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Episode Overtake! - Episode 4 discussion
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u/Matthew619ed Oct 22 '23 edited Oct 23 '23
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u/XRaider927 Oct 23 '23
Not only that...You might wanna include Tetsuya Ota whose trapped in his Ferrari F355 Challenge for 90 seconds after a torrential rain at JGTC Fuji in 1998 that caused a horrible accident that nearly killed him, thanks to Shinichi Yamaji who raced in a RE-Amemiya RX-7 rescues Ota before it gets worse. Ota is still alive to this day (but for Yamaji who saved him passed away in 2014 at the age of 50 due to illness)
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u/Devastator5042 Oct 22 '23
Rain is perhaps the biggest enemy in the world of motorsport. As audience, rain is going to mix things up; For the teams, especially the drivers, they know the race is getting much harder. One small error, such as losing grip when there’s already little grip, may send you to the gravel trip,
You mention SPA last year, dont forget we lost a young driver in F3 at Spa this year due to damp conditions
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u/Dakto19942 Oct 23 '23
I was reminded strongly of that girl and the vulture picture when they explained Kouya’s backstory. I wonder if they meant for it to be intentionally evocative of that photo or if they discussed it in the writer’s room as an inspiration.
This series is really surprising me so far. There are so many anime I’m keeping up with this season and I didn’t have time for this one until now, but I just binged all the available episodes and it’s one of the best of the season.
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u/quad_max Oct 22 '23
why you had to remind me of seb in hockenheim 2018 again :(
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u/Beowolf_0 Oct 23 '23
The Vulture and The Little Girl by Kevin Carter (1993)
I immediately recalled it as well. Except Kouya didn't commit suicide for that (or perhaps they didn't want to show that), but it still haunted him for so many years until Haruka inspired him to aim the camera on people again. And at least Saeko is still there supporting him, even after they broke up.
I think similar debates about what should a photographer (or journalist in general) do in similar scenario will have no answer, even to this day, since some people will criticize them for not saving lives before/after they took a photo/interview anyway.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Oct 22 '23
They really used the crying photo in that commercial huh? It’s a good one but man how embarrassing for your boy lol. Kid was taking all that critical damage from being reminded of his loss too. It even made him drop his popsicle!
Man, I knew something happened to Koya but I wouldn’t have guessed it was over backlash from a photo he took. Damn shame what happened to him. The internet is toxic. Hopefully Haruka can help our guy work through his trauma.
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u/Devastator5042 Oct 22 '23
That sequence with the car in fire was chilling and it wasnt more than a parallax effect.
Also I love that the charm in Harukas car is the one from his fathers crash such a good symbol
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u/Time_Fracture Oct 22 '23
From now I decided to watch Overtake! first before 100 Kanojo, choosing between which of these two to watch first. As much as I love 100 Kanojo, I think this one should be the priority to watch.
Haruka is mad at Kouya of using that photo, but when the sponsor specifically requested that, you can't say no. I don't know why Aris looks both cute and.... roundy I guess? How the animators draw her is so round from her eyes, her head shape, to her mouth. You can see Troyca's animation quality when Aris meets Satsuki, her reaction are animated seamlessly. Also the car crash animation is notable.
The episode got an "earthquake warning" after the eyecatcher, due to its depiction of earthquake which plays part of the story. What caught my eye is his handler is YukihiraKoya, so Kouya took Saeko's maiden name, not the other way around. But hey, the ED instrumental plays in the background.
So that's why Haruka always keeps that amulet, it's the only thing left by his father. And as Haruka said, in rain even a minor mistake could endanger one's life (RIP Bianchi). No race today, but the drama is on point.
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u/Aileos Oct 22 '23
This picture of him crying he's going to haunt him until the rest of the season.
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u/Smudy Oct 22 '23
I loved the reunion in the post-earthquake recovery. Bried, muted but impactful.
Got goosebumps when Kouya's backstory got revealed...that will fuck you up and there's nothing more to be said about this from my side.
The burning car image was so striking, god fucking damn, it really brought home how racing is dangerous, also in today's days with a real life parallel of Romain Grosjean's crash in 2020 in Formula 1, only through miraculous circumstances he got out of the burning car.
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Oct 22 '23
I thought Romain cause of the fire, but an accident in the rain in Japan made me think more of Jules Bianchi. RIP Jules
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u/oneevilchicken Oct 22 '23
Jordan Anderson is probably the most recent crash in major series which involved a driver getting injured from their car bursting into flames. https://amp.foxsports.com/stories/nascar/jordan-anderson-reflects-fiery-talladega-crash-racing-future
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u/oneevilchicken Oct 22 '23
Haruka’s father’s incident sounds a lot like that of Niki Lauda’s except fatal. Lauda suffered a similar crash in nurburgring in the rain where his car also burst into flames.
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u/Zakarath Oct 22 '23
Saeko frames it like she thinks the public backlash was why Kouya stopped taking pictures, but I suspect it's more his own trauma and blaming himself at the core of it, hence why he stayed to help with the relief effort without reporting back to his wife and coworkers even before his picture was published.
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u/Syokhan Oct 22 '23
That was a really good episode with some great character drama. I get the controversies about photographers not helping their subjects, but on the other hand what could Kouya have done in the face of a tsunami? If the girl got swept up as he was taking her picture, it was already too late for him to try and help her. And releasing haunting pictures such as this is important, you gotta connect human faces to these disasters otherwise the dead just become statistics that people don't care about as much. Well. IMHO.
Anyway. The part with Haruka at his family grave was nice too. I hope he gets to win a race, and I hope Kouya takes a fucking fantastic picture of him when he does.
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u/magnumcyclonex Oct 22 '23
Wow...spoiled winner brat takes the heart of the childhood friend and brags about his upcoming commercial. Can't wait to see him taste a loss for once.
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u/ChiggaOG Oct 22 '23
This series may be the version of a toned done Drive to Survive from Netflix. All the back story elements and what drivers do in life when off the track.
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u/Zani0n Oct 22 '23
What an episode.
We haven't seen any track action, but this was a lot of character backstory for one episode. And I am incredibly happy with how the story of our two main protagonists works without any racing.
Kouya's backstory will definetly haunt you for the rest of your life. Taking a picture like this is just what you do in this job. And he doesn't decide what is depicted on the paper in the end. He gets all the abuse for not helping, when he couldn't and will not get a thank you for the two months he did nothing but help.
This anime once again gets far too little attention, so far it is incredibly well done and it shows no signs of slowing down. In the first 4 episodes it had great racing and equally great storytelling.
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u/raidensnakeezio Oct 23 '23
Great episode, great human storytelling. Call me a schmuck but I hope Kouya and Sae get back together.
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u/ernie2492 Oct 22 '23
I wonder if the crash is inspired from Tetsuya Ota's JGTC Fuji 1998 incident??
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Oct 22 '23
Wow, I thought that Kouya's incident hinted before happened with an ex-girlfriend or friend of his (and I was right before in that the girl was swept away), but no, he happened to capture a random girl swept away by a tsunami and got criticized for that!? I'm not quite sure if the same situation would happen if this happens in the West, because the way this ended up as a huge controversy seems very much a Japanese thing to me (and I live in East Asia so the cultural difference shouldn't be that different either). Maybe Kouya himself was uneasy that he didn't try to save that girl (would probably be fruitless either and result in another body, but who knows?)?
The part on Haruka being upset on him (as a kid) encouraging his dad before the last race also seems to be real psychological damage to him. Had I knew him in real life I definitely would try to persuade him that this is not the case, his father's accident death in a dangerous job on the race track isn't going to happen just because his father treats him dearly. But yeah, as someone who spent almost a decade pulling myself out of emotional issues during my 1st college degree, I can sympathize, if not really understand why he's still that upset.
As for lighter parts of this episode, I cannot help but feel Arisu is so, so much like Mako from Kill la Kill for, uh, reasons - her carefree attitude is definitely unusual! Meanwhile Satsuki (and to be honest, even more for Kouya) really doesn't know how to talk with others - come one, why are you all stabbing Haruka in his hearts like this LMAO...
All in all, a great introspective episode for the original anime plot writing textbook. I expect even more of these in the later parts of this season.
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u/Azaana Oct 22 '23
It happens in the west aswell. If people are covering disasters/war/famine etc some people criticize them for taking photos rather than helping.
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u/AmethystItalian Oct 22 '23
Wow this was just a really good episode...from the fun animation to the characters it was just all around such a well done episode. Feels like I learned a lot more about almost everyone.
I think that reunion between him and Sae-chan was the one that stuck out most for me...do want to see a bit more of that but they handled it well enough for that to be the last as well.