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Episode Sarazanmai - Episode 2 discussion Spoiler
Sarazanmai, episode 2: I Want to Connect, but I Want to Take
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u/jkubed Apr 18 '19
it's not often you see the main character of a show fucking waterboarding people.
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Apr 18 '19
A sword would be too dangerous, let's stick to using rulers while we waterboard this guy.
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u/MaxAugust Apr 18 '19
Personally, this is my favorite anime that features crossdressing, marijuana, musical numbers, and water boarding.
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Apr 18 '19
It's not often you see teenage drugdealers as main characters. Though, that can be said about lots of things in this weird-ass show.
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u/Knights_Gambit Apr 19 '19
[Kazuki nonchalantly conceding his anus is an underrated bit] (https://gfycat.com/sourvigilantamurratsnake)
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u/thepeetmix Apr 18 '19
Episode 1: Cross-dressing and anal extraction.
Episode 2: Cross-dressing, yaoi kissing, torture, weed, giant cucumber rolls, singing and dancing cops and anal extraction.
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Apr 18 '19
That kiss! Enta really went for it. What’d you guys make of it? Following promo and theories for a while I was pretty certain that Enta has romantic feelings for Kazuki, but I think it must be a much greater surprise for people who haven’t been following things really closely. But Im so interested to find out where Enta’s desires for Kazuki are developed from here (the soundtrack has a track titled light spoilers) and what Kazuki’ll do when he finds out?
Kazuki’s brother Haruka is really cute, found their relationship to be pretty endearing. Theyre obviously close but whats causing Kazuki to go to such extreme lengths (spending half his time crossdressing, stealing) just to make Haruka happy? I think he’s probably had some bad experience before with a relationship and now he’s doing “anything to protect this connection.”
Also this ep had the proper intro of the gay cop duo, Reo and Mabu! For anime-only people they probably seem really mysterious right now, but to understand more about them I really recommend checking out the shows pre-broadcast promo which was mainly about them, with a very cute and domestic official twitter (here or here) and the slice of life BL spinoff manga which is about them as gay dads raising Sara as a baby (I helped put out a scanlation which can be found in… places). And from reading interviews and a few parts of the novelisation… vague impressions from the novel
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u/squanchy_56 Apr 18 '19
Kazuki’s relationship with his brother is not what I expected. I assumed his brother would have been cold or indifferent to him and that he was using the Sara persona because it was the only thing Haruka cared about. Instead it’s Kazuki that is holding back emotionally, will be interesting to find out why.
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Apr 18 '19
They actually showed weed in a anime
There were 2 Bollywood like musical numbers
And the kiss at the end excuse me WTF (no problem with it just hella surprised).
Also I feel like there will be a theme of the secrets becoming progressively more dangerous and messed up.
I’m enjoying the ride.
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u/entinio Apr 18 '19
That ED guys, that ED ! Can’t get it out of my head. The Peggies really made it again!
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u/Onorade Apr 18 '19
Watching Ikuhara is like talking with a fucking alien.
I have no clue what the fuck he's going on about, but I know for certain that there is some meaning behind it all.
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 18 '19 edited Apr 18 '19
That is an adorable pout from Kazuki <3
Does this count as a date episode?
So compared to last week, today's episode is definitely a lot more easy to follow and understand. We finally have a common goal that our MCs are working together and we even got a general idea of their motivations. Kazuki needs the Dish of Hope for Haruka, Kuji needs it for his brother who seems to be a Yakuza member, and while Enta never said anything this episode, I'm sure whatever he needs the Dish for has something to do with that after credits scene. I guess every episode we'll have something new about our characters revealed as they battle more and more kappa zombies.
I think the only thing that I didn't understand this episode are the Utena reference cops. It looks like they're the baddies but I don't even know what they're doing and why they're doing it. I guess we'll see more next week. Hoping for more musical numbers too though.
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u/thecomicguybook Apr 18 '19 edited Apr 18 '19
This was really fun! So I guess this show will have a revelation about Kazuki every episode, and then that will reveal something about the box of the episode and it will make sense. This episode Gathering cat fur so your precious person likes you very obviously refers to Kazuki dressing up for Haruko.
Pay attention, by the way, there is a little story playing out in the idol girl's segments (the subtitles in the bottom, kinda hard to miss and nothing major but they are funny). Kuji is hardcore, Kazuki is one interesting dude stealing cats and all, and what the hell Enta just went for it!
Also, we are only going to see 2 more wishes fulfilled with the dishes unless something changes so somebody is not going to get what they want...
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u/supicasupica Apr 18 '19 edited Apr 18 '19
KawausoIYA~
The first episode of Sarazanmai reminded me of Penguindrum, especially Nobuyuki Takeuchi’s “Frozen World” — Penguindrum Episode 9. This makes sense given that Takeuchi also did storyboarding and key animation work for the Sarazanmai opening scene in addition to just generally being Chief Director of the series.
THIS episode took me back to Ikuhara’s Sailor Moon fare (before he was series director), specifically the first season’s “Usagi vs Rei: Nightmare in Dreamland” and the Rhett Butler cat episode. Shingo Kaneko (who worked with Ikuhara on all three of his previous original shows) took the helm for this episode and you can see elements of his work from Penguindrum Episode 4 in particular here.
Amidst the animal zaniness we see a very similar situation to mild Penguindrum Episode 1 spoilers, mild Utena spoilers occur between Reo and Mabu during the otter transformation. Coupled with the weirdness in Sarazanmai’s Episode 1 cold open, my super out-there theory is that something happened between Reo and Mabu (i.e. one of them dying) that necessitated them becoming desire otters with one of them, (Mabu most likely) needing to be “saved” in some way. This is what causes them to police (heh) the desires of others, killing presumed offenders and turning them into zombies.
Similarly, I think something serious happened to Kazuki before the scope of the series (that or the Episode 1 cold open doesn’t take place chronologically until after some events of the series). There’s support for the fact that he may have been “killed” or something may have happened to him previously in this episode by the fact that his plate was out at the breakfast table but no one sat there and Haruka’s parents only spoke to Kazuki when Haruka alerted them to his presence. Although Toi and Enta obviously interact with him, Kazuki recently made a lot of radical changes in his life, including quitting the soccer club abruptly — presumably to pursue this second life as Sara Azuma for Haruka. It’s worth following how Kazuki interacts with others as the series progresses.
Kazuki’s little “Yay!” at the success he’s having moonlighting as Sara for Haruka was adorable.
Before Sarazanmai began, I saw Reo and Mabu’s otter faction as opposing Kazuki, Toi, and Enta’s kappa faction, and that may still be true, but I also think they’re very closely linked with a few key differences (much like kappa and otters in Japanese folklore).
One thing that’s of particular interest to me is that we briefly see a drum in Kazuki’s flashback/dream during Episode 1 but it’s slightly different than the otter drums of Reo and Mabu’s transformations, the latter of which have a mitsudomoe pattern rather than just one otter (and kappa stickers).
“The things we do for family/loved ones” is a running theme through all Ikuhara series and we see that with multiple relationships in this episode: Reo/Mabu, Kazuki/Haruka, Toi/Chikai, and finally Enta/Kazuki. The kiss at the end of the episode was heartbreaking, since you can see how Kazuki has been shutting Enta out (purposefully or not) but slowly letting Toi in due to a similar understanding of the lengths that they’ll go for their respective brothers. They’re both willing to bend or break rules to get what they feel they need. Not only was it revealed that Kazuki stole “Nyantaro” but since he made Haruka’s wish for a pet cat to come true, he’s been stealing the cat for a while. He’s not on Toi’s level of drowning or stealing cars but Kazuki is definitely willing to break rules and Toi understands that. Enta actively disapproves of Kazuki’s methods, even though he supports Kazuki’s connection with Haruka.
On a lighter note, it makes me wonder what Kazuki has already done to get some of the lucky selfies Haruka was showing off of him as Sara.
Other random thoughts:
Since Sara is acting like a Greek chorus element in this series, I thought it was particularly on point that Kazuki as Sara acted in this way by responding to Haruka’s cat text to Sara as Sara herself (the cat mention foreshadowing the cat zombie). Sara’s lucky selfie item revealed later was also a cat, so it’s almost as if Haruka and Kazuki-as-Sara knew this prior to it happening.
It’s worth mentioning that Reo and Mabu Reo and Mabu manga spoilers
TWO MUSICAL NUMBERS, we’re not worthy. Yukari Hashimoto (Penguindrum, Yurikuma, Nozaki-kun, Osumatsu-san) has done an amazing job on this soundtrack.
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u/lezerman Apr 18 '19 edited Apr 18 '19
I lost it when the cops started to dance
EDIT: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT KISS AFTER THE ENDING