kanon 21
Categories: anime, episodic review, kanon
Tagged: kanon
47 Comments »
Nyuu~ and other guttural monosyllabic noises. Kanon 21.
The intro to this episode… my gosh… how sugary sweet! The candy cane fairy could have shown up with strawberry cake, and even Honey-sama would have been flabbergasted by the sugar.
Elimidate marches on. Notice how for most opening or ending sequences to harem anime, they’ll show like the whole cast at one point or another together? Doesn’t happen in Kanon. For the most part, the girls are solitary… and, at the end, there can be only one.
With the riff-raff taken care of, the only ones left standing are Nayuki and her mom, but the canon of Kanon doesn’t support the mother-daughter-cousin incest angle. Anyway, Concerned Nayuki with strawberry jam looks adorable.
Meanwhile, Yuuichi is just a shell of a man. He looks like a closer who just gave up a game winning grand slam home run. I hope it’s more of the “ZOMG EVERYGIRL I GET INVOLVED WITH DIES OR DISAPPEARS!” than the “ZOMG AYU’S GONE!” Crying for Ayu when Nayuki is still lurking around is like getting upset when your 1986 Toyota Camry gets into a wreck, but your other car is a 2007 Mercedes CLK.
With Makoto, Shiori, Kaori, Mai, Sayuri, and Ayu taken out, Yuuichi is forced to eat lunch with either Nayuki or Jun. Good choice. I need to save my remaining Lance Bass, Brokeback, and Bert and Ernie joke for the return of Itsuki Koizumi.
If they made like a Nayuki TV where it’s just Nayuki 24/7, would you watch? I’d probably make it my fifth favorite basic cable channel behind ESPN, Discovery, TNT (they know drama), and Oxygen.
I’ve been wondering why doesn’t Akiko make cute lunch bentos for Nayuki and Yuuichi? She seems so ultra-motherly with the breakfasts and dinners, doesn’t seem to have a job beyond high class hooker, and yet doesn’t make a simple lunch? I’d expect her to make some of those cute bentos where the food is arranged to look like pikachu.
(BTW, if Chigusa just read this paragraph, she’d be pumping her fist thinking, “My lead is secure.“)
It’s kinda sad watching Yuuichi like this. No, it’s worse than being shelled as a baseball closer. He looks more like someone who just spent twelve hours in line and $1,000 on a PS3 just to find out that all the games suck.
A nose and mouth-less Nayuki is fine too. Okay, okay, she kinda has a mouth here. It’s like four pixels. Still adorable.
(The dueling flashbacks between Ayu and Nayuki is starting to annoy me. This is supposed to be Nayuki’s story, yet we’re getting the very short, short, short end of the stick to squeeze in the happy Ayu ending before it’s said and done. I would have preferred if they just spent one less episode on Makoto just so we can get a separate episode for Ayu’s missing item and another for Nayuki’s snow bunny.)
You know what I’m going to say, right? MEIDO!
(It’s been a while since I’ve seen one in anime. A bit too long. Though if you want to see someone slice and dice zombies while wearing nothing but a meido apron, look no further than High School of the Dead chapter 7, thanks again to XLG. At this point, if this manga slowly evolved into an h-series, I wouldn’t bat an eye. In fact, I’m rooting for it now.)
“I’d like to order two strawberry sundaes! Both for me!”
Loved Akiko and Nayuki’s stereo “I’m concerned” faces. But I enjoyed Akiko’s command to Nayuki to cheer him up more. There’s one way she can cheer him up and make him forget about Ayu, and I’m not talking about a game of Othello.
Those slippers are cute. I’d even walk around the house wearing those.
Just a broken, toasted, shell of a man. He looks like someone who just discovered this his new wife his a penis.
Perfect setup for footsies. The frog though is kinda creeping me out with those bludging, staring eyes and the smile.
Let me make the umpteenth “Hey, I see your pussy cat down there” joke. Good to get that out of the way.
The return of Zombie Nayuki! The cute!
I think I need to make the next poll, “Cutest Sleeping Anime Character.” Right now I only have Nayuki and Kyon down as possible choices. Bad times. Very bad times.
So her school outfit complete with miniskirt and stockings isn’t as form fitting as flannel pajamas? The school board really needs to look into that one.
This cuteness just cannot be calibrated corrected. It broke the kawaii meter.
Let’s say you were the parent of a young girl. Would you let her wander around in the dark woods with a little boy who may have fathered sixteen children before he turned 21? I’d say Kanon is more about bad parenting than about magical sad girls in snow. Remember, Mai’s parents kinda abandoned her here… Shiori’s and Kaori’s mom was ineffectual at resolving their feud… and Akiko didn’t make Nayuki and Yuuichi cute bentos for lunch.
“Look Yuuichi! It’s a crack bottle!”
What exactly would possess a girl to bury her most treasured possession? You’re not a dog Ayu-chan! Save the angel for when you grow up and get a cell phone. You can then use the doll as a cell phone accessory. Oh wait, nevermind, cell phones don’t exist in Kanon.
I’m not good enough of a writer to describe Nayuki naming off the cats on her pjs. I must have rewound and rewatched this scene fourteen times already, and I could go back for a fifteenth. The only way this could have been better is if Nayuki named the cats after the original Hanaukyo triplets, Ichigo, Ringo, and Sango.
If you enjoyed the how to make time capsules and snow bunnies in this episode of Kanon, next week we’ll bring you more simple crafting projects using cheap gifts from a pseudo-boyfriend!
Gotta love the blood red background. Anyway, why is Nayuki still in her school uniform while the guys have changed out into grubbier clothes?
Next time I watch Peter Pan, I’m going to be thinking of Tinkerbell trapped in a little bottle. Next thing you know, they’ll be making anime based off of the fairy trapped in a bottle concept and get Horie Yui to provide vocals. Wait a minute…
Reminds me of Jun repairing Shinku’s arm in Rozen Maiden. More importantly, is it a good idea to provide Nayuki with sharp objects like needles and scissors? I vote yes.
I thought the same thing as Yuuichi, “In Soviet Kanon, Nayuki wakes you up!”
I’m still puzzling how Nayuki managed to beat Yuuichi out of bed. Does she have a Vince Carter-type on/off switch where she coasts 96% of the time, and then when contract year hits, she kicks it up a few notches? And are we positive that a non-sleepy, well-rested Nayuki isn’t the first sign of the apocalypse?
(First time I listened to this, I thought Nayuki said, “You’re not going to die, are you Yuuichi?” Don’t try to watch anime while you’re half asleep.)
Love this cutesy face. It almost says, “Oops! Did I do something?”
Stiffler’s mom has nothing on Akiko.
(Gotta love how the first Google result for “stiffler” is Seann William Scott’s bio. In terms of typecasting, he’s not as bad as Screech but worse off than AC Slater.)
We got Ayu’s flashback earlier, and now in the last five minutes of this episode, they try to cram in Nayuki’s. Yuuichi gets to experience a slow burn as he slowly recounts, to his horror, how he rejected Nayuki and quite possibly why he can’t remember a damn thing from seven years ago.
Before he left, Yuuichi made his impression on many women already, including Ayu, Mai, and Nayuki. However, we haven’t exactly seen why Nayuki would come to like him, only the result of her affection. Maybe because she is family, she doesn’t get the same treatment that Yuuichi gave Loli Mai and Loli Ayu and Beastly Makoto. Still, Nayuki definitely cared for him back then and probably sensed that she couldn’t win the war. Nayuki wanted to give Yuuichi this snow bunny for a parting gift, but because of other events, he wasn’t exactly thinking of Nayuki.
Everything is made even more tragic in that Nayuki is trying her best to open up to Yuuichi, even confessing her feelings for him at such an early age. (I don’t think that) She knows what is exactly going on, but with Yuuichi leaving, this is her last opportunity. I guess this is one of the big reasons (beyond Cute Zombie Nayuki) that I’m such a fanboy of hers: she puts up with a lot but never loses her smile.
(This paragraph valid until Nayuki clubs him to death in the upcoming Kanon/Dokuro-chan crossover OVA.)
WARNING: SPOILERS
The reason why Yuuichi had no appetite for Nayuki in this scene is that he just found out that Ayu’s in a coma in the hospital. It’s also why he repressed his memory of this visit to this town seven years ago. And, yes, Ayu’s still in that coma.
END SPOILERS
Yet another reason to like Nayuki: and despite what happens here, it’s clear that she has forgiven Yuuichi and moved on as evidenced by how she never brought up this incident, even though it probably was scarring at the time.
Elimidate is down to one… but… wait! Something magical will happen.
(And if you think about it in those terms, it’s kinda scary how much Kanon will parallel Mai Hime, or vice-versa before it’s all said and done.)
47 Responses to “kanon 21”
Leave a Reply
Damn ir!
“Do you know Joe Black?”
Is the first think that came to my mind after seeing the last sequence of this episode….
Kowaii KyoAni, kowaii
That scene with Akiko… I knew it was going to happen from watching the original but… my god it was still heart-wrenching (and KyoAni made it look extra-brutal like they did with Sayuri).
You’re right Xiefa, I looked a few of those on youtube really happpened in real life, but still KyoAni is supperb in every detail….
Has anyone noticed that Yuuichi’s class, a high school class, is learning the Schrödinger’s cat paradox in quantum mechanics? I’m lost for words.
http://img.photobucket.com/alb.....ackpn1.gif
=\
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……
that’s all i gonna say for now
So how hard did U LOL at the Akiko getting hit by a car scene?
Yes it was a sad scene but as much as I love Kyoto animation and their attention to details etc. I think they need to work on their people getting hit by cars angle. I think what the biggest problem was that after she was hit there was no trace of her body at all, the way I see it not only would that black car have slid further int he direction it rolled I think with that force Akikos’ body would have hit the other car waiting at the red light and we would have seen her unconscious body laying on the ground for the split second that the scene lasted after she got hit. They might have had her body disappear for moral purposes, wait, no Sayuris’ body was quite bloody at that one time. Oh well I guess I can’t expect anything to be absolutely perfect, seeing how in those Haruhi DVD’s they showed all the differences (corrected mistakes) they did, they might do the same thing for this scene when Kanon gets released on dvd.
Akiko was CARRIED off and FLATTENED by the car in the scene, that’s why you couldn’t see her body.
as soon as I finished with that episode I could just imagine the number of gifs that were being made.
Assuming that the car didn’t hit her hard enough to send her flying a short distance aka, into the nearby stationary car at red light, Then the fact that the car was airborne when it hit her (assuming it didn’t give her force enough to make her go airborne) that when it landed we would still see half of her body sticking out from under the flipped over car.
Hmmm, a frog, a girl, and a guy all in a closed bedroom with an unattended bong working in the background, no wonder Nayuki’s sleepy (and I’m not accepting a humidifier as an explanation).
I assume the missing image on there is Nayuki on her back with heaving womanly bosoms.
Please fix it as it was my favorite part of the episode.
And goddamit, poor Akiko. That was a spectacular crash, and easily avoidable if she ducked.
Oh, and I totally blame that abandoned retarded child for this.
May he be blighted with the taste of Akiko’s special jam-mu for all eternity.
I don’t know how to feel about this episode, the best way I could describe it is awe. I never saw the original, and have done my best to keep all major spoilers away from me this whole time.
I must say, I’m impressed. This show is the polar opposite to Haruhi – while Haruhi was generally about happiness, change, and new things, Kanon seems to be about sadness, remembering the past, and lost things and people. At this point, I’m sure Yuuichi is wishing for a typical life.
While I like Mai more, I think a Nayuki ending would be best. Nayuki really deserves him, even if he doesn’t. A reliable, enduring, loyal wife – how could you want anything else? Ayu is the obsessive girlfriend type it seems. Never liked her at all. Plus Nayuki is 100% more wife materialish. And the love between Ayu and Yuuichi did seem forced.
But I’m just reiterating your opinions, huh Jason? Mostly, anyway. This episode really put Kanon up there on my favorite anime list. Every anime I like has atleast one golden and great episode. The best have 2 or even 3…Haruhi had airtime episode 12 and chronological episode 5. Kanon has 12 and 21. Both have other great episodes such as Haruhi airtime 4 and Kanon 14, but I just mean the ones I really treasure and love. If the last 3 episode of Kanon all own and win as much as this one, I’ll put it above Haruhi. Because Kanon is twice as long, it needs 4 win episodes. I think there’s 24 right? (did we ever settle that 24-or-26 episodes of Kanon debate?) assuming there is. If it gets two it ties with Haruhi in terms of awesome. If it gets wins over Haruhi by only 1 point (Instead of 2 because it got -1 for the Makoto arc) because it’ll have a 3-in-a-row awesome point bonus and own all. I think it’ll wind up having 2 win and a -1 for an Ayu ending though. MEaning Haruhi will have one more win point over it. Like you said it’s a shame they spent so much time on Makoto.
Yes, all my pointless in depth analysis system no one cares about that I shouldn’t be wasting your time with…but it is mine none the less!
If it snows one more time around here I think I’ll make a snow bunny. I saw Akiko’s face at them that morning and thought “She’s loved” then saw the end and went “OH SHI-!” For some reason, I saw it coming, but I didn’t think it would actually happen. The ending was such a big thing, I think I would have thought it would have been completely awesome if Yuuichi just realized the memory.
Ah I can’t wait for the next episodes, I must restrain from reading novels or playing the game! Grah!
This comment is already entirely too long and entirely too pointless. I’ll end it here, look forward to your next post Jason.
I feel guilty… I played Burnout Revenge right before watching this episode! It’s all my fault!
> And the love between Ayu and Yuuichi did seem forced.
I don’t think it’s forced. Rather, it’s just that it has been repressed since seven years ago. I’m guessing that they’ve started liking each others as kids ever since seven years ago, but something had happened (possibly related to the fall of that tree) that not only had put a pause on the relationship but also had repressed Yuuichi’s memory.
Yuuichi himself has somewhat suggested this already when he said they’ve already lost seven years. Just wait a little. All the revelations will come. And when they do, you might feel right about Ayu too.
explantation of why akiko’s body aint there
A: she teleported away cause she is supermom!
B: she got knocked a couple blocks away into a garbage truck
C: she went threw a window and landed inside the car
D: this is all a dream and nothing happened
E: she fell into an open manhole…an invisable manhole
F: she was abducted by aliens that very secound
G: she is really underneath the third or fourth car
H: i forgot what this one was XD
You know I actually just rewatched the original Kanon to compare the Akiko accidents, and I noticed that Akiko actually called Nayuki before her accident on a cell phone…o_0 God knows why KyoAni just took those out this time.
anyway…the first time it was MUCH less gruesome also…
>I assume the missing image on there is Nayuki on her >back with heaving womanly bosoms.
>
>Please fix it as it was my favorite part of the episode.
It was taken down and safely hidden away in the secret “Nayuki” folder.
If fans had their way…
Akiko Deflection
Cheers.
Oh god. Look at what Kyoto did now.
http://www.metacafe.co.il/watch/1558/car_accident/
http://img.photobucket.com/alb.....ackpn1.gif
Nayuki is tooooo cute. Words fail me.
This isn’t the first time KyoAni has failed on the gore/realistic effects of violence. Remember Mai stabbing herself? No blood there, despite there being a good reason for some.
Perhaps Kanon is just trying for a more clean feel than Haruhi 10 was. If they are trying to shock the viewer however, what is the point of sanitizing it? It makes suspension of disbelief that much harder and it becomes more difficult to get into the fantasy they set up.
Anyways, we need more Mai, Sayuri, and Nayuki goodness. Shiori wasn’t bad, but those three are in a tier of their own.
Zombie Nayuki kidnaps Sayuri to force her into unspeakable acts, while Mai the heroine has to save her ‘best friend’. I like this idea already.
Is it just me or Nayuki said she stopped braiding at First grade and she still had one on when she was like 10 yrs old or something?
Or she meant First High School grade, like in certain countries?
>>> she meant First High School grade, like in certain countries?
yeah that’s it
>>> # bakaneko Says:
February 24th, 2007 at 3:45:37 PM
Has anyone noticed that Yuuichi’s class, a high school class, is learning the Schrödinger’s cat paradox in quantum mechanics? I’m lost for words.
Well, in the 80s, when I was in high school in Korea, we did learn about Schrodinger’s cat paradox before we delved into electron orbitals and covalent bonding. We were never introduced to the whole expectation value matrix, however; it was more of discussion of probability and role of observers in plain words WITHOUT MUCH MATH. This subject also came up in brief overview of 20th century philosophy and science as well. I do hear that they no longer tell kids those stuffs in high school now days.
…There probably wouldn’t be much need in taking Akiko to a hospital after she got broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee (or the Japanese equivalent). That sucker was flying like a rejected snow bunny. All that they would have to do would be pick up the Akiko-fragments like…a broken snow bunny.
>Is it just me or Nayuki said she stopped braiding at First grade and she still had one on when she was like 10 yrs old or something?
I suppose Nayuki said she stopped braiding after one year.
>Ayu and Yuuichi did seem forced.
I had the same feeling before, but weirdly this episode convinced me that Ayu ending would be reasonable and spontaneous. Time past but never departed. Just like Nayuki’s affection for Yuuichi.
>why is Nayuki still in her school uniform while the guys have changed out into grubbier clothes?
Well, Jun still wore it the second day for school. BTW, the spade belongs to horticulture club as it marked, a hypothesis is Jun joined this group after Kaori (as if Kaori said she had club activity or I misremember it?).
>> It was taken down and safely hidden away in the secret “Nayuki†folder.
LOL. Fixed. The file didn’t get uploaded properly.
>> Every anime I like has atleast one golden and great episode.
Actually, this is a good point. I think beyond 12, Kanon doesn’t have a go-to episode. A lot of them are very similar, and it’s not like I can recount them as well as I can Haruhi episodes or Fumoffu episodes. I consider something like Black Lagoon “burst quality” where there’s some really great episodes (like the twincest) and some really blah ones (final arc). Kanon is more of a “white/steady quality” where it’s not as flashy, but you can’t go wrong with any of the episodes. There’s not a big stinker in the bunch.
I say you’ve got to put up a poll saying “How far would you go if Nayuki was your cousin?”
The results could be Nowhere, Hand-holding, Hugging, Ki-su, Day-to, or Stalker-san.
As seen in the flashbacks 8-year-old-Ayu is obviously leagues ahead of her 12-year-old counterpart in general intelligence, social awareness, perception and common sense.
I can only conclude that unlike most humans, as Ayu grows (or whatever it is that her winged manifestation has done for the last seven years) she forgets and regresses rather than learns and becomes.
Enjoyed Nayuki’s screentime, and was shocked at Yuuichi’s destroying of her snow bunny. I’m looking forward to next episode too. I doubt Akiko’s dead, but getting hit like that she logically should be. Ahh Yuuichi, if only you’d slain Mai’s psychological demons earlier and she’d emerged with her powers intact, you may not be in such a mess now.
Gif
There thats better (i did not make it)
>> I say you’ve got to put up a poll saying “How far would you go if Nayuki was your cousin?â€
Great poll idea. I may use it next episode. :)
Wait a second, I could’ve sworn I remembered Yuuichi whipping out his cellphone and asking for Ayu’s number back in the single digit episodes… unless of course I’ve just gone crazy and I’m mixing reality and anime and this in fact happened in my life during a single digit day… oh god where’s my medication…
Holy crap I almost cried. Such sadness Q_Q
First, the whole Ayu goin psycho and disappearing was pretty sad, then the whole snow bunny + sad Nayuki was really depressing, then the ending. Goodness. :(
…eh…that wreck looked awful…both in terms of animation and fo Akiko’s sake…but remember…no girls were hurt in the making of this show…not even Makoto…
…remember that after the 2002 Kanon finished they came out with the Spring OVA…and what happened there…hehe…
by the way…
…”if Chigusa just read this paragraph, she’d be pumping her fist thinking, “My lead is secure.“”…
…yeah lead for 2nd place…Hinata Aki totally pwns her ass in the mother department…and I still think Akiko’s 1 step ahead of Chigusa…even sans cute bentos…whimsical housewife just can’t beat special jammu and high class escort…
That accident looks quite close to the real one Kodukuu posted. I’ve seen that clip elsewhere and heard the guy actually survived.
Also I take exception to this
>>Crying for Ayu when Nayuki is still lurking around is like getting upset when your 1986 Toyota Camry gets into a wreck, but your other car is a 2007 Mercedes CLK.
A car like the clk needs a manual transmission. Assuming I can’t trade in the clk and get a Lotus Elise (or sell Nayuki into slavery for one) instead I’d take the Toyota if it was a manual. Maybe even if it wasn’t, it doesn’t use premium gas, costs less to work on, and will last longer. Mercedes (and BMW too) have become overpriced status symbols filled to the brim with useless crap that only makes them more complicated and prone to failure.
I don’t know how to really relate that back to Ayu and Nayuki except to say that I’d still take Ayu over Nayuki. Maybe it means Nayuki is over-hyped fluff? Mai’s my first, but she’s out of the running now so go-go Ayu-chan!.
That’s what Akiko gets for not preparing her Lamda Driver like Rei and Nagato did.
Looking through it closely, frame-by-frame, I don’t see any problem at all with how she seems to disappear there. 40 milliseconds before impact, she begins to duck. Then in the very next frame, the top of the car has gone higher and she’s gone lower and hit the car’s roof. This is a less-than-elastic collision; she’s not going to bounce away like a steel ball hitting another steel ball. 3 frames later, the left side of the car is now on its way down; it’s rolling over her. 3 frames after that, it’s rolled far enough over that she’s on the ground, and getting pinned. By the time it fades out, she is pinned underneath the roof of the black car, and there she remains until the ambulance arrives.
See? No inexplicable vanishing.
Perhaps that will convince the few out there that still think it a goof. Or perhaps not, SabreMau. Nevertheless, it is still quite serious no matter, eh.
You know… It’s a good thing I’m currently watching Busou Renkin, Negima!?, Shichi Henge, and Himawari.
Or else, I’d be just as broken.
And then there are the several adult anime titles I can choose from.
I don’t think that there was anything wrong with the car accident – have a look at the link of the actual car crash similar to Akiko’s accident (post 21, I think) and they correlate pretty well.
You just have to take into account the camera was in a different position (higher up) and was focused more to the right.
This accident, and the real one linked in comments just proove communism can be good for you… you see, i grew up in a commie state, and throughout pri school we were constantly tought that you NEVER look AHEAD of you when crossing street, always to the SIDES, and observe the traffic.
>> Anyway, why is Nayuki still in her school uniform while the guys have changed out into grubbier clothes?
They did NOT. Look closely at Jun on next screencap, he still has the blue school coat underneath the white jacket.
As for Nayuki, she’s plain too hot a gal to need to wear anything more…
On a side note, I am glad that Yuuichi is a moron and would go for Ayu the loli. That leaves Mai and Nayuki in the open xD
>>> i grew up in a commie state, and throughout pri school we were constantly tought that you NEVER look AHEAD of you when crossing street, always to the SIDES, and observe the traffic.
lol~~ so can relate to that
>>You know… It’s a good thing I’m currently watching Busou Renkin, Negima!?, Shichi Henge, and Himawari.
Watching Busou Renkin is a good thing now? Oh, rly?
haven’t watched this yet…….Sob…sob..sob….
I got around to watch this episode. Even tho I knew it was going to happen, Akiko’s car accident just came up as brutal, unexpected, just like those deaths in “Final Destinations” movies. Especially the first movie.
NAYUKI = LOVE
NAYUKI = # 1
NAYUKI = my favourite character of all time