Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Episode 8 Discussion

This certainly has improved dramatically the last 2 episodes.
Happy belated Birthday Kirishima!
I wanna see Yoshina crack that bozo over the head with a hairdryer again. She's really a handful.

The action is quite well done. This will be a good lesson for Kirishima that playing around with other women will only bring headache situation, and that's probably why he decide to settle down with Yoshino.

Look like the real dangerous guy appear with mysterious mask. Yoshino can handle two wild dogs but can she handle three? Talking about two wild dogs, I want more scene featuring Kirishima and Shouma interacting with each other.

A thrilling episode indeed. I love how Kirishima and Yoshino one up each other all the time. and honestly yoshino is full of surprises.
there's just two things I can't like about this series.
first is the shitty animation. the colours are brightband that's what saves it. I wish they had done their body movements a bit more smoothly. it literally looks like paper puppets moving around.

the second thing is, the entire premise is gull of yakuzas, violence, romance, prostitution etc...all adult themes and the main cast is 17 and 18. every time I'm reminded that they're high schoolers, the entire plot feels like a joke. even when we get flashbacks of kirishima, it makes me realise he's was 14 or 15. unfortunately the age thing spoils this in many ways for me.
it would have been much better if they were atleast 20. so the flashbacks could still have a 17 or 18 year old kirishima.
the problem is no big yakuza organization will let their 17 year old grandson handle big deals like this. then the unrealistic part where they don't ever go to school. their character designs also do not match that of any teen. they look, dress and speak way more maturely.
the fact that yoshino anf kirishima have so much power and authority while being high schoolers is just...well..
even the OST, if you see, yoshino has been shown In a very sexual tone. there's a scene where you caj basically see th shape of her nips cause that's how she's shown, that's what the shows trying to capture. a hot passionate dangerous love story between two unusual people. but again, the minute I remember they're high schoolers I find it so oit of place.
honestly I dont think there was a need for them to be teens.

If I'm not mistaken, it was hinted as early as episode 2 that these things that Kirishima is doing are done behind the Yakuza's back (they might know about it, but it's not like they sent him to do it).
And right now they are on their summer vacation, so it's expected to not see them at school.

However, I do agree that the story could have been pratically the same if they were university students, for example, or even just working young adults.

@PokefanPT

I agree, the story would have made more sense if they were in college, they're in their last year of highschool anyway. But the Japanese audience HAS to have their highschool setting anime, no matter what.

@PokefanPT

I agree, the story would have made more sense if they were in college, they're in their last year of highschool anyway. But the Japanese audience HAS to have their highschool setting anime, no matter what.

@PokefanPT

I agree, the story would have made more sense if they were in college, they're in their last year of highschool anyway. But the Japanese audience HAS to have their highschool setting anime, no matter what.

@-Hotaru_
I never really understood the joke myself, but them being high schoolers acting as adults feels like an intentional running gag by the author.
It’s called out so often (usually re Yoshino looking nothing like her age) that I can only imagine it’s supposed to play as an absurdist gag.

The author has said there are so many culture-specific references and jokes that they didn't know how well-received the manga would be outside of Japan. (If I can find the source, I’ll post it)
Sometimes I wonder if the age thing is one of them. I know I’ve only seen a very small handful of yakuza stories, so theres only so many tropes I can recognize in a series that plays into and parodies the genre.

Well, that explains it maybe. Although I'm not so sure of this "comedic" side of them being younger, it really just makes things more unrealistic than what they should.



Don't get me wrong, I completely agree that they should be older! It would fit the story much better!



Now that I think of, I don't think I have ever watched an anime that was on an university setting.

@PokefanPT

A few josei/shoujo series have a college setting: Nodame Cantabile, Honey & Clover, A Sign of Affection. A few seinen also have a college setting: Grand Blue, Tatami Galaxy and Genshiken. And Technically Steins;Gate, but it's more of a sci-fi series with college student main characters than a series that takes place in college.

From what I noticed, about 50% of anime series take place in a modern Japanese highschool while only about 1% take place in a modern Japanese college, the rest of 49% take place either in middle school, elementary school, workplace or a fantasy world/historical period/another country/another planet/the future etc.

Now there's the badass yakuza daughter I've been wanting to see. Yoshino really knows how to claim her turf. Kirishima better step up and prove his worth to her, although he's doing a good job of it so far. His plan to use Nao and Shouma as bait worked out well, and gave us another fight scene. It had been too long since the last one. New villains, Red Perm and... some emo guy. They exist.

To think I was considering dropping this. It might claw its way back and finish stronger than I expected.