Gegege no Kitarou (2018) Episode 9 Discussion

Kumagawa_mei said:
>off screen fisting
>tounge on kitaro's ass
>kids show

Fayrin said:
Once again I underestimated the premise and I was surprised, there was much to absorb, a social criticism. We are so busy that we lost touch with what really matters, this may be cheesy and not entirely true for many, but it happens, especially in Japan with many people working themselves to death.

Now about the episode, the kappas were living in peace when they were enticed by Rat Man with the prospect of getting many of their beloved cucumbers, they are then ultimately corrupted by greed and lose themselves to the point of indiscriminately attacking humans (also my kappa knowledge wasn't complete, I knew about their love for cucumbers and about the need for water on their head plates, but I didn't know about the shirikodama, I can't blame them for not translating this term though lol).

Then another youkai, Isogashii, is presented as a mean to both show that nowadays people are already so busy that he's carefree and feeling useless, and to become a weapon to counterattack the lethargy caused by the kappas, I found it great because even though it didn't change anything in society, he could see that his power was still useful and it had meaning even though he was helping someone instead of possesing them for fun or whatever.

Also the japanese language never ceases to amaze me, I've been studying it for a while, but kanji can be difficult and we don't really check ideogram by ideogram unfortunately, so I never realized that in 忙しい (isogashii) we had the death of the heart, it makes a lot of sense and I will remember this one, like I remember the true, sad meaning behind 未亡人 (miboujin/widow), also learned in an anime, even though this last one is more easy to see.

And I talked a bit too much this time, but this episode left a big impression and I'm glad I have somewhere to pour it, but also I wanted to finish this with another lol, all that shirikodama stealing was crazy/funny.

Riza_Kurta said:

Glad people aren't disregarding this. The majority of the episode was comedic, but there were many lessons in addition to deep and thoughtful messages. Another was "there are things in this world more important than money."

GGGnK is such a masterpiece, I love it. Also glad that this was my childhood and I can watch it in front of my family and not get judged for whatever happens in each episode. The real perks of being half-Japanese, haha.

Really looking forward to the future episodes, the 2018 version is doing an incredible job.

raifuresu said:
I had to do a research to know wtf is a shirikodama and "mythical ball said to contain the soul, which is located inside the anus"... I love japanese mythology.

ren_moon said:
I didn't expect an episode about sexual harassment by turtles.

Fayrin said:
Once again I underestimated the premise and I was surprised, there was much to absorb, a social criticism. We are so busy that we lost touch with what really matters, this may be cheesy and not entirely true for many, but it happens, especially in Japan with many people working themselves to death.