Kimi no Iru Machi Episode 5 Discussion

Daipyon said:
Little Eba was really moe and cute :3

spudnick2010 said:
This anime decided to pull an inception... a flashback within a flashback... lol

Shirubaasouru said:
Crappy drawing and animation, as usual.

Spirai said:
Well, the art quality sure plummeted after episode 2. They just jumbled the whole plot line after it too. I don't understand why they keep flash-backing to edited flashbacks like where he claims he first met her crying at the shrine during the festival and then in the recent episode he finds her walking around and gives her candy apple. It's two different versions- I don't care if the basic point was that they watched the fireworks together, these people need to get their story straight.

On a side note, I really don't like Eba. I don't know why, she's not a detestable person, but her constant dependency on Haruto (ex: "I can't do anything without you! DON'T LEAVE MEEE! Oh, by the way, I'm going back to Tokyo and all") and decisions she makes based on her feelings just pisses me off. And Haruto is a retarded narrator. He calls her 'strong' and 'brave' and 'shy' when she's just the opposite in every category. He pisses me off just as much, with his wimpy-ass behavior and back and forth moments. Sure, he didn't mean to pretend to be caught playing the boyfriend of a girl he used to like, get kissed by the stepsister of his girlfriend who also insulted his girlfriend, and end up touching the boob of his classmate who is clearly interested in him, but seriously?! You expect your girlfriend to still trust you after that? But after all, it's Eba. She's probably just using him. And even if she does love him, their love is close to bordering the repulsive puppy-love line. All these side chicks like Kanzaki and this new blue-haired girl are getting my nerves too. Why are they all falling for the same guy? What's wrong with Takashi? At least Kanzaki has some self-respect and didn't over complicate things too much. Akari is the only likable female in all of this.

Overall, we all know what's going to happen. Stuff's gonna get complicated, the new blue-haired woman is going to have her heart broken and probably throw a tantrum before attempting to play the good guy by advising Haruto to tell Eba he's not over her. Kazama is going to find out, one way or another, and encourage Haruto to try and steal his own girlfriend as if it's all some sort of competition and she's the prize or he may go pathetic on us and tell Haruto to have at her. Meanwhile, Eba, being the delicate, easily-swayed main female character with a 'tragic' background we aren't actually shown (except for the stepsister, who seemed to be a mixture of drunk and bored-so-I-went-slut) will fall in love with him again and they will run in the field of grass or streets or whatever, communicating through united monologue telepathy before throwing themselves in one another's arms and making out.

Yep, this anime is gonna be a disappointment.

Neer said:
A bunch of flashbacks and stuff I've already seen for 20 minutes and we're back at the same cliffhanger as last week. Disappointing.

zensunni said:
If you give the anime a chance, the story might surprise you. If you have read the manga and still think it won't be good, then it just isn't for you.

zensunni said:

I have to ask: is this based on the manga or the anime or some weird mixture of the two? Who is the stepsister you're talking about that seemed drunk? What scene is that from? When does he say that he met her crying at the shrine? Of course, she did start crying immediately after meeting him (it is practically identical to the manga, BTW.)

Really, it is hard to understand what you wrote in a lot of ways. When you say "all these side chicks like Kanzaki" do you mean Haruto or Kyousuke? [EDIT: OH, you mean chicks like Nanami Kanzaki... I get it now... If you think Nanami didn't complicate things, you haven't read the manga... I assume they will show the rest of that story eventually, but she complicated things plenty!] In general, Haruto is the harem magnet in this story. Who is the "new blue-haired" chick? If you could use character names it would help...

As to what's wrong with Takashi, he is a total pervert and openly so, to the extent that he even creeps out his close friends.

Anyway, the next episode will set up the real drama. This one was just character development for Haruto and Yuzuki. I expect there will be two or three more trips back into the past to highlight various parts of their relationship as it grew from acquaintances to friends to long distance lovers.

There are several questionable translations in the Lag-Chuu translation. For one thing, they were in about 3rd grade when they met at the festival, not 3 or 4 years old. (Akari actually moved to Haruto's town in 2nd grade, so it couldn't have been before then.) When they parted ways at the festival, Yuzuki should have said: "There is really something else that I hated but I feel like everything is going to be alright now." Haruto's response is what he says to her in the "present" in the anime: "Then... if anything happens again, come here." (Indicating that if she has a problem she can't deal with, come see him and he'll make it all better. That is how it is presented in the manga, at least, and the reason that Yuzuki came to Hiroshima to go to high school in the first place, in addition to the fact that she was harboring a crush on the boy she met at the summer festival there several years earlier...

If you give the anime a chance, the story might surprise you. If you have read the manga and still think it won't be good, then it just isn't for you.

xhx said:
I feel bad for seo kouji. from a shounen manga into a shoujo anime. they should remake this from the very beginning. is stupid to have flashbacks between episodes. such a waste.

neonBdragon said:
So many flashbacks this anime will NEVER catch up with the manga EVER!!!

zensunni said:

I have to ask: is this based on the manga or the anime or some weird mixture of the two? Who is the stepsister you're talking about that seemed drunk? What scene is that from? When does he say that he met her crying at the shrine? Of course, she did start crying immediately after meeting him (it is practically identical to the manga, BTW.)

Really, it is hard to understand what you wrote in a lot of ways. When you say "all these side chicks like Kanzaki" do you mean Haruto or Kyousuke? [EDIT: OH, you mean chicks like Nanami Kanzaki... I get it now... If you think Nanami didn't complicate things, you haven't read the manga... I assume they will show the rest of that story eventually, but she complicated things plenty!] In general, Haruto is the harem magnet in this story. Who is the "new blue-haired" chick? If you could use character names it would help...

As to what's wrong with Takashi, he is a total pervert and openly so, to the extent that he even creeps out his close friends.

Anyway, the next episode will set up the real drama. This one was just character development for Haruto and Yuzuki. I expect there will be two or three more trips back into the past to highlight various parts of their relationship as it grew from acquaintances to friends to long distance lovers.

There are several questionable translations in the Lag-Chuu translation. For one thing, they were in about 3rd grade when they met at the festival, not 3 or 4 years old. (Akari actually moved to Haruto's town in 2nd grade, so it couldn't have been before then.) When they parted ways at the festival, Yuzuki should have said: "There is really something else that I hated but I feel like everything is going to be alright now." Haruto's response is what he says to her in the "present" in the anime: "Then... if anything happens again, come here." (Indicating that if she has a problem she can't deal with, come see him and he'll make it all better. That is how it is presented in the manga, at least, and the reason that Yuzuki came to Hiroshima to go to high school in the first place, in addition to the fact that she was harboring a crush on the boy she met at the summer festival there several years earlier...

If you give the anime a chance, the story might surprise you. If you have read the manga and still think it won't be good, then it just isn't for you.

Lulexiaa said:
I like how they had real kid voice actors for this...
and not just a girl playing the voice of a younger guy....

spudnick2010 said:
This anime decided to pull an inception... a flashback within a flashback... lol

Shirubaasouru said:
Crappy drawing and animation, as usual.

Spirai said:
Overall, we all know what's going to happen. Stuff's gonna get complicated, the new blue-haired woman is going to have her heart broken and probably throw a tantrum before attempting to play the good guy by advising Haruto to tell Eba he's not over her. Kazama is going to find out, one way or another, and encourage Haruto to try and steal his own girlfriend as if it's all some sort of competition and she's the prize or he may go pathetic on us and tell Haruto to have at her. Meanwhile, Eba, being the delicate, easily-swayed main female character with a 'tragic' background we aren't actually shown (except for the stepsister, who seemed to be a mixture of drunk and bored-so-I-went-slut) will fall in love with him again and they will run in the field of grass or streets or whatever, communicating through united monologue telepathy before throwing themselves in one another's arms and making out.

Yep, this anime is gonna be a disappointment.

hiabara said:
hmm, that's also my assumption.
but i really don't know what to think about it yet. the anime isn't bad imo. i actually like the art style because it looks a bit old school and it's a nice variation, the music is okay, the character design is okay (it just freaks me out that i confuse character so often because they look slightly similar), the story is also average. so it isn't awful, just really average so far and it seems like a lot of stuff can be easily predicted. i hope there will be some plot twists and not just the typical complicated love drama.

Thbro14 said:


Those of us who read the manga, refers to it as "a town where you rage". There are a lot of rage moments to come (some predictable and some unpredictable). The anime will probably only touch on a tiny bit of the full story, as the pacing is really slow due to all the flashbacks. However the creators did make the right choice as to where the anime should kick off.