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The Sawacule (Kimi ni Todoke/From Me To You)

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Anime Update V3 20

From Me To You - Watched the three episodes that wrapped up the Kurumi arc. To this day I wonder what exactly it was about Kurumi that made her the series' most hated character beyond the dumb Die For Our Ship stuff - yes, she started those rumors that gave Sawako, Ayane and Chizu such a hard time several episodes ago, but not only did nothing she did or said to Sawako directly manage to stack up in hurtfulness, but even that rumor scheme got all the holes in it pointed out here, with Ayane and Chizu rightly skewering Kurumi's competence at thinking these things through and pulling them off. Aside from that, her backstory gives her adequate reason for why she'd be so clingy about her love for Kazehaya but not bold enough to take initative and open up to him about her feelings for him, and her and Sawako have the most blatantly foe-to-friend romantic-coded "rival" relationship where they both care about each other despite knowing it's probably a risk to themselves and their romantic pursuits to do so and have some of the cutest, funniest, and heartfelt interactions, how can you not find it precious? You shouldn't even need to wait for the manga to catch Kurumi up with her character growth, this section of the story gives you plenty of reasons to love her already! I like the resolve Kurumi came to here. Good for her.

Hunter x Hunter - At long, long, long, long last, I've finished the Chimera Ants arc. All surviving Ants are moving on with their lives, including Welfin joining Hina, Bizeff, and the others to search for the never-to-be-found Gyro. Bloster, meanwhile, delivers that unnamed servant Ant to a familiar village and it turns out that all along, this Ant was not only not really mute, she's Kurt's little sister Reina who rettained her human memories, and oh God did I get choked up watching her and her mother having their big tearful reunion and seeing her bring Bloster back with her to live in that village too.: it was beautiful. And then Colt calls up Morel to reveal the startling realization that the Queen's last child that he's been taking care of is in fact the reincarnated Kite, compounding the tragedy of Gon's story since he's at death's door and hospitalized, all for pretty much nothing. Killua seeks a way to ensure the surgery goes succesfully and Gon's life can be saved, while elsewhere, just as in real life, an election season is in order, as Netero's final message to the Hunters Association beckons they select his successor the democratic way!

SHUFFLE! - Ended the series with the last two episodes. Asa's mom being a demon, making Asa a human-demon hybrid whose blood allows her to access magic powers, was absolutely not a turn I'd seen coming, but in hindsight it makes sense. Not sure how I felt about the climax of the whole thing revolving around Rin threatening suicide in order to force Asa to use her magic to save both of their lives, but the result of it was effective and ensured everything got wrapped up in a satisfying way. An alright end to an alright show.

KonoSuba - The second OVA, in which Kazuma leads his party on different high risk quests all so he can have new stories to tell to a random fangirl who keeps meeting with him at the pub, to the point where they have to fight another giant robot created by the same crazy asshole who was behind the events of the first season's finale, all just for Kazuma to learn that his fangirl could barely stomach him the whole time and was just getting paid to motivate him in quests!

K-On! - The second year of school has begun and the Light Music Club is out to get some new membership by any means necessary. And I mean any means, as they even do a publicity stunt in stupid plush animal costumes in hopes of it grabbing attention. After another successful on-stage performance, a girl named Azusa comes to their clubroom asking if she can join. You're going to end up making Season 2 all about you, aren't you? Well, at least Yui's happy!

Eureka Seven - Pulled a "Sozin's Comet" with all four final episodes of the show, which provided so many revelations, exhilerating action, powerful crescendos to all the character arcs and relationships (I'm never emotionally prepared for Dominic and Anemone in Episode 48, it is so epic and gets me every time!), and an ending that...honestly didn't make a whole lot of sense. I mean, I got the basic idea of it: the Scub Coral keep their ties to the Earth, but all of the Coralians and the new central cluster leave for the parallel universe where they'll wait until when both worlds are ready to co-exist. But the way it got executed was pretty confusing, especially since Eureka and the now Corallian Renton choose to stay on their planet, yet can't really live on the planet like people anymore, leaving everyone who knew them wondering if they'll ever see them again? The only other nitpick is what directly preceded that, where even before the existence of the putrid Astral Ocean series, the entire "humanity and Scub Coral can co-exist and help each other grow" theme is a bit undercut by Renton fucking slaughtering his way through several Coralians in order to reach Eureka. But those problematic areas were far outshone by how beautifully this whole thing came together here. Much like Nadja of Tomorrow, this is a show where the long game was well played and well worth it, and even with all the later sequels, spinoffs and imitators, it's one of a kind. Dai Sato, you will always be famous.

Air - Two episodes that set us back 1000 years prior to the story we've been watching and unveils the origin of the fabled winged girl in the sky, shown here to be named Kanna. We see her and her two companions Lady Uraha and Sir Ryūya set out on a journey to find Kanna's missing mother and avoid forces from their palace who are conspiring to lock her away in another temple. Tragically, they find her only to lose her, as she passes her ancient prayer on to Kanna before dying. When Kanna takes flight, she's caught by a curse that strikes her down, leading to her having to experience death over and over again while her mind is trapped in an endless, lonely dream. Ryūya and Uraha learn about the curse and vow to end it by having a child who will break the curse, with them implied to be Yukito's ancestors. But now that Yukito is out of the picture and Misuzu, the current incarnation of Kanna, is all alone, how will it ever work out?

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Sailor Moon Crystal/Infinity/Eternal/Cosmos - Yes, I watched all of this over the latter half of Summer in anticipation for when Cosmos dropped on Netflix. And I saw a subpar adaptation of a classic Shoujo action/romance manga turn into a dramatic time travel epic with far more competent adaptational choices, which then became a science ficiton/gothic horror work with more powerful storytelling and character depth and even some darker moral gray areas, and that gave way to a twisted fairy tale adventure that championed the power of love, friendship, and dreams...and then what I ended on was a straight up mythic tale with deeply personal stakes and some heavy spiritual themes! That last one is especially not what many would think of when thinking "Sailor Moon", but that's seriously where Naoko Takeuchi led her original story to! And I have mad respect for that and enjoyed the overall ride through a true Japanese legend!

Huh? Wha...what's that? Who's there? Is that..... Dewey Novak???

"August 6. That date marked officially five years that you've been putting out these Anime Update posts. And you let it slip you by. Terrible mistake, my friend! I've connected my very essence to the data collective of all of these posts! If I go, so does this post series, cut down only 20 entries into the V3 version! My life shall be the foundation upon which Anime Update ends its five year run!"

"So cry! All you like! This is the beginning of a brand new era!"

DEWEY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-----

Oh dear. What's to become of Anime Update now? Stay tuned!

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My Final thoughts on Kimi Ni Todoke

I discovered "Kimi Ni Todoke" in October 2010. And I read the last chapter on August 18, 2021. This is how I leave almost 11 years of happiness behind me. This wonderful manga deeply moved me. It was the purest, most beautiful and innocent story I could read. So I thank Karuho Shiina for giving it to us. I cried, I laughed, I felt my heart beat, I stressed out reading the last pages and today it is all over. This will remain my favorite shojo until the end. Thanks to Kuronuma Sawako, Kazehaya Shota, Yoshida Chizuru, Yano Ayane and Sanada Ryu for accompanying me during these 11 long years !! Thank you for teaching me what a story of sincere, passionate and beautiful love and friendship is. I will never forget this!

J'ai découvert "kimi ni todoke" en octobre 2010. Et j'ai lu le dernier chapitre le 18 août 2021. C'est ainsi que je laisse presque 11 ans de bonheur derrière moi. Ce merveilleux manga m'a fortement bouleversé. C'était l'histoire la plus pure, belle et innocente que j'ai pu lire. Alors je remercie karuho shiina de nous l'avoir offerte. J'ai pleuré, j'ai ri, j'ai senti mon cœur battre, j'ai stressé en lisant les dernieres pages et aujourd'hui tout est finie. Il restera jusqu'à la fin mon shojo préf��ré. Merci à sawako kuronuma, shota kazehaya, chizuru Yoshida, ayane yano, Ryu sanada de m'avoir accompagné durant ces 11 longues années !! Merci de m'avoir appris ce qu'était une histoire d'amour et d'amitié sincère, passionnelle et belle. Je ne l'oublierai jamais !

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January 19th’s podcast episode covers volumes 21–30 of KIMI NI TODOKE by Karuho Shiina (the end of the series)

Welcome to our final episode on Karuho Shiina’s contemporary classic. Shojo & Tell host Ashley and shojo manga connoisseur Caitlin Moore FINALLY get to reflect on what went down between Ayane and Pin (how it was all handled was such a pleasant surprise!). Plus, Kurumi finally gets her time to shine in our elaborate alt ending where she ends up with Sawako and as a contestant on TERRACE HOUSE (this episode involves a lot of fanfiction-making). And most importantly, Ashley and Caitlin rank Pin’s hairstyles (some are much better than others). We hope this manga reached you! Subscribe to the podcast here

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And here’s another website’s summary of the chapter if you’re interested in getting more / different details: http://comicc.net/kiminitodoke/120/

I��m not going to translate the whole thing line by line, but if you’d like to know what happens, I’ll summarize under the cut. Don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled!! (and don’t read the tags either - there are spoilers in there too!!) I’m still planning to translate (to the best of my ability, haha) the chapter once I get my copy of Betsuma, but it’ll probably take me a little while to finish…I hope this tides you over in the meantime!

* I’m following both summaries - keep in mind that these are usually not super in-depth, and there may be a few things from the chapter that the writers chose not to include. It just gives us a few surprises to look forward to! :) 

According to the Betsuma website, Chapter 121 will appear in next month’s issue. 

Chapter 120 Summary 

The chapter begins with Kazehaya learning that he passed his university entrance exam; his father enthusiastically declares that they’ll need to find him a place to live.

After receiving an email from Kazehaya conveying the good news, Sawako rushes to his house. When she gets there, she sees him coming out of the house and calls out to him: “Kazehaya-kun!! Congratulations on passing!!”

He replies: “Huh? Wow! You came all the way here after seeing my email? I’m so happy!! Thank you!!”

Hearing what his father said about finding an apartment, Sawako thinks that Kazehaya’s new life is starting…

Next, it’s Sawako and Kurumi’s turn.

Together, the two go to look at their results. They’re so nervous that they can’t stop shaking, so they hold hands as they approach the display board to find their numbers. They then go to school to communicate their results to their respective homeroom teachers.

Standing in front of Pin, Sawako says, “…we both passed…!!”

Pin high fives her and does a fist pump.

“Sensei…I…I want to be a teacher like you, Arai-sen -!!”

Pin interrupts her.

“Kuronuma. That’s impossible. I’m the only teacher like me. You’re fine just the way you are! Do your best, both of you!”

“I’ll do my best!” she replies energetically, parting with Pin.

Kazehaya is waiting in front of the school gate. He congratulates Sawako and Kurumi on passing their entrance exams. They’re planning to celebrate at Ryu’s house, and they invite Kurumi to come with them. She seems a little uneasy, but she goes with them.

When the three arrive at Ryu’s house, Chizu is surprised to see Kurumi. She apologizes to both Chizu and Ayane for what she did to them their first year of high school. 

Tearing up a bit, Chizu grabs her shoulders and congratulates her. 

They go up to Ryu’s room, where the party is starting. Ryu once again messes up Kurumi’s name (he calls her “Dongurizawa” instead of “Kurumizawa” lol), and everyone participates in a celebratory toast. Hearing that Ayane, Ryu and Kazehaya have chosen where they’re going to live, Sawako feels lonely knowing that everyone is leaving. 

Sawako asks Ayane to let her know what day she’s planning to leave, but she just nods a little.

Kurumi runs into Kazehaya in the hallway on her way to the bathroom. She thanks him for inviting her to the party. 

“I thought that Sawako-chan took you from me, but…I was wrong. You’re the one who gave me Sawako…thank you. I…even though it’s not romantic, I’ll love you for my whole life, after all.” (Okay, unsolicited translator comment: THIS IS BEAUTIFUL, HOLY COW.)

As the group splits up, Kazehaya says he’ll walk with Sawako because he has to visit the convenience store. 

“No way! He’s walking you home!” Ayane says. (ha!)

Sawako and Kazehaya walk home holding hands.

It’s the day of Ryu’s departure.

Chizu is seeing him off, trying to control her tears with a stiff smile.

Ryu grabs her hand and whispers close to her ear:

“It’s okay to cry. When I graduate, we’ll get married.”

As Ryu leaves, Chizu calls after him with tears on her face, “I’ll be waiting!! Idiot!! Do your best!!

It’s the day of Ayane’s departure too.

She’s leaving without telling anyone. While waiting alone at the train station, she hears voices from behind.

“Ayane-chan!!” “Yano-chin!!”

Turning around, Ayane is surprised to see Sawako and Chizu standing there.

“Ha! Ha! Ha! Surprised, aren’t you? Don’t underestimate my information network! You’re being so distant, Yano-chin!! Leaving without saying anything!!”

Ayane says, “But…but…I’ll ruin my makeup!!!” 

Ayane starts crying a lot. “I didn’t say anything because I knew this would happen!! Because I know I’ll definitely miss you…!!”

Sawako takes both of Ayane’s hands as tears fall from her eyes.

“Thank you so, so much!! Thank you!!”

Smiling through her tears, Ayane replies, “That’s my line!!”

As she gets on the train, she addresses them through her tears.

“Chizu, Sawako! Whenever I get discouraged or lose heart, I’ll remember you!! I’ll give it my all!” 

As the train leaves, Chizu and Sawako watch the entire time.

(I’m glad that I was able to see you)

(I’m glad that I was able to meet you.)

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This chapter sounds like a beautiful, emotional rollercoaster that will wreck all of us! I’m wondering what Shiina will do going forward…

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Betsuma cover | Kimi ni Todoke ~ march 2017

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lol i was wondering why I hadn’t seen anyone posting about the new kimi ni todoke spinoff chapters. i went and checked out the Japanese chapters in Bestuma (ebook) and within the first couple pages I could already tell why no one’s been posting about them

spoilers under here

it’s cuz they’re bullshit

there’s honestly not much point in translating or summarizing the new chapters unless for some reason you have a burning passion for eiji x kurumi because that’s all it is.

friendly reminder that we have now got three big ass chapters of a brand new enthralling love story between kurumi and some guy

this is probably like the worst possible scenario if you asked a fan a year ago what they expected or wanted the spinoff chapters to be

there’s almost a whole volume now (around 150 pages) of extra story that has nothing to do with any of the knt characters except kurumi, whom i love dearly, just not...like this

not only has there been nothing, not a whisper, about ayane. or ayapin. or chizu or ryu. but the spinoff chapters aren’t even about sawako and kazehaya lmao. i must say i did not expect that.

after the lackluster final chapter we got in regards to the rest of knt’s cast outside of sawakaze, to be held off on receiving a proper epilogue for the other characters in favor of a 150+ page eiji/kurumi storyline that no one asked for is...irritating to say the least

i can only assume for my sanity that these spinoff chapters aren’t going anywhere and that EVENTUALLY, if all goes well, Shiina-sensei will get around to showing us some other characters and/or stuff we actually care about. eventually. for now, this is what we have. 

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Credits to the artist!! (RoseMask22)

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