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| It's nice to see one of your favorite manga getting animated. Pacing's kinda fast though. And don't be deceived by the main girl. She may be small and acting cute but... |
| My favorite manga I read 2 years ago is finally here in the anime XD At the start, he's already in a bad position right now, especially I don't know what causes them to treat him poorly ever since the accident occurs which causes the death of his mother and injury to his dominant right arm, but might be revealed soon, somehow. Well this time we have a cute waifu who will pamper him a lot. This is gonna be amazing, as a romcom fans. I'm anticipating this cute moment XD And last but not least, the anime is set during the Taisho era (1911-1926), with the episode ending, the date right now over there is 1 January 1922. Well, first impression, this will be a great anime alongside Komi-san that is airing 2 days ago. I'm anticipating for more hype next week. |
RiriHitosuyanagiOct 8, 2021 10:28 PM
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| does anybody notice Tamahiko kinda looks like Shirogane from Love is war?? |
| That was really sweet. Very melancholic start, but like with Duke of Death last season, waifu's can cure depression. This does remind me of Duke of Death a little, but without the witches and curses and set in the Taisho Era. Tamahiko's family be ass. Tamahiko legit looks like Shirogane though lmao. OP and ED are very comf I like it. Looking forward for more best waifu Yuzu. |
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doomrider7 said: 2. Where the fuck are all of you even getting the sex slave thing from?! You see, "sex salve" is a modern term used by young people to describe the wifehood. Yes, pretty misogynistic if you ask me. |
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| I saw Historical in the genre and theme section, so that was already had me attentive. Then as soon as I saw age gap romance from reading over the synopses (here on MAL and as it's described elsewhere on other sites), I was doubly all over this. Historical is rare enough, but age gap romance is always a win of some form and one of my treasures. The first episode was cozy and charming as they both thawed to their new living situation in that rustic villa. The countryside being inundated with snow and the New Year's time period made the entire setup feel more remote and intimate, as if they were the only two people in the world. Lovely. I keep my expectations low for all new series generally and this is no exception, but I'm covertly rooting for it hard as this is exactly my niche - Period piece settings and unlikely or uncommon relationship dynamics. Some of its basic elements of plot make it a bit like a fully human and more grounded (non-fantastical) version of Beauty and the Beast or Mahoutsukai no Yome and it'd be nice to see it channel even a shred of their raw emotional power. |
WatchTillTandavaOct 9, 2021 12:50 AM
| this is such a keeper! omg! so much healing heavenly show! PROTECC her!!! 5/5. also why are there so many elitist posting in this thread!? are they just being offended with the loli BS going on here!?!? |
matias067Oct 9, 2021 12:53 AM
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| I liked the first episode quite a bit. It reminded me a bit of Shinigami Bocchan, I'm going to keep watching it. Yuzuki is adorable, the opening and ending are good. |
| Woah, that was wholesome asf! |
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phantomfandom said: First, "underage" was considered less than 15 in Japan. Second, for centuries, women were seen as baby-making things, servants, beautiful objects. Girls were told they had to be obedient and serve their husbands. Mindset of girls were different from today. To say that no woman has a dream to serve man is so 2000's point of view. Girls dreamed of being a worthy bride, good housewife, have many children (male would be wonderful), and of course it was their dream to be married to someone rich and powerful (for family sake usually). Girls didn't have the luxury to dream about own happiness. They were trained to serve men since birth, and many girls would sometimes see their future husbands only once before marriage and then at the marriage; or just at the marriage. Marriages often happened for monetary or political reasons and to prolong the lineage. "Love" and "guy she doesn't even meet yet" were irrelevant. I'm not against underage sexual relationship but the anime title shouldn't be "Maiden Fairytale" because obviously no woman has a dream to serve man, especially to the guy she doesn't even meet yet. And it's not Yuzu's dream either, she want to stay in school with her friends, so it's definitely not a fairytale to her. You need to watch more than 1 episode to determine why this is a maiden fairytale. |
| @RayReynolds No matter how cutesy you try to make this, until you grapple with the fact that you're trying to tell a heartwarming story about a teenage girl being bought to be a depressed rich kid's sex slave, I really don't think that the rest matters. A sex slave? Really? The girl's duties are to do house chores and take care of a cripple; not to comfort the rich kid in bed! Did you watch the anime? It's made even worse by the segment where she goes to school and everybody remarks on how perfectly suited she is for the slave wife life, and how she works harder than anybody else to be the absolutely perfect piece of property. You definitely need to read some more history. No man or woman considered such life as "being a slave". Women were trained to be useful to their husbands and their biggest purpose was to give birth to children. It's wrong from today's standpoint, but it was perfectly normal in 1920 Japan. And since the show takes place in 1920 Japan, the school segment makes perfect sense. Hopefully you don't think that the wife=sex slave? |
Sigmar-UnberogenOct 9, 2021 6:01 AM
AkeZZZ said: me too....but the girl is not busty😂Lovely episode. This was reminded me somehow of Bocchan to Kuro maid but the Tamahiko's family issues were worse. Yuzuki's pasts were sad, but she is very cute and tries her best in everything she had done. |
....but the girl is not busty😂 hehe are you sure about that? just wait. 😏😏 |
| 一万、何？うそう。 10k really? What’s up with that? I can't Get it out of my head. |
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| Is this Tonikaku Kawaii set in the Taisho era with an underage waifu this time? Definitely felt to be a shounen, but at least I liked its visual style. |
IshitatesoOct 9, 2021 6:39 AM
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| This is what you called a wholesome and cute anime!! I had no expectations about this anime but it caught my attention. The story seems pretty standard but in a cute way, like historical version of Tonikaku Kawaii. The OP and ED were cute and the animation is fine. 5/5 for the episode. |
 “Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.” ― Natsume Takashi |
| Interesting start, Yuzuki is so far an amazing and energetic girl. Even though I am not quite pleased on how she was "bought" for 10000 Yen, probably different value as it is today, but I am looking forward to seeing their relationship develop. |
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Yeah I doubt that. This is exceedingly tame compared to other pre-modern settings and topics that could have been chosen. The first thing ancient history students are told when studying is to forget about modern morals; it's anachronistic as fuck. This is just how shit was, and depicting it through rose-tinted glass is not only disrespectful to the people who went through this back then because people want to pretend it didn't happen, but also just straight up factually incorrect |
  We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realise what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? ------------------------------------ Itachi Uchiha |
RayReynolds said: No matter how cutesy you try to make this, until you grapple with the fact that you're trying to tell a heartwarming story about a teenage girl being bought to be a depressed rich kid's sex slave, I really don't think that the rest matters. It's made even worse by the segment where she goes to school and everybody remarks on how perfectly suited she is for the slave wife life, and how she works harder than anybody else to be the absolutely perfect piece of property. The whole thing might work if you replaced her with… I don't know… a dog or a cat. Not people. Not a slave. Not a teenage girl slave. That's one hell of a hump to get over and past with not just any substantial commentary or acknowledgement of how messed up it is, but how joyful and effervescent she is about being owned by the bourgeoisie. But that's also its primary standout trait. It's just another one of the excessively saccharine shows about a melancholic dude suddenly has a doting wife dropped into his lap, the draw being a cute girl smiling in her unquestioning devotion and inexplicable love for Insert Name Here. Normally, it's just happenstance; some fox god sees a guy is hard working, or a girl sees that a guy exists. Hell, it's not even the first "sad rich dude buys a teenage girl," except this one doesn't have a magical goat-headed dude. I can understand what you're saying, but this way of thinking is anachronistic. Would you prefer to have the historical context viewed through a rose-tinted glass and just pretend this didn't happen? This is informing thousands of people of the standard practices of the era. Modern morals would consider these events morally deplorable and illegal, but the simple end of the line fact is that this isn't set in a modern world. It's a setting where this was not only the standard way of life, but there simply was no alternative. Women, for 99% of history, were raised from childhood as one of two things: wives, or priestesses/religious figures. That's it. In the same way the men were raised to fight and engage in civil administration. It was that way from the beginning of civilization, and was even in 1920s Japan. Depicting it as it genuinely was is the best way to inform people about this so we don't forget history. Would you rather they be completely disingenuous to the historical context for the simple sake of viewer comfort and modern morals? By that logic, no Nazi film should ever be made. No historical show should ever include rape, because we consider it immoral, even if it wasn't back then. |
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realise what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? ------------------------------------ Itachi Uchiha |
Groenboys said: FlamepriesT said: 14 is literally still in the age range of prepubescent girlsI can't see why anybody would feel uneasy about this. Nothing here is forceful and it's very different from a grown up grooming a child. Yuzu is 14, not a prepubescent girl. And even if it wasn't, it is still weird to have these minors get shipped despite the big age gap. Why is it so hard for authors to make characters the same age? Why always these weird age gaps? Geez. so if im 17, i cant be in love with a 14 yrs old girl. is that what u mean? because to me, thats sound stupid and ridiculous. |
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| This was so fluffy definitely a great way to end my night! (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ Yuzu is definitely adorable. Must protect her! Tamahiko doesn't seem like a bad character either. Looking forward to see how the story unfolds. :) |
| Apparently, mal forums are slowly transitioning into a twitter mosh pit where every single detail is condemned to become scandalous. |
| istg as soon as they mentioned yuzu was under 15 I knew what these forums would look like |
 Never watched as much anime as I wanted to |
| The beginning wasn't the main forte of the manga, it gets more interesting in 1-2 eps with the other characters getting introduced as well. Either way you can already get a grasp of how fast the months go by. This remains somewhat constant in the story to the point at least 3 years have passed by the end, without any major time gap. It's not surprising to see some of the reactions here, ever since I saw something similar in a Otoyomegatari discussion thread. No matter how respectful or in good taste the depiction can be (in both cases of historical settings with arranged weddings), if you don't show the worst case scenarios you're "glorifying" the issue. It strikes me as odd that's the read / that's what people wants out of all their entertainment. I don't think you need a narrative spoonfeeding you "this is bad" every single time. And at the same time you're not giving this title the benefit of the doubt because they are not married yet, we don't know if they will marry when she becomes 15 and he's still not 18 or if they will wait, etc. On a side note that visual effect used at the beginning emulating old film or whatever was actually pretty annoying, I was still seeing the flashes in the screen even after the flashbacks were over. In the one-shot that preceded the manga was 10K, then the mangaka changed it to 200K for the main manga and the anime seems to have opted for the older amount. It's probably not very important, but the author felt like changing it for some reason. |
UnowenOct 9, 2021 9:56 AM
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ngocbeo1121 said: Unowen said: In the one-shot that preceded the manga was 10K, then the mangaka changed it to 200K for the main manga and the anime seems to have opted for the older amount. It's probably not very important, but the author felt like changing it for some reason. For reference a maid's monthly salary was like 10 yen back then. 10K makes sense to me A monthly salary, doesn't mean buy a bride for your whole life. And wtf is the debt and family that’s willing to sell daughter for a couple of bucks. 200k doesn't make it any better. Or is she paid monthly for her whole life ? 🤣 if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides. Nvm 1920 10k yen was 60k dollars nowadays. So 200k yen sounds more realistic. If that's the time they‘re in, based on some comments. |
___Aura___Oct 9, 2021 11:56 AM
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___Aura___ said: The amount is just irrelevant to the story. It's just meant to be a big/pretty sizeable quantity. ngocbeo1121 said: For reference a maid's monthly salary was like 10 yen back then. 10K makes sense to me A monthly salary, doesn't mean buy a bride for your whole life. And wtf is the debt and family that’s willing to sell daughter for a couple of bucks. 200k doesn't make it any better. Or is she paid monthly for her whole life ? 🤣 if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides. "200K doesn't make it any better" Well 200K in 1920 is probably 100 times more the current value or maybe more. Not sure if I have to explain basic knowledge on how inflation works. "if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides" Do you understand this is a historical setting that happens 100 years ago? Because otherwise this doesn't make any sense. Also you'll learn about her family in the future. |
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Unowen said: ___Aura___ said: The amount is just irrelevant to the story. It's just meant to be a big/pretty sizeable quantity. A monthly salary, doesn't mean buy a bride for your whole life. And wtf is the debt and family that’s willing to sell daughter for a couple of bucks. 200k doesn't make it any better. Or is she paid monthly for her whole life ? 🤣 if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides. "200K doesn't make it any better" Well 200K in 1920 is probably 100 times more the current value. Not sure if I have to explain basic knowledge on how inflation works. "if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides" Do you understand this is a historical setting that happens 100 years ago? Because otherwise this doesn't make any sense. Also you'll learn about her family in the future. There's legit not even a single clue that they're 100back neither in the episode neither in description. Only you manga readers wrote it here in forum. |
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___Aura___ said: It's literally in the little. A Maiden from the Taishou era, which went from Jul 30, 1912 to Dec 25, 1926.Unowen said: The amount is just irrelevant to the story. It's just meant to be a big/pretty sizeable quantity. "200K doesn't make it any better" Well 200K in 1920 is probably 100 times more the current value. Not sure if I have to explain basic knowledge on how inflation works. "if that's not the case I'm off to buy some brides" Do you understand this is a historical setting that happens 100 years ago? Because otherwise this doesn't make any sense. Also you'll learn about her family in the future. There's legit not even a single clue that they're 100back neither in the episode neither in description. Only you manga readers wrote it here in forum. 30 seconds into the episode you can see a 1910s-style car. And most notably right after the middle of the episode |
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| Not a bad first episode, but an odd one. You can already see the groundwork being built for their relationship and it is already pretty cute and wholesome, but Yuzuki kinda feels a bit too nice and I feel like there's a big disconnect between how seriously Tamahiko is treating his hand injury and my modern viewpoint of how serious an issue it is: I'm sure it may have been a more serious thing back then, but to me it comes across as completely ridiculous how his entire family hates and disowns him over his injury and how he thinks he has no value in life because of it. This could go on to either be incredibly wholesome or very icky, depending on how it's executed on the whole. This episode makes me think it's gonna be more the former, but I'm hoping that doesn't end up going as utterly inane as Tonikawa was. |
| Yuzu should decide if she should be a daughter, bride or a mother to our depressed lead. She's definitely a Pokemon tho XD. I only didn't like one aspect in the episode, but will need the next episode to be more clear about that. |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
"Why Send A Bride To a Dead Man Walking?" would be a pretty awesome name for a show ngl |
TrustACOct 9, 2021 1:53 PM
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| One year ago, back when I was fully immersing myself into anime, I read and watched what would become one of my favorite series ever, Tonikaku Kawaii. And now that I've waited a year for this, and've finally watched it, all I can say is that "wow...this sure does exist to kill me in the kokoro". I...I think it's the girl. Yuzu brings something much more than just a kind anime girl....she is a true WAIFU. And as much as I love the series, you know what I'll say it, Yuzu is a better waifu than Tsukasa (from Tonikawa) could ever wish for. I've found the show that will tug me my heart for the rest of the season. Now all our MC needs to do is to cheer the fuck up and pay back the love and the care that he has been given by his waifu. |
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Yuzu is Going Home Only those ones that used to play a certain Atari 2600 game will understand the reference... |
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