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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- A lot of passion poured into the performance this episode. A well deserved standing ovation imo. Takaomi also made quite an impression through his skills and this episode that was quite impressive, almost like a moving painting with the wind. |
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| After the group competition, comes the individual competition, and there're high stakes for all parties. Another showing of Jongara-bushi, and Tanuma tries playng with Setsu's thought process. This piece of drama may be conspicuously chuckling. Only 4 competitors are worthy of all looking forward to: Ushio, Kaji, Tanuma and Setsu. Kamiki Ryuugen showing up is unlike any other parental case of aflliction, it's a psychology battle first and foremost between a legit son and adopted children. How funny and comical is this from Kouta though. A familial conflict between Kamiki and Umeko, not to mention their kids' rivalries of Mai and Tanuma against Setsu, this is chilling levels of drama awaiting to nestle out of the bag. As Wakana has sufficed, it's exhausting to listen to endless whims. Indeed, the way that these 4 (or 2, lest for Ushio and Kaji this episode) interpret their Tsugaru-Shamisen playing is vastly different: Ushio still sticking to his guns of doing the Arakawa Twang and enjoying himself in the fun run, that's the entertainment aspect of the Shamisen. For Kaji, his worries wear upon his heart, but he vailantly displays her valour by going for a fierce style as means to show what he's made of individually with the rebellious nature, The unforeseen haa happened, and Kaji's voice in both hmself and his Shamisen instrument is tremored...hope this comes out amicably. |
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| Well, it's time for the individual performances and Setsu is looking prepared for it. But, before that, we saw quite a family feud between Setsu's father, Kamiki Ryuugen who's trying to take Setsu in, and his mother, Umeko who's against it. Both are fixated on Setsu like he's some kind of a toy. Nobody's even trying to understand his feelings. It's hard to be Setsu and his brother, Wakama. Setsu has quite a few formidable opponents to look up to. Everyone has their own style of playing Shamisen. Someone's there to just enjoy it which is not bad actually. Some are nervous which is totally understandable and Setsu has a lot of things going through his mind as well. Some really amazing performances so far. Unfortunately, not for Kaji. Poor guy's Shamisen gave up in the middle of the performance. How will he come back from this? Can he? Now I'm just waiting for Setsu's mind-blowing performance if there's going to be one. |
Pre_YumJun 4, 2021 12:21 PM
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| A demon vs demon fight in a music anime? You never thought that would happen. Quite a family reunion. Arakawa's play was really fun and beautiful to listen to, he's character personality is good. Pretty sure he'll play the rest of the play with just 2 strings, he's pretty good so he'll he able to do it. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| So, what's them brothers deal with their dad Kamiki Ryuugen? OOOOh too bad for contestant number 29, his string jaz gave up. |
| And so its time for the individuals huh. Guess the lack of qualifying rounds really served to allow the chaff to enter as well. Setsu's performance sure ended up drawing quite the audience. Behind the scenes though the family situation sure looks complex for Setsu. Ushio though really has quite the fan base. His performance though was fun and looks like he really enjoyed it as well. Too bad about Kaji though. His performance was excellent though the string snapping halfway through his performance really cut short his performance. Overall an enjoyable ep that served to both provide excellent performances via Ushio and Kaji's pieces while also expand upon the complexity that lay in Setsu's relations with his family. Curious to see what will happen next. |
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I remember I read that comment of yours on previous episodes and I was like "No way, can it be correct?!" It is really interesting that he is the real son of Kamiki :O As it is mentioned in the ep that Setsu is the only one related to Kamiki by blood, then Wakana must be his step brother as well.. |
| This anime always amazes me for how the OST, despite not being particularly unique, manages to keep me engaged from start to finish even outside the shamisen performances. The sound director deserves a statue. |
NirinboJun 4, 2021 2:23 PM
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| They were dropping some bombs this ep with the reveal that Kamiki Ryuugen is Setsu's dad, he wants Setsu to take over as Kamiki Ryuugen when he retires 𝘢𝘯𝘥 Mai, Souichi, & Setsu are adopted siblings... my head is spinning! Setsu's parents are both toxic af. They're each trying to force Setsu into this mold, with his dad purely wanting him for his skill and nothing more and his mum treating him like her property. On top of that, both of them left Wakana & Matsugoro to bringing Setsu up until they were ready to use him. |
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| Rip Kaji-kun. You've gone too far away, it seems. At least you already showed to yourself how good you are by improving into that point. Too bad those string can't handle the improvement. So, well... In the other hand, Arakawa kept giving the strong impression since the beginning. The pattern seems to get into the same way as the group session before. I guess, by eliminating Kaji performance, it will be a lot easier for the judge to focus more into Souichi and Setsu. The duel between them, right? I suspect, its Umeko works, if you know what i mean .... Anyway, about Souichi dad, and how he introduced himself as Setsu's dad, kinda shock me a little bit. The timing really strange at those point, but, well, it is what it is. The conversation between him and Umeko really strong, i feel bad already for Setsu's brother in the middle of them. Idk how the hell it can be happened in the first place. But, that's it! A little drama behind Setsu's family. How nice! Also, i like how Yui responded into all the shocking moment. A bit delay, from what i see. But, its fine. She always amazed me. Then those both definitely cute, no argument. Next! |
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| Imo, if he improvises and finishes the song with the string still broken, it'd make me respect his performance even more. Of course, it's still unfortunate that his string broke though. |
LezetJun 4, 2021 4:17 PM
| Well this escalated into a soap opera family drama quite quickly. To the point where I'm kinda lost on who's who, even. Arakawa looking like an Englishman from a century or two ago, playing a traditional Japanese instrument in a way it apparently shouldn't really be played - that was just odd. And then poor Kaji..... rip. |
| That was a bit of a info-dump with the complexity of his family situation. So, his older brother is his half-brother, when did Umeko give birth to him. Does anyone know how much of the manga the anime has adapted? |
| moms an ass, dads an ass. mans just can't live peacefully lmao and what happened with kaji is awful but this is anime so im guessing he'd play with only 2 strings which is ??? amazing and that'll impress everyone |
| Dude this family is fucking cray! From what I watched this ep, the curly hair guy said Setsu was the only biological kid to that jackass guy he didn't mention Wakana. So Wakana might be from another dude and he's just setsus half-brother which is why they look so different. Then he said Mai and Soichi are jackasses adopted kids and he has that other wife now.......damn this some crazy dynamics. Next thing you know we gonna find out there is some Alabama honeymoon humping going on!  I also wonder if Mai and Soichi do know Setsu is there brother, I'm sure right? And how the hell did all of the parents hook up and break up? I wanna see young pre MILF Umeko! That could be a anime drama by itself, cause then it also has basically the parents abandoning there kids on the Gramps or starting other families. SPILLLLLLL THAAAAT TEAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Oh and I need some nhentai dojin like pronto of these chicks am I right fellas! They can get some good tags out of this group! Especially after Shuri and Sakura looked at each other and said they were each cute! Waifu wars baby!!!!!!  |
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Just gonna say now with these new tags popping up in this episode we got "a thousand and one follies, lollies and lickemollies" to choose from! Sexy crazy Yankee style MILF - Umeko Shy classmate with a cute face- Shuri Megane Pervert Tsundere- Yui Centerfold hostess older sister - Yuna Middle school little sister wife - Sakura Childhood friend/Step Sister - Mai We got got all types cum one cum all!  |
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| Lots of exposition to the family of Setsu. Poor Kaji-kun though.... I was excited to see the New Kaji but I guess the world isn't ready yet. Ganbare Kaji kyun!! |
| I hope eventually Setsu's gonna tell his "parents" to go f themselves..... |
| see you, space cowperson . . . |
| Bruh, they just revealed all those juicy information like it's nothing lmao. I love how they revealed it, that was great, you do you curly haired friend of Wakana. Setsu's family is fucked up though, I feel especially bad for Wakana. I am guessing Wakana and Setsu have different dads. I wonder if Souichi and Mai knows that Setsu is their brother, I don't think they do. Sakura and Shuri interacting was very adorable, I like them both but, Sakura is best girl. Yui just out here shipping everything that moves with Setsu lmao. I respect the shit out of Arakawa, that's how it should be, having fun. Feel bad for Kaji, but it'd be amazing if he continued playing with 2 strings. Really great episode! Looking forward to the next one. 2 left, I hope we get a 2nd season. |
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| Setsu's stuck between aspirations of people towards him. Though he seems to be in a world of his own. Can't wait what storm his gonna bring to the shamisen world. Also the other contestants are too good. Especially Kaji, wonder how he's gonna end his piece. Kubo and the two strings? |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| I really liked this episode, one of the strongest ones of the season since the first couple. Just keep giving me focus on Setsu and the Aomori crew, they're so much more interesting than the high school group, who all still feel kind of just... there, outside of Yui. Speaking of Yui, shout to her for hearing all these bombshells regarding Setsu's family, and her first thought being to whether her ship of SetsuxMaiMai was still viable. You just know that she throws herself into online ship wars like a naval destroyer. Plus, you know what they say... if she's not blood related, she's free to be dated. |
| oh snap! Kaji snapped! i meant his strings! lolz Ushio made his fun enjoyable way! nice! but some are annoyed with his "Twang" sound! hahaha 5/5. |
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| So this episode bascially proved that everyone in the family is an asshole. Guess we can understand why Mai is so obsessive. I can't get over how cute the neighbor girl is. Now we'll see how everyone is going to do in the individual competition. That was a hell of a way to end an episode though, a broken string on stage? Who knows what'll happen next. |
 The elder Sawamura sibling took the words out of my mouth. He is definitely in an unenviable position. Not that I dislike it. This definitely spices things up a bit. And the estranged father's words most likely opened an avenue for Sawamura to evolve. Oh, and just to overdose on cuteness…  Too bad for Kaji, though. |
| Am I missing stuff? Why is the "rockstar" there? |
Dude too funny! Never heard that one. Lol If she's not blood related, she's free to be dated. But if she dose have yo blood, just put it in the butt.   |
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| Totally did not see a broken string. There should be a time allotted to restring and perform. |
dasprn said: Especially Kaji, wonder how he's gonna end his piece. Kubo and the two strings? Brillant! Maybe Kaji's a descendant. |
| damn poor Kaji, can't imagine how nerve racking that can be having a part of your instrument just break in the middle of your performance like that Though the real poor soul is definitely Setsu. It must suck knowing that everyone including your own parents are only using you for you just as a memetic tool to pass on the legacy of grandpa. I do hope his performance at the end will be a showing that he is his own person |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| I'm not even surprised by how difficult Setsu's family situation is difficult, his dad is the worst though... well now for the solo performance it's interesting, the string at the end though! I'm looking forward to hearing Setsu's performance |
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| Poor Kaji there at the end just when his performance went so well. Seeing everyone's reaction on Kamiki Ryuugen being Setsu's biological dad, I can't wait for them to find out about Umeko being his mother. |
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Weasalopes said: Welp. I was kinda right; MaiMai's adoptive father is Setsu's biological father. And the dad is an asshole. Both of Setsu's parent-types are focused on the legacy of Umeko's father, and aren't seeing Setsu as his own person, but a prize in their competition, each desiring to shape him differently than the other. His dad is correct about one thing; Setsu does need exposure to other 'sounds', other styles of play, other schools of Shamisen, non-traditional as well as traditional music; he needs that so he can draw upon it when reacting with his audience. I gotta say, MaiMai's mom is having to deal with a really screwed up husband. No wonder she's so wound up about everything. Gotta feel sorry for her and the kids (all of the kids). Speaking of kids...MaiMai and Setsu's older brother are the most normal. Setsu's kinda odd, and Souichi is classic OCD; really classic, a textbook case. There are a number of interesting personality types running around...like that's news to anyone! It'll be interesting if the chap playing who had a string break will be able to go outside his comfort zone enough to work around that with the remaining two strings. The string breaking is gonna cost him points no matter what, but lost points from that beats the lost points from walking off the stage. In some ways, this may prove a really good thing to have happened to him, provided he can make himself do the needed improvisation upon a tune it'll require to complete things. Then...provided they don't shove it to the final episode, it'll be Setsu. This is still really good stuff. This analysis sums the situation up nicely. Couldn't have said it better. |
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