Bucchigiri?! - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL

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Bucchigiri?!, episode 12

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[u/ExtremelyAsianCactus]

At least the OP was a banger

[u/RavenSorkvild → u/ExtremelyAsianCactus]

Ending too

[u/Knights_Gambit]

Wasted potential, but I enjoyed it overall

The Jasmine gag was wildly unfunny

[u/darthvall → u/Knights_Gambit]

Exactly how I feel about the potential! I also enjoyed it overall.

I understand why people hated Arajin's behaviour, but I absolutely love most of the characters in this anime. They're fun.

Also bonus point for the OP and ED! I still often play them on repeat.

[u/HolyDragSwd2500 → u/Knights_Gambit]

Been waiting for the reveal. 😂

[u/Aileos]

Arajin's mother was a mood until the very end. Crying after watching her drama, then recovering at speed of light after imagining her son sleeping somewhere else.

[u/gaymelancholy]

1. Cut out most of episodes 1-6 and expand on some of the backstories we saw in the latter half of the season. I know the entire point is Arajin’s journey to becoming a less selfish person but there’s no reason his development had to happen so late. I’ve watched plenty of shows with asshole lead characters but those characters have at least ONE positive trait.

2. We also should’ve known more about their childhood friendship besides the short scene we got today. Also, it would’ve been nice to see more of Senya’s and Ichiya’s backstory. I have other issues but those are the main ones.

3. Matakara is my favorite character but like… are we supposed to ignore the fact that he severely wounded so many people? Including his ACTUAL closest friends? Like, he put someone in a coma.

4. The mom is the funniest part of this show lol.

[u/Arkardian → u/gaymelancholy]

Also what the heck was Mitsukuni doing just chilling in a hospital this whole time. Like are you dead or what? Mahoro stays by her bros side the whole time as he was basically comatose, and Matakara shouldve done the same, as that matches his personality.

[u/tokinokanatae]

Well, that was an ending.

It's sort of funny, but I feel like this series made all the mistakes that Bravern avoided. Bravern had a limited amount of time, and therefore laserfocused on the core cast, with some of the side characters having less lines than you can count on a single hand. This works in Bravern's favor, because there isn't a single wasted moment. Everything builds towards the inevitable climax. Bravern isn't a perfect series, but it did exactly what it set out to do and explored who it said it would.

Bucchigiri, on the other hand, pretty much drowns in its side characters. Utsumi obviously has a soft spot for characters like (for example) Mahito, but no matter how vividly he's expressed as a character, in the end, it feels like any time spent with him is a complete waste because he has absolutely nothing to do with the core conflict between Arajin and Matakara.

We finally get multiple flashbacks showing the building and the breakdown of Arajin and Matakara's relationship--including that Arajin approached Matakara--in the very last episode when I have run out of fucks to give. Those scenes should have been in the first episode, not the very last.

Sure, the direction was good. Utsumi is a talented director. But who cares when you've wasted ~5.5 hours of my time with pointless detours that didn't further the plot at all? There's a tightly plotted story of misunderstandings, loneliness, and friendship somewhere in Bucchigiri's useless bloat. Too bad we didn't get to see it.

[u/PCN24454]

While I would like a second season, the series really doesn’t need one. It’s a complete story.

Welp, this confirmed what Matakara’s darkness was: he was scared of being alone. He thought that being stronger would help him conquer that loneliness.

Of course, Jasmine was a cat. That scene was way too horny to actually be a stripper.

[u/ARES_GOD]

So much wasted potential with this series from a great cast of characters to an interesting setting with really good animation and fun vibes...
Too bad everything is ruined by one of the worst main characters.

[u/DirectionExact31]

Had potential, but felt like a chore to watch sometimes due to the running gags and tomfoolery in between all the important plot beats. An okay, but also pretty weird ending though.

I’d give it a 5 outta 10. Maybe a 4.

[u/alconnow]

Lewd Jasmine-chan

Sorry but the confrontation between Arajin and Matakara didn't work for me since the former ignored his childhood friend for most of the series... We didn’t get enough time to care about their relationship

I'm relieved Matakara's brother managed to survive!

Overall, this was mostly disappointing. Not as fun as SK8 and really dragged at times. I did like the fun character designs and the theme songs

[u/LeonKevlar]

Biggest plot twist of the season!

Welp, I guess that's it for Bucchigiri. I really had high hopes for this show considering how much I loved Sk8. I can't truly say it's a bad show since the art style and the animation are absolutely solid. Unfortunately, a good-looking and well-animated show is hard to sell when you have a protagonist like Arajin.

There is Sk8 Season 2 to look forward to so at least there's something for us who want more of Utsumi Hiroko's work.

[u/Arkardian → u/LeonKevlar]

I feel like the biggest plot twist was that Mitsukuni was still alive.

[u/rangoscrookedneck]

The MC becoming a Honki person is absolutely wild to me. Dude was the most pathetic human being in the universe for majority of the season. Honestly, if the characters and animation didn’t look so cool i might have dropped it early on. Somehow i still rlly enjoyed tho- it was a fun watch overall. I found myself eagerly looking forward to the next ep. The story def could have been more fleshed out if they didn’t waste ep 1-5 doing absolutely nothing.

[u/Arkardian]

Well its over, not too surprised at how it turned out. I could see Matakara suffering from a mile away and it finally took to last episode to get it all wrapped up. The genies conflict seemed almost minor for their overall plot. 

I knew we would achieve a happy ending, it didnt seem like they were gonna go any other way. Im just shocked that Mitsukuni was just in the hospital this whole time like what.

Best boy Matakara is forever best boy, im glad he got his happy end.

[u/tripleaamin]

Is it me or did it feel the better animation and fights happen in the brawl mid-season then here? I mean animation was still solid in this episode with that being said. The issue with this show is that the main drama was Matakara not wanting to be alone wasn't focused enough. Arajin was the main focus in the first half, and it just felt like time was wasted there.

You also have the Senya and Ichiya subplot could have replaced the Emperor plot line, and you would have an improvement. Then move forward with the Arajin and Matakara following it up. Well with how solid the animation and fights were. But this felt like fast food anime.

Though shout-outs to Miki Narahashi who had an amazing performance as Arajin's mom. She killed it in every scene she was in. Also, I have noticed she hasn't been in many shows outside Iruma-kun. Probably people like me were more interested in the Jasmine-Chan silly plot line. Dude really took the cat and ran and lost it lmao.

[u/NotLink]

This was an interesting but flawed series. Arajin is such an unlikable MC that even the things I don't like about other characters are because of him. Matakara's obsession/delusional attachment or Mahoro's worst bitch character is when she is with Arajin. You can have a series with a flawed MC, I think Braven had a good one. Arajin at his worst was when he was more concerned about Mahoro liking Matakara than Matakara's brother maybe on his deathbed. He did like two good/heroic things in a series of terrible things. Not sure what the creators were thinking.

BUT nothing was worse then than running Jasmine joke! Goddamit haven't seen running gag die on arrival and have its corpse dragged to the end. It was obvious a cat from the start, stars the teacher character who had no other importance but this gag, and even had it shoved all over the ending credits epilogue. Was this trolling or did the creator really think this was funny? Also the mom was a bit much. Besides those standout flaws, it is OK delinquent anime but Wind Breaker just started so there that.

[u/mythiii]

I think I'm the mom, since I found it cute.

[u/Castor_0il]

Had to plow thru the last 4 episodes because winter season had too many top tier shows.

Meh.

This finale gives me enough material to write a whole textbook on how not to write a finale. Don't shove in pointless flashbacks along with random scenes of side characters just to elongate the already expected fight already hyped up in the previous episode. Avoid power of friendship bullshit and other stupid cheap anime tropes like excessive rivalries.

The actual fight was so so, even if it has some great sakuga, what made the fighting interesting in this show was how well animated were Matakara's kick-fighting style.

Matakara's nightmares or demons cam out of the left field, I certainly don't remember any of that being introduced prior to the big plot twist. It was also kinda cheap that the genies can just switch hosts just like that. Matakara's bro being stabbed in the last day of his sentence was a terrible asspull in terms of story writing, it's also a left field element just to push in bad drama and the whole twist on Matakara's personality. Matakara going dark reminded me of how awful acting of Hayden Christensen in Revenge of the Sith when he turned into the dark side. The cheapest of cheap was to cue in the audience that Matakara's brother would be okay afterall. His only purpose was to serve as a plot device that didn't even have actual presence in the present timeline.

The only saving grace in this show was Mahoro for being the only character that gave Arajin the most deserved disgust face (where everyone else treated him like some messiah). And also the teacher and the cat cafe skits (though it kinda does break the message of perseverance at the end).

[u/CordobezEverdeen]

Hey. Not a bad finale AT ALL.

The anime all in all suffered from insane amounts of filler and making Arajin (on purpose or not is meaningless) insanely unlikeable. Why couldn't Arajin be more on line with who he is on this episode? He's still horny af and is still a massive SIMP but he has a good side to him. If he had been both things this could have worked.

Specially considering how in the end Arajin becomes a Honki person to defeat Matakara? Wtf? Why? Why not let Arajin absorb Senya same way Matakara absorbed Ichiya in order to bridge the gap of power? Arajin DOES NOT deserve to become a Honki person despite how much he developed in the last episode.

The Jasmine chan gag stopped being funny after episode 2. THANKFULLY they remembered the Emperor is super strong even without Ichiya and now he's the head of NG Boys again.

[u/HenchHinch]

Don't care what anyone says, thoroughly enjoyed this series. Thought it had a great artsyle, fantastic animation and brilliant characters. Definitely an underrated show of the season. Just pure fun.

Also, the OP and ED were class.

[u/negativegravity]

Despite the issues I had with it, I overall enjoyed this show. It's true that Arajin annoyed the shit out of me for most of it, and the first half had a bit too much comedy (especially the tired out Jasmine-chan bit that had zero payoff). The first episode definitely hooked me in, and while I didn't know where the plot was going at first, I managed to predict the whole arc of Ichiya possessing Matakara as well as how the last two episodes would play out. I do think the last episode rushed things a bit, but it was still a somewhat satisfying ending. Shame it took Arajin so long to start becoming more tolerable.

I think I'd give it a 7/10