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| So going in to watching this episode the only part of it I really remembered from the manga was the hot spring gag at the end, but as I watched it other bits came back to me like Kurigashira cancelling class after seeing the two Gatchans for the first time, or Senbei thanking the Gatchans for eating everything so that Midori had to sleep while clinging to him, the lucky perv. If I'm not mistaken that gag actually ended a manga chapter so I think they might have adapted two this time, though this still felt padded either way. I liked it though. I liked seeing Midori get up to wacky shenanigans which I also vaguely remembered from the manga. Some of them at least. It was a good way to indicate her acclimation into the Norimaki family. I also checked when Tron came out thanks to Senbei's dream, and sure enough it was before this episode came out by about a year. I've still never actually seen that movie, but it's been parodied or referenced in so many things the allusion was impossible to miss. It's also hard to miss things Toriyama would recycle in Dragon Ball. The Tsun family alone has so many. You've pretty much got Yamcha and Roshi's pilot versions as son and father, and Chi Chi's wardrobe through much of the Android Arc is worn by the women in the family. But of course I'm not making a particularly new or unknown observation with that one. Throw in the sun literally ripping its own face off and you've got just another typical day in Penguin Village. One final note: Last week I said I might skip this week to better align with my 40 year to the week goal of episode watches. And to be sure I'm about 5 days early with this one, which originally aired on November 30th, 1983. But looking at an episode list I saw that the show takes a New Years break for about ten days or so, so I figured I could worry with trying to match the dates better then too, once the Winter 2024 Anime season begins. For now I'm just gonna stick with one episode a week the rest of the year and say close enough. |
animefan8800Nov 25, 2023 5:04 PM
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