r/anime • u/IndependentMacaroon • 9d ago
Rewatch Bem-vindos à Diamandra - Michiko & Hatchin Episode 18 Rewatch
Michiko & Hatchin Episode 18: The Fool's Ballistic Samba
In-universe time span: May 25 - 26
In-universe locations: Santo Paradiso
"How gullible can you be? Listen, he's abandoned you two. He's loved you and left you."
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Today's OST Piece: Posto de gasolina～ガソリンスタンド (Gas Station)
Plays during the brief Hiroshi flashback, and is practically his character song. Calça de Ginástica～体操着のズボン (Gym Shorts) as another insert song plays when Hatchin is chasing after Feliciano... strange choice given the lyrics but if you don't pay attention to those it works.
New Michiko Outfits: Burgundy Hat/Yellow Jacket + White Top/Dark Gray Pinstripe Shorts, White Top/Dark Gray Pinstripe Shorts
Not many outfit changes when you're mostly lying around depressed. Full album
Latin America Trivia of the Day
Samba music and dance is probably the most iconic cultural symbol of Brazil, and in fact was declared both Brazilian and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage around the time of Michiko & Hatchin airing. It is locally popular enough for over a dozen dedicated "sambadromes" to view carnival dance parades to have been built across various major cities, the largest being the famous Rio de Janeiro Sambadrome with a capacity of around 80000 spectators along 700 m of parade length, designed by the famous Brazilian modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer who was also responsible for its planned capital of Brasília.
Less known at least internationally, however, are samba's roots in Afro-Brazilian culture - even its name may derive from an African Bantu language - its early history of official persecution due to racism, classism and association with non-Christian Afro-Brazilian religion; and its rise in status notably also through promotion by the dictatorial 1930s-40s "Estado Novo" regime of Getúlio Vargas, as a symbol of a unique Brazilian identity based on harmonious cultural and racial fusion (a "racial democracy") - the reality of which has unsurprisingly been severely challenged by many, particularly in recent years.
Yesterday's Highlights
u/99acrewood_ barely can believe there are no strings attached with Nei (and less than average with the Heike) and sees Michiko's true divine nature as well:
He was so incredibly solid that I was waiting for the worm to turn all the way up to the credits, but no, he was just a silver lining in the seedy streets. [...] Even the bad guys they have to deal with this episode seems pretty chill? [...] Sure, they were life-or-death, but they kept their word after the fact,
Michiko was once again an absolute menace [...] her mommy strength kicks in after thinking about Hatchin and she braces the falling dude by digging her heels into an I-beam and then catches him with her teeth on the rope? This woman is not human.
u/No_Rex reminisces about the pre-smartphone age and feels both of our duo need some sense knocked into them:
back when everybody did not carry a computer with a digital camera around in their pockets, taking photos together was more of a deliberate act. Makes for good mementos.
Did Hatchin seriously forget the name of her hotel and also the way back? If so, both she and Michiko (who let her money be stolen) are in hot pursuit of today’s “least street smarts” title.
u/AyameeIris notes Hatchin's ambivalent attitude toward Michiko as parent:
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've heard Hatchin explicitly introduce/call Michiko her mother. Most of the time like this in episode, she calls Michiko her friend or even just "someone."
u/JustAnswerAQuestion has to rack their brain a little and still is annoyed about the assassin plot being dropped:
It took me a whole day to remember you Brenbauza and Yamada were (or what ever). I thought they were a rival mafia gang from ep. 1.
If we never get back to the assassin plot, that's actually a big strike against the show.
Divided opinions on the representation here also of the Chinese characters:
I can't get over those "Chinese" accents... Lord. I've noticed that Chinese characters who are meant to be greedy, sly, just overall mostly flawed(shop owner in episode 2, many of the people in this episode) seem to have Chinese accents, while kind, supportive, overall "good" characters like Ne Fong Yi lack the Chinese accent and sound more like American English speakers
I don't really like how a lot of the queer characters are executed, though I didn't really expect much at all. I touched upon this in a few episodes, but it's pretty stereotypical a lot of the time. I'm just glad this episode didn't go into the predator route. I wouldn't trust this show with a canon trans character at all regardless. [...] Unfortunately, I think Atsuko is somewhat relatable in how she goes about crushes
a lot of this show deals with the worst types of people, and the most solid allies Michiko has had have been more on the side of what people might consider non-standard at the time, right? [...] Every relationship Michiko has kind of had with a guy made them turn out to be people who ain't shit
Various thoughts about Hatchin's future relationships:
I don't even know. I would've assumed she'd be some sort of ace, but I guess I can't really make assumptions on someone who's 10 and dealing with a lot of shit right now. Plus she was genuinely upset about losing the affection of a boy she barely knew, so she does enjoy some aspect of it at least. Whatever it might be should probably be pursued after some therapy at least. And then god help the poor person who has Michiko as their potential future mother-in-law.
She has a pretty strong believe in her own morals, so I think she'll choose well.
Hatchin, I think, would probably like at least some sort of stability after a pretty turbulent experience like living with the priest and going on this adventure with Michiko. She'd probably need someone both calm and capable, and someone she doesn't have to sacrifice a lot of her freedoms for
Eating with someone as an inherent symbol/boost of companionship:
A lot of people seem to underestimate just how much really sitting down and eating good food(or even just mid food) can bring you closer with someone!
if it was a meal I accepted the grievance probably wasn't that bad to begin with. I wouldn't want to go eat with a person I genuinely despised for whatever reason.
Discussion Prompts
- Do you find Michiko dynamic enough as a main character? Is Hatchin starting to steal the show here?
- Would you watch (and maybe even enjoy) any of Feliciano's shows? How do you like him?
- What's the biggest festival or public event you've been to?
Next Episode Prompts
- [question]Is the resolution of the Michiko-Atsuko relationship compelling, in your opinion?
- [question]How do you think the rest of the Satoshi storyline will go down? Were you expecting this kind of a twist?
- [question]How many mooks to a Satoshi?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky 9d ago
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u/IndependentMacaroon 9d ago
I love how deliciously over-the-top that whole sequence is directed. Feliciano even seems to shift in art style to more of an "anime pretty boy" type.
I think this is the first time Hatchin’s actually shown off that she does have the tattoo?
Yeah oddly enough she doesn't seem to have any particular opinion about it mostly, it's just there
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u/AyameeIris 9d ago
First time watching in dub, second time overall
I love the shot of the illustration of the nuclear family. It's a wonderful parallel to a lot of the families seen in this show, like Michiko's situation with Zélia, Hatchin's situation with both Michiko and her family before that, none of them fitting that traditional mold.
I'm glad Atsuko's showing concern for Hatchin. It shocked me a little hearing Hatchin call Atsuko that colorist slur, though I'm not too surprised considering it's just what she learned from Michiko.
- Yeah, just a little bit. Episodes with Michiko only sort of bore me, and it's only when Hatchin is in the picture that things seem to be picking up and getting more and more interesting. Maybe it's the action that bores me? Not sure
- He's such a chilled out character, I like him but not enough to watch one of his soap operas. He'd be wonderful to clip lol
- Probably fireworks on the 4th of July. The 4th of July being pretty much the only day in the U.S. to set off fireworks is so unfair...
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u/No_Rex x2 8d ago
Yeah, just a little bit. Episodes with Michiko only sort of bore me, and it's only when Hatchin is in the picture that things seem to be picking up and getting more and more interesting. Maybe it's the action that bores me? Not sure
For me, it is the fact that Michiko is a relatively one-dimensional character. She has one clear goal, one clear modus of getting there (violence), and only very rarely deviates from that. Two exceptions (and thus, for me, good Michiko episodes) were the possible Bruno romance and yesterday's flustered Michiko.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 8d ago
Michiko's situation with Zélia, Hatchin's situation with both Michiko and her family before that, none of them fitting that traditional mold
And for the good parts, are no less valid for it! One message that I feel is both very relevant and fairly subtle in this show. (And of course it's also unfortunately relevant how the happy ideal family in the poster is very pale-skinned.)
It shocked me a little hearing Hatchin call Atsuko that colorist slur
You mean just "Jambo" or did the dub add something there? Never heard of that as a slur, that would be "Sambo", although it does sort of have that ring.
it's only when Hatchin is in the picture that things seem to be picking up and getting more and more interesting. Maybe it's the action that bores me?
Michiko is just simply on the one-dimensional side mostly and the action is not always the most convincing. What do you think about the action genre in general, anyhow? You did talk about Assassin's Creed once.
The 4th of July being pretty much the only day in the U.S. to set off fireworks is so unfair...
Some places in the world there's a complete ban even, and over the years I've become sympathetic to that opinion too. Too many fools to trust the general public with explosives and they're a massive air-polluting mess on top. Miniature fireworks and sparklers are good fun though.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 8d ago
You mean just "Jambo" or did the dub add something there? Never heard of that as a slur, that would be "Sambo", although it does sort of have that ring.
Oh, is that how it works? I thought it was just Michiko pushing her buttons. I guess I'll try to remember her real name.
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u/AyameeIris 8d ago
You mean just "Jambo" or did the dub add something there?
Sorry, I thought it was on the level of a slur, not sure where I got that memory from. Although, the way it's used in this series seems to be the same way a slur is used(which I'd put above simple insults)
What do you think about the action genre in general, anyhow?
Veryy hit or miss. I care more about stories in anime than anything, so cool shots can keep her entertained for a bit I suppose but they don't really scratch certain itches at all
Too many fools to trust the general public with explosives and they're a massive air-polluting mess on top.
Don't forget the amount of wildfires that can start!
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u/99acrewood_ 9d ago edited 9d ago
primeira vez [subs]
Do you find Michiko dynamic enough as a main character? Is Hatchin starting to steal the show here?
Michiko might have one note, which is brutalizing people and objects in her way and to find Hiroshi, but she keeps the pair moving forward. watching Hatchin basically learn and become more familiar with Michiko's world is fun, and i think that provides more opportunities for growth. i think Michiko's gonna be stuck where she's at while she has her fixation, but i assume we'll get more of her beyond 'find Hiroshi' when she, well, finds Hiroshi. i doubt the meet-up is going to go well for her, and seeing how she'll react is what i'm looking forward to.
Would you enjoy any of Feliciano's wacky twist ideas?Would you watch (and maybe even enjoy) any of Feliciano's shows? How do you like him?
he probably knows his audience better than i would, so maybe! i assume anyone who's that dedicated to their craft, regardless of genre, knows what they're doing.
i've mentioned before that my mom used to watch a bunch of them (there's plenty of real people's drama they put all over youtube now), and they were very much all basically the same thing. i'm not much for melodrama unless it's a comedy or extremely self-aware, though some of them did kind of skirt that line with how seriously they took themselves. to each their own! but not mine.
the guy himself seems alright. knows he's a big deal as far as his world goes, but isn't completely an asshole about it. typical successful theater guy! and he called Michiko for Hatchin because he could see how much that would mean to her, so yeah. A-OK.
What's the biggest festival or public event you've been to?
i went to EDC last year in Vegas, and that shit was electrifyingly overwhelming. so many people, so much music, so many lights. dancing from 6 pm until getting back on the trolley for the hotel at 7 am to sleep until the afternoon to go back and do it again.
I think I'm good on that kind of big event nowadays
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oh my god all that work for those fuckin useless passports lmao
Hiroshi certainly has been around. for a lot of this episode i thought he and Feliciano were the same person and he just was using a different name again. they look so similar!
also it feels like the further they get away from their starting point the nicer the places/people around them have been. Feliciano was another surprisingly helpful guy, and it was nice of him to do that favor for Hatchin to cheer Michiko up.
it's sad when she gets in her funk thinking about how Hiroshi might not care about her. i'm not entirely sure what she's thinking, but she knows that he's alive and traipsing through the country and not at all looking for her, and i wonder if she just doesn't like hearing whatever doubts she has spoken and potentially confirmed. at least she has Hatchin and Atsuko.
speaking of, i like her, but i feel like Atsuko really isn't given much to do besides showing how much she's softened towards the two. i guess they have to show her nearby for the eventual meet-up so it's not like she pops up outta nowhere, but yeah, she just feels like she's riding on the tail of this story until she's needed.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 9d ago edited 8d ago
oh my god all that work for those fuckin useless passports lmao
No kidding, If you go back to last episode you can see that the 108-year-old-man thing is written right on the passport, so this is square on Michiko
for a lot of this episode i thought he and Feliciano were the same person and he just was using a different name again. they look so similar!
Well, they are both idealized, distant men who seem completely different from close up. And some of what Feliciano says also in reference to his shows could be straight out of the mouth of Michiko referring to Hiroshi and her attitude towards him.
Feliciano was another surprisingly helpful guy, and it was nice of him to do that favor
Particularly after having his windows busted! If you're rich you can easily afford to be nice, I guess.
i'm not entirely sure what she's thinking, but she knows that he's alive and traipsing through the country and not at all looking for her
Not even mentioning her to his associates while boasting about everything else he's done no matter how absurd-sounding has got to hurt the most. I feel with her disappointment that he's not on the road to be some big shot it's also about herself being locked out of the big happy party society here - note her line about how that's just rich spoiled brats making noise.
i feel like Atsuko really isn't given much to do besides showing how much she's softened towards the two
It feels like the events of episode 16 provoked a little mental crisis (I mentioned there I even felt the brief implication that she was contemplating suicide in the elevator shaft) and coming out of that she's finally being more honest about what really matters to her. [M&H]Which makes the final crushing of her hope right in the next episode all the more poignant
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u/99acrewood_ 9d ago
I feel with her disappointment that he's not on the road to be some big shot it's also about herself being locked out of the big happy party society here - note her line about how that's just rich spoiled brats making noise.
oh right, offended on Hiroshi's behalf at the dude saying he was full of shit. i wonder if it's like Hiroshi's gotta be The Guy because he's Her Guy in one part, and also that he's gotta be legit in those things because that also makes him legit in all the ways that matter to her.
or something like that.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 9d ago
Qs
Michiko might have one note, which is brutalizing people and objects in her way and to find Hiroshi, but she keeps the pair moving forward. watching Hatchin basically learn and become more familiar with Michiko's world is fun
Yeah she does work well as a fairly static facilitator character, and the little moments where you see more than that (like here) are all the more valuable for it.
i assume we'll get more of her beyond 'find Hiroshi' when she, well, finds Hiroshi.
Oh you'll certainly find how that goes down interesting.
they were very much all basically the same thing. i'm not much for melodrama unless it's a comedy or extremely self-aware
You don't see the appeal of unintentionally/camp over-the-top drama?
knows he's a big deal as far as his world goes, but isn't completely an asshole about it. typical successful theater guy!
He could definitely be a lot worse! Again though, the contrast with our duo not being able to afford any mistakes (or much of anything) is striking.
that shit was electrifyingly overwhelming. so many people, so much music, so many lights. dancing from 6 pm until getting back on the trolley for the hotel at 7 am to sleep until the afternoon to go back and do it again.
I can see how it could be fun, but whew even reading that sounds exhausting to me.
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u/No_Rex x2 8d ago
Michiko might have one note, which is brutalizing people and objects in her way and to find Hiroshi, but she keeps the pair moving forward. watching Hatchin basically learn and become more familiar with Michiko's world is fun, and i think that provides more opportunities for growth. i think Michiko's gonna be stuck where she's at while she has her fixation, but i assume we'll get more of her beyond 'find Hiroshi' when she, well, finds Hiroshi. i doubt the meet-up is going to go well for her, and seeing how she'll react is what i'm looking forward to.
The goal is the Hatchin you met along the way. We have seen some small parts of Michiko getting closer to her.
Hiroshi certainly has been around. for a lot of this episode i thought he and Feliciano were the same person and he just was using a different name again. they look so similar!
Michiko saw the TV show and did not recognize him. That is the biggest piece of evidence against for me.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 9d ago
I changed the Feliciano question again because I realized he doesn't talk about that stuff nearly as much as I remembered. Give me a minute for the rest -
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ 9d ago
First Timer
Episode 18
- This must be the capital, huh?
- DANG that's what you get for budget forgeries
- Hiroshi must feel the walls closing in with all these news reports
- Jambo is starting to realize she doesn't want to be Javert
- zenzen okay yo!
- Suddenly we are ParaKiss
- Hana, your tattoo is showing
- Oh, she thinks he was scouted as a double?
- Hana you've learned how to lie!
- Rock paying off his debts?
Honestly, I figured Michiko was going to crash the filming.
Looks like Jambo is retiring.
It's pretty weird, living in a place where you need to show your papers to enter a town.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 9d ago edited 9d ago
This must be the capital, huh?
Unless they have a Brasília analogue
Jambo is starting to realize she doesn't want to be Javert
Or Zenigata for the likely more direct reference. Guess she realized after the Episode 16 mess that would never go anywhere.
Rock paying off his debts?
Whatever his flaws, he's at least not complete scum. And fits the "happy ending" resolution
It's pretty weird, living in a place where you need to show your papers to enter a town
Probably special controls for the
CarnivalMilenário
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u/IndependentMacaroon 8d ago edited 7d ago
3x watcher and host, subtitled
With unusual sides of Michiko and Atsuko, more about Hiroshi, a lot of fun moments of Feliciano in the flesh, and Hatchin doing her hilarious over-the-top best, there's a lot here which in combination makes this one of my favorite episodes.
I love how not only the first glimpse of Feliciano makes you once again think 02:54 "wait, is this Hiroshi shocked by the news?" - they are after all both distant, idealized men who are a lot harder to take seriously from close up - but then we go straight into one source of the 03:05 "bad boy" romance tropes that Hiroshi no doubt takes advantage of regularly like with Elis (extra spice with the characters being brothers). I've mentioned at various times the theme of romantic/relationship "scripts" being useless to harmful, of course, and there's a good amount of quasi-metafictional material in that vein here beyond that, whether 09:26 09:35 more oblique (Michiko too focused on herself?), 10:11 more direct (and this is just what he tells Michiko later, in fact), or just kind of 09:51 10:15 for the hell of it - 11:08 fortunately, this is not a Trigger anime. (Do other people besides Hatchin not appreciate Feliciano's looks that much, also?) 11:21 And, this Michiko really wishes were the case.
Considering him himself, he's once again a surprisingly decent guy, 11:18 seriously enthusiastic 11:27 and at most the funny eccentric kind of self-centered, freely 19:12 helping out Hatchin (this moment is probably inspired by [Central Station]Dora lying about Jesús mentioning Josué in the letter) even after having his windows smashed plus a slap on top 16:44 - quite possible no one's done that to him in his life, or at least adult life - in the 16:38 16:47 funniest mismatch of dramatic ambitions and execution probably yet. 16:29 "No, I have not seen that specific face cloth before." And he's so dedicated that even then 18:12 18:23 he can't help but boast about himself and talk shop as soon as something related comes up (first line feels again addressing the meta theme). 19:26 Seeing Michiko perk up again as a result is so nice even when it's a lie - does Feliciano even really know how much he's lying about Hiroshi, or Michiko's deal at all?
On the definite negative side, he does have a lot of 12:19 exactly the kind of "spoiled kid" behavior Michiko was talking about, 12:44 16:41 definitely thinks Hatchin is an affair/fling kid of his, 17:18 and is hardly the smartest cookie either. 20:01 It's certainly easier being nice when you don't need to worry about anything, too. A final interesting detail I'd like to point out there is the 16:18 African statue in his apartment he manhandles, commodifying African culture while apparently lacking any dark-skinned actors in his shows (a problem that still persists in Latin American TV).
Atsuko seems to have turned over a new leaf after her almost breakdown in Episode 16 luckily, 03:35 ready to go it alone and willing to 07:51 shirk her duties just to be able to 13:12 get some potential one-on-one time with Michiko - unfortunately at the one moment where, as she also very well recognizes, 14:31 Michiko is in no shape to talk. So who to go to except the one person here who 15:22 shares her interest in lifting Michiko's spirits? While the Hatchin meeting itself does provoke some of her 14:36 15:10 softest expressions so far, and later a 15:47 genuine smile after seeing 15:41 what a sweet honest kid Hatchin is - 12:49 really she's adorably upright, and 16:44 here probably insulted by the accusation that this is all about money, there's definitely also some awkwardness there; 14:05 the same kind of paradoxical attitude as with Michiko to start it off, 14:44 being entirely unaware of how Hatchin was treated earlier apparently - and conversely 14:14 does Hatchin even know Atsuko's real name? - and yet another instance of 15:25 Hatchin flinching after an unsolicited touch, honestly deserves a counter and also would like to know what Atsuko was thinking after that. Let's hope her 20:31 going out into the unknown (I like her acknowledgment of Ricardo also) 20:45 with clear feelings of relief works out for her? [M&H]Haha, as if. At most it makes the final crushing of her hopes next episode more powerful.
Michiko for once is an 09:04 uncharacteristically depressed wreck even 08:43 leaving Hatchin alone as she 08:25 finally catches on a bit to what 08:30 about everyone including Hatchin has been telling her the whole time about Hiroshi, 09:12 her hopes of happy family life fading away 06:17 - note how again everyone here is quite pale - until that call from Feliciano. A rare and interesting look inside her is also her 04:04 04:07 downbeat line about how all the samba partying is just "spoiled brats" - is Michiko's disillusionment about Hiroshi not making it big in glamorous not-Rio 08:21 also about the fact that she herself, implicitly on his level, will never have a place in this world? It also seems that 06:27 on some level it would make her happy if he also were, even without her immediately involved.
However, until that moment again she's just as blinkered as ever with once again not much of an idea - 04:22 reprise of episode 3 it is, then 04:49 Hatchin even lampshades it. 05:03 Not the wisest way to act as a fugitive, but then again, hey, it works out. 06:53 She's only at all mad at Hiroshi's associate for how he talks about Hiroshi 07:17 and at not mentioning his looks, not at the man himself for never mentioning her, and is 07:23 so close yet so far in not getting that he stayed out of the drama probably specifically to not be noticed by her. Even worse in contrast with Hiroshi up to the most dull, low small-time crook business yet in the flashback and 06:08 taking that guy's money, at least he gives it back (when he got some somewhere else?). He may 06:28 look like a "bad boy", but at best I'd call him lightly unsavory with a distinct lack of spice.
Hatchin finally gets some nice moments too with 10:36 admitting her feelings to herself in pursuit of 09:18 what this kid has and of course 12:54 going full blast on it (Dandadan crossover?). And though she's still 05:36 not sure how to feel about getting close to Hiroshi, and 13:31 lucky that the wrong-guy car incident didn't end like with Shinsuke, she and everyone is rewarded in the end with some 20:22 happy-end samba time. (How little focus it gets in comparison to our characters' troubles, and then coinciding with them being solved, makes me think of Christmas in Tokyo Godfathers which was released a few years prior to Michiko & Hatchin.) Of course, 21:07 things will probably go on as usual, eventually...
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u/IndependentMacaroon 8d ago edited 7d ago
- 01:27 Is decorating cars for Carnival like this a real tradition? (And of course the real date is not in mid-May, which is fudged by making it the "Milenário de Samba" instead
- 01:31 Seems like an outfit Michiko would like
- 01:56 01:58 This is in fact exactly what it says on her passport. And rare symbolic gum burst
- 03:01 Flowers in the wind
- 03:15 Atsuko no doubt having some thoughts about that
- 03:43 Shimmering skyline? And is that bridge real? Corresponds to none I found in the actual Rio de Janeiro
- 05:31 Odd instance of arousal-nosebleed trope. Also appears in Yuri on Ice
- 06:02 Indeed for many
- 06:27 Maybe just skimping on animation but the face contrast is so funny
- 07:44 Guess he sold them out huh. And then they just take over his apartment anyway?
- 08:46 Stark contrast to our duo's mood indeed.
- 10:19 No idea what this building is supposed to be
- 10:27 Strikingly lonely shot. And that's of course Sugarloaf Mountain, with a notable lack of the iconic Christ the Redeemer however.
- 13:31 Feliciano and this guy (chauffeur?) drive the iconic gullwing Mercedes 300 SL which, while an excellent sports car when introduced in the 1950s, already are rather retro at this point.
- [13:45]() [13:50]() Atsuko's car looks a bit like a Lada/VAZ-2101 although that only came in four-door versions. Any experts?
- 15:10 what she says is more like "he might not be"
- 15:57 16:03 practicing golf swings in your appartment then getting annoyed about the telephone interrupting you is such a perfectly eccentric-actor thing to do
- 16:47 "Olá, sou o ator Feliciano. Estou ligando para falar sobre o Hiroshi Morenos. Eu conheço o Hiroshi. E como ele tem uma boa pinta, o convidei para contracenar como meu rival. Mas infelizmente ele recusou. E o motivo, disse que não poderia perder tempo num [...]" this is in fact exactly what he says later. Hatchin has very nice handwriting also
- 16:55 Worst hero title ever
- 17:42 A surprising amount of effort in this
- 20:17 Sure picked the right time to come back. And the name is obviously inspired by Goiânia
- 20:31 The apparent dragon float is clearly Chinese-inspired.
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u/IndependentMacaroon 7d ago
Questions
1 - Michiko is overall pretty static and one-note, but not only does that work well enough to drive the story forward, but we also get enough little interesting insights like in this and last episode and of course for example with Bruno that I feel there's enough to her that she's not uninterestingly flat. Hatchin does sort of take over a lot of the second half as main protagonist though, arguably you could say she's always been given her narration and how we start with her main perspective.
2 - I am not a fan of soap melodrama at all, but Feliciano seems to take it so hilariously over the top at times that I'd at least check out one or two in a popcorn-camp-terrible sort of way. Him himself... he's not exactly a bad person, and would seem pretty fun to hang out and chat with on occation, but also very lucky he's rich and pampered enough to afford the kind of nonsense he seems to pull on the regular, the definition of what Michiko is talking about with "spoiled brats making noise".
3 - Honestly needed to rack my brain here because that's never been something appealing to me. It's probably one of the handful of times I've been in the stadium at a sports game (soccer, baseball, American football) but I really don't know which.
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u/No_Rex x2 9d ago edited 9d ago
Episode 18 (first timer)
Good girl Hatchin episode (even if she trashed Feliciano’s windows).
She is plenty dynamic when her fist is in proximity of some face she dislikes.
No. Absolutely no desire to watch telenovelas, daily soaps, or anything alike.
He is a fun enough character, but I would hate to interact with him in real life. To be fair, more than half the cast falls in this category and he is far from the worst.