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Sorvarin said: i gotta be honest for me these two episodes about Arisa are the only ones decent in the show so far I wouldn't go that far, but they are by far the best episodes. They were extremely heavy. Honestly I don't think they would have had the same impact without the other episodes. |
| Two episodes about Arisa are my favorite right now. So heartwarming to watch. |
| i spent half the episode forcibly holding back tears...i love arisa and her friendship with tohru even more now, and that final scene with her dad was nice to see too ;-; i hope saki's backstory is just as touching |
wank said: Same dude. Was trying to hold back the tears for the latter of the episode and man it was tough lol.i spent half the episode forcibly holding back tears...i love arisa and her friendship with tohru even more now, and that final scene with her dad was nice to see too ;-; i hope saki's backstory is just as touching |
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LuizFelipeNM said: Kisa1208 said: So this is the first episode that I’ve teared up during in this new season. It was quite unexpected, but Uo talking about growing up with Tohru & Kyoko & then the light going off in the apartment. It just got to me. I loved the bit with the 3 younger girls. & I’m curious if they’ll show up in a later episode that they show up in the manga for... Or the 3 girls just exist to give Uo an opportunity to show how mature she is now...but I may be wrong, idk But I'm with you about the light turning off scene...that hit right in the feels I would say that is their main purpose, but they show up in the next manga chapter after these chapters, but because they moved this up I’m not sure when that chapter is going to be done. Well anyways, it’s not really that important. Haha. |
| This anime is so Goddamn heartwarming. Kyoko is Best Mom ever, why she had to die? ;_; And Dam, Uo-chan really grew a lot when she met Tohru (who wouldn't? Tohru is absolutely Adorable and Heartwarming) The more I watch this, the more I'm confused by the top and the 4th review for this anime on this site. Like, how are they missing the point that hard? |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
phantomfandom said: It's so unfair. BoyXBoy relationships are treated as a joke while GirlXGirl relationships seem like a real deal. I demand equality in this part! If that's your demand, then you might be missing the point entirely |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| Man. This episode really knows how to freaking tug my heart strings. |
| So that concludes Arisa Uotani's backstory : we learned mostly everything we could about herself, that was really interesting ! I don't think there'll be the same for Saki Hanajima (or if it happens, only a single episode), but I'd really like to have the same sort of episode. I smiled at the end when we discovered her apartment she shares with her father was enlightened and everything seemed back as it was during the good ol' days. |
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| Uo-chan came all the way from darkness back to seeth the light. Her experiences made her be who she is today. ggultra2764 said: This episode continues exploring Arisa's past from the prior episode and adapts the second half of Chapter 40 and the entirety of Chapter 41 from the manga. Did notice some scenes being expanded a bit for the anime, but nothing that altered the plot at all. Here were differences I observed from this episode... -Like last episode, all the masks worn by the delinquent girls are white in color in the manga instead of black. -Arisa’s comment to Tohru in reaction to being saved and brought back to her apartment was slightly longer in the manga. -Tohru’s tense reaction to Arisa proclaiming she can treat her own injuries was not shown in the anime. -When Arisa observes the memorial photo of Tohru’s father, the manga showed a bit more of his face while still having some light obstructing parts of the photo. -While Tohru was cooking in the manga, a small bit is removed showing her nervously reacting to the water boiling. -The anime showed more of the weather report that Arisa was watching on TV. -The footage shown of a frustrated Arisa confronting her father as she reflected on not being used to a happy family life like Tohru’s was added for the anime. -Some of Arisa’s monologue during her self-reflection and Tohru reacting to her frustration over this were all added for the anime. -When Kyoko arrived home to see Tohru and Arisa napping together, she woke them up in the manga. -When Saki and Arisa hug Tohru back in the present, there is a removed bit in the manga showing Kyo and Yuki internally thinking “Enough” in reaction to the public display of affection. -When the delinquent girls are discussing about wasting time with taking photos of Kyo and Yuki while attempting to confront Arisa, there is some difference in dialogue over how they are getting photos. In the manga, they mention not able to get the photos developed at a photo shop, while the anime has them complaining of taking too many angle shots of the boys with their cellphone camera. -The scene showing Kyoko open up her apartment door to Arisa for various days in sequence was added for the anime. -The scene showing Arisa giving Tohru practice questions for an upcoming test at school was expanded for the anime. -The scene showing a teacher reacting to Arisa and Tohru being together was expanded a bit for the anime. -Some more dialogue was added to the scene where Arisa’s delinquent gang questioned her absence within the gang for the anime. -The anime removed some of the chatter between Tohru’s classmates over her hanging out with Arisa. -There is more shown of the delinquents beating up Arisa for the anime. -When Kyoko arrives on the scene, she didn’t yell out to the delinquents in the manga. Plus in the manga, Arisa is shown with some blood trickling down her head from being beaten up as she fades into unconsciousness. -The anime removed showing Kyo and Yuki being internally annoyed with the commotion between the girls. -The scene showing the delinquent girls reacting to Arisa casually fending them off was expanded a bit in the anime. -The scene showing Arisa cooking for her father is slightly expanded in the anime. -The ending scene with the three delinquent girls was changed for the anime. In the manga, the three are shown fawning over the photos they took of Kyo and Yuki, with one of them irritated that they got no photos taken of Arisa. In the anime, the three are trying to attempt to copy Arisa in varying capacities due to their new admiration of her, including one of the girls literally cosplaying as her when arriving on scene. Thanks for pointing out the changes. |
When someone asks me why I like anime, I'd say Just Because. |
| I just love how this show produces quality drama, the best since 3-gatsu no lion! It builds well and is able to engage the viewer with meaningful insights on characters. I'm glad Uotani didn't leave her father. Tohru and Kyoko really changed her life, more especially Kyoko who said meaningful changing words to her in that piggyback ride. This show is throwing real blazing storylines right now. If I had an award I would give it! |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
| Uotani's father seems alright. Your beloved betraying you and running off with some other guy is one of the most crushing things to experience in life. He drinks but doesn't seem to be an angry alcoholic, more like he's just continually depressed and too lethargic to do much. He cooks food for his daughter, which is a blessing many children don't get. He'd be pretty interesting to see more of, but alas that is not the focus of the show. The fact that Kyoko was still spoken of highly within gang circles - that she is still so well known that the punks of the modern age can recognize her by her description - says a lot about how legendary she is. She'd have to be in the upper echelons of gang lore, or otherwise maybe the gang community is just so small she is one of their few folk heroes anyway. Too bad Torhu's dad isn't explored. You'd have to wonder what kind of man would make Kyoko drop her thug life to settle down with him. He sounded like a total normie :) I'm thoroughly enjoying the series thus far. My one complaint is that at times, the dialogue is quite unnatural, with long stretches of uninterrupted monologues apparently spoken out loud to another person and the other person or people don't interrupt or think "oooookay, this guy is off on a long tangent about how people don't recognize there is no shadow without light" and such. |
| Kyoko's theory on life. I feel like this could be on some top anime quotes thread Interesting backstory. I fear what future will hold xd |
 “I don’t like expending more effort than I have to.” – Ayanokouji Kiyotaka |
| Kyouko truly impactful figure in the life of our leads. Man the feels |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| Loved the episode as usual. We didn't have this in the 2001 Anime version. I knew those young yankee girls were going to look up to Uo-chan, they still have a long way to go. I hope they'll do a little more on Hanajima and her family. Also, I can't wait to see the other characters that weren't introduced in the 2001 version as well. |
BibimbapskiJul 27, 2019 4:50 AM
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| This episode was a powerful hit in the feels for me, and just like the manga version did, it still moved me to tears the same way. ^_^ Kyoko and Tohru were there to help Uotani to change the way she saw her life and started to take the right path. However, the other gang members that Uotani was in were constantly pissed off at Uotani's regular absent appearances, so they wanted to give her some hell for that. And that moment came when Uotani wanted to leave the gang for good. She knew she was going to get beaten up pretty badly, but even then, it was a little difficult to watch her getting swatted left, right and centre by 20+ gang members. Luckily, one of them slip away and told Kyoko what was happening to Uotani, so Kyoko went, alone, to rescue her. Not only was her entrance badass, but the fact that she fended the whole gang off AND successfully rescued Uotani and only suffering from a few scratches on her face shows just how powerful Kyoko is. As she gave Uotani a piggy-back ride back to the Honda apartment, she gave Uotani her wisdom on the her theory of life and it was this segment of the episode that got me shedding the tears, and it certainly made Uotani weep a lot, too. =') The episode still ended on a funny note, though. Uotani was able to give the wisdom passed to her from Kyoko to the three wannabe gangster girls and they all fell in love with her, with one of them going so far as to dress up the same way as Uotani did AND wear a wig that matches her hair. Creepiness, maybe, but it made me laugh a lot! XD |
| Best backstory so far on the show. They way they handle character development is magic on this show. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
| Kyoko is such an amazing woman. It's no wonder everyone who knew her love her so much. She, and Uotani after her, are some definite role models. |
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| Absolutely loved it. I'm such a sucker for these family bonding type stories. Probably my favorite episodes so far. Now we just need the Hanajima back story. |
| This story is so precious. This one and Fruits Basket as a whole. |
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Audinga23 said: oh yah ? so make a mowement called no womens, like edd bundy did ...  It's Al Bundy, played by Ed O'Neill :P |
phantomfandom said: It's so unfair. BoyXBoy relationships are treated as a joke while GirlXGirl relationships seem like a real deal. I demand equality in this part! Nah, that's not true. Both are played for laughs. Especially if you count the googly eyed delinquent girl towards the end. You could even say there's quite a few boy/girl moments in this series used as jokes. |
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| A decent enough continuation of last week's backstory, but much more interesting for what we learn about Kyoko than what we learn about Uotani in all honesty. Still, it was definitely a step up from the first half of it, but the overall backstory still feels like it's just slightly lacking the weight it was aiming for. |
RainyShadow said: y y i messed up the name my badAudinga23 said: oh yah ? so make a mowement called no womens, like edd bundy did ... It's Al Bundy, played by Ed O'Neill :P |
| Beautiful episode. I teared up during the scene where Kyoko-san carried Uo-chan back to their house and when Uo-chan said she wanted to be Tohru's best friend. I can stress enough how emotionally moving this episode was, Uo-chan trying to change herself because she was finally able to find a true friend and a place where she could belong was just so beautiful. :( It's a simple thing but a small act of kindness can go a long way in someone's life. Kyoko-san is such a wonderful person, real shame she had to die. :( Thankfully, Tohru and Uo-chan carry with them, Kyoko-san's goodness and teachings. |
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| an amazing episode!!! Uo's backstory was really interesting and she's now one of my fav characters... her growth is so admirable..and we could understand her deep attachment to tohru and their genuine friendship, its pretty cute how they're really opposite yet ended up being bestfriends,,. the episode was amazing and i love how're knowing more ab kyoko,, episode by episode we're getting to know what kind of person she was and understand the impact she had on tohru and her friends. the bit when she was carrying uo :(((( man what she said really hit me like i can'ttt fruits basket is literally so good,, its amazing how the author is not ignoring tohru's friends as ''side character'' but giving them an actual personality and making us all get to acknowledge and love them,, i'll be lonely when it finishes airing for sure |
| Uo-chan's backstory is so heartwarming. It made me remember how important a family is. I'm guessing wave girl's backstory is next |
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| watching an episode focusing on uo and kyoko made me realize just how poorly written the main trio is lol. i seriously enjoyed these last two eps. |
| i think this might be my favourite episode so far :,) i seriously almost felt like tearing up watching how much uotani changed as a person and how close she became to tohru and kyoko. and seeing how kind and caring both tohru and kyoko were towards uotani was really heartwarming absolutely wanna see much more of uotani now,, she might be my fave character now too |
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| hmm more of the past story...really like these two episodes |
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SJ7izm said: phantomfandom said: It's so unfair. BoyXBoy relationships are treated as a joke while GirlXGirl relationships seem like a real deal. I demand equality in this part! Nah, that's not true. Both are played for laughs. Especially if you count the googly eyed delinquent girl towards the end. You could even say there's quite a few boy/girl moments in this series used as jokes. Well, 90% of LGBT characters in this franchise are men. I do not want to talk about author's intentions, but overall, the author seems to be extremely straight. HereticHunter said: phantomfandom said: It's so unfair. BoyXBoy relationships are treated as a joke while GirlXGirl relationships seem like a real deal. I demand equality in this part! If that's your demand, then you might be missing the point entirely Honestly, at some point I also began to think that, out of context, it would be extremely suspiciously similar to shoujo yuri. However, as expected from an ordinary western guy. |
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RobertBobert said: SJ7izm said: Nah, that's not true. Both are played for laughs. Especially if you count the googly eyed delinquent girl towards the end. You could even say there's quite a few boy/girl moments in this series used as jokes. Well, 90% of LGBT characters in this franchise are men. That's fair to say. Granted, I think there's probably more prominent males than females in Fruits Basket to begin with. By this point, at least. I do not want to talk about author's intentions, but overall, the author seems to be extremely straight. |
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SJ7izm said: That's fair to say. Granted, I think there's probably more prominent males than females in Fruits Basket to begin with. By this point, at least. I do not want to talk about author's intentions, but overall, the author seems to be extremely straight. In general, yes. But among one of the couples there will be a female character with the line "I am still not sure if he is a guy ... but I don’t care". But besides this, the author just has a fetish for het couples with an age difference. |
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| This show just gets better and better. Probably my AOTS. The trio of yankees are absolutely hilarious and Uo chans back story was fantastic and got me pretty emotional. I wasn't sure it was necessary to have this reboot when it was announced but they are absolutely nailing it. |
| Can I offer you an egg is this trying time? |
| This backstory is actually very true to some people, I love how realistic Uo-chan's background as a delinquent and how can people change from the right people. the three delinquent as well was a visualization of the difference Uotani is before and now and I think that's the best possible way to represent it. |
| Wow I've been a huge fan of this series since day one but that episode was just phenomenal. Probably one of the best episodes of any series I've watched in the past year |
| These 2 episodes are amazing in its own right, really showcasing how much Tohru is precious to Uotani and also with Tohru's mum really treated her like family, but also her own life's neglect of a family, despite her troubled history. Even with Tohru's glance of innocence, that's an indication of Uotani wanting to change for the better. And Kyoko's reasoning of change (in part to having Tohru) applies to everyone of us, think of it as a life lesson when life beats us down. No wonder Uotani Arisa has Kyoko as an admirer. The Three Yankees, as much as they're comic relief, is a living testament to how much Arisa has not just got her past turned into a new leaf, but realizing that others have helped her change her mindset about human relationships in general. Great backstory and finally glad to see this animated. Arisa, you have a close friendship and you're never alone. ahneeme said: when Yuki and Kyo are pushed to the side this show becomes 100 times more boring Maybe you should watch the 2001 version instead. Do you know the purpose of this re-adaptation? |
KANLen09Jul 30, 2019 2:36 AM
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| This series is the right level of melodrama, its honestly the comedy thats the weak point but every now and again the series finds a way to butter me up like this one did, got pretty misty eyed when Uo brought up how she would never see that apartment lit up ever again. This series really does a phenomenal job when it comes to working around the melancholy of nostalgia and loss. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| That was an all-timer of an episode. I'm glad they stretched Uo-chan's story across two episodes. I realize this show will continue to focus on Tooru and the Soumas, but godDAMN could I watch the HELL out of a show centered on Uotani Arisa. |
| Dang... I didn't expect to choke up. This backstory is amazing. It also makes me sad for Kyoko-san.. She passed too soon T-T |
| That piggy back scene made me more emotional then it should have tbh. |
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