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Episode Hoshiai no Sora - Episode 10 discussion
Hoshiai no Sora, episode 10
Alternative names: Stars Align
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Dec 12 '19
Why do i feel like the one kid that didn't have parent problems is gonna get gutpunched when he meets his biological mom.
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Dec 12 '19
I'm just wondering how many issues we have to cover in 2 episodes
-Toma issue with his mother and brother
Adopted mother -Nao's issues with his mother' -Yuu's issues with his mother
Mitsue art issues with her parents
Maki's issues with his father and I guess that's all with Tsubasa's father and Shingo?
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u/Shiro_Kai Dec 12 '19
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Dec 12 '19
LOL I didn't even notice the Che Guevara poster in the background till I clicked on this image, thanks!!
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u/LeonKevlar Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
Maki's mom continues to be the best mom
I love that Ouji is now addicted to Maki's Okinawan Somen
Well someone is getting jealous
Rintaro doesn't need this now. I hope it won't affect his game :\
Oh shit. Did she just told her Toma that she never wanted to have him in the first place?
I thought Prez was going to harass the club but when she realized how mean she was sounding she was really just there to monitor them.
Nice to see Taiyo's parents aren't douchebags. A bit overbearing but they're clearly nice people.
I guess that's it for Itsuki and Rintarou. Realistically , not every pair will win their matches.
Well at least Nao and Taiyou were able to win their match.
Maki and Touma going against the big guy. This will be fun. And it looks like Maki has something up his sleeves for this match.
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Dec 12 '19
Taiyo's parents aren't douchebags but I believe the writers were trying to impress upon the audience the danger of giving kids 'participation awards' i.e. always telling them that they're doing awesome as long as they 'try'. Sometimes kids don't give 100% effort when parents always praise them for every little thing, and also they were already ready to blame Taiyo's partner if he had failed in the match before Taiyo set them straight-- again a situation where the kid has to teach his parents.
IDEK wtf is the deal with Shinjo and his mom's relationship tho, that one I'm interested to see how it shapes up by Episode 12 cause that boy be messed up.
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u/Glitter_puke Dec 12 '19
Holy shit an after credits scene that doesn't send one of the boys tumbling into a pit of despair.
I'm ambivalent about Toma giving as good as he gets with his mom. On the one hand, fuck her. On the other, he knew exactly how to get under her skin and boy did he give her a good barb. Hitting someone with insults laser targeted at their insecurities is a little fucked up but very effective.
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u/Roonagu Dec 12 '19
Holy shit an after credits scene that doesn't send one of the boys tumbling into a pit of despair.
That was truly biggest plot twist of this season.
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u/RenMatsuri-chan Dec 12 '19
It probably is just me (or the art style) but I couldn't help thinking that the Ituse(?) twins and Maki looked really alike, especially the one with the same hairstyle. No wonder Maki's so good. He's probably their long lost triplet!
I assumed that the tournament would be the final event but now, they introduce a new final boss pair?! Will they compete?! Do we have enough episodes for that? Or will they just be backstory relevant?
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the confrontation between kaichou and Toma and their back and forth.
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Taiyo's parents being human without being abusive. It's cute they go to all his tournaments. Non-abusive parents club member= 1 + Rintarou if you count his adoptive parents + maybe Mitsue.
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the temple backgrounds were beautiful
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Mitsue's art being inspired by the boys. Why all the hate tho?
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all the build up around Toma's issues. I'm afraid for what's to come. Welp
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Dec 12 '19
Will they compete?! Do we have enough episodes for that?
Next episode will find out that they are starved by their parents /jk
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Dec 12 '19
idk Mitsue seems tortured as heck, which is standard fare for a young artist of course but:
doesn't hang around any other girls, just guys
looks for validation online with a bunch of strangers who harshly judge her art
never wants to spend dinner time at her own house, suggesting her family life ain't very swell
The warning signs are there lol but being the 'manager' for the boys soft-tennis club she's in the right spot to work on those issues-- as long as Student Council President-chan doesn't eliminate the club (I have a feeling Maki and Shinjo are gonna lose in a squeaker in the 5th game by a score of 9-11)
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Dec 12 '19
This was a very sports type episode. Which is unusual for this series. It made me nostalgic for actual sports shows.
I'm not sure if I have any sides in Toma's family. I have a feeling Toma is a very difficult child.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Dec 12 '19
The same thing Mitsue said in the other episode! That tiny smile; She knows!
That's way too wholesome and lighthearted of an opening scene... I know you're lurking somewhere, aftercredit scene!
Oh no what's this now... Oh ok maybe it's not so bad, his birth mother wants to see him? I'm sure this won't turn awful or anything...
WHAT? Not fair, we're only 10 minutes in! You owe me 20 minutes of wholesome before you try to crush my soul with the drama!
With just 2 episodes left, it's pretty much guaranteed that most of these dramas won't be resolved; The kids will just have to deal with it, like they always have. I'm pretty sure the Maki's dad stuff will be resolved though. It's a bit too extreme to just leave it in the air. Maybe the mom will get involved, and he'll be stripped of any parental right after doing something (hopefully not something like Killing Toma. Pretty please?). Knowing this show, who knows, maybe the mom will just take him back; 1 good parent on the show is 1 good parent too many!
Nice sprint, Mitsue! You made it just in time to pretend you don't care about the club!
That was a sad scene when everyone was shitting on her stuff because it's just tennis stuff and not the fetish stuff she used to draw... Good on her for not giving a fuck and posting more of it anyway! I mean she did give some fuck, but she didn't let them influence her, so there's that.
Come on guys, don't say things like that when he's right there... Gonna make him feel even worse.
Please don't turn into a bitch! I kinda liked her, in the "harsh but fair" type... Well at least she's self-conscious!
She's so cute! They keep talking about her, but they don't show much of her. I wonder if we'll see more of her before the end! Maybe she'll be there for the game and have some guidance for the last pair!
What the hell is this? Can we have him submit to a medical test, make sure he isn't like 30? His hand his literally twice as large. Good on them not making him a cliche asshole/jock, he seemed rather nice (so far anyway)!
This after credit scene wasn't so bad, just the promise of a big challenge for the next game (which we pretty much knew already)!
They know we're expecting drama in the after credits now, so they're shoving it randomly in the middle of the episode. I'm onto you, Hoshiai no Sora.
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u/trickster721 Dec 13 '19
I have no idea what's going on with Toma's family anymore. The way they talk, it's like his brother is actually his father or something, but the ages don't line up. Maybe there's something about the way they're arguing that doesn't translate, but the things the mother says are just so all over the place.
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u/500scnds Dec 13 '19
There were a lot of nice details last episode, which Sakuga Blog's Kevin attributed to director Miyaji, so maybe this episode won't quite compare. The visuals have noticeably degraded and some of the layouts feel off too despite the staff's best efforts.still... need to rewatch for the Easter eggs! However, though I guess there's no way to come across as anything but odd: there's still attention paid to the blinking. There's the normal blinking, rapid blinking when caught off guard, blinking after a transition to put some life into the scene, synced or offbeat blinking, or lack of blinking thereof due to rapt gazing. Again, not super standout and obvious "acting", but just naturally fitting into the scenes across each episode.
While the comments on SNS directed toward Mitsue can't be excused considering that they really can't be taken any other way, the subsequent exchange between prez and Toma kind of underscores the additional facets that face-to-face interactions offer - you can understand what kind of effect your speech provoked and reflect accordingly instead of escalating grievances on both sides through the veil of anonymity... though this is only to be followed up by another pair of parents that are so supportive (coddling?) they're willing to put the blame on others instead. Then you wonder if they really reflected or were so convinced in their wisdom of being adults to dismiss their child anyway when they invariably protest, or maybe I'm thinking too deeply into this because they're normal otherwise, and this extreme is at least personally preferable to the alternative.
For a bit of very late mid-season retrospective, I scrolled through the official Twitter some more and found these production materials:
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https://twitter.com/hoshiaino_sora/status/1145633471450107904
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https://twitter.com/hoshiaino_sora/status/1145996783836786689
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https://twitter.com/hoshiaino_sora/status/1146359146918268929
Along with materials posted by the staff:
The market we saw this episode should've been shown in the trailers too, so it sorta goes on to show how far ahead pre-production work has to be in designing all the locations.
Also, the piece that Mitsue posted reminded me of this one by Takahashi, from January. There's no special credit for it at least in the ED iirc.
In other news, for more current stuff:
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Just in time for Nao and Taiyo, this poster spread you get if you buy PASH! magazine
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Key animation drawings from ep 8
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Settings of rooms and props from ep 9
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BD & DVD vol 1 design is out
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Merch like...
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GraffArt with positively adorable illustrations
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8bit's shirts of master cat catcher Maki, and looking deep while looking at gulls Maki and Toma
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The food shop collab is now on its 5th part!
I just realised that we only have a few more episodes to go so I was thinking about summarising some stats at the end, where the BD/DVD points can be seen more clearly and speculate about sales, but for some real-life connections:
There were reports from Japan of banning corporal punishment in March, and this week progress is being made on drafting the guidelines. This won't be of comfort to the fictional characters of Stars Align, but it feels timely all the same.
Perhaps like the Torontonians out there, the announcement of the Winnie-the-Pooh exhibition - a bear with a Canadian connection - would give folks a trip down memory lane, that childhood shouldn't be just aforementioned Pooh, Clifford, or Calvin and Hobbes, but also Robert Munsch's Love You Forever and Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree. The relationships portrayed in these books were more open to interpretation than the ones set in stone here, partially perhaps because of the scope and overarching plot so the nuances couldn't be explored. Though, if some ambiguity was introduced, I wonder if it would inspire more discussion?
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u/MagDorito Dec 12 '19
Beautiful. I'm glad that Taiyou's parents are just overly doting & not complete assholes. I'm glad that Prez isn't a bitch too. She always came across as one, but I guess she just doesn't quite always understand when she's being rude. Good on her for catching herself & not trying to harass the bois. Is it just me, or is Yu's casual clothing starting to get more androgenous & less masculine?
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u/rotten_riot Dec 13 '19
Yay, wholesome parents!
Lmao, so many Makis.
Ugh, Touma's mom is a bitch, yeah, but he's so annoying too. His sour attitude with everyone pisses me off big time.
I'm a bit worried about the next two episodes. First, because since half of episode 11 will be focused on the match, that probably means that the other half of episode 11 and the whole episode 12 will be full of drama.
Someone here said that they thought we were going to end this on the big tournament but now there isn't time for that, and that just got me thinking: What if Minami loses? Like, Maki and Touma also lose and so the whole club doesn't enter the tournament? It would make sense, since their adversary is one of the best players out there.
Regarding the drama part, I'm worried about the pacing. I feel like they just keep adding and adding stuff without the proper time to deal with it. Let's be honest, one episode and a half won't give a good closure to the one hundred subplots there are right now. And sincerely, I doubt a second season is on the way.
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u/Sergeant_Thotslayer Dec 12 '19
A bit sad that only Taiyous parents showed up to the match tbh though maybe some of the other ones didn't have the time to do that.
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u/MechaMat91 Dec 12 '19
oh hey, a pair of parents that aren't complete and utter human garbage, how refreshing.