Previous eps.
Episode 7
- Are we in (starts using an exaggerated voice) Naaaaaaaaaaaaaara…?
- Chiaya really is a Disney Princess! Even in the onsen!
- Huh? What’s with this change of heart?
- …aw, Kyoto. Nara’s where the deer are though…Kyoto is a place of temples and tradition, such as the Gion Festival.
- KISS parody, much…?
- I’m fairly sure Kamogawa is the place in the Eccentric Family, although I haven’t watched it so I can’t be sure about it…A-ha! I was right!
- I keep thinking of Fuji Rock Festival, but…that’s obviously near Mt Fuji…and I know a lot of the big electronic music festivals tour Tokyo and Osaka. So Google-sensei tells me this might be Kyoto Daisakusen they’re theming things around or alternatively Inazuma Rock Festival (from nearby Shiga).
- Shuten Douji…no, not that one…this one…(I sunk 3 hours towards getting myself a new Jakurai SSR today (<-3/8/20) in [Hypnosis Mic] ARB…and I’m shouldn’t be so proud of that fact…so I don’t need F/GO to sink even more time into.)
- Mt Oe…that;s associated with the legend of Shuten Douji, whaddaya know.
- Google-sensei tells me Kyoto and Hiroshima both claim to be the birthplace of nikujaga. (Psst…I already knew – from Hypnosis Mic’s Riou, no less! – that the Japanese navy likes serving curry on Fridays.)
- The translation doesn’t seem to be wrong, but it sort of implies the sentences have their starts and ends swapped around, which is a legitimate thing called a (sentence) inversion. Since the exclamations are in fragments, suggesting there is an inversion would be wrong…but I don’t know a better way to phrase what they’re saying that would remove that problem anyway…
- …oh. Upon further inspection, I don’t really understand what the guy is saying, meaning the inversion is to point out he has an accent (Kyoto dialect). That works.
- “Their faces look similar…”
- The first song on the CD is Hajimari no Uta (Starting Song). Stones is no. 3 on that disc, while no. 4 is called Late Night (Shin’ya) and no. 5 is Running Home Run…it’s hard to read the back of the disc due to Funimation’s hardsubs…
- I love Ai’s expression on her passport.
- Yatsuhashi! I love yatsuhashi! They’re sweet, but they’re nice.
- Messenger seagull, LOL. (Kamome (seagull) in Kamogawa…? Well, kamo = duck…)
- F chord is the easiest guitar chord, apparently. (I’m no guitarist, but that’s something I learnt from the festival arc of BnHA.)
- Japanese plurals don’t take an S, so the plural of “evil Takumi” is…just that.
Episode 8
- Had to go back to Rokuhoudou to confirm the name of this dessert…but I was right all along: matcha parfait. Makes sense for Matcha Green’s helpers.
- You can see Momiyama, who’s not actually pulling that rickshaw-thingy…eh…actually, Momiyama is probably the missing Momiage Hammers vocalist, right…? Update: I did say something similar a few episodes ago (ep. 4, to be precise), actually…no spoilers for the outcome of this, though.
- LOL, cold shoulder vs. tsundere…
- Why is Shuten’s hand bandaged…? (Is that even a bandage on his hand?) Update: Seems to be a decorative cloth, kind of similar to a glove.
- LOL, you can clearly see the Beatles’ logo in the background.
- There’s clearly something supernatural about Chiaya…maybe she’s an alien or something…?
- If you didn’t know, I went to Japan last year (2019, at the very tail end of the cherry blossom season)…I went to various places, including Kiyomizudera. It looks much better up close. (However, because I was on a tour, I didn’t get to see or buy all the things I wanted, come to think of it…)
- …so that’s what those ejector seats are for, LOL.
- LOL, user’s manual.
- The mother almost looks as if she came out of Fugou Keiji…must be the slicked-back hair.
- “This, in a sense, is a story about breaking free of the things that tie you to a certain place, although you may check in with said things every so often. Am I right?” – Quoting myself (from the ep. 3 – 4 post). I seem to be right.
- The stones seem to be more important to the people they belong to than the gals who are looking for them (+ Momiyama). I guess it’s the journey that counts, not the destination…?
- It’s NERV, but Kyoto style!
- That blue flag with 誠 (sincerity) on it seems to be something about the Shinsengumi.
- What happened to Shuten’s forehead…?
- I thought I’d heard Shuten’s voice before…it was Katsuyuki Konishi.
- LOL, I only just noticed there was bike coordination from Technical Garage Motorrad.
- Fire is hard to animate, so…woot! Go, Shuten Douji!
- Update: Come to think of it, they’ve done Kyoto and Nagoya, so…next is probably Osaka. If I wish hard enough, they might even get to Okinawa (LOL).
- Update 2: I’ve found the OST for all you music lovers out there.
Random thought: Is it bad etiquette to keep linking to your own content? You might notice I wrote out a few spots where links should go because I realised I keep linking to the ep. 3 – 4 post. I get a bit excited when I see I have a bunch of pingbacks…but most of my own pingbacks are me referring to my previous words…
I’m not gonna say which point but you might have guessed something for later pretty spot on 😉
Enjoyed reading, I don’t have any extra comments for you this week.
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I just remember accidentally seeing something critical about aliens on the Wikipedia page (darn spoilers!), so I’m trying to figure out the exact extent of their involvement…
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You always spoiling yourself >.<
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