-past thing (the whole “I need to beat up my weaknesses” thing) but I still found myself tapping my foot and waiting for Taiga to come back and rage some more.
However, the whole episode was worth it for that one “MI-TSU-KE-TA” at the end. For some reason, Taiga reminds me a lot of Edward Elric from FullMetal Alchemist.
Calawain: Considering this was supposed to be a 13-episode series.. eps 3 and 4 being filler is.. CRAP. Utter shite, given that they’ll have wasted a quarter of the run without the important Kawashima being introduced. The restaurant scene was a one-off just before Kawashima’s introduction too; she was in the family restaurant as well… but then it got padded into filler, and they turned Taiga into Louise instead of the ‘ever-ready-to-belittle’ Taiga.
Who the hell needs Ritalin when you have Horie Yui? UGUU~~~~
http://that.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/tora3-05.jpg WHY SO SERIOUS?
Wait, let me get this straight…the ricecooker was broken, so they decided to go out in restaurant ? What, the house doesnt contain a single pot ?
God, Japanese are even more helpless than USians are, just take away electricity and the whole country will die off.
Ryuuji said they had bread…
lelangir: It was mentioned a little later that Taiga apparently hates bread. But as she said she didn’t mind bread for breakfast, the second excursion was just Ryuuji wanting to drool over Minorin some more.
Karry: yeah…you would think that Iron Chef Ryuuji would have tried to make the rice anyway… I’m confused.
Well, from what I recall the whole point was that Ryuuji was taking the excuse just to drool over Minorin, and Taiga was indulging him again. And again. Which makes her trying to kill him for being locked up with Minorin completely fucking senseless.
Yo, Haesslich…apparently you (and, for that matter, all the other people who commented after you) didn’t see the note that Toradora is likely to be a 24~26 episode show, based on the release dates for the DVDs, the fact that there will be 8 DVDs total, and the fact that the first DVD contains 4 episodes. (Starchild release schedule for the DVDs)
Now, it’s possible that they might just do the 4 episodes on the first DVD and then one episode on each DVD after that except for two DVDs with two episodes each, but considering the prices listed for the DVDs, I doubt that’s going to happen. (In fact, I read a blog entry where someone speculated 25 episodes, and after thinking about it, that seems most likely. The reasoning: if the show is 25 episodes, then taking away the first four for DVD 1 would give you 21 episodes, which easily breaks down into three episodes each for the seven remaining DVDs. That also works well with the prices listed, if I looked at it right: Going by what I assume to be the standard edition releases, DVD 1 is ~¥7,200 while the other seven are listed as ~¥6,300. That equals ¥1,800 for each episode on DVD 1; if there will be three episodes each on the other seven DVDs, then those would be ¥2,100 per episode.
As well, there is precent for J.C.Staff to do a 2-cour season for a light novel adaptation; just take a look at Shakugan no Shana. (In fact, they did TWO seasons for that, both 2 cours each.)
And in response to your last post, Haesslich: it seems to me that Taiga was more angry at Ryuuji for apparently slacking off while she was doing all that running around/attempting to bike than for being locked up with Minori, though the fact that it was Ryuuji’s fault that she was doing all that likely contributed to it.
“Likely” and “are” are two seperate concepts, as the weather forecasters who predicted a record number of hurricanes this year can tell you. Beyond that, when they were planning this, it was supposed to be a thirteen-episode run, which means that there would be two eps (out of 13, and four eps in which is the usual point where most viewers either continue or drop a show) which would be useless filler. This is a problem, especially if you’re trying to hook viewers on a show… and then throw in useless, indeed stale, filler. People who haven’t even read the manga have been commenting on how this felt… stale and out of place. That’s a fucking problem.
And they’re not even doing Kawashima next episode. The director needs to get the Krauser II treatment of Tokyo Tower in his lungs, nostrils, and eye-sockets, methinks.
@Soraki-chan
Taiga’s rage is generally entertaining, much more than most tsunderes. Her rage is just so much more pure and not tainted by any dere-dere yet.
@Haesslich
Mmmm, I think that’s why I assumed the blue haired girl in the preview was Ami, because in shots when they show the five main characters I assumed the one blue haired girl was her. There’s no way Sumire can be the fifth primary, she barely gets any time in the first couple of volumes compared to Ami.
@Lelangir
Hocchan’s using quite a different voice as Minorin then Ayu though.
@Karry
It’s not really much harder to cook rice in a pot, they would just have to wait 20 more minutes. Or just have bread…
Then again I eat really boring breakfasts, like some crackers or a granola bar. All of these characters in anime seem to eat as much for breakfast as I do for dinner.
@Cat Megex
Hmmmm that does look like a 2-cour release schedule. I was assuming just one because that’s what Fansub wiki had said and they pull the stuff off Moonphase if I recall correctly. If it indeed is 2-cour then I’ll definitely forgive them.
There is precedent for a 2-cour JC Staff light novel adaptation, but Shana is a vastly different show. It’s much easier to stretch out an action show into 24-26 episodes. School comedies rarely seem to get that type of treatment, so I just assumed.
@Haesslich
I do agree with you to some extent, even if it will be a 2-cour show. Maybe that’s because I’m biased and really enjoy Ami’s character, while I don’t care much for Sumire.
“For the love of God man, run!”
If only he wasn’t trapped inside a building while standing on an unstable stack of boxes….Whether she broke in or not that wasn’t going to end well for him.
Well…it seems to me that if they’d done the timing a bit right, they could’ve done something like covering one volume every three episodes and gotten all the way to volume 8. Or, if they wanted to keep as much material as possible (which I personally would have liked), they could’ve done one volume per six episodes and thus make it through volume four (basically, one episode per chapter).
To clear up any confusion, though: while I didn’t like the fact that things were compressed so much in the first two episodes, I still enjoyed them, and unlike what seems to be a lot of people, I enjoyed episode three as well. It’s better than it could have turned out, at least. *thinks of Linebarrels of Iron*
(Though, that does seem like it’ll be using an important plot twist from the manga this next episode, one that has a big impact on Kouichi, so…we’ll see. …On a side note, did they or did they not turn Satoru Yamashita into a guy in the anime? In the manga, it’s a girl, but in the anime, Yamashita has been referred to with the “-kun” suffix by multiple people, both male and female, and the voice used is similar to the one the voice actor used for Shinkurou, in Kure-nai. Or maybe it’s going to be like with Dori and Gura from Utawarerumono, where the adaptation doesn’t reveal their gender while the source material does.)
EDIT: …Damn, I get off-topic so easily… :/
Man. I didn’t know that adaptations were serious business when they don’t abide by the source that people want them to. :V
TheBigN: The Internet as a whole is serious business. Didn’t you know?
TheBigN: Think of it like if KyoAni had wasted two episodes of Haruhi on fillers instead of any plot, and episode 4, instead of having a main character like Mikuru or Nagato, or even a character like Tsuruya show up, was focused on introducing (and fixating on) Kyon’s loser friends? And so, because they were planning only for 12-13 eps, cut out God Knows?
That sorta rage exists.
just taiga standing on his face made my day xD