Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru Episode 5 Discussion

stevewiess01 said:
Btw, Hotori's mom has the same voice as the pokopoko racoon. :p

ringoo4 said:
There was really nothing wrong with this episode. Simply wonderful episode. Tatsuno moments were brilliantly executed and Yuuki Aoi's performance was spot on. Other half about Ebi and Takeru was so realistic yet very entertaining.

Grimm3r said:
This episode was decent. I find it to be not as good as the rest, but still pretty good.

VillettaIchihara said:
Ebi's a bitch!
I find it interesting that Takeru has already had a first date and he's in grade school, while Hotori is just...

Siva said:
To see such an attractive girl as Ebi-chan being called bitch while a character like Shana being treated as cute. I just don't understand this complexness at all.

Iilia said:
she was a complete jerk to Arayashiyama's little brother

Iilia said:
I'm getting the feeling this show has no overall plot.

Iilia said:
As for the first part of the show, it looks like Arayshiyama got some movie tickets, so I wish that the second part would have been her asking Sanada to the movie rather than the kinda meaningless story about her brother afterwards.

ringoo4 said:
She wasn't.

beside, Takeru was mean to Iilia in his own ways. He forgot Ebi's real name, he insisted on calling her with nickname rather than name when Ebi didn't, he called her Ebi-chan in front of the class room when Ebi clearly wants their relationship to be secret from the class. Punching might be exaggeration, but she is pretty much typical case of primary school kids.

ringoo4 said:
Did it take that long to realise it?... >_> This series is about daily life of Ayashiyama and people around her. There is no plot development what-so-ever, even in manga.

ringoo04 said:
No. You got 'everything' wrong. It is like this; Tatsuno gave Ayashiyama movie ticket, so that she can be alone with Sanada in the cafe without any interruption when Ayashiyama is watching it. That's also why Uki left the cafe right before Sanada came.

Iilia said:
She wasn't? If you want me to give you an inch, okay, she wasn't a complete jerk, she was a partial jerk. Happy? Why would he bother to remember the name of a girl who he didn't know and had no relationship with other than bullying him? He didn't "insist" on calling her Ebi-chan, he asked if he could and she agreed. It's not as though he called her Ebi-chan in class on purpose. He was obivously too dense to realize that she wanted it a secret.

ringoo4 said:
Bother to remember the name of a girl who is in the 'same class' and sit 'RIGHT NEXT TO HIM'?... I'm pretty sure that would be wtf moment for any person. She agreed with calling 'Ebi-chan', but her idea was still calling in first name, not nickname. And yes, Takeru is dense for not realising it and its his own fault. Think about situation when Ebi was not alone when Takeru called her with nickname, then we know why she had to shut Takeru's mouth before that happens.

Ebi never treated Takeru like shit. They were pretty much in same position during the conversation. Excluding the ice-cream scene, Ebi was never really ordering around Takeru like other official anime bitches like our so called 'Suzumiya Haruhi' or 'Shana'. She was obviously happy for being with Takeru and never hesitated to smile to him. To be honest, only real bitch act she did was hitting Takeru but it is justified as Takeru's forgetting is just as bad as being slightly picky on naming, if not worse.

Iilia said:
Maybe in other countries forgetting a name warrants hitting, but definitely not where I'm from, so I can't see his getting smacked as "justified." I can't compare her to Shana and Suzumiya as you mentioned as I have not seen either of those shows.

Sure, it's not nice for either party when you forget a name, but he didn't do it on purpose. Can he really help that he forgot? I can understand she may have felt hurt/upset/whatever, but she didn't need to smack him. If she was actually happy to be with him, and if she happened to like him, I don't see why she thought it necessary to hit him for forgetting her name. That's not a way to make friends.

ringoo4 said:
...what, what? Why so serious? Did Ebi stabbed Takeru with knife or something?

You are talking like that so called 'smacking' some kind of seriously big insult or violence. Obviously, that's an exaggeration. It's freakin ANIMUU, and everything always get slightly more over-the-top than what it is. It is necessary to punch, because it is an ANIME. Punching is absolutely not serious, because it is an ANIME. Then, what did you expect other then punching? Some kind of lame curse words or simple ignoring? And of course, punching itself is a really trivial manner that only exists for the sake of 'comedy', and there were much more sweet moments between them that you are obviously ignoring for the sake of the 'whatever shit argument'. Beside, it is even harder to forget someone's name on purpose who sits RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, EVERY SINGLE DAY, unless that someone is Osaka. Ignorance is sometimes even bigger insult than simple violence.

Then, it seems that I don't even think you have good enough standards to call a character 'bitch'... :/... So I will pass.

GreenJoker said:
Luther and Czar! XD

That short hair blondie needs more screen time!