Aquela foto lembra Copacabana sim, mas tipo, só ela. O anime até agora ainda não foi pra parte chique. Ficou só na parte mais ou menos pobre e nas favelas. A unica cena em que mostra a parte “decente” da cidade é aquela ali mesmo – e ainda mostra no fundão. LOL.

@Prince

Yeah, They’re doing a good work in general. The only that I don’t like is the language; many mistakes e things in spanish.

And there are a lot of fantasy there. So, don’t belive totally in this anime. It is just “inspired” in Brazil, but do not pretend to show the real one.

@André: I see. Yeah, I had a suspicion that they were fake, thanks for the verification. I’ll leave it to you Brazilians to argue about the particulars (since I don’t speak Portuguese nor have I ever been to Brazil), but I am surprised to hear that the Brazilian Portuguese isn’t accurate in the series. I’ll take your word for it though. Since I recognized the Spanish names, I just assumed that they were Portuguese names as well.

In fact, I think that there isn’t any saint called “Cabal”. In fact I’ve never heard this word in my life.

They are doing a good work about the people and a fine work about the enviroment. But they are doing a poor work about the language. In Brazil we speak portuguese, not spanish. For example, Pepé Lima, from the fourth episode. “Lima” is a brazilian name, but Pepé is from Spain. The most part of the names that you hear on this anime are spanish name, not brazilian names.

Another mistake is the “a continuar” in the end of the episodes. This is português from Portugal. In Brazil, to refer to next episode, we say “continua no próximo episódio” (continue in the next episode). LOL.

@karurosop

This is not a “exactly copy of Copacabana/Ipanema”… Copacabana/Ipanema is much bigger than this and it is a place for very rich people; the hotels there are like that: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/332045812_c2f013fb6c.jpg

Around Copacana/Ipanema there are mid-class places, poor places and favelas. They focus on these places. But these places are not part of Copacabana/Ipanema. Well, it’s a copy of the places that are near of Copacabana/Ipanema.

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@Jarmel: wow, that’s an interesting take. That’s probably more of a mature decision than I think Michiko is capable of making at the moment, but your interpretation is definitely plausible (and a lot more interesting than mine or any other I’ve read so far). Really, at this point, anything is possible. It’s only been three episodes after all. That’d be a really neat shift of focus if the series continued by having them search for Hatchin’s mother.

@karurosop: I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough with Brazil to recognize any city except for Rio de Janeiro (and only if I can spot the giant statue of Jesus), so I appreciate your insight. Yeah, they do look a lot alike. Same geographical setting, same city layout, look to be about the same size… though, Sáo Cabal, judging from the images we get of it, seems too isolated to be a subsection of Rio. (I could certainly be wrong… the rest of the city may be just over those hills for all I know) At any rate, it’s definitely possible that it was based on Copacabana or Ipanema, if it isn’t real itself. The resemblance is uncanny.

If the dad’s a worthless bum that can’t have a decent house and just looks at them with a empty stare, what good is there to force things? Hatchin doesn’t need to see this, Michiko doesn’t want anything to do with him.

There’s also the strong possibility that he just looks like the dad. He appears to be a lot different in behavior.