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| I feel I could say a lot about this, but I'll keep it short: SHUUSHIN! |
| CAMPAIGN: If you write an anime review, please make it short. You're not a writer, Jim, I want meta-information, not a teenager's impression of a clickbait journalist.  |
| wtf just happened x.x |
| whelp, i suppose it was heading toward this ending all along, mh. |
 I like to comment Episodes as i Watch them. |
| I want to punch Natsu in the face. What a total ass. I know this is anime only, but he's fully become an enabler, abuser even. What a selfish asshole. I hate Yoshio as well, for forcing Machi into things, but at least he really did think he as helping. |
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| Started out great and funny, but ended up pretty poor and tasteless. |
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| Wow, I see now with all the backlash the final episode gets, that was not funny for Machi.. really fucked up if you think about it. I don't like that the script writer did not own up to his mistake, deleted his twitter account, removed this title from his filmography and treated it as if he never worked on the series, that's pretty fucked up. It's like he's saying that he's not in the wrong, and he has lost all his credibility for me. People who won't admit they're wrong will not change their way because they see nothing wrong with it. That said, the ending is not the only issue I have with the series. From what I read, the author apparently think that this series is full of "sexual appeal"? I disliked the crude sexual jokes and I don't like watching Machi getting sexually assaulted by Yoshio, or the kids fantasizing about Machi getting raped or in a sexual act. The story of the series also didn't interest me. The characters didn't either. Everything about this series was meh, and the promotional picture for this series is very misleading because the series itself doesn't give off that vibe you get when you look at the promo pic. Very disappointed with this series because I was expecting a good miko/jinja-theme slice of life. I don't know how can anyone compare this to Gingitsune, at least Gingitsune had superb soundtrack. Just go listen to "Satoru to Haru" from Gingitsune OST album, it's fantastic. This was mediocre. |
| Honobono Log - best slice of life short -------------------------------------------- most kawaii loli overlord ---------------------------- Donquixote Doflamingo AMV - Control |
| Well that was a fucked up ending. 6/10 maybe 5/10 if I change my mind later. Also fuck Yoshio. |
| ok.... I finally finished this anime... the end was really frustrating ^^' I feel really sorry for Machi... is like she was bullied the entire anime... Natsu always throw her at difficult situations that force her to embarassement... instead of trying to help her to overcome her social anxiety through experience, he is only teasing her to make her give up of the dream of study in the city o_õ and, Yoshio is such a dense and selfish guy... even if they say that he is doing everything "for the sake of the village", always feels like he is just having fun in make Machi embarassed... (and Natsu help, in order to make her give up) but, in episode 11, Natsu realized his selfish behavior... and admitted that he was trying to make Machi stay in the village with him... so, he feel bad and run to the city to help her... great! in the end, she managed to make her apresentation... great too! but, for some reason, had this allucination of people mistreating her... and decide to stay in the village... and everyone seems fine with this o_õ wth? Where's is that Natsu from the episode 11 that was sorry because he wished Machi stay in the village forever? it's ok to let Machi believe that city people was mean to her?... it's ok to let her give up of her dream because of something that never happened? I would be fine with she staying in the village with Natsu if it were for her own decision based in real facts (like, if she had realized that live in the city would be too much for her now... what's kind of true)... but is frustrating that she hasn't progressed anything (actually, she regressed)... and the other characters don't even care, since theirs selfish objectives are going well |
GenesisAria said: TL;DR - It's better to appreciate what you have and what's around you instead of depreciating everything and tunnel-visioning on a far-fetched dream. Focus on small dreams. Some people wanna go all the way, that's fine too, but most people depreciate what's around them because "it's not good enough", and waste, leave people behind, and so on. . Have YOU ever lived for years with a crippling mental illness? I'm guessing you didn't. People don't treat their mental illnesses because of "society", they do it because having a serious mental illness is HORRIBLE. |
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| @DoloresTraum What are you on about? This anime doesn't have any mental illness in it period. She's just an ignorant and naïve child who has some anxiety. Unless you counter general stupidity amongst the townspeople as "illness". |
GenesisAriaApr 29, 2017 4:01 PM
❀桜舞う空〜 Cute is Power. 🔗CosmoGenesis Project “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” “A truth seeker has no patience for BS.” I seek only to improve myself and others. |
| I had alot of fun watching this. Machi really cute, Natsu the cool guy bear, some romance in the air, some culture, something outside of the glamorous cities and Machis passion and fear for the more developed world was something else amoung all those city schoolgirls you see all the time in other shows. Music also great! The episodes put a smile on me after the rough days I had. The end also was kinda expected, so nothing wrong with it. My enjoyment gives this show a solid 0,85 for a short show ment to be just normal and not crazy fun. If I had known this when I stumbled into that little kuma miko promo event in Akiba last year where I first got in contact with this show, I would have bought some stuff. But I did later coincidentally … x) ♪kuma miko … dancing dancing♫ =D |
| This is one of those show that could have been so great if they just handled the story better, as soon as that irritating dumb idiot Yoshio enters and start dragging Machi into all kinds of forced situations it goes down hill fast. Also the 'biker girl' was just another one of those irritating characters that drags the show down. It started great in the first 1-3 episodes, but sadly crashed badly after that. |
| I think the biggest problem with Kuma Miko is the lack of proper punchlines. For example, there are a couple of perverted scenes that have reactions as punchlines, but not all of them feel complete. Some of the moments were left hanging, and it just felt awkward afterwards. This then leads into the suffering scenes, where they're supposed to be comedic moments accompanied by Machi's inner anxieties and panic attacks. If the show were trying to be dramatic at those times, they instead feel really out of place since Machi's anxieties haven't really been discussed earnestly. They've been joked around with, or been given scenes of sudden weight that leaves Machi emotionally wrecked. Not too much in between. Perhaps that was the intent? This country girl, sheltered and constantly given grief over her ignorance to city life, is forcing herself to leave her kinda-sorta hikikomori lifestyle, but constantly fails to commit? I think the comedy is supposed to come from Machi's reactions, but those reactions are derived from bullying, being pushed around, suffering, or running away screaming. I don't dislike this show, but it sort of bugs me. It seems to want to tell a touching story about revitalizing the village, but it also wants its comedic interjections. They don't completely mesh, which is why I'm a bit bothered. Thinking about it, if the intent was to have a comedic slice of life-ish adventure to revitalize the village, rather than using the miko sacrifice bit as a super painful excuse, I think actually promoting the village through its cultural traditions in earnest would have worked better. Don't try to make the idol bit akin to self-sacrifice, as that makes the whole act feel forced and underhanded, regardless of intentions. Or, well, I have no idea why the sacrifice bit needed to be written into the story to begin with. Couldn't the story just be about a village with a long-standing tradition of living with bears, where the shrine maidens would act as spiritual mediums for communication? From there, could they tour around the local area advertising the shrine maiden work? As is, the village seems quaint, the villagers seem mostly content, and the children are able to own modern cellphones. It may be a backwater village, but it doesn't seem too bad. As is, there's no real sense of urgency that would drive Yoshio as hard as he acted. The comedy could come from the main characters' perpetual poverty and the lack of villagers to do work, emphasizing the need for village promotion. I dunno, just something to alleviate the drama and to give the comedy some direction. |
| That's what happens when you push person in wrong direction too much and continue traumatize her.. I expected it would somewhere go well, right?.. But in reality, it was very hard situations Machi had to go through.. And it's often not magically just solved in positive way in the end, really.. Hm.. But do we really need to save village, though?.. In today world villages are ceasing to exist, and that's normal, actually.. It was painful anime at times.. But.. I liked it greatly, to be honest.. It's anime about tougher life, about life of a girl who has to deal with many problems, and it's not all easy for her.. In part it reminds me such anime series as Welcome to NHK!, or WataMote, or Kuzu no Honkai.. This anime is different from these, of course, and they are different from each other as well.. But these are great anime about troubled people, and that it's not always goes bright in the end, but with lots of struggles.. I grew to care about Machi, and wish her the best.. I liked watching this anime a lot.. Even if it doesn't have some "healthy" ending or something like that.. It has one of possible endings, how it truly could go.. After Machi had to deal with a lot.. Maybe with time she'll learn more about technology.. Or maybe she'll live happily life of rituals, nature, and a lot of other life things.. Life - isn't only technology or the internet, really.. Even if it can be pretty important part for many, including myself.. Or not large crowds as well.. In the end.. I just hope that Machi and Natsu will live their life, how they'll want to.. ;p Wish them best! ;P |
| it's not bad ending, it's sad ending just because the ending isn't satisfying, doesn't mean it's flawed it's not tragedy, it's comedy |
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| hibiki is literally the only thing this show has going for it... and the scenes where machi punches yoshio or whatever his name is... not enough to salvage it from being a solid 1/10 tho Kappa Edit: just finished the episode... what? did she just lose all of her brain cells at the end, wtf was that? |
frequency15kJan 18, 2021 4:49 PM
| What is this show!!! How can anyone called that happy ending? I thought when machi go to attend idol tournament in front audience, the social anxienty that machi have will gone or at least disappear slowly. BUT NO, the writers thinking and process to make machi f****d up so much in her head that she no longer wanted to city ever again and give up on every single thing that related to technology. Thanks a lot Natsu, You selfish p****k. Because of you machi will suffer heavy depression and social anxiety after you died, right now i even questioning can machi have social interaction with her school friends anymore. Hope you happy with suffering machi slowly to longer extend if not the rest of her life, I really hate you natsu. And that Yachio, what a senseless stupid person he was, just thinking about progress of their village without thinking about machi. Hope hibiki make a good punch in the stomach to make him realize what he doing. The only likeable person in this series was Hibiki, She was a violent girl with good attention that grow up further the episode goes, Hope he can make yoshio realize that she like him and make yoshio change into better person. Kumamiko should be a Slice of Life show about girl that wanna pursue to city that many challenge her ways she living and thinking that can be modernize without leaving her traditional personality and roots of her village. But, what i got was Psychological Drama that make her traumatize to do modern living, that she no longer wanna go out outside the village again. What a Depressing Trainwreck, I hope everyone can stay away from this anime as far as you can. 2/10 |
Yunohi-kunJul 11, 2022 8:19 PM
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| That fucking girl is surrounded by adults that either want to fuck her or exploit her. The show started off as a solid 7 and ended with a solid 4 because how fucking unlikable every adult is, other than the blond delinquent. It actually made this anime uncomfortable to watch and I have never felt that about an anime that wasn't just mindless gore. |
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| I didn't know it's possible to turn a cute, well made anime into an appalling piece of crap, but the writers managed somehow. They came up with a manipulative, morally corrupt son of a bitch, and try to play him off as the good guy. This is honestly worse than watching MC get bullied in school 12 episodes straight. |
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