Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai Episode 6 Discussion

I don't know with which characters their surname is written, but I'm sure it's a pun on 婆 (baba) - old woman. That's mean lmao ToT
Oh yeah, this had a regular ED too, I forgot lol.
Scene after credits!
Well this was a complete 180 of Miiko's character, really unexpected. Best mom and Ariel is precious. Now I'm really excited to see what kind of song they'll make for her.

Thought last week's episode was better than the others but this one went backwards for me, wasn't that interesting at all to watch sadly and didn't really care for Miiko's character here much and her daughter and the developments in this episode. At least it is nice that Miiko was that caring for her daughter I guess to give it her all at her stage in life as an idol at her age as a single mom on paper, just didn't really feel anything when watching it.

@Embient It's 馬場, you can see in the C Part bellow the yt video title with a #. And it's definitely a pun, I burst out laughing when Miiko ran away from the show for her daugher's sake and the manager(?) goes: "Babaaaaa" xD

@animejas Well, nevertheless, they covered a rather important issue for the industry. Of course, within their capabilities. Although concealing age is gradually becoming a thing of the past, the topic of concealing personal life and relationships is still quite relevant. For example, in the last 5 years there have been at least 2-3 major scandals involving idols, VAs, or actors who hid their relationships or families. Even those idols who openly get married are still forced to “apologize” to fans for it, and such an action is often interpreted as either an admission of a lack of career prospects, or to secure them enough so that the marriage can no longer affect your popularity. ESPECIALLY among women. Not to mention the fact that this in any case affects your future career in one way or another.

@Ryushindai I don't think this is a coincidence. Lately, it's not uncommon for original shows to work quite deeply with the calendar, both in promotion and in episode premiere dates. For example, G-Witch dedicated almost every episode to the holidays or events that took place that day. Including Mother's Day, Children's Day or even Yuri Day, on which Licorice Recall also published a video about the relationship between Chisato and Takina at the time.

@RobertBobert The series compositor/screenwritter and a VA said it's a coincidence, I'll just believe them and not think too deep.

@RobertBobert The series compositor/screenwritter and a VA said it's a coincidence, I'll just believe them and not think too deep.

Trust me but it'd have been better if the truth about being actually a mother, divorced at that and being well past the "accepted" age to be considered an idol was kept a secret from this idol stanning audience forever lol. I mean their worship culture exists, so yeah.

But things ended up nicely for Miiko, so let that be. Anyways, I always wanted them to cover that one character we've been seeing in the background since the first episode, so glad they did, with a kind of message of their own.

@Ryushindai
Yeah the director said himself on his twitter space that this was a coincidence. The anime staffsbat dogakobo and writer have no say in its tv schedule, so they write and make the episode not knowing what day it will air.

To be honest, I have vague feelings. On the one hand, I understand and appreciate their desire to show that idols are the most ordinary, living women, and not eternally young and innocent ideal waifus. On the other hand, it's somewhat discounted by the fact that we're talking about an episode in an idealized all-female show with a near-CGDCT formula. That is, they actually deconstruct one of the industry's main sexist prejudices, while at the same time being a media that adheres to it even more than real-life idols. Of course, this show is far from the manipulative nature of Love Live or other 100% idol anime, but it still leaves me with an aftertaste of some hypocrisy.

Oshi no Ko from the same Doga Kobo handles such nuances much better, not least because of the more conventionally realistic setting and lack of moe conventions. Although at the same time, we must give Jellyfish credit for the very fact of touching such topics and their criticism/deconstruction, which you clearly will not see in most other all-female musical shows. The fact that this does not happen as ideally as I might have wanted due to the limitations of the genre is another question.

P.S. Lol. For obvious reasons, I was looking forward to this episode more passionately than usual and all they did was a short smug joke just to remind me that this kiss really happened. If they're really going to leave it like this, this will be the most blatant and shameless anime cliffhanger I've ever seen.

@Vivid_Rabbit_ wow thats actually so cool, didn't know they were doing a staff space... gotta listen to them all from now on. Sadly no archive for eps 1, 2 and 6 :'(

@RobertBobert Lovely comment. This got ya didn't it? it's so nice to have an older female character that isn't some fossil. The medium rally seems to hate characters in their 30s at times.

@MasterHavik I didn't quite understand what you meant, but the so-called "Christmas cake" mentality is indeed characteristic part of Japanese pop culture. You are required to be young and innocent, and at the same time you immediately become an old maid if by the age of 25 you have not found a husband and started a family. As a result, young Japanese girls are often faced with the choice of either completely immersing themselves in their career or quickly finding a husband to meet social expectations.

@TiagoCosta well, the show's writer has been known for this for quite some time. For example, a couple of years ago he translated into Japanese a meme he particularly liked about the development of Tomozaki-kun. Great work with the audience, although he was disappointingly quiet when I needed his commentary the most lmao.

@RobertBobert This episode got you really thinking, didn't it? That's what I meant sorry. I just really like your comment and love how in depth you went. I'm familiar with all of that stuff. I will say all of this pressure put on young Japanese women while they legit make it hell to have a family in Japan due to the work culture. Who wants to have kids if you are working 60 hours a week? It doesn't help that cost of living in Japan isn't cheap either.

a fairly irrelevant chapter, of a series that only has 12 episodes, I don't see any logic in this episode. a good without further

@Hormigo The whole mother - daughter dynamic will be important later on, first time Kano talked directly about her mother.

Also them appear live, on stage, is a very likely cataclysm for her to be recognized, leading to the 2nd half of the series showdown.

It's a original series, with a start, middle and end. It's all planned within the 12 eps.

Also the most popular ep in Japan so far, trending really high in Japan! 3rd overall with over 40k tweets(using the jp hashtag, would be even more with other hashtags or none).

@TiagoCosta Already 40 thousand? At the end of last week there were only 20. Putting aside the debates surrounding Episode 5, they did a really good job promoting it, doubling the show's hype in just one week. Hopefully the author can monetize this enough to give us a more epic and well made third season of Tomozaki in the future. Alsoo, could you please tell me which two shows are still ahead of this?

I'd say if a idol actually did that, they would all walk right out. simps want young single idols.
isn't that why there is a bunch of rules of idols not allowed to have boyfriends. let alone kids and being over 30?

Uff she's 31, I was wondering the whole episode how old she is if she already has a daughter she definitely looks like forever 17 lol. That was a pretty cute episode, the connection between the two was really heartwarming.