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Merida
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So Akutsu has some serious mommy issues...and you are not supposed to learn how to act as if you're having fun but to actually have fun, Ebihara!
I'm looking forward to seeing how Kuro plans to make kabuki more accessible without having it lose its soul. |
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Gina Szanboti
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His mom was pretty funny, with her radical tone shifts between talking to him and talking to his friends.
They seem to be running into the same problems highlighted in Rakugo regarding updating traditional forms to keep them relevant without losing what makes them unique. The resolution of that dilemma is probably what's going to be the draw to get Ebihara on board with the club. I was curious about the rust (or persimmon), green and black of the curtains in rakugo and kabuki (but apparently not Noh, which doesn't seem to use curtains because of the centralized stage...I think). It seems that the colors are most associated with kabuki rather than rakugo, and the order of the colors (black, green, rust, or the more contemporary black, rust, green, called morita-za) is significant, although I haven't yet discovered exactly what that significance is. 
Anyway, here are a couple of articles that might be of interest: this one, specifically about the jyoshiki maku (the term for the curtain) and other curtain symbolism, is frustratingly sparse. This one is more about the plays. |
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Merida
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Gina Szanboti
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Episode 7
Heh, Tonbo has some mad skillz. Goemon indeed. I really hope he gets a focus episode before this is over. The meeting with Akutsu was hilarious in how they approached him after breaking and entering (and his grandmother is a hoot - she's obviously used to dealing with his histrionics). But more than that, I really liked how real the whole thing felt, like that's how people act, right down to him listening at the door to hear what Maruko was saying after she was done talking to him, and to be sure she really left. I'm not sure I'm buying that Kiriko was really playing the role Kaoru described, but I guess she's a good enough actor to not flub her lines when being let off the hook for being a jerk. This really is turning out to be so much better than I was expecting it to be. Too bad it didn't get weekly reviews. |
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Merida
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So everybody and their (or rather his) grandpa wants Ebihara to join the kabuki group but the stubborn boy just keeps resisting...come on already, there aren't that many episodes left~!
I liked that Akutsu's stepdad isn't your stereotypical anime foreigner but someone who speaks decent Japanese and is knowledgeable about the culture. |
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Merida
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Well, that was an interesting way of modernising the play and it turned out to be pretty successful. Even Ebihara seemed to be (grudgingly) impressed at the end. And Kuro sure knows how to handle Akutsu!
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Gina Szanboti
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That turned out to be a fun episode. I wish they hadn't superimposed Kuro's face during his narration about the Ebihara/Akutsu face-off. There were some pretty neat expressions going on there, and trying to sort those out while reading two sets of subtitles jumping around was just overwhelming.
But that was quite a backstory. I wonder how much longer it will take Ebihara to join the club now, and how much arm-twisting his grampa will have to apply. Anyone know what Akutsu's Japanese malapropisms were? The English ones at the end were easy enough to hear. I just can't shake the feeling that Tonbo is going to explode soon (though there might not be enough episodes left for that now). The way the camera lingers on his face at times, like he's keeping a lid on whatever is on his mind - it might just be to save frames, but if so, it's leaving the wrong impression. |
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Merida
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Considering that there are only 2 episodes left, i'm hoping this week or else we'll probably never actually get to see them perform together...
Really? I didn't get that impression at all. And what reason would he have to "explode"? We've already seen his backstory, he should be reasonably happy now (though it's hard to tell from his "expressions"...). And the super-popular Kaoru-senpai seems to have a crush on him! He's a lucky man! 
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vonPeterhof
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). In the other one he mispronounces the first part of 阿吽の呼吸 as "yaun" (or maybe "nyaun", I couldn't hear very clearly).
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