What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
35.8%
49
4Liked it!
27.7%
38
3It was OK
27.0%
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2Disliked it
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10
1Hated it
2.2%
3
Average 3.9
137 votes
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Sure it's hard to be a Chinese migrant in Japan and it's sad to see that they have to work that hard because of poverty, well now I guess that Makoto has a new little sister lol her mom is so kind to adopt that Chinese migrant girl to save her, heartwarming ending for this episode. |
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| OK episode,Makoto has a sister now! The first ED is back,maybe the second ED is just a special ED? |
| Foreigners in Japan, and the same circumstances of immigrants working in a foreign land, until the law catches up with them and get deported for reasons. Not to mention that the differences and issues between China and Japan are prevalent in today's society. Just like Episode 1, back to the same backing strategy of a farce of organizations supporting illegal companies and their business. And Makoto once again is the middleman between G-Boys and this Donglong company, that for once like Takashi, he can't have complete control over even if he understood the case of China's poverty over Japan's wealth. It's not hard to see how Chinese immigrants have scrapped their jobs to acquire jobs that rake in quick money, even at the expense of their own bodies a.k.a Japan's flourishing sex industry. The thought process of the Chinese and Japanese are different. Is it good that this episode was a break from all the action, because it is. Even some G-Boys are immigrants so they know how hard life is before they stepped in Japan, and Makoto served as his client's tour guide for the sister. All's well that ends well for Makoto's mother to adopt her for a sister to save her status. Be good that you're blessed, Makoto. |
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| I can't see the direction this anime is trying to take, it's all over the place. this episode was pretty funny, some guy walks up to you and randomly requests you to find a girl but then one week later you end up with a step sister |
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| It's kinda interesting the show continues to explore the cultural standard and social elements of their society. At least that's what got me interested into this episode. I'm not surprised that in some way or another, Makoto gets involved into another case. |
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| Boring. I don’t even know what I’m watching, I hope these events connects to somewhere before they destroy the plot completely. |
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| Now its a foreigner issue, eh? Its not much involved a heavy conflict, need only a little troublesome with that chinese couple which was always involve Makoto around the trouble center. But, for a surprise, his contribution kinda lesser than before. Because he just needed to persuade the girl to obey the protocol. Yes, its pretty much just Lin's scheme behind the screen to made the girl stayed long in the town. What a dedicated person, as an advisor he sure did an amazing job to took care of the girl problem. And yeah, as the result, those girl received a nice welcome adoption status as a Makoto's sister for her solid decision to work at Japan. Easy peasy resolved without needed any more conflict, and heavy drama. Its pretty much Lin path behind the screen to led the succession of the girl problem, while Makoto, instead, had a nice walk with the chinese girl alone. Lol. He pretty much get blessed. An okay episodic episode again, as always. |
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| What a cruel world we live in. Poverty is really a hindrance to success. Gou certainly have her own dreams but she had to give up those dreams to support her entire family. What Makoto's mom did is a very nice act, adopting someone you just met is a really hard decision to come up with. Lin-chan surely knows some tricks, fighting skills and persuasive abilities are both good. BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER.  |
| The ending was so sweet with Makoto's mother adopting Gou. |
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| I was bored throughout the episode and thought it was 3/5 at best but the ending warmed my heart so much that I gave it a 5/5. Guo is such a sweet girl, and I'm sure she'll be an amazing little sister to Makoto. I hope she saves her father too. But seriously, the best OP of the season belongs to this anime. (followed by Jujutsu Kaisen and ToniKawa) |
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| That Lin dude's got some skillz. Makoto's mother was MVP in this episode, she even had to insist so Makoto would be a good boi and help Lin out. Then Gou is miraculously found and all ends well. At first I thought they were going to talk about marriage but instead Makoto ended up with a step sister. Can you even adopt people out of the blue like that? Oh well, at least they're not related by blood, AM I RIGHT GUYZ |
| The Gay Boys try and find the Donglong lol, of course they did... It's not even suttle anymore, this gay undertone. Just waiting for them to came out screw each other, that ballet fag and one of the others. |
| Still Episodic I see.. Honestly when is this synopsis gonna happen. Overall a good episode, the ending was really sweet and heartwarming with Makoto's mum taking in the girl Gou to become a japanese citizen. She's cute and a hard working girl for a great cause. Atleast we gonna see more of her now I hope, sometimes I think this show really lacks the girls! |
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| The idea was nice but the execution was a bit of a confusing mess. I just can't understand this protagonist. |
| Damn I liked this episode. When Chinatown popped up in this episode, I was thinking "oh no no issa ban time". But hey the issue this time was actually heartbreaking. Guo travelled to Japan to earn some money for his father's sickness. Yet after years of hardwork and learning Japanese, she still gets nowhere until Makoto and Lin helped her troubles. The ending scene reminds me of Erased where the mother treated Kayo for her first delicious breakfast. In IWGP's case, Guo is adopted by Makoto's mother to make her a Japanese citizen, and that was a fulfilling scene for me. Best episode so far of the series, and even if it's episodic I'm sure IWGP will find its rhythm in the latter half. Makoto now has an imouto, and now I'm getting some cultured anime flashbacks. |
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| I'm honestly getting used to this shows episodic nature, though a linear story is still welcomed. It's cool how this show is tackling different types of societal issues, though execution could be better I think it's still good. I really liked the ending scene, I did not expect that at all. Nice, now Makoto has a sister. I liked Guo, so if that means she's gonna appear again later on, let's thank Makoto's mother. Lin was also pretty cool with them Kung Fu and shit. |
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| The mystery just revealing itself. It just mind boggling how anti-climatic the episode was resolved.Unless Lin and Gou had importance for future event, I feel like watching a wasteful filler. There's nothing engaging in this anime. |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| Decent episode, and it's nice that Guo will now be adopted into Makoto's family, but I do wonder if this show will, at some point, develop an overarching story. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| This episode with poverty was pretty good. Not much action, but hey, it's all good. Also, the brother ending be back🙌✌ |
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| what are you doing step Makoto? |
| Not gonna lie, for a moment I thought Lin would marry Guo for her to get the citizenship. Well, guess he was smarter and let Makoto's family take care of her situation instead lol. Now jokes aside, interesting approach this episode took regarding those who risk their integrity and work in questionable places without papers due to extreme poverty. Overall, decent episode but the execution could have been better in my opinion. By the way, it's curious how Makoto's mother hates Chinese people as group but loves them individually... |
| That broken chinese...? Lin speaks greetings in chinese while japanese for the whole rest of the sentence. Or did he speak chinese the whole time and they were just too lazy to speak it themselves? Okay episode. I preferred previous one. I was thinking Guo was Makoto love interest for a sec |
| Can someone tell who's Lin's VA? |
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| I have to acknowledge it touches difficult social issues. I still don't like the by tendency jingoist and pro-organized crime messages this show sends. The last two episodes made partially up for the completely botched start (as in 1/10) the show had. They prevented the drop I was still planning after the 3 episode test, but the show is still sub-par (as in 3/10). This episode was bearable. The black-white thinking is still strong in this one, the solution of the problem by Japanese generosity was cheesy. The story was interesting enough to hook me for 24 mins. Unfortunately I pretty much hate every recurring character. The Chinese guys were stereotypical (yea, I can do Kung-Fu) (yea, my dad is a poor farmer and Japan is so generous) and almost submissive. Actual Chinese I know tend spit on the graves of Japanese "WW2 heroes" a little bit more. That degree of "yes master, ling ling loves Japanese people" is not credible. A very mixed blessing of an episode. If only the be anger-tained by patriotic nonsense and "just" mobsters who have a good heart. Not as good as the last episode, but better than the first 3. |
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inim said: This episode was bearable. The black-white thinking is still strong in this one, the solution of the problem by Japanese generosity was cheesy. The story was interesting enough to hook me for 24 mins. Unfortunately I pretty much hate every recurring character. The Chinese guys were stereotypical (yea, I can do Kung-Fu) (yea, my dad is a poor farmer and Japan is so generous) and almost submissive. Actual Chinese I know tend spit on the graves of Japanese "WW2 heroes" a little bit more. That degree of "yes master, ling ling loves Japanese people" is not credible. The episode wasn't saying that there are many Chinese people who feel the way Lin or Guo do about Japan. I don't know about Henan or the economy there, but if what Lin said about the situation there is true, then it makes sense why from his and Guo's point of view, Japan saved them. I remember meeting a Chinese girl during uni orientation who actually said the same thing about where she came from. She said she hated the Chinese government and that she and her father worked hard to send her to college in the states because they were so poor and that the government didn't care about them. I don't think this episode was trying to portray or give limelight to "Japanese generosity." It just so happens that the anime is set in Japan, and that there are foreigners (in this case, the Chinese) going to Japan in order to work and earn money. It's the equivalent of immigrants (from all over the world) going to the U.S. in hopes of earning more money and sending money back to their family in their home country. Not only the U.S., but places even as small as Taiwan get a lot of people from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines working in factories or as nannies. |
| This anime still has a lot of problems, but I must say that at least this chapter was pretty good for me |
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| For the last half hour I felt I was watching an episode of La Rosa de Guadalupe (a soap opera of my third-world country, if you don't know what it is then lucky you). I feel like nothing happened and at the end this girl practically got a Japanese residency, how convenient! That's it, I'm dropping this. |
| No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas. Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites. Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!  |
| lolz Makoto suddenly gained a sister...w0w that was instant fast!?! 4/5. |
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| I remember watching the Japanese live action of this series when I was a teenager, and I remember loving it. I'm not really sure about this anime. I was hoping it would get better...but there doesn't seem to be much of a story or plot going on? Hmm. |
| So they're still sticking to the episodic format... oof But nevertheless, I actually enjoyed this one. Wholesome ending for, sadly, a really prevalent issue today. |
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| Well, pretty good episode. He got a sister now, let's see what will happen. |
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Madaona said: HikariShoumeiron said: Can someone tell who's Lin's VA? His VA is Ono Yuuki..I just checked your list and might be saying the VA of Josuke and Tokugawa Shigeshige "Sho-chan" from JoJo and Gintama respectively would help you recognize him. Oooh, thank you! That's why he sounded so familiar. I don't know why I still have trouble recognizing Ono Yuuki's voice. |
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| Pretty good. Sweat shops and forced deportation are no joke indeed. Makoto is kinda blessed |
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| such a waste that it's episodic and so preachy when the characters are all pretty interesting. hope to have more focus on makoto & takashi. i mean, it's got a good setting, interesting characters, but this episodic nature is making it hard to care. i started watching this because honestly the synopsis sounded like something else entirely lol |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| This episode told a story between Chinese migrants and Japanese locals.A little weird because it seemed like Japan is the saviour of the poor in China.I don't believe on the Earth there is a country which doen't have poor people and "the hellish poverty in China" made me uncomfortable.It's not real,in fact.It's true that there's a huge gap between the rich and the poor in China but we have been making much effort to deal with this phenomenon. There are always conflict between the thought process of China and Japan.Each time China appeared in a Japanese anime there will be usually an upsurge of discussion on Chinese Internet.（This episode is no exception.）Some people hold an opinion that it's a insult to China while the others thought we shouldn't be that sensitive.Actually most of time I belong to the second one.In the meanwhile I think I should say something to avoid others to have a misunderstanding of China so I wrote down these words. OK let's come back to the episode itself.After ep4 I had much confidence about IWGP because I think it has the capacity to tell stories perfectly but this one...Uhh I should say it has the same defect as ep1-3.Some important plots we viewers want to see has been skipped quickly by the character's words.It drove me annoyed.I like the new character Lin because he is wise,brave,and kind.(Do foreigners think all Chinese have a good command of kung fu? ?)Finally Guo has been Makoto's stepsister brought me happiness and it's a warm end.Best wishes to this warm family. |
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| Lol Makoto just got a sister, nice I guess. |
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| Makoto gained a mature looking sister at this age, it's going to be so awkward for him XD At some point I thought Guo would be that loved one that Makoto lost... From extreme poverty Guo has now become extremely lucky...what about the rest of them, they'll continue to do those dirty and dangerous work. I wish someone adopted me in Japan (￣▽￣) |
I thought he was going to end human trafficking this episode like how he ended the weed problem in the city but i suppose it shook down a little differently... have this edit anyway. He got a new *coughnonbloodrelated* sister and i'm now counting the episodes before she gets kidnapped/killed for the plot(?) |
| Episode about foreign workers, kinda sad situation for the ones coming from poverty even resorting to illegal ways to earn some income. Lin is quite the schemer but at least thanks to his request Guo got saved and Makoto gained a younger sister! |
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