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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Fantastic episode, I was able to see how different Maya and Ayumi were in their portrayal of Helen. All the while, the romance between Maya and Hayame is slowly progressing. It has been since the show began.. now that I think about it. I wonder how she will react when she finds out that he is Mr. Purple Rose. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| I wish the animators had bothered to study the story for the play to the extent that the characters did, its obvious that they don't understand how the actors should be performing. also, why do they keep switching back and forth from English to Japanese? it disturbs the reality that they're trying to create. |
| I really liked this episode; I preferred Ayumi's rendition of Helen to Maya's though. Maya was just too over the top for me, and her acting was way too distracting for me to feel anything for her character portrayal. There is such a thing as overacting, and Maya is dangerously close to crossing that line. I'm a person who rarely gets emotional, and I teared up during a couple of parts of Ayumi's performance. She was so much more believable to me. (Man, I'm talking like these characters are real.) Bottom line: Ayumi > Maya in episode 23 P.S. (I still like Maya and am rooting for her character!) |
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| Ayumi's is the perfect Helen to the book while Maya's was based on 3 things, can't see, hear and talk. |
 "A Legend is but a tale of a beautiful lie." |
| The was a bit unsettling for me, maybe I'm overreacting. Or maybe because pretense became reality, I don't know. |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| I was under the impression that the two would be performing in the same play yet performing in separate acts interchangeably. What I got was literally just a repeat of the Takekurabe plays several episodes back. I was really looking forward to seeing Maya and Ayumi play off of each other's interpretation of Helen. I feel extremely disappointed that they performed separately. This decision just makes the repetitive feel of the show worse. Observing the performances themselves, Maya and Ayumi were both good. I felt I connected more with Ayumi's Helen rather than Maya's Helen, however. I felt like she conveyed more of the frustration that Helen felt growing up than Maya did. I'm hoping that this show can shake off the repetitive nature moving on. This episode was killed for me as it felt like the Takekurabe plays with a different coat of paint. |
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| Maya's Helen was over the top, but I found it more affecting. Again I got the goosebumps when she was performing the final scene, and it was great that they showed both actors in the same scenes this time. I wish they had shown just a little bit more of the play. It's a feeling I've started to get pretty often in the series when they're showing actual performances. I still think the pacing is good regarding how many episodes are dedicated to each issue, but for example here a few minutes more would have been nice. |
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