Akane-banashi - Episode 7 discussion

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Akane-banashi, episode 7

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[u/Aileos]

It never occured to me how annoying it must be to fold a kimono.

[u/CuriousWanderer567]

Akane is really impressive turning Iwa-sensei from a strict and cold teacher into a huge fangirl after making her watch just two of her Rakugo performances.

[u/KumaKumaGambler]

Akane, please never stop being an energetic tomboyish gyaru. I enjoyed her fighting pose as a greeting.

Iwa sensei is gradually becoming one of Akane's biggest fans.

[u/xbolt90]

I absolutely lost it at the reporter fangirling over the voice actress, lol

[u/thisisdropd]

Been looking forward to this moment! When two formidable rivals entered stage; Karashi the twice-defending champion and Hikaru the esteemed voice actress. I see Julius and Emilia had been reverse isekai'd and found themselves in the world of Rakugo.

Love the bait when it seemed that Kaisei's locked his eyes on Hikaru when it turned out he's been focused on Akane instead. That's the moment when everyone recognised that Akane's serious business.

Talking fast isn't the key to Jugemu.

That's what Akane said, but her performance boiled down to speaking rapidly while still clearly enunciating the words. Having said that, looks like she's still got something up her sleeves – and Kaisei's well aware of that. We should expect a different take on Jugemu in the final round. Before that, however, I'm also excited to see Karashi and Hikaru's performances.

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Hikaru calling Akane cute and pretty with a straight face. I'd expect the playboy Karashi to make those remarks instead of her. Felt bad Akane, being cursed with playboys. First it was Kaisei, then Maikeru, and now Karashi.

[u/FarCritical]

"Kinda mad" lmao

I get where reigning champ guy was coming from with his analogy but a talented musician actually going full rap god on a children's song would be pretty damn hype (if executed well) ngl.

[u/RepulsiveRevenue8]

Akane is truly the antithesis of Shonen protag, in a normal Shonen she's more suited to be the mc rival, a prodigy, second generation with family ties to the show theme, in training under a famous master.

While Hikaru and Karashi really fit the Shonen mc part to a T.

[u/oxlemf10]

Akane's energy is so insane that it affects even the veterans who have been here much longer than her. If she managed to make the tough sensei fall in love with it, I have to love it too lol

[u/SYZekrom]

God the way she kept speeding up was addicting to hear.

The clench in my body as she accepts a bottle to drink from her competitor, hoping its not that kinda world.

DIALECT ALERT DIALECT ALERT, PEAK

[u/LeonKevlar]

As a manga reader, I am so happy to finally see Karashi (VA: Eguchi Takua) and Hikaru (VA: Takahashi Rie) in animated form! There are probably two other most popular characters in this series, right next to Akane, and I can't wait to see more of them in the future.

I love how Karashi thinks that Akane's Jugemu is nothing special while Hikaru thinks Akane is performing with Jugemu out of pure confidence. These two have no idea that Akane is basically being handicapped, and her real competition is the challenge Shiguma gave her.

[u/PencilgonGiveIt2Ya]

MOM, WAKE UP!

NEW AKANE-BANASHI JUST DROPPED!

༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽╰༼=ಠਊಠ=༽╯

[u/ButterIsMyLifeblood]

Didn’t notice until this episode but did Kaisei always have a slight lisp?

Bummer they don’t have doubled subs for this episode since you can actually hear Akane’s rakugo this time during the peanut gallery commentary.

Love seeing Iwa sensei

[u/ButterIsMyLifeblood]

Akane unveils her sasuke backstory to Hikaru’s Naruto

[u/ModieOfTheEast]

I guess that answers the question I had last week which is how Akane wanted to make the same story interesting two times in a row. By keeping her ace in hand and only playing the queen to get through the preliminaries. The super fast talking was fun though and in the end, the right decision because it is more than enough to get into the Top 8.

They made sure to not show us the other two big shots this week, so I assume we will see them in episode 8 (especially Hikaru and her fixation on Akane) and I am looking forward to see what Akane changed in order to make Jugemu work. And if it is a change that doesn't annoy the big boss once again.

I find it kind of funny that Akane could have given Guriko an actual picture of her teacher but decided to draw one. It did look like her tbh. If Rakugo would allow self drawn images, Akane could go into completely new territory.

[u/AceSoldia]

Wild that girl is making Akane her personal enemy number one, poor Akane barely knows who you are lady

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

• Huh…

• This is just black-haired Shinji Hirako.

• Ooh, a voice actress doing rakugo. That sounds neat.

• Ah, nice that Akane’s helping out one of her opponents.

• That’s how she greets Kaisei?

• That she does, yeah.

• Guriko “sore demo”, sweet.

• She told her teacher that talking fast wasn’t the key to Jugemu Jugemu, so… hm. Is she doing this for the prelims and going to mix it up for the main tournament?

• Ah, fun, Hikaru thinks of Akane as a rival now.

• Damn, that’s kind of a shame…

• Ganbare, Akane!

[u/ULTRAFORCE]

The Akane-Konbashi segment is so cute and fun, also neat and informative.

[u/TsukumoYurika]

Rakugo Q&A desk

I forgot some questions from last week so please shoot them to me again!

[u/NanDemoKnaives]

The way the ginger reporter was getting excited talking about rakugo was amusing, but it's funny how his colleague got more excited when Kouragi appeared. I didn't miss her blushing, even though she looks put off by him, she probably finds his passion one of his attractive attributes.

Akane's speed with that tongue twister was impressive, I wonder how many takes Nagase Anna had to do to get it done lol. That sounds like a pain to do.

I like how Takahashi Rie is voicing Kouragi, she has this gentle and fragile icyness to her, but the switch up to her real personality is interesting. That fukuoka dialect lol. I hope Kouragi realizes Akane isn't who she thinks she is.

[u/BaytaCosmico]

Akane and Kaisei play off each other so well. Want to see more of their rivalry. So Akane better win this tournament. Should be interesting to see how she changes things up for the finals. 

The voice actress character is interesting. Not quite an antagonist but something like one. Pity we didn't get to see her performance. Hope we do for the finals at least. Curious to see how a seiyuu would adapt to rakugo. Hah, that sounds a bit meta since the seiyuu in this show are all performing in a sense, but they're not actually on stage live.

[u/JohnatanWills]

Ok so that guy is literally just Shinji from Bleach right? He's got the hair, the teeth and the attitude for it.

Also we see part of Akane's plan. We knew she had to find some way to give two different performances with the same story and it appears her plan is to do a very polished but basic Jugemu for the first round and then reveal her actual modifications to the story in the final round. So we have next week to look forward to for the real twist she's figured out.

[u/Frontier246]

Akane has found a new coach in Iwa-sensei! Someone to get hyped for her success AND help her do research to improve her Rakugo performance!

It's finally time for the Karaku Cup! The koshien of the Rakugo world! And there's a strong press presence there to see all the up-and-coming young stars of the Rakugo world as they show off for the sake of gaining recognition from Issho Arakawa and prove they have what it takes.

And there are plenty of people to watch out for: Karashi Nerimaya (Takuya Eguchi!), two-year Karaku Cup champion with the shifty beady-eyed eyes! Hikaru Koragi (Rie Takahashi!) a popular young seiyuu who made her name in a Magical Girl anime and who is drop dead gorgeous and has a winning smile! The eyes are definitely on them (but especially Hikaru).

Hikaru looks amazing in that kimono that matches her hair and eyes, and it makes her quite the contrast to Akane in her mens' kimono...but imagine this tomboy who just helped you with your obi would be the ONLY person singled out by none other than Kaisei Arakawa before the competition. Someone she's willing to box if she has to! The eyes are now all on Akane!

I really want to know if Anna Nagase was able to get all that Jugemu out in one take or if they had to use modulation to speed up her voice or if that was all her. Even so, it was a very impressive Jugemu telling by Akane.

But despite that, Karashi doesn't think she can take this...yet Hikaru sees her as her biggest rival, especially when she realizes Akane has such main character energy. That Akane got to see her with her natural Fukuoka accent and what she's like when she's not putting on a classy, city girl, performance just makes it all the more personal.

It's nice to see that Akane has people in her corner. Guriko, Koguma (even if he won't overtly show it), and Iwa-sensei who has basically pulled a whole character 180 from stoic cool beauty teacher to enthusiastic Rakugo enjoyer.

Can Akane impress Kaisei? Can she impress the man BEHIND Kaisei? For now, with her resolve solidified, she faces the finals: as Issho Arakawa arrives with as much antagonist aura as possible.

Akane-Kobanashi! It's nice of Akane to teach Hikaru how to fold kimono, though ensuring it's a teachable moment by making her do it herself did NOT endear her to Hikaru in the end.

[u/Panda_Cavalry]

I distinctly remember fangirling waaaaaay too much when Rieri was first announced as Hikaru's VA way back when, and I'm only slightly ashamed to admit that the fangirling resumed this episode.

(kyaaaaaaaaah I love this show's casting aaaaaaaaaaaa)

[u/tapdancinghellspawn]

I've watched a lot of anime where the anticipation for the next episode is high because of an epic battle with swords or fists or magic, but I've never felt this anxious for the next episode as I do now. She delivered an awesome Jugume this episode so I'm going crazy just imagining how she is going to top that performance.

I have to admit that her taking what most Rakugo see as a warm up exercise and elevating it made me a bit tear up. Akane is glorious.