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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Oh God Sue is just brilliant in this OVA. Madarame you lucky bastard. Really liked the mood of this OVA with the holiday like atmosphere as well. Glad to see Genshiken again. Lol @ the Engrish though. Oh God that ending is gold. Sue ftw. |
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| So this is before Sue transfers to the university. "Bonno wa Tomedonaku (ボンノーはとめどなく)", huh?! So this OVA is the reason Ogiue and Sue are closer. Letting Sue staying with Chika. Wow, her Japanese is good enough already. lol~ Hatsumoude? Saki can speak English well. Sue riding on Madarame! People getting drunk! Then going to the first sunrise of the year. ED: "Signpost" by Ogiue Sue took Ogiue's underwear along to back to US... |
tsubasaloverDec 22, 2013 1:59 AM
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| Sue<3 damm she is even riding madarame in the pic for the ova XD genshiken>genshiken nidaime after all, so this ova is too good, good ol' times <3 Takuan_Soho said: now if they would only fill the ending of the last series so we can how Ogiue and Sasahara stared dating and we will pretty much have the whole series up to where it has gone on hiatus. yeah, i was thinking that th whole time, they maked this!! they animate the onsen trip as well!! i really want to see that animated!!! |
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| Yeah, in the manga (and where they ended at in Genshiken 2 anime) they were supposed to go on the outing that Kuchiki wanted and they go to the cabin in the woods where Ogiue finally reveals her past & her & Sasahara technically hook up (which is one of my fav parts of the entire series) so I was VERY disappointed that none of this was shown in this OVA. Hopefully, there will be another OVA (which will technically prequel this one.) |
| Loved it! So timely, will have to watch this again in a few days for New Years! Everyone has already mentioned all the great moments in this OVA, Sue taking Ogiue's striped panties back at the end... riding Madarame, this really was a Sue centric episode much of the time, all the Engrish... We need more OVAs and seasons! Too bad the sales of Genshiken Nidaime tanked :( I bought the OVA but didn't buy the series so it's my fault too... hopefully Kodansha really wants the manga to sell, not the discs and see the anime as more of an ad. |
| Sue is soo funny. Good to see the old gang in this OVA. I miss this anime. Loved that ending as well. |
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| So is this supposed to take place before Genshiken Nidaime or vice versa ? Anyways , Sue is so cute throughout the episode. No Hato-kun though(?) Madarame is all alone , I feel you bro. |
RiezDec 27, 2013 6:35 PM
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| Madarame and Saki still have their moments, but i see a whole new route developing since last season Sue x Madarame , Poor dude is always alone |
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| ^.. yeah.. but still I am a very big supporter of Madarame and Saki although the very fact remains that they will never be together. Hehe, somehow I am a fan of unrequited love stories.. |
| Gotta love the old gang!! I enjoy Sue's presence though! She's my favorite female character in this show! Then for the male, I can't get enough of Manabu's antics. lol. |
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| I'm surprised that the ova focused on the events post oguie and sasahara, they were immensely enjoyable, they probably wouldn't be able to do justise with that material and compress it in 20 minutes anyway. I am a little disappointed that they didn't include madarame's thoughts about him carrying sue on shoulders like how warm it was and how he felt lucky that Saki wasn't there to see him carrying Sue. But apart from that small quibble it was very faithful with the source material. Then they included a ending with a similar animation that nidame did and it made me wish they'd do a genshiken reboot of the original series. The entire 9 volumes in maybe you 3 cours about 39 episodes but it probably wouldn't be as relevant since most of the focus and parodies were about the otaku from the late 90s early 2000s. Still a man can dream. |
| Nekoyasha osuwari !!!! Jeez, Sue! Aren't you just lovable. |
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| Sue's method for learning Japanese is perfect. She starts by learning complete Japanese sentences by rote. So of course her grammar is perfect and her pronunciation will be very good. This is a far better approach then learning words one at a time and doing a poor job of joining them into sentences. Right now, Sue only knows that "shimapan" is one kind of intimate female garment. She can easily learn about more. Here we call this an OVA. But in Japan they call it an "OAD" which can stand for either "Original Anime Disk", "Original Animation Disk" or "Original Anime DVD". An OAD refers to this specific situation where anime on a disk is bundled with a volume of a manga. So if you want to find information about this, you should Google "げんしけん二代目 OAD" rather than Googling "げんしけん二代目 OVA". As an illustration, here is an example of a very recent news item that I found by Googling "げんしけん二代目 OAD": http://natalie.mu/comic/news/93319 In that story, "OAD" stands for "Original Animation DVD", and indeed it seems that it is a DVD and not a Blu-ray. So I guess the region could be a problem. But if they include an extra anime on the Blu-ray or DVD for an anime series, such as Genshiken Season 1 Volume 1, then that is still called an "OVA". It is not a disk by itself. It is something added to a disk that already exists. In whatever format, let's hope for a lot more of Genshiken. |
| ^^^ The DVD is Region 2 Japan. Luckily my laptop is always running full Japanese Windows 7-64 for work and the DVD player is in Region 2 so I play all my anime DVDs on it. I had already read up to chapter 92 by buying Afternoon magazine so aside from the extra chapter start/end pages I just got Genshiken 15(6) for the OAD! Worth it in my opinion even though I'm sure 99.999% of the people on MAL just torrent this stuff... Of course Bluray is better for me as most are Region Free and ones for Japan are the same region as North America. Many of these OADs are on Bluray recently like Mondaiji-tachi's OAD, Dakara Boku Wa H Ga Dekinai, et al. Nozoki Ana's came as DVD with the 13th manga volume but was then separately released as a Bluray, not sure what you call that but I got the Bluray for extra content and so I could watch it properly on my home theatre instead of with crummy 480p DVD quality... Most Kodansha OADs like this one are still DVD sadly... Chihayafuru, TnK, Sukitte, NnKx, all DVD... sigh. |
hpulleyDec 28, 2013 8:41 AM
| Very glad they animated this part of the manga, even if it isn't with the original vocal cast. I laughed just as hard watching it as I did when I read it way back when. |
| Solid OVA, Great character interactions as always with this series. 7.5/10 |
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| I did enjoy this ova alot though it took me a bit to catch on it was a backstory leading up to Nidaime. I can only hope for more Genshiken in the future :D |
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| The first part with Sue was awesome The new years temple visit was fun, the party team split up had a good time and got drunk while the others just sit and bore themselves at the tea house That Saki x Madarame moment was priceless I wished they would have started with this, before the 3rd season came out Hopefully returning soon |
| I liked it. It still doesn't catch up to the quality of the first two seasons, but that's impossible as they changed almost every voice actor. Hope they'll continue this, though! |
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| Great new year episode but damn Sue sure is damn lovely! Quite missed this show, and well I would always be up for more! |
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| Sue stealing her Shimo pantsu was so lol XD |
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| Sue still being awesome. This was a nice side story. Madarame still crushing over Saki was cute I guess. Alright OVA. |
| Sue is too kawaii! She left with Ogiue's pants. Madarame was so lucky, first he carries Sue on his back and after he catches Saki. |
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| Nice azumanga daioh reference xD Also Lupin's And Inuyasha's The girls are scary when they're drunk And Laputa's xD I guess Sue's mantra is really effective xD RIP Pantsu |
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DBailey635 said: I know a lot of you really want to see the Ogiue and Sasahara hookup chapters. I haven't read the manga but yeah, it's heavily hinted that they are a couple already. It makes me wonder if I should have watched this after Nidaime maybe? Feels like a huge spoilter tbh. |
| What? Is Oguie and Sasahara already an item here? Weird. Hope Genshiken Nidaime explores it further... Or should this be seen after the TV show? Yet it says prequel lol... |
| It seems a little bit of a shame that they skipped over the big SasaharaxOgiue moment. But, as per the recommendation of the previous thread, I skimmed through chapters 43-49 to get the gist of what all happens before this point. But, It's kind of nice to see Ogiue with her edges softened a bit. She's finally embracing her true Otaku nature! Also, I'm glad we're back to being a little more colorful again. I really did miss Saki's orange hair. Overall, it wasn't bad, but there didn't seem to be much to it. I guess it's a good introduction for our next season? I guess it was all kind of worth it for that final joke at the very end, lmao. |
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| Lmao, that lucky panty! Good to see Sue-chan back and her memory is quite something, lol. She did say one proper complete sentence though, I wonder if that was just a fluke. Sasahara and Oguie-san's relationship seems to have progressed but I would loved to see the developments, here's to hoping the tv show will cover that bit. Need some love for Madarame! As much as I love these one-off unrequited tales, it's almost always characters that don't deserve such fates that end up getting this painful role. New voices for some of the characters, Kuchiki and Saki-san feel fairly similar but the difference is more apparent with the other characters. |
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