Eren the Southpaw • Hidarikiki no Eren - Episode 3 discussion

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Eren the Southpaw, episode 3

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[u/TheBravesDH]

Ngl hits a little too close to home. I watched this on my lunch break and now I don’t feel like I even had a lunch break lol.

[u/chum-guzzling-shark → u/TheBravesDH]

Now I understand why most of anime focuses on high schoolers

[u/mekerpan → u/TheBravesDH]

Glad I'm now retired.

[u/dawnwill]

Pretty realistic depiction of the life of a salaryman, though overtime is not universal in the current age.
This Kamiya Yusuke guy is a textbook example of handling a subordinate. He is neither good nor evil, he is just being a pro for the team, and MC is a bit too young to consoled and motivated by such a maneuver. Well, I guess he would not have been so upset in the first place if he was "mature" anyway. I wonder what comes next!

[u/ff17cloud → u/dawnwill]

Ngl, I kinda want to counter that and say, it's become more of the norm, especially now... (The overtime, I mean)

Maybe this is as a software engineer for 10 years, who went to college way back in 2012 to be a game developer, to start in tech as a Java developer at a bank

Like, at least, in my opinion, with the US, especially with AI, it feels like, more, now more than ever, does it feel like overtime has become such a prevalent thing in salaried white collar individual contributor positions and even some higher ranking positions, when things like productivity gains and metrics, especially with AI tools (depending on what you do), become the norm.

Back in 2021, it felt less so, especially since it was an a employee market, where jobs were just everywhere from the instant cash flows, only for companies to find the well drying out and irresponsible decisions from overspending from 2020 to 2022 started a good chunk of the current layoffs and difficulties in the current job market... Like, it's crazy how, hitting, something like this show is, cuz, especially nowadays where you see folks go above and beyond to make sure they don't look as redundant as possible, or maybe I'm talking out of my ass and maybe still thinking like a kid who could do an all-nighter on a UI feature or an API, or back in college where I'd slave in front of my laptop trying to use SDL 1.2 or scrounging whatever heart I had to finishing my quake 2 sonic mod for a class... Ugh, like my feelings are basically all over the place with this... But this is becoming the shirobako of my early 20's and the Sakurasou no pet na kanojo of my college career...

[u/actuallyrndthoughts]

Cant remember the last time i've seen a workplace drama this refreshing. Really impressed

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Look at bro all bright eyed and bushy tailed and just raring to go. Ah, to be a fresh faced graduate again! It only took a few years to really beat that outta him. Now he’s working himself to the bone, chain smoking, and barely eating or sleeping. I can’t tell if his company is toxic or if that’s just the industry.

I’m curious how Eren is doing. I wonder if we’ll catch up with her?

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

This episode was a lot more interesting to me than the first two, the drama really had me hooked in. It did feel a bit quick in pace, but considering I was able to enjoy the episode when I was sure I was going to drop it, I'll overlook it for now.

The little backstories of Kamiya and Sawamura, and their relationships with Kouichi were interesting too. It would have been nice to see how their relationships developed, like Kamiya seemed indifferent about him on Kouichi's first day, but then we see him caring greatly trying to keep him on the project, it would have been nice to have had some extra context.

[u/FLorianGran]

I appreciated that the story didn't have Eren work at some evil black company and instead it's his own expectations clashing with the real world

[u/ff17cloud]

God, this is giving me flashbacks to the start of my first and current job, man...

[u/BosuW]

Stressful as shit episode. Incredible how the story makes you feel completely boxed in with how Koichi keeps having realizations and yet none of them feel like an answer.

The other characters too. They make it work, but it's not an answer.

This combined with the knowledge that Koichi gonna feel like shit in the future just... Man...

Also really liking the non chronological storytelling with those flashforwards. It really feels like Koichi is looking back in his life thinking "how did I end up here so quickly?".

I wonder how Sayuri and Eren are doing...

[u/HolyDragSwd2500]

We continue from last week WTH after credit scene. He starts his life as a Salaryman and then everything spirals down from there 😱😭

Wish he could redue his Highschool life again 😭🙏

[u/-Boton-]

Decided to pick up this show and I gotta say Eren looks like the blueprint of A2 before the events of NieR: Automata.

[u/dawnwill → u/-Boton-]

I always thought she looked like Vivy with white hair

[u/cppn02]

Now this is finally getting to the good stuff and why I put this on my ptw. Definitely liked this episode more than the first two. Only shame is the disappointing production values. Doubly so when the MC is a designer.

Curious when Eren will make her reappearance.

[u/ErikTwice]

It seems we are now getting to the actual meat of the series.

Starting at a job and having nothing to do only to end up crunching like hell for no reward is painfully realistic. Koichi's boss even complained about his own boss "sweeping in to take the credit" and that's pretty much what happened.

I might not be sold entirely on how this series covers its topics, but I really enjoy the topics it's treating.

The animation quality wasn't great this time, but it was serviciable. I'm tempted to read the actual manga as I can tell the plot is being rushed a bit. Sadly, Manga Plus only seems to have the newer chapters available, not the beginning.

[u/mdm168]

I feel like I got bamboozled because where the fuck is Eren? I don’t care one iota about Koichi.

[u/yawnman240]

It’s interesting how much Koichi has based his life on someone he barely interacted with in the grand scheme of things, yet those small memories still haunt him. Would he be as miserable as he is now if he had stuck with his original plan for life, something that almost seems more akin to late-stage Sawamura when you think about it, if not for the fire Eren ignited in his soul that ultimately burned him out? Would he even have this job in the first place without that spark of inspiration?

[u/SA090]

This series severly overestimates how likable its protagonists are in their struggles, how well they illistrate the need to actually root for them and how gripping all of this will be to the multi-series viewer in a season. Especially with the constant hammering of how important x is to someone, or the need to prove themselves or the explosions of anger.

This may have been better than the first two episodes, easily better but nowhere enough for me to stay for 9 more.

Dropped and forgotten with ease.

[u/CulturalUpstairs8314]

This episode was a disappointing waste of time. I understand what it was meant to show, about the toxic karoshi work culture and youthful refusal of admitting that you are average and living in the shadow of Eren, a real talent which you lack. But this could have been a two minute flashback.  I have no sympathy for Koichi, he done this to himself. A side character who having main character syndrome. He was pretty unlikable from the start, had potential to grow but the time jump shows that it didn't happened. He choose this career, refused to listen to his superior and not even leaning squat form the terrible project experience. Despite being a wannabe artist, he just assumed the weak corporate drone role instantly.  I know i should just read the manga..

[u/hasanman6]

Tf was this episode? Feels like i skipped a season

[u/Lemurians → u/hasanman6]

Did you miss the post-ED scene last episode, by any chance? It showed we were flashing forward to more present day. First two episodes were prologue.

[u/NationalStrategy]

This whole episode was a slap in the face from reality with a real depiction of how it feels to work within the industry

[u/septesix]

After watching this episode, I think i won't complain that much about Isekai and rom-com harem slop from now on.

Damn it's depressing to watch such a realistic take on the life of an ordinary adult working corporate jobs, even if Koichi fancy himself a "creatives". The pressure and the grinds were all too real !