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| Episode 13. Futaba gets a cold and appears like Hitoha, Hitoha then catches the cold and becomes hot, so all the guys in class want her to be their friend suddenly. The girls adopt a cat, Futaba played as a cat and then Hitoha gets new gachi rangers doll, which the cat breaks. Yabe-chi comes to the girls house for a home visit, we never had these in the UK, would be weird if your teacher came round to your house. The tv show was clearly the girls ripping the piss out of Yabe-chi, quite funny. Didn't like the whole scenario that came next, making a misunderstanding of Yabe-chi being at home alone with Hitoha and ending up in her bed looking dishevelled. The final sketch about the amusement park was pretty damn sweet, with Mitsuba giving up her place so her sisters could go. Not the best episode. Overall I gave this season a high 6/10 (6.9). Some sketches were pretty damn funny, mostly those involving the girls, Satou and the class. However I wasn't so fond of the jokes where Yabe-chi ends up with his trousers down around the girls, or ends up in bed with Hitoha, just too damn weird. The direction, sound design and shot composition for some of the sketches really went above and beyond. Onto season 2! |
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| Episode 12 Fallen a bit behind due to a long day of work yesterday (was traveling across country for part of it). Anyway, I got to watch this yesterday. It's nice to get some characterization for a literal stand-out in the class (she's taller than the others), Miyashita. And yeah, she's the straight girl in the class, the one who sees all the ridiculousness and just tries to make sense of it. We get her misunderstanding that Hitoha just really doesn't like heights, and her later attempting to connect with Hitoha, only to look like she's groping her in gym and come out as a fake fan of Gatchi Rangers. It was a nice attempt. And yeah, the Satou fan club gets a lot of attention. The dodgeball game was basically all about their quirks and, per the norm, ends with Satou looking perverted. We repeat this in part with Oga specifically, who becomes a pretty decent soccer player to get Satou's attention, then ends up jealous of the ball and yeets it far away before repeating the process with her panties because... she thinks he likes looking at them more than he does looking at her. Go commando if you've got to, I guess. Some of these jokes are getting a little tired. Everything surrounding Satou has gotten a little stale, and though the Miyashita stuff is potentially interesting, it just turns into more misunderstandings regarding Gachi Ranger that have, thankfully, largely been resolved now. Not everything, though - Yabe-chi doesn't hear Hitoha's proclamation of love for the series, so he's still going to misunderstand her on that front, so they're still going to plumb that well. |
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| Episode 13 Futaba actually looks a lot like Hitoha when she's sick, showcasing her same dark aura (she does this again later when she's angry). Even Nipples confuses them. Meanwhile, Hitoha becomes adorable and sparkly when she's sick. We've already seen what Mitsuba's like, so it's fine that they left her out. Attempting to adopt a stray kitten, the girls prepare for its arrival... only for it to be taken away before they can pick it up. Seriously sad to watch Hitoha pour the food in the bowl, pour it back into the bag, and repeat over and over. Futaba can portray a cat pretty well, though. Turns out, their father picked up the cat, got arrested three times on the way back (seriously, that running gag never gets old), and brought it home. All's well that ends well. Hitoha gets a Gachi Ranger action figure that shoots off the head, which inevitably ends up under the refrigerator because of the cat. Yabe-chi visits the house after this, enduring Hitoha alone at her worst, by which I mean sniping at his behaviors and thoughts. The dad returns home after having been arrested again, thinking that Yabe-chi molesting his daughter (yes, this again) and he's ready to kill Yabe-chi, red aura and eyes to boot along with some music that wouldn't be out of place in Friday the 13th, pulling a The Shining on the door (lot harder to do with a bat than an axe!) No wonder he keeps getting arrested, dude's scary. Yabe-chi suffers physical harm. Hitoha visits Yabe-chi's room and promptly leaves. Mitsuba wins a trip to the amusement park, which predictably seems more of a curse than a blessing as there are only two tickets. She imagines a wide variety of situations with Futaba and Hitoha that are all bad, ends up giving the tickets to them, instead piggy-backing on Miku's trip to Hokkaido. Turns out, though, that the tickets were for 2 people apiece, and rather than include Mitsuba again, Futaba asks Satou to come. Over the end credits, we get a new song and Mitsuba alone, though her family comes to find her with another ticket in tow... before their father gets arrested again. Yep, still enjoying that. This was a pretty fun season of anime, albeit one that was pretty repetitive in terms of what types of humor it was going towards. A bit hit and miss for me with the jokes. Found myself recalling my watch of Aharen-san where there were some genuinely good draws for the series, but it just hasn't worked consistently as well as other shows in the genre for me. And yeah, the sexual humor just grew tired over time. Occasionally, this show throws in some pretty strong writing and surprisingly incredible shots, so that helps it a bit. 6.8/10. |
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| @whiteflame55 I mainly remember Aharen-san because of the sudden romantic turn it took in ep 9, really wasn't expecting quiet Aharen to confess and kiss the guy, good on her. Otherwise a pretty forgettable show for me. S2 Ep 1. We start with a gachi rangers opening, liked that. We kick off S2 with a gachi rangers sketch, meeting the villains. I've always had a thing for the evil villainess like Evil Lynn in He-Man so this first sketch made me chuckle watching the evil dudes all submit to the ladies whipping. Ok so looks like we're getting a full sketch of the gachi rangers show, introducing us to the stereo typical cast, including perverted monster. The evil dudes (Gedoru) are trying to exacerbate the declining birth rate by targeting Japan's kids. Gachi rangers on the case. This was quite fun, with even a kindergarten and kids bus being blown up, along with the kids, harsh! We pull back to see the sisters watching the show with Hitoha traumatised by how lame and weird the episode is and asking why the gachi rangers keep messing up. Back to gachi rangers and the citizens of Saitama have had it with the gachi rangers incompetence and storm their base in pretty hilarious style. The gachi rangers set up a trap which crabdragon and Gedoru fall into ending up with crabdragon getting beaten the shit out of with knuckle dusters, again overly brutal for a kids show but funny. That was a pretty decent opening to S2 and seeing Hitoha's reaction to the 'retarded' writing was priceless. @filifjonkan hope you enjoy the time with your grandchild, do they like anime (Cardcaptor Sakura or alike?), suppose a subbed show like this is a bit much for a kid, especially the content. Don't worry about it being the wrong thread, no harm in asking. Have you seen Banana Fish as it looks like that's the next show after Mitsudomoe? |
23feanorAug 16, 2023 3:09 AM
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23feanor said: Yeah, you're not wrong. The sudden romantic turn was decent, but beyond that, it largely just had pretty uninteresting characters trying to evoke humor through repetition. Kind of worked at the start, wasn't working a few episodes in. I liked this season of Mitsudomoe more than I did Aharen-san (which largely coasted on looking cute), just thought there were some similarities in terms of trying to make humor happen through repetition.@whiteflame55 I mainly remember Aharen-san because of the sudden romantic turn it took in ep 9, really wasn't expecting quiet Aharen to confess and kiss the guy, good on her. Otherwise a pretty forgettable show for me. Episode 14 I'm going to continue with the numbering convention because it doesn't seem like there's any substantial split between seasons. Hey, we get to see how the Gatchi Rangers look outside their costumes. No wonder Futaba kept gushing about Pink's rack. Funny that the villains like the dominatrix treatment. Really, though, everyone's a pervert. Also, anyone notice that the face of the lead villain looks pretty similar to their dad? Even has a similar outline style. Also, Crabragon. No notes, just amazing and goofy terrifying monster design. Attacking with suds is truly the scariest monster attack next to those crab puns - does their villainy know no bounds!? Turns out this is actually dissolving them into foam, which... yeah, is pretty dark for a kid's show. Don't know why they bother with swords and explosions when they have this. Still, those absolutely pristine explosions graphics that definitely are practical effects are totally worth it. Little touches in this are pretty fun. The Red Ranger had his driver's license revoked, so he can't drive. They have a mascot of sorts who just gets dragged along on a chain behind them the whole way. Dude likes it rough. Pink goes full Mission Impossible and disguises herself as a middle-aged man to catch the villains unawares. The real villains are the angry, violent mobs we made along the way who proceed to burn down the storefront façade for the Gatchi Rangers' base of operations. The Gachi Rangers find the bad guys through entrapment, To Catch a Predator-style, before busting out some spiked knuckles and just stabbing and stomping the hell out of the giant crustacean before shoving him into an oven and cooking him alive with some sunlight. Kids have anger issues. He grows in size (like you do) and they proceed to fight him in a giant pull-together mech with more realistic explosions. Everything goes magically back to normal after they win, as the kids are all revived, no one is mad anymore, and no one will be sued for property damage. Honestly, not too different from an average Power Rangers episode, so I was entertained. No, seriously, I unironically loved this one. For laughing at the absurdity of it, Mitsuba has her belly fold accosted. And yeah, fond of the ED here - nice touch to have Miyashita as the Green Ranger after she mistakenly believed there must be one in the show. |
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| Em and Aria have gone out for the day so I'm treated to a day at home to relax. I say relax as I had to mow the lawns this morning, but all done now and I can settle down and watch some anime, and luxuriate in a pleasure of parents with young kids, a peaceful daytime nap. I'm often up around 5.30am most mornings so getting the chance to chill and nap if most welcome. @cipheron funny coincidence you mention Snow Fairy Sugar as I came across the show a while ago and added it to my ptw list as a possible show to watch with baby Aria once she's a bit older. There's another couple, Ronja the Robbers Daughter and Bottle Fairies, which both look suitable for younger children as well. Episode 15. Yabe-chi comes into class and everything is normal, by which he means manic chaos with everyone doing their own thing. We get a bit about Mitsuba being conscious of her weight and riding Futaba in the hope it will help her lose weight. Finally an xmas meal crossed with a group date that doesn't go as planned. All the boys are mesmerised by Sugisaki's mother and wait on her hand and foot. The rest play the king game but nothing spicy happens. Poor Yabe-chi spends his xmas eve alone with a doll, feel bad for the guy. Dating in Japan sounds tough. Once you start working there's only colleagues for potential love interests (and that can be a double edged sword, especially if things don't work out and you still have to work together) or attending mixers, basically meeting strangers in the hope you make a connection. This is partly because Japanese teenagers are dissuaded from relationships when in school, which seems mad to me. School time is primarily about academics but it's also learning about the opposite sex and what works and what doesn't through trial and error. Out of everyone i knew at school only one christian couple got together early on and stayed together, got married when they left secondary school at age 16 and are still togther and happy. But they're an exception. If you stay clear of romance in your teenage years, as they often do in Japan from what i've heard, then when you meet someone later in life you won't have any experience and it gets progressively harder to meet new people of the opposite sex. Instead many guys visit soapland establishments for physical contact and leave it at that. I watch Paolo in Japan videos on youtube and so many of the younger people he interviews don't have a partner, they focus on their work, and a hobby or two, and don't seem that interested in finding a partner. Then again marriage in Japan sounds tough, if one or both of you are working and not getting home till after 10pm, then you'd only have an hour together each night, and no holidays, so you'd end up living with a stranger sharing a house but living different lives. There's still a patriarchal culture prevalent in Japan that women raise the kids and looking after them and the household (chores like clothes washing, cleaning the house, nappies, taking out the rubbish, bath time and meals for kids as well as looking after the husband when he comes home). One video I saw had older Japanese men admitting, rather sheepishly that they don't know how to do chores as the wife always does them. So hte younger generation of women look at this dynamic and think 'no', i don't want to become a closeted parent with no life beyond looking after the family home and children. Hachi from Nana ends up a similar position with kids but her huband lives abroad so she's all alone. Pretty sad state of affairs. Yabe-chi stands in the papa and delivers Futaba's xmas pressie only to have his clothes taken by Futaba in her sleep leading to the dad dealing out another beating. |
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| Episode 15 Not too much to add to what everyone's already said. Sad that Yabe-chi always gets a raw deal - having to spend xmas alone with a doll and Nipples after getting wrapped in bandages by his potential date only to end up beaten bloody by the girls' father for going through the trouble of dressing up like Santa is quite a way to go. @23feanor appreciate the breakdown, gives me some insight into his pain and that of other young people in Japan. This party game seems like it was doomed from the start. Also, that hamster kid is back and behaving just like an animal, which apparently Mrs. Sujisaki just loves. Good on you, hamster kid. And yeah, we get another gag about Mitsuba being conscious of her weight. That line from Yabe-chi about how the class looks normal when it's in utter chaos is pretty excellent. |
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| Episode 16. We had our first summer bbq last night and a few too many drinks so wasn't paying especial attention today. The girls show off their photos from the amusement park, much to the annoyance of the Satou club and inviting the attention of spirit girl, which ends up in the photos getting burnt. Mitsuba rides a rodeo machine supposed to reduce weight and substitutes this for riding Futbaba through the neighbourhood. Last we have another misunderstanding regarding the girls dad and a photo of him when he was younger. Mitsuba pretends to be dating the guy in the photo and is pressured to call him and confess her love, leading to the whole charade unravelling. |
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| @filifjonkan We didn't have anything like that. In the US, it's all fried foods all the time. So a fried banana on a stick or even a fried oreo wouldn't be out of place. Some people go whole hog and get fried butter on a stick, which sounds... horrifying. Honestly, I'd take the squid first. Love me some calamari. Episode 16 Been doing a lot of traveling, limited on time, so I'll keep this brief. Not too much to say anyway. Nice to see Hitoha getting to exercise her love of the Gatchi Rangers with a picture, sad to see her lose it because the spirit girl has problems. Kinda love Mitsuba riding her sister through the neighborhood and then doing a spider grab to hold herself up on an alleyway to avoid detection... only to be immediately detected. And yeah, we've done this whole thing of the girls' parents being mistaken for some other boy, it's a bit played out, but kind of cute in execution. Still feel bad for him - Hitoha just won't give him the love he craves. |
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| We had a family day out yday so catching up today. Lovely to see all the young cousins, nieces and nephews but very tiring, plus the trains in the UK are a mess, so took hours to get home. Luckily I brought a supply of cider to keep me fortified for the journey. @filifjonkan at English fairs we much the same as @whiteflame55 mentioned, candyfloss, burgers, hotdogs. Ever since I turned 40 I've got really into dried/smoked meat and fish and would love to try squid on a stick, but don't think I'll get a chance unless I travel to Japan one day. The bbq I have is also a smoker so maybe one day I could try smoking my own squid. Episode 17. The girls create a makeshift slide at the pool which makes a hole in their swimsuits. Then Sugisaki shows Mitsuba some photos with what looks like a ghost, but is actually just Hitoha. I liked the part where Hitoha is peacefully floating down the river-pool and a classical quartet is playing on the side. The choral themed ED was nice. Episode 18. Sugisaki's mum comes for parents day and acts out again. The Satou fan club come up with a weird eraser game, girls playing dirty trying to get one over on each other in search of love. We get the usual valentine and white day chocolate farce, where Sugi gets upset. |
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| @filifjonkan I've heard of White Day, but no, never celebrated the day. @cipheron thanks for the breakdown of how it began, didn't know much about it. Episode 17 The girl's expose their butts after a run-in with a nail on a makeshift slide. Kind of funny, ends with Mitsuba getting the last laugh because she refuses to reveal it... would have to eventually, though. The photo situation is a bit odd, but reveals that Hitoha has basically been hiding everywhere and Mitsuba sneaks a lot of food. Girl's putting on them pounds. The laptop is burned to exorcise a nonexistent spirit. The festival gives us a new setting and new clothing for the girls. Chiba tries to scope out some panties and budding breasts, but fails in his most recent efforts at developing a technique meant to grant him some access. The pool portion is the one time I got a full laugh out of this one. That scene with the gentlemen in tuxes playing violins was absolutely meant to evoke this scene from Titanic just before Hitoha floatation device was deflated. Otherwise, pretty normal stuff, with Hitoha nearly drowning twice. Episode 18 We get more of Sugisaki's mom, which is always a good time. When she stood up and forced Mitsuba to face-plant on her desk, that got me a bit, though everything else was just OK this episode. The eraser game was a bit odd, mainly there to show how obsessive these girls are about Satou. It does that, but the joke's pretty tired. The Valentines/White Day farce actually has a decent moment of human connection before it turns into a joke about Sugi potentially falling in love with her occultist classmate when she's just trying to get at cookie crumbs. |
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| @filifjonkan in the UK we only have valentines day, where guys and girls give chocolates, flowers, teddy bears, jewellery etc to each other. Obligation chocolates and white day seem to be a uniquely Japanese thing. I once received a gold st christopher pendant on a gold chain from a girlfriend when i was in school and wore it for years, even after we'd broken up as st christophers was the patron saint of good luck i believe. Em made me take it off when she heard it was from an ex girlfriend, still sat in a drawer somewhere. Episode 19. Mitsuba getting stuck in the toilet window was pretty damn funny, as was the look on Futaba's face when Mitsuba insulted her after she accidentally removed her top. Next we get more valentines day stuff, didn't they just have valentines day? Satou and the girls dad bond whilst Satou is hiding from the marauding in love with Satou club, until he gets arrested for looking sus, again. Next is a really funny scene with all the parents, and now we see why there are so many perverts in the class, they got it from their parents. Then the girls dad enters, with police escort, and loudly testifies that Yabe-chi was found hiding in Hitoha's bed. Lol. Then we get a pissy snow ball fight and end with an April fools joke. Pretty good episode. |
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| @filifjonkan Yep, that horror is real, and clogging arteries with abandon. Episode 19 I too found the first portion of this episode pretty funny. I was particularly fond of the moment where Hitoha opened the door a crack after barring it, saying that they would both go down together (Mitsuba by celebrating the new year in the bathroom, and Hitoha by crapping herself). The look on Futaba's face when she was insulted was also great. The former two end up stuck in the bathroom for new years anyway. The Valentines' stuff was pretty good as well, though yeah, I was kind of lost as to why we were back here all of a sudden. I'm really fond of almost any episode where their dad plays a key role, and given that he's been mistaken for Satou from pictures of his youth, I found this bit of bonding pretty apt, even if Satou has trouble seeing it now. Getting to see the parents all interact, some of whom we've barely seen before now, was particularly interesting. And yeah, they're all messed up. Only one pair of parents that I saw (could be more that just didn't say much), so it could be partially because they're single parent households. Nonetheless, clearly a lot of problems here. And we end on the weakest one with a snowball fight with yellow snow and an April Fool's prank. Not particularly interesting, but the rest of the episode is so good that I thought rather fondly of the whole set. |
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| Episode 20. We begin with a weird santa sketch, where each of the group tries dressing up as santa to give a present to Ryouta. He recognises everyone but Chiba`, and finally Sugi gets some new panties. Miya endeavours to get closer to Hitoha by sitting in the teachers chair and wearing trousers. Yabe-chi is sick and a new teacher steps in getting tormented by class 6-3. Why are all female teachers in anime nearly 30 and single? We then move to summer and one sketch of Mitsuba sweating profusely and ruining her a/c, then the kids have to clean the pool. Another unique ED. I think one of you mentioned this already but feels like they've combined a bunch of random sketches into this shorter second season. |
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| Episode 21. Hitoha goes to a signing for Gachi pink, where she meets Yabe-chi and finally admits to being a fan of gachi rangers. The relay race was pretty good. The potato man sketch was also pretty damn funny. Sweet final sketch showing the triplets with their dad walking home. We never did find out what happened to the mum, but that's probably for the best as it would have been sad. Solid final episode. Onto the OVA tomorrow. I gave this season a mid 6/10, some bits were still funny like the first parody episode, but this season felt more disjointed and there wasn't the attention to detail in the direction and shot composition we got from the first season. Plus a lot of the jokes had gotten a bit stale. |
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| Back from my trip across country and jet lagged, but should be good to finish out this season with some brief thoughts. Episode 20 Yeah, the Santa sketch was weird. Never really explained why it's so important to get Ryouta to believe in Santa or why a female Santa makes the most sense. Maybe it's just because they got the female outfit, but it's unclear why they went with the female outfit in the first place. The "Chiba wears Sugi's panties" thing wasn't very funny. Miya's efforts to get close to Hitoha are coming off as weirder by the sketch, though I will say I laughed when I saw that Yabe-chi just nonchalantly moves aside to let Hitoha under his desk at this point. Just same old same old at this point. The new teacher coming in was fun, gave her a new appreciation for how tough Yabe-chi has it, but mistaking Futaba's notes for cue cards felt a little forced. Mitsuba's behavior was particularly awful with the whole sweating thing and she got what she deserved The pool cleaning was the most fun of any of these. Just how physically dense is Mitsuba at this point? Seriously, girl cannot be moved. She should go into sumo wrestling. Episode 21 Nice start with Hitoha going to see Gachi Pink, catching a dude with a camera on his shoe trying to take pictures from under her skirt, and finally clearing the air with Yabe-chi on their shared love for the franchise. The relay race is kind of a microcosm for all the interactions between class members. Fun stuff. The potato man sketch was alright, nice to get a new character for everyone to interact with, and it gave Hitoha some solid moments. The ending sketch definitely had some solid emotional beats. Cute way to end it. This season was quite a bit more variable than the first. It's the same cute characters and setting, but just seems to scattered that it's hard to appreciate on the same level. Still, it hit enough decent moments for me that I'd give it a 6.2/10. |
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| OVA. I liked the treadmill, bouncyball and sushi sketches with Mitsuba acting the clown but the nipples ones were just too weird. Low 6/10 (6.1). @whiteflame55 @filifjonkan @cipheron thanks for your contributions, this was a different watch from normal and apart from the age of the cast which is a bit disconcerting at times (like the boob grab by Yabe-chi in this OVA and Mitsuba spread-eagled on top of the treadmill), nearly every episode had a laugh or two. The gachi rangers parody episode was particularly memorable. @filifjonkan we don't have anything like a guy going round selling hot sweet potatoes either, but sounds nice on a cold day |
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filifjonkan said: OVA: it was full of weird cheek-nipples and some exercise from the oldest triplet. I have seen some other series with the about same theme, shows like Asobi Asobase and Aho Girl, though they were on another level with the crazy sketches. I agree with you on the age of the children in this series but, like you Said @23feanor every episode had some funny gags. Should we start with Banana Fish tomorrow the? Thanks for your kind answers and your contributions, much appreciated. Yeah Banana Fish starts tomorrow |
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| Episode 22 (OVA) Yeah, the two episodes focused on how Hitoha's cheek either looks or feels like a breast just isn't doing anything for me. This joke was played out almost as soon as it began, and while there have been some fun takes on how the softness of her cheeks affects things (e.g. the swimming pool episode where she used it to combat Mitsuba's stomach), it just isn't interesting at this point. I liked everything with Mitsuba as the focus, particularly seeing all the instant karma she gets for her bad behavior (losing the free treadmill and the free exercise ball). Girl needs to change, but she never well, and I kind of love her for it. As for the Mitsuba/Sugisaki portion, that was one of the more interesting misunderstandings, and it worked pretty well. Overall, this episode sits at a 6/10 for me. Some funny moments balanced by pretty frustrating attempts at humor. Overall, I had a good time with this show, though it's not terribly special. A good time, and certainly a palette cleanser from some of the more dramatic shows I've watched of late. |
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