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3It was OK
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Dec 8, 2007 5:13 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Strange episode!
Mar 15, 2008 5:30 PM
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This episode was genius. In the beginning I was thinking "Wouldnt it be awesome if the entire episode was just him and her in that room?" and was so pleased when thats what it turned out to be.
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Apr 8, 2008 10:17 AM
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Weird ep... Weird one...

Apr 28, 2008 11:04 AM
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Madarame is my favorite character in this show, and this was a pretty awesome episode. Saki-san is reading manga instead of magazines. I consider that 'character development'.

Best line: "Bingo ka?"
Runner-up: "Oh, you punched me? I didn't notice!"

Kujibiki Unbalance makes less and less sense to me every time I see it featured in Genshiken. Aliens? Wha?

Oct 8, 2008 7:32 PM
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Omfg, this episode was just hilarious. I honestly couldn't stop laughing, I don't know what it was. xD
Feb 14, 2009 2:56 AM
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The best episode so far, so when unsure what to do, go back to your eroge game training.
Apr 28, 2009 5:20 AM
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haha brilliant episode :D
May 24, 2009 9:01 AM
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Dec 2007
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Madarame is really awkward. I love the visual novel scenes.
Jun 4, 2009 4:16 AM
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The visual novel scenes were funny. I should play one for once.

Man, that slap looked pretty devastating.
Jul 1, 2009 5:01 AM

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A bit boring episode...
Sorry for my English. ^^
Aug 13, 2009 4:54 PM

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Yeah, that was a great episode. I sort of felt bad for Madarame in the last few minutes.
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Sep 25, 2009 5:01 PM

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It was an overall boring episode. :/

But it had its gems.
Jan 7, 2010 1:21 AM

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Beatnik said:
In the beginning I was thinking "Wouldnt it be awesome if the entire episode was just him and her in that room?" and was so pleased when thats what it turned out to be.


Same goes for me ^^

I wonder if he've fallen in love with Saki.
"Yume nara sameta dakedo bokura wa mada nani mo shiteinai susumu"




Jan 20, 2010 4:22 AM

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LMFAO.
Feb 12, 2010 8:20 AM

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Another great ep! I love how Madarame thinks in eroge ways xD


Feb 27, 2010 11:20 PM

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Another great episode, the fact that Saki was in Genshiken just reading a manga was epic.
Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM

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Beatnik said:
This episode was genius. In the beginning I was thinking "Wouldnt it be awesome if the entire episode was just him and her in that room?" and was so pleased when thats what it turned out to be.


Exactly what I was thinking. Hilarious episode! I felt Madarame's pain in that uncomfortable situation lol
Apr 8, 2010 2:28 AM

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WEIIIIIIIIIIIIIRD.
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Jun 2, 2010 5:33 PM

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Aztique said:
Beatnik said:
This episode was genius. In the beginning I was thinking "Wouldnt it be awesome if the entire episode was just him and her in that room?" and was so pleased when thats what it turned out to be.


Exactly what I was thinking. Hilarious episode! I felt Madarame's pain in that uncomfortable situation lol


^Sums it up. Great episode.
Oct 1, 2010 10:15 AM

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the best so far...madarame stressed so much for nothing,it was hillarious! :D

5/5
Sayonara,papa!


"Just how a mirror reflects you,people will also reflect your heart."
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Oct 7, 2010 3:42 PM

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A bit of a slow paced one but great nonetheless. The bit with the hair was hilarious.
Feb 8, 2011 4:13 AM

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Weird but it had it's moments!!
Apr 22, 2011 12:07 PM

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Awesome, awesome, awesome!

I love little episode where you just have two characters and a lot of dialogue! If anybody watches the UK sci-fi sit-com Red Dwarf, the episode 'Marroned' will come to mind!

Aww, Madarame likes Kasukabe! And while she still will never think of him in a romantic manner, at least she values his input, as I'm assuming she was reading his recommendation at the end there and actually seemed to be enjoying it!

Awww, plus I love Saki because she smokes, and I have a thing about charaters who smoke!
May 22, 2011 7:13 PM

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haha! that was a pretty intense situation


Are you the bloody applause monkey? Keep your sh*t comments to yourself or go troll on 4chan.
Feb 27, 2012 6:47 PM

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i feel so bad for madarme. i know what it feels like to have a crush on a girl thats dating a friend of yours.....it sucks

Immahnoob said:
Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit,

tokiyashiro said:

Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

Sep 16, 2012 1:58 PM

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Thought this was a great episode, Madarame is my favourite of the cast easily. Funny and his seiyuu is also very talented. I was not expecting the whole episode to be just the two of them but I am glad that they did it. I always enjoy writers and directors trying new things.
Oct 10, 2012 6:33 AM

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Hilarious episode! Two of my favourite characters, what more to want?
Madarame, you neurotic, you!
Oct 25, 2012 9:22 AM

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Brilliant!
This word defines how great this episode was.
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Overall: 4/5
Jan 9, 2013 5:09 AM

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A weaker episode as there wasn't really much to see, but still quite nice!
Jan 21, 2013 9:28 PM

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And thus began Madarame's downward spiral into his one-sided obsession, i mean, love with Saki...though I am to wonder: why exactly was Saki alone in the clubroom? And who else here thought the girl from Madarame's past flashback that slapped him may have been a younger Saki? (go ahead, throw that into your fan fictions lol)

Feb 5, 2013 8:42 PM

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This episode was glorious. Those visual novel delusions and that nose hair. Fucking lol'd/
Mar 24, 2013 10:34 AM

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This was officially the most boring ep of this series. I can't believe its the same series.
For the last 2 eps Kousaka is hardly even seen anymore and the new members have been forgotten completely. The series now seems to focus on Saki's naggings!?! She seems to have become the main character.

This is truly an ep where "NOTHING" truly happened! I don't know how some people are finding this "glorious" or even remotely "hilarious"... I lost you here people!
Apr 20, 2013 8:28 PM

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This episode was nice to slow down and relax to. That's why I liked it, it didn't require too much thinking after a long day.
May 3, 2013 12:21 AM

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My least favorite episode so far. It was funny but it was an entre episode about a nose hair lol
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Jun 19, 2013 10:03 AM

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This episode was hilarious! Even though nothing happened, I think it was the best one yet - I haven't really enjoyed the others so much.

I feel like I thought/acted like Madarame did way too much in high school lol
-Nothing can stay unchanged. Even so, can you still keep on loving this place?

-Be still my soul; when change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last.
Jun 20, 2013 3:50 AM

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Ohgod. That was all sorts of awkward. A show can't get anymore laidback and down to earth than that episode.
Jun 28, 2013 5:59 PM

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Not the best for me but it was good. But does Madarame really likes Saki?!?!?! Weeee.. that will be so interesting!
Jul 16, 2013 5:30 PM

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Saki's turning! Reading manga by herself, then being nice to Madarame (though after accidentally slugging him)
Jul 22, 2013 1:43 PM

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I still liked it, managed to stay interesting
Aug 23, 2013 6:37 PM

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nice episode..
it was tough in the end :3
Sep 1, 2013 3:51 PM

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Marvelous! Definitely the best episode so far, even better and more funnier than in manga! Keep it coming! :D
Jan 23, 2014 6:51 PM

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One of the best episodes yet!

I really like Madarame's seiyu Hiyama, Nobuyuk. He does a great job carrying here, and in the series as a whole. My favorite Character along with Saki, so its a dream episode with just the two of them.

A bit sad though.. Can't blame him for liking Saki, she is a really cool girl.
Sep 22, 2014 6:31 PM

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This episode was full of awkwardness! Madarame and Saki alone in a room. And damn Madarame had a big of a tough past. Why'd he have to say that she was on her period. So fucking awkward! Good episode.
Jan 7, 2015 5:16 AM
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bakaboy said:
And thus began Madarame's downward spiral into his one-sided obsession, i mean, love with Saki...though I am to wonder: why exactly was Saki alone in the clubroom? And who else here thought the girl from Madarame's past flashback that slapped him may have been a younger Saki? (go ahead, throw that into your fan fictions lol)


Late reply, but the classroom flashback, iirc, is not part of the manga, and the girl doesn't reappear later in the anime. But I do like how the anime adds to the manga, especially with the over-the-top visual novel game and such.

Saki's being in the room originally bugged me too, but we see she can read a fair amount of manga in one sitting, so she's not a *total* outsider.

I loved hearing the voice actors use different voices in an anime during the fantasy sequences!
Feb 8, 2015 8:29 AM

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Episode who depends on Saki and Madarame, although I would say: What the hell do Madarame?
Narrative that compares in a truly exquisite the reasoning of a kind raised on bread and manga, with a character unintuitive and with little tact, and the true reality, or Saki.
At times it's almost boring, in other really funny story.
May 4, 2015 7:52 AM

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One of my top favorite episodes in all of anime
Jun 2, 2015 10:32 PM

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A+

Gold star

10/10

I'm calling it, that was the best usage of awkward silences in anime. Not only that, but it was a two person comedy the whole time. Holy crap that was amazing.
Jul 15, 2015 1:07 AM

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I can see how some can say that this is a boring episode, but this was freaking brilliant. Mainly because I think almost everyone can relate to this situation. We've all been there.
Dec 13, 2015 7:42 PM

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The well-worn scars of social suicide, and its long lasting impairments on socialization with the opposite sex, and development of irrational assumption and expectation.
Something like that.
This was incredibly NHK lol.
Dec 27, 2015 1:09 PM
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Really liked this episode, the premise was simple yet really entertaining. Madarame is hilarious :D
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