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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
There is no way I’m going to be able to say everything I want about this episode. Holy hell it was phenomonal.

The beginning of the episode holds the only part I’m really going to criticize on this episode, because over all I loved it. Starting off, while I dearly enjoyed Misaki-sempai going all lipstick yuri for megane Nanami (HNNNNGG!!), I thought it distracted from Sorata getting his results. The girls were too loud to totally focus on Sorata, but I wanted to find out if he got accepted or not, so both things suffered. I think it works better when it’s bursts of comedy around the serious...
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Maybe it’s because I’ve been drinking, but I think this was the episode I enjoyed the most since the whammy that was episode 12. The comedy and heart-warming moments were spot-on, but most of all it was the themes they evoked, which spoke to me in a way I dare not think I’ll be able to accurately convey. Sakurasou is at its best when it’s funny, silly, uplifting, dramatic, and a little bit ridiculous, but best of all is when it speaks to what it means to be an artist. And what do humans love more than stories? Maybe sex or booze, but only barely.

Sorata’s Crazy Family

Yuuko makes so...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Take it slow, don’t rush, establish the characters, establish the mood – that’s how I imagine the production team approached this first episode of Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, and I must say, I am pleased. Every step of the way, from the first sight of cherry blossoms fluttering on the screen to the final roll of credits at the end, served to continually reinforce the mood of a soft, warm, and sweet romantic comedy. There just might be something special going on here.


Character-wise, I knew I was going to like most of the characters going into this. Each of Sakurasou’s inhabitants is...
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Mashiro is now in full otome-mode, trying to get close to Sorata, or failing that, just be near him (*nosebleed*) when she can. I’ll admit that here, Sorata acted a bit too typical-dense-male-anime-lead for my tastes. I will remind you that it’s often harder to understand what’s going on in a relationship when you’re party to it – compared to being on the outside, where it’s generally obvious as hell – but that said, Sorata did surpass the understandable level by a fair bit. Mashiro searching for him with no real purpose, wanting to learn to cook, and reacting so forcefully when...
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Like clockwork, every fourth episode of Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo really brings the power with the climax of an arc and some serious development for one or both of our leads. This time it’s Mashiro’s turn to changes.

I’m going to skip past the whole Sorata-and-Mashiro-laying-next-to-each-other thing for now (save to say HNNNNNG and move on) so I can spend more time on the game. First and foremost – that game looks fun! I was especially impressed with how well they integrated Nanami’s role into the whole thing. She really is the linchpin of the whole experience. That kind of thing,...
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Rita is Mashiro's roommate and handler when Mashiro was in England. Despite her being the same age as Sorata and Mashiro, she has a better figure. She was jealous of Mashiro's art talent, and so advised Mashiro to draw manga, but later she regrets this and comes to Japan to bring Mashiro back to England. After realizing Mashiro's determination, she gives up and returns to England with Mashiro's father and starts to study art again. She falls in love with Ryūnosuke and kisses him on the cheek when leaving, which makes him pass out. Ryūnosuke is cold to her, allowing his Maid AI to handle her e-mail, which only fortifies her resolve and makes her constantly argue with Maid over the Internet. In the fifth novel, she visits Japan again to give Ryūnosuke Valentine's Day chocolate, and catches a chance to kiss him on the lips this time, which makes him pass out again. She moved in to Sakurasou after Nanami left.
posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Stories are at their best when they touch upon the cornerstones of human life, on emotions and trials and tribulations its audience has faced and perhaps not yet overcome. That’s what we saw here, both in the effect of Shiina’s manga on herself and Sorata, and in the episode’s message to us all. A story within a story (within a story), Shiina’s manga to Sakurasou to the swirls it sends out to each and every one of us. Let’s chew into this.

One of the things that Sakurasou does well is pivot from silly comedy to serious drama. At the beginning we have Sorata making a typical harem lead’s...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
The key to a great comedy (to me) is deftly mixing a bit of plot progression and character development in with all the crazy antics. This isn’t an absolute necessity, and many comedies do fine without it – there wasn’t any character development to speak of in Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, and that show was hilarious – but I’ll take a show that moves forward a little bit (like Binbougami Ga!) any day of the week. I freely admit that this is a personal preference, but I just find a comedy much more satisfying when I get to the end of the episode having laughed my tail off, but also...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Jin is the resident of room 103. Jin is a third-year student of Suiko. He is Misaki's childhood friend and a playboy. He has dated several girls, including Misaki's elder sister, but in the end he breaks up with all of them. He then wanted to attend a university in Osaka to achieve his dream. He even gives Misaki a marriage registration form to be handed in after he returns from Osaka but Misaki turned the form in immediately after Jin left and so the two are officially married to each other ^_^
The episode starts with a mournful, almost plantive song, overlayed by the characters voicing their deepest problems, concerns…and in the process, revealing who was foremost in their minds (as if we didn’t already know). A fitting beginning for an episode where some conflicts are resolved, while others go even deeper. Well, expect for Ryuunosuke, but it’s no surprise that he didn’t even think what he was feeling. So tsundere!

Sorata’s Anger – Justifiable or Not?

There’s a Stilts Out Loud post that I need to write someday titled something like “The Burden of the Protagonist”,...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Maid is Ryūnosuke's artificial intelligence (AI) program. Originally, Ryūnosuke designed Maid to filter and automatically reply to his cellphone messages and e-mails to save him time. However, Ryūnosuke keeps expanding Maid's AI ability. Maid is now capable of blocking and replying to a message or e-mail by her own preference, using new words she has recently learned from other messages, e-mails, or the Internet in the reply, giving Sorata solid advice for his computer game program, anticipating people's emotions with cameras, writing computer or cellphone viruses and sending them out by...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Misaki is the resident of room 201. Misaki is a third-year-student of Suiko who later attends Suimei University of the Arts. She is very outgoing and optimistic. Sorata often refers to her as an "alien". She has very good grades and is very good at drawing, but the school decided to send her to Sakura Dormitory because she pays too much attention to drawing anime and manga. She is very good at making animation and can handle the work required to make one without help from others. She has already sold an animation to a famous publishing company and made enough of a fortune for the rest of her...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
So, Nanami. The character flaw that dominated this arc was that she pushes herself so hard that she ends up collapsing from fatigue. To us, the viewers, this seems silly – it’s all well and good to want to do things yourself, but it seems silly to reject a hand outstretched in help, especially when it’s offered by good people like Sorata.


Yet let’s slip into Nanami’s point of view. As was mentioned, ever since she left Osaka she has been alone, so she felt she had to do everything herself. That was wise, because until recently, she did. She had to take care of school, chores, earn...
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Setting Up The Moment

Though good scenes are often made of bigger things, it’s the little details that make them great. Last week I spoke about how Rita’s presence gave us a chance at a resolution of her and Dragon’s love affair, but she also added to the effect this time merely by being another person who truly cares about Sakurasou. She also – though it was Ryuunosuke’s idea. Who would have thought! – brought the sakura pins, without which the vote later on would not have been nearly so uplifting. Of them all though, perhaps my favorite was when we later found out that Misaki’s...
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posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Mashiro is the female protagonist of the story. She is the resident of room 202. She is a world famous artist who transferred into Suiko as a second-year to learn how to draw manga. Although her artworks are widely admired by the world in spite of her young age, she knows nothing other than drawing, and has an extreme lack of common sense and living ability. Due to this, Sorata has been forced to handle Mashiro's living chores, to the point that he even has to pick out underwear for her, or she will go out without them. She has very bad grades, since she cannot pay attention to her classes, but she can still pass the make-up exams by remembering all of the answers with her art talent. According to Mashiro, she plans to live in Sorata's house and work as a manga artist after her graduation. Mashiro is actually from England along with her sister Rita Ainsworth (リタ・エインワーズ).
posted by OkazakiDaisuke
Nanami is Sorata's classmate, who later moves into Sakura Dormitory's room 203. Although she is harsh to Sorata, she actually has a crush on him, and everyone aside from Sorata has noticed this. She escaped from her home to become a voice actress, and has to live on her own. After she finds herself low on money to live in the normal dorm, as well as noticing that Sorata and Mashiro are getting close, she chooses to move into Sakura Dormitory. She was able to convince her parents to let her continue her pursuit and returns to Sakura Dormitory for her final year of high school. She speaks in Kansai dialect if she is angry or flustered.
Nanami

Though the intro was sad, with this sense of borrowed time subtly woven into every action and narration, the episode only truly started when Nanami began to cry. I’ve said it before, but here it is again – this is what happens when you bottle up your emotions instead of experiencing them when the bad news hits. Nanami should have cried deeply and openly long ago, but instead she held it in. She kept going for as long as she could, kept trying and smiling for as long as she could…until finally it as too much, and everything that had built up slammed into her all at once. Ouch, ouch,...
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Episode 1: Cat. White. Mashiro (ねこ・しろ・ましろ)
Episode 2: I Drew a Picture (絵を描いてきたの)
Episode 3: So Close And Yet So Far...
(近すぎて遠い…)
Episode 4: A World Changing Colors
(色を変える世界)
Episode 5: The Serious Girl of Sakura Dormitory
(さくら荘のまじめな彼女)
Episode 6: The Blue After the Rain (雨あがりの青)
Episode 7: She Attacks (彼女のきょうしゅう)
Episode 8: Let's Fire a Big Firework
(どでかい花火をあげてみる)
Episode 9: An Autumn Storm Blows In
(秋の嵐がやってきた)
Episode 10: Hate, Hate, Love
(キライキライ、ダイスキ)...
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