kanon 13
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The aftermath of the dance incident. Kanon 13.
Nayuki starts off lightly questioning Yuuichi about the events of the previous night accusing him of acting strangely. Uh, no he hasn’t involved in any threesomes, if that’s what she is trying to figure out. Even though Yuuichi denies that anything exciting happened, Nayuki still gives him “the eye.” I’m trying to figure out this snow plow– why the hell would a snow plow need to be painted in camo colors?
Jun shows up and informs Yuuichi that Mai is at the mercy of the student council. Yuuichi, of course, cuts him off because Jun can complete the, “Yeah, wasn’t that girl who went crazy your day-to?”
(Bug-eye Yuuichi!)
When Yuuichi arrives at the student council office, he finds Sayuri desperately trying to defend her taciturn friend, only Sayuri looks absolutely overwhelmed and perplexed. Reminds me of George W. Bush when he was asked, “Can you find Canada on a map?” Though Perplexed Sayuri is still very cute.
They have lovely state-of-the-art LCD panels for Haruhi Suzumiya, but they only have cheap old CRTs here. Back on topic, this student council president is an absolute tool and idiot. Doesn’t listen to reason. Doesn’t consider evidence at hand. Doesn’t listen to this subordinates. Doesn’t let go of a silly personal grudge and prejudice against Mai. He reminds me a lot of Peter MacNicol’s character on 24 this season.
Yuuichi tries to help and almost makes things worse until Jun saves his ass. I just hope that this is the only interaction that their asses will have. Still, it’s interesting to note that in the original series, Sayuri saves Mai be agreeing to sleep with join the student council in exchange for not expelling Mai.
(I still prefer the version where Mai gets kicked out, Sayuri runs away with Europe with her, and they become lesbians living in Holland. But that’s just me.)
“I can’t believe that a girl is touching me! I hope Kaori is watching me now!”
A sleeping Nayuki is fine too.
Shiori looks like a healthy girl, if you know what I mean.
Yuuichi can’t seem to get enough. He just had an epic crazy day-to with Mai (and half of Sayuri) last night, and now he’s promising healthy girl Shiori that he’ll take her somewhere fun? Guy’s a pig. He’s going to get a beating from that girl in the window.
Gotta love Kyoto Animation and how they did this shot of a creepy/pissed-off Kaori watching Yuuichi put the moves on her naughty little sister. She must be steaming. Meanwhile, Sayuri and Mai head off to their normal lunch spot behind her as if nothing is abnormal.
Mai does look ubercool fending off the class president. Sayuri’s impressed, but where did she pick up that cute handbag? See, it’s the little things like that why we call her Wife Material Sayuri.
“If you can dodge a wrench bucket, you can dodge a ball.”
“Yuuichi! I did something bad. I killed someone. Stabbed them in the neck with a ballpoint pen.”
They make for a cute couple except that Ayu is like a head and a half shorter than Yuuichi. Plus she looks tiny enough that she could be mistaken for his daughter. The two of them kinda remind me of Ah-nauld and Danny DeVito in Twins.
So, wait, why does he bring her along? “You know what, Mai, I’m getting a little bored of our normal threesomes with Sayuri, so I thought that I’d bring someone new along to spice things up.” I can’t think of another explanation.
(Though I like Yuuichi’s dig of “~uguu~ power!” just because he hasn’t been his sarcastic, biting self lately.)
Kyoto cheaps out by just showing a frame of Mai’s ass for 15 seconds. I’d complain, but, well… uh… no complaint.
I think it’s kinda sad that I’m seeing better and more interesting sword fighting in Kanon than I am in Afro Samurai. Though Afro Samurai did show a very explicit two minute sex scene that puts Selma Hayak’s in Desperado to shame. I think I just caused a flood of people trying to download Afro Samurai 2 and trying to order Desperado on NetFlix. If only if we could get Kyoto to toss in a Mai x Sayuri scene of similar explicitness.
Yuuichi just told Mai that he loves her. She doesn’t bat an eye. Though it’s a sisterly love– we’re getting the Ayu ending, and there’s nothing that we can do about it.
We go from the serious scenes with Mai to some comedy relief with Nayuki. So cute! Even if she is puzzled by a bathroom.
And, yes, Yuuichi deserves to die for depriving us of a Nayuki changing scene. It’s been 12 episodes since we’ve seen Nayuki fanservice. I’m getting the shakes.
This scene is a great use of animation time/resources. Remember when everyone was wondering what Kyoto would do with 26 episodes? Well, we get filler scenes with a cat taking a piss (or a dump). Fantastic.
Every time I see Sleepy Nayuki, I think of High School of the Dead. She can nibble on my leg anytime.
Ahaha~ I can’t wait for the story arc where Yuuichi goes to school to find Sayuri the belle/idol of the school with legions of fans trading her pictures and with Mai as her overprotective bodyguard yet they both seem to have forgotten who he is. Then he goes to his homeroom to find Nayuki no longer sitting next to him, instead, it’s Notoriously Canadian Ryoko Asakara occuping that seat. This would be a fantastic arc.
Yuuichi seems to be overwhelmed by the closeness of Wife Material Sayuri, who asks him if he has time after school. I wonder who is the bigger ladies’ man: Wilt Chamberlain, Sam Malone, Ginko, or Yuuichi Aizawa?
More Bug-eye Yuuichi! “Eeek! A Sayuri approaches!”
Shopping for Mai’s present, I keep expecting them to wander over to a doll shop and pick up Shinku. Or at least Junk. Still, gotta love Kyoto for their backgrounds. Detailed and with people walking by.
Looks like a rejected Star Wars alien. Still looks more normal than that thing Shiratori got for Kozue when he confessed to her.
Looks like a rejected WoW race. Still looks more normal than a paladin on the horde.
(As for my question from 2006, the answer is that they are all episode twelves.)
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Mai>Dude with afro any day.
We’re still anticipating 14/15! Good luck!
Wife Material
Cheers.
“Ahaha~ I can’t wait for the story arc where Yuuichi goes to school to find Sayuri the belle/idol of the school with legions of fans trading her pictures and with Mai as her overprotective bodyguard yet they both seem to have forgotten who he is. Then he goes to his homeroom to find Nayuki no longer sitting next to him, instead, it’s Notoriously Canadian Ryoko Asakara occuping that seat. This would be a fantastic arc.”
He heads up to the student council room after school and is surprised to see it nearly empty. The only other person there is Amano, and the way she’s looking at him makes him feel like a Snickers Bar at a Weight Watchers meeting.
Great stuff. I’d watch it. Sounds a little too familiar, though…
Did anyone else realize this major flaw in this episode? bad kyoto.
In episode 1 when Yuuichi and Nayuki fall down the stairs and crash into Mai and Sayuri, after they get up he notices they have blue ribbons on and notes to himself that they’re seniors. During the flashback scene of when Sayuri met Mai, this was during freshman year, or so she claims (I sware people usually change a bit more during their adolescent period) but anyways, they’re both still wearing a blue ribbon. Now I don’t understand japanese so I watch the subs and unless they were wrong in the first ep for translating that line, I think that was a bad mistake on kyoto’s part. Or am I colorblind?
Btw episode 14 is the best ep thus far imo looking forward to the post on it.
Not necessarily a mistake – could be that each year gets a different colour, and keeps it as they go through the school. That’s how it used to work with shirts at my sis’s school at any rate. Bit of a ramble, I know…
This image
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It kinda reminds me of Mikuru whispering Kyon in the fifth episode.
>>>> Not necessarily a mistake – could be that each year gets a different colour, and keeps it as they go through the school. That’s how it used to work with shirts at my sis’s school at any rate. Bit of a ramble, I know…
From what I’ve heard, this is explanation given in the game.
>>I think it’s kinda sad that I’m seeing better and more interesting sword fighting in Kanon than I am in Afro Samurai.
Maybe Spike TV should have given Kyoto 5 mil for Data-Integration-Thought-Entity Samurai starring Mai, Yuki, and Asakura. Mai could be a rogue Humanoid-Contact-Interface and Yuki and Asakura would be sent from different factions of the Thought-Entity with different views on how Mai should be dealt with. Grudgingly they will have to work together to stop Mai’s unusual powers from destroying the universe
To Chumaru,
It works that way in the game. The ribbon colours are kept by the students throughout their school-life. It just rotates during the freshmen year.
Cheers.
To MaverickRonin,
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>> “Ahaha~ I can’t wait for the story arc where Yuuichi goes to school to find Sayuri the belle/idol of the school with legions of fans trading her pictures and with Mai as her overprotective bodyguard yet they both seem to have forgotten who he is. Then he goes to his homeroom to find Nayuki no longer sitting next to him, instead, it’s Notoriously Canadian Ryoko Asakura occupying that seat. This would be a fantastic arc.â€
So, Nayuki went to that other school with who? Yukito?
To sagematt,
Yes, Nayuki went to school with Yukito, along with Ayu and Makoto. :P
Yukito & The Kanon Girls
Cheers.
Aww, Jason…I was expecting a grand 3-episode post that’s longer than if you just put 3 posts together with hundreds of pictures – this seems really rushed, if you need it, take a break, don’t rush through things, and come back in full force.
Random homeages is part of Kyoto’s magic. Also note how Ayu in Air is a foot taller than she is in Kanon.
> Sayuri runs away with Europe with her
Sayuri manages to take up and away with one whole continent on this planet?! Surely her family is freaking rich… :D
>> “If you can dodge a wrench bucket, you can dodge a ball.â€
Remember the five D’s of dodgeba, er.. monster extermination. Dodge, duck bento, D-pad, DDR, and… Dodge.
>> Still looks more normal than that thing Shiratori got for Kozue when he confessed to her.
He got it on discount-yo! ‘Sides, it worked for Shiratori right?
> Shopping for Mai’s present, I keep expecting them
> to wander over to a doll shop and pick up Shinku.
> Or at least Junk.
“… and pick up Junk. Or at least Shinku”
might do magic ;)
>>(I still prefer the version where Mai gets kicked out, Sayuri runs away with Europe with her, and they become lesbians living in Holland. But that’s just me.)
They’re welcome as far as I’m concerned. ;)
The scene with Sayuri carrying that huge ardvark doll is too cute.
BTW, Wife Material is a good epithet.
“They have lovely state-of-the-art LCD panels for Haruhi Suzumiya, but they only have cheap old CRTs here.”
There shall be no posting without a mention of Haruhi Suzumiya, desho desho!
The only advantage of LCDs is their smaller size. In all other aspects they’re inferior to CRTs and always will be. Thanks to the LCD hype, good CRTs are nowadays much cheaper than they used to be. I think that says actually a lot about TMoSH but I guess only true fans can dig this.
Would have been great if the present were a giant statue of Colonel Sanders…
>>Shopping for Mai’s present, I keep expecting them to wander over to a doll shop and pick up Shinku. Or at least Junk.
Nah, Jun already beat ’em there. Either that or Laplace…I need to get out more.
>>This scene is a great use of animation time/resources. Remember when everyone was wondering what Kyoto would do with 26 episodes? Well, we get filler scenes with a cat taking a piss (or a dump). Fantastic.
It could be worse, we could be seeing Zero/Lulu Bell getting emo because he forget about Suzaku and Lancelot, yet again. And Suzaku just getting emo over something.
@Chris
Not all LCDs are inferior to CRTs but the good LCDs do cost insane amount of money. I mourn the passing of CRT monitors. They are all but impossible to find in brick and mortar stores and difficult even online. CRTs have died off quickly because end users don’t care about image quality or resolution Right now I have two 19″ CRTs running at 1600×1200 sitting in front of me. On one I’m typing this comment and on the other I’m watching La Corda d’Oro 6. To replicate this with LCDs of equal quality it would probably cost between $800 and $1000 while my CRTs were about $400 four years ago. Until decent LCDs are affordable I’ll be stuck carrying a 45lb CRT to LAN parties. As it stands now LCDs are either horrendously expensive or mearly fashion accessories.
Mai = Patches O Hoolahan?
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