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Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Anime Brain Freeze.

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We Are Your Rentable Hosts.

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I am John.

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And I'm C.C.

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And when there's just too much cool anime to watch, we've got you covered.

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Today we bring the pain and the joy in equal measure.

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First John will return to his old ball and shame,

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rent a girlfriend and talk about in what ways its newest season is bringing him ever closer

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to a rage-induced brain and neurism.

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And after that, I will turn the page on a true classic

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by reviewing the news adaptation of the "And Surely Book" series.

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So get ready to dive into a world of chud like wonder and imagination.

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Don't forget to pay your rent on time or you will end up truly made unless

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and definitely don't pause the part, we'll be right back.

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I don't know where to start because they're into girlfriend season 4.

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Once upon a time, there was a man who ventured into the dangerous world of anime romcoms.

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Not knowing what he was getting into, he decided to start watching a little show called

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"Rentacle Friend" because it sounded fun and intriguing.

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Little did he know that he would end up torturing himself to no end.

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Is that how it started out? How it went until now?

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That's the real life story.

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So I had issues with season 1 and 2, but I felt like,

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okay maybe there's something to this, I'm pretty sure I talked at length about season 3 a couple of

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times now and I thought it ended on a really strong really heartfelt note.

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And then season 4 throws that all out the window.

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Ah, because there was character development in season 3 and season 4 was like,

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we can't have that because then we don't have the drama anymore so we need to back pedal on the

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character development or what happened here.

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Yeah, there's a lot of that. So,

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Kazoo Yis family takes this like, biannual vacation to this resort called the Hawaiians,

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which I believe they said is in Okinawa.

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So about as far as south as you can get in Japan, I believe that's where they said it was.

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My notes are very sparse because I was just getting so frustrated with this, I'm sorry.

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Aloha, yes.

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So Kazoo Yis grandmother Nagomi is so taken with Chisuru and is so

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so fixed on the idea of her marrying her grandson that at one point in an earlier season,

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she gives her this ring to hold on to that was hers and was Kazoo Yis mother and it's like,

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okay, I can't get you like the girl and she and you want the best for your grandson and all that but

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don't you think that's a little heavy-handed and cc is from a different generation. I feel like maybe

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cd that appropriate or something, I don't know. I mean, yes, but they go on this vacation.

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I'm skipping a lot of the preamble in the first few episodes because it's largely unimportant.

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There's a lot of himming and haing and uh what's her name? Oh God, the ex-girlfriend,

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mommy coming in and the one you hate, the one everyone should hate.

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Mommy coming in and trying to convince Chisuru that Kazoo Yis just using you,

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if you just kick him to the curb now, you can just leave this all behind you and Chisuru is not stupid, okay?

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Thank God, Chisuru is not not naturally the case, you know, some of these things.

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No more Chisuru is not stupid. No more to it, Kazoo Yis is not manipulative. He's an idiot, yeah,

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but he's not like some manipulative prick. He clearly, like, he can't get the words out of his mouth,

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but it's clear he wants the best for Chisuru and I look at that and I'm like, okay, you know what?

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At least you're not trying to be disgusting about this. You're being a little weird about some things,

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but you're not like outwardly gross. Like, okay.

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And then Ruka plays into all this where she's like, "Oh, but I still want to be your girlfriend, Kazoo Yis."

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He's like, "Listen, kid, quite literally, kid, because you're still in high school, kid, I'm into Chisuru and I've said this to your face."

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So they go on this vacation and guess what? Everyone is here. Nagomi invites a lot of other people without Kazoo

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and she's Ruka's prior knowledge, guess who shows up, but mommy and she wants to throw a wrench in all of this.

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And Chisuru is so bewildered by all of this because Kazoo Yen, her agreed on like a signal prior to the set.

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If someone forced the two of them into a situation that they wanted to be, that they didn't want to get into that,

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Kazoo Yen was like, "Do you feel comfortable with this? If not, say, you know, this?"

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Ah, say, and I'll shut it down and it doesn't go as planned.

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What is the safe word?

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I honestly don't remember. It's not important.

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Ah, same. I thought it would be something ludicrous that would then lead to them having to say that word in situations

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where it would lead to very stupid misunderstandings.

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I don't remember it being like anything stupid, but not really as safe or as much as it was a signal like, you know.

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And then they get all dragged into this and Chisuru is feeling real sort of about the whole situation

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and I don't blame her.

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And Kazoo Yen feels awful for dragging her into this.

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And Chisuru is like, "Kazoo Yen, I just want to give you back this ring and we can move past this and get on with our lives."

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And Kazoo Yen is like, "I've want you to hang on to it for now."

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And she's like, "Oh, okay, all right."

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And his intention is to finally get the words out, just say to her, "I don't want you to be a rental girlfriend anymore."

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And every time he goes to say it, he gets shut down in one way or another.

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And I'm just sitting here pulling my hero like, "Chisra's Christ."

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And mommy is over here trying, putting on the nice girl front saying, "Oh, I would never get between you and Chisuru or anyone."

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You were, or doesn't say Chisuru because at this point,

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Chisuru is still putting up the front like, "No, we're still, we're still, you know,

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professionally."

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Like, like, client and, like, like, I can't think of the other word, but,

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mommy's not buying it. Okay, clearly. She's right, right? I mean, she is right.

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She has to ride on to there. It's not like she is.

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But, yeah.

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But she's trying to go about it in a way that's basically going to make everyone miserable and destroy their lives.

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And it's like, "You need to tell Nagomi right now."

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And it's like, "What if I told her that, oh, you're in some sort of distress in this, in that,

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in Nagomi catches wind of this?" And she's like, "Chisuru, is there something wrong?

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You can tell me if there's a problem." And it's like, "Oh, no!"

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And there's this one episode where Nagomi takes Kazuya out for a walk and they're talking.

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And she's like, "Well, I'm just so glad that you found someone you can be with."

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And she's respectful and she's kind and she's sweet. And Kazuya's sitting here like, "Oh, no."

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And he feels understandably terrible for perpetuating this lie to his grandmother

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because they couldn't get the truth out to Chisuru's grandmother before she passed.

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But at least she got to see the movie that Chisuru wanted to make. So she got, you know,

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a good ending. His grandmother, a danger of dying. I mean, she's old.

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I mean, she's old and, you know, and I don't think the implication is there, but it's like, you know,

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Kazuya wants to find someone to still live down with to make his grandmother happy because that's

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all she wants is for her grandson to be happy. I mean, she also needs to learn that you should live for

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yourself and not for other people. The funny thing is that, you know, his ones and her ones kind of

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coincide. He just can't, you know, verbalize it to the person that he should do it too.

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and father got married at a church that is nearby to the resort. And Chisuru's trying to get away

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from the so she can think for herself and she runs off to the resort and for a little, to the

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chapel for a little bit. And she's just thereby herself and Kazuya runs up to her with every intent of

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saying this thing to her. But mommy is trying to lay down the law. Chisuru and say, well, if you don't

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say something to Nago Me by now, I'm going to do it. And when Kazuya goes to say something, she has to

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run away and intercept mommy and it's a whole mess and not that my anime, not that my anime

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list ratings mean anything. But this is the lowest rated season so far. It hasn't gone above a seven,

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but we're getting close to dipping below a six right now. Yeah, I'd that is still higher as I would have

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expected considering what you said about the show, how you described it and everything.

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But I guess people who watch it or at least some of them have different expectations. I wonder,

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has the as the series at this point I have sadly already forgotten, but has the series made it

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clear at this point is that Chisuru feels to say way deep down as Kazuya and they're just like

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the only role block is that none of them can say it or is it still kind of unclear or on her part.

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So that it could end up if Kazuya like verbalizes feelings that he could get like shut down.

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She clearly has feelings for it. So it's the standard just talk to each other you dumb it is.

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Like it's at first like she's kind of unsure, but then as things go on and as they're talking more

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without him actually saying it she's like she is she says in so many words,

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if a guy told me that they wanted to be with me, I would give up the rental girlfriend business.

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Intent, intent, intent. Yes, yes, yes, and it's like this is the worst I've ever seen of this kind of story.

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That is gotta say something considering you have seen quite a lot from calm anime, right?

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Because we are at like I don't know where exactly it leaves off in the manga. The

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final episode of season four is called Paradise and Girlfriend. Paradise and Girlfriend is like 20 to 30

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chapters of the manga that runs from chapter 188 to 230. Okay, it's 42 chapters. Excuse me 43 because

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it goes to 231. The manga is currently at okay, how many chapters do you want to guess the manga

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is that before I reveal to you? It's you. After like as a whole or as a whole two current.

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So wait wait wait wait wait as the series and again, the watch chapter. I am going to be conservative

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and guess maybe 190 but between 190 and 200 because literally 43 chapters have the same name and the

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first chapter that has it is 188. Okay, so 300, 405. This is correct. John, you're gonna have to stick with

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the series for a bit longer, I guess. How do they stretch this shit out so long? I don't understand.

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Like I mean I do understand like sitcoms exist, right? And they run for I don't know how many

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fucking seasons even though the steam just is out after like the first two or something.

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Even Seinfeld, a show about nothing of their own admission has more going on than this.

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Yeah because it's always the same thing here, right? Like you have the two people who are obviously

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meant for each other and then you have someone throwing a wrench into that and it's not probably not

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even as like that you have many side characters that have their own thing going aside from our two

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mains. Like you don't have the how I met your mother situation where you have like two potential

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other pairings as well who have their own stories. This is not the case here, right?

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Well there's Ruka who wants so bad that you'd be with Kazuya but it's still Shazuya.

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Like it's not like she's going after another guy, right? But I glossed over a lot of details in

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this season because I have gone over the main thrust of it. But Ruka had been going on a rental

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date with one of Kazuya's friends and he was invited on this vacation as well. And things are

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awkward between them but not outwardly like awful. Like Ruka is crazy issues for Kazuya is not here

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to cause trouble. She is at least respectful of everyone. So I will give that to her.

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One as she is enough. And Kazuya's friend who's named I can't remember and it really it doesn't matter.

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He tries to speak with Ruka and it tries to at least smooth things over with her and it's like

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at least someone's trying to do something here. And then another one of Kazuya's friends is on this

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trip as well and he's so oblivious everything and it's like so you are worthless in the grand scheme

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of things. Why are you here? Why do you matter? You don't go to infuriate you further. And then

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Kazuya's parents are there and they are so much worse. Like Chisuru goes out one night with

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a Kazuya's mother and they have this talk about they have the talk about oh this is where

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Kazuya's father and I got married and the ring that you have you still belong to me. And it's

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I mean it's at least a nice talk between them and they go to the resource gift shop and

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Chisuru buys this like keepsake like little ring thing for Kazuya's mother and it's like

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okay you know that's kind of nice at least but it's so overshadowed by everything.

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Else, dude. I don't I don't know I don't know if I can do this to myself. Season five is coming

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next year. I don't I think I have to cut myself loose like I was between hate watching this in

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Sword Art. It's like I mean Sword Art hasn't been running for a while. So I mean there's been the

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two progressive movies which I still haven't watched and I want to I want to at least sit down and

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watch them at some point and say that I have to be like okay it's at least it from a different

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perspective maybe awesome as perspective of the story was at least slightly less stupid than

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Curie Toes but if it still gets to the same end point then like meh also I don't know when it happens

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in the manga. I think it's in one of more recent chapters so I don't think it'll happen in the

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enemy for a minute but I want to call out the author of Rage Meijima. I want to call you out

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specifically me a Gima. Why? Does Kazuya's appearance change to look suspiciously like you?

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Are you trying to say something about yourself with this story? What message are you trying to send?

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And apparently there's no transition. Kazuya just from one chapter to another

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changes appearance. And there are some people out there who are tripping over themselves to be

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oh well he went and you know got his hair done or died or we're not no no no no no no no no no is

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there's a potential to write that in later? I mean I guess but it doesn't sound like the effort's been

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made me a Gima. What? Why? Also what are you considering? How you described Kazuya? Why would you

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want to make yourself the self-insert like why would you want to admit to being that person in real life

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because Kazuya apparently is a flaming idiot? So I wouldn't be too keen on just letting

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all everyone in the world know that that's me that that's just a self-insert character like I mean

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that suspicion is always there when you write a story and you know there's a prominent male figure

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and you're a male writer of course that could you know always be there the same for female writers

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with their female man characters but you know when you also make the appearance very close to your

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and then that person you're starting he's a fucking idiot like what are you doing man? Why would you

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why would you admit that shit like don't? That's I don't understand. I don't I don't get it

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but it's hilarious to me let me be clear like especially that he did it without any real explanation

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the story apparently he's like no that characters me now I'm done pretending I am Kazuya Kazuya

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me like going back to Sword Art for a minute at least Curito is honest about what he is he's just

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Kawahara's power fantasy and then when they let someone else write him for organ-a-lost scale he

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became an infinitely more interesting character yeah how about that I think we both liked ordinal

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scale right I mean that was it was a good movie I wasn't great but it was good it was definitely

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serviceable it wasn't annoying or infuriating so so I don't I really don't think I can do myself again

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with another season of this we will see John you've said this before I don't know I don't even

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know when it's airing next season I mean next season there's gonna be so much that I might have to

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just watch some of it in spring instead because Jesus Christ is there okay let's see I thought

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there was much that I was interested in but I mean there was a lot I wanted to look at it at least so

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I don't know what else to say on this other than I got to the end of this and apparently a lot of

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other people probably hated it just as much as I did and I was so disappointed after season three

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dude because it felt like it could get so much better and it didn't it got worse it got so much worse

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I mean if I had already watched a few seasons of this or four at this point uh I probably would try

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to stick with it just so to see the asshole character get her come up and but the problem is

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that's not an assurance at this point like it's not a short that this will actually happen

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and the problem is there's still so much of the story to tell story quote unquote but uh

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I yeah I get why you are frustrated with it and I don't want to stick with that but

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did I ever mention that this was animated by TMS I don't think you have and maybe at the very

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beginning when you talked about the first season or something but are y'all doing this to pay the bills

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because if so I hope that's the reason you're doing it I mean probably it's still a successful

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serious right I wonder about that at this point I mean I don't know I haven't followed this at all

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so I also didn't know that TMS did it but I hmm if the manga is still going and the anime is still going

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something's working I don't know for who and why and what but something is apparently

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I want okay yeah chapter Jesus Christ I just got hit with a massive truck chapter 405 released

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as of this recording four days ago in December 10th wow now okay it's that current and apparently

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got a hate fandom is such a garbage series of websites but at the bottom they're showing chapters

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listed out to at least 410 so I mean you could wait until the manga has wrapped up whenever that will

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be and then decide if you want to watch the rest of the show like like getting soft spoiled if

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the end that could be a decade oh brother sure then you binge that shit but I hate binging I know but

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you know then at least you could have get like soft spoiled on is it going into a direct the direction I

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want and if like the resonance is yes then you at least know that it will that all that work all

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that pain all that suffering will at least to lead to a good endpoint which at this point you can

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know so I understand why you don't want to risk putting that much time into a show that might

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eventually like do the ultimate betrayal and let us and mommy and together by giving air with

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dimension or a subset like that Jesus Christ if they did that I would just I would personally

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fly to Japan find me a jima and ask him what are you doing what is the message you're sending with

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this it's a son of a two friendly I expected you to do something else to him no I don't I don't want to

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me a jima son who hurt you that's the that is the core of what I'm trying to get at who hurt you

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so badly that you're writing this story and it's such an awful terrible story that you could just

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get to the point with but you have to rent a girlfriend is airing on crunchy roll and you can watch it

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11 year old orphan and Shirley has spent her life moving from one family to another

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always hoping to find a place where she truly belongs she sent to live with elderly siblings Marilla

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and Matthew Cutthbird at green gables acquired from in the town of Evonley it is quickly revealed

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that she is there by mistake having expected a boy able to help out with farm work

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and the cutbirds are surprised to instead receive a young girl with a vivid imagination and a flare

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for the dramatic despite the cutbirds initial hesitation and energy intelligence and charm soon

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win them over and settles into her new life experiencing many things for the first time such as

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attending school and making close friends as she learns to navigate the joys and challenges of growing up

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there and Shirley is based on a 1908 book slash book series this is probably the oldest

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adaption or with the oldest source material that we ever talked about that that book slash book series

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is most well known by its first entry and of green gables written by canadian author Lucy Montmere

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the book series encompasses six books that focus on the character of and Shirley herself and

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then there are a couple more that focus on our children and friends and others where she is

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referenced or appears in and this new anime series adapts the first three books so and of green

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gables and of heavenly and and of the island and counts 24 episodes it is i don't think i ever knew

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it was a series of books me neither i thought it was one book but there's a reason for that

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probably maybe i'll talk about it uh it is produced by the answer studio which i wasn't familiar

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with before but which is a kind of prominent studio because it seems to have been founded in 2004

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after the closure of Walt Disney animation japan by the vice president and general manager of that

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studio and since then they have worked on a lot of anime among them tower of god your name flag

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anpanman armor trooper voteoms and a lot more but also on several western productions like

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transformers animated a lot of the see home video movies like Batman under the red hood son of

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Batman teen titan's Judas contract and a lot more the series is directed by Hiroshi Kawamata

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who seems to have directed a lot of younger kids focus stuff like shimagiro nipples nipples

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health fluid etc but he was also a key animator on susume the thunder cats reboot and a real blast

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from the past spaceship secretary is whose existence i recently unearthed from my childhood memories

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and plan to rewatch uh when i find the time for it a series composition and descript of nine episodes

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of and surely was handled by natsuko takahashi who also wrote scripts for i katsu acrarian

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bakugan yokai watch but detective vendred there's another blast from the past oh my god do you remember

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vendred john i sure do i never watched it but i remember it i watched it john it was one of my first

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anime that i downloaded from the interwebs because the god come out over here uh vendred was

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definitely one of the first that i watched fan sub so that was interesting experience uh yugi ojiex

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and money many other things uh also handled the series composition on a lot of those as well

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she is aided by miharu hirami and rin-rin who both have worked with her on a couple other shows

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before this one as well while also doing their own separate stuff the music is composed by michiro

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ojima who also did the soundtracks from full metal alchemist little witch academia le shivalye deo

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couple of episodes on back snow white with the red hair which we reviewed and many more

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wow that's a line up yeah and all these talented people have very big shoes to fail why

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well it was already an old adaption of the first book in 1979 and that was handled by none other

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than studio jibli member entayau miyazaki kokonspirta isao takahata who of course famously also directed

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grave of the fireflies only yesterday the tale of princess kagia and many more back then he was

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still working at nippon animation and his adaption of and of green gables technically kick started

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nippon animations world masterpiece theater line of tv series which adapted a lot of works of classic

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literature into anime there were a couple of other shows before enough green gables that can be counted

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into that adaption franchise quote unquote but those didn't run under the world masterpiece theater

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the moniker yet if i'm not mistaken but yes many of these shows aired on german tv when i was a wee

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lad and i watched a bunch of them just to name a few hide of the alps that was also co-produced by our

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biggest public broadcasting network then a dog of landers the adventures of tom soya princess

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Sarah little women one in two poliana peter pan the bush bb and i liked a lot of these shows

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it was very much my jambeck in the day besides your standard action stuff this and other anime that

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were not handled by nippon animation and that weren't necessarily always based on existing

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classic literature work but at least were period pieces like the rose of a sigh robin hoot treasure

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island lady Georgie world masterpiece theater also later did an original story called tico and friends

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which is about this girl that makes french friends with an orca which i also liked

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for kids shows the writing in these anime often felt more grown up and gripping in certain parts

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very much focused on character development which was not a given for cartoons at that time so they

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very quickly caught my eye and i stuck to them so yeah love to or at least liked all these shows

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didn't watch every episode of all of them but because i were trying to air in you know sometimes

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saturday morning sometimes in the in the afternoon or in the noon here so sometimes i was in

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out of school when it was airing and so on so you know but i you know i i tried to catch what i could

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but my biggest educational black spot when it comes to those particular kind of adaptive works

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has always been the first and of green gable series because for some reason i never caught a single

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episode of it when it was on tv over here so when this new adaption was announced i was pretty excited

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because finally i could experience this story in anime form i guess this new adaption isn't

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considered part of the word masterpiece theater franchise because it's not produced by nip and

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animation and that last century last entry of that particular series was in 2009 which was actually

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the adaption of the end of the green gables prequel so i went about and checked out this new adaption

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and of course i can't make any concrete comparisons to the old show because i haven't seen it so i

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leave that to other people and also i haven't read the source material so i can talk about how well

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that is covered either but i think i can evaluate whether this is a good series telling a good story

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in its own right first of all this is an incredibly pretty show a lot of the environments and

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backdrops look like impressionist paintings like it's crazy pretty much every walk through the

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woods is magical the lighting the color work how pristine yet warm everything looks when it's

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knows it's a supremely gorgeous show like i i was mesmerized by like from the first episode on like

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from the back the backdrops alone look gorgeous but also the character animation is amazing and

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like i said the color work and the lighting is what stood out most to me like there's so many pretty

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nature shots in this and so many uh detail put into facial animations of characters and everything like

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it just looked amazing like they didn't have to put that much work into a show like that i guess because

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it's mostly hinging on dialogue and everything but it's just it feels like they wanted to put the work

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in and they did like it's just a very very pretty to look at show and yeah so it's about this orphan

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girl named and Shirley born in Nova Scotia in Canada is taken in by the cutboard siblings uh and gets

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to live on their farm estate green gables probably named after the green gables of the house they live in

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on an island full of flowers and trees uh the island is prince edward island a real canadian island

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province however communities slash town avenue where they reside in is uh where a lot of the story

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is set in is fictional but as far as i've understood it a lot of the stuff in Lucy mod Montgomery

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and books uh is semi autobiographical so you can assume several of the locations and characters

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are based on existing places and people just fictionalized with stuff added and stuff subtracted

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it's still considered a fictional work but with a lot of real-life personal influences

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and yeah and is waiting at the train station uh this show starts up with her actually

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going to the train station with the with the woman that handles her adoption and then she ends up in

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on on uh on prince edward island in heavenly and is collected by this old gentleman called

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Matthew cutboard who is kind of fluster that uh he's greeted by a girl because he and his sister

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marilla were looking to adopt the boy to help them out at the farm because staring you know older

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uh and staring you know work on a farm as hard and they can't do it on all on their animar so they

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needed strong hands and so they didn't expect to get a girl uh and also i when i did the sneak peak

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for some reason i mean the series doesn't make it clear that they are not but i

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thought they were an old couple i didn't know they were siblings so i'm sorry for that

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just thought they were met uh married couples and i described them as such so if people who

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read the books or watch the old series listen to that sneak peak they're probably

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were majorly annoyed i'm sorry my bad but now i know okay so they're siblings i don't know if

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they're twins or anything but they're they're siblings and yeah so Matthew immediately just like

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oh fuck oh no what am i gonna do uh not in those words but you know he's he's immediately distraught

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because he also immediately takes a liking to and she's very energetic as a very vivid imagination that

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uh you know she's not necessarily retreating to whenever she's bored but you know then it flares

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up and she's even to like oh what is that like and what is that like she she talks a lot she's a

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curious go with big ideas that uses big words like a lot of people comment on that she's like for

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for a lot of people say like for such a small girl you use a lot of big words and some of them

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also feel like condescended by her doing that which is a very i like i feel is of the time like

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that feels like a lot of people like in more rural areas like if a girl used a lot of you know

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big and extravagant words and we're like is she think she's better than us or whatever

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and you know she gets some of these reactions but uh yeah she's she's very you know she's very energetic

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like i said like she's like she immediately captures Matthew's sympathy the way she talks and how

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she's interested in everything on their right on their cart right back to the farm uh to to green

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gables from from the train and like she likes to give places and things new names like a normal

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pond she renames to the lake of the shining waters and avenue she renames to the way of white delight

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the the tree in front of her uh in front of the window of the room she resides and she calls the

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snow queen so so that's her thing um but she does that so she can you know she can remember the the

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names better Matthew is already taken with her uh taken to her she's like immediately like

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not bewitched but he's like oh my god this girl is all amazing and everything and uh i would like

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to keep her but the problem is his sister marilla who is like this very strict woman of few words

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right and she expected a boy and once you know Matthew arrives on her doorstep with and she's like

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what what is that where's the boy like what why do you bring a girl home and we can't use her

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right and then it's super distraught and super dramatic and it's like this is the worst day of my life

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and everything which i guess right and she explains it like she's like hey i knew something was wrong

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like this sounded too good to be true like i'm i get bra i'm i'm i'm getting brought to this amazing place

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everything is beautiful here and i you know i i knew this was too good to be true i knew something

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was wrong here right and she's just crying and everything and if we're super sorry for her

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and um you know marilla is like what good is she or to us but Matthew is like hey

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does that really matter maybe we can be like good for her if we keep her around and that

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you know kind of pulls at marilla's not necessarily at her heartstrings because you know she

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intends to bring uh and back to uh the orphanage the next day and she kind of she does that but then

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she runs into the woman that is supposed to adopt and in her stead and that woman is an absolute dragon

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like even stricted in marilla and like feels already like a real asshole and like drilled sergeant

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and something like that which marilla is not she's strict right she is you know expecting that

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you know her orders are followed and trying to keep an online but she's not completely cold or mean

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and that is uh what that other woman seems to be like misblew it or whatever she's called or blew it

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and uh yeah and immediately marilla is like well i haven't said that i decided to give her back yet

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and that's kind of already that that that point she decides to take and back with

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her to to green gables and give her her home there and yeah we start from there uh or we go from there

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and and it's getting listening to school she's making her a friend in the form of Diana

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who becomes like her best friend throughout her entire life like they're bosom bosom bodies or whatever

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they're gonna call uh are called and like really like like the bestest of besties and everything

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and so she's an important character throughout the story and uh yeah so this is pretty much

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at least for its first third a coming-of-age story of Anne you know experiencing childhood

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and taking in all these new experiences and i would say this is the most interesting part of the

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story just because it's done really well which i think can be contribute to contribute to the

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at least partially to the people who worked on the series having worked on a lot of stuff that is more

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geared towards younger children or a lot of it anyway and you know they get the perspective

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i would say of Anne and what the author was trying to convey with those experience and everything

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and they can really capture like the childlike wonder that Anne encounters every day

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and like seeing something new in her environment meeting new friends going to school for the first

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time meeting an interesting animal or whatever like she is like taking all that and was like these big

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bright eyes and this big smile and she very much lives in a moment whatever made it seem like the

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world is ending one day is already forgotten after goodnight's rest on the flip side a lovely day can

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suddenly throw her into the depths of despair on a whim uh like her reaction to the cosmic expecting a

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voice very theatrical like i said and there's so many moments in the show where she's like

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oh everything is wonderful everything is great and one little thing happens and she just

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completely flies off the handle or is immediate like completely

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distraught and crying and everything like she's the original choony she also talks talks like that

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all the time like so narrates her own life and everything and you know she really is like

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likes to do stuff with big words you know i i kind of can relate to that i guess i didn't talk that much

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as a kid at least but i you know uh i when i did i i could also be somewhat theatrical i guess

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so that that felt like near and dear to my heart and i could relate to to that character and was fun

387
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:05,080
listening to her uh talk and everything i mean whether you'll enjoy the series or not is very

388
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:10,120
dependent on how much you can tolerate over enthusiastic very theatrical little girls at least for

389
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:16,520
its first uh first third like that rarely stop talking if that is not your speed and tone in terms

390
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:21,320
of dialogue you might get fed up with it if you find it adorable and funny you will definitely get

391
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:27,160
your money's worth my patience was tested at certain points but i think overall n is a welcome

392
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:33,800
ray of sunshine even if she really is the original choony bureau template in the way she talks and

393
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:40,840
behaves and everything dramatizes everything like everything i mean first third i mean that's

394
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:48,040
kids though yes absolutely but you know she is even for a kid she's a special one in that regard

395
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:57,160
like she's really really going there like in every aspect so it's fun i enjoyed it like i said she

396
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:03,240
names things so she gets can get to know them better when marilla asks her why she named the tree

397
00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:09,560
outside her bedroom the snow queen and asks marilla if she'd be okay with being just named woman all the time

398
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:16,120
like and has a very vivid imagination but she's also good at explaining her world view to

399
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:22,120
matter of fact people like marilla broadening their perspective subsequently so that's cool like

400
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:27,480
she's like every person she meets she like broadens their horizon by just her nature at the way she

401
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:34,920
talks and the way she treats the world and everything and i think the most obvious that that is seen

402
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:41,240
or like you can realize is like in the character of marilla who like i said this is very strict

403
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:50,120
kind of harsh you know set in her ways woman but who you know after like let's say a bit of a

404
00:43:50,120 --> 00:44:00,600
problematic start is very much taken taken to end and like Caesar as very much as a daughter after a while

405
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:06,600
almost after short while almost every ludicrous thing and says makes marilla blurred or the concealed

406
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:15,240
chuckle and in certain situations she matches adds theatrics with her own like turns out to our much more

407
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:20,200
alike than any of them would have guessed well except Matthew he knew all along that smock bastard

408
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:26,120
he ain't hiding it either he's so happy about all the warmth and brings into their lives he's a big

409
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:32,280
smiling teddy bear and i just love the dynamic between these three characters like it's so much fun

410
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:40,840
to see a marilla warm up and you know and being starting to be able to control herself a bit more

411
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:47,080
in certain parts but also just Matthew just being just overjoyed by all of this like he's he's

412
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:55,080
immediately like oh man this this is great this is this is already doing so much for us and i i

413
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:01,000
love having an around and i'm so i'm so happy like and you're happy with him because he's he's

414
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:07,080
just like this awesome character and uh you just want him to be happy so and marilla too out there

415
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:13,000
while like in the beginning you think oh no she's like this old crow or whatever who just doesn't

416
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,120
it's so matter of fact and doesn't know real happiness but that's absolutely not true and you see

417
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:25,160
that very quickly once she and and starts to interact regularly right so you know Matthew is a bit

418
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,880
of a mediator between and and marilla like marilla not overly harsh but definitely applies a strict

419
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,840
hand to ends education and upbringing and Matthew is willing to be more lenient and tries to see

420
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:40,440
things more often from ends perspective like yes to deal with two very stubborn women now and he's

421
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:47,240
surprisingly adept at handling both of them when it is necessary so that's fun to witness uh i'm

422
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:51,960
not saying he's manipulating either of them but he's like hey have you considered looking at it

423
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:58,200
from this perspective or what if you did this instead and he's just good at that so he's he's got

424
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:07,560
the calm to mediate like he's very like relaxed in that regard so uh that's that's that's very nice

425
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:12,600
and uh ends parents died when she was very young so she has nothing but her imagination to help

426
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:18,040
her remember the short time she had with them so that makes it very understandable why she's so

427
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:24,760
fixated on imagination and what it does for her right because it gave her somewhat of a home in her

428
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:30,840
mind because she couldn't really remember her real home and that makes her makes it immediately

429
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:37,320
understandable why she is so god damn why her imagination is so vivid and springs up at any given

430
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:43,080
moment and a lot of people don't necessarily understand and say stuff like well you you you you you

431
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:48,520
you're a weird one and you know but marilla after a while comes to understand it and very much relates

432
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:54,600
to that as well like I said once she understands what Anne is all about it's just it's just

433
00:46:54,600 --> 00:47:01,160
so fun like there's this um marilla has this friend I guess neighbor they they definitely like if

434
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:06,040
they're not in the beginning of the show they become very close friends by the end uh called Rachel

435
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:13,400
and Rachel is like this very nosy neighbor like the busy body of the town right and she like when she

436
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:19,720
meets and she kind of makes fun of her hair and that is a problem because Anne is very self conscious

437
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:27,400
about her looks especially her red hair like she immediately flies off the handle when someone makes

438
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:33,240
fun of it uh she has quite a temper like there's this moment when she enlisted when she starts school

439
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:38,680
where this boy Gilbert also a very important character the local hotthrob in her school calls her

440
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:44,920
carrots to get her attention as boys do at that age and she turns around and breaks a writing board on

441
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:51,640
his head which seems to only making become more infatuated with her actually but you know she has a

442
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:59,240
temper she you know which as it turns out Marilla can have to uh but uh you know and definitely has

443
00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:04,440
and she has that towards Rachel as well when she comments on her hand everything so she's she's

444
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:09,560
rude to her and Rachel is like totally surprised that a kid will talk to her like that

445
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:16,440
and Marilla is like you have to apologize that that just is not okay and everything you know sends

446
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:24,920
Anne to her room and everything but then she goes down the stairs and you see in her in you get to

447
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:32,040
take a peek into a little Marilla's mind and she remembers the face of Rachel when Anne just yells at

448
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:39,560
her and being like completely surprised and and Marilla just punches over and starts to snicker because

449
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:45,720
she fits it was the most funny thing ever and it's amazing like you immediately oh no she gets

450
00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:52,120
Anne she totally gets her and she actually finds it super funny the way Anne behaves and she likes it

451
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:56,680
and then you know she gets actually gets her to apologize and and apologizing to Rachel couldn't be

452
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:02,840
more fake and theatrical and she really enjoys leaning into it which doesn't which again doesn't

453
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:08,680
go unnoticed by Marilla because she sees Anne's version of a shit eating grin that Rachel doesn't see

454
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:16,600
but it works regardless like Rachel takes the apologies like okay girls do what what girls can do

455
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,200
and they also become friends and everything and Rachel is a very important character in the show

456
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:26,600
so that's nice like it's like oh this is all meant to be this works and these people at some point

457
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:32,600
yet and and she's supposed to be in this community of course Diana her best friend right there both

458
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:39,080
in into into books and stories and everything and they immediately gel with it out of become immediate

459
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:48,520
besties and that space very much at the end of the show and you know it's just fun and it's hard

460
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:54,840
warming and it feels good and it's funny and it's just such an enjoyable show in its first third

461
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:59,560
but it's also not entirely sunshine and rainbows all the time and is a very headstrong sometimes

462
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:06,440
mischievous kid not necessarily intentional intentionally but you know she's definitely not above trying

463
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:13,160
to make things go her way if possible add to that her theatrics her propensity to drama and exaggeration

464
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:18,120
have every chatty nature and her constant mood swings and Marilla has her hands full so it's not like

465
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,680
you're always on the side of Anne sometimes you're also on the side of Marilla it's like oh god

466
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:29,320
I'm sorry for that woman she like she has worked cut out for and this is the first experience being

467
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:35,240
apparent because both of them are not like neither Matthew nor her are married neither of them have

468
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:38,840
kids that's why they wanted to adopt the child in the first place to help them out on the farm

469
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:45,000
and Marilla really could hardly have picked a more challenging candidate as her first child

470
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:52,440
even when it comes down to it you know Anne is a very good kid like she is really good like she's smart

471
00:50:53,320 --> 00:51:01,080
she is fun she has a good moral compass and everything most of the time so they picked a good one

472
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:08,760
but still it's a lot of work and I'm glad this series doesn't hide that and it's like oh kids are

473
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:15,560
you know a lot of you know the the the Shinzo Abe protocol of anime you know doing god

474
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:21,880
is like please get kids kids are so amazing they're the best thing ever and nothing bad happens when

475
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:28,120
you have kids and it's not of work at all and you should just get kids because it's no trouble whatsoever

476
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:33,480
and this show is not like that because Anne is a lot of trouble like she's a magnet for problems

477
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:40,040
but you know the show also conveys that it's still worth it like that the cupboards adopt the

478
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:50,360
terror because she enriches their lives so much in so many ways and that's nice and yeah so as I

479
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:59,320
thought said in the beginning the show covers the first three books of the and series so

480
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:06,840
Anna of Green Gables and of Evan Lee and Anne of the Island in just 24 episodes and it shows

481
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:14,280
the brisk pacing is not necessarily a bad thing but I have seen people very much

482
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,920
preferring the attention to detail and more contemplative mood of the old show and there's

483
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,960
definitely an emotional moment at the midpoint of the show of this show of this adaption that I

484
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:29,720
would have liked this adaption to sit with a bit longer plus they really should have skipped the

485
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:34,360
upbeat OP for that episode because that felt wholly inappropriate considering what happens

486
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:40,760
right before and after it is played you know you get the feeling to show very much is intent on

487
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:45,880
covering all that material and I understand why they did it because the third book ends kind of a

488
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:51,800
very good kind of perfect note when it comes to Anne's character journey it's not complete because

489
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:57,240
there are three more books technically and maybe we get a new another season but I kind of doubt it

490
00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:06,200
because it felt kind of very the end at least for this adaption but you know these are so as

491
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:14,680
comparison the old series from 1979 which only covers the first book at 50 episodes

492
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:22,920
oh wow and this one does three books in 24 yeah that's I mean I am not saying that the

493
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:27,320
and I've read about the read that too that the old series definitely has some pacing problems

494
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:34,040
in the other direction where some of it felt feels very slow but you know that's not like

495
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:38,920
according to a forum post I read the first episode of the new adaption covers the first four and a

496
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:46,760
half episode of the old adaption at ridiculous like I've seen something like that before

497
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:53,080
and time progresses very quickly in the show like in the first episode n11 and by episode six

498
00:53:53,080 --> 00:54:00,280
she is already 13 in episode seven she turns 14 at the end of episode six she has to cut her

499
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:05,720
hair very short due to reasons in episode seven it has already fully grown back and I think in the

500
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:12,120
old series she has short hair for like I don't know how many episodes at least 10 I think or something

501
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:19,160
and you know I wonder how much this adaption left out because you know like I said the old one

502
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:25,560
has had 50 episodes and a lot of the episodes definitely are two separate stories squished into one

503
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:32,200
episode like spy family does it for example then again maybe this will get a second season like I

504
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:38,760
said these small self-contained stories are already in the book as well but it definitely had a lot of

505
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:46,200
places it felt like the series just rushed through the story um apparently it takes my

506
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,760
really a lot longer to soften up in the old adaption which might make that development feel more

507
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:55,720
rewarding there I don't hate that it goes very quickly here from oh we don't need to just go to

508
00:54:55,720 --> 00:55:01,400
god she's the best thing ever in my life and I'm so glad that we adopted her right I finally in the

509
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:07,560
old adaption it takes a lot longer to get there which like I said can feel more rewarding once that

510
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:15,000
switch is actually flipped and there's also you know the story progresses after the first I don't

511
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:24,280
even know how many episodes I guess 10 or something and for a while goes to school outside of I don't

512
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:36,440
even know I think enraptment uh uh but definitely not on the island and then she teaches as a teacher

513
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:42,440
back on the back on in evidently for like another lights for the second that's the second second

514
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:48,120
third her learning to become a teacher then teaching for a while and then the last third is her at

515
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:56,520
college and there's this tear field could buy to her class at the end of the second third where she

516
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:01,560
decides to go back to college um because there are reasons why she you know went back to

517
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:06,120
avenue there's a reason why she went back to green gable in the second thirds um which I don't want

518
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:11,800
to get into because spoilers but after at the end of the second third she's like okay I want to go

519
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:16,760
back to college uh and so on and uh further my education everything and there's this tear field

520
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:23,960
could buy to her class uh that she taught for the past two years apparently the problem is

521
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:32,920
that's barely one episode in this show like that her teaching her class like this is like oh my

522
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:39,240
I'm so glad I met all of you and they all her kids are crying and everything and you know we just

523
00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:43,560
saw one episode of her working actually as a teacher she has some interaction with one of your

524
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:49,640
pupils that's like a continuous storyline in the second uh in the second act I would say where she is

525
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:57,560
like uh she's trying to that that kid lost uh recently lost his mom and everything and she's trying

526
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:03,240
to get him back on his feet and everything and that kind of intersects with the story of an old woman

527
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:10,120
and that kid's father and everything so she kind of still has stuff doing stuff with one of her

528
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:17,320
pupils but you know all these kids crying like at the scene in that particular scene is like

529
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:24,360
she has talked to maybe two of you once in one episode why are you so sad I don't I mean I can of

530
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:30,120
course assume I get that this is in the original story probably and if we would have gotten like a

531
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:35,400
50 episode adoption of every of the books probably ten of those or 20 of those would have her

532
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:41,960
teaching it would have been her teaching her class and that's just not in this adaption so you have

533
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:49,480
to also have a very vivid imagination to sometimes get the emotional resonance out of this story

534
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:56,280
when the story kind of asks you to to have that to feel for those characters when it's just

535
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:03,160
rushing through a lot of the story beads so that's a bit of a problem I still liked it I think it's

536
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:10,600
still a well-toed story but it definitely has very brisk pacing at certain points because you just

537
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:16,760
you can cover three full books in 24 episodes that's not possible I'm not saying that they all

538
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:25,560
showed it perfectly but you know well I mean that's better than when JC staff tried to do a full

539
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:34,200
volume of data live in one episode so yeah sure but you know I can understand why people were like oh my

540
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,440
god this is going too fast like especially people who watch the old adaption and like that right

541
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:44,360
and maybe read the books and we're like no this is there's not like they leave too much out which I

542
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:52,200
don't have right I neither watch the old adaption I didn't read the books so I don't even have like

543
00:58:52,200 --> 00:59:02,360
the baggage of knowing what it could have been like but even I watching this show noticed that at

544
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:11,000
certain parts it's just bush like going bi as a breeze so quickly and there's some very like

545
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:15,960
serious moments in the later parts of the show like the first couple of episodes are very sweet

546
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:20,840
and light yeah usually the drama is very low stakes like and being forbidden to see her best friend

547
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:28,680
because she accidentally got her drunk or and accidentally dying her hair green instead of black

548
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:34,280
like the epitome of lighthearted slice of life stuff and of course all of this is treated with

549
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:40,520
the gravitas of the universe imploding by and and the show knows that and wings at the audience several

550
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:47,960
times without belittling ends feelings though because they are for the most part genuine but you know

551
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:55,000
after that can't last forever because like I said after like the first 10 or 11 episodes

552
00:59:55,000 --> 01:00:01,320
and kind of has grown up like she's going to study outside of the town and then she comes back

553
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:06,840
is already a teacher like I think she is fully grow she is technically fully grown up in terms of

554
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:12,520
character behavior and everything by episode 16 and that is she's going to college and even before

555
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:19,000
that like she's like leaving her childhood behind in like episode 9 or 10 or whatever by moving out

556
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:25,640
of the town for a while and you know this is a coming of age story of courts not only for like her

557
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:32,200
childhood part which is the old adaption I guess but you know and growing up learning from

558
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:37,320
many mistakes becoming a woman marrilla learning to become a surrogate mom it's all very heartfelt

559
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:43,960
and sweet the ultimate calm for food but once on and starts to become an adult you know focusing

560
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:48,360
more on her studies trying to fight out what she wants to do and who she wants to become to show

561
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:52,760
occasionally dips into more of a melancholic tone and serious tones and definitely there's some

562
01:00:52,760 --> 01:01:01,640
topics tackling loss and problematic stuff in relationships and everything you know especially

563
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:08,440
later parts when then things become much more serious like starting with the second act but definitely

564
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:15,320
also in the third there is still funny moments in there obviously a lot of them even entire episodes

565
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:22,280
and everything but there also much more is much more serious stuff in there there's this moment

566
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:27,480
of the marrilla notices how tall Anne has become and that she will leave the house soon to study

567
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:33,560
in a different town where she asks her why she isn't as chatty and is not using as many big words

568
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:41,480
anymore and Anne replies I don't know I don't want to talk as much it's almost a pity isn't it now

569
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:47,400
that I'm nearly growing big enough to say any big words if I did want to it's fun to be grown up in

570
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:52,600
some ways but there's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words

571
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:59,640
which is a very succinct way of describing reality pushing aside imagination when you become an adult

572
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:08,040
and that is also kind of what is happening to the show because in the first act you are like

573
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:15,400
mostly focusing on this side like wonder like a child discovering this entirely world this world

574
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:21,560
that is entirely new to her having so many new experiences making friends like growing attached

575
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:27,320
to her new parents and everything into town she's living in and so on and like everything is fueled

576
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:34,760
by her imagination everything is hyper colorful everything is like a need a need of big words and

577
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:41,720
everything over everything is super dramatic and that kind of goes away with the second act naturally

578
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:48,200
because it has to because she's becoming an adult but with that also a bit of the fun leaves the show

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I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing but you know if you think like the entire show is going

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to be like the first act and it's just going to be you know function and against with and that

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kind of doesn't happen at some point in the moment also her character changes because it has to

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like the show shifts gears at the midpoint by for example by introducing like these twins

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Davie and Dora Humorilla also does because they're of a relative that died a relative that died

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and that is putting an into a big sister/mother role and Davie is a little shit I didn't catch

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much for this shift really like it's not super big like it's only a couple of episodes because the

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series like I said rushes rushes through all of its story beats very quickly but like I said the

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series naturally loses a lot of its spirit once and has grown up that is not the fault of the series

588
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it's just the nature of the story and the source material but once your character grows up they

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have to deal with grown up problems and less without landage kids kids stuff which is by nature

590
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more fun especially if the kid in question is one with such a vivid imagination as ad I think

591
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in that particular part of the story the problem is instead of really leaning into the grown-up

592
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stuff and making everything feel more complex and serious it tries to have its cake and eat it too

593
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you know there's an fulfilling more adult roles like being a teacher and surrogate big sister

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and the troubles that come with that but it also tries to keep the youthful spirit around by

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introducing the twins and have Davie be a little scoundrel problem is it can't recapture the magic

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of kid and story like Davie is annoying and Dora is a timid nothing character so instead of the

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story properly evolving and staying focused on solely on n and her adult troubles it's trying to

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flip back and forth between the more lighthearted and more serious stuff and it doesn't necessarily

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always work but like I said due to the quick pace of the show it's also only about five episodes of

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the whole series that deal with that part of n's life so it's not as problematic but it's something

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that stood out to me I feel like by the time it reaches the third act the series strikes a pretty

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good balance in its last third between the more lighthearted stuff like the Romans and a series

603
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that becomes more of a focus point there and serious moments like character deaths romantic turmoil

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and so on and that is mainly because it feels like it's focusing more on and herself again

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and I feel like in the middle point I didn't get that as much or like it didn't feel as I don't know

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it feels it felt like a transitional period which makes sense because that's also kind of what

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that is in and's life like that's not where she's gonna end up eventually um and that's also not

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where she started but it also feels like that in the show and I'm like how I don't like that as much

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as the first part and then when I get to the third part I was like oh I like this much more than the

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second part so yeah like this this gap in between where it's like oh okay you have to get through this

611
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to get from the good part again to the good part of the story I guess but all of these are nitpicking

612
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because I like this series of all all it's still plenty fun there and there are enough color

613
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for shenanigans to go around but in my opinion the first third the first act is still the best with

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kid Anne and from what I've understood the origin series is mostly just that so I might eventually

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just go back and check that out I just like Anne getting acquainted with the life in green

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gables making friends and her dynamic with marrilla and Matthew so much so once a lot of that is not

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the focus in a more the series lost me a bit but I still liked it and like I said it got me back in

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01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:44,040
the third third act again and there was still a lot of funny sad and hardwarming moments in the last

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two thirds so it was definitely worth watching it from beginning to end in the last part we have

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like I said a focus on romance like you can guess who is the man like romantic interest as soon as

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01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:08,760
you interest the stage in this so it's it's more classic saccharine one very predictable but what I

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like was that the series develop it develops it very slowly and carefully and it doesn't really

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become the focus until the last couple of episodes so it's not overbearing like a constant will they

624
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won't they whatever it's more on the sidelines of the story and then in the like in the final couple

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of episodes it becomes more the focus but also doesn't take too much time there because I was afraid

626
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hey if the series is rushing through the story so quickly and eventually it's gonna put the focus

627
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on the romance like that's gonna waste a lot of time on stuff that I don't want it to be wasted

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but it felt definitely more organic and naturally than natural than I expected it to so it was nice

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and it kind of kind of bookends the story very well you know how that romance develops in everything

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and also it makes sense that it takes a long time to get to that point so I feel like even despite

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its short run time and it's rushing through the story the romance itself didn't feel rushed it felt

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like it got the appropriate amount of time considering how much time was given to the other story

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beats or whole little time was given to the other story beats in this in this adaption so that was

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nice that was good I didn't mind it I thought it was well done even though like I said it's very

635
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it's a very classic very by the book's romance very you know saccharine in a way but it has it's

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ups and downs so it's not completely straightforward and everything so there's a bit of drama there as well

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definitely so yeah I liked that as well what I also really liked while I'm steering towards

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the end of the review here either the subs directly take text from the book or they adjust the

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translation too much to tone by using less contemporary language it feels very much of the time

640
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I think I read that they took a lot of the text for the subs directly from the books which is great

641
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it definitely sounds like the people would maybe talk back in the day so it it feels like they

642
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they definitely paid attention to that and put the work into make that sound it doesn't always

643
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like there's some some things in there where I think oh maybe they didn't take that from the book

644
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and it feels like that would be something that would be said at that time so maybe they had to

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improvise there because they didn't have source material to to go from because they had to adjust

646
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the script but while the Japanese I think if I'm not mistaken with my language of the with my

647
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knowledge of the Japanese language which is which is very limited I feel like the Japanese

648
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language is not trying to do the Japanese dub is not really trying to do that it's just using

649
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contemporary you know normal today Japanese language but the English subs definitely go for

650
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go the extra mile and it definitely sounds like you would read the book from that time in the way

651
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the characters talk at the phrasing the phrases they use and the idioms they use and so on so that

652
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was cool it was nice you don't get to read anime subs you know that have this kind of

653
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prose usually so I like that I thought there was that was very a very welcome diversion

654
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variation from the usual sub style you get what I also liked is D.O.P because it's so well animated

655
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and the song is a real great jam and just walking dancing past the entire cast and then ending on

656
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her grown-up version very sweet really liked it also like the ed was very pretty but yeah

657
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:54,280
I definitely liked this adaption I thought it was great definitely had some problems quote unquote in

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that it is just going by so quickly and just carrying so much source material just I can't even

659
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:08,600
imagine how I would have liked looked at the series if I was familiar with the old show or the

660
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:13,080
source material have a red I will probably hated it because I was like this is leaving out too much

661
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:19,400
what the hell is this crazy but since I didn't have that I was like oh this is a really well told nice

662
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:27,880
coming of age story and it's a period piece which I really like and it's an un an underused setting

663
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and everything I don't know how many anime or take place in Canada so that's that's nice

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and yeah I thought that was great the ending is nice and warm and heartfelt pretty much

665
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like the rest of the show and I love the characters of pretty much all of them were a blast and enjoyable

666
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and except for Davey but also he gets also better so there's that but yeah I think this is a more

667
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satisfying full circle ending in terms of setups and payoff then the old show probably had I

668
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:14,920
looked up when the show old show ends and that happens like like I said at the at the end of the

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of the first act in this show like after I don't know eight episodes nine something like that 10

670
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and I feel like if they ended it there and we wouldn't get a second season I would have felt like

671
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:36,280
okay this is an okay ending but it leaves a lot of you know threats dangling so I'm

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01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:43,080
glad that this show covers more of the source material albeit in very abbreviated form apparently

673
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but like I said the way it ends up when where it ends up it feels very good it feels very satisfying

674
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and you know I'm always happy when an anime gets it satisfying ending so that that does a lot

675
01:12:56,680 --> 01:13:03,240
for me so I'm glad that this is this happened here would have it profited from being twice or three

676
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times the length 124 core for each book probably but what we got is a nice adaption of a classic

677
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coming of age story regardless with lots of engaging characters fun tears joy plenty and at times

678
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breath-takingly beautiful to look at if you haven't seen the old show I'd say check it out and even

679
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if you have you might want to check this out because it's a quick watch and covers more than the old one

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01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:34,360
did I'm glad I finally filled in that black spot in my library of unwatched anime classics and it

681
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definitely has lend wings to my imagination

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