Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition
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| That was an emotional but great finale. I'm glad things ended up well for everyone and the whole amnesia thing didn't lead to anything bad |
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| Cute art and a beautiful stories A silly gag wrapped up with heartwarming show Love it especially that ending đź‘Ť Today i turned 18, dad T_T Hime.... |
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Nurularifin said: u right bro.. so fvkin underated.. me too, i watch this just wanna pass the time, but waw, what a great series.. i tho this is just a silly gag, but c'mon dude.. that ending so touching..It was a cliche ending but it was even better because of it. This one is super underrated. I just want to watch an anime to pass the time but I did not thought that this would end up as one of my all time favorites. It's been a while since I cried this much. Literally everything was really amazing. 8/10 |
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Atavistic said: This exactly what i feel towards the anime, you just described it perfectly. I was going to write something like thatWow, this show was a massive disappointment. I knew from my very brief experience with Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei that I wasn't much of a fan of Kumeta's comedic style (and on that note, gotta remove Joshiraku from my PTW as I didn't know that was one of his works too), but I honestly didn't expect this show to be so heavy on its comedic elements. I was expecting something more akin to Usagi Drop, a wholesome slice-of-life mixed with more serious elements when appropriate. Instead, what we got seemed to be a show with an identity crisis, stuck between its disparate comedic and wholesome elements and ultimately never fully committing to either in favour of... whatever this was. Seriously, this final episode was so weird and felt more or less completely out of place from the rest of the show, while simultaneously being rushed as hell to the point of being near-enough incoherent. Most of these reveals about the family history and the two "love children" feel utterly irrelevant, and the amnesia ploy is so contrived to boot. More to the point, it doesn't feel like this mystery justified the slow build-up it was given throughout the show, and I'm not even sure why it was necessary at all: did Kumeta think that a simple father-daughter story wouldn't grab people and that he needed some sort of gimmick to keep people interested? Because he didn't. Besides all that, not too much else to say. When the show went for emotional punches with Hime and Gotou's interactions, it generally landed as intended, but the show ultimately didn't have enough of that. On the flipside, the show had way too much of Tomaruin, such an irritatingly obnoxious and obtuse character. 4/10. Last Kumeta work I will ever watch, as I clearly don't like his writing style at all. I wish I'd just stuck with the gut feeling I had when this was a seasonal and I skipped it because of it being a Kumeta work. |
| This kid looks so much like Gotou, I thought it was just him cosplaying or something. What is about to happen? He's in a coma because manga collapsed on him? I almost want to laugh. Well, at least he's not dead, Hime isn't alone in the world. So that's good. All-in-all, it was a good ending. I was worried it was going to be pretty cheesy, but they became self-aware; acknowledging the cliché. Not only that, they handled it rather well. So despite it being a cliché it was still rather touching. I got a bit teary as the credits rolled; It was nice to see Hime and Gotou reunited finally. I enjoyed the series a lot, but it wasn't quite perfect. There were definitely some weaker moments throughout, which made the story feel a bit inconsistent. I'm not sure if there just wasn't enough balance, or if it was simply a pacing issue. That being said, it looks like there are 12 volumes of the manga. So covering the whole series in just 12 episodes certainly is a tall order. I imagine the manga is much tighter, so I'll probably be checking that out at some point down the road. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| I was half-expecting Kakushi to be faking his amnesia, pretending not to know that that was Hime, all for the sake getting a raw, genuine reaction from Hime to see if whether or not she'd accept her father as a manga writer. But having him actually have amnesia and being awoken again with manga that he'd already wrote was good too. And so Hime proceeds to be a "bad, selfish girl", and decides to attempt to bring her father back despite knowing that recovering his memories might also bring back the pain of the past. But she doesn't do so in a completely heartless manner, because there in the hospital room, her father indirectly tells her that nothing would make him happier than to see his daughter happy. It's beautiful... ...but feels just a bit rushed, considering the time allocated at the end of every episode building up to these moments. I think if these events of the present were given two episodes as opposed to one, I think it could've hit even harder. Maybe that's what the movie's for? I know it's mostly a recap, but I hear there's additional scenes added as well. Maybe those are just added SoL and comedy scenes, but if they are in fact scenes added to the events of this final episode, I believe that could smooth out this ending considerably. Because you gotta admit, they packed a crap load in this episode bigger than that massive pallet of manga that nearly killed Kakushi lol. All in all for now though, this certainly is more than just a solid anime and is something special. It was funny, it was heart-warming, I loved the characters, and it moved me a little. Here's hoping that with the movie, I will be moved even more. Fingers crossed that the movie's slightly lower score than the main series is due to some people being unhappy that it's mainly just a summarized version of the main series. I was kinda hoping that this ending would obliterate my soul whether Kakushi was alive or not, and would keep me up for the rest of the night just thinking about it, but that's not the case for me. It's really good, but my heart is still intact over here. Good vibes only I guess! I'll watch the movie sometime soon. For now I'll just be glad that I picked up another anime that I'm thankful that I didn't miss out on. 8/10 |
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| So glad that we got a happy ending! His past assistants really are like his adopted kids of sorts; they care so much about someone that they have not worked for for 7 years. It goes way beyond an employer/employee relationship, and it's beautiful. Though I can't believe that guy is still an editor. |
| Wonderful conclusion! but I didn't get to see Hime's mother and there was no continuation about it. Overall, I love the foreshadowing of this ending, I even loved the Opening, it can really touch your heart. This is one of the character designs and art styles that I love. It really focused on the characters and their world, and not about l*wdn*ss. A really wonderful work. |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| I'M IN DESPAIR! THE END OF HIME AND HER FATHER'S WHOLESOMENESS HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR! This episode was an emotional ride, went from 10 to 100 from previous episode. Tad anticlimactic drama with the foreshadowing from every ep but the comedy absolutely carried as expected from this author, Hiroshi Kamiya is such a goat even after so many years, this is probably my favorite anime so far this decade |
| wow, such an interesting but great end to this story. man, im such an emotional person, tears are just now drying up as i type this out. love this anime so so much! :) |
| lol, still gave me good laugh and depressed at the end of the episode. great ending too ! I thought he will go somewhere and find his wife and died in the process, but luckily its not |
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| that was very emotional would be lying if i said i didnt almost cry but cant say its that good of an ending because like tomaruin said. cliche. in fact so cliche i couldnt guess it. first i thought that "this is kinda dumb have 11 episodes of random bs then tell the actual story" but the 11 episodes is there to make you care for the two of them which makes the last episode great. as funny as the scenes at the "studio" were i wish this had even more scenes with hime and kakushi alone. this was good i dont know if id recommend this to anyone really. it just doesnt feel like a "must watch" or something cant really say why. |
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