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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- HAPPY BIRTHDAY Natsuki! Tbh, if I had a birthday, I'd like my name by written in the air like that. Yay. Typical episode as usual though. Lol @ the oni masks in the PV. |
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| A decent episode, though I really like how they set up for Natsuki's birthday. IDK how to describe the Taboo card game but it was kind of funny. |
| Anyone who's played competitive shiritori probably enjoyed the episode much more. I felt Natsuki's pain with the Ru T_T Although, I remember crushing the other teams with that too :) So much fun memories! This was possibly my favorite episode yet!! |
| The epic word battle part was pretty hilarious. |
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| The word battle was quite funny but I think that with a different narrator it could've been truly hilarious. Picture that same scene narrated by Kaiji's narrator (or someone with a similar sounding voice). |
| This episode was great. So many ups and downs in this anime, I cant decide if i like it or not |
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| So many Engrish words in the word game, so the more languages you know the more change you got to win the word game? And that word game was a pretty fierce battle. That birthday party didn't look cheap they even hired aircraft the wright her name in the sky. |
| What's with that epic battle episode??? oO xD I was waiting for the punchline at Natchans birthday but luckily there was none. Liked the "good ending" very much... @ Aversa: The modern japanese language includes many, really many engrish words. A friend of mine said the amount of engrish vocabulary was as high as 25%. So you don't get an advantage for knowing more languages because these words count as words used in daily japanese conversations. My professor in university even forbid me to write engrish as proper english words in papers. If I were to write something about "Sword Art Online" right now, I would have to write about "Soodo aato onrain" (Well, since "Sword Art Online" is the official romaji version, the example is void, but I guess you understand the point I'm trying to make). |
animehobbitAug 29, 2013 3:15 PM
| Fantastic episode. Finally we saw Natsuki actually doing something instead of just making tsukkomi retorts. Happy birthday to her. I have not played that word chain game for so, so long. It is truly intense. I really don't mind waiting two weeks if they come up with something great like this. Just above, floatings said that this was the best episode so far. I would certainly say that this one is the easiest to enjoy without struggling to understand a lot of esoteric "niche humor" (in-jokes). For next week's episode, there will be something totally new. Up until now ... However, next week ... That's what it says here, in the summary for Episode 8 which is in Japanese: http://www.ntv.co.jp/kitakubu/story/story08.html Regarding English loanwords that are now part of the Japanese language, yes there are a lot of them. Also, Japan imported a huge vocabulary from China, along with the kanji writing system. In addition, it is not hard to find French loanwords, especially if you are a fan of Marimite. German too. It is less well- known that many Japanese words which appear to be home-grown are actually Portuguese loanwords. The most famous example is "pan" which means "bread". Unfortunately, if you say "pan" while playing that word chain game, you'll lose! We are all informal on our posts here, so this next point doesn't matter much. But the word "engrish" has some other meanings if you check out Urban Dictionary. So use it with a bit of care. The proper term for a word in the Japanese language which was borrowed from some other language is a "gairaigo" (外来語) . Gairaigo can come from English, French, German, etc. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairaigo http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=engrish |
okanaganAug 29, 2013 3:54 PM
| Hillarious episode I loved it, not as much as the other ones, but I can't describe why I like this show this much I just keep laughing while watching the episodes the whole time xD. This show is a bit underrated IMO, not that great, but still very underrated IMO. |
| That word chain game was funny. The card Natsuki showed was in a form of a yugioh card lol. |
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| awww Natsuki is was so cute in this episode. Happy Birthday Natsuki! |
| HAPPEH BDAY NATSUKI <3 xoxoxo Gosh I love the boke-tsukkomi goodness. Antics, antics everywhere. ALSO THE YUGIOH THE GODDAAMIT YUGIOH HOLY SHIEEEEEEET DA BESTE |
FalcomsterAug 29, 2013 10:38 PM
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| Best episode by far. 5/5. I loved how Natsuki's ID was Ahoge, and that even the cake had an ahoge decoration on it. |
| awesome shiritori with Yu-Gi-Oh style! Natsuki and Sakura "universe" in the end lol~ and the ahoge ribbon is so funny xD would like to see Sakura with one-sided tail though. :3 what an awesome birthday party too. like making a huge cake in the club room, fireworks in day time, put up an airshow......... typical birthday party for rich ppl xD Chibi theater is adorable as usual! with Karin getting more lady-like points :3 |
winter_mintAug 30, 2013 9:42 AM
| Finally the much-talked about Shiritori game !!! I think that was pretty one high water mark in the manga so it is great that the anime puts in the effort to animate it with focus! |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| loved it!! my favorite episode so far<3 in case someone doesn't notice it, the last part about all of those things that they want to do with Natsuki's b'day party is another chain words games :3 "Zukou (handicraft), uchiage-hanabi (fireworks), bifuteki (beefsteak), kiui (kiwi), ichigo keeki (strawberry cake), kitai (hope), iroha (ABCs)" and the last one "happy birthday natsuki" or it could also be "haato (heart)" edit: after re-watching it again, it could also mean "hana (flower)" |
riku_zeroAug 30, 2013 2:27 AM
| I certainly had not noticed the word chain that riku_zero pointed out. One thing that is distinctive about Kitakubu is that there are many interesting things to see if you look very, very closely. That is not the case in most anime series. The rationale for doing this is not apparent to me. After all, the whole point of producing an anime series is to get most viewers to enjoy an episode on the first viewing. Putting in clever details isn't going to improve the ratings or BD sales. I suspect that this series tends to be a "labor of love" on the part of the people who are working on it. There are quite a number of other examples where extra effort is made to make things elaborate in ways that don't seem necessary. The small number of comments on this thread suggests that people are losing interest. The minimal estimated first-week sales of BD/DVDs tends to confirm it. |
okanaganAug 30, 2013 6:01 AM
BattousaiLuffy said: awww Natsuki is was so cute in this episode. Happy Birthday Natsuki! Lol. Epic shiritori game OMGOSHlol said: That was such a heartwarming ending. I love it. Also the word battle was pretty funny. Lol at the card with the poop on it (unko!) That [U_ _ _ ] card mental image is the best, lol. Next episode preview contains "Gu-he-he"! Is that an Oni-ai references? |
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| azzuRe said: Next episode preview contains "Gu-he-he"! Is that an Oni-ai references? I heard the "Gu-he-he!" at 22:52. Here is the entire text: Hey guys, did you know, the mating process of the great gray slug is a grappling match? Gu he he! Sounds hot and steamy, doesn't it? I enoyed Oni-ai, but I don't remember the "ge he he" part. Maybe somebody can be more specific about what the connection might be. Here is what Wikipedia says regarding the mating habits of the great gray slug: (Warning, this is definitely rated NC-17 !) Also, you can search on Google Images for "great gray slug mating", but I would recommend against it. I checked the summary for Episode 8 which is posted online in Japanese here: http://www.ntv.co.jp/kitakubu/story/story08.html I won't give away spoilers. However, I am fairly certain that they have not mentioned anything about Episode 8 feature the great gray slug. |
okanaganAug 31, 2013 4:14 AM
| Amusing episode as always. Gotta hand it to them, that certainly was a fun way of playing shiritori. And that Yu-gi-oh reference. |
infinitymonkey said: And that Yu-gi-oh reference. HNNNNNNNNNNNGHHHHHHH |
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| best episode so far. not much of Natsuki's constant tsukkomi helped. that word battle was very intense XD |
| YUGIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH |
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| God-tier episode. I never knew shiritori could be so intense. okanagan said: ... Shame Wikipedia has nothing to say on the subject of a seal's favourite bean-paste. |
kuuderes_shadowSep 2, 2013 7:48 AM
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| If only the series had started off this good, then perhaps it would have better luck with disc sales. That shiritori (word chain...oh Crunchyroll, you rascal) game was top notch, and the ending was so sweet. This show is really growing on me. And to think I considered dropping it too. |
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| Oh those legs Doumyouji at the beginning :3 |
| I have to admit that Shiritori duel was fantastic. It's a shame that this anime doesn't have many moments like this. |
| Wow playing Shiritori never that epic Lol Uikipedia... (Remind me of Yukipedia, Hikipedia) Lol Sakura thought Natsuki's word is U*** and that pic xD Ah Yu-gi-oh parody... I miss the old series Aw.... Natsuki-chan good for you... Happy b'day Natsuki :) Oh Karin N suffix is a taboo for shiritori "There's always room for sweets" Good words Karin T_T azzuRe said: BattousaiLuffy said: awww Natsuki is was so cute in this episode. Happy Birthday Natsuki! Lol. Epic shiritori game OMGOSHlol said: That was such a heartwarming ending. I love it. Also the word battle was pretty funny. Lol at the card with the poop on it (unko!) That [U_ _ _ ] card mental image is the best, lol. Next episode preview contains "Gu-he-he"! Is that an Oni-ai references? Lol... And yes it's must be Akiko's laugh |
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| That card game was great and well the birthday as well, quite a lovely episode lets see what's next! |
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| This had to be the best episode so far! And there was also no need to break the 4th wall this time. I liked those intense shiritori battles and the fact that everyone were oblivious to Natsuki being present during planning her birthday surprise party was also marvellous :) |
| Great episode!! Loved the word game with a tint of Yugioh. Natsuki's taboo word when she showed it reminded me of an episode of Yugioh I believe the last episode of Yugioh. I would say this was the best episode by Natsuki thus far. |
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| I really liked this episode! That Word Chain game was really intense and funny. Dat Yugioh reference. And I love that "surprise" party! That was pretty cool, in my opinion. |
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| Ghat word battle game was great! Also that Yugioh reference! Happy birthday Natsuki! She 16 now. That was really sweet that they wrote her name in the sky and that cake. Great episode. |
| Sakura vs Natsuki battle was epic!! Nice Yugioh reference, btw |
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| That was easily the most intense Shiritori game I've ever seen. It even brought forth the same suspenseful emotions I felt when I watched Yu-Gi-Oh! as a kid! I was really expecting some kind of joke during Natsuki's birthday party, but it turned out very heartwarming. :) Up to this point, this is my favorite episode in this anime! xD |
| Nice Episode.That word chain battle was intense. Natsuki-chan was looking cute in that new hairstyle thanks to Sakura-senpai. That birthday celebration in the end was so sweet. |
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| Making game of words something special.. Nice.. ;P Well, I like the game myself, so addition of cards is interesting.. Such explanation and stuff.. Makes me think it's a parody on sports genre.. Or any intense mind games, or stuff like that.. They could make this parody a bit shorter, to be honest.. Yu-Gi-Oh reference.. ;P For some reason, I'd imagine Azarashi seal more like 2k defender, not 2k attacker.. ;D Well, they had a sweet birthday in the end, nice.. ;P |
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