I really love the take of Jiji's... Jiji-ness, when paired with the line in my subs of 'I could see it, and it knew I could see it, it was showing itself to me' and 'I had to convince myself I wasn't seeing anything'
really love your vids, I used to consistently watch anime years ago but finding stuff I liked took too much time. its nice to see the analysis of your videos because it helps me find shows id like but would have never found like Girls Band Cry and 365 Days
I don't have much preamble this week and am just glad to do my part trying to engage with content for the algorithm's sake. Dan Da Dan: I appreciate the contrast between how long Okarun is shown mulling over his insecurities and obsessing over his doubts over his feelings towards Momo and how short, sweet, and direct Taro is when confessing his love to Hana. While Okarun is stuck idling, living in the uncertainty of his feelings, Taro is actively sprinting towards his goal, his feelings acting almost like jet fuel as he rushes off to save a love he is afraid he will lose forever. We spend over half the episode with Okarun struggling to figure out what to do next as far as his relationship with Momo goes, and Taro blows past him straight into a confession in the final 7 minutes. Blue Box: While Th8a focused on how outside characters demonstrated keener insight than the main characters did themselves, my focus in this episode was drawn on our main characters' inability to take ownership of the things they truly wanted. I guess you could say Th8a focused on an outside perspective examining the episode while my attention centered in the internal conflicts going on within the characters themselves. Taiki was not being true to his own desires and was actively acting against character to the point where Hina had to clear cut call him out for not acting like himself. He let his perception over what happened between him and Hinata change his normal determined, never give up, mindset towards the future. Hina couldn't be straightforward with her desire to go to the fireworks festival with just Taiki, leading to a misunderstanding that forced Kyo into once again saving the day for one of his friends. She was letting the awkwardness of having feelings for Taiki while knowing he has feelings for Chinatsu get in the way of even giving herself a chance to go after what she wanted. Chinatsu has completely misunderstood what her conversation with Taiki has done and because she was scared to try and work through her own feelings, she has currently found herself in a position where she can't even bring herself to think about the implications of her feelings. For each of them, the fear of confronting uncertainty gets in the way of each of them pursuing the things they each truly want. Girls Band Cry: Th8a knows this considering we had a good conversation back in the Discord about this, but much like Nina and Momoka did not agree in this episode with the other's reaction to the new Diamond Dust, we do not agree on the extent to which Momoka's break up with Diamond Dust was due to "creative differences." My bottom line on the whole, "what caused Momoka to quit," question was basically the idea that if these differences of opinion on Diamond Dust's direction at the time weren't there in the first place, there seems to be no other reason Momoka would have quit Diamond Dust. Of course the reason she quits is deeper and more nuanced than just those differences, but if it wasn't for them in the first place, she never would have considered breaking her promise. You can say "value differences," formed the division, but "creative differences," are where things ended up breaking. Creative differences were less the underlying emotional root of the split and more the defining line to me. We know that one of the primary things Momoka loved/loves about the band experience is how conflict breeds creativity and expression so it likely would have taken something feeling wrong at Momoka's core for her quit the band. If Diamond Dust's original goal was simply for all the members to stay together and become old women together, then it follows that something about what the other band members were willing to compromise vs. what Momoka was willing to compromise personally clashed enough that the original promise was not enough to hold the original band together. At the end of the day 3 members were able to wrap their heads around the vague hope that in the future the band could do what they wanted to do, and Momoka could not, so sadly the band itself seemed to have more value than the promise the band was founded on to begin with and Momoka as the odd person out turned herself into the scapegoat, blaming herself for breaking the promise when the reality of the split was a two way street.
Okarun in Dan Da Dan would have been well at home in Blue Box this week, because all the evidence that Momo is NOT into Jiji is right there, but he can't see past his own internal confusion to notice any of it. Likewise having an outside perspective (human optional) was illuminating! He could've moonlighted over there this episode, heh. As to 'creative differences' in Girls Band Cry, we still don't have anything specific we can name that made Momoka draw up short. We see what the band looks like and assume, but for all we know it was about touring schedule or songwriting quota or something in the logistics of their contract. I mean, if I was arguing for it being a matter of 'values differences,' then I could hardly do better than just quoting what you've written there: " then it follows that something about what the other band members were willing to compromise vs. what Momoka was willing to compromise personally clashed enough that the original promise was not enough to hold the original band together. At the end of the day 3 members were able to wrap their heads around the vague hope that in the future the band could do what they wanted to do, and Momoka could not, so sadly the band itself seemed to have more value than the promise the band was founded on to begin with" Their values/priorities are in different places, quite separate from anything on the creative side of things.
I really love the take of Jiji's... Jiji-ness, when paired with the line in my subs of 'I could see it, and it knew I could see it, it was showing itself to me' and 'I had to convince myself I wasn't seeing anything'
Time to watch Mecha-ude then before watching its bit here, I've put it off too much anyway! Great video as always!
Keep up the good work!
really love your vids, I used to consistently watch anime years ago but finding stuff I liked took too much time. its nice to see the analysis of your videos because it helps me find shows id like but would have never found like Girls Band Cry and 365 Days
That makes me happy to hear!
Thanks th8a!
Mecha ude reminds me of bubuki-buranki aside from the obvious imaishi inspiration
Sadly I never saw that so cannot confirm or deny!
I don't have much preamble this week and am just glad to do my part trying to engage with content for the algorithm's sake.
Dan Da Dan: I appreciate the contrast between how long Okarun is shown mulling over his insecurities and obsessing over his doubts over his feelings towards Momo and how short, sweet, and direct Taro is when confessing his love to Hana. While Okarun is stuck idling, living in the uncertainty of his feelings, Taro is actively sprinting towards his goal, his feelings acting almost like jet fuel as he rushes off to save a love he is afraid he will lose forever. We spend over half the episode with Okarun struggling to figure out what to do next as far as his relationship with Momo goes, and Taro blows past him straight into a confession in the final 7 minutes.
Blue Box: While Th8a focused on how outside characters demonstrated keener insight than the main characters did themselves, my focus in this episode was drawn on our main characters' inability to take ownership of the things they truly wanted. I guess you could say Th8a focused on an outside perspective examining the episode while my attention centered in the internal conflicts going on within the characters themselves.
Taiki was not being true to his own desires and was actively acting against character to the point where Hina had to clear cut call him out for not acting like himself. He let his perception over what happened between him and Hinata change his normal determined, never give up, mindset towards the future.
Hina couldn't be straightforward with her desire to go to the fireworks festival with just Taiki, leading to a misunderstanding that forced Kyo into once again saving the day for one of his friends. She was letting the awkwardness of having feelings for Taiki while knowing he has feelings for Chinatsu get in the way of even giving herself a chance to go after what she wanted.
Chinatsu has completely misunderstood what her conversation with Taiki has done and because she was scared to try and work through her own feelings, she has currently found herself in a position where she can't even bring herself to think about the implications of her feelings.
For each of them, the fear of confronting uncertainty gets in the way of each of them pursuing the things they each truly want.
Girls Band Cry: Th8a knows this considering we had a good conversation back in the Discord about this, but much like Nina and Momoka did not agree in this episode with the other's reaction to the new Diamond Dust, we do not agree on the extent to which Momoka's break up with Diamond Dust was due to "creative differences."
My bottom line on the whole, "what caused Momoka to quit," question was basically the idea that if these differences of opinion on Diamond Dust's direction at the time weren't there in the first place, there seems to be no other reason Momoka would have quit Diamond Dust. Of course the reason she quits is deeper and more nuanced than just those differences, but if it wasn't for them in the first place, she never would have considered breaking her promise. You can say "value differences," formed the division, but "creative differences," are where things ended up breaking.
Creative differences were less the underlying emotional root of the split and more the defining line to me. We know that one of the primary things Momoka loved/loves about the band experience is how conflict breeds creativity and expression so it likely would have taken something feeling wrong at Momoka's core for her quit the band. If Diamond Dust's original goal was simply for all the members to stay together and become old women together, then it follows that something about what the other band members were willing to compromise vs. what Momoka was willing to compromise personally clashed enough that the original promise was not enough to hold the original band together. At the end of the day 3 members were able to wrap their heads around the vague hope that in the future the band could do what they wanted to do, and Momoka could not, so sadly the band itself seemed to have more value than the promise the band was founded on to begin with and Momoka as the odd person out turned herself into the scapegoat, blaming herself for breaking the promise when the reality of the split was a two way street.
Okarun in Dan Da Dan would have been well at home in Blue Box this week, because all the evidence that Momo is NOT into Jiji is right there, but he can't see past his own internal confusion to notice any of it. Likewise having an outside perspective (human optional) was illuminating! He could've moonlighted over there this episode, heh.
As to 'creative differences' in Girls Band Cry, we still don't have anything specific we can name that made Momoka draw up short. We see what the band looks like and assume, but for all we know it was about touring schedule or songwriting quota or something in the logistics of their contract.
I mean, if I was arguing for it being a matter of 'values differences,' then I could hardly do better than just quoting what you've written there:
" then it follows that something about what the other band members were willing to compromise vs. what Momoka was willing to compromise personally clashed enough that the original promise was not enough to hold the original band together. At the end of the day 3 members were able to wrap their heads around the vague hope that in the future the band could do what they wanted to do, and Momoka could not, so sadly the band itself seemed to have more value than the promise the band was founded on to begin with"
Their values/priorities are in different places, quite separate from anything on the creative side of things.