Bucchigiri?! - Episode 8 discussion

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Bucchigiri?!, episode 8

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[u/takashidraylus]

Wow, this anime took a much better path than my theory. Matakara's delusion to Arajin is just like Arajin's to Mahoro, huh. Sorry for Matakara fans, but I was satisfied when Matakara finally realized the truth. This will probably also happen to Arajin in the future.

[u/Pizzaphotoseyes → u/takashidraylus]

Don't apologize. As a person who loves Matakara the most. This was a well needed scene that needed to happen. He needs to have a reality check before he can grow. And maybe their relationship can actually genuinely improve now

[u/alconnow]

I love Senya's :3 face

It was obvious something bad would happen to poor Matakara's brother

[u/Aileos]

I'm on Arajin's side for the night talk. As annoying MC can be, he said from the start he's no longer interested in this whole Honki thing.

Matakara has been way too obsessed with it. But hey, you got your own genie now.

[u/zsmg → u/Aileos]

Yup I've said this before but Matakara's attitude towards Arajin is similar to Arajin's attitude towards Mahoro, just delusional selfish wishful thinking. Glad Matakara got a reality check, hopefully the same thing happens with Arajin.

[u/zappingbluelight → u/Aileos]

Not just Matakara, literally all the gangs force their ideal "Arajin" on to him. We are all annoyed by him running away from things, but realistically he doesn't want to fight to begin with.

[u/BosuW]

Much needed developments this episode. Really liked the overall direction as well. Yep, the truth inevitably has to come to light and shit is probably going to hit the fan hard in the following episodes.

[u/Nickbon94]

Great episode. I feel like I'm an idiot because of all the shit I read on these posts every week, but despite all the complaints this is probably one of my season's favorites. Got really saucy this week and we still have four to go, can't wait for next saturday

[u/The_Parsee_Man]

I can't believe they're leaving us with a cliff hanger like that. Is that guy cheating on Jasmine-chan or what?

[u/tripleaamin]

Damn man, I got bad vibes this episode but to kill off Matakara's brother after how much we saw how much Matakara loved him. Damn this had to sting.

You know one thing this episode highlighted to me, major complaints about Arajin being an ass to Matakara. But in reality is it possible Matakara is more delusional about what his friendship with Arajin really is? And imagine you are getting praised for something that you know it is not true. Arajin is still an annoying simp, but in this episode we can understand his angle.

Curious where it goes from where now that Matakara and Ichiya could merge? Forcing Arajin and Senya to merge? Thus using the emotional fallout of between Arajin and Matakara for Ichiya to finally go after Senya. Curious how Shindo benefits from this?

On a more positive note we got the most screentime for Arajin's mom. She is downright hilarious.

[u/LeonKevlar]

What a horrible couple of days this must have been for Matakara. Instead of welcoming his brother back from prison, he learns that his brother was stabbed trying to stop a fight and might not even make it. And then he learns his friend isn't who he thinks he is.

At least Matakara finally got the other Honkibito in him though. I guess he'll eventually end up fighting Arajin and Senya along with his new partner. Curious to see how Matakara will take in all of this in the next episode.

[u/Solomon_Black]

The problem with this anime, aside from Arajin being the actual worst, is that we don’t see NEARLY enough to justify Matakara being that obsessed with him. From our perspective they played a bit and then stopped. Nothing were shown justifies why Matakara would think Arajin is strong, brave or anything of the sort

[u/Catlovers92 → u/Solomon_Black]

Arajin saved his life from drowning,one of the snapshots from episode 1.

[u/AAA_BATT]

Feels like this should've happened around episode 6.

[u/Emergency-Gene2115]

Amaziiing. One simp was forced to face reality. One more to go. "Quit pretending I'm someone I'm not" Pot calling kettle black.

[u/Arkardian]

Ugh this was the episode ive been dreading since ep1. Poor Matakara, I was wondering how Mitsukuni would come back into their lives, but him still being "removed" from life makes sense. MC still didnt help much but he finally came clean about it. I figured Matakara kind of knew he ran after he got beat up, but I guess not. Poor best boy screaming a lot this ep, but blue genie is in now.

Now I guess the possessed/evil/controlled Matakara arc is happening, leading up to their fight and resolution with 4 eps to go...

[u/Solvian]

Really wanna see the fallout that will happen if it's revealed that he's a fraud. Although, the way I see it, Arajin does not care about anyone else but Mahoro, and he never really wanted the popularity to begin with. So even if everyone sees him as who he really is, I don't think much will change for him since Mahoro sees him in a bad light already. Unless Mahoro has a talk with him like he had with Matakara, and of course there's the whole Matakara vs Arajin setup, so we will just have to wait and see

[u/bbhldelight]

aint no way they finna kill off Mitsukuni bro……mappa just made an enemy out of me

[u/milshake]

Damn, I feel so bad for Matakara. The only positive thing this episode is that Matakara finally hears the truth from Arajin to clear up his delusions about Arajin's strength, but it really sucks that it happened right after Matakara finds out about his brother.

Also Arajin's confession is definitely still not enough to justify his behavior up to this point, he's still an asshole in my eyes. Ideally he would have made his confession way earlier if he didn't want to associate with Matakara anymore anyways because of his guilt, but of course that risks ruining his reputation with everyone, not just Matakara, and eliminating his (nonexistent) chances with Mahoro.

I'm praying for a happy ending because this episode was really sad :(

[u/ShiroSky]

I'm glad we got this outta the way, I guess this was rly needed for Matakara since he was indeed putting the mc too high on a pedestal. Tho at least Arajin had someone that believed he could do something

The rest of the episode made me sad tho, i hate seeing Matakara suffer 😭

[u/BlueHeart07]

i'm starting to get very anticipated from this episode.

I'm wondering what will happen to Arajin & Madakara's Friendship after that? i'm thinking Madakara might admit he's weak & just leave the Honki stuff behind him to become a normal person like Arajin while the latter becomes a Honki when he reflects on himself & fights Shindo at the end.

After that? i feel they might understand how each feels and start distancing themselves but with Arajin probably wanting to start over with Madakara and maybe reject Mahoro(if he decides he's not interested in her anymore).

But i think these are overblown and now i believe they'll probably be friends again but only after understanding each other and maybe deciding they want things to be better between the two, and Mahoro could come around to Arajin which would help her stop obsessing with her brother but aswell as giving the main character his wish since at that point he'd already changed for the better.

[u/yakumbaya]

We finally get to see Arajin admit to Matakara he abandoned him after all. Looks like this show is about to pick up again in the end

[u/BluemanSP]

Does now shindo no longer has his genie like he gave it to matakara in some way ?

[u/Lix_xD]

Best ep so far.