kanon 11
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Yuri takes the sad out of “sad girls in snow.” And I’m all for it.
In most anime, usually they won’t fill up a frame with more than one or two characters since adding more characters to a frame ups the animation costs. Kyoto Animation really bucks this trend as they consistently toss in more than a few characters.
(I demand that they fix this scene for the DVD version and have the underclassmen call Nayuki, “Minase-oneesama.” That would be for the moe best.)
Thank goodness that they didn’t whip out their dicks to see who had a longer one. It would have surpassed all of the OH GEASS NO! moments summed together.
I got it! The one with blue hair is a time traveler, the brunette is God, and the guy in the foreground is an esper. Not pictured are (a) narrator (b) alien and (c) little sister in a duffel bag.
The “mystery” of Shiori continues. The sick girl who spends all of her time outdoors in the snow and doesn’t seem very sick. To add to her idiosyncrasies, she wants to eat ice cream. I just wanted to say that when I was growing up in Michigan, I saw Dairy Queens and Baskin Robbins close around me left and right. No one wants to eat ice cream in the frickin’ snow… unless your pregnant… OH SHI-
Loved how her eyes just light up looking at the ice cream. There’s ice all around you! The whole “mystery” of Shiori had been given away a few episodes ago (actually, the first), but I bit my tongue. Today, not anymore. The credits list her last name, and it’s “Misaki.” As in Kaori Misaki. Even their first names rhyme.
Best. Wake-up. Call. Ever. I need to order my own Nayuki alarm clock.
(Still, hasn’t Yuuichi been eating with Mai and Sayuri for a long time now? So why are they finally wondering about his lunch plans… though I’d love to see someone finally crash their lunch picnics. I vote for Nayuki with boxcutters.)
Exceptional wife material. If she weren’t a closet lesbian and all. Actually… wouldn’t that be a bonus? Just hire a hawt meido and see if the wifey would take the bait…
Mai has gone beyond just a tactiturn Yuki Nagato. Mai’s morphed into Wilhelmina ‘s bonnet, Tiamat, in the Shana-tan skits. I’m just waiting for Mai to be hiding behind a pillar talking to herself… “She’s annoying.” “Kurosu!”
She’s the what? She’s the girl who only joins a school club for one day? She’s the girl who ties her hair differently every day? She’s the girl who changes in the classroom? I need to know these things.
(So basically, Yuuichi’s posse are the social rejects of the school? The beautiful Mai and Sayuri are shunned and gossiped about because of their somewhat closed-off behavior? Sounds familiar? Maybe Kyoto was the right choice to remake this series… though I wouldn’t have mind to see it go another direction. One filled with sharp objects.)
This is the second “cute” game that they’ve played this episode, the first being Yuuichi’s and Jun’s pissing contest. I get the feeling that we’re solidly burning time this episode… as if it were a filler…
The third game. It’s like Kyoto’s way of re-using animation. Tricky bastards. Still, Nayuki wavers from seeming very out-of-it to being fairly perceptive. She’s in the out-of-it extreme in this case.
Club stuff… like… making a movie? Trying out meido outfits? Practicing for an upcoming baseball game? Solving the disappearance of the computer club president? I need to know these things.
I have a few suggestions:
A. Meido outfit.
B. Nekomimi cosplay accessories.
C. Loose socks.
D. Piping hot Pizza Hut pan pizza.
E. All of the above.
For Nayuki, if she had a faster processor than that 486 in her head, she should realize that “Wait, my Yuuichi’s been hanging out with another girl!” and then start to bite her fingernails. After all, Yuuichi’s been basically asking about “How do I make a girl look more attractive?” and now Nayuki’s suggestion is a school dance. The obvious outcome? Yuuichi takes this girl to the school dance.
“Your face is too close.” Oh, oops. I need to save that for, uh, three seasons from now, not that I’m counting or anything. Still, Mai has turned into Tiamat. It’s official. She’s beyond the Yuki Nagato stage.
(And, yes, it qualifies as the fourth “cute” game of this episode. The amount of repetition is startling and seeing Yuuichi at the center of these “cute” games is even more startling. It’s like seeing Ayu take off her sweater and finding out that she’s more endowed than Akiko.)
Seriously though, Mai and Sayuri are a huge upgrade from Makoto… threesome on a staircase… err… what was I talking about? Oh, yes. It’s like going from negitoro to ootori.
Exceptional Nayuki moment. She’s the best.
I want to applaud the anonymous poster on 4chan who came up with the correct answer that the background music during this scene is Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D. I would never had guessed because I didn’t even realize that there was BGM playing during this scene. I need to get better speakers. Still, anonymous delivers again.
Nayuki should have demanded that Yuuichi feed her the sundae. Wait, why is she eating ice cream as well… what’s with the girls in this town? Unless Yuuichi is also the fath– OH SHI-
Ayu fanboys, where is your Oharuhi-sama now? Nayuki’s been a solid 100 out of 10 on the kawaii meter, and Ayu’s been off fighting yakuza or something.
This sundae is her third?!? What’s with the girls in this town? If the waitress comes along wearing a revealing outfit, has blue hair, and looks like a splitting image of Nayuki, for pete’s sake, Yuuichi, get the hell out of town!
ZOMG she’s back. It’s been a while. So how was your time at the Seiou Academy, Ayu-chan?
Ayu just needs to farm and level up a bit. My advice is to go to Feywood and chain Mirror Knights. Quick kills, and you can max out on windslicer pinions very quickly. I wonder if I come back to this post three years from now and read this paragraph, would I understand what I wrote? (Guess: N-O.)
Yuuichi: the Ondore of Kanon. Still, nothing like having two girls gang up with you– speaking of which, this episode features a lot of dual girls with the Sayuri/Mai tag team up first. I still think that they should remake the Kanon h-game as something for the Nintendo DS instead of the PSP. You can have one girl on each screen… now, the question is, which one for the touch scr– nevermind. I’m ranting nonsense again.
Is this a “I’m going to kill you when you least expect it” kind of laugh?
(Kyoto Animation screws up? They’ve met before. Back in episode 5, Nayuki was half-asleep, but with eyes open, at breakfast with Ayu there. Ayu would have at least remembered the zombie-ish slug at the table.)
Ayu-chan and Nayu-chan… kawaii! Can’t we just have an ending where everyone wins?
I, for one, welcome our Zombie Nayuki overlords. Note how Ayu is shoved off to the side in this scene.
“Priority number one!”
I picked up some flash for my DS Lite, and I have been playing around with the Moonshell video player. So anyway, I transencoded Haruhi Suzumiya onto the DS and started watching it. (Good for rides on Caltrain… just if someone sits next to you, you’ll get weird looks when the costume raping kicks in.) Kyon seemed so foreign to me now. I kept thinking, “Wait, why doesn’t he have longer hair?” “Wait, why isn’t his hair a bit lighter?” And “Wait, why isn’t he surrounded by flatter chested sad girls?”
I know what Yuuichi’s thinking… “Bust size check time!” Ayu’s like, short.
Another hint, hint, hint!
(Though it seems like no one in this series has a cell phone thus making it even less realistic than having a Japanese baby named “Karen” in an alternate, non-post-WWII Japan. Isn’t there like seven cell phones per capita for Japan?)
“!!!”
We’re into our fifth game now with this “That last part is unnecessary” shtick. Kyoto’s on a roll this episode. Either that or their episode director got busy trying to perfectly animate Mai’s dress at 30fps for the next episode. (He/she better!)
(Also, Akiko tosses out a “We’ve got a lot of empty rooms!” comment. Their house is huge… and from what I can tell, Akiko doesn’t work. Gah. Don’t tell me that she took out a huge life insurance policy on Mr. Minase, poisoned him with polonium, and then mashed him up to create her signature jam-mu. Also, just for a count, I’m guessing at least one bedroom each for Akiko, Nayuki, Yuuichi, and Makoto. Maybe even one for Piro. Large houses are expensive in Japan.)
“EN GUARD!” Kyoto should have played Utah Saint’s theme to Mortal Kombat: The Motion Picture as the BGM here. It would have been spectacular. I’m listening to it now and wondering what would it sound like if the “Mortal Kombat!”s were replaced with “pacchonbo mo inoi!”s.
“Nii-pah!”
I liked how Yuuichi volunteered to take a bath with Nayuki and Ayu. Wait, even if Yuuichi isn’t going with them, does this mean that Nayuki and Ayu are going to be bathing together? Let me process that information for a sec… Nayu-chan and Ayu-chan bathing? Let me just say, “If there is an Oharuhi-sama, let this be animated.”
Mmm… sushi… some of my favorite sushi places in the Bay Area are Cherry Sushi (fantastic, A+, just twice as expensive as most other sushi places), Sushi Maru (either branch, A-), and Ariake Sushi (cheap, quick, B). The best cheap ‘n good place is still the pre-made stuff at Nijiya.
Sou desu ka. I see how it is. They’re either saving their bath time activities for the DVD, or the activities were just too graphic to show.
(BTW, didn’t Akiko say earlier that they have a many empty rooms, yet she’s sleeping with Nayuki? If Yuuichi doesn’t get into this or Mai x Sayuri action, it’s official: he’s not the Kyon clone. He’s the Itsuki clone. There’s no other explanation. He’ll be hitting on poor Jun by episode 19.)
Breakfast of champions. I noticed that in anime, girls are either excellent cooks (Sayuri) or horrible cooks (Ayu). There’s no in-between. Still, I think no one was shocked this mess still isn’t as horrifying as the jam-mu. I’m surprised that Ayu didn’t burn the butter. I’m also kinda wondering about the coffee-like substance… coffee doesn’t normally hang from a cup’s edge like that…
(And would it have killed Kyoto to have tossed in a, “Well, if you kids don’t want to eat this, I still have plenty of my jam-mu left” line for Akiko?)
*flees the crime scene*
Kaori is bitchy because:
A. Her little sister is sneaking off to meet some chump instead of staying home and recovering.
B. It’s that time of the month.
C. She found the “Mikuru” folder on Jun’s laptop.
D. She doesn’t have a dress and/or date for the upcoming dance.
E. All of the above.
Not even wearing a jacket! If only Kaori catches the two of them…
She must be tired from spending the night with Ayu. Damn, maybe I should start spreading rumors on gamefaqs.com about how there’s a secret path in Kanon (PC) that allows people to get the Nayu-chan and Ayu-chan ending if they press up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-a-b-a-b at the right moment.
Maybe it is a good thing that Nayuki’s asleep because Sayuri has come alookin’ for Yuuichi. The Haruhi equivalent would have to be Haruhi slumbering while Mikuru pays Kyon a visit in class. The end effect of both scenarios if Haruhi or Nayuki wake up will probably be the end of the world.
I have a huge desire to make a Yoshinoya run right now…
(With all this food that Yuuichi buys, just how much allowance does Akiko give him?)
I don’t understand this racoon/bear bit at all. But I do understand that they didn’t have Mai shout out “Fumoffu!” during her swings. Aw, shucks.
Mai’s story is one of my favorites, and it looks like the epic dress episode is next. Unfortunately, it looks like the annoying class president is back. If I have Shizuru as 1 and Canadian Ryoko Asakura at 2, I’d rank Kanon‘s class president a solid 9,999. Also, Mai eating a sausage while wearing her pink dress is a solid 255 out of 10 on the kawaii scale.
If you want spoilers, Kanon 11 (Spoilers).
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“(Kyoto Animation screws up? They’ve met before. Back in episode 5, Nayuki was half-asleep, but with eyes open, at breakfast with Ayu there. Ayu would have at least remembered the zombie-ish slug at the table.)”
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That’s in the Toei version. They did not encounter each other in Ep05 of the KyoAni’s version.
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“Wait, even if Yuuichi isn’t going with them, does this mean that Nayuki and Ayu are going to be bathing together? Let me process that information for a sec… Nayu-chan and Ayu-chan bathing? Let me just say, “If there is an Oharuhi-sama, let this be animated.””
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That’s what fanartists are for.
Ayu & Nayuki
Cheers.
If Mai spent less time at night hunting for ghosts and more time studying her vocabulary she could definitely perfect tiamat, sit on top of Yuuichi’s head and give well placed words that no one would think of. If mai is really going to do some sociable activity in a dress next episode, it is going to end all too quickly. I also can’t help but wonder what ayus’ special thing is that she’s looking for obviously its just something symbolic but if I were Yuuichi I would just be like, ah! I found it it’s a hat with white wings now please shut up and don’t speak of special things anymore.
Echoing Skane’s comment. Nayuki doesn’t get up until after Ayu leaves.
>>My advice is to go to Feywood and chain Mirror Knights. Quick kills, and you can max out on windslicer pinions very quickly. I wonder if I come back to this post three years from now and read this paragraph, would I understand what I wrote?
What is that from anyway? I’d guess WoW because it’s the biggest, but I could be wrong. The last MMORPG I played was text-based. Gemstone 4TW!
MMO’s may be fleeting but consoles live forever. Twenty years later the The Konami Code is still going strong. Too bad it doesn’t bring back Ares, unlock an Ayu x Nayu ending, or grant you the powers of Oharuhi-sama, but extra lives in Contra never hurt…
A second dosage of Nekomimi-Meido Nayuki.
Cheers.
>>My advice is to go to Feywood and chain Mirror Knights. Quick kills, and you can max out on windslicer pinions very quickly. I wonder if I come back to this post three years from now and read this paragraph, would I understand what I wrote?
Don’t listen to Ondore’s lies! :X
Just a FYI – Final Fantasy 12. Methinks SE bumped up the difficulty on this game, since it’s a tad harder than the other previous ones and they made it more like a MMO than anything.
“It’s like going from negitoro to ootori.”, you mean, ootoro?
There is only single “Uguu~” in this episode!!! I demand more!!! I need more!!!! I hunger for more!!111!!!11
BTW, is it just that find it cute when Mai trying to speak, munching food in her mouth?
Ayu and Nayuki didn’t meet episode 5 in the KyoAni version. You confused it with the Toei one.
In 2006 version, Nayuki came after Ayu left.
Also, now that Ayu is staying over, the Ayu jammu incident should arrive soon.
She was really eager to try it in ep 5.
Ahaha>Uguu
A Final Fantasy XII and Contra reference in one post. Impressive!
Good episode. You just reminded me of Shiori’s story from the summary though. I think her and Mai’s part are the least sad of the sad girls in snow but what do I know? I always remembered Makoto’s story as being very blah back in 2002. Maybe KyoAni has something new for all of us.
>>Sou desu ka. I see how it is. They’re either saving their bath time activities for the DVD, or the activities were just too graphic to show.
I thought they were saving it for danbooru and 4chan
>>Kaori is bitchy because:
F. She’s found out Jun has a nicer doll collection than she does. And he wears a nice, new ring with a rose.
>>…I get the feeling that we’re solidly burning time this episode… as if it were a filler…
It may be a filler, but it’s allowing me time to recover from the loss of Makoto *sniff* and transfer my affections to Sayuri. After all, what can happen to a secondary character. Once a secondary character, always a secondary character. They’re safe. And she’s great wife material….Yeah, I really need to get out more.
>> I need to know these things.
When normal viewers will watch any KyoAni anime with awe, your curiousity will just kill the cat. I need to know what happened to Piro.
I don`t know why you don`t enjoy ice-cream during the dead of winter. Who`s not normal here, me or you? Using all the points from discussions till now and afterwards, you lose, and will again. Don`t forget “pacchonbo mo inoi”. (And I`m definitely not pregnant)
Another prime example would be the Kanon DS case. I would have opted for the double dialogue feature, where you can interact with both girls at once. You lose because you thougt the 変態 way. Don`t try denying that, I read your mind. (Putting Haruhi in DS will not increase interactivity).
And “>>My advice is to go to Feywood…” is the killing blow. Go (re)watch `NHK ni Youkoso` and learn how to readapt to the society.
You also lose for not realizing how dangerous it is to let a trap befriend Nayuki, save letting them bathe together. Maybe because you seem to see Nayuki as some HMX series.
Now on to the bright side, you did give some good suggestions though. Seeing your girlfriend chow down on Pizza Hut is somewhat moé. In return, I`ll tell you something: Eating more ice-cream will add flabs, making you more cold-resistant. See how Kaori shines in winter.
Okay, you win. You managed to screw my head in the end.
>> >>Kaori is bitchy because:
F. She’s found out Jun has a nicer doll collection than she does. And he wears a nice, new ring with a rose.
With all the supernatural occurence in this town, I would not be surprised if this is true.
>>> Wait, why is she eating ice cream as well… what’s with the girls in this town?
Allow me to quote my wife: ” Real ice cream lovers eats them in the winter. ”
My friend: ” The need for calories to stave off cold makes some people be attracted to high calorie food like ice cream in the winter. ”
>> The best cheap ‘n good place is still the pre-made stuff at Nijiya.
I prefer to cut one myself from frozen Sashimi grade fish ( usually tuna and salmon ) found in Marsh.
They were playing Pachabel’s “KANON und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo” in the background at the restaurant where Ayu dragged Y1 as well. That time, it was an orchestration, if I remember correctly. This time is a piano version.
A threesome is fine too; Yuuichi you idiot.
Not only he has Mai/Sayuri but then Ayu/Nayuki, and yet that bastard doesn’t make any moves. Well, at least if those two threesome fails then we have two lesbian duos, well at least we already know that with Sayuri and Mai, but we can’t dismiss that chance with Ayu and Nayuki, especially if Yuuichi turns to be a Itsuki clone and choose Jun at the end of the series. Damn it! My two favorite teams on soccer loss today, so my mind isn’t very clever right now…
Back to business; I’m glad that Yuuichi and the Minase family didn’t forget Makoto that easily, especially Yuuichi. Now he has to deal with Mai and Sayuri, forgetting a little bit of Ayu (you know why) and Nayuki. The question here is; how much is going to change the Mai arc respect to the original one? I’m hoping for a twist in the plot, al least for Mai’s sake, and well for Sayuri too.
13 episodes more to go, a perfect time for a good story…
What about a sixsome? Oh forgot, the other girl`s dead.
No forgive me, Makoto fans! I didn`t mean to say anything bad about your Oharuhi-sama!
>> Thank goodness that they didn’t whip out their dicks to see who had a longer one. It would have surpassed all of the OH GEASS NO! moments summed together.
That’s all you’ve got to say about that scene? Good heavens, you should stop watching Code GEASS then.
As for me: Sugita and Seki in the same scene?
GAR level = over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAND!
>> The “mystery†of Shiori continues. The sick girl who spends all of her time outdoors in the snow and doesn’t seem very sick.
Bah, there’s no mystery here, I got it all figured out. She’s the friggin’ Yuki-onna!!!
>> If Yuuichi doesn’t get into this or Mai x Sayuri action, it’s official: he’s not the Kyon clone.
Right, because Kyon surely was forcing Haruhi, Mikuru and Yuki into a lesbian threesome at that time. I totally forgot about that. [/sarcasm]
>> Also, Mai eating a sausage while wearing her pink dress is a solid 255 out of 10 on the kawaii scale.
And that’s only because you are using 8-bit integers.
I wonder if Ayu’s cooking disaster was as epic a mine, I had grease fire roughly 2 feet high after backdraft.
I think Nayuki and Ayu in bath was a ploy by Nayuki to decide on which parts to send to Ayu’s parents first for ransom. Since Ayu’s parents can afford to travel why not earn a fw extra bucks. As for the mysterious continued health of Minase fiances they must have a magical money tree that is powered by the continued Auuu~ of Makoto’s soul. Just because she’s dead doesn’t mean she cannot be useful. Perhaps Yuuchi has stolen or traded for the secrets of the Tao of moyism.
As kind and appropriate as the Minase welcome Ayu was did any one else get the pet replacement vibe? Oh well, Taimat Mai in dress is something to look forward to especially if Sayuri get the last dance.
>>>
“(Kyoto Animation screws up? They’ve met before. Back in episode 5, Nayuki was half-asleep, but with eyes open, at breakfast with Ayu there. Ayu would have at least remembered the zombie-ish slug at the table.)â€
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That’s in the Toei version. They did not encounter each other in Ep05 of the KyoAni’s version.
nayuki only heard ayu fall down and “uguu”
From badger11,
“It may be a filler, but it’s allowing me time to recover from the loss of Makoto *sniff* and transfer my affections to Sayuri. After all, what can happen to a secondary character. Once a secondary character, always a secondary character. They’re safe. And she’s great wife material….Yeah, I really need to get out more.”
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You might want to re-evaluate that opinion. While not on the same level as Soukou no Strain, no one is totally safe in Kanon.
Cheers.
>>Thank goodness that they didn’t whip out their dicks to see who had a longer one. It would have surpassed all of the OH GEASS NO! moments summed together.
I dunno, any actual unzipping in that scene would have pushed it way the hell off the ranch, from OH GEASS NO! to rowdy cowboy sex territory. Just my two wooden pennies.
Can’t wait for the next ep., though. My ranking?
Nayuki>Sayuri>Akiko>Kaori>Mai>Ayu
Kaori leapfrogs Sayuri and Akiko upon:
1. Ending it once and for all with What’s-His-Name
2. Getting a good night’s sleep/Getting a healthier sister
Nayuki’s got a pretty firm hold on her #1 seed unless we get significantly more character development from Sayuri or (more likely) Kaori. (Coming from someone who saw neither Kanon (game) or Kanon (2002).
Also, I vote this retelling does NOT follow the original path:
1. Been done before.
2. Ayu may actually be a trap. At least, that would explain the similarity to a 13 year old boy.
3. Mass polonium jammu nuking for an alternate alternate ending. Who doesn’t like the bald and sickly look?
From the official website,
Ayu:
154cm, 41kg
80/52/79
07 Jan
Nayuki:
164cm, 47kg
83/57/82
23 Dec
Makoto:
159cm, 46kg
81/55/79
06 Jan
Shiori:
157cm, 43kg
79/53/80
01 Feb
Mai:
167cm, 49kg
89/58/86
29 Jan
Kaori:
164 cm, 48kg
83/55/81
01 Mar
Sayuri:
159cm, 45kg
84/55/82
05 Apr
Mishio:
159cm, 44kg
80/53/79
06 Dec
Akiko:
165cm, 50kg
86/57/83
23 Aug
What surprises me is Mai!
Cheers.
@Skane,
Nooooooooooooooo! Don’t say that! UguuuAuuu
Because Jason moaned over the lack of swimsuit Nayuki in a Code Geass post,
Swimsuit Nayuki
Cheers.
Test.
Well, that’s strange. :P I can’t seem to be able to post a link to a picture of Nayuki in her swimsuit.
Hmm…
>>I want to applaud the anonymous poster on 4chan who came up with the correct answer that the background music during this scene is Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D. I would never had guessed because I didn’t even realize that there was BGM playing during this scene. I need to get better speakers. Still, anonymous delivers again.
so my thread didnt go to waste! xD i figured after it was shoved a few pages down it was gone forever.
As cheesy as listening to canon in kanon is, i was rofling all over the place at the cheap pun. xD
My family was not as amused as i was and gave me weird looks the rest of the night.
Mai:
167cm, 49kg
89/58/86
29 Jan
Jesus, where’s she hiding those things!?
Seifuku, seifuku. Wait till you see her in Ep12. ;)
Cheers.
Yoshinoya… beef bowls.. oh god why can’t they exist in Louisiana?! WHY?!
The beef bowl was my favorite part of this episode.
>> Jesus, where’s she hiding those things!?
What, should I show you the CG?
But still, she has more than Nayuki and Akiko? Ridiculous!
how to get this animation?thank you!