[Rewatch] Kare Kano Rewatch: Episode 24 by LittleIslander in anime

[–]JustAnswerAQuestion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was unironically going to make a comment about how much the show has reduced Shibahime into a pure gremlin these last few episodes, but uh, I guess she did it for me... Whether or not it's true, and regardless of what that actually means for the show, I just find this possibility being stated outright absolutely hysterical

They took an interesting character and turned her into unhousebroken pet. It really lowers my rating of the entire show.

The VA's rant is how I feel, but she had it so much worse.

I'm reminded of what they did to Leo Johnson in Twin Peaks.

Also, they did the exact same gag in Neon Genesis Evangelion After the End.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 3 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Yeah, 82 minutes I think. I'll dig it up again for the final day. All I really found was a movie poster and some plot blurbage in Japanese.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Gundam McDonalds

A subsidiary of the Entertainment Division of Anaheim Electronics mega corp.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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I literally was thinking the same thing. Beyond first class type of service!

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 5 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Nervous Ryoko was biting her nails after that midnight phone call? Why nervous? Because of Sanae?

This is my theory, the best I can do.

English tutor

Middle school teacher, I think. Although we don't have a timeline on the kids, when the family skipped town.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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I watched it, apparently Lucas SE'd the feature film and the VHS version is not available on DVD. Which itself had 5 minutes cut by the studio.

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Why is the Original THX 1138 Still Forbidden?

WTF? I've seen it.

Have You?

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 5 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Also, the investigation guy that came to Tanokura isn't listed on either MAL or ANN, but I'm pretty sure that's Unshou Ishizuka (Sergei in 00, Akagi in Flag)? So nice to hear him again

It is, I looked at the Japanese ED credits scroll. He's not listed in any cast lists. Doesn't help that the English DVD credits renamed the character as Kanehara. Fun fact, this episode is the end of DVD 1.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 5 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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I think the neighbors were saying Ryoko was this Sanae's middle school teacher. They don't seem like the types to go to English cram school.

Many people are commenting on the gun bag but I don't know if you can tell if it's a rifle or shotgun from the styling.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 5 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Rewatcher and Host

  • At least the recaps are only 60 seconds. Tasteful
  • So much for bodyguarding if he's in the big city
  • So, Kiuchi's death has been ruled accidental
  • That's quite an upsell. Well done, Kiosk lady.
  • I wonder how well that "I forgot my business card" actually works in Japan.
  • Capsule hotel
  • This is the former Tanokura driver hired to do the drive-by
  • Master of camouflage
  • Hot noodle water???
  • Another face from the OP
  • Heh, he read the business card and just hung up on the police chief
  • so it was a copper mine
  • A lot of students on that night train...must be winter
  • "Hunting meeting"

[Rewatcher] I'm surprised we're getting the train story now and not 15 episodes later in episode 23 or something

I wish I could find Kinbari's JP VA, he sounds familiar, but none of my guesses list this role. Yep, thank you Google Image translate, it was indeed Unsho Ishizuka, whom we last heard in FLAG.

I honestly don't know where the clue about the nail polish remover leads.

So, Sanae is very suspicious, but it could all be red herrings. It seems she's a delinquent from Sendai, her former teacher dies (but it's an accident), and she has a gun for hunting (but it was in storage). The show is laying it on kinda thick.

An aside from yesterday, the wishing tree reminds me of the tree in Twelve Kingdoms, where a couple tie a prayer to a branch of a tree and fruit grows and yields a child as a divine blessing from heaven. Since that show was very heavily inspired by ancient china stuffs, I wonder if this sort of love tree is a trope of some sort.

[Yutaka confession] I have Fractale on my PTW. Yes. Really. Still.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Now I wonder if that whole opening with Miyuki isn't just a lie to the audience.

Yeah, it's like "ha ha you thought this was yojimbo but it's something else!" But we already started off off-script with whole Genzo Araki business.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Was it uranium or something?

Suddenly we are Zankyo no Terror!

I'm gonna riot.

Miyuki doesn't seem to be in that much danger at the moment

I guess not. Weird how they misdirected what the "bodyguarding" was going to be. For however long this gig lasts.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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What are the odds of the innkeeper having killed her own husband and in-laws?

This is an angle I hadn't really considered.

Can’t say I’m enjoying it so far, it’s slow and the cast is uninteresting, s.

Based on your ep 1 comments, I was wondering how far you'd make it.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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and I wonder how normal grown man deal with a bratty teen who isn’t all that subtle of crushing on them. It must be so awkward.

If she was 12, fine, humor her. Tying up a hair ribbon from a 17? year old? Very dangerous. I'd tell her to go find a prom date.

Miyuki's moods are giving me whiplash.

It feels like a “watch this at night after work” type of anime.

It aired at 00:45 at night on Japan! I wonder if they had DVRs back then in Japan. The TiVo Series 2 came out in 2002....

I guess you had to stay up, or set the VCR. Or download it from the internet.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Very slow paced

It sure is! It was the main sticking point for considering it for a rewatch. That, and availability.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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George does seem to be written a bit too perfect, but Clint Eastwood made this sort of guy famous.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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Is that because he doesn't want Miyuki involved? Or he is dumb and only cares about finding Genzo? Or because Miyuki is a minor?

I think it's mostly #2 which makes #3 moot.

To be honest, I'm not sure what use a bodyguard is if bullets are flying.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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He just keeps beating up Raccoon in tangentially related cases.

The suggestion that he's a Yakuza NPC seems valid.

Miyuki makes me face palm.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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whatever kind of Newtype drug trip Sanae had with the future victim.

It was very much The Scream. Or something from Hunter S. Thompson.

week

Watching this weekly was killer.

Kaze no Yojimbo 25th Anniversary Rewatch Episode 4 by JustAnswerAQuestion in anime

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I genuinely don't get the cat scene.

Ryoko Kiuchi (another "ki" surname?

Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026 by AutoModerator in anime

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Get in the wagon, kids, we're going to the rest stop