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vonPeterhof
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Gina Szanboti
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I guess it's comforting that seeing it as a Bad End is not just a cultural thing.
Reading through the comment gibberish via google translate of your link, it looks like quite a few people keep mentioning horror, psychiatric help, brainwashing, criminals and the like (and a few mentions of Hinamizawa Syndrome! Not even I would go that far.  ) and I think a couple people brought up that the village was cursed, which I would agree with (if that's what they said). Hard to tell though, since google can't differentiate between city/town and Machi.
One interesting comment (if it's even close) suggested that Yoshio was also delusional about having rocks thrown at him. Even for Machi, the ancient punishment of stoning is an odd delusion to have. If both of them had the same hallucination, it might imply that the mountain god is actively messing with the minds of the entire village to make sure they won't leave... ::cue cheerful music:: |
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JaggedAuthor
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So there's a possibility Yoshio wasn't actually pelted with stones? There goes the one thing about the ending I liked. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I know, right?
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gedata
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To be fair, from what I've heard, the last two episodes have little to do with the author's original work. |
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JaggedAuthor
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^ Seems to be the case. The ending was just one of a growing number of issues I had with the show, though.
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Hameyadea
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I saw some posts on the possibility that the author and the studio/production committee had some sorts of falling out or something. There wasn't any source provided in any of those posts, but those users pointed out to another infamous case -- Anno Hideaki and the adaptation of Kare Kano.
At this point, I think it seems plausible. Last edited by Hameyadea on Wed Jun 22, 2016 5:54 am; edited 1 time in total |
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mangamuscle
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@Hameyadea
Well, it would be most interesting if this was indeed a revenge ending, it was only the last 1/4 of the episode that made people jaws drop and with the tight schedules anime productions have it would be relatively easy for the mangaka to have expected a different ending, heck, they might have made an extra last minute voice actor recording session so the mangaka would not know about the bad ending until it was broadcast. Therefore, all the people thinking of boycotting the series would be doing exactly what the production committee wants, to throws stones to the mangaka so he returns to his village. |
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Tenchi
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Not going to lie, I'll probably still buy Kumamiko anyway (assuming I have money when it's out on DVD/Blu over here, but I'm also assuming the western release won't be until some point in 2017 at the earliest).
I'm not so much thinking in terms of rewarding/punishing the anime producers for a "bad" ending compared to the ongoing manga's lack of one, I just want to own the 9 or so episodes I really enjoyed on physical media. Also, I'm going to raise the possibility that one of the two OVAs, presumably the one on the second volume (it seems to be getting an unusual-for-Japan release with 6 episodes of the TV series per volume), will "undo" the ending of the TV series. The article from April doesn't say whether they'll be full original episodes or just shorts, though. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I read elsewhere that the writer deleted his Twitter account and their connection to this series was removed from their Wiki page. I didn't follow up to validate this though. Funny, if true.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4472 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I've found Masume (spelt as "Masme") Yoshimoto's Tumblr but did he ever have a Twitter? I tried looking for one about a month or so ago but couldn't find one.
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Gina Szanboti
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Yoshimoto is the mangaka. Pierre Sugiura was one of the scriptwriters, and he deleted his Twitter.
Yoshimoto apparently weighed in on the finale on Tumblr, but that was also deleted. Basically he said that he left everything to the writers, trusting they were professionals, and so didn't do the script checks they submitted (see Shirobako! ) He did not like Yoshio's lines in the finale, but didn't address the other issues. Given all the social politics and formalities in the anime hierarchy, that he said that much at all, suggests he was pretty pissed.
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Tenchi
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^ Yah, I'm getting a definite "Stephen King on Kubrick's The Shining" vibe here.
Or, to a lesser degree, a "George Lucas on Star Wars VII" vibe. |
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JaggedAuthor
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^ Except that the dissatisfaction is actually justified in this case.
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Tenchi
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^ I wasn't necessarily implying that either of those "adaptation/new production disliked by original creator" cases weren't justified, though.
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