Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru Episode 6 Discussion

fight-or-flight said:
I think I might be dropping this. It's really hard to watch this and feel satisfied with it because I generally agree with all the arguments against Haiji and think most of what he says is, as King called it, "lip service."

However, it feels like the show itself just totally expects me to be on Haiji's side. I can't do that. As far as I'm aware, there's no reason he needs to force these people to run with him. Yeah, he wants to run the Hakone, but WHY? Why can't he just put together a small team and be happy running again? Why does it have to be the Hakone? Without that answered, Haiji just kind of seems like a jerk to me. And yet the show is painting him as some inspirational leader. Maybe it's just because I'm in my last year of school and totally understand where people like King and Yuki are coming from with wanting to focus on finding a job/enjoying life before becoming an adult. I think Haiji's the selfish one, not them.

Is anyone else struggling with this?

I don't know. Maybe I'll come back to it next season. I like everyone besides Haiji, mostly, and it's sure pretty. Putting it on hold for now.

Lelouch0202 said:
Good episode again.

First of all the soundtrack was absolutely exceptional this episode, Yuki Hayashi's way of composing these inspirational tracks is just incredible. The guy deserves all the praise I give him. xD

Haiji has always been blunt and during the part where he confronts King especially so but I think he made his point about 'Move on and try something' well, sometimes you just gotta get out there and run and see what you find.

Personally, my favorite part of the episode was when Honor-Roll dude who's name eludes me gave his two cents on running to King. You will definitely like something more when you choose to do it over feeling like you're forced to. It's a very simple thing but the notion of choosing something over being forced to comply will get you really far. :)

I loved the part where everyone just grinned as King was trying to come up with excuses to run. XD
The little scene of Kakeru smiling and the twins making fun of him for it was real nice too.

It's interesting to see that Haiji himself is only try to find what running means to him, Kakeru isn't wrong in dinging over the fact that he's making everyone run over it. Maybe's Haiji's goal isn't to actually win Hakone but rather just use running as a medium to help all the other dorm members move on from their stagnation.

FuMomo-kun said:
Actually, I think that only the twins were the ones to get manipulated.

Hitsu said:


How about Musa getting repeatedly stalked by Haiji until he eventually joined, going so far as to show up right where he works to put pressure on him? Same for Yukihiro. Or how about threatening to evict Prince if he doesn't run?

DirectorK said:

You guys may think I'm over analyzing this but let me explain this do you as an experienced story teller myself. In whatever story you're writing you need to give the audience/readers a reason to care about it early on whether it's the setting, characters, or the story itself. It doesn't have to be the real reason or the biggest just as long as there is one. You can have the most interesting setting, characters, or premise but if the reason to follow it isn't there, then the majority of the audience is not going to be motivated to do so because the first thing going through their minds when they come across a new story is, "What's going here and why should we care?" You can't put it off for too long because it's going to frustrate the audience more and more as the show goes on.

And that's my biggest with this anime so far. We're six episodes in and so far I haven't been given a reason to continue following it. All it's done is beat around the bush. Even the most mediocre stories establish a reason to follow it early on. Whether it turns to be good or not remains to be seen, but at least it did it's job of establishing an audience that was willing to follow it all the through.
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yvanedisco said:
Remember that its a 23-episode anime. It will not give you all the details you want in just six episodes or at one go.

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stand said:
This anime is complex for me to digest.

On the one hand I really enjoy the interactions between the characters when Haiji's not included.
Gives me a really fresh feeling in comparison to other sport anime i've watched.
One example is when Prince told Yuki that they should escape and Yuki's like nah you're too slow, we'll get caught. Small moments like that and little details like having the dog leash tied around his waist. Visually pleasing too.


On the other hand, some parts are too unrealistic in a way that doesn't sit well with me since the scope of this anime is simple and I can't really bring myself dismiss it as 'lol anime logic' and let it fly.
There's no way, in a house with 5+ dudes, that one of them wouldn't have already asked Haiji why the fuck he's doing all this and expect an actual answer and not some bullshit vague one. Or at this point just straight up leave.
Kakeru was close here but what about everyone else?
Even if running "feels good" for some of them and they have no reason to question it further, there's still more characters that have settled for this in such a half-assed way (i.e.: King).


Well there's a lot of episodes left...

fight-or-flight said:


Thank you for this. Everyone I've mentioned this online has said "it's based on a novel, of course it's slower," but, like, I've read novels. Good ones give you some reason to care about your main characters from the start, just like every other mediium. And this has given me literally nothing to make me care for Haiji or his Hakone dream. I was liking Kakeru's story a lot and was kind of intrigued by Nico-chan-senpai and Yuki but everything else was just...kind of there.