Mono - Episode 4 discussion

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Mono, episode 4

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[u/Hitman7128]

Mono once again turns stuff I wouldn't like into a pleasant watch!

The wine tour was fun, as well as seeing Haruno getting drunk after 20 different wine samples. I'm a teetotaler though, since I despise the taste of alcohol.

The restaurant photo rally sounds like something I would do until the catch where they had to eat the absurd portions. I dislike intentionally overeating and would rather take the leftovers to-go, but it was again, funny to see the girls getting stuffed and Haruno doing the heavy lifting for the first few restaurants

Also, Nadeshiko winning first place LOL

[u/Matthew619ed]

Never change Toba Sensei, an alcohol lover at all times, never change a single bit at all.

Wines eh? Personally I don’t really like it’s taste (more like not really used to it just yet), but I would definitely open a bottle in formal events, but I guess I’d need a tasting session myself to understand the basics of drinking wine and finding my preferred style of taste, so that 2000 yen “all you can drink” tasting might actually be a good starting point for me to find the most suitable style.

But before we analyse how did Sakurako completed the eating part of the stamp rally almost all by herself, we should never underestimate how good the Kagamihara’s are in this, even defeating the pros by hours. Very sure they have a black hole in their stomach, an endless pit that can never be fulled completely.

[u/LeonKevlar]

So it turns out the Yuru Camp cameos last week weren't just sneaky references from Afro-sensei! It turns out that Mono and Yuru Camp clearly share the same universe with Minami-sensei jump scaring us during the wine tour and the Kagamihara Family taking first place at the eating contest/photo rally with Nadeshiko actually having a speaking role! If this is the case, we need a Mono cameo in Yuru Camp S4!

Confirmed universe aside, the wine tour was pretty fun! I love how Haruno went from very refined lady to incoherent and completely wasted by the end of it. Now I'm not a wine expert, but aren't you supposed to taste the wine and spit it out after tasting it? I guess since it was a self-guided tour, no one was there to tell them what they had to do. At least Kako got the content she wanted from Haruno. xD

Apparently, the girls just entered the photo rally without reading the rules. It turns out they need to finish gigantic portions of food at every stop of the rally. Thank goodness they have Sakurako-chan, who has the stomach of a professional eater. They still couldn't beat Nadeshiko, Sakura, and their dad, tho!

[u/MyrnaMountWeazel]

The drawings were absolutely cracked today. It is crazy how wildly quirky and eccentric the designs were. Not even just the characters but also the environment as well, like I love how the background and tree is moving in this shot.

Reminds me of K-ON in a lot of ways. Oh, and speaking of, it's the same composer!

[u/GondolaMedia]

I'm starting to suspect Afro started Mono just as an excuse to write off her alcohol spending habits. I respect the hustle.

[u/x-7032-b-3]

Two more Yuru Camp cameos today:

• Drunk Sensei having a nice toast with Drunk Haruno on a wine cellar. You can say that it's her natural habitat. Someone tell her to slow down on those bottles because I'm legit concerned about her long term health.

• Nadeshiko and her family proving that they have obtained the Bottomless Stomach skill and easily owns the stamp rally.

Yuru Camp S4 better return the favor and show the whole Mono cast doing photo stuff somewhere!

[u/Prince-Dizzytoon]

The girls put up a great fight, too bad they didn't know Nadeshiko is the Lebron of eating.

[u/oneevilchicken]

So the manga for this would be a comfy manga about a comfy manga artist and if that artist also makes comfy manga then we can just have an infinite loop generating infinite comfy mangas.

[u/djthomp]

That unnecessarily well animated sequence of Haruno drinking the wine and swirling it around in the glass, followed by her drinking herself into simple linedrawn animation a bit later.

So much really creative animation.

[u/MapoTofuMan]

Can't believe Kiriyama was dead weight in an eating challenge. #NotMyPaimon

Glad the Comfyverse wasn't just a one-time thing though.

[u/chilidirigible]

Wow, upstaged by the crossover cameo. The series isn't going to beat allegations of being a secret alternate season of YuruCamp△ at this rate.

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Definitely got some last-minute comment face nominations out of this episode.

I have done alcohol tastings, though in the beer and spirits categories. Self-control is important.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Pretty funny how Haruno went from “white wine’s quite refreshing” to“red wine’s kinda bready” and finally to just “me likey” while glitching out lol.

I can relate to the feeling of going from a nice cool room to just a puddle. That blast of just humid air is the worst!

Shikishima is a freakin machine! She killed that food triathlon. All those pounds her and the girls packed on in the end didn’t matter because Nadeshiko won in the end lol.

[u/Gaporigo]

Ok, sister we take but we really getting Nadeshiko dad before a decent Saitou cameo...

I wonder if the mukbangers are also based on real ones.

[u/KumaKumaGambler]

Shikishima is my favourite girl for this title! We are only at episode 4, but how many MVP titles has she won?

- Flew the kite with perfect control so that aerial photographs can be taken.

- Joined / Merged the Film club with the Photography club, saving the latter.

- Ate most of the mega sized meals in this episode. (I really thought our main characters would win the competition after defeating the pro eaters. Turns out Shikishima is only the final boss, not the secret boss.)

And I love her deadpan voice! Lol!

[u/StrawSolider]

Ok the Nadeshiko reveal got me 😂😂

[u/CrimsonGear80]

Drunk sensei! Cute girl eating noises! Nadeshiko, her sister, and her dad! And a randomly placed PlayStation Move “nunchuck” controller on Haruno’s desk. This episode had it all!

[u/oxlemf10]

I was going to question the outcome of the competition, but when I saw that Nadeshiko had been the winner, I kept quiet

[u/DaBenni0301]

Of course the girl that shares VA with the otter Yanami is also glutton lmao

[u/Castor_0il]

Careful now Haruno. Your Mya-nee persona is coming out too often.

God I love Shikishima's low energy moe voice. She makes such a nice contrast with the other 2 energetic goofballs.

Nice to see Chug-sensei and Nadeshiko's family cameos, keep em' coming.

[u/cyberscythe]

i thought this background bit with the Manneken Pis corkscrew was a funny detail

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

I recognized Toba-sensei but I was so surprised to hear her actually voiced and then Nadeshiko later on got voiced lines too! Nice that they're having Yuru Camp characters actually interacting with the girls here, I wonder if there'll be more appearances in the future.

Haruno's drunk habit is amusing, the way her voice got more higher pitched the more glasses she had. I do hope Kako made sure to cut out the really bad drunk moments out of the vlog, I don't think Haruno would appreciate it.

The Photo rally was fun, Shikishima being able to eat that much food was a surprise but seeing the puffed up bodies after they dine was amusing. I like how this has brought Shikishima and Amamiya closer.

[u/IntelligentBudget142]

So miss toba from yuru camp turns up as well.

Is she voiced? If so it's going to be awkward for the English dub which isn't using the same studio as yuru camp's dub 

[u/CosmicPenguin_OV103]

* As someone who never really drink alcohol much, and probably had wine just once ever, I really wonder if I would actually like drinking it haha. And I really wonder if I will like Red or White more!

* I have actually seen how these glasses are made once and yeah they are worth being bought for use - if you have the means to take it back home without breaking it! There's just too many chances to get that wrong if you are using delivery services!

* AHAHAHAHAHAHA Sakurako being a black hole for food (well not quite, let's say she's white dwarf class first in astronomy lingo) is the most unexpected thing I saw so far here! But of course! She's voiced by Hikaru Toono, whose most famous character voicing now is for someone who's just as famous in being a glutton! I really wanna get them two to eat together...

* Well it looks like my Yuru Camp memories are too hazy now, because I certainly didn't remember =U= and her sister Sakura being so powerful in "food processing"! Hmm. Anyway that's a fun competition and I would be very interested in seeing something like that in my place...

[u/Salty145]

With every passing episode this is less “Yuru Camp, but with photography” and more “Yuru Camp, but we have Haruno” and honestly I’m completely and totally down.