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physics223 said: How perceptions rapidly change! We've thought of Higuchi before as just a bad apple, but he's the one who's actually told Watashi what he needed to hear this episode. Once a pest, he has modified his role as some sort of foil. Here is the extended take of mine. The fact that the development of every character involved is based on our own misconceptions about them is one of my favourite things about this show. Postmodernism is all about this. Gotta give it another read to that. About the episode itself, it was delightfully painful, as always. Now the mystery of "who was THAT at the end of episode 5" is pretty much solved. The Watashi of ep 10 won't join any clubs and he'll become a hikkikomori. At some point he'll probably try to escape, only to find himself in the same room over and over again. Awesome. |
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| Woooo I'm confused after watching this episode and even more confused after reading the different theories you guys have! |
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| I love your guys hypothesis. I see it this way: Ozu who is much uglier and awkward looking than Watashi who is relatively normal looking has enjoyed a life much greater than Watashi. I'm getting the feeling Masaaki is giving us a hint to stop trying to be socially awkward. |
| I notice some details in this episode are changed slightly, more interesting because of the bad ending.. |
| I love this show. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| Great episode. Like what others said, it basically shows how unsatisfied with his current life Watashi is. And Higuchi's speech indeed will put up Watashi's character development. Also, no time reset this time. I think this is getting nearer for a solid wrapping up next episodes. |
| Awesome episode, nearly makes up for the past episodes about the doll/johnny/other girls (didn't like that at all xD). |
| Great episode - like I had hoped, we get some more insight into Ozu's character here which is something I appreciated. Also, I like how they are bringing together all these different elements from the various storylines to make a cohesive picture of what is going on. It appears that these alternate universes have a lot more commonalities than I had originally thought. |
| Master has finally shown to be a master to Watashi: the speech about possibilities was really well-spoken. 'Nothing is rose-colored in this world. Everything is a bunch of colors mixed up.' - best caption of this episode. The whole organization seems hilarious, plus the way its leader lost his whole power and Ozu gave it Watashi. I'm starting to think that this is going to end in a completely mind-blowing way. |
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videoflesh said: That was incredible. I think I'm going to have to watch it again before I can sort out all my thoughts on it, haha. On a basic level, though, I was really pleased with the character development in this one- Aijima /intentionally/ playing the idiot for Jougasaki, Ozu being a lovesick fool at heart, and the master being given a more serious treatment. I agree, the character development in this episode was great. |
| Fabulous episode.. wow. I can't get over how everything fits together in every timeline. I have a feeling that I'll be revisiting this episode in particular many times in the future. Master Higuchi's speech was my favorite part, but there's so many revelations in this episode, too. For a while I was convinced that Ozu was really in love with Akashi, and would turn out to be Watashi's rival, but now I see he's not. I'm surprised and confused though.. because the Honkawa girl really looked like Keiko-chan, and not whatever the Honkawa girl was shown to be in the past. Anyway.. can't believe it's almost the end. |
| Parts of some old chapters combined in this one... well I'm really wondering what they have to offer for closure in the next 2 episodes! |
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| excellent episode :D if you have the money you can have all the things you want, but it'll never satisfy you as a whole person. shame Watashi is still stupid to realize what he has done, i feel sorry for Akashi :( you deserve that slap bastard! wow Ozu actually has a girlfriend O___O and it's Keiko-san! i also love Higuchi's speech. there is definitely no such thing as a rose colored world only a bunch of mixed colored ones thrown together. i think it's pretty good of Higuchi to mention that you be anyone that you want, but if keep pressing on unrealistic goals you'll never achieve anything that you want. and tbh why does he want a rose colored life anyway? i mean isn't spending time with his close friends(Hanuki, Akashi, Jougasaki) enough? he's just making it worse each time he expects something magically to happen. i wonder if Watashi will end up with Akashi or stay lonely for the rest of his life? also why the hell he hasn't given the white Mochigumon? oh man i just remembered on how Akashi mentioned here where she always loses the Mochigumon, but yet it always comes back whenever she's not searching for it. it could be Mochigumon is Watashi and she keeps losing it because Watashi keeps drifting away in every episodes. also it's colored White, i bet at the end she may say it's her favorite Mochigumon(doubtful though) and why is Akashi scared of moths :P last two episodes :( |
| damn no rewind this time? seems he has learned the most in this timeline, but is also in the worst position as he became the bad guy this time and even stole Akashi's Birdman thing. Didnt even seem to have any tender moments with Akashi this time around. why cant this guy grab the chance thats so obvious right there! |
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| Really interesting episode. I'm still not sure I understand everything in the series, but the story is getting more and more interesting, and it's not just rote exposition like most series, either, the storytelling is done wonderfully, despite being complex. I really enjoyed the monologue by the master after he returned the book, really powerful stuff. Two more episodes to go. I hope the finale is as good as it's shaping up to be. |
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| no time rewind this time, eh? I hope it will be explained why they occurred in the first place.. |
| Holy Ozu had a girlfriend!? No reset this time. Expecting a lot in the last two episodes. |
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| Wow Ozu is beyond devious in this episode Loved all of the references to earlier episodes. |
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| Watashi realised when he saw that Ozu didn't waste his life, there was meaning behind all of his actions! Watashi realising his faults = no time travel |
| interesting how it tied back to the softball episode, and no rewind this time :o i wonder where this is going |
| So everything always happens but Watashi's role is different and Ozu actually has a girlfriend and the Master had some wise words this episode. Great character development this episode aswell. Best episode so far. |
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| This anime is beginning to be very deep, talking about many life lessons and universal truths I can't wait to see how it's gonna finish in these last two episodes. |
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| No reset? What madness is this. |
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| So he keeps sitting in the middle of the 4.5 tatami room instead of going through another rewind. Things are coming to an end now. I guess the most important message for him to realise was that there isn't a perfect life but that life is multi-colored and that he shouldn't hang on to possibilities he has if he was another person but to those he has as the person he is right now. Actually, I think the second part was the reason for the rewinds to stop and him staying in the tatami room (aka staying as he is). Looking forward to the last couple of episodes as I expect them to be a continuous finale. |
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| It is getting better and better ( with the exception of Episode 6 being the best ) i wonder how will this anime end . I'm in love with the OST |
| That revelation about Ozu though... |
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| Ozu is by far the most interesting character of the series. I guess because he has an awesome master. Excellent episode as always. |
| Maybe the Master is a god afterall... |
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| Wow... Wow That's really deep So many questions I want to ask |
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Quarkboy said: In my interpretation: Everything that happens always happens in each timeline. The only difference is the role of Watashi in the events (and sometimes the roles of the other people filling in for him). Akashi is always in the cycling club and movie club, then changes to birdman and disciple in her second year. Ozu always meets Kohinata-san in his first year in the tennis club and then joins the secret society to get close to her (as Honwaka is one of their branches). He also always does the fireworks to get revenge on the tennis club (or perhaps as part of a plot for the secret society). Ozu's greatest loyalty always seems to be with the Master, however. Higuchi always reads 20,000 leagues way past its due date and then decides to go on a journey after his generation of the proxy proxy war is finished. Ozu and Higuchi always create the film on Jougasaki's private life using the hidden camera footage captured by Aijima which was made in order to discredit Jougasaki so Aijima could impress Akashi, but ends up being used by Ozu as an attack of the proxy proxy war. Hanuki always goes out drinking with Jougasaki after hearing that her boyfriend, Higuchi, has decided to go on a journey after the proxy proxy war is over, attempting to drown her sorrows, and is helped home by Ozu. Ozu always infiltrates Honwaka the night of Gozan, steals the blimp intending to take away Kohinata to fly over the mountains and see all 5 giant pictures/letters at once, is always brought down by Aijima, then chased all the way to the bridge in the first episode, where a furious Aijima and Jougasaki (who thinks it was Ozu that stole Kaori, I think) are trying to get him. Each of these parts of the story (and probably many others I'm forgetting) are basically constant... Although sometimes Watashi would be involved or replace one of the character's roles (like being Higuchi's successor instead of Akashi, or being the CCCC's leader instead of Ozu, etc...) Makes sense, but honestly it was very hard for me to understand the all episodes till now if not for this. |
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| Even if it was usually pretty funny to see him waste his time not learning from his mistakes, it became pretty depressing. The things he thought he wanted for so long were finally handed over to him but he didn't feel any real sense of fulfillment even with those things on hand. It looked like he even vaguely realized what that dangling opportunity was because of Akashi directly denying him this time around and the hole in his heart that came soon after. When Higuchi said that there was no rose-colored campus life, he took it in a hopelessly wrong and negative way thinking everything he does and will do will amount to nothing in the end. I can relate to him because I've been there... What was even sadder was the part when he found that Ozu had a girlfriend all along. From what I believe, his despair wasn't because he couldn't believe that annoying yokai got a hot girlfriend, but it was rather the realization that the guy he secretly saw as a friend he can relate to with his woes in every way didn't waste his two years as bad as he did, thus locking himself in his room until further notice. |
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| Ozu had a girlfriend?! How in the hell did that happen? |
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| Some much needed, straightforward character development. Ozu having meaningful goals doesn't surprise me. He seems like a much better person than Watashi, despite his portrayal so far in the series. Watashi should've been taking notes from Ozu on how to really enjoy whatever he's doing instead of half-assing everything. |
| I liked how things started to come along and the real story is progressing well. So, Ozu has a girlfriend. No rewind at the end this time. |
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| Wow, I don't know how to feel about this. But this anime is getting better and better, this episode is a great explanation for the whole anime. I was confused when I first watched the first 2 episodes, but then understand it later. Best episode so far, simply because this is a mixture of the first 8 episodes of the anime, even have the explanation for what was the main character's goal in the whole anime. Love this, especially how Ozu acts on this episode. |
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| This ep is phenomenal in that it's not only the beginning of what may be a grand revelation of the events that have happened throughout the story, it's also a meaningful ep that really delves into the character of Watashi, rewinding the time to live out a different life is nothing more than a mere thought it seems. It's all part of the 'possibilities' Watashi have thought up. Just as Higuchi said, Watashi have been relying on other possibilities to get his wish, his wish to live out a rose-coloured college life. Of course, as what happened to all the eps before this, all the possibilities so far has been a failure, therefore a new ep meant one of the many possibilities he has thought up That is a huge plot twist about all of this! In this possibility, Watashi delves into the shady business of the Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant which handles all the secret events happening around the university. It's interesting that he would go down this route knowing that Akashi would be genuinely mad at him, even slapping him for real! All the while Ozu raise to the top. And now this is what's weird. It may just be because Watasi is unknowingly mixing up his thought up possibilities, but that's exactly what we got here. A past event is intertwined with the current event. Ozu raised to the top to have the access of being able to hijack Honoka company airship to take the daughter away for a date which ended up crashing after being shot down by the former leader, Aijima. Not too sure what to really think to know all this now except that I'm curious at what's happening for sure. What hits the hardest here is that Ozu have been enjoying wasting his life away while Watashi have done the opposite. Despite the various possibilities he has relied on. |
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| This episode was a bit confusing to be honest. There's some questions in my mind I hope will be answered in the next episodes. |
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| This was the best episode of Tatami Galaxy. Finally, the anime confronts Watashi and exposes his vices. Watashi realises he barely understood the person closest to him. The bad qualities embodied by Ozu that he believed were comparable to himself, was no longer credible. Ozu had made a sincere attempt at living and Watashi witnessed this in every world he experienced. He had nobody else but himself to blame for his being trapped in a cycle of never ending worlds. I like that some things were truly unparalleled like the neko ramen haha. |
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| Whoa, that speech from Higuchi was great. I feel like I need to learn his philosophy, all that he said was very deep. I cant but feel sorry for Watashi, he's missing the whole point and letting life pass by. |
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| Akashi slap Watashi right in the face really give a final blow. While Watashi still confused and can't take any risk, Ozu just make another move that make him regret his entire two miserable year with nothing to do. Ozu's game of love give some result. Once more, Watashi must decide whats the true intentions he search, at the entire college life. Also, a wise advice Higuchi gave to Watashi, gives him more moment of the silence. Lets see what he can do to changed everything. |
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| So no reset next episode? Poor Watashi |
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| Pretty interesting revelation but it still feels like Watashi as a character wasn't done to a complete full development and now he pretty much is being shown why his attempts to save the past were pointless in the first place |
| I totally agree with what Higuchi had said. In reality, it's obvious that nothing can truly be perfect or "rose-coloured". So Ozu wasn't just fooling around. He even had a girlfriend all this time(andd she's the daughter of the Honkawa group leader). And this time, Watashi didn't reverse the time. He's finally come to the realisation that a rose-coloured campus life is completely unrealistic and unachievable. This was a great episode, I loved hoe they connected the events from the other timelines such as the cycle gang, the Honkawa group and the Birdman(Watashi was really too cruel for taking away Akashi's Birdman plane lile that) and the like. |
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| QuarkBoy's post on the first page was great. I had caught several of the events happening regardless like the Jougasaki movie, but it's helpful to have it laid out so nicely and there were a few I hadn't realized (like that Ozu likely always steals the blimp). It makes sense, this is how groundhog loops tend to work, and one of the greatest joys of this show has been seeing how different circies' play out in other circles. The episode itself excellent. I did admittedly go back to episode 2 to see if I could find Ajima but I couldn't see him, that was slightly disappointing (though maybe I missed him) but otherwise, a fantastic episode. A lot more clarity on Ozu, to be honest since it was stated multiple times in earlier episodes that Ozu was in love, I had somewhat been under the impression that maybe it's Watashi he loved. Despite being love competitors for Akashi that the first episode stated, I was certain it wasn't her, and I also didn't think it'd be a new character, so that left Watashi as the most likely culprit to me. The girl from the cult however is a much better answer, such a great twist. Re-contextualizes episode 5 too, I had originally assumed Ozu stole the blimp in large part due to Watashi, but that's clearly not the case anymore. Watashi's character journey was great too, seeing him be a villain, and the talk with the Master was much needed. And I've never mentioned this before somehow, but I love the colour palette of this show. The discussion with the master was punctuated greatly by the colour palette primarily being monochromatic with blue thrown in with the lake and scarf. The series often allows a singular colour to take prominence over any given shot, and the blue here set the mood wonderfully for the more contemplative talk and lesson. Another visual moment I love is kidnapped Watashi's thoughts being presented as lights passing over the speeding car. That was clever. The ending was pretty despondent, the lack of the time loop and Watashi's decision that he shouldn't even try, and just stay locked up in his room is probably the most relatable thing in the show thus far, and I'm looking forward to seeing how he ends up overcoming this grief. |
I think the day, Senpai himself returns the mochiguman to Akashi-san, he'll get his 'rose-coloured campus life'. It was so fucking satisfying to see Aijima getting exposed. Just like Jougasaki in the past episodes. Even though Ozu exposed him, I still fucking hate him. Mc became greedy by gaining that position. Now he's getting success but Akashi-san is becoming distant. Why does it feel like all the events from the previous eps are now interconnecting? Can't believe Ozu picked up the Honey manufacturing company's boss's daughter. |
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| Interesting reveal about Ozu. I really liked the master's speech. And I appreciate MC rethinking about his actions of the past 2 years. And this time there was no reset! Interesting. 4/5 |
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