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Jul 31, 6:39 AM
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Fun episode again. Not outstanding but any means, but not bad either.

I'm getting really strong BL vibes from those two, tho.

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Jul 31, 6:59 AM
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The anime's concept is really, really, really strange!

I have no idea how the events developed like this, haha! But I truly hope it continues! Since it's short, it needs to impress us with every episode from now on.

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Jul 31, 7:04 AM
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A pretty hilarious episode, got a lot of chuckles out of me, Satomi's criticism of the yakuza members singing especially. Satomi is gaining more confidence about the whole karaoke ordeal, though his mental faculty is slipping with all the weird dreams he has been having because of it.
Jul 31, 7:33 AM
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Funny episode
This has been a very decent show so far.
Jul 31, 7:33 AM
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I like this series a lot.
It portrays very well the feeling of fearing that you got involved with something potentially very dangerous.
Also, I think the songs they were singing are real songs.
I recognise "Charles" produced by Kitani Tatsuya and sung by Ado (or in this case by background character yakuza member #2)
Reply / mention me if you recognised anything else, I am curious if they are all real songs.
Jul 31, 7:40 AM
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watching Satomi keep having nightmares about yakuza is too funny lol, and now he finally feeling the pressure of tutoring Kyouji how to sing perfectly
Jul 31, 8:17 AM
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I wish this is not just a "BL vibe" but go all the way to the fifth base. So many hot yakuza in the bathhouse...
Jul 31, 8:22 AM
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I like this series a lot.
It portrays very well the feeling of fearing that you got involved with something potentially very dangerous.
Also, I think the songs they were singing are real songs.
I recognise "Charles" produced by Kitani Tatsuya and sung by Ado (or in this case by background character yakuza member #2)
Reply / mention me if you recognised anything else, I am curious if they are all real songs.
@gorkthe134th Isn't there a list of songs in the credits at the end? I've seen something listed with various years, but I can't read japanese, but real songs do need to be credited.
Jul 31, 8:24 AM
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Lmao when yakuza sang lemon by kenshi and charles by ado, peak
Jul 31, 9:25 AM

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@gorkthe134th Isn't there a list of songs in the credits at the end? I've seen something listed with various years, but I can't read japanese, but real songs do need to be credited.
Thanks @Mimi_Violet!
I confirmed that the first few match (as best as the characters could make it match).
Having a Kataka gojūon open helps a lot when researching that stuff.
Also, small correction: Charles (シャルル) is originally sung by flower, but I got confused because Ado's version doesn't have the "歌いました" part she usually adds to the titles of her covers, plus it's not in her "歌いました" playlist.
I'm not sure what's up with that; maybe it's a new version they made, but I don't know the original well enough to tell.
Jul 31, 9:32 AM

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I love when I know one of the songs of the karaoke scene !!!! The relationship behind Kyouji and Satomi is pretty cute, but one is a Yakuza and the other is in middle school so let's just be good friends and nothing more, right?
Jul 31, 10:19 AM
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The yakuza members' reaction to Satomi's criticism is so funny XD
Cmiiw, but the songs in this episode (from the credit) is "Chijo no Hoshi" by Nakajima Miyuki, "Lemon" by Yonezu Kenshi, "Koi" by Hoshino Gen, "Charles" by Balloon, "Roman Hiko" by Kome Kome Club, "Prussian Blue no Shozo", "Ruby no Yubi" by Terao Akira, "Sakuranbo", "Hakujitsu" by King Gnu, and "Seishun Jidai" by Morita Koichi.
Jul 31, 10:51 AM

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Reply to gorkthe134th
Thanks @Mimi_Violet!
I confirmed that the first few match (as best as the characters could make it match).
Having a Kataka gojūon open helps a lot when researching that stuff.
Also, small correction: Charles (シャルル) is originally sung by flower, but I got confused because Ado's version doesn't have the "歌いました" part she usually adds to the titles of her covers, plus it's not in her "歌いました" playlist.
I'm not sure what's up with that; maybe it's a new version they made, but I don't know the original well enough to tell.
gorkthe134th said:
Also, small correction: Charles (シャルル) is originally sung by flower, but I got confused because Ado's version doesn't have the "歌いました" part she usually adds to the titles of her covers, plus it's not in her "歌いました" playlist.
I'm not sure what's up with that; maybe it's a new version they made, but I don't know the original well enough to tell.


The original creator of Charles, balloon/Keina Suda, released an album "Fall Apart", it's a small collection of his past songs sung or reproduced by other artists. So Ado's Charles is like an "official" cover.
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Jul 31, 11:28 AM

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Satomi needs to take a nice walk or drink some chamomile

bro is wound up tighter than me in the bedroom
Jul 31, 12:34 PM
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Jul 31, 2:21 PM
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@gorkthe134th Isn't there a list of songs in the credits at the end? I've seen something listed with various years, but I can't read japanese, but real songs do need to be credited.
@Mimi_Violet here is the list of songs I found in the credits you can find them on Spotify by copy pasting

「混声合唱とピアノのためのガラスの小箱」
The choir song sung in Satomi's dream at the beginning,on Spotify as 虹(混声三部)

「地上の星」by Miyuki Nakajima

「Lemon」by Kenshi Yonezu

「シャルル」or [Charles] by balloon (originally), also popularly covered by Ado

「浪漫飛行」by Kome Kome Club

「プルシアンブルーの肖像」by Anzen Chitai

「ルビーの指環」by Akira Terao
This is the song Satomi hears on the TV.

「青春時代」by Koichi Morita

「さくらんぼ」by Ai Otsuka

「白日」 by King Gnu
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Jul 31, 2:38 PM

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Yakuza bath house fanservice, blessing us with Kyouji-san's ripped tatted body? All of my yes.

Strawberries and silly old men VS nightmares and severed fingers, plus a load of bad(ass) songs. Second episode did not disappoint.

watching, waiting, commiserating
Jul 31, 3:03 PM
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holy sh!t this kid is traumatized af... i feel so bad for him because he's all alone man, the only thing he loved was singing and now he feels he can't do that anymore either... his parents should be more attentive tbh. oh and despite Kyouji seeming nice and all, he's still yakuza so still better to be careful. BUT if he does get to be in the good side of them he will be protected for life, that's something i suppose

Jul 31, 4:20 PM
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Well, it seemed funny & harmless enough. Until the severed finger in the glovebox, that is. These are very dangerous people this kid is mixed up with, something his dreams are telling him VERY WELL! LOL
Jul 31, 6:50 PM
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We need a yakuza greatest hits sung by these folks.
Jul 31, 8:37 PM

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Guess they gotta remind poor Satomi that these guys are indeed yakuza with that surprise severwd finger xD It seems that chopped finger wasn't even asked for and was given by some desperate guy, so I guess that says something about their actual brutalness I suppose.

They adapted that head pat bit well. I was worried they wouldn't nail the scared face he makes in the manga, but they did! Also, that front seat remark by Kyouji... The implications of that are insane lol
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Jul 31, 8:39 PM

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poor Oka plagued with hellish nightmares. first he was worried about flubbing his solo at the choir festival, but after meeting kyouji's crew, his nightmares were replaced by a group of yakuza men out for blood lol
Aug 1, 4:47 AM
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I knew we're gonna get some new scenes since 5 episodes out of one, normal sized, manga volume is still too much but that's an interesting choice. Ig Satomi's fears about losing his voice would be the main main main conflict. Even if he also sees yakuza in his dreams lol

Also, like, it's not visible at all when you read the eng ver of the manga so it's a nice surprise to hear basically no one just use regular, standard japanese.
Aug 1, 5:51 AM

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Fun episode, didn't expect to hear Unnatural's song and i just can't pin point where i heard Seishun Jidai from too, was it a drama or an anime, gotta look it up.
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Aug 1, 12:23 PM

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was kinda bummed they didn't actually perform hakujitsu by king gnu like in the movie but it was such a funny episode nonetheless!! i wish kyouji would try to sing baka mitai i feel like it'd suit him lol
if anyone is interested there's a sequel manga to karaoke iko that is still ongoing called famiresu iko where satomi is an adult! (there's also a live action of karaoke iko which was realllllllyy good, the vibes feel kinda different from the anime tho)
Aug 2, 9:00 AM

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why is this show so funny
🌈 i just want gintama back
Aug 2, 11:34 AM

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@Mimi_Violet here is the list of songs I found in the credits you can find them on Spotify by copy pasting

「混声合唱とピアノのためのガラスの小箱」
The choir song sung in Satomi's dream at the beginning,on Spotify as 虹(混声三部)

「地上の星」by Miyuki Nakajima

「Lemon」by Kenshi Yonezu

「シャルル」or [Charles] by balloon (originally), also popularly covered by Ado

「浪漫飛行」by Kome Kome Club

「プルシアンブルーの肖像」by Anzen Chitai

「ルビーの指環」by Akira Terao
This is the song Satomi hears on the TV.

「青春時代」by Koichi Morita

「さくらんぼ」by Ai Otsuka

「白日」 by King Gnu
@kurokage9 thank you so much! I was going to check the ending after commenting the episode :D

this episode was really good! more BL mwahaha. his mom smelling cigarettes on him only thought he was a rebel now, not tha the was dating someone who was smoking. also, that said person gave him strawberries, and she didn't suspect either haha.

all the yakuza singing were hilarious! and Satomi's truthful opinions were peak lol.
Aug 3, 1:33 AM
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Just 3 more episodes of this crap.
Aug 3, 4:31 AM

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This is honestly so cute...
Aug 19, 9:20 AM

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Satomi's nightmare, did really give him the scare of his life alright...

Even within the Sairin family, the yakuza can have all sorts of infighting, but if there's one thing, it's the singing aspect that leaps him forward. And once word from that goes out, everyone else wants to see Satomi for better or for worse to judge their singing capabilities. Sure, Kyouji leads the presence around the small karaoke room, but it's Satomi who can lead the guys close to a perfect pitch, if ever possible.

Satomi's clearly reached his breaking point by handling way too many people, thereby missing his school activity to go strawberry picking. However, while the cigarette smell of the karaoke place masks the strawberries that Kyouji bought as compensation for his lessons, Satomi's daily life takes a turn for the worse with the strange nightmares. However, it's tutoring Kyouji that Satomi can remain consistent, like the selection of songs that best fit his vocal range, on top of the usual yakuza stuff that the former warns him on, trying to step into yakuza territory.

Will Satomi's nightmares ever end...
Aug 30, 10:46 PM
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The best episode so far, I laughed so hard watching this episode. Seeing the Yakuza hurt and wanting to cry after being criticized by the main character was hilarious. Of course, this is just a depiction of the Yakuza in entertainment media, so don't be too hasty if you encounter a real Yakuza.

After returning from karaoke, I already expected the mother to smell cigarettes. I thought she would die from it, but apparently, her mother didn't take it too seriously. Perhaps because the main character is the second child, her parents weren't too worried because they were already experienced.

Although the Yakuza are portrayed by the author as good people, the author also portrays them as dangerous. The scene when returning from karaoke and having to navigate a dangerous road due to traffic is a reminder to viewers not to be too easy on the Yakuza, no matter how nice they are.

Oh, and recently, the main character has been having nightmares. I'm also curious why she looks sleep-deprived. Is she unable to fall back asleep after waking up in the middle of the night?

5/5

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