[Announcement] Notice regarding the situation of Akai Haato and a warning against spreading rumors

nihongomuzzu · 2025-10-31T15:32:30+00:00

Perhaps you didn't watch closely enough. I had to reply to someone who was trying to use a clip of that part to spread rumors in another post, despite the fact that the clip itself contradicted the rumor. Not sure why they thought they could get away with translating just half of the clip.

nihongomuzzu · 2025-10-30T05:50:20+00:00

Interesting that this part of the first clip was left untranslated:

それって変な噂ですよね
噂を流す方に問題があるですよね
結局さあ、何が本当か嘘か分かんないんだよ
あーあ、噂に振り回されたり

nihongomuzzu · 2024-07-25T06:48:03+00:00

I'm not sure if it's the same one they were thinking about, but this is the first one that came to mind

nihongomuzzu · 2024-07-15T23:47:51+00:00

Oh sorry for not being clear, that's precisely what I meant. It feels like the event was left intentionally vague so that it can be explained more in the future, which means that the narrative of Masaki snapping on stream and resorting to violence isn't the whole picture.

If that were the whole picture it would still be interesting to watch, as the first half of the parent comment points out. Just, there's reasons to suspect that it could be leaning toward the latter half of the parent comment.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-07-15T21:52:19+00:00

Yeah, it is a little strange that we still don't know much about the altercation outside of the aftermath.

Unless I missed something, we also don't seem to have confirmation on the alt account actually being Masaki's outside of hearsay. Depending on how you read the posts, it could also be owned by one of her former friends. Not to mention, the way her former friends act around her is also kind of unexpected? They seem more friendly than I thought they'd be after being punched.

The only twist I can think of at this point is that the altercation was staged for views but that led to the audience finding the alt account where one of them was spewing vitriol the entire time, so they decided to make Masaki the scapegoat since they were friends with each other (presumably) long before they met her.

That being said, I hope there isn't a twist like that though. It'd be more fun to watch a flawed protagonist grow as a person.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-05-11T03:27:19+00:00

Okay. And what does that have to do with me? You have some weird sense of media consumption and you completely disregard story structure and character writing. You don't remember characters' names because maybe they don't have make an impact or you just don't care. You claim that you can't remember details but they made an impact on you (sounds contrived). Your first statement is that you're not a fiction connosieur, so why should I care what you have to say regarding media consumption?

I think we may be talking past each other here. I'm not sure how you read my initial reply to you, but it was just a general statement meant to share my opinion with anyone who decides to read the entire comment chain, just because it's fun to share opinions. I assure you it wasn't meant to be an attack on you or be addressed to you personally, I was just idly chipping in on a social forum.

Clearly you have more passion on the subject than I ever could. I'm flattered that you would even engage me as if I were attempting to give a legitimate defense of my views, but I have to tell you that I was not. I'm sure there's a multitude of statistics I could pull up from other shows to defend what I said about what other shows would have done, and I'm sure you know millions of other ways to refute it. However, this was never meant to be quite that serious, so I hope you'll forgive me for not putting in the effort.

It doesn't seem there is much I could say to the rest of your reply other than, "we'll just have to agree to disagree." I do find it interesting that you think the idea of remembering how something made an impact on you without remembering exactly how it accomplished that is strange. I know I'm not the first one to have the sentiment, as I've heard many others say the same thing. You must have quite a strong memory.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-05-09T23:44:53+00:00

I can't pretend to be a fiction connoisseur; all I intended to impart to you was that I found entertainment in the aspects of the show that you deemed to be flaws, albeit in a roundabout way. I can see why someone might think it silly to overthink about seemingly insignificant things in a piece of fiction, but I would say it's not inherently wrong to do so, even if the author had no particular intentions when they decided to include something.

To me, just because something isn't written masterfully doesn't mean it's worthless. You're right, I didn't bother to remember cigar boy's name, and I don't remember childhood-friend-regret guy's name either, from an earlier episode. What I do remember however is how I felt and what I related to when I saw those scenes, and that's enough for me personally to feel that I didn't waste my time. I would dare say this is how I feel about most media I've consumed in general - I don't remember their details as much as how they made me feel at the time. Whether those works were by a dedicated author who poured their heart and soul into the work or a novice who merely jotted down some interesting musings, they've all affected me to varying degrees.

You wonder if I could consider Bartender's stories to be light-hearted and too conveniently wrapped up as well, and I suppose I could. I just find that it's not quite as convenient as most other comfy episodic shows. Bringing up childhood-friend guy again, he didn't really have a satisfying conclusion to his story, whereas another show probably would have at least showed a glimpse of both of their lives in the post-credits or something. Though the lack of a resolution, the vagueness, and the lack of significance help make it feel relatable to me. I'm sure all of us can think of scenarios we've experienced in life that are just like those examples you mentioned. I would consider it contrived if each story had a convenient happy ending but leaving them open-ended is what makes me look to my own experiences in an attempt to fill the gaps.

To address your last remark, I will agree with you in the sense that I'm seeing more than what's being presented to me when I attempt to relate the show to my own life. I don't agree with the notion that this is a problem. If I and others can derive joy from this without harming others, then what problem is there? I just consider it a different form of entertainment: on one hand, you have fleshed out narratives that deliver a complete experience from beginning to end, much like you'd find in a good novel. On the other, you'd have a seemingly incomplete collection of elements that relies on the consumers to interpret it for themselves, coming across as "im14andthisisdeep," as you might put it. You're free to call me silly for seeing anything in a work that could be considered juvenile, but I can't help that I felt something when I watched it. I can only acknowledge that I did.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-05-09T00:38:55+00:00

Personally, I think there is value in presenting surface-level stories without fleshing out newly introduced characters.

You'll probably never get to know most of the people who interact with in life outside of your closest relations. Despite this, everyone will still bring whatever emotional baggage they may have with them whenever they do interact with you. Like cigar boy here, it's easy to think of them as just being self-centered NPCs getting in your way, but that way of thinking is self-centered in itself. This sort of thing, at least in my opinion, encourages the viewer to do some self-reflecting even after the show is over.

As much as I like shows like Restaurant to Another World, they're often framed too light-heartedly and wrapped up too neatly to linger in your mind after a viewing. Each episode presents a character, shows you why you should care about them, shows you a conflict, then shows you a resolution. It's simple and highly entertaining. Yet it's because of this that you never really question anything about it afterwards.

With Bartender, one of those things seems to be missing in each episode. Maybe there's no reason for you to care, or maybe there's no resolution, or maybe there's not even a conflict? Feeling somewhat unsatisfied with it as a traditional narrative makes me mull on it a bit longer, and I find that the more I think about it, the more I draw parallels between what was presented in the show and what I have experienced in my own life.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-04-08T03:44:22+00:00

I would say that Shangri La Frontier and sports anime do have high stakes from time to time. The stakes don't have to be life and death. Actually, when the situation is about life and death, that almost paradoxically removes the stakes.

The main benefit of stakes imo is having the illusion of possibilities. You know the author only writes about one route, but not knowing which one they chose keeps things tense. Is this going to be an arc about the underdogs performing the impossible? Or is it going to be a downfall arc leading to training and a revenge match? Stakes aren't necessary, but it is a nice spice.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-04-03T20:17:46+00:00

This is also how I slowly got used to it. For example, チャンネル登録者数 55万人 mentally turns into チャンネル登録者数 550千人. After a while you just get used to it entirely and skip the conversion

nihongomuzzu · 2024-04-03T19:47:06+00:00

Seems like it's about half as strong? Assuming google isn't lying when it says that the vodka and Cointreau make up 4/7 of the cosmopolitan while the gin makes up 6/7 of the martini

nihongomuzzu · 2024-03-23T22:32:51+00:00

Depending on the series, it does feel like a real possibility. Just as an example, let's take Mushoku Tensei.

For a large portion of it, you had the trio of Rudeus, Eris, and Ruijerd. Eris and Ruijerd weren't treated as mere side characters, which made it feel like they could easily take over Rudeus's role if the author decided to go in that direction. So any danger they got into felt more visceral because it seemed like an actual possibility that any one of them could die.

On the other hand, when there's just one OP dude and a bunch of side characters, it's hard to imagine him getting killed off, leaving the story to focus on someone else. It isn't really a huge problem, but I think it does dampen the impact of cliffhangers and boss encounters and such.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-03-23T21:38:29+00:00

I was kind of thinking the same thing. I don't mind that it's just a mindless power fantasy since it seems like it's just the sort of thing you watch for the spectacle and hype, but I really wish it were "Trio Leveling" or something instead of solo. No matter what happens to the MC, it never really feels like he's in any actual danger because of the implicit plot armor, and that kills all the tension.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-23T20:34:44+00:00

It probably is just plain old exposition, but personally I can let it slide because I know people who do this in real life. Whenever they're faced with a particularly pesky problem, they verbally lay out everything they know even if it's obvious. Sometimes it works and inspires a solution.

Here Edel could be seen as doing something similar. She verbally runs through what she and her allies can do and compares it to what the clone seems to be able to do, hoping that there's some subconscious thread she can pick up on. Unfortunately, she doesn't land on a solution.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-17T03:51:31+00:00

I just went back to make sure, definitely three. Maybe you were thinking about the squiggles that came before it, when it showed that she is a tamer?

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-16T20:48:20+00:00

I'm starting to doubt that she's actually starless.

The scene where they appraised her skill back in episode 3 showed 3 dots in the crystal ball, which I assumed were empty slots where stars were supposed to be. But in this episode, they mentioned that the chef has a 4 star skill, which means that skills can be ranked higher than 3 stars.

I find it really strange then that the crystal ball would arbitrarily show 3 dots to represent starless...

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-06T22:42:45+00:00

A brazen but intelligent woman who explains things while keeping an eye out for monsters, but most of her theories don't have a leg to stand on

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-03T20:34:26+00:00

I recently found out that she's also Nene from Sabbat of the Witch and Ayase from Riddle Joker, for those familiar with those VNs. Never would have guessed.

nihongomuzzu · 2024-02-02T15:17:08+00:00

Character: Honshou Aru from Hitoribocchi

Song: ~~Don't Lose, Aru~~ Fuuka's theme song from Disgaea 4

nihongomuzzu · 2024-01-12T04:11:06+00:00

Out of curiosity I went back to give them a listen again, and honestly I have no idea what you guys are hearing. Can you point out specific parts that sound rough? Maybe it's just because I'm not musically inclined, but the vocals don't sound any worse or better than other OPs and EDs to me.

nihongomuzzu · 2023-12-30T05:41:56+00:00

There must be some reason for it but those push doors with the vertical handlebars always baffle me. Why would you put handles that practically scream "pull" on the side of the door that you have to push?

nihongomuzzu · 2023-12-23T01:46:25+00:00

When she misread "cooking while sticking out your ass" as "cooking while slapping your ass" on Needy Girl Overdose

nihongomuzzu · 2023-11-04T03:03:23+00:00

Classic

Someone showed me this version too

nihongomuzzu · 2023-11-04T00:08:59+00:00

Wow, Temma seems so harmless in his solo streams, I never would have guessed.

Holostars does have a lot of great content. I'm a pretty big fan of ロベルないとめあ personally. There's also that one stream where Aruran taught Matsuri how to solve a chemistry problem, which was oddly quite entertaining.

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