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EP. REVIEW: After the Rain

Beautiful adaptation of this part of the manga. I disagree with Gabriella about her interpretation of Akira's dream. I know she was probably a bit sarcastic, but her comment belittled all the symbolism of that scene.
During the hug, Kondo thought "he wanted to get wet by Akira's rain".
Everyone should know at this point, that the rain in this story is a metaphor of the characters' inner pain. So, he embraced "her pain". During Akira's dream, we saw her point of view of that hug. Kondo's body was represented like rain, so when she embraced him, she accepted "his rain" (pain), exactly like Kondo did with her. But this comfort is only ephemeral: indeed Kondo disappeared between her arms. So, I found Akira's dream, extremely poetic. I am not denying it was also implied that imagination induced in her some kind of sexual excitement, it's natural since she is in love, but what she felt was way more than only that, and it was painful, since she is trying with all herself to forget her pain caused from her trauma linked to running, absorbing her body and mind in this impossible love, that being "impossible", can't work like complete escapism anyway.

Can you see it from this perspective?

#Verso.Sciolto wrote:

Can you see it from this perspective?

Not at all, actually. And the fact that it is all you seem to see is actually just really sad to me more than anything. Why are you still watching the show, if this is all you're getting out of it? Why did you even start watching it to begin with?

Would anyone believe Akira if she came to the family restaurant the next day and told her co-workers she was quitting because the family man manager had taken advantage of her the night before?

To me, this still seems like a campaign ad, a "how to manual" for successfully enticing a vulnerable high school student into a long term commitment - a manual for middle aged "gentlemen" on how to "pull it off" without even raising suspicion. The sort of scenario that so frequently shows in gaslighting efforts after another "nice guy" is accused of doing something "inappropriate".

Would anyone believe Akira if she came to the family restaurant the next day and told her co-workers she was quitting because the family man manager had taken advantage of her the night before? In the moments we didn't get to see - before he arranged for a driver to take her home, after ...?

It can be said that the cook doesn't enter with his meal that time because he hears voices inside and he only wants to be in there, be in that room with her, when he can be alone with the teenager he targets. To work her over. Also, on a separate occasion the brash cook once again proves an unreliable deterrent to Akira because he isn't meant to convince her that giving up on the manager is the right thing to do - from the perspective of the patient statutory rapists. We've been told repeatedly that it is a bad idea for a teenager to be alone with someone like the cook but she's perfectly safe with the manager type. His mere presence a deterrent for the "real" threat - or so we are lead to believe.

After the Rain is, in my opinion, perpetuating several rape myths. Lulls potential targets into a sense of complacency because in contrast to the brash cook the kind manager can be trusted when they're alone. She wouldn't even think to report the manager - because, as we are told repeatedly - it is what she would have wanted all along. Or so we are told.

Can you see it from this perspective?

Can you see it from this perspective?

Are we even watching the same show? This sounds unhinged.

#Verso.Sciolto wrote:

Can you see it from this perspective?

Congrats, you've discovered the awful truth. In the final episode they'll reveal Kondou is actually a serial sexual predator that merely poses as the harmless bumbling dad type to lure vulnerable, naive school girls into his trap [...].

... remove basically all the trappings of After the Rain's in-universe establishments ...

"it's clear that we're supposed to..."

I'm a bit sad.
First they cut the bald spot, now they cut the detail about Akira's sandwiches... I can see now that this adaptation will cover only half the story and end with an original ending alongside with the end of the manga and the premiere of the movie.

At least I can feel the detractors starting to accept that this story is actually not creepy at all. I really want to see if the most angry haters will tergiversate and make a mea culpa.

Can you see it from this perspective?