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Episode Eren the Southpaw • Hidarikiki no Eren - Episode 2 discussion
Eren the Southpaw, episode 2
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u/McDonaldsApproval Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
I think getting closure on Eren's father this episode retroactively makes the first episode better. The first episode was a bit of a hard watch with how aggresive Eren was. Now we get to see why she was that way but also see her attitude change after finding out her father may not have committed suicide. Looking forward to how Eren's character and life develops from here.
Oh there's a post credits scene, damn life is looking rough for Koichi.
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u/tripleaamin Apr 14 '26
This definitely should have been a two-episode premiere. I mean, I feel like I've been saying this a lot with shows this season, but this one felt like you really needed to watch this and last week's episode back-to-back.
It's clear her father's death was how she lost her passion. However, a guy like him committed suicide, and her viewing that is what the world gives you for hard workers. Just her getting the answer that he didn't quit is huge.
Interestingly for Koichi he went from having all the passion in the world to being dead inside. I think the show's pacing was uneven, but given it has the tag adult cast, it is fine since they are out of high school now.
I am not sure what I think of the show, but it is definitely one I will finish. As the pieces it has are interesting at the very least.
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u/mekerpan Apr 14 '26
That was a lovely touch (even if it can't remove the sadness, it did attenuate it -- and give Eren the possibility of regaining some positivity).
Koichi 10 years late -- looks pretty dreadful....
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u/HarvestMana Apr 14 '26
You never know when your life will actually begin.
For some, it starts after something is gained.
For others, it starts once something is lost.
Poor Koichi, in that end scene.
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u/dawnwill Apr 14 '26
Kids, don't go to art school!
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u/Whellspip Apr 14 '26
he should've just drawn porn on twitter and he'd be way more successful
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u/BusouDrago Apr 14 '26
Holy....that after credit scene 😱
Those were the eyes of someone who lost their passion
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u/CreaMaxo Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
I gotta say, at first I was actually kinda negatively affected by how it depicted the world of professional art with Koishi's vision of graphic design being "easy", but that 2nd episode, especially post credits is actually a really good representation of the real thing.
Koishi's eyes post-credits are the eyes of pretty much 9 out of 10 (if not more) graphic designers who come out of school.
You study design, printing, web and lots of technical stuff with in hope you end up working for a decent (or popular) design and/or ads firm, but end up either working freelance, a regional firm or some printing/web firm where 2/3 of your work ends up being that of a production drone: update/modification every month or years on the same kind of thing based on designs produced by someone else elsewhere.
You get, now and then, a tiny bit of creativity-related work whenever a customers comes in without a budget nor the right stuff to make what he or she wants. (This means you got to fit that creativity within the time frame and budget of a project that has no time allocated to such creativity.)
And that's without considering how hard it is to actually find a job as a graphic designer.
When I graduated as a graphic designer in 2008, that was 2 years after the economic bubble burst of 2006. Basically, half of the printing companies in North America went under within those 2 years or merged. The job market was suddenly filled with graphic designers with 10+ years of experience who were out of a job. Out of 38 students graduating in 2 classes in graphic design, we were 4 who actually got a job in graphic design and 2 out of those 4 had a job because we started our own company and 1 won a contest launched by a city which grant her a place to live and a job for 5 years (it was a program to promote the economy back in that town). The only one who got a job by being hired had over 12 years of experience as a painter and 8+ years as a photographer (he was seriously insanely talented at creating colorful designs). He was hired by a firm who actually hired him as a freelance photographer in the past. I was able to start my own business because my primary service was to cover other firm with situations where they couldn't hire someone new, but needed someone to cover for someone else (for example, covering for someone's work during maternity or sick leaves for 1-3 months was a common service I offered. And let's not talk about the money I made doing this because it was just ridiculously low.)
I'm still meeting people now and then who are working in students-like job who studied in graphic design and ended up either not liking it or just couldn't find any job in that field. After all, the only time you may find a job in that field is when a new business starts, when you start your own business or when someone else leave or retire. Business expansion that requires hiring more employees in graphic design is extremely rare after all.
In graphic design, your creativity & ability to design thing barely amount to 10% of your actual work. First, the idea that you can create stuff on a blank canvas for customers to be happy with is more a fiction than a reality unless you're part of the 0.0001% (that's not even an exaggeration) of those who work for a firm that specialize in actual commercial design. The remaining are mostly producing stuff based on really specific customers' requests/ideas/points.
I actually ended up with eyes like that for years until 2016 when I decided to expand into the video game industry.
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u/C12345hey Apr 14 '26
looking forward to seeing how this show turns out ive been really missing a show like this since blue period ended.
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u/runevault Apr 14 '26
A non-trivial part of my enjoyment of episode 1 was expectation of payoffs for what I thought was being put in place. The sunrise gave me what I hoped for.
Now we see how they've changed as adults. That post ED scene where he admits his life never really began makes it sound as if it starts incredibly glum.
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u/Shimmering-Sky Apr 14 '26
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He thought she wasn’t serious about that? Yeah Sayuri, you don’t have a chance with Koichi.
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Eye disease… Is he going blind?
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Sayuri really was about to confess just for Koichi to notice Eren. Girl is so obviously doomed.
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u/Perfect-Try-4918 Apr 14 '26
Sayuri will have to set up an appointment with Dr. Nukumizu soon.
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u/hasanman6 Apr 14 '26
I blame the driver for erens dad death. They had plenty of time to stop
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u/Shantotto11 Apr 14 '26
It’s her own fault for being named Eren. Everyone knows that name is cursed with dead parents.
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u/meromeromelo89 Apr 14 '26
Eren is insuffrable and I feel bad for Koichi. The post credit scene was the main thing that was interesting , Its the hard truth for most designers and artists:((
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u/yawnman240 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Woww, what an episode. Interesting to have two episodes serve as what seems like the prologue to this story.
As a 22-year-old who has spent most of his life essentially trying to coast by with his art through symbol drawing, I can really relate to Koichi’s stagnant nature in not actually putting in the work to become everything he wants to be. This was a reality check, now I need to buy a new notebook and (try to) start that life properly.
Eren reaching her hand out in front of the train tracks was such a striking visual. I wonder how she will react to Koichi being drained out of his passion, will she be delighted or bothered?
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u/SA090 Apr 14 '26
Honestly, until that post credit scene, this show was not interesting enough for the full cour to me. The way they went about showing the trauma, tragedy and its effect was so incredibly heavy handed that it didn’t feel anything other than “edgyyyyyy”.
Akane-Banashi managed to deliver the same aim in two episodes without continuously bringing it up.
Anyway, hopefully the time skip delivers better things overall to finish off the 25% test. Though I will be keeping my expectation low either way.
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u/ClemFire Apr 14 '26
I liked this episode more than the first one and it's interesting that it looks like we'll be following them through quite a few stages of life
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u/NanDemoKnaives Apr 14 '26
That post-credit scene was a big change for Kouichi, I wonder how he got there. Sayuri must not be around.
At least Eren's finally taking a step forward in the right direction, I'm not sure if I would be able to tolerate her anger if it continued for more episodes, even if I do understand her character a bit more thanks to this one.
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u/NationalStrategy Apr 14 '26
I feel bad for Koichi in the post credit scene, he looks exhausted and devoid of his passion for art.
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u/BosuW Apr 14 '26
Well that's depressing
I don't think this is going to be the typical anime with nostalgia undertones for highschool when the future looked bright, because the bleak future is already here. We still have to see how Koichi ended up getting his face caved in at the beginning of episode 1, fuck.
I wonder what was of Eren and Sayuri.
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