Kare Kano Episode 19 Discussion

visioncreation said:
I fucking loved the animation, y'all are plebs

Sean_Nessman said:
KYAAAAAAAAAA I guess I'm just the right audience intended for thissss!!!!!! YASSSSSSSS haven't laughed this much since the Mahou-Tsubasa episodes.

Heard enough bad things about the 2nd cour to stay away from it. For 2 years. BUT MAN THIS ROCKS!!!!!

I never been that focused on the animation side of Kare Kano, I mean, the way they draw, the way they make them move. The direction is everything. How it can change from bright and loud and noisy to suddenly quiet, introspective, silent... and effortlessly.

And the music!!! The voice-acting. I actually like this much much more than the manga (cuz the Tonami's chapters are a bore)

And the sceneries. So damn much steel, metal structures, objects... ( want to draw them all) that are cool in themselves but also create so much atmosphere and mood (living in a city, or transitioning btw the noisy sequence and the quiet sequence)

And the way they just are completely free and good-humored. This is nothing like a badly directed episode where due to lack of money, the director would draw badly and make even staler, more cliche, normal stories. Although the staff couldn't get enough money, they did try to make every moment count, every one funny.

Love the recap sequence with the serious (sarcastic) male voice and Tsubasa's seiyuu voice, and how she pronounced the end of each sentence!!!

Love how they change Miyazawa n Arima into paper board and carry them out to roads, and Miyazawa's burned when she thought about having sex.

Love how in a real life photo, there's a badly scribbled school standing right at the middle.

Love how Miyazawa and Class F's president, and appropriately, because they're paper boards, burst forth and smashed the school building, and changed into giant tokusatsu monsters fighting. Haven't laughed this much about a school being destroyed since Urusei Yatsura. Just completely random.

Ohhhh there're so many more I forgot but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE animate till the end of the 14 days Arc, animate the play, please please don't fuk this up, just keep on doing like this!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YEEEEE GAINAX BOYS!!!

St0rmblade said:


I second this. Most people seem to hate Gainax for stuff like this, but I absolutely adore it. I love how creative these guys can get even with no resources whatsoever. I'm not surprised that this episode turned out great given that it was storyboarded, scripted and so on by Hiroyuki Imaishi.
The recap part was not long and normal, I liked how the images actually symbolically suited the narrative, like Tsubasa talking about Yukino and Arima vowing to live for their own true happiness with a tunnel in the background, etc. The short recap that was just a camrip was also funny (and short!), and I agree with everything you said about other details.
What I want to know though is whose face was used for the Class F president :D Looked really familiar. That tokusatsu reference was HILARIOUS. According to the Kare Kano page on animenewsnetwork, Hideaki Anno even did some work on this episode. It's interesting because he supposedly left the entire production...

bystrouska said:
Just watched this episode today... I was really shocked with the sudden change and found the paper cutout/drawing on sticks stuff really irritating! I almost decided against watching the rest of the series... it was a relief to see ep.20 was back on the normal side.
But in general I must say I'm a bit thrown off by the way the animation style changes and stuff are handled. Experimenting with the medium is fine, but there are times when Kare Kano looks way cheap... and it's a pity, as it kinds of disturbs the attention from what is otherwise a touching, finely written story.
Ah, it's frustrating. I feel like I could love these series so much more, were the production different! Still, I'm going to finish it. :)

FailureDude said:
you guys are morons. the animation in this episode is awesome and original.