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Dec 9, 2010 9:29 AM
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lol @ Sanada's long prayer. Wow.. aliens...

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Dec 10, 2010 9:07 AM
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wow. the first part of the ep was so funny with the aliens XD
I wanna have that kind of gun too :o the small version as well :)
Dec 12, 2010 9:17 AM
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Actually, the first part when Kon and Hotori were talking, it kinda reminded me of Bakemonogatari.

I love the last punchline for the second part. Freaking' hilarious.

Dec 12, 2010 11:08 AM
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I was quite amused by the reaction of the two blackbirds to Sanada's rambling prayer!
Dec 12, 2010 11:29 AM
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wow, this episode really came out of no where. Ailens, eventhough it was cool, and the ghost. diffirent i guess.

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Dec 12, 2010 11:59 AM
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First time travel now Aliens and ghosts what's next?
Kon and Hotori talking on the roof somehow looked a bit romantic like a lovers fight or something.
Sanada praying while that old man's ghost was watching was funny to watch.
Dec 12, 2010 12:29 PM
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Pretty amazing episode, third in a row of amazing eps :D. Yay for more Kon this week and yay for more supernatural/aliens/ghosts!

The roof talk at the start was awesome, and the boy's prayer probably the most realistic, believable, and of course hilarious prayer ever :D. They even managed to make the repetition of that scene at the end of the episode funny just with one sentence :D.

I loved the revelation who was praying for the old guy, didn't see that coming and it gave that character more depth.

The varied camerawork and animation are still delightful, I wish more anime would be "filmed" like Soredemo :D. Somewhat reminds me of FLCL, where I loved the camerawork even more :).
Dec 12, 2010 12:33 PM
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Dec 12, 2010 2:28 PM
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A very different episode, nice one.
Dec 12, 2010 2:54 PM
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This one was total genius. I laughed so hard.

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Dec 12, 2010 3:05 PM

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Sanada's prayer was hilarious!
So the grandma is actually a grandma...I was doubting her sex for a while now XD
Kon's cool as always.
sudden alien invasion was surely funny and for some reason the crap they were saying made the scenes funnier.
Dec 12, 2010 4:27 PM

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Loved this ep. Kinda caught me off guard with the alien bit, but it doesn't seem out of place in this show. Liked the last segment about the old man a lot, and I thought that it was nice that we got to learn a little more about Uki. Seeing Josephine out and about was a nice bonus.


Liked the image at the end too.
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Dec 12, 2010 5:52 PM

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I like the second part. A lot. Stories featuring other people in the town really make me feel that everyone is connected to another person in some ways, even if the persons themselves may not see the direct connection. Subtle stuff.

Too bad Uki can't see her husband. The BGM was building up but it turned out that the coffee is for herself. I LOLed.
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Dec 12, 2010 6:12 PM
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Alright finally subbed, I got the just of it from the raw but its better to get the small stuff too. Great ep, good follow up of the last two eps. But I think their shop should become like a gathering of characters like aliens and time travelers. That would add to this show and the cafe screen time. The aliens, and gramps could make a regular apperance. I wounder if they'll explain what the aliens were about, it would be nice to add as a secondary story plot going on behind, with the cafe being in the center. If only they could add all the stuff they've made so far and extend the series.
Dec 12, 2010 8:09 PM
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the second part with the ghost was simple great.
and the alien part was lol, i laughted hard at the dunnowhat thing they were saying xDD
Dec 12, 2010 8:26 PM

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Lmao its for herself i laugh like sht XD i wan to try being a ghost :D

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Dec 12, 2010 10:17 PM

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Aliens, wat.

Overall, a great episode. Kon. <3
Dec 13, 2010 2:18 AM

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finally the alien stuff!
Dec 13, 2010 2:26 AM

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lol at Sanada's looooooooooooonnggg prayer..

nice touch with the chalk drawings after the OP, Shinbou still rocks!! haha loved Hotori freaking out all throughout the alien encounter..

what the.. Uki is really a she?! I was always suspercting her to be a 'he' all this time.. really fun watching all the ghost talks.. and that racoon was Hotori's pet.. o_O

oh yeah!! more Kon-senpai next episode, this is definitely gonna be good.. :D

so after time travelers we now have aliens and ghosts, this show should be categorized in the supernatural by now.. XD
Dec 13, 2010 2:39 AM
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Too bad Uki can't see her husband. The BGM was building up but it turned out that the coffee is for herself. I LOLed.
Yeah I really fell for it. It was very funny when they revealed she couldn't actually see him. I do feel quite bad for him though.

I loved Sanada's prayer. I hope it comes true too. :3
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Dec 13, 2010 3:10 AM

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great ep alien part was so lol
Dec 13, 2010 7:12 AM

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The alien noises are really funny! Sounds like they are cursing in some foreign language to me! XD
Dec 13, 2010 8:33 AM

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Ah.. Slice of Life with Supernatural theme was very well mixed here..

The alien part is just lol.

But the best part is the Uki's ghost husband..

I don't know what it feels like to be always ignored

and just walk around the town and suddenly jumps into people's conversations..

It kept me smiling until I laughed hard during the coffee break misunderstanding.. xD

Nice. Keep that Kon's screentime moar!!
Dec 13, 2010 8:52 AM

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I totally agree with Kon when it comes to life being boring!
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Dec 13, 2010 9:41 AM

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I love how they change the themes in this show. Sanada's prayer is one of the funniest prayers I ever saw in a show.
That ghost was great listening and intruding in other peoples conversations. I loved when the ghost visited Uki, listening to her prayer and then talking with her in her sleep and also when she put the banana on the altar and said
-''You always loved bananas, didn't you?''
-''I'm pretty sure.''
-''I think so.''
-''Maybe you're not praying that hard...
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Dec 13, 2010 12:27 PM

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This whole episode was quite odd, but I still really enjoyed it. Love Kon!
Dec 13, 2010 1:19 PM

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this episode is awesome especially the alien part, lol at 07:21, what did she say? lol!
Dec 13, 2010 6:17 PM

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Am I the only one that didn't know the maid store owner was a girl? I just thought she was a slightly queer old man.
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Dec 13, 2010 9:14 PM

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Uki's husband's ghost part was quite touching as well as funny. It was a good blend of comedy and heartwarming that really shined with the coffee table moment. Sanada's prayer was so pure, considerate and long winded XD. I thought the crows looking at the direction of the donation box at the beginning was a nice touch but it got even better when they revealed it was the ghost they were looking at. Brilliant. Aliens were random in a good way. Neat touch of leaving the audience to guess what they were actually saying. I really like every moment of this episode.
Dec 14, 2010 1:52 PM
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I've notice two things since I rewatched the series from begginning. One this old guy does come out more then once in the series like ep 6 and 7. And the way the aliens talk to each other reminds me of the conversation piccolo and kami had from the dragon ball series. But I've also seen that cochroach alien before.
Dec 14, 2010 7:46 PM

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Well this was quite different...
Dec 20, 2010 12:31 PM

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sanada's just lovable.. hahaha.. liked his prayer a lot.! :D
Dec 21, 2010 4:09 AM

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I really loved the bit about the ghost husband. It's gotta be the most intelligent part of the series so far.
Dec 26, 2010 11:44 AM
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weird episode
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The Alien part was WTF?!!

As for the old guy, i really loved the whole thing. The guy is so much. Too bad no one can see him. The misunderstandings, thinking people saw him and the comments he was making in other peoples conversations were awesome.
Jan 19, 2011 3:46 PM

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Aversa said:
First time travel now Aliens and ghosts what's next?

Time travel, ghosts... Oh, I miss Natsu no Arashi! so much.
Feb 5, 2011 1:25 PM

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Woah... I am really amazed that none of you realized that aliens were actually relations to Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon (NGE one was one of Angels *its visible after white alien destroyed black one*). They totally look alike... this is a pun of already known (by some, not me) "NGE is ripoff of RahXephon".
I could assume that there is some Terminator pun too, when aliens appeared, but I am most likely wrong on that. DB pun was there too, as you mentioned, with their energy aura.

Second part was sweet... we got to know a grandma a bit and her gramps. She really got me at the end, I was about to start crying. Way to go grandma! :D
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Hilarious episode, I think it's kind of cool how this series tackles all kinds of different subjects.
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Apr 21, 2012 9:14 PM

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This episode went from hilariously random to upsetting. :l
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Yeah that was weird.
I have to say that the coffee cup part was a facepalm moment. I felt so bad for the old man when he realized that he still went unnoticed.

Sakurai Takahiro will never not amuse me with his role of Uki.
Sep 14, 2013 11:08 AM

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This shit turned supernatural.
Interesting, both parts were good.
Feb 4, 2014 5:50 PM

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Well this was rather an interesting episode, liked the alien part :p
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This is gnawing at me, but
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Hotori is so adorable

By the way, what a surrealist episode, Shaft kills me ha ha
Jul 16, 2020 4:30 AM
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Its actually kinda creepy knowing that old man was death and he just appeared as a lonely spirit. Lmao. The first sequence was crazy af too and mind-blowing. Who knews that in the other parallel world they lived on, something unexpected happening there? A demolishion over their galaxy. The end. Tag to noted on this episode : supernatural, sci-fi, superpower. Thats it.
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Nov 5, 2020 8:39 AM

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ohhh, we got a sudden supernatural genre ...still funny tho..hope the granpa find the happiness even in his afterlife
Apr 22, 2022 3:28 PM
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An absolutely amazing Adaptation of some of the best early SoreMachi chapters. As a plus, this episode was pretty tame on the fanservice, which is way more common in the Anime than the Manga.
Dec 3, 2022 11:12 PM
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I'm a sucker for just-okay shows having a really touching moment.
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Well that was a bit of a genre change lol

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