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Takuan_Soho said: Well, the thin walls and tanuki panic are bound to happen. In retrospect it is hard to see why the professor would not get into some interaction with the mother tanuki in the occasion. The flow of the novel is pointing to that direction, and as I said I got a strong feel that the author had not done with the professor yet with the discussion on the rooftop so I was very happy that he revisited the "eating is love" theory of the professor in this final episode. It feels so great that I correctly called all the major plot wrap-up in the last 2 episodes, from the redemption of the 2nd brother to the reconciliation between Benten and Tengu. I even predicted correctly that the professor would see tanuki speaking and transforming, though he forgot about it later (I wonder if it has anything to do with Benten intervening). And at the end Jurojin just looks like a human after all.symbv said: Fair enough, however I called the thin walls, the tanuki panic, and Tengu sensei barging in and then using the fan in order to get Benten back. The only thing I missed out on was for Yasaburo being more active and using his human transformation abilities a little more prominently, but I will take his little push of Benten over that any day, loved that scene: Benten's face was classic.I CALLED IT !!! I said the Professor would recognize the mother tanuki and defended her putting himself at jeopardy. There were skeptical voices, but I am glad I PERSISTED !!!! And I even made the right call that Benten and Tengu sensei will reach some kind of reconciliation! YES !!!!!! embolon said: You might want to save the effort as the other two novels of the trilogy Uchouten Kazoku are not even written yet. windy said: Sorry, I think I am wrong. I think this one could be a sequel. 聖なる怠け者の冒険Takuan_Soho said: I'm only seeing the first novel on Amazon and Honto. Link please?The novel is fact and is being released tomorrow. At the end of the thread last week had a link to the announcement (in Japanese) and you can find it for sale on Amazon. Japanese title is: 有頂天家族 |
symbvSep 30, 2013 8:44 PM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
dumbnutcherios said: embolon said: dumbnutcherios said: Does anyone know the song name played after the ending? ED is ケセラセラ -> Que Sera, Sera(same name different song) OP is 有頂天人生 But in this episode, OP is ED. No I meant the one after the "ED" where it says "Thanks for watching!" Probably not even considered a song though. the song that played for a few seconds after the ending credits is Que Sera Sera (ケセラセラ) by Fhana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zHMk7Qe3rY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jijw72rUG0 |
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| This show made everything else look like crap this season. Except for the going home club. |
| oh man this series was so good, im seriously going to miss this. One of a kind. 5/5 |
| One of my faves this season. They still didn't show us why the tanukis are afraid of Benten, though. I hope there's a sequel. |
Leio said: They still didn't show us why the tanukis are afraid of Benten, though. I hope there's a sequel. That's because she worked for the Friday...Club and was the one who caught the badass Nisemon, I think that was it. I would like to know why Benten returned to the Tengu-sensei, I thought she had cut their ties. |
| Benten could fly and originally held the fan until it went back to the professor, she was actually a formidable foe for most, so the fear was understandable. |
| Great anime but with boring ending. So they all were friends even though Bented eat their parents and other tanuki sold them to death? Still i really liked it. |
| Will miss this series. Glad everyone is alive and not eaten. I still wished Soun would have been eaten by Friday Fellows. Wished Yasabouro got to see Kaisei even a glimpse would do for me. |
krownklown said: Akanezora said: My favorite anime of this season. 9/10 indeed, an hidden gem. I will miss it. Morimi Tomihiko, please make something else, you're so underrated. He did, Tatami Galaxy, from the sounds of it its just as crazy as Uchoten Kazoku I know. I meant something else besides Tatami Galaxy. I just wonder why he's so good yet so unpopular. Oh right, because Japan prefers giving credit to moeshit and that useless stuff. |
AkanezoraOct 1, 2013 2:25 PM
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| 8/10. Gonna miss this weekly gem. <3 So original, beautiful, fun, artistic. |
Akanezora said: I just wonder why he's so good yet so unpopular. Oh right, because Japan prefers giving credit to moeshit and that useless stuff. That must be because the people there actually buy moeshit and when I say "buy" it means they spent fortunes on it, since in general what makes more money turns more popular. |
| A really good series. I find myself drawn to the characters and the settings is just great. Just wished they showed more of Kaisei and Yasaburou. Still dont get Benten though, thinking there still needs to be more development with her. Like why go as far as to eat the father of your friend just to get into the Friday Fellows? Nevertheless a fun and enjoyable series |
Snaita said: First Morimi Tomihiko is NOT unpopular. Tatami Galaxy sold well (both the novels and the anime) and it also won a bunch of awards. And he is generally quite well known and respected as a writer in the literature field. And second, it is just nonsense to link him, a novel (not even light novel) author, with whatever you want to call "moeshit". They have different consumer base with only limited overlapping between them. It just sounds like you have to attack something you hate regardless of whether it has any real connection to the subject - you just want to attack it because you want to.Akanezora said: That must be because the people there actually buy moeshit and when I say "buy" it means they spent fortunes on it, since in general what makes more money turns more popular.I just wonder why he's so good yet so unpopular. Oh right, because Japan prefers giving credit to moeshit and that useless stuff. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| After a re-watch of the last episode, I noticed that the old geezers are the first to turn into tanuki form after seeing Benten. Sou was mentioned to fear benten to the point of cutting his relations with Akadama sensei. What is it with Benten and older gentlemen? With them it's the extreme of either infatuation or terror. The congrats sign getting in the way of Akadama sensei's rage made me laugh again, frogbro x mama hisashiburi moment made me teary again. |
| The family feeeeeels <3 PA Works continues to make great anime 9/10 |
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| I keep delaying watching the last episode bc I don't want to see it ends but I saw it anyway //sighs// anyway, GREAT ANIME FOR SUMMER SEASON! Uchouten Kazoku placed 2nd in my 2013 summer anime list after Gatchaman Crowds The Shimogamos are the boss! 10/10 for overall series, planning to rewatch this golden baby during my break in near future |
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| Incredible show. |
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| Great show, gives off a very solid "The Tatami Galaxy" vibe. I know it sounds crazy but I will always be rooting for Benten X Yasaburou. 9/10 for me, don't find many anime like this which show and deliver the promise. |
| Great anime .... great ending ... i hope Yasaburo ends up with Kaisei. |
| There was things about Benten that were not explained, but I guess she used to be sad coz she would remember what she did to Yasaburou's dad. I wish Kaisei would let Yasaburou see her, and if there was some romance between then, it was a good show, but could have been better. 6/10 |
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sanjayts said: its a adaption of a novel by the same guy who wrote the original novel for tatami galaxyGreat show, gives off a very solid "The Tatami Galaxy" vibe. |
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 |
| My best show of Summer 2013. I watched this series 3 times. Great soundtrack, great family storyline, interesting concept. It's a series you won't want to miss. 10/10. |
| A pretty nice ending to this series, which had quite a nice concept with some various interesting characters and a lovely pace! In overall a slight open ending but it did managed to bring over quite a nice story! |
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| Raijin fan still OP until now Benten really know how to tame Akadama-sensei xD Dat dengeki (electricity)! Wow, Yashirou = BiriBiri's son? Aw, Kaisei show yourself to Yasaburou :( Or maybe Kaisei is really harboring feelings for Yasaburou? R.I.P. Souun... oh wait he's alive? That ending illustration... It's really Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei's art I'm glad to see that again xD Season 2, please!! Oh, wait the story still continues.. right? |
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| Nothing much needed to say.. it's an amazing piece of work. It's a shame not much covered for Benten and Yasaburou never got to see Kaisei. I wished he would had progress with one of them. I only hope for a season 2 for more fun and heartbreaking moments. |
| I saw the opening to this and thought 'that looks fun, i'll check it out'. And well I finished it way too quickly, I really enjoyed this anime and wish it were longer. It was a sweet, weird but relaxing anime. The ending was nice, although it still bugs me how accepting everyone is about the whole hot pot thing >.<. But bring on a season 2! Is the manga any further? or is this all there is storywise so far? Now to fun for other anime with the same feel, if you have any suggestions please pm me xD. |
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Takuan_Soho said: TehWhiteTiger said: I saw the opening to this and thought 'that looks fun, i'll check it out'. And well I finished it way too quickly, I really enjoyed this anime and wish it were longer. It was a sweet, weird but relaxing anime. The ending was nice, although it still bugs me how accepting everyone is about the whole hot pot thing >.<. But bring on a season 2! Is the manga any further? or is this all there is storywise so far? Now to fun for other anime with the same feel, if you have any suggestions please pm me xD. The original story was a single novel. The author, a pretty popular mainstream writer in Japan, has mentioned that he wants to do 2 more, but I don't think they have not been published yet. Have you seen Kyousogiga? Just aired, very similar in a lot of ways (it also is about an unusual family). Oh I only saw the manga listed on the anime page. I assume it has no English translation though? :P I have not seen Kyousogiga, but I will check it out thank you ^^. |
"When everyone else is about to give up, the fighter who becomes the role model, is the true Leader." |
| I was on the fence but after watching the finale, I've decided that I don't like this anime. For one thing, nothing was really resolved or answered for aside from the Uncle's reputation being destroyed. We still have the master Tengu who is a kidnapper of children which is in fact dispicable, no answer as to what's up with the leader of the Friday Fellows, and the mystery of Benten and why she seems like such a sociopathic bitch half the time and what makes her cry other times? If it were only that, I think I could say that it's a mediocre anime. However it just doesn't sit right with me that Benten takes advantage of the father's weakness to cage him, kill him, boil him and eat him, and yet the family seems perfectly fine with her, the son has a crush on her for god's sake and they'll even sit down and eat a meal with this chick. I mean really though, what fucking reason did Benten have to eat their father other than because he tasted good and it gets her into some lame little Friday Fellows club? I noticed people are trying to 'dehumanize' Tanuki as a way of explaining how they could view Benten as they do. But really, how exactly are they different from human beings aside from body structure? They are highly intelligent, capable even of assuming human form and walking/talking as humans do. They love their families just the same, have many of the same core values, and are capable of grief and sadness when their loved ones pass. They are also capable of anger and revenge (ie. the uncle) as well. This suggests they are really much like humans in that each has their own personality and way of seeing the world. So with all that in mind, I just don't see how such a close family of any sort could sit down and eat a meal and be merry with a woman who literally ate one of the members of that family and caused emotional pain and sadness for seemingly no good reason at all. Heck one brother was so distraught and guilt ridden he hid in a well as a frog for years. Does that really not bother anyone else? I feel like this anime was just trying to pull our strings by setting up this morbid and disgusting sort of situation and never really bothered to explain or justify why the characters are feeling and reacting in such an unbelievable way. I'm considering 3/10 over all. |
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| Well this was a fun ride :) |
Always-HungryApr 26, 2014 4:42 AM
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| It's was a really amazing anime. I felt watching a film made by Ghibli. 8/10 But I think a second season would be nice (but probably impossible). Maybe I missed something but we still know almost nothing of Benten and I want to clear up the relationship between Kaisei, Yajiro and Yasaburo. |
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| So it was a decent show with a slight disappointing ending since we got no inside on many questions and basic characters like Benten. Now she's back with sensei but we get nothing on why she left him in the first place and how she can so casually come back etc. Also despite the "idiot blood" i expected a slight more reaction from the other members of the family about her actions in conspiring eating their father. They were furious with their uncle but they sit in the same room drinking tea with her. Maybe cause she is human is just viewed as she was doing something natural for humans? Also we got nothing on that intimidating old man leading the friday fellows. He was completely unsurprised by the tanuki transforming and seemed to know very well the tiger was not a tiger considering the others got scared but he just told him to "shut up". It seems he knew just about as much Benten did really about tanukis and tengus. Sourire said: how can we convince the 1K users who dropped it after 1-2 episodes to watch it? they're really missing out on something great.. the way it picked up after episode 6, unbelievable. You don't. People like different things. This was a nice show with intriguing characters most of all but it needs a certain patience and way of thought(that even some who watched lucked by going all about Tanuki revolutions and shit, damn they were annoying in every episode discussion. Are they really that tense to the spirit,atmosphere and culture of something?) and if you insist that they should watch it in the end they will just give it a bad score and very few will change their minds. maKAKERO said: I just want an anime next season named "Memories of Benten" or simply "Benten" which start with benten being a cute schoolgirl and end with her joining Friday fellows. Indeed. LayedBack said: I was on the fence but after watching the finale, I've decided that I don't like this anime. For one thing, nothing was really resolved or answered for aside from the Uncle's reputation being destroyed. We still have the master Tengu who is a kidnapper of children which is in fact dispicable, no answer as to what's up with the leader of the Friday Fellows, and the mystery of Benten and why she seems like such a sociopathic bitch half the time and what makes her cry other times? If it were only that, I think I could say that it's a mediocre anime. However it just doesn't sit right with me that Benten takes advantage of the father's weakness to cage him, kill him, boil him and eat him, and yet the family seems perfectly fine with her, the son has a crush on her for god's sake and they'll even sit down and eat a meal with this chick. I mean really though, what fucking reason did Benten have to eat their father other than because he tasted good and it gets her into some lame little Friday Fellows club? I noticed people are trying to 'dehumanize' Tanuki as a way of explaining how they could view Benten as they do. But really, how exactly are they different from human beings aside from body structure? They are highly intelligent, capable even of assuming human form and walking/talking as humans do. They love their families just the same, have many of the same core values, and are capable of grief and sadness when their loved ones pass. They are also capable of anger and revenge (ie. the uncle) as well. This suggests they are really much like humans in that each has their own personality and way of seeing the world. So with all that in mind, I just don't see how such a close family of any sort could sit down and eat a meal and be merry with a woman who literally ate one of the members of that family and caused emotional pain and sadness for seemingly no good reason at all. Heck one brother was so distraught and guilt ridden he hid in a well as a frog for years. Does that really not bother anyone else? I feel like this anime was just trying to pull our strings by setting up this morbid and disgusting sort of situation and never really bothered to explain or justify why the characters are feeling and reacting in such an unbelievable way. I'm considering 3/10 over all. It isn't about how different the Tanuki are from humans. It's about different core values and world view. They have been constantly saying that ending up in a hot pot seems kind of natural to them liking it or not. Also we see how their society really works on just being peaceful, having fun and leave and forget. That is the tanuki way etc. Their uncle was acting very non tanuki like as he himself used that as a defense that there is no way he could be guilty of what he was accused cause a tanuki would never act like that. The fact that the tanuki have this difference in values can be explain by many reasons but in the end is not about intelligence or not since if check humans we see that humans may have opposite values depending on what environment they grew and also many humans can do things you find strange as fuck even growing in the same environment as you. Also about the mains love for Benten i see nothing strange since that is something humans can do to. Feeling attraction and love to someone has nothing to do with that certain someone doing something you hate. You can't just switch off those feelings just because you want to hate them. When people act like that they usually just lie to themselves because they don't want to forgive sertain actions and are furious. But how many times have we heard about mothers letting there boyfriends abuse their children because they love them etc? Humans can do that shit too I think you are a little close minded here and stuck with what you view as normal etc. You just can't see things in a different light that the fully angry revenge type of thinking. |
MonadJan 15, 2014 7:40 AM
| I dont usually give out a 1 score but this deserves it. One of the worst anime I have seen in some time. Boring and lame plot and characters. It seems like we went through 13 episodes of nothing happening. The character design was hideous as well. Overrated hipster trash. 1/10 |
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Shuhan said: I dont usually give out a 1 score but this deserves it. One of the worst anime I have seen in some time. Boring and lame plot and characters. It seems like we went through 13 episodes of nothing happening. The character design was hideous as well. Overrated hipster trash. 1/10 you've probably never heard of the term mono no aware, have you? |
Shuhan said: i wont express how I feel toward that statement because I'd get bannedI dont usually give out a 1 score but this deserves it. One of the worst anime I have seen in some time. Boring and lame plot and characters. It seems like we went through 13 episodes of nothing happening. The character design was hideous as well. Overrated hipster trash. 1/10 |
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Sourire said: Shuhan said: i wont express how I feel toward that statement because I'd get bannedI dont usually give out a 1 score but this deserves it. One of the worst anime I have seen in some time. Boring and lame plot and characters. It seems like we went through 13 episodes of nothing happening. The character design was hideous as well. Overrated hipster trash. 1/10 Right there with ya |
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Shuhan said: Just because it doesn't smack you in the face with feels (I see your favorite anime is Clannad) doesn't make it boring and lame.I dont usually give out a 1 score but this deserves it. One of the worst anime I have seen in some time. Boring and lame plot and characters. It seems like we went through 13 episodes of nothing happening. The character design was hideous as well. Overrated hipster trash. 1/10 Bye. |
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| In the end, I still do not understand Benten. 8/10 I enjoyed this series |
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| I really didn't expect anything going into this so I was more than pleasantly surprised that it turned out THAT good. Likeable characters (Kaisei hhhnnnggghh), beautiful scenery, good humor and even some great emotions. When a show is over and I'd want to watch 13 more episodes it definitely did many things right. 8/10 |
| There is something strangely macabre about this anime in that the usual reaction to somebody locking you up in a cage with the intent of having you boiled to death is, well anger. There was always a "the hell?" moment whenever the Benten-Souichirou connection was made. Or even the Ebisugawa twins and Yasaburou "playfully" throwing snow balls at each other even though they only recently tried to have him killed. That whole section made me scream WHY WHHHHYYY at the screen. Then again it goes with the light hearted nature of the anime even when dealing with somewhat serious matters. If you suspend your disbelief at just that part, it is still pretty goddamn good and original (even if you don't the result is the same). Would Watch Again/10 |
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