Your happiness and the happiness of the one you love – when the two are at odds, how do you decide which is more important?
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So I guess this is the more tense moment of the show. Now that Atsushi has been found out, it’s starting to be suggested that Hazuki will be trapped in the subconscious world forever (to take his place). So I guess Hazuki will have to break his way out? I doubt Rokka will help him [...]
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Categories: Anime, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Summer 2012Tags: Natsuyuki RendezvousDon’t you just love it when you see a plot twist coming from miles away and your predictions turn out to be correct? If you read some of my earlier Natsuyuki posts, you may have noticed me making all these … Continue reading →(Read more...)
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Natsuyuki Rendezvous, I applaud you! That was magnificent! Now this is really how you do a dramatic climax. There was so much emotion in it, yet it was wonderfully restrained. The acting here was just brilliant. Everything in this episode was just leading up to that one moment in which Rokka would realize that for [...]
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Atsushi and Rokka and up hiking to the highest place he ever went, a forest where he intends to plant his snow-in-the-summer plant containing some of his bones. Rokka encounters him and realizes it’s Atsushi, who tries to flee, but fails. Rokka collapses in tears at the realization. Meanwhile, Hazuki ends up in a Snow [...]
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Did Rokka’s story vaguely remind anyone else of “The Giving Tree”? Thumbelina again To my disappointment we returned to Thumbelina-verse. But the scene when we got there was a bit…….um…I don’t know. Jarring, for lack of a better word. It was obviously referencing Snow White (which annoys me since it wasn’t another Hans Christian Anderson [...]
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It's a lovely day for a trek out in the country - a good job too, as Shimao continues to make full use of Hazuki's body by taking him out to the one spot he can remember taking an outing with Rokka, unaware that his wife is in hot pursuit of him in the midst of a confused state of her own. Unfortunately, it takes us most of the episode to reach the meeting between these two characters, as the
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