“Adorable, yet creepy” is one way to describe the episode’s focus on photographic voyeurism. On the one side you think, awww that’s kind of cute. On the other side, watching Taiga drool over the pictures or keeping albums full of them is a bit creepy. I had my fair share of crushes in middle and high school, but I don’t recall ever keeping a stack of photos of them.
Adorable
You’re not Ami-chan, dammit. JCStaff has cheated me for another week! Well, Sumire is kind of cool in her own way, I always dig foul mouthed girls. Although, what the Japanese consider foul mouthed is quite different from my views, considering the people I hang out with IRL.
What the hell is this? I feel so cheated, I wanted a fight between Taiga and Sumire, and instead she wusses out because he grabbed her. By the way, the fact that a male student went up to a female student, grabbed her, and held her up in the air struck me as somewhat out of line. Continuing to compare this show with my own life, if that happened in my school the guy would probably get a referral or worse. Maybe I should stop trying to compare anime with life.
Creepy
No it’s not, it’s just weird.
As you can well imagine, this shot has already made the rounds on /a/ with various dirty things done to it. Well, with so much Taiga creepy photo voyeurism, they had to give Ryuuji some as well. Frankly, if I was going to keep a picture of some girl I like this would not be the one, unless he planned on using it for uh, something more than just admiring it. Even then, I wouldn’t be satisfied by a shot like this.
Call me weird, but I love the expression on his face. I always enjoy watching the ways in which animators choose to animate “wtf?” expressions. It’s much harder to show such surprise in live action without genuinely being surprised, plus I’m a big fan of exaggerated expressions and comedies. One of the reasons I loved Seto no Hanayome so much was the exaggeration. Now, I’m not comparing the two series at all, I just once again went off on a random tangent.
YES
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WTH >_> i thought the girl in preview was the same from the beginning of the epi until i read your comments
Witty Comments on the pics:
1st: Whats with the weird look?
2nd: Ahh, that’s adorable.
3rd: Who ya callin Numb nuts?!
4th: Restrain that Tsundere!
5th: Eww!! Gross!
6th: Bucket of Pudding? GIMME!
7th: I would love lick some of that pudding, if you now what i mean.
8th: What indeed.
9th: Hello Beautiful.
CARNIVAL!
Well a fight between Taiga and Sumire was averted not by some dude but rather a friend of Taiga and he is the VP after all.
Sumire Bancho was delightful this time not sure how this incarnation of Ami will turn out, but here’s hoping for the best.
You haven’t lived ’til you’ve made a pudding and wound up with some on your nose.
After episode 3, I was starting to think I wouldn’t like Toradora because it was straying so far from the novel material so early in the show. However, this episode, even though it was mostly filler and was completely different from the novels in various ways, managed to still get a lot of the novel material across and actually worked pretty well for a rewrite.
Rather than consider this show as seperate chunks of source material and filler, to me it seems like a reinterpretation of the novels.
tldr; Deciding to watch this as an alternate version of the novel story makes it a decent show again to a novelfag.
F-F-FACEPALM at the revelation this ep.
http://omisyth.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/tora4-28.jpg?w=510&h=286
I uh actually could sympathize with Taiga about those photos. Back in high school I had a huge crush on someone and during some school event I had my friend stand in front of me so I could pretend to take a picture of her and really get my crush instead. Of course it just so happened that said crush was standing next to the girl he liked so that picture caused me intense agony every time I looked at it but I just couldn’t bear to throw it away.
Maybe that is kind of creepy now that I think about it… well, at least I wasn’t taking hundreds of pictures and then laminating them.
I’m just glad they worked in the Kitamura confession into it somewhere, as it takes the otherwise incoherent and inexplicable confession of episode 2 and gives it context within which to understand both why it was made and Kitamura’s response.
i was thinking of dropping this after the oh so bad episode 3…. now this episode bought my hopes up again… totally agree with “Adorable, yet creepy”, not about the photos but about the way Taiga… i guess ‘rubs her armpits while blushing’ is the only way i can explain it… now that was creepy
This show rocks
Taiga rocks
Ryuuji rocks
Ryuuji’s mother rocks.
I forget the names of the characters here and there,next time I will write them down,I think this makes it muche easier.
I don’t think with Ryuuji its about the picture itself. I don’t think its even a shot he would prefer either. Its really the fact that she gave it to him that makes him want to keep the picture.
Blatant fanservice was just an added bonus.
I haven’t read the manga, so I remember watching this episode and thinking “Is that blue-haired girl the much-hyped Ami? She didn’t get much screen time. Calawain’s gonna be pissed.” (Yes, that is how I thought it. I read this blog too much.)
Anyway, where am I going with this? Well… a whole post and no mention of the Starbucks rip-off with the hippy on the logo? That was one of the best parts of the episode!
(Also- pudding in a bucket? What the-?)