A triumphant finale to a troubled show
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The worried Chiaki. My final impression is included! Summary: Haruka seems to be troubled about something one day, which Chiaki brings up to Kana. Kana initially suggests that Haruka is simply worried about dinner and breakfast preparations, but the two sisters soon discover that this isn’t the case. This brings the girls to come up with [...]
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  Well, at least it’s over… Impressions: Meh. This show has certainly seen better days. The brief upward spike in animation quality last week was not maintained, and with all the flashbacks through part 3, the argument could certainly be made that there was actually more of a dip. Overall, an extremely boring episode all around. [...]
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みなみけ おかえり Episode 12SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: It is a warm spring day and Chiaki is sleeping with her feet out of the open sliding glass door when the noise from Kana, Uchida, and Maki wakes her up. She's annoyed and wants them to shut up and let her sleep. Kana forces Uchida into the "ring" with Chiaki for a verbal sparing match, but Chiaki wins. Maki is next but Chiaki wins. Kana then takes
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        This episode begins with Kana, Uchida, and Maki having a lot of fun and their noise wakes Chiaki from a nap, Chiaki attacks Kana with Fujioka. Kana asks Chiaki if she wants to fight? Yes. So, Kana pushes Uchida into face off with Chiaki for the first shouting match of the season, if Chiaki loses she has [...]
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Wow! What happened here? The production value of this episode shot way up. The animation was a few steps above all the previous episodes and rivals the best of season one. This episode was simple hilarious on top of the visuals. Maki was cute being worried about her sleeping face, Uchida joins in. Kana knows [...]
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Others have already written much on the drastic difference in animation quality from the first half of the episode, compared to the second half. But I had to see it for myself to believe it. And yeah, it’s quite stunning actually. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like the animation in the first half is great – I think everyone looks a little too shiny and there were a handful of scenes where lines didn’t look like they were drawn quite right – but it’s so nice to see some attention paid to shading and highlights, to characters looking like well-proportioned humans, and some experimentation with non-standard camera angles, that it just feels like a huge improvement from what we’ve seen so far (and what we see in the second half). It was like going from watching old Hanna Barbera clips to the latest Pixar jawn. Definitely good enough for a slice of life.
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Yes, they really were BOTH laughing in that daydream.  Just like a certain stripping senior… Once again, as seems to be par for the course, Minami-ke Okaeri manages to lurch along from amusing to ho-hum all within the same episode.  The twist this time is that we get an episode that focuses more on Riko for [...]
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I'm beginning to suspect that Minami-ke Okaeri is a bit like that old legend about versions of Microsoft Windows, where odd numbers are good revisions and even numbers bad. Thus, oddly numbered episodes of Minami-ke Okaeri have been pretty average at best, while even numbered instalments have been far better.This theory certainly seems to work for episode twelve of the series, which manages to
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みなみけ おかえり Episode 11SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Riko observes Kana and Fujioka being friendly and is depressed enough to have Keiko notice. She's also noticed by Hiroko, who has an interest in the "banchou" stuff that Kana involved her in earlier, decides to help Riko win over the current banchou, Fujioka. To this end, she enlists her best friend Yuu to stand if for Fujioka. However, Yuu does
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The ups and downs of Minami-ke Okaeri come full circle in this spectacular and craptacular finale
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A bit more romantic than usual? Episode 10 Summary: Touma visits the Minami household after running through the rain, but after being helped to the bath, Chiaki notices that she seems to be full of herself despite being in the family’s hospitality. In response, Chiaki refuses to give Touma any clothes as Fujioka approaches the home. [...]
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Riko tries to best Hosaka-level fantasy, but ultimately falls short. Not that Hosaka was in this ep...
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While episode 10 has the focus on Fujioka and Chiaki, episode 11 brings the limelight to several people that we rarely see. Episode 11 primarily focuses on Kana’s school now, which of course will mean more Kana action! What’s not to like about it?! I mean, come on, it’s Kana we’re talking about here! Poor Keiko. We get [...]
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Prepare yourselves. Episode 10 is beyond the funny scale this time round. A good majority of the episode belongs to Chiaki and her relationship with Fuijoka, and of course, a little bit of Touma into the mix and you’ll get an extremely awesome episode! WHAT IS THIS?! FATHERLY LOVE?! After looking at Fujioka and Chiaki a little more [...]
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  Maki and Mako getting sweaty on Haruka’s sheets. Hrm hrm hrrrrrrmmmm… Impressions: Overall, a pretty decent episode, but the highlights were definitely the first couple parts. There was also a very VERY noticeable spike in animation and art quality this week, although again, it trailed off quite a bit in the later going. The whole tournament commentary [...]
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       This episode begins with Fujioka asking Kana to give Chiaki a book that she wanted to read after he was finished with it. After thinking about it for a while, Kana just tells Fujioka to stop by and give it to Chiaki himself, he seems happy. All the while, Riko is watching from the [...]
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I wish… asread could have spent the time and money to make the design and animation even merely average. I’ve gotten used to the terrible quality of the animation. But every now and then I can’t help but cringe at an elongated chin, or a malformed head or a criminally thin body limb. Even Mako-chan got the shaft this episode, and it usually looks like they spend a little extra time on her/him. Whatever. It’s not a big deal. Onto the Kana-heavy episode. Part 1: Practice? You’re doing it all wrong!
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The main part of this episode deals with Riko’s crush on Fujioka. This even goes so far as to putting herself with him in some daydreams. That sounds an awful lot like Hosaka and his fantasies of Haruka. This is probably the best light I’ve seen Riko in to date. She is too shy to [...]
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Episode eleven of Minami-ke Okaeri gives plenty of attention to Riko in her never-endingly fruitless pursuit of Fujioka, and to be frank it seems to be having a bad effect on her.The episode begins with the appearance of "Observer Hiroko", although the word "observer" should probably be replaced by "interferer", as she passes forth her knowledge and thoughts on the helpless Kanna-Fujioka-Riko
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