Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken Episode 7 Discussion

Thoguht said:
I've no idea who this Li Hua Wang is who's now being credited as director instead of Kenichi Imaizumi, but it's clear they don't really have a clue. Take the sequence after the episode title card. Mahiru greets Itsuki and he then apologises for butting in, which gives the impression that Mahiru was already there and he's just arrived. But then he teases Amane about having given Mahiru a key, so what really happened was Itsuki was already there and Mahiru just arrived - as it stands, the key teasing looks like it came out of nowhere. Then the next day Chitose is on the phone to Amane and in the very next cut she jarringly turns up in the apartment without any indication of time having elapsed but it was actually 3 or 4 hours later. It almost feels like there are some cuts missing here.

At the end of the episode, some days have also been removed between the "mother from hell" incident and the sakura viewing. I can understand why they're telescoping things because if they really are going to get to the end of volume 4 this season they're going to have to get a move on, but the weather was bad on the day of the mother incident and good for the viewing. OK, so they made it look symbolic like a storm had blown over, with a shot of clouds clearing away as Mahiru asks Amane if he wants to go for a walk, but it just felt wrong somehow.

As for the mother incident, I don't know if the problem was in the ESL-level subs or in the Japanese script, but the official English LN translation (which admittedly can be problematic too) says that Mahiru was the result of "one night's indiscretion" which implies that her parents usually never touched each other but maybe just got drunk one night and had unprotected hatesex, which is not at all how the subs make it sound.

Anyway, yes, the animation is getting worse. Lots of cheapo panning background shots over dialog and ultra close-ups to avoid animating lip flaps, although there weren't any terrible off-model characters like last week. Continuity is sloppy because the blanket Mahiru uses to cover her head was red in last week's preview but yellow now, and the colouring is weird in other places too - like at 13:29, why is Mahiru's mother wearing clothes the exact same colour as Mahiru's school uniform? Saved a little time, I suppose, as the colours were already in the palette.

Despite all the above, 10/10, would watch again. I don't know what there is about this story, The LN is badly written and riddled with inconsistencies (plus the translation is a bit slapdash too, which doesn't help) and the characters are like walking trope collections who behave in ways that no real person would, but still I'm kind of losing count of how many times I've read the currently published volumes and I'm counting down the hours and minutes until the next volume is out.

PS Mahiru is NOT flat, she just usually wears clothes that don't show off her figure. The flattie is Chitose, only you might not survive if you say that to her face.

nelcalb said:
Well, anime adaptation to LN cannot be 100% literal. I share some of your opinions, but still a very likeable adaptation.

Ricky16 said:

illustration from Which Volume and which chapter? and I'm totally agreed with you what you're trying to say to that person who told look at her face look at her body she's just a child.

Rasco said:
Call me retarded but they are pretty much a couple.

Antanaru said:
Considering her parents are most likely for a very well off families that made them merry to consolidate power, I highly doubt they would be fine sending her away. The point of an arranged marriage is an heir, not just the marriage itself. Her backstory is just a melodramatic mess that makes more roll my eyes more than pity the character because of how overblown it is.

MadanielFL said:
Volume 4, chapter 3. 

Horn_dawg_2019 said:
So Mahiru's family considers her as a liability...funny that they don't seems to consider that when they get old they'll gonna be needing their daughter's help in the future. 

lokiuscz8 said:
So as an LN reader, saying I am  disapointed is underestimating, I really tried to love this show, but after this episode, its impossible

this episode sucked, and it sucked a lot.

that scene where Amane held Mahiru, it was horrible, in the LN I could actually see Amane´s feelings and thoughts.

believe me I really tried to love this show, but everything about it is mediocre at best.
animation is mediocre, pacing is bad, story telling isn´t good either

dlnmns said:

Thanks for describing everything I feel about this adaptation. If ever a season 2 become a thing I hope they give it to a different studio.

chopstick___ said:
At this point and from what we've seen of the next episode they are basically already together.

Thoguht said:
That's kind of the point, I suppose. As I saw someone post on another forum, in 10 years time they'll be living together and have 2 kids and still be denying that they're dating.