2009-08-13, 19:58 | Link #41 | |
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You know, I really, really like her character... But I'd avoid her like the plague in real life. Granted, she's got plenty of reasons for being this way, being sold as a sex slave to a cult leader by your own mother would be more than most would take, but then spending two years as a weightless freak devoid of most emotions and memories... Still, she's scary. Her deadpan gallows humor doesn't help eighter, you never know if she's really joking or really wants to blind you because of a slip of the tongue... |
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2009-08-13, 21:15 | Link #42 | |
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Rararagi was annoyed initially at how Senjou seemed to deny Kanbaru as her junior. So in an annoyed tone he asked, as if he was defending Kanbaru when Gahara-san said she "WAS" her junior, "isn't she still your junior ?" Thats what really set her off. Ironically, Koyomi has no respect for honorifics. He doesn't use the san against peoples names... which is incredibly impolite. Ironic, that he would take to task his girlfriend because she refered to her former classmate in a way that wasn't polite... lol I say he got what he deserved right there for being a hypocrite. Naturally Senjou would be pissed... why would Koyomi who is not normally polite, get irritable about her not being polite ? Why would he defend Kanbaru ? ...tick.... tick... tick... |
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2009-08-13, 21:42 | Link #44 | |
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Hah. Araragi has one leg on heaven, and one leg on hell—not exactly the most envious position to be in. I guess this is what they meant by 'risks and returns'? I also agree that the main feature to this show is their odd, growing relationship. Without this element, the show would've simply been just another occult-themed series with a heavy dash of Shinbo and SHAFT. Granted, its conversation-heavy style of storytelling probably separates it from the usual sort, and indeed for some people this and SHAFT would have been enough, but I think the topic of choice lends itself well to this style of treatment—and more importantly, opens the anime to a wider audience. |
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2009-08-14, 00:09 | Link #45 | ||
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Left: "It takes only one match to start a fire." Right: "Beware of fire." How very apt... Yes, you're doomed, Ararararagi. |
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2009-08-14, 00:55 | Link #48 |
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After having watched the first 5 episodes. I have to say shes a very unquie character. The moment she stuck the stanly knife into his mouth I knew she was going to be scary person! even pm the person who recommended the series to me in shock.
But the way she spoke words, and that inocent look she gives, is what I think makes her amazing. and to show that she serious, she stappled his cheek. Thus having no feelings, she pretty much nailed Komoyi in conversation. But having had her feelings and wieght restored, she merly spoke as if she was poking at him with a stick, but still retaining he word of swords aspect. I've found it very entertaining and is why I have been enjoying the anime up to where I am right now. Have to say she does remind me a little of Ami-chan from Toradora, but alot more crueler. To sum up, very unquie and entertaining. I look foward to what has to come.
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2009-08-14, 04:13 | Link #49 | |
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Sohryu I sill count as tsundere (heck, i remember when tsundere term was still not widely used and eva was still high, other tsundere characters were called 'Asuka-like') just not your typical cutie one (like Shana or Taiga (tough I know you have different opinion regarding Taiga)). Maybe because that, I see Hitagi as a tsudere too because I see quite some parallels between her and Sohryu (cant real call her Asuka now to avoid mixing it up with Shikinami who seems to be a different character type). |
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2009-08-14, 08:54 | Link #50 |
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but how can Hitagi be both weak/sickly and yet also the track ace?
Is it correct to think of it like this: - originally weak and sickly. - was cured in 5th grade (?) - became track ace - was assaulted near the end of middle school - lost her weight (and again treated as weak/sickly?) - weightless/weak until she meets Koyomi And if so, is she now completely healed? Or does she still have her original sickness? |
2009-08-14, 09:53 | Link #51 | |
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2009-08-14, 10:19 | Link #52 |
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I suspect that, whatever her original illness was, it was something nearby the supernatural territory. When her story is told (ep.2), there's a screen where it says "a demon's right hand" and "a angel's left hand". Let's assume it's a metaphor, but then another flash text has her mother saying Hitagi's hands and feet have been horribly disfigured. Surgery's keywords are cut/connect/hurry. I'm fairly positive that the girl in ep.4 and 6 ending themes (the one with big beasty hands) would be Hitagi before the surgery.
I just wonder how comes she doesn't seem to have any kind of scars in her arms. And then, was she born sick? If so, why her mother joined the cult only when Hitagi was in 5° grade? Such a state would have been clear way before her being 10-11 years. Just a hunch but, what if she stomped into a different oddity at that time? There's still a whole lot of misteries floating around Senjougahara, both mental and phisical, both about past, present and future.
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2009-08-14, 10:34 | Link #54 |
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I'm just putting together 2 plus 2 with the few elements the anime gave us (since I've never touched the novels anyway). If the indications given in episode 2 are to be interpreted as they came, it might be a valid possibility. After all, there's Hitagi with a stapler in the first ending, which is everything but a coincidence.
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2009-08-14, 11:02 | Link #56 | |
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Reminds me of the FLCL manga or the ED of Maria+Holic. I wouldn't read any meaning into the stylistic distortion of proportions.
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2009-08-14, 16:55 | Link #58 |
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I think Pellissier may have the right theory about Senjohara's past. If I understand the ep.6 topic, it was just about recaling Senjohara's better days in the past.... BUT, there Hanekawa on the phone say's that is better not to look too much into someone's past.... she put's it like an ordinary excuse that he must ask her herself, but I think it's something too personal to discuss without permission of Senjohara.
There's something more to Senjohara's past, that's fore sure. |
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