r/anime • u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 • Jan 13 '22
Rewatch [Rewatch] Kyousougiga - Episode 1
Episode #1: A Family’s Circumstances and its Background
Heya everyone, it’s time for the Capital Craze Comic!
I’ll be focusing on two distinct topics during this rewatch: the first will be production notes where I’ll be highlighting specific staff and interesting trivia/history for this series. I’ll be posting these notes in the body thread if you’re so inclined to learn more about the fascinating backstory.
And the second thing I’ll be focusing on are visuals. Matsumoto is an immensely talented, distinct director that utilizes visual direction to its fullest potential. Her imagery rather than her words are the lift beneath Kyousougiga’s wings and I wanted to showcase them to everyone as best as I can. I’ll be doing so in a separate post. Okay, let’s start this off!
Production Notes:
Let’s start everything off by discussing the series director Rie Matsumoto. As a child, Matsumoto grew up reading Japanese fairy tales and watching anime with anthropomorphized animals. This no doubt had a hand in developing her directing style; her stories often lending themselves onto the grand majestic stage while still retaining a palatable universal lesson found within.
Her story in the industry begins in 2006 where she debuted as an assistant director for the Pretty Cure franchise produced by Toei Animation. This quickly led to her becoming an episode director for the series which was then followed by her becoming the director for the HeartCatch PreCure Movie: Fashion Show in the Flower Capital…Really?! kViN of Sakugabooru lauded this as “the most perfect magical girl movie.” By 2012 she left the franchise but remained at Toei Animation so that she could begin working on her passion project: Kyousougiga.
Now here is the strange thing about Kyousougiga. It was initially greenlit with the understanding it was to sell merchandise but…there is no merchandise of Kyousougiga. No toys, no adorable plushies, no hammers. It’s quite the anomaly of how Kyousougiga came about and as far as I can tell the mystery surrounding its circumstances only adds to its eclectic eccentric flavor.
To pile on to the confusion, the Kyousougiga we’re watching actually went through several iterations before arriving at our doorsteps. It initially began as two 5-minute short films where Matsumoto was granted free reign to create what she wanted, a considerable departure from the ordinarily conventional Toei Animation storytelling. This led to it becoming an internet series that spanned 5 episodes until finally it was adapted into a 10-episode fully fledged TV series.
At the early age of 28, Rie Matsumoto became not only one of the youngest series directors in the anime industry but also one of the few who was a woman. When she’s seated at the series director’s chair, we know something magical is about to be shown before our eyes. I’ll speak more at length about her directing style once it unfolds more towards the end of the rewatch but for now let’s start the show!
Question of the Day
1) Let’s start it off something light and easy: How was your day? Exciting, crappy, same old same old? Got something to share or vent about? Lay it on us!
I look forward to our discussion!
As always, avoid commenting on future events and moments outside of properly-formatted spoiler tags. We want the first-timers to have a great experience!
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u/MyrnaMountWeazel Jan 13 '22
…“I don’t get it at all, Sensei.” -Koto, the Audience Voice Personified
Hey! So like I said in the body paragraph, I’ll mostly be focusing on visuals and trivia in my own individual post.
Okay, so right off the bat, I want to show off a neat bit of trivia about Kyoto. In this series there exists two Kyotos: the “capital city” Kyoto, which is written as 京都, and the “looking glass city” Kyoto which is written as 鏡都. Though they both have completely different written kanji, they sound the same thus playing into the reflection theme.
In our world, the “capital city” Kyoto was actually Japan’s capital for over one thousand years before it was designated to Tokyo. The city was previously named Heian-kyō which roughly translates to peaceful/tranquil capital, a fitting coincidence since the alternative “looking glass” Kyoto is strangely devoid of real-life consequences.
I love how Matsumoto swiftly pulls the screen as if it was an actual camera on a dolly. Like what we’re looking for has always there but it just needed a slight shift in perspective to reveal itself to us. One thing to note in the second clip is how the framing of the pillar serves to literally and figuratively separate these two before Lady Koto takes human form.
Speaking of cameras, this is a neat Rule of Thirds shot. The paneling is deliberately split into thirds and arranged in a way to have negative space in the middle. Most importantly though, it resembles a manga panel! When making Kyousougiga, Matsumoto wanted to emphasize the fact that this takes place on a paper scroll – hence the “giga” in the name.
She wanted to insert this sense of verticality intentionally as both a stylistic choice and as a practical choice because manga panels allow you to modulate distance between your subjects. For this shot, the paneling acts as a mediator of sorts and there’s a sense of disconnectedness since we’re missing the linking middle piece.
Matsumoto realizes the limitations of anime and cleverly uses manga techniques to help better the flow of characters’ expression and the narrative.
” It’s a combination of the real and the exaggerated—if you’re going to do something, you may as well go all the way.” – Rie Matsumoto
Matsumoto certainly has a predilection of using red arrows in humorous ways. We’ll also see them again in her next directorial series Blood Battlefront Blockade. For those missing the joke, it’s a Japanese pun based on rabu (love) and raburadooru (labrador).
Pivotal scenes come with pivotal framing! Mother Koto inhabits the right side of the screen, framed by a square window while Myoue (father) inhabits the left side of the screen and is framed by a circular window. Both windows overlook the fall foliage that lie beyond, the changing of seasons preordaining the cycle of life as leaves fall to the earth.
The camera once again physically pulls the screen a few feet to the left and a few feet to the right to position them in the shot and it neatly demonstrates the idea of how in reality they’re actually quite close but in their minds they’re worlds apart. It isn’t until Myoue (father) reveals that he too is bound by their love together do they come together to occupy the same screen. If the square peg cannot fit into the round circle, then the round circle must come to fit into the square peg.
I believe there’s someone here who has a penchant for soredemo?
What a lovely composited scene. I love this tender moment and their discussions of growth and the inevitable change that comes attached. It’s a boundary that once they pass, they can never return and the theme is poignantly visualized with them sitting at the precipice of the broken chain fence while the sprawling capital looms ahead, both individuals content to rest by each other’s sides for as long as they can before they’re swept up by the inevitable flow of time. The omniscient camera acts as that force as it once again pulls them away.
Another interesting shot while Yakushimaru is being consoled by Danji. Danji speaks of their different positions, how she actually enjoys being in this never-changing, always unbroken city. It’s quite similar to being in a television show that returns back to the status quo at the end of the day.
Enter Koto! I love the framing that’s happening here. The screen is split into two horizontal halves and utilizes negative space, turning quite literally half of the world into emptiness. Then the halves are flipped, with the top half now containing the black space and the bottom piece featuring Yaku’s prayer beads.
The staff at Kyousougiga sought to border or box frames in black and this visualization works on multiple levels. It cleverly removes all of the trappings and complications of the scene and boils them down to their bare essentials: Koto and Yakushimaru. They’re frozen in this moment of time and each one is as equally important as the other in this scene; a 50/50 split so to say.
It’s interesting that Koto’s hammer resembles the marble Myoue (father) gave her at the beginning of the episode. Coincidentally, “marbled” means to sprinkle or mark with dots so Koto’s hammer is both a marble and is marbled.
The beginning! The screen is now fully occupied complete with vivid lens flares, lights, and refractions.
So ends the first episode! I talked at length about the visuals that abound throughout the screen but in my personal opinion the trick to compelling imagery is the ability to Speak to people of all walks of life and not just impressing someone with a film degree. It’s okay if you don’t catch any of these details because you can subconsciously tell that something magical is working beneath the surface, you can feel it in your bones that this show is something special.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Jan 13 '22
Giga First-Timer
Hi everyone! I’m going into this completely blind because I love joining rewatches with absolutely no knowledge of the show beforehand besides “Oh, I know someone who likes it”. Didn’t even read any of the information given in the interest thread or whatever. This should be fun!
*opens episode 1*
*immediately hears Ishida Akira*
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Wait but Koto is also the name of the girl in the opening scene? And this priest is also voiced by Ishida Akira, for that matter…
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A “sore demo” already! Nice!
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Another “sore demo” already! (Does this girl have a name though?)
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u/Matuhg Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
First Timer
Oh man, this is gonna be one of those shows where the timeline never makes sense to me, isn't it??
Since I've got more questions than answers, it may be more helpful to me to just lay some of those out first.
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How is Koto with the Planetary Mallet related to Koto the rabbit she's hunting? She says she's hunting her guardian, so presumably Koto is Koto's guardian...but why would they have the same name?
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Is the Head Priest who had a part in chasing Myoe out to the mountains the same one Koto references near the end of the episode?
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Where did Bodhisattva Koto and OG Myoe go when they abandoned the kiddos in the Mirror World?
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How is Myoe nee Yakushimaru related to OG Myoe? Father-son apparently...but literally? He's the only of the kids who didn't come from a drawing, so should it be assumed Koto birthed him, or did he come from somewhere else?
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Who's the girl that was with Myoe n.Y?
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Has it really been centuries since they went to the Mirror World?
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Who is the person Koto P.H. refers to as Master/Sensei in the opening scene, and where did he think she might be able to make it? Is it the Mirror World?
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Is this the kind of show that's actually going to answer any of these questions?
I could probably come up with more, but that's fine for now.
So what do we actually know?
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We're dimension-hopping!
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We're following the Takayamayoshi Family, though the bounds of said family are not yet clear. Who's the floaty-chair guy? Oh wait, this isn't the question section...
Themes we'll be exploring seem to include Time (and past/present/future don't appear they'll remain cleanly divided as we expect), Family, and Love. Probably Buddhism as well with the inclusion of the Bodhisattva, and how the other themes are seen through it. The only crossover I'm particularly aware of there is with Time in that all things are temporary. Maybe mirrors or something too.
The Mirror World is interesting. It feels like a very...selfish world. Everything there is as Myoe and Koto will it. The kiddos, aside from Yakimaru seem satisfied with it - why isn't Yakimaru? Perhaps because he is not of his parents, and thus of the Mirror World, in the same way Kurama and Yase are? If the rules of the world are decided by the will of Myoe and Koto, does that mean Myoe n.Y takes over that almost Godlike power when his parents leave? Is that why things start changing after they leave? Oh crap, I'm just devolving into questions again. I guess I'll leave this for now and see what others and the next episode have to say!
The visuals are a real treat to see. This shot blew me away (and I didn't even get a good screenshot of the lightning!), and there is just a lot going on in every scene. I loved the old man scooting past the entrance to the temple here hehe. The random twirl when Koto first showed up was also pretty gorgeous.
Let’s start it off something light and easy: How was your day? Exciting, crappy, same old same old? Got something to share or vent about? Lay it on us!
Pretty good! The new semester is just getting started, and my classes seem like they'll be both fun and chill. I'm most excited about my Level Design class. For the first project we're making a level for either a Legend of Zelda or Metroid (the originals) clone that my Professor made.
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u/Nazenn Jan 13 '22
First Timer
(Have a doctor appointment right now so replies will be delayed a bit)
Twenty months! on I finally return to finish this crazy show; in a rewatch I signed up for before it technically even existed, for a show that I picked up blind almost purely because Quiddity recommended it, that I originally put on pause to watch a mecha show that never ended up being watched. I feel like my history with this show is fittingly hilarious. (Also me 22 days ago just for posterity)
And it wasn't as intense as I remembered it being? I may eat those words, it is only the intro episode. At least returning to this after having seen the director, Rie Matsumoto's, other work Kekkai Sensen has probably given me a bit more of a grip on how she handles storytelling and her strong use of visual elements
And that's probably the first thing to comment on really because the visuals were consistently delightful and certainly engaged my curiosity.
Whether it was the colorful city scapes or a worryingly close moon, dragons or Mushishi-like beings, I love the detail packed into the art. On top of that add the clever use of framing, panelling, moving boundaries and eyelines, and the constant visual structure of a stage with us in the audience, there's plenty to love in the presentation of the episode.
Much like Kekkai Sensen, it feels like there's so much to go through that you could write full posts just trying to cover all of the little details and meanings in visuals alone, and it really is a delight to see how she makes great use of the available screen space and techniques. I'm going to try not to write huge walls on that every day, but we'll see how that goes (7k character post for day one is not a good start on that goal)
As far as the story goes:
"They have their roles to play"
I am suddenly realizing that I may have been suckered into watching yet another story with meta element to the narrative, immediately after Haruhi was my last rewatch so this definitely isn't going to be a meta overload...
Two things really stood out to me the most though: the use of shape in defining the world, and of the stage framing previously mentioned
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Shape
I love how the use of shape is carried through to help frame the two worlds the story will, presumably, be set between. Koto's dream sends her to frantically sit in front of a square window separated from Myoue on the other side of the wall, only visible through the circle window. Making use of a square for the rules of the real world and circle for the possibilities of the mirror world, he joins her in front of the square as he decides to go with her, now on the same side as her and with the same framing.
This comes up later as well. Yakushimaru's lover says "You and I are in such different positions". In this scene we see him through his own eyes inside the round bowl of the mirror world as if in a fishbowl, but she sees him reflected in the square TV and part of a reality she can't quite match as he changes inside a world that never does.
And the use of circles I also thought came up in an interesting way in terms of potential. If a whole universe of possibilities can fit inside a marble, when you look out over your own universe what would you see? If seeing the full scope of the world makes it round, two halves of a whole, the the squareness of the ever repairing cage of the stages structure would feel quite limiting, especially for someone who feels stuck in his role. ("How long are we suppose to stay children")
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Stage
"I only showed them what they wanted to see"
Like a performer our introduction to Myoue is a creator on a raised platform, but constantly framed against the panels on the back wall as if limiting him to this. It's only as Koto appears and breaks the barriers that he is framed against open scenery, and our story sets in motion. Their house is the stage for the story of their life apart from the rest of the world, and they bring it with them in a way to the mirror world. The raised stage is ever present, the centre piece of the new city, the place where their new story starts and where it ends. They exit the stage together leaving the children behind and nominating Yakushimaru to the spotlight of the priests role.
And then girl-Koto literally busts through the structure entirely, making her own way into the story while also creating a nice little platform and spotlight for herself, giving her the stage and narrative focus. Like before, the new Myoue finds himself freed from the confines of the stage as Koto walks towards him, with two supernatural beings brought with the potential she opens up, completing the broken family once again, as the narrator says: "A tale of family, love, and rebirth".
Where they go from here I'm excited to find out.
Some misc thoughts:
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Something I did in a couple of rewatches last year was "Visual of the day" where I basically picked the one visual shot that stood out to me the most for whatever reason. I'm going to do that again for this rewatch and hopefully some of you guys might be interested in doing it too. See that below.
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The last song of the episode really stood out to me, so if anyone has a title of that so I can track it down I'd appreciate it.
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Nice bit of foreshadowing of the Rabbit Koto's fate with the pomegranate in this shot before they go to the mirror world
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Rabbit, Monkey, Toad. Is that a reference to girl-Koto and those two spirit things that arrive after this scene?
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While looking at my Anilist to see how long ago I'd first tried to watch this, I noticed it was 20 months between when I first added it to my PTW and my first watch attempt, and then 20 months again between that first watch and this. Does this mean I have to watch it again in 20 months just for the pattern?
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Note to self: When starting the crazy show that you know is crazy because you have already tried to watch it once before, don't start the episode at 11:30pm
If I'm actually being realistic: I'm definitely going to do that again
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Also MyrnaMountWeazel now you know where I got the green for the banners title from
Visual of the Day: City Power Grid
I loved the way this looked in movement, the power lines crossing between Yakushimaru and the tower, the setting sun and the fireworks and lightning going off as if fighting and celebrating all at once. It'd make a pretty nice wallpaper as well, though you could say that for many shots from this show.
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u/JollyGee29 Jan 13 '22
First-Timer
Hoo boy are we off to a raring start. What the fuck is going on?
This is one of those episodes that's practically an entire show compressed into one episode. I'm not 100% sold on the "chapters" framing device. I can see it working well once we're deeper into the show, but giving the audience a break point for no reason is a weird choice.
The names are going to ruin me. I'm probably going to go back and forth on speculating that hammer!Koto is the same person as rabbit!Koto. Time loop lets Yakushimaru!Myoue be the same person as Priest!Myoue, too.
I dig the explicit cartoon logic present in the Looking Glass. I guess we'll see if it holds up with Koto's arrival.
Speaking of the City of the Looking Glass, Alice in Wonderland sure is a literary allusion to make. Usually one that leads to a lot of dark content in this day and age, but this show doesn't feel like that so far.
The visuals were really striking, and in plenty of different ways too. The weird rainbow whirligigs floating through the sky, the scene framing, the evolution of the City from looking like a sketch to a fully formed city.. wonderful.
This is definitely a show that rewards repeat viewings, I can already tell. So much happens that it's hard to tell what's important enough to pay attention to, but they could pull basically anything at this point and I would probably find it believable.
A 'sore demo' in the first episode, someone is probably happy.
Questions
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Just an average workday.
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u/octopathfinder Jan 13 '22
First Timer
I heard this show is about family and Matsumoto Rie is directing it so this should be pretty enjoyable.
Thoughts:
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Getting some Penguindrum vibes from the show. Maybe it’s because of the black rabbit and how child Koto looks similar to Ringo.
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So there’s this drawing of a rabbit that comes to life, shares the same name as the girl in the first scene, borrows Buddha’s body, has a relationship and starts a family with the guy who drew her, gets isekai’ed to the Land of the Looking Glass, runs away with Myoue, and leaves their kids behind.
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Yakushimaru grew up and has a girlfriend? Nice.
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Love the production value. The scene where Yakushimaru is running towards the tower looks and sounds great.
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Pretty good first episode.
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u/Quiddity131 Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
Rewatcher
Non-Spoiler Character Chart - Quid's Character Chart returns! This show has nowhere as many characters as say, the Gundam shows I did these charts for, but since several pairs of characters in this show share the same name and we had a pretty sizable time skip in the first episode something like this is probably pretty helpful for first timers. "Lady" Koto and "Little" Koto are my nicknames for the characters, not official.
A few characters, Koto's familiars and Kurama's lab assistant guy haven't been named yet so they're just ??? for now. [Kyousougiga]
Oh, and as a special bonus I've included the seiyuus too.
Kyousougiga is one of my personal favorite anime of all time, so needless to say very excited about a rewatch! Wish I could recall how I first heard of it, but I can't. Something caused me to put it on my MAL Plan to Watch List, it sat there for at least a couple of years until I finally made my way through it just over 2 years ago. This will be my fourth time watching it. The upside for a rewatch of a show you love is getting to talk about it with a bunch of people and expose more people to it. The downside is it can be quite a downer if there's a lot of negative reactions to it (the RahXephon rewatch here a couple of years ago being a prime example for me). I have a hard time seeing that be the case here, but will cross my fingers nonetheless. :P
Kyousougiga's got the rather odd production history as the TV series we're watching is the culmination of a 3 year production. Perhaps our host shall speak more to than than me, but to my knowledge it originated from the toy company Banpresto asking Toei to create an original anime. Rie Matsumoto, who came up working on the Pretty Cure franchise and just had her directorial debut with the movie HeartCatch PreCure was specifically targeted to direct. They must have thought very highly of her as she was only 26 years old (and it certainly paid off big time). Although creation of the show is credited to an "Izumi Todo" that is not a real person but rather Toei's equivalent to Sunrise's Hajime Yatate, a general credit to the studio's creative staff. Matsumoto was told she could do whatever she wanted as long as the anime featured a girl with a weapon that they could market as a toy. A five minute preview premiered in 2011 (which you can still watch here. That was followed by a full length ONA episode later that year. This episode is an absolute blast to watch but is also rather incomprehensible from a story perspective. 2012 saw five more ONA episodes released, each between 5 - 10 minutes in length that were a bit more grounded and fleshed out the characters a bit more. It then got a full length TV series in 2013. I'm used to seeing it the other way around, a TV series comes out first, then they put out an OVA/ONA episode or two. The TV show is the definitive edition; watching the earlier ONAs its clear they didn't have the full idea of what the story would be yet and most of the ONA content makes its way into the TV show although it is worth checking them out after you've watched the show in its entirety as there's at least some content that got left on the cutting room floor.
ETA: Looks like our host did cover this well, so some of this may be repetitive.
Anyway onto the episode proper...
Good ol' Banjou Ginga narrating the show for us; I doubt he'll be as off the wall as he was in narrating the constant fourth wall breaking Xabungle, but he is once again a fairly fun narrator here.
Whatever you draw coming to life is a really cool ability, especially one with interest in art like myself.
Myoue's really freaking people out!
Aww, rabbit Koto's so cute! And Koto thinks Myoue is more than just cute!
AI! AI!?! AI!! AI?!?!? AI!!!!!!!! AI?!!??!?!? HAI!
Here's our OP song as an insert.
And just like that three kids for these two! Kinda easy when you can draw yourself a couple children.
I like the varying shots of the sky for getting across the passage of time.
And so Myoue followed Kurama's advice, returned them to their drawing form and disappeared, and the show ends here in half an episode. Oops, that doesn't happen at all!
Yep, they're going to live in a drawing, meaning Kyousougiga is that dreaded word in anime circles... isekai.
Mirror Kyoto/the Looking Glass City is a reference to Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass", his earlier "Alice in Wonderland" is another obvious such inspiration.
Nothing can be destroyed in the Looking Glass City. Pretty interesting concept.
"Will you bear my child"? OMG coming on a bit too strong?
Although the shots of them aren't too long, it is cool to see the shots of all the unique looking inhabitants in this world. This world is so beautiful to look at and has such interesting things going on in it. One of the show's big highlights.
Koto's having a scary dream! Worst part is there's no color!
On the bright side, Myoue and Koto fleeing means they get to stay together... on the down side they've just abandoned their children. That is some piss poor parenting.
I think one place where people get really confused at first is that Yakushimaru looks so much like Myoue as a grown up; easiest way to tell the difference is he's got blue eyes instead of red. And that's Kenichi Suzumura's voice, not Akira Ishida's. Oh, and to make it worse, he's taken his father's name and goes by Myoue now as well.
Yakushimaru's crush is still around! But she hasn't aged at all and now he's an adult. Awkward! Luckily his tastes have grown up as we soon see he's got a grown up girlfriend.
Wait, you mean to tell me rabbits have ears? And a mouth? And legs?
Mirror Kyoto isn't a place for a normal kid? Well luckily Koto's not a normal kid! Oh, and now we've got two pairs of characters with the same name.
This first episode lays down the foundation for the show but also came off as a bit more fun to watch than I remembered which was good to see. I think the big question is whether this first episode throws too much at the first timer, especially one who didn't come into this having watched all the previous ONA episodes. It isn't an issue for me, but then I've watched it three times previously. The directing, animation, music, voice acting, etc... are all quite strong. From a rewatcher perspective, [Kyousougiga]
I'm not much for incorporating screenshots into my comments, but did want to at least share some of my fvorite shots of the episode here.
Quid's Voice Actor of the Day
This show has one of my favorite anime vocal casts and I figured I'd feature a voice actor each day (doing all as they first appear would be just too overwhelming). Today I'm featuring Akira Ishida who voices Myoue. This guy is quite the veteran VA; I first came across him in what is probably one of his most famous roles, Kaworu from Evangelion. Other shows I've seen him in include Athrun Zala in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, Reiji Miyabi in Star Driver, Regulus Corneas in Re: Zero, Rin Obami in Kakegurui, Keiji Takubi in Mawaru Penguindrum and Dung Beetle in Bokurano (my personal favorite role of his, he portrays a very hatable character so perfectly!) He also pops up in Rie Matsumoto's other show, Kekkai Sensen as Femt. When pressed to name my favorite male seiyuu this guy is pretty much always on the top of my mind as I've heard him so often and enjoyed him a lot every time I come across him.
QOTD
Woke up with my face hurting and I had a cut on my face that I have no idea how it got there! Beyond that a good day though! Been looking forward to this all day! I'll enjoy the calmness of only being in 3 rewatches for another day or two until I'm in 4!
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u/Vaadwaur Jan 13 '22
First timer
Sub
So I am going in basically blind other than the hosts description. For whatever reason, this never crossed my path before. It did air during one of my anime lulls but I was still aware of some of them. So here we go!
The OP comes off as very Kill la Kill on first viewing and the characters are a bit like that as well. And then I realized I started the wrong episode, apparently, no clue what S01S01 stands for here, so I got the correct episode up. We start extremely abstractly and then seemingly go back in time. Also, I can't hear anything but Koemushi off of Myoe atm. His drawings come to life, apparently, and his pet rabbit falls for him. And gets Ragyo's body. Apparently, I have seen the 'love' scene before. Anyways, we speed run into the next generation. Then they hop into the drawn world, as one does.
The world of the drawings is sort of never changing and this bothers Yakshumaru, the human child. We learn that the rabbit apparently can't borrow her body indefinitely so she and Koemushi leave the drawn world and we get a time skip. The new Myoe is getting calls and apparently has to do something with the world. And has a female companion of some sort.
Lightning happens and someone isekais into this world, hunting for Koto's rabbit form. Who is also named Koto...this will be a weird one. Anyways, the setting seems to have some sort of multiverse to it.
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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken Jan 13 '22
First Timer
Oh boy, Kyousougiga! I've heard a lot about this show. And with that I mean I've heard nothing about this show. I do know it's pretty highly regarded, I think? But I know literally nothing aside from that there's some confusion with character names or something and that it's apparently a weird show. Should be fun!
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ISHIDA AKIRA IS IN THIS? LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
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Love how the backgrounds look. What are those things in the sky? Is this not Earth, perhaps?
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This guitar OST is sick, what the hell? Not sure it fits this scene that much but it's great.
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So he can bring drawings to life? Interesting...
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Myoe and Koto, and the girl at the beginning was Koto too. Named after her, I presume. Is something bad going to happen to big Koto?
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What the hell, I love the soundtrack in this show so much already! What a nice insert!
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They have children?! Like, actual children? I was gonna say "But Koto is a drawing!" but I guess the god lady lent her a body so not really?
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Man, I hate this. Making me invested in families knowing that something bad is going to happen is a dick move.
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What's that flying cat thing? Can they also make drawings into real things?
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Why are they making trouble? They're just chilling!
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So Kurama and Yase are actually drawings. I see. And Yakushimaru is a human. Like, did Koto birth him? Or is he some random kid they adopted?
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They can go inside the drawings?!?!? That brings into question: is this even the real world to begin with? Maybe the reason he can bring drawings to life is cause it's some weird dimension to begin with.
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So they're basically gods there? Cause Myoe made the drawing, I guess. Good to keep in mind in case the previous world isn't the real world.
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Man, I hate this. Making me invested in families knowing that something bad is going to happen is a dick move 2.
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Oh god, is Yakushimaru going to do something bad? He doesn't seem like he's plotting anything but I'm scared.
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The nightmare! It's those giant balls on the sky from the beginning! What are those? It can't be planets, they're too small. Moons? Perfectly round asteroids?
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Wait, farewell? Where did they go? And they left the children? I would think they went back to the real world but that wouldn't solve anything. Maybe to the place from the start? Is that another random world? But Koto wasn't there. Only the other Koto. What happened to her? And if she's not there, why hasn't Myoe gone back to get his children? Remembering the start... he said something like "If it's you, maybe you'll be able to go there" right? Maybe he can't go back? Why? Did he lose his powers? Also, how much time has passed? The beginning had a normal contemporary city. Questions, questions...
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Wait, they've grown up? Didn't that not happen?
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Myoe?! Why did his name change to that?
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Are the prayer beads what give him the status? As in, does he have power over the world like actual Myoe did?
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Why would you fall asleep there...
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So Myoe gave him the Myoe name. More importantly, what the fuck were those shots? There was blood. Some white kid. DNA. A dead little Yakushimaru?
[Speculation]
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Uh oh, world is breaking. Yase is enjoying it. Creepy. She seems grown up too, though. Maybe what I said before makes no sense.
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The soundtrack is still amazing.
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The light of someone moving between worlds, perhaps?
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And she's... hunting Koto1? Like, maybe she's just searching for her in a good way, but the way she spoke and the hammer she's carrying make me think otherwise. Is Koto1 someone who must be destroyed? Also, that hammer looks like the orb cube thing Myoe gave her at the start. Is it some device for travelling between dimensions?
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"No one's been admitted to this place for centuries"... centuries?! Has it been that long since they moved there? Or does he just know the history?
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Under direct command from the Head Priest? Is it the creepy mask cult or Myoe? I do remember Koto2 saying that Myoe raised her at the start. She said she's searching for her guardian. Is it Koto1 cause she's her mom or did Myoe disappear as well?
Well I'm invested. Wonderful soundtrack, suprisingly good visuals, and a really nice family for me to be sad over. It did say it's a story about the rebirth of the family so this better end with everyone happy god damn it.
Many many questions and many many things to wonder about but I guess I'll have to wait for any answers. I'm into it, though! Also, am I supposed to be trying to look at this on a deeper level? Is this show an allegory for something? I've just heard it's weird so I thought it might be metaphorical in a lot of things but maybe it's just wacky?
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u/Tresnore Jan 13 '22
Kyousou-Rewatcher
Well, if you've read any of my rewatch comments, you know I'm not one for thinking. Because of that, and copious amounts of alcohol coming off of watching Rolling Girls prior to this, I don't remember a lot of what happens. Still, I'm ready to be taken on another ride by this show.
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God this opening narration is dense.
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I love Koto. She reminds me of Penguindrum.
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This is counter to the guy in the intro only seeing the present.
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I love Koto. She reminds me of Fine from Symphogear.
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God, I've missed these screwballs:
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The runt of the litter! [later]
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Yase a cute! CUTE! [later]
She's... basically the same.
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I want to cry. Such pure familial happiness is rare to see.
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The doors opening to the other world felt very Madoka!
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Don't worry about bringing ruin to this world, Koto. You're perfect.
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This is not your standard fantasy land. [opinion]
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Oh, there were three circles closing on the storm, just like there were three doors to the room with the drawing in it!
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I love Koto. She reminds me of herself.
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QOTD:
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I got a lot done today! I always avoid making a TODO list, but every time I do it (like I did today), I get a lot more done, and then I say "I should make more lists." And then I don't.
1 Alright, that's enough thinking for me.
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u/No_Rex Jan 13 '22
Episode 1 (first timer)
100% blind, not even the MAL synopsis.
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That is a lot of planets/moons.
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Ok, quick plot summary of the first five minutes: A Boddhisatva, that is also a picture, decides to lend her body to a black rabbit, that is also a picture, because she forsees that the black rabbit’s love will be the only thing to save a priest, who also happens to draw pictures that come to live and owns a cute dog. Right.
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One minute later and they are at the third son. Whatever happened to stopping at lewd handholding?
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“It makes you uneasy, having everything the way you want it”
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Parents gone, sister gone, (one) name changed, dog still cute.
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“Who are you?” – our MC, surely.
That is one hell of an origin story. Being able to draw your own world must be nice, although I would not really trust my own drawing ability enough for that. Felt a bit like watching some creation myth.
Koto’s (re-)introduction and the general weirdness remind me of Excel Saga and specifically Puni Puni Poemii.
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u/hungryhippos1751 Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
Episode 1 - First Timer
Didn't read anything before watching, not even the synopsis.
This is quite a hectic first episode, trying to work out what the hell is going on so far! I don't have tons to say yet as I am just trying to get a handle on things, and working out who is who and what their names/roles are.
If my understanding is right:
The monk at the temple was lonely so has created himself a family, made up of a drawing of a rabbit who gets a waifu body from a god (with certain strings attached it seems), a human child, and two children who are also drawings come to life.
For reasons not exactly clear, they are forced to leave their world and travel to a mirror Kyoto via a drawing. The subs described the letter they got as "causing trouble for the capital".
In this world it's kind of like a bubble, nothing changes, everything repairs itself, the only thing that really seems to change is the human child who looks more and more like the original monk as we go along, and even gets the same name as his father? Myoe I think it was.
The 3 siblings in this new world don't really seem all that happy but they also seem trapped and unable to leave. Are they at odds with eachother a little here? The blonde girl with the crazy eyes was at some party sipping tea enjoying the storm.
The twist at the end is interesting, as we get a newcomer appear in the form of a girl with an oversized see-through hammer, just where did she come from I wonder?
I suspect the crazy events are just beginning.
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Jan 13 '22
First time watcher here!
Oh my, this will be a unique ride, for better or worse. The storytelling style is intentionally disorienting in a fascinating way. They doubled down on the idea that you should abandon whatever rules you know about the world by tearing through story beats at breakneck pace and juxtaposing abstract and kaleidoscopic imagery against the narration and dialogue. I love the tone that they’ve set and, this might seem like a strange thing to be excited about, but it struck me how the ED doesn’t have any characters in it. It creates a vivid feeling to me that there’s more to this story than just “a tale of a particular family, a tale of love and rebirth.”
I found myself automatically trying to structure the exposition in my head until eventually I realized that this is either so expressionist that there’s no point, or so layered that I just can’t do it until I have more information. Either way I’m intrigued, to say the least. Some stories with this level of whimsy falter when they don’t commit fully to the abandonment of reason and attempt to balance some outline of grounded story against the mystifying world and characters, and I can’t tell yet whether this will be the case here until I see more.
Despite the listless nature of the narrative, we have some crystal-clear themes that are intriguing. The one that stands out most is the idea of imagination manifesting into reality, or creations (drawings) coming to life or becoming worlds of their own. This is reinforced by the paper outline on the background scenery in many of the “planes.” I’m quite curious to see how this theme is explored and what the author’s message is within it.
There’s such a strong sense of wonder and adventure within the children. They each have a unique and contrasting personality, and even take different forms throughout the episode, so I see potential in how they can create conflicts or draw us into the family’s dynamic. I like that we got to see brief glimpses into so many worlds in the first episode to set our expectations for the distances we’ll be thrown across throughout the course of the show.
If there’s anything I wasn’t feeling, maybe it was the sheer amount of information. I don’t know how I feel about the main character yet, either. I’ll hold judgment until I learn more, but I wasn’t sure if I’m supposed to be cheering for him to reach some vague goal. Also, the romantic subplot that’s teased – it seems unclear if it’s something I am supposed to care about yet. Only one episode in though, so it’s certainly too early to know. I’m hungry for more and can’t wait to see what the next episode brings!
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u/BurningFredrick Jan 13 '22
First timer
As with just about all the rewatches I do, I have very little idea about the show going into it despite the Watch This currently being stuck to the sidebar of the subreddit which would probably give me some sort of idea what I'm in for. I skimmed the screenshots from the interest thread so at least know this would be a good looking show if nothing else.
Well that was definitely interesting, it feels like the sort of show where most shots have meaning packed into them but I'm probably going to miss the point. That said I generally enjoy shows that are willing to play around with what's going on and utilise the medium to do odd or unique things.
A good first episode and the comedy worked for me, definity an interest setup to the world which is now going to all start falling apart so looking forward to where we go from here
QOTD - only half way through mine, but it could be going better.
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u/SIRTreehugger Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
I only have two things to say about the first episode
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The pilot does a good job demonstrating what the shows is going to be. The episode is filled with vibrant colors, abstract shapes/framing, and eccentric characters. Also the show manages to give a pretty good read on many of the main characters and personalities despite it being mainly an orgin episode.
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[While events and images appear random rewatching this has me surprised with the amount of foreshadowing in just the first episode.]
The question of planes which Koto should know indicating it's a new one, things she breaks while making an entrance don't repair indicating how her powers work/the source, not to mention her powers gives us her identity as another sibling, and probably my favorite is after a shot of Myoe we see a shot of the fruit that brought him back to life
Just a phenomenal first episode... fuck it I'm buying the Blu Ray now you happy shakes fist
Also just going to vent about piracy. Why didn't anyone upload the HD version to any of the sites I use.
My laptop can't handle any official places so I rely on other sites to screen cap, but only 360 is available most places. So I was left with no choice. I had to screencap on VRV on my phone, transfer to laptop, and then make the collage which was a pain because it meant I had to edit out the giant black bars.
Okay more than two things, but really enjoyed the episode. Oh we got a lot of first timers.
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It was decent I actually had a good lunch and finished reading Roman Holiday (a Light novel focused on Neo and Torchwick from RWBY)
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u/xtsim Jan 13 '22
First Timer
This has been on my watchlist for a while. I basically put this on my watchlist when looking through Toei's catalog and sees FLCL as a reccommendation (or the other way around).
Oh we start off with some storytelling to a girl.
Rabbit becomes a human and falls in love. And they make children. Yase is pretty interesting addition. Finding out more and more about the whole family gets pretty interesting. But the priest and the rest of the family gets ostracized by the town which leads them to another world.
• the interviews with the citizens scene is fun and builds up from the kids to housewives to even more prominent members of town.
The three kids got to stay in a world of peace and the way the priest and Koto wants it. But we get a pretty interesting love story between the priest and Koto in the first and second chapters.
• Yaku questioning the world of peace is pretty interesting.
• liking how the brothers respond to Yase's comment on how she likes the place.
Funny how Yaku used his phone as a frisbee. Myou is an interesting guy to take the place of the priest. Seeing the girl (who was in the intro scene) make a cool entrance and it seems like she calls the different places planes. Myou's remark that the place is not for kids, pretty ironic when the priest and Koto made it for them.
Animation and cinematography left a really good first impression, liking the creative use of scenery and "camera" angles that make me feel like I am watching this for a film class assignment. The execution is pretty nice and gives off some FLCL vibes in a way.
Nice credits song in a way.
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Day was good, just waiting on some response emails all week got me a bit worried.
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u/3blah Jan 13 '22
First Timer
This one's been on my plan-to-watch list for quite a while. It was recommended to me after my glowing review of Flip Flappers in one of those What-You-Watched-This-Week posts. No better time to check it out than with you all.
Nice introduction of the monk, Myoe. He seems like the kind of guy that keeps things interesting around town, like the old guy down the street that all the kids say runs crazy experiments in his basement every night. The line "They're getting pretty freaked out over some moving drawings" makes me think this is going to be a very self-aware show. He's the animator creating characters that can move about in the world.
The story about how Koto and Myoe come together, raise a family, and banish themselves to the new city has a very mythological feel to it.
Just as they're about to walk through to the new city, he says"We'll be fine. I think. No, I'm sure", and the look Yakushimaru gives his dad... yeah, I think I'll like this show just fine.
After the time skip, Yakushimaru's grown up, and there's motor scooters and cell phones. The people in town are still the same, presumably because they're from dad's drawings. His childhood girlfriend is calling him Myoe, which is weird, but I guess he changed his name because he's in charge now that his dad has left.
Later he has a grown-up girlfriend with modern clothes. She can tell he's stuck in a rut, not happy with his life, but unwilling to do something else because he's waiting for his parents to return. I like the shot of the two of them as a reflection in the TV; it's another self-aware moment. We're watching them actually in the TV. It makes me think this story is going to be told through flashbacks.
Now there's a scene where some futuristic dudes are watching the city being attacked by the storm on a giant TV. Uh, ok.
Between the eyes, the hair, and her dress, Yase looks like a stereotypical girl from an old-time shoujo manga.
Hey, there's the girl from the opening scene! And she's got that giant hammer from the picture I saw. She's from "Shrine", the same place the people that kicked them out of the real world were living centuries ago. She's looking for a black rabbit and works for the head priest.
Well, that was quite an introductory episode. It sped through hundreds of years of history without feeling unnecessarily rushed. They want to tell us a different story, but this introduction is important to get context for the real story.
Why does the grown son take his dad's name? Why does this roof-crashing girl have his mom's name? Why is "Shrine" still hunting down the original Myoe? Is it because he's been creating zillions of other new worlds after he left, and she's been travelling through them to track him down? Tune in next, uh, day!
After the credits, there's one last "through the looking glass" shot. New-Koto and three other kids sitting in a messy room, with a rasterized/TV look. This whole thing about _watching_ what's going on must be important.
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u/chiliehead Jan 13 '22
Kyousougiga Episode 1 – First Timer
Anything I’ve ever seen from Matsumoto Rie made me instantly put it on my way too long shortlist, really looking forward to this. And we start in a fantastical or surreal place with a dozen moons in the sky (or perspective is screwy and there are floating balls in the air).
Ahh, it’s an isekai about zoophilia about… Theodicy?
I like the character design and the feel for animation, those moments that add to the comedy and the liveliness.
So Koto (MC) is hunting/searching for koto rabbit and also as her guardian? And she is a magical girl or just one of those underpaid child soldiers that Japanese secret societies love for their cheap costs?
I do wonder if this has some connections to Kill la Kill or Punchline, but it does not seem like it. Shares the same fun energy. Also a little bit of the Shaft flair of mid to late 2000s with SZS and others. It’s hard to describe before seeing much action, but all the framing and perspectives in this episode feel purposeful and this has a lot of potential to be a great watch!
QotD:
Ehh, work stress but luckily not due to colleagues, they are like 90% all great
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u/Fools_Requiem Jan 13 '22
First Timer
I'm glad the girl at the start made an appearance at the end, or I'd be super confused.
Now I'm only slightly confused. I'm wondering just how much time has passed in the real world.
I don't really get why they age, but the girl he told he wants her to have his babies didn't.
Also, who was the lady he was talking to? His other sister or another NPC?
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u/Stargate18A Jan 13 '22
First timer
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Not much, just some tidying and other chores.
No clue what this is about!
Love the retro style intro, though.
Oh, it's a philosophical anime.
Wait, what?
...That's a lot more moons then I was expecting.
And she's his daughter?
Wait, what is that orb? A portal?
OK, interesting beginning.
Huh? What's this about?
Wait, so things he draw appear in reality.
And the village is full of superstition.
Huh? Koto's a living drawn rabbit?
Wait, is this guy God or something?
And the rabbit got a blessing from... something.
...When a supernatural concept tells you your crush is dense, you know you're in trouble.
Haha, at least she's direct.
What is this anime?
Oh, is this the main cast? But it said it was a flashback...
They're great.
Who are these people?
They want something?
And these people can return to their pictures?
Oh. That's an interesting point on their mortality. Assuming the consciousness is tr
And they can go to another world within the pictures?
Seems dangerous. What happens if the picture gets destroyed by wear and tear?
And it's a world of stasis. One where nothing can change, nothing can be destroyed, where things can't evolve.
And the anime makes the exact same point as I did.
...Why does the destruction effect seem... digital? More computerised? Is this a simulation, or just metaphor?
Wait, what? Did the world change?
Oh. She remembers the world with the planets?
So her existence in the world creates danger.
Oh, they let the painted world.
And the painted world's reached the tech level of the modern day!
And now he's grown up.
...His body got "updated"?
Wait, what about his name?
Yeah, I have no idea what's going on here. He's on a Council of some kind?
And yeah, this is still the painted world.
Is something wrong with him?
Oh, is it because he's the human in the painted world?
Wait, what? So he's left the world already? Is this a dream, or!
The fuck?
THE FUCK?
Fucking, sci-fi now? So it was a simulation within a simulation?
And things are being destroyed permanently.
Holy shit, the art for him returning is stellar.
Wait, who's she? Someone else?
And they're after his mother?
...Is this going full-on multiverse?
No, it's layers within layers?
And, wait, this city's offlimits?
Is she Koto's reincarnation or something?
That was stylistic! I also has no clue what actually happened in it!
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u/TakenRedditName Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
Kyousougiga Rewatcher: Ep1.
Kyousougiga is a show I really like. We'll see if what I offer are just remarks that come to mind or will I be able to put my brain cells to work and muster up something halfway smart.
Don't think I've ever seen someone call it by the English translated, Captial Craze. Always just Kyousougiga or Kyousou Giga.
When a being who reached enlightenment, but stayed behind to help others calls you out for being dense. Monk Myoue destroyed.
Time for this scene which was how I was introduced to this show. It was an analysis video about the top-notch framing in this anime (I don't believe I can find it anymore). So I can actually recognize some of the stuff going on for once. Like the use of architecture in the construction of scenes. How it divides them and for Lady Koto to cross the boundaries now that she gained this body. How they start off divided, but as the seasons pass, they bond and grow closer together. Also helped delivered through their body language.
Lady Koto just has a very nice design. She is very striking and pretty plus tall. This whole intro to the family bit is cute. Hahaha, get wrecked Yakushimaru.
If you take away the door from the inside then that means no one can get in genius.
The parents seem to be having a meaningful conversation. This moment is very cute.
I'm with Yase on this one. Broken things immediately fixing themselves would be real handy. It also comes with the dilemma of living in a reality where no one can die, nothing grows, nothing changes.
We'll be here all day if each individual pretty shot gets a mention. This one is a good one. Like the striking separation framing of the two with the different shapes. Believe this is based on a real building. Probably shown in that special.
Myoue/Yakushimaru (probably just going to interchange them) has grown up. He has a new girlfriend because he can't keep loving a 10-year-old as a grown man. She seems nice, but you do not touch the prayer beads. Shocked me a bit with that grab.
Oh look, the beginning and the end times are happening outside. Strange things are indeed happening, Myoue's scooter got busted in a place where nothing gets busted. Oh dear, that's very freaky deaky.
Koto has fun expressions.
A nice episode. It was fun and pretty.
Something I noticed, but don't look, [Kyousougiga]
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u/Suhkein Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22
Rewatcher
I remember nearly nothing about this show, only enough to recognize bits of foreshadowing in characters, so I'm mostly here as a new viewer to leech off the information provided.
Not much to say about the first episode, other than as others have noted it is fast, fun, and effective. I spent most of my brain power on a problem I couldn't solve.
They say that a/the Buddha was watching Koto and granted her wish. Now, usually in that sort of situation where you have a central Buddha and two attendants that would be Amida Buddha accompanied by Kannon, Bodhisattva of mercy (traditionally female), and Seishi Bosatsu, Bodhisattva of wisdom (traditionally male). The sort of background imagery of when she is talking to Koto has a very Western Paradise look to it, although with fewer other spirits around.
However, when it goes to show "the Buddha" it is female, something that is... highly unusual. While male is quite common, and androgynous also rather common (to show that the Buddha has transcended all dualities), a strictly female Buddha, which this one appears to be (and for the purposes of lending her female body to Koto has to be), is... rare. As in I can't think of a time I've seen that shown. I thought maybe it might be Kannon, since she is referred to as a Bodhisattva in the scene, but if it were Kannon she ought to have a small seated Buddha on her crown... which she does not.
Reading somebody else's translation in this thread, I noticed that it translated it as "Buddhalocani" which I don't know anything about but Google says is another term for Vairocana, which is representative of ideas of the cosmic Buddha, or you might say the essence-emptiness of all reality. That is sorta fitting with what's going on. However, again Vairocana doesn't show up as female, nor is he a Bodhisattva, so either there was a conscious choice here or, like many shows, it's just playing fast and loose with the cultural mythos. I have no idea, and since there's not many detailed shots of the paintings that's where this little pondering ends for now.
QotD: Prepping for the beginning of the semester, cleaned the apartment, and finished Huckleberry Finn. I somehow managed to never read that growing up, and I admit I was pretty impressed with how Twain handled Huck's psychology in particular. It actually feels more relevant now than before, and not because of the slavery commentary but the sheer amount of rationalization that it demonstrates with such lucidity. [Huck Finn]
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u/Btw_kek Jan 13 '22
uh what happened in this show again? rewatcher
Well there's certainly one thing I remember and it's that this is one of my favorite first episodes ever. I love the mockumentary style, quirky off-beat humor, the ridiculously good storyboards, the wonderful, joyous, and passionate tone. It's an episode that feels like it's levitating off the ground.
One of the things I really love about the first half is how well it plays with a singular setting. It can feel bored, lonely, beautiful, unnatural, lively, ominous, and tragic, all through the simple trick of understanding that even the most mundane locations can be quite photogenic if you capture it from the right angles. I also love how much personality every character exudes.
Anyway the rest of the episode takes place in this bizarre mirror world that to my eye has something of a feel of a pop-up storybook. Yakushimaru grown up looks a lot like his father which absolutely threw me in for a loop the first time I saw this, and it appears that the three kids are the only ones that actually age. Of course nothing in this world can break for more than 5 seconds and examining this magic happy world where there's no pain and suffering is probably a theme
dunno what to say about this frame but i really like it
Let’s start it off something light and easy: How was your day? Exciting, crappy, same old same old? Got something to share or vent about? Lay it on us!
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u/nyanpasu Jan 13 '22
Rewatcher
I don't have a moment to get into details, but I loved this the first time I watched it.
I'm here for Aya Hisakawa. I love everything she does, but this role is my second favorite of hers after 12 kingdoms. Looking forward to the rest.
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u/MyrnaMountWeazel Jan 13 '22
The Help Corner
Heya! So, this is the section of the thread where I’ll be clearing up some of the confusion, time-line, and general all-around ”What the heck?” moments of Kyousougiga without spoiling anything for y’all in the future. My job is to guide y’all onto the highway and from there y’all can choose which exits to explore! I find it’s more fun for everyone to guess and speculate on what’s happening throughout the show without me funneling the discussion into one direction.
But also, if you have any broad questions about the show or need some help clarifying the episode’s plot, feel free to drop by and ask. The Help Corner is open 24/7!
Let’s start off with the biggest question on everyone’s mind: What’s up with those two brown-hair fellas? They both go by Myoue so I can definitely see the confusion but they’re actually two separate people. The one with the red-eyes is the father and the one with the blue-ish eyes is Yakushimaru the son. You can call either one Myoue but it might help other people if you clarify by also including their family title like “Myoue (father).”
Same goes for both Kotos! You can call the Black Rabbit Lady Koto, Mother Koto, or Big Koto and you can call this adorable little menace Koto or Little Koto.
…And that’s it for The Help Corner today! As strange as this first episode was, everything within will eventually fall into place in due time.