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| Could not resist it and had to check the manga, if you cannot wait till next thrusday: http://www.jcafe24.net/index.php/topic,32199.0.html You need to register there and make one comment to see the download links. If you through the hassle to see how this story ends then you need to download Magazine FEEL YOUNG 2011-10 to 2012-01...this is the magazine that serialized the story and above volume contain the last 2/3 chapters, the ones that will be animated next ep, not sure if they will adapt the ending as it is, you may need to end up getting the magazines after all to see the FULL ending if not. If you want me to spoil the ending to you and give you details then: |
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| See? A lot better without all those boring flashbacks! 4/5 |
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| Still like Shimao. |
ihateeveryone said: I remember when we all thought this would be the best show of the season.. I still think it is one of the best |
| Duhuhu... |
| Shimao-kun ftw, forever and ever. |
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| I thought she would never ask about Hazuki. I think you are loosing Shimao; your time has passed. |
| Shimao, you're pathetic. Let go of her. You're dead! Don't cause other people problems. If Hazuki was in your place, he would let her live her life. You're living in the past. You're not worthy of even being a villain. You look like a selfish and arrogant child. I know your feelings are strong, but she will always love you. She won't forget about you. Let her go! Just die already! Oops! |
| the ending <333 manager asking about hazuki :') to me it looks like shimao's ready to finally leave |
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| Shimao -_______________________- just give hazuki his body already! |
ihateeveryone said: I remember when we all thought this would be the best show of the season.. This. |
Kugutsue said: ihateeveryone said: I remember when we all thought this would be the best show of the season.. This. Please, do not remind me too, it was after the episode 2... |
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| OMG YES!!!! "Where is the Hazuki I fell in love with?" MAJOR WIN FOR HAZUKI =D SephiriAzure said: I BET you that punch is the moment Hazuki gets his body back. You know like how when this all started Shimao kind of jumped into Hazuki's body?mistress_kisara said: Episode 11 preview is up on the official website http://natsuyuki.tv/03story/index.html That scene seems he's purposely (what's the word?) baiting Hazuki to dive at him. |
IkanoSep 9, 2012 7:00 AM
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| Even after these episodes it is hard for me to read Shimao sometimes. But I do feel sorry for him and even like him. He has this feeling of general apathy to his character which I do imagine is almost a learned helplessness type of thing. Although he says he didn't give up on life I still believe while he lived he had long repressed what he wanted to do or say. With Shimao's second chance he's fighting what seems to be a loosing battle against wanting to keep his love with himself. He left to say goodbye, how was he to know Rokka would somehow find him and remind him all over again of what he was already having such a hard time leaving behind. I still believe that even as his resolve wavers he wants to leave Rokka to his life. That some of his words to Hazuki is a matter of testing out the new guy. |
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aiNkyy said: Kugutsue said: ihateeveryone said: I remember when we all thought this would be the best show of the season.. This. Please, do not remind me too, it was after the episode 2... Yep. First few episodes were so amazing. Honestly. |
| i'm still crying ugh. |
Villetta_Nu said: How many people are still on Team Shimao after this episode? Shimao was absolute evil in this episode and I felt so bad for Hazuki. Shimao probably NEVER had any intention of returning Hazuki's body. And then threatened (I seriously doubt he was joking) to kill Rokka and let Hazuki take the blame for it! OMG!! I wonder how Rokka would feel if she knew that? I don't hate Shimao nor do I find him selfish. Why? Because as I see it, this show just tries to sum up the fact that "life isn't fair" and brings up a "what if life would be fair... to everyone" which would just turn to be a nonsense like here. Shimao says... he never gave up anything, it wasn't his choice and he's just giving the younger Hazuki the possibility of understanding that, actually, there is no bad guy or selfish guy: they both want to be with Rokka and they both want to be alive. The fact that Shimao is dead doesn't make him less DESERVING of having her, because it's not something he chose.... If anything, they are actually both selfish. The only slight difference is that Shimao likes to play the victim and is underappreciating the younger guy (maybe just because he's very jealous - jealousy makes you do mean stuff) It's just how things happened, "destiny" or whatever, which is painful to people and sometimes can't be changed. In the end the morale of the show would probably just conclude that the only solution is to go on with yourlife the way it is, with goods and bads. It;s just so... japanese xD |
| Wow this episode made me dislike Shimao. Up till now I never fully disliked him because his actions were understandable given his past circumstances, I felt sympathetic even. But now it's a whole different story. I guess he got greedy at the end huh. Although I'm not a fan of Hazuki initially, the last few episodes involving the dream/sketchbook world gave Hazuki tremendous amount of development. Hoping for a Hazuki end. |
| I actually wasn't expecting that last question to be asked that way. |
| Don't forget. Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone. |
| Actually come to think about it, Rokka has been the one who's been hurting Shimao. She fell in love with Hazuki and even went to bed with him after a few months' time. "Then the Hazuki-kun that i fell in love with..." Gawd.... But true enough, Shimao's selfish in his own ways... though I still support Shimao over Hazuki anytime. |
| this doesn't really make sense, this whole time all this about the book has confused me so much, i didn't realise it will be the last episode next week! |
| Good episode, only 1 episode left now. I wonder how thing will wrap up. |
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| Why do you all say this show is not as good as expected? For me it is still original and interesting. It has unique idea and well developed story that is fun to watch. Characters are down to earth, but you can sense their temper. I love Hazuki ! And it was long ago when I liked a character like this. Anyway. Series are really not like those annoying school soap dramas. |
| Honestly for me, the anime industry is getting saturated with unoriginal ideas. This show seems original on the surface, but the only non-standard idea it really has is the older lady with a younger guy. I'm sure that's been done before in anime too, I just haven't personally seen it. At least half of this show is rehash of b-list fairy tales, with the main character plopped inside of them muttering some insignificant dialogue. The first few episodes are commendable for Hazuki's bravery and assertiveness, but aside from that, it's not any more original than most anime for me. Just think about it, how many anime have ghosts or other supernatural elements, fairy tales, romance, or drama? And how many of them do one or all of those things better? These days, I don't expect to see something new, but I do hope for at least a better version of the old. |
Chaospan said: Honestly for me, the anime industry is getting saturated with unoriginal ideas. This show seems original on the surface, but the only non-standard idea it really has is the older lady with a younger guy. I'm sure that's been done before in anime too, I just haven't personally seen it. At least half of this show is rehash of b-list fairy tales, with the main character plopped inside of them muttering some insignificant dialogue. The first few episodes are commendable for Hazuki's bravery and assertiveness, but aside from that, it's not any more original than most anime for me. Just think about it, how many anime have ghosts or other supernatural elements, fairy tales, romance, or drama? And how many of them do one or all of those things better? These days, I don't expect to see something new, but I do hope for at least a better version of the old. Well, maybe *ghost stories* are nothing new (there is anohana, kanon but those just annoy the hell out of me), but it's not all about the "idea", but the way it is expressed. And that ghost thing is taken in a new unseen way to me. It's not pretentious, sad things are not over-the-top. And just how much you know josei anime that characters are OLDER than 20's and actually act like ones? |
| I already gave this anime credit for the uncommon occurrence of 'adult' characters with a large age gap between them in a romantic setting. Honestly though, I think that the main characters act like children throughout most of the show. Rokka met her first love either at or near college age, which shows obvious signs of emotional immaturity; and continues to try to live this fairy tale long after he's dead by clinging to him so much that it compromises her professional and personal life. Her inability to be emotionally or physically intimate with Hazuki isn't just because she couldn't get over her dead husband, but more so because she never matured to the point that she could handle a normal romance. I will say this though; Rokka was brave and strong by her husbands bedside. Shimao on the other hand was a whiny bastard until he was finally given an inch by Hazuki, which he took more than a mile with by the end of this particular episode. His general personality after his death isn't amusing at all to me, but instead it's just plain childish. This is reasonable for him though, as he never got the chance to live a normal persons life because of his sickness. In Hazuki's case, I hate to say this because he's my pick; but he doesn't have much of a backbone for someone his age. He was very assertive when this series started off, but he gave both Rokka and Hazuki too much slack while still diligently standing by the idea that he would be "okay" with being second best, which basically makes him an inferior replacement for Shimao. So, the way I see it, Shimao may have had some idea of what he wanted to do with his life with the flower shop, and Rokka and Hazuki are just living his dream up for him. I don't see that as maturity, I see that as an immature lack of independent thought or aspiration. That said, I still insist that this series would have been more unique and original if it followed the real(anime)-world drama of Hazuki and Rokka as they struggled to leave her husband in the past and start anew in a somewhat off-balance relationship. Seeing them learn balance and unity in that situation, for me, would have been more entertaining than seeing Rokka cosplay as a few Disney rejects for half the series, and listen to Shimao whine about not getting his way. Finally, I'd like to mention that lack of originality isn't a deal-breaker to me. In fact, I look for a bit of similarity, which was why I was interested in this romance anime. Generally, if I enjoyed something the first time, I'm sure to enjoy it again. Unfortunately, this series, original or not, was just lackluster for me. It would have been better off as a movie or a short OVA series without Shimao's ghost or his picturebook in it. |
| Shimao is a terrible man. |
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| Shimao should be shot; too bad he's already dead. |
| What do you think you're piloting? Great Mazinger? Dangaioh? For Pete's sake, this isn't some robot cartoon whose main character is an autistic kid or some punk. - Kiichi Goto, Mobile Police Patlabor |
Bunns said: Still like Shimao. same here. actually this episode made me like him even more than before... |
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| I guess watching it after 6 weeks really lost its impact. The last sentence, it hurts. |
| wow..... Shimao.... what a douche you turned out to be, never felt so much hate for someone over the space of 20mins haha, the story has a whole has certainly weakened from the first what.... 3-4 episodes, found it hard to watch from there... quite disappointing really it started out with so much potential. |
ElenirLachlagos said: This series went from "wow, that looks good, I bet I'll love it" to "I hope I can make it through the remaining few episodes". For real. This went to crap when they switched bodies. |
| Shimao should give Hazuki his body back. I had a hard time finishing the last few episodes... |
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| I HATE SHIMAO. |
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| Oh wow what great development and knowing the next episode is the last I really wonder how they'll end this series! |
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| FINALLY! Stupid Rokka hasn't even thought about Hizuki at all. Where is he when her dead husband just happens to be in his body. What such an airhead? And she's annoying crybaby. |
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| It's time to say bye bye Shimao. I like you but not that much. |
| 臭い- |
| This has literally been half flashbacks for like 5 episodes now! What the fuck were they thinking!!! |
| All joking aside, this is an emotional rollercoaster and it's making me a bit sad. Okay, now I have to see how it ends. |
| Hazuki as sacrifice, how fitting. And wow, I surely must be the only one symphatizing with Shimao. Sure, some things he has said or done can't be excused, but considering all he went through, I can see where he is coming from. |
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