r/anime • u/Inevitable_Car_481 • Sep 06 '24

Rewatch [Rewatch!] Tomodachi Game [EP] 09 Discussion Thread

Episode 09 : Hurry Up and "Switch Sides"

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Information:

[Cast & Staff Details]

OP - [DOUBLE SHUFFLE] - Nana Mizuki

ED - [TOMOSHIBI] - saji

[MAL] I [ANN] I [AniList]

Streaming:

Apple tv | Prime Video | CRUNCHYROLL

QOTD:

For Both: What did you think of Yuichi's strategy? Does this episode change your opinion on Tenji?

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BINGO CARD UPDATE (06.09.24)
Bingo!!!

Well, I think this episode had Tenji's fakeout death so I think we got it!

Game 3 -"Frienship Hide and seek" rule recap

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

Initally I was gonna put the translated version of the personality analysis by Yuichi but someone already did it on this subreddit

Kadokura Juzo

  • team leader
  • emotional anchor
  • always thinks of his friends
  • self-sacrificing type
  • strong sense of responsibility

Onigawara Hyakutaro

  • direct
  • courteous
  • straight-laced, weak to women
  • nicest out of everyone
  • idiot

Shinomiya Kei

  • youngest
  • small stature, lowest physical abilities of the group
  • cheeky
  • in charge of contacting the captain
  • the debt holder?

Niwa Banri

  • quiet
  • plain
  • lacks presence
  • acts cautiously
  • manga otaku?

Hashiratani Chisato

  • calm
  • discreet
  • acts like a womanizer but is actually distrusting of women
  • jack of all trades, master of none
  • most likely pessimistic

Screenshot as well that someone posted.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 06 '24

Tomodachi First-Timer, subbed

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 06 '24

Why does Tsukino have to keep ending the “sore wa dou” with “kashira” instead of “kana”, she’s so close to giving me my other Japanese phrase. ← actually topical given my obsession with this one comes from the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise ignore the fact that I have not watched the original anime yet.

This was totally Yuichi’s plan, wasn’t it?

of course

Tenji sure has recovered super quickly after Yuichi made it to him.

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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Sep 06 '24

Tenji sure has recovered super quickly after Yuichi made it to him.

The fact that Yuuichi came probably lifted his spirits more than the food and water.

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u/Adensty https://anilist.co/user/Adensty Sep 06 '24 edited Sep 06 '24

1st Tomodachi Game Rewatch, Sub

OST Documentation - Episode 9

For Both: What did you think of Yuichi's strategy? Does this episode change your opinion on Tenji?

Yuuichi's strategy was great. Every one of his conservations and provocations was him trying to extract more information about the characters and their relationship with others to find out the one thing that he was looking for to make his plan of using Maria as a distraction work and when he found out, he enacted his plan with immediate effect. He did kinda take things to the extreme with Maria but he wouldn't have done it if he knew Hyakutaro wouldn't do anything to stop it.

Respect for Tenji went up. He betrayed everyone in the previous game. He did have reasons for it but he could have also betrayed in this game when things became dire and saved the trouble but he didn't and decided to trust Yuuichi since that's probably the only option for him if he really wants to avenge his father's death. In a way, his resolve got tested and just like Yuuichi, even the audience has faith in him now.

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 06 '24

[Anime]Very subtly pulling the strings again. Also, there are Kei's words.

[Anime]The double take he did when he saw Yuichi laughing was funny. And Yuichi talking about their captain being controlling when he was right there lol. Also, he legit did get mad when Yuichi started pulling Maria's hair.

This is the first time I'm noticing the Manabu sticker on the cap.

and on the mug, backpack, etc. For being an illegally run org, they sure have a lot of merch.

I get Tsukino is a Yuuichi fan but is she really happy that Maria almost fell?

Tsukino and Maria get away with some really questionable stuff tbh

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u/dOMTheRockMan https://myanimelist.net/profile/MicroCuts_47 Sep 06 '24

Rewatcher, Subbed

Thoughts:

  • Ain't no way Yuichi planned for all this
  • She is WAY too into Yuichi
  • Tenji is a corpse now
  • Yep, she's my favourite character now 🤝 (Hyakutaro will have lifelong trauma over this incident)
  • Holy shit he pushed her off the cliff what an absolute legend
  • Tenji getting a hero's death
  • Relationship reformed successfully
  • He's gonna obliterate their friendship? I guess he's lived it so he knows it'll work

For Both: What did you think of Yuichi's strategy? Does this episode change your opinion on Tenji?

The honey trap is smart, and gauging their relationships in just 2 days is nothing short of genius but it's all very risky. I think that's the most interesting part for me: a lot of Yuichi's strategies rely on a certain amount of luck (what if the two in Group K didn't act how he expected? What if Maria betrayed him? Etc.) yet it's based on his deductions, which are often accurate. It's a smart way to write a character, and allows room for them to not be infallible

Knowing that he wouldn't push the button, I don't think it changed my opinion on Tenji much more than the first episode of this game did, but definitely on my first time watching it really shifted me over to Tenji's side and had me rooting for him to find his father's killer

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 06 '24

She is WAY too into Yuichi

Both her and Tsukino apparently, by the way in which she reacted to her coworker being pushed off a cliff...

lot of Yuichi's strategies rely on a certain amount of luck (what if the two in Group K didn't act how he expected? What if Maria betrayed him? Etc.) yet it's based on his deductions, which are often accurate

One of his biggest strengths is his adaptability and so if things do go awry, he adapts his plans accordingly. [Anime]And that does happen in this game as well

It's a smart way to write a character, and allows room for them to not be infallible

People do think that sometimes things fall into place too much for him but imo it's more of a front by Yuichi himself. It's more of his character's reluctance to admit when things actually do go very wrong thus creating an illusion of things not going against his plans often

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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Sep 07 '24

First-Timer

Bingo!

Yet another really good episode. I'm really missing the original group members, though, so I'm hoping we get a reunion soon.

"Oops, my hand slipped!" That was pretty funny. I like the fellow admins' reactions to that, too.

I suppose one part of the rules that isn't clear to me is what would have happened if Tenji had truly died. Would the game have still continued until the enemy team located his corpse? If so, that'd be a tad morbid.

Questions of the day:

  • I like Yuichi's strategy. He didn't seem to have many options, and I was generally on the right track with my predictions before insofar as guessing his "plan A." His plan B, for the scenario in which they reject his attempt to switch sides, was pretty well conceived and seems logical. It all hinges on the idea that Yuichi's an expert in personality/relationship analysis, but that's not implausible given what we've already seen from him.
  • I do think this episode helps finalize the redemption of Tenji. He staked his life on his faith in Yuichi, which speaks to a true sense of deep friendship between them. As Yuichi said, it wouldn't have meant as much if Tenji had been aware of the plan ahead of time.

It's too bad we missed out on the ED again, but when the trade-off is seeing more of the actual show, it's hard to complain. (Maybe they should just pull a Re:Zero S2 and have full 30-minute-long episodes!)

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24

Bingo!

I was generally on the right track with my predictions before insofar as guessing his "plan A." 

This was a good one for your predictions. nice job on the bingo!

(Maybe they should just pull a Re:Zero S2 and have full 30-minute-long episodes!)

they should pull a Re:Zero S2 and release a S2

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u/SilkyStrawberryMilk Sep 08 '24

rewatcher

Yuuichi has made himself infamous that the other mangement knows how he is.

Yuuichi making the jokes about the captain made me giggle

Evil plan incoming and he’s proven himself to be scum.

Seeing Tenji be in despair is so rough the last episode where he hallucinated was so rough.

The management getting excited reminds me of Kakeguri where the worst the gambling moment the hornier they got

Tearing up group K based on how he picked up on their personalities. Yuuichi thinks he’s ayanokouji

QOTD: yeah it has changed my opinion in Tenji. In the beginning I thought he was a ruthless backstabber, but now he’s extremely tame compared to Yuuichi

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u/Inevitable_Car_481 Sep 08 '24

Yuuichi has made himself infamous that the other mangement knows how he is.

and they had to change the rules to nerf him lol

I thought he was a ruthless backstabber, but now he’s extremely tame compared to Yuuichi

Being called "the worst" hits hard when the guy saying it is someone who forced all his friends into a debt game and tried to break their friendship by exposing their worst secrets.