Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition
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| That was a pretty good ending to this season. I was wet by the end. 🥰😭☺️ I sure hope there is a season 2. Hime was so cute and innocent. Nothing else more was said about the the mom but they certainly left the door open for continuing. I suppose I will need to start the manga to feed my passions for what’s next. |
| I love this anime! It makes me cry!!!! Hime is really a nice daughter.. I hope the mother is still alive please.... Great anime 8.5/10 |
erenmeiiJul 16, 2020 5:10 PM
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| My current AOTY after my long anime hiatus. 7/10. |
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| Pretty meh for me very few jokes made me laugh the drama was inserted weirdly it was just flat... |
| It was an ok ending. I'm glad that everyone -except the most likely dead Hime's mom- ended up happy. I found the final episode a bit disappointing. I wasn't expecting much but the most important plot twists were very predictable. The only one who took me by surprise was Hime's mom who most likely died during or after the accident or even she could survive just she loses her memory. A bit surprised about Hime's half-cousin, unfortunately I don't remember that that was anticipated so meh. The comedy during this anime was a hit or miss. Most episodes were funny except some where the misunderstandings were annoying and some jokes were over the top to my taste. I enjoyed this anime and even at some point I wanted to give it a high score if I kept on like that until the end. Don't get me wrong, it was a good anime but honestly the ending is a just disappointing, not bad. Very sweet father-daughter relationship. 6/10 for the anime. |
NurguburuJul 22, 2020 9:10 PM
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. 日本 |
| Wow. I was wrong! This is the best Kumeta Kouji's work ever i see. Really good written story and also its so rare to see a show about a family. Really miss this show! |
| Halfway through the anime you get the feeling that something unfortunate has befallen the father character with more signs pointing to it with every episode from there onward. Along with the fear that comes with it you realize how attached you are to Hime and Goto after just a few episodes and you can't help but get increasingly invested in them. Its brilliant how these characters get to your heart and the balance of the melancholic moments with the comedic happy moments came together really well, its like a good dark chocolate, so very bittersweet. The last episode is a roller coaster of emotions even though they have been foreshadowing it for so many episodes and it hit hard in the feels. Such a heartwarming gem of an anime, I am glad I checked it out. |
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| Excuse me, could someone call the police? I need to report a crime. This anime stole my heart; >w< |
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| What a great end, started this series because of the comedy but stayed for the emotional bait with the feels (both sad and happy). Quite the reveal this episode, Kakushi really went through a lot; searching for his missing wife, losing his job because his fans couldn't separate his leaked private life from his work and the circumstances leading up to the accident causing him amnesia, all thewhile thinking on how to keep the most precious person to him (Hime) happy. |
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| Amazing series, kept me invested from beginning to end. Characters that i got attatched to in such a short time :') And im deffinately not crying like everyone here... |
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| What a rollecoaster of emotion. Hime finally learned the truth about everything and we finally reached the present. I didn't think this would make me cry, I was not ready for this. But nevertheless, a great ending. 9/10 |
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| It was an okay last episode. It felt a bit all over the place for me, idk. I wouldn't have minded not seeing some of the characters, like the teacher/school girls/Tomaruin (since he annoys me). Anyway, didn't expect to learn about Kakushi's family background, and was hoping to learn more of the drama behind Hime's mom and grandfather. Also didn't think he'd actually be in a coma. I love Goto Sensei, I mostly stayed for him :X And I need to have a talk (possibly w/ my fists) with those internet trolls and whoever leaked info about his private life, how dare they cause him pain T^T And why did the company not pay for is hospital bills e.e Glad it was a happy ending. 7/10 |
| I think this is the only gag anime I've seen that made me cry lol my dad passed away when I was kid so it feels weirdly nice to see a wholesome show about a father and daughter. And also sayonara zetsubou sensei was one of favorite anime around that time so kakushigoto just feels like the perfect show for me haha |
| i didn't expect this ending in all honesty. in only 12 episodes, it felt like i just watched a complete package with a truly wonderful conclusion. though it's a bit worrying since they might not make a sequel with that kind of ending |
 𝒫𝑜𝓅 𝒶 𝓅𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓂𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒𝒹 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒫𝓊𝓇𝒾𝒻𝓎 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓈𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹   |
| Wow, just wow! I've only seen two things from Murano, but I can honestly say the guy can fucking direct! I hope he gets more big projects. It's so rare to see anime that flows so well, with so much energy. I guess everyone has their own preference about pacing, but this was almost perfect for me - if only it didn't get a bit messy towards the end. That ED will be stuck in my head forever, it goes so well with the song! |
| (|__/) Never give up, aim for the top! (='.'=) Top wo nerae! o(")(") Anime music: http://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=777199 |
| Bruh, it could have been such a great tearjerker. Wasted potential. 8/10 |
| "Life is too bitter, so coffee, at least should be sweet..." - Hikigaya Hachiman (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatte Iru) |
| Could have been more but I think it was enjoyable for what it was :^). |
| Quite the melodramatic conclusion but acceptable within the expectations set by the show. The rest of the series was much more sublte in its display of emotions which made it more impactful, almost every episode had the right balance of gags and bitter-sweet moments. Was great discovering a more touching side of Kumeta, especially since he explored it with his usual mastery. Would recommend. |
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| Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......naw, sorry, I tried but I couldn't bring myself to truly enjoy the post-time-skip sections of this series. Every episode they felt like a bother more than a necessity, and then this finale also failed to justify them. Maybe if it was revealed the wife really was still alive and lost at sea I could have put up with them but naw. Or maybe had it flowed and built up to them naturally intstead of devoting the last part of every episode to them obnoxiously to remind us that dark times lie ahead, but honestly that probably wouldn't have worked for me either. I enjoyed the commentary on the manga industry and the relationship between Hime and Kakushigoto in the past enough to award this a solid 7/10, and even that aspect of this series shown in the the finale worked okay, but nothing better. Also that editor was an obnoxious asshole throughout, not funny. Also also amnesia is almost never good in anything, even if you call attention to that. But I suppose if it must be done let it be done quickly in the last episode like it was here. |
animefan8800Dec 21, 2020 5:56 PM
| i'm so relieved that it didn't end up tragic! |
I think I don't know wtf I'm doing. Maybe. Probably. |
animefan8800 said: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......naw, sorry, I tried but I couldn't bring myself to truly enjoy the post-time-skip sections of this series. Every episode they felt like a bother more than a necessity, and then this finale also failed to justify them. Maybe if it was revealed the wife really was still alive and lost at sea I could have put up with them but naw. Or maybe had it flowed and built up to them naturally intstead of devoting the last part of every episode to them obnoxiously to remind us that dark times lie ahead, but honestly that probably wouldn't have worked for me either. I enjoyed the commentary on the manga industry and the relationship between Hime and Kakushigoto in the past enough to award this a solid 7/10, and even that aspect of this series shown in the the finale worked okay, but nothing better. Also that editor was an obnoxious asshole throughout, not funny. Also also amnesia is almost never good in anything, even if you call attention to that. But I suppose if it must be done let it be done quickly in the last episode like it was here. Yeah I agree, didn't feel like the "present" scenes added anything at all. Maybe they gave some excitement at first but then they didn't get anywhere. I guess they were made as build up for the added story in the end but I don't see what that gave anyway. They wanted some extra emotions at the end but they could have done it a lot more elegantly. And 100% agree with the editor... This episode had so much weird stuff that just made it bad for me, the accident into amnesia came kind of out of nowhere and lasted a whole half episode, why even do it at all then. Then the brother reveal and the stuff about the father didn't give anything at all. And I truly could not understand the reasoning with them not telling him? Hime didn't want to tell him because he looked happy making manga? More happy than being with his daughter that literally was all he cared about in the series? And even if he couldn't move why wouldn't Hime just come to the hospital... It just didn't hold with the "lets not tell him act" imo, which took the drama away from her revealing for him. And would you really not realize it is your daughter you're talking with? Overall this series was really nice just based of their relationship together and it had some fun moments. It really made me appreciate the people I have around me, it's nice to be reminded how much your loved ones really mean, and how much you would miss them if they were gone. It was still nice in the last episode when he said he just wanted her to grow up but I wish they would put more emphasis on their interaction when she was a grown up instead. Now we barely got to see it because of all of that useless shit. Feel like they tried to force a bunch of story out of nowhere that in the end didn't really give anything. Although it seems like most people enjoyed the episode a lot and it gave them a good conclusion to the series so I guess that's nice. |
NoSoup4YouJan 22, 2021 5:20 PM
| I thought it would be more drama than comedy but I was wrong. Still pretty heartwarming to watch. I preferred the drama parts tho. That was still a sweet ending! Seemed a little rushed tho? Like everything the episodes built up to with all that melodrama just reduced to that. Nothing wrong with it but cliche, as Tomaruin remarked. I guess I would have preferred if they went with more melodrama, it just all fell a little flat. But you can’t go wrong with a sweet father-daughter tale, it’s bound to tug on some heartstrings. |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| On one hand this anime was so-so in terms of comedy and on another that irrelevant manipulative drama in the end. Overcomplicating relations in family of MC is also redundant. It's like author wanted to make something special with several serious themes wrapped in a comedy but episodes weren't enough to develop anything of it. It's pretty ridiculous that previous anime I watched the Great Pretender was light-hearted and even factually dramatic scenes there weren't sad at all even though they should be when this actually comedy anime had a strong focus on drama for no reason. Some authors definitely need to be more coherent and also "Jack of all trades, master of none" obviously. |
| Great finale. I cried ngl The comedy, as others have said, has been mostly a hit or miss with me. The father-daughter relationship was definitely the part i enjoyed the most All in all a great experience |
| Man this was such great journey took me a while to finish but going slow has its positives as well. also really happy for not being a tragedy ending. Hime and Goto what a lovely pair. too bad that their mother passed away. 8.5/10 |
| Explainable in one episode. The point is in this last episode. Very enjoyable story. Love adult Hime. |
| I was fully expecting Hime to go pull her prize winning awards, but I guess his art has memories of happy moments as well. |
Von_1295 said: Marinate1016 said: So my coma prediction from months ago was right... but man, why the fuck is it raining in my room? What an absolutely beautiful conclusion to a beautiful series. Great storytelling to have everything come full circle at the end there. Goto was afraid of Hime finding out the truth and hid is career from her. When he wakes from the coma, Hime and co want to hide the truth from him. I think the sequence of Hime running to meet up with her friends and get those manga manuscripts is one we’ll be talking about for a long time. Very fitting that at the end, Goto’s love for manga is what brings back his memories and reconnects he and his daughter. Heartwarming show. For those interested, the manga is also ending next month. Didn't the anime covered the hole story? Doess the manga have the next story line? No, that’s why there’s a movie. |
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| Just finished rewatching the series after watching the movie and the movie fills in a lot of the gaps in the anime, but realistically had they made this a 24 episode series it would have been even better than it was. But, its a wonderful anime and even better the 2nd time around. I loved trying to figure out which character was based off Zetsubo characters too.. Chiri-chan being the most recognisable. |
| May the Uguu be with you. |
| The puzzle from the previous episode has been answered in this final episode. Starting from What happened to his father? Why did his father stop drawing manga? I like the ending of this anime. 10/10 from me |
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| Anime that i watch and actually enjoy are usually few and far between, this being one of them! Majority of the time alot of anime just ends up being a timesink way to alleviate boredom, basicaly an eh why not got nothing better to do anyways. |
| Wow, this show was a massive disappointment. I knew from my very brief experience with Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei that I wasn't much of a fan of Kumeta's comedic style (and on that note, gotta remove Joshiraku from my PTW as I didn't know that was one of his works too), but I honestly didn't expect this show to be so heavy on its comedic elements. I was expecting something more akin to Usagi Drop, a wholesome slice-of-life mixed with more serious elements when appropriate. Instead, what we got seemed to be a show with an identity crisis, stuck between its disparate comedic and wholesome elements and ultimately never fully committing to either in favour of... whatever this was. Seriously, this final episode was so weird and felt more or less completely out of place from the rest of the show, while simultaneously being rushed as hell to the point of being near-enough incoherent. Most of these reveals about the family history and the two "love children" feel utterly irrelevant, and the amnesia ploy is so contrived to boot. More to the point, it doesn't feel like this mystery justified the slow build-up it was given throughout the show, and I'm not even sure why it was necessary at all: did Kumeta think that a simple father-daughter story wouldn't grab people and that he needed some sort of gimmick to keep people interested? Because he didn't. Besides all that, not too much else to say. When the show went for emotional punches with Hime and Gotou's interactions, it generally landed as intended, but the show ultimately didn't have enough of that. On the flipside, the show had way too much of Tomaruin, such an irritatingly obnoxious and obtuse character. 4/10. Last Kumeta work I will ever watch, as I clearly don't like his writing style at all. I wish I'd just stuck with the gut feeling I had when this was a seasonal and I skipped it because of it being a Kumeta work. |
| Overall the show was pretty good. Some genuinely funny comedy, likeable characters, and an ominous atmosphere throughout. but that final episode was utter trash...it ruined everything! I'm sure I am not the only one who thinks it would have been better if he had died. But the whole coma/amnesia thing might have been more palatable without complicating matters with shipwrecks, love children and...kabuki theater? What the fuck? I got really worried about the direction we were headed in when Hime started asking if Goto was really her father. Thankfully it didn't go there. I give it a generous 7/10 |
epidemia78Nov 30, 2021 2:03 PM
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| Truly a Wholesome Anime! It's awesome seeing her follow the Art Path too. |
| I m glad all that teasing after each episode end wasn't for nothing, and shit really happened, I really didn't expect it to conclude like this, based on what the show was going for. The SoL wasnt bad, but I was not that captivated by the characters either (I loved the OP thought). So I was ready to give the series a 7, but thankfully this episode was a good surprise. 7.7/10 = 8 kuroneko99 said: As far as having watched the show, it was an unnecessary addition that he was of a Kabuki lineage (and that running scene). The ending was the one the best parts of the anime, but indeed, it was soo rushed, it needed at least an episode 13, because they suddenly dropped all of that in a single episode... would have been even better if it had time to flesh all of that out. Like you said, it was unnecessary, but to me, it felt like that, because the anime reserved soo little time to explain this all. |
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| Beautiful wrapped up, going to miss this show for a while :( 8/10 |
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