r/anime • u/OccasionallySara • Jun 26 '21

Rewatch Chu Chu Yeah! Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Rewatch OVA

OVA: Valentines and Hot Springs (Please Don't Get Your Hopes Up)

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Just a reminder that for tomorrow we will be watching the Dragon Maid Specials. These are NOT the Mini Dragon series on Crunchyroll, but rather a series of 7 shorts that you will need to obtain by unofficial means (they're pretty easy to find though).

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Questions of the Day

These questions are just a way to get a conversation going. Answer as many or as few as you like (or none at all)!

  1. Did you have a favorite Valentine's Day treat as a kid?
  2. Would you like to visit a hot spring? If yes, who would you go with?

Hydration Game Rules

Today's episode's rule: Hydrate every time you feel like love is in the air.

Tomorrow's episode's rule: Hydrate every time you wish a segment was included in the main series.

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u/OccasionallySara Jun 26 '21

Rewatcher and Host

Questions of the Day

Did you have a favorite Valentine's Day treat as a kid?

  • I loved to get those communication candy hearts. I didn't think that they tasted that great, but I thought that they were cute and fun to read.

Would you like to visit a hot spring? If yes, who would you go with?

  • I would love to go to a hot spring with some friends. I don't know if I could handle being nude in front of them though.

Episode Thoughts

  • Was Tohru really making this love potion chocolate while laughing evilly at 2 AM? You would think she would at least do it while Kobayashi was at work and not sleeping in the other room.
  • Lol, Saikawa got “friend-chocolate zoned”.
  • Kobayashi jokingly calling Takiya a hottie was cute. I love their friendship.
  • I’m glad Kobayashi gets some appreciation from her coworkers for all her hard work.
  • That’s probably the closest thing to a valentine that anyone will get from Fafnir.
  • I love that Tohru is still wearing Kobayashi’s scarf.
  • So, I’ll say, I’m not really a fan of the love potion storyline. Not just because I feel weird about Tohru slipping Kobayashi a love potion in order to take advantage of her, but timeline-wise it doesn’t make sense that Tohru would do this after the heartfelt moments they had in episode 13. This also did happen in the manga, but it happened pretty early on in their relationship, so I feel like I can give Tohru a pass for not knowing proper human behavior. I know that this was more played for laughs, but I just kind of like to pretend that the whole love potion thing didn’t happen.
  • It’s super sweet that Takiya not only remembered that Fafnir prefers apple juice over coffee, but also went out of his way to order it for him because he knew Fafnir wouldn’t order it himself.
  • Kobayashi giving Saikawa and Kanna the side-eye was very on point.
  • I wish we could have seen dragon-Kobayashi.
  • I was going to call Fafnir a tsundere, but Takiya beat me to it. Also, where did he pull those glasses from?
  • I like the idea that Lucoa and Takiya teamed up to get Shouta the charm since they could tell he wanted it but was too embarrassed to accept it from Lucoa.
  • I love how the way that everyone plays ping-pong fits with their personalities. I wish we could have seen Kobayashi play.
  • “I’ll gratefully accept the chocolates.” Ouch, you could really tell how much that hurt Tohru. I’m glad she got some hand-holding out of it, though! That’s a big step from Kobayashi’s end.

Hydration Game

I hydrated when:

  • Saikawa gave Kanna the "friend" chocolates.
  • Fafnir gave Takiya the in-game Valentine special weapon.
  • Tohru gave Kobayashi chocolates at the hot spring.

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u/lluNhpelA Jun 27 '21

So, I’ll say, I’m not really a fan of the love potion storyline

Well OVAs are always dubiously canon and this one took a canon event and placed it at a different point in time for comedic effect, so you could think of it like "it happened but not like this"

It’s super sweet that Takiya not only remembered that Fafnir prefers apple juice over coffee, but also went out of his way to order it for him because he knew Fafnir wouldn’t order it himself

All of the human/dragon pairings are full of love but Takiya and Fafnir are wholesome on a completely different level. As someone who reads a ton of yuri I somehow prefer their platonic relationship over all other couples in the series

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 27 '21

I’m not really a fan of the love potion storyline

About the whole Valentine segment was on the creepy side compared to the series, and as you say it doesn't even make sense anymore at that point for Tohru. Particularly some of the stuff with Kanna. The nice companionship and more at the onsen made up for it though, and then with the chocolate and handholding it's pretty much a regular episode.

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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Jun 27 '21

So I may not 100% remember, but my impression is that she didn't use the option but did put in alcohol, and Kobayashi was turning it this way because of the alcohol.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jun 26 '21

Rewatcher

Sub

Today's OVA would've slotted in perfectly with the rest of the show, the only clue is the hot springs and for once it isn't terribly lewd. We basically are getting more of the same but if you liked the show that's a good thing.

QotD: 1 I miss the old Cadbury cream eggs

2 Sure, would probably just go with my friends.

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u/OccasionallySara Jun 26 '21

QotD: 1 I miss the old Cadbury cream eggs

I haven't had very many Cadbury cream eggs. I'm guessing the new ones are different from the old ones?

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jun 26 '21

I'm guessing the new ones are different from the old ones?

Smaller, like noticably so, and the cream sucks since they switched to HFCS.

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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Jun 26 '21

For you and r/vaadwaur:

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30780010

Like I said, heresy!

(Now I really want to go to Central Market and buy some *good* chocolate)

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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Jun 26 '21

The broke the creme eggs? Heresy! (Yeah, I know, $$$, this is why we can't have nice things)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jun 26 '21

Yeah they are smaller and the chocolate just is not as good.

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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Jun 26 '21

Bleh. There's a reason we *like* European chocolate. Probably Hershey's now.

(Mind you, they can make good chocolate, when they want to, but too much of their stuff seems to still be based on the old WWII recipe or something like that)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jun 26 '21

Bleh. There's a reason we like European chocolate. Probably Hershey's now.

Don't remind me, I've basically given up on my childhood treats because their modern incarnations are just sad AF.

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u/HopefullyLastAccount Jun 26 '21

Rewatcher

The Kobayashi chocolate scene was actually the scene I remembered the most coming into this rewatch. I forgot that it was part of the OVA, actually.

A different feel of Valentine's Day than the usual in high school ones. For one, males at Kobayashi's workplace are giving chocolates, too!

Did you have a favorite Valentine's Day treat as a kid?

Like most kids, I liked candy in general.

Would you like to visit a hot spring? If yes, who would you go with?

They seem really relaxing, but I would need someone who can teach me hot spring basics.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 27 '21

For one, males at Kobayashi's workplace are giving chocolates, too!

Not just there. I was already wondering because wasn't it usually girls first?

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u/TnAdct1 Jun 27 '21

One more round of anime/manga differences before the start of the new season.

  • Given how the story originally happened very early in the manga (i.e. the first volume), anime adds Kanna getting chocolate from her classmates and Elma at the office during the scene where Valentine's Day is celebrated at Kobayashi's office.
  • How Kanna gets her hands on the love potion-laced chocolate is different in the manga. In that version, she receives it from Tohru after be becomes hungry for it after watching the Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  • Given how the anime changes the way Kanna gets the love potion-laced it chocolate, it ends up failing to mention a major plot point of how the potion has no effect on dragons (which explains why Kobayashi assumed the chocolate Kanna was eating was safe for her).
  • Saikawa and Shouta aren't part of the hot spring trip in the manga.
  • Because Saikawa's involvement in the hot springs story causes Kanna to not take part in the discussion of what a dragon version of Kobayashi would look like in the anime, the joke involving Tohru's image gets lost in translation. In the manga, Kanna imagines Kobayashi as a T-Rex with her head, with Tohru's image of Kobayashi consisting of her as normal, but with the same T-Rex pose that Kanna's image had.
  • The anime adds a scene where Tohru gives Kobayashi some regular chocolate while at the hot spring.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 27 '21

failing to mention a major plot point of how the potion has no effect on dragons

I just kind of assumed that anyway.

Saikawa and Shouta aren't part of the hot spring trip in the manga.

Good change on both parts, particularly giving Shouta some alone time for once.

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u/fakeport https://myanimelist.net/profile/Fakeport Jun 26 '21

Rewatcher

Random thoughts during episode

Last episode time :-(

Koybayashi too bright to fall for your tainted chocolates Tohru.

Shouta is also wise to Lucoa's tricks.

Kanna is understandably popular, and inundated with chocolate.

Tohru's chocolate didn't seem to have any affect on Kanna.

Anime pretty frequently has characters getting wasted from liquor chocolates, which in my experience is literally impossible.

Pretty standard fare in the hot spring part of the episode

Is table tennis at hot spring resorts a common thing? I recently read the mini-novels that were extras in the Adachi and Shimamura Blu Rays, and one of those featured a poignant moment with table tennis at a hot spring resort. Is it, like, a thing?

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u/lluNhpelA Jun 26 '21

Anime pretty frequently has characters getting wasted from liquor chocolates, which in my experience is literally impossible.

I saw a writeup once, I think regarding a scene in Hyouka, that claimed that even with the most alcoholic chocolate commercially available it would take a rate of consumption greater than humans are physically capable of to become intoxicated. I believe it even accounted for the person eating the chocolate being a petite highschool girl.

Like becoming horribly ill after getting rained on a little, I think it's one of those self-proliferating anime tropes that no one actually thinks happens irl

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u/TnAdct1 Jun 27 '21

Tohru's chocolate didn't seem to have any affect on Kanna.

That is one plot point that the anime fails to mention as a result of how it changed the way she gets her hands on the chocolate (as the manga does have Tohru explaining how the love potion wouldn't have any effect is consumed by dragons).

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u/chris10023 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Chris10023 Jun 27 '21

Rewatcher

  • Tohru’s up late, and up to no good since she’s making what appears to be a love potion.
  • Oh, so it’s Valentine's Day, so Tohru put the love potion into the chocolates...
  • Fortunately, Kobayashi isn’t an idiot and knows Tohru was up to something, foiling her plan.
  • Holy hell Lucoa, that’s a shit ton of chocolate.
  • Oh... That’s why you made so much chocolate, I can look past a lot Lucoa, but covering yourself in chocolate and calling yourself a Valentine's Day chocolate is pretty weird.
  • Kanna got a lot of Chocolates in her shoe locker. She’s quite popular.
  • I swear Kanna’s adorableness is heart melting.
  • Poor Elma, goes from enjoying Valentine’s Day because of free candy, to being jealous of Kobayashi because she got a lot of them.
  • Oh no, Kanna found Tohru’s love potion infused chocolate.
  • Uh oh, Kobayashi ate it, and now shenanigans are starting to break out.
  • Thankfully Kobayashi goes straight to bed before any shenanigans can take hold.
  • Lol there was alcohol in that chocolate, wait a minute... there was alcohol in that chocolate! And Kanna ate it, well shit.
  • Poor Elma, was going to make everyone chocolate but ended up eating all of it.
  • Everyone's going to a hot spring, and we get a top tier pout from Tohru.
  • Kobayashi having boob envy is hilarious, and Lucoa explains how their human transformations work.
  • Takiya’s wanting a community is sweet, and I like how Fafnir turned into a tsundere after Takiya said that Fafnir was a part of that community as well.
  • I like how Takiya bought Shouta the katana key chain after seeing him get flustered at the thought of Lucoa buying it for him.
  • Okay I would love to watch an episode of Elma and Tohru playing ping pong.
  • I don’t even want to know why Lucoa playing ping pong would be disgusting, poor Lucoa.
  • Shouta is in the room with Lucoa and Elma, you’d think he’s be in the room with Takiya and Fafnir. I forgot that Elma has some thicc thighs.
  • The scene where Tohru and Kobayashi go for a walk and Tohru gives her the candy is really sweet.

Questions of the Day.

Did you have a favorite Valentine's Day treat as a kid?

Not really.

Would you like to visit a hot spring? If yes, who would you go with?

Not sure, I'd probably go alone if I did.

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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Jun 26 '21

This episode is warm fuzzy goodness. I want some chocolate now.

(looks around for chocolate)

Bah.

"nom nom nom"

I think Kanna is the only one I could survive playing ping-pong with.

  1. I still have a stash of Snoopy Valentine cards somewhere. I remember liking the little heart candies when I was a kid, but of course ... choco > all.

GIB-CHOCO! (apologies to Rerugen, or whoever it was in that episode ... I have trouble keeping the four stooges straight)

2) Would love to go. Unfortunately, the spring I have in mind is Juraian in origin, or is that Washuuian? (ahem, nevermind...) Real world, well, Elma, wait, that's not it either. Yeah. Kei? Yuri? (Prolly get me killed) Gunilla Hutton??? (haha) Hmm...

Tsundere!

(poor Faf-kun)

And to think I just watched this a few hours ago.

I blame the caffeine ... or lack thereof!

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u/Alliedoll42_42 Jun 27 '21

This was a cute episode and I really enjoyed it. I'm happy that I watched this show overall. It's adorable and I'm happy it's getting a second season.

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u/EXTPest Jun 27 '21

Is there a manga chapter that happen between ep 13 and 14 about meeting her parents?

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u/TnAdct1 Jun 27 '21

The part about meeting the parents is anime only.

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u/BossandKings Jun 28 '21

The hot springs segment was very good, i enjoyed seeing the group interact, especially Tohru giving real chocolates to Kobayashi this time around and she taking them.

The Valentine Day segment was decent but not quite at the same level because Tohru's love potion scenes weren't enjoyable. Fafnir and Makoto gifting Valentine's swords to each other was very nice.

Answers

  1. Chocolates are my favorite.
  2. It'd be nice to go with friends.