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Jan 19, 2009 6:36 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Finally the Minami brothers come back! It was funny seeing the assertive side of Haruka talking to Natsuki.

I gotta say, 3 episodes in and I'm loving Minami-ke again.

Jan 19, 2009 7:01 PM
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Yeah, seeing Haruka-neesama get all hot and bothered over curry apples was pretty cute. And it looks like Uchida will be a regular to the Minami household, which is bonus. Also looking forward to more Curry Fairy.
Jan 19, 2009 8:13 PM
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Banchou Haruka is back. <3 Awesome episode yet again.
Jan 19, 2009 8:17 PM
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I liked it, but the way the faces are drawn is really starting to bug me.
Jan 19, 2009 10:27 PM
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naikou said:
I liked it, but the way the faces are drawn is really starting to bug me.


agreed, but i choose to ignore it since the show is for entertainment not for animation so w/e xD




Jan 20, 2009 1:16 AM
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Still looking for Makoto.

And I'm not sure why, but for some reason I just can't get into this the way I did the first two seasons. I don't like the way the opening and ending are right in the middle, it makes it sort of feel like three different really tiny episodes. And I tried not to let the animation bother me, but it still sort of does.

Honestly, I am usually never this picky, so I'm not quite sure why I am with this. But I'm really hoping they will start showing everyone together again soon, because I think that would fix it for me. It was funniest when everyone was together. Especially Touma and Mako.
Jan 20, 2009 3:02 AM
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I think I see the pattern of each episode now. We can probably start expecting three "humor" segments, one before the OP, one in the middle, and one after the ED.

I would like to see Mako-chan again too. As much as I like Touma, there has been too much of her. And yeah, the animation of her brothers suck.

I would also like for them to hurry up and go back to school, geez.
Jan 20, 2009 7:15 AM
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Nicee ep :D

Has Minami Natsuki's seiyuu changed?????
Jan 20, 2009 10:11 AM
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Ah! this episode made me hungry.
Good to see the Minami brothers again , Natsuki was very funny especially the second time he ate the pudding.
Another great episode.
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the crapiness of the animation is extremely difficult to ignore :/

liked seeing the Minami brothers again, but the roundtable was too short and not as funny as the ones from the first season.

Haruka's anger at Natsuki for eating the pudding was <3 tho :3
Jan 20, 2009 4:35 PM
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Okay episode. Want more Minami bros. and Yuka.
Jan 20, 2009 6:18 PM

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I liked Banchou Haruka and the middle section the best (the mixing of the recipes). I was kinda bored with the apple bit and the ketchup bit.

I'd rather the show would bookend the eps with the OP and ED instead of putting them in the middle. It would make the episode seem more fluid to me.

I hope in a future episode, Chiaki approves of the Curry Fairy for Haruka. That would make Hosaka happy. Season needs more Hosaka overall.
Jan 20, 2009 10:49 PM

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I enjoyed the last two episodes immensely, this one just seemed to have more negative than good though. It seems to be suffering from some "curse of the third episode" also. I mean, the animation has taken a nose dive already in comparison to season one, but the third just seemed to actually be worse than the last two. -_-;

The pudding episode just seemed rather "been there, done that" in previous episodes of Minami-ke and was drawn out way too long. The apples part just seemed weird.

The curry part was okay, but felt too rushed to actually get any laughs out of me. The "100+7=107" part did make me laugh. But it is rather sad that the whole thing seemed as entertaining as watching paint dry.

3/5 for me... which is sad, because I gave the other two 5/5 simply on the grounds that they were entertaining and fun (I ignored the animation quality on the other two, but this time was just too "meh" to ignore). Also, sadly enough, this episode was as worse if not worse than some of the episodes from season two. I hope this isn't a trend they plan to continue. T_T
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Jan 21, 2009 2:27 AM

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Indeed. The animation quality had dropped significantly (well not tremendously); and they dwelled on the pudding idea for way too long. The curry did get made me chuck a little though.
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Jan 21, 2009 7:49 AM

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2nd episode was much better but still 3rd was OK maybe to many apples on the screen :-). About animation sad to said but sometimes it is impossible to not notice low character draw quality :-(
Jan 21, 2009 11:02 AM

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2nd episode was much better but still 3rd was OK maybe to many apples on the screen :-). About animation sad to said but sometimes it is impossible to not notice low character draw quality :-(


It is sad, in my opinion. When Season 1 was produced by Starchild Records/DAUME it was really a lot better; asread turned it crap...imo.
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Jan 21, 2009 12:59 PM
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I gotta say, 3 episodes in and I'm loving Minami-ke again.


Yep, it's still a bit under average on the technical side, but much funnier than the second season at least.

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Jan 21, 2009 3:40 PM
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One thing is bugging me about Okaeri...


^Where is this?!
Jan 21, 2009 10:05 PM

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Jacut said:
Kraker2k said:
I gotta say, 3 episodes in and I'm loving Minami-ke again.


Yep, it's still a bit under average on the technical side, but much funnier than the second season at least.


agreed. the writing's much funnier, even if the animation's much worse.

this ep didn't compare to the last one - although it's hard to when the last one had some much hosaka awesomeness - but it wasn't bad. great to see the minami bros. back. i hope they get more screen time. a natsuki/hosaka showdown would be awesome.
Jan 22, 2009 4:22 AM

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I still don't see why people still claim the animation or art is bad in season 3.

Its a slice of life show so you're gonna get many still shots and mouth flaps, loads of slice of life shows do that. But the art? I define art as in how good everything looks, drawn accurately and not deformed and season 3 is doing very good in this department, just look at the following screencaps from episode 3 alone:






I may be blind here, but to me they look very well drawn and accurate. Sure the style is different to season one, but that does not make it bad. I wish people would stop making such baseless comments. Okaeri is certainly not as bad as people claim it to be.

A show with bad art and animation would be Musashi Gundo as can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo7Cp3GsyxQ

Jan 22, 2009 6:44 AM

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a nice episode, all about foods and sweets xD


Jan 22, 2009 5:02 PM

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The big brother of Touma is a bad boy :3
I want some pudding!!!
Jan 22, 2009 6:30 PM

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Kraker2k said:
I may be blind here, but to me they look very well drawn and accurate. Sure the style is different to season one, but that does not make it bad. I wish people would stop making such baseless comments. Okaeri is certainly not as bad as people claim it to be.

The problem isn't that Okaeri looks unrealistic, it's that it's extremely inconsistent.

Just look at some screencaps from episode 1:


The faces look totally wrong, and there are quite a few shots of legs/bodies being screwed up, too.
Jan 22, 2009 10:06 PM

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Nice to see Uchida back; she's so cute. <3 Also, the same for Touma's brothers.

I see that Hosaka may have competition for Haruka! Natsuki is a new candidate!? Also haha Natsuki is so immature about pudding. .___.

The wordplay also amused me, despite its failure.


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Jan 23, 2009 5:32 AM

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It's a decent episode, but yeah the animation is really bothering me here (even more than season 2). Oh well, at least it still entertained me.
Jan 23, 2009 5:42 AM
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*yawn*~

Whatever happened to the comedy? I almost fell asleep watching this episode. And for Ayako to actually translate things with 'Omg', to miss punctuation as well as capitalization, they must be really bored with this crap too.
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Jan 23, 2009 6:35 AM

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Food episode ^_^ Worst in this season so far, though. Not much lol moments for me
Jan 23, 2009 11:29 AM

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It wasn't that bad, other than the art. For some reason, though, I wasn't that bothered by it. I'm still looking forward for more.

Thanks, person who gave me this on another site a long time ago, lol.
Jan 23, 2009 12:27 PM

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Great episode. These quarrels because of the pudding are meaningleass, but so funny :)
Jan 23, 2009 12:42 PM

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Great episode.. Pudding and apples = LOL XD XD XD
I can't stand apples now XD XD And Haruka's reaction when she get those apples was so LOL XD XD
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Jan 23, 2009 8:02 PM

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Situational comedy at its best, it wasn't a 'laugh out loud' episode but it was a 'smile and be happy all the way through' episode. Is there a word for that?
The comedic pauses were excellently executed as well. I feel this season is actually living up to season 1, at least what I remember of it. I need to rewatch it to be sure.

I did notice Ayako's sloppy editing, I hope it doesn't continue.
Jan 24, 2009 3:34 AM

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cyruz said:
*yawn*~

Whatever happened to the comedy? I almost fell asleep watching this episode. And for Ayako to actually translate things with 'Omg', to miss punctuation as well as capitalization, they must be really bored with this crap too.


Doremii-Chihiro were actually superior this time around?

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cyruz said:
*yawn*~

Whatever happened to the comedy? I almost fell asleep watching this episode. And for Ayako to actually translate things with 'Omg', to miss punctuation as well as capitalization, they must be really bored with this crap too.

Can't help but agreeing. Ayako's "omg" was the only thing that made me laugh throughout the whole episode. I felt like dropping the series (and if it doesn't get better in the next episode, I think I will.) It must be the absence of Hosaka...If it wasn't for him, I would've dropped this in the second episode.
Jan 24, 2009 11:39 AM
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naikou said:
Kraker2k said:
I may be blind here, but to me they look very well drawn and accurate. Sure the style is different to season one, but that does not make it bad. I wish people would stop making such baseless comments. Okaeri is certainly not as bad as people claim it to be.

The problem isn't that Okaeri looks unrealistic, it's that it's extremely inconsistent.

Just look at some screencaps from episode 1:


The faces look totally wrong, and there are quite a few shots of legs/bodies being screwed up, too.


that's episode ONE, we are at episode THREE. The two last episodes are pretty good.
I think I'm blind too. For people who are bored, well... I find this already much much better than second season.

The artwork is better than the second season for sure (excluding okaeri episode1)

And yeah, Touma saved the day. She is too funny.
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Jan 24, 2009 11:47 AM

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The animation don't really bothers me.. >.<

One thing that does bothers me, is that this season is not fun.When I was watching the first and second season I really laughed a lot, but with the third season it is not so much laughing. =(
Jan 25, 2009 1:14 AM

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Lot of Touma ♥


Jan 25, 2009 7:08 PM

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Needs moar Hosaka.

Also, bipolar Haruka.
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Jan 29, 2009 6:41 AM

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Kinda boring...
Feb 1, 2009 10:10 AM

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Although I am hungry and exhausted after marathoning 6 hours straight, yet I don't seem to find any of these foods to be appealing.



Curry.. Reminds me Persona 4. Both the MC and Yousuke fainted over curry during times of hunger and exhaustion. I still don't understand how curry can be cooked to be so hazardous.

Feb 2, 2009 8:30 PM

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Meh, pretty weak episode compared to the other two, I didn't laugh once. But am looking forward to the rest of the series none the less.
Feb 13, 2009 2:23 AM

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Natsuki's so dense <3 lol.

Feb 14, 2009 6:58 PM

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Ok episode, had a few laughs.

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One thing is bugging me about Okaeri...


^Where is this?!
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Jun 4, 2009 6:24 AM

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A nice little moment where I could enjoy myself. 107 was funny.
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Of course the second season wasn't supposed to be as funny. Gotta say, i'm enjoying this season like the first.
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Dec 2, 2009 1:38 PM

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It was nice to see the Minami brothers again. Also Touma remained me of Ciel from Kuroshitsuji in this episode.

As with him, I can't really decide on weather I prefer a boy Touma or a girl Touma. LOL

It was also funny to see Haruka with that attitude, I guess she still has not forgiven him for what he did to her.

I though that maybe we would get to see the Curry Fairy in this episode since it was about food but we'll see him soon.
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Kazunga said:
One thing is bugging me about Okaeri...


^Where is this?!


I think this is from season 2. But I'm not sure.
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naikou said:
Kraker2k said:
I may be blind here, but to me they look very well drawn and accurate. Sure the style is different to season one, but that does not make it bad. I wish people would stop making such baseless comments. Okaeri is certainly not as bad as people claim it to be.

The problem isn't that Okaeri looks unrealistic, it's that it's extremely inconsistent.

Just look at some screencaps from episode 1:


The faces look totally wrong, and there are quite a few shots of legs/bodies being screwed up, too.


These screen caps make my eyes hurt, especially the ones with Haruka and Kana.
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It was okay. I got the feeling of deja vu from this ep though.
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Not as good as the previous episode but enjoyable nonetheless.
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