Having explored Kaori and Hanuki's sides to this current triangular story arc, episode eight of The Tatami Galaxy brings us to what we assume to be the final face of this section of the series as we explore the exact origins and conclusion to Watashi's relationship with pen-pal Keiko.As with all such relationships, everything starts innocently enough (although slightly oddly, admittedly), with
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Summary: Remember Sheriff Woody from Toy Story?  In the Tatami Galaxy, HERE‘S JOHNNY! As the voice of Watashi’s Raging Hard-on, he argues with our narrator, who is hiding in the toilet and on the horns of a dilemma, while Hanuki pounds on the door, beseeching him to open the door. Thus the scene is set for [...]
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Watashi’s position in the ‘game of love’ is once again at the position the previous two episodes started with: it is once again alluded to by a move he has to make in love’s board game. Only this time, he chooses the faceless ideal: he chose Keiko-san, and the Reading Circle Sea is the circle [...]
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Alright, so there was slightly more Akashi this time, my Maaya-chan levels are still running low though so at some point between watching the World Cup and writing a paper on evolution I’m going to have to watch a Kara no Kyokai movie for the……..well, since I’ll never stop watching them and I’m in Hell [...] Related posts:The Tatami Galaxy 7 The Tatami Galaxy 2 The Tatami Galaxy 6
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Did Madhouse just troll me? I didn’t mention this last week because I thought that it was just meant as a joke, but at the end of the episode when Watashi is screaming about how he wants to return to the beginning of his university life and start anew, he throws in a quick line [...] Related posts:The Tatami Galaxy 2 The Tatami Galaxy 4 The Tatami Galaxy 5
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The exordium analyzed [opening animation] Despite watching every episode of The Tatami Galaxy at least twice, I have not put any focus on the opening animation of the show until now. It is quite illuminating that after the introduction of the title and the important people helming it, the three people that appear in the first [...]
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After growing used to really very different stories from episode to episode, this seventh instalment of The Tatami Galaxy shakes things up somewhat by going down what I can only describe as a slightly more Endless Eight route. Without the pointlessness, I hasten to add.Thus, just like last episode we join our protagonist hiding away in a bathroom and with three women to choose from, and once
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The three clubs that Watashi chose during the last episode were finally revealed: they were not the Movie Circle or the Softball Circle, but two distinct clubs as well. One was a Hero Circle, and the other was a club that had something to do with the sea, or the ocean. span id=”more-1066″> In a previous post [...]
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Well, this is a turn-up for the books... After five episodes of The Tatami Galaxy have seen Watashi languishing in failure time and again, this sixth instalment begins with our protagonist the subject of interest to no less than three women.Of course, this being the series that it taking the "harem route" is out of the question, and even choosing one girl from this triumvirate isn't exactly going
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“You’ll always haunt me so, won’t you?” “That’s the way I show my love.” A lot has already been written on The Tatami Galaxy. 2DT entertains the notion that we’re looking at a reality unfolding in a multitude of ways. Although this is an interesting angle, I want to examine another aspect of the anime [...]
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by dm00 Poor, poor Johnny. Move over, Mind Game. This is why I like animation. Even though I’ve grown tired of anime that references other anime, Gendou as cerebrum gets a chuckle, and having Noiseman sit at the conference table beside him makes my heart sing.
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Every single one of us, single or otherwise, has faced a crossroads on love. The forking paths may not be as iridescent as what one can see in TV dramas; they may not be as much of a struggle, but they remain to be a struggle within everyone who calls himself human. I do not [...]
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Summary: For you U.S. History buffs out there: remember the Oneida Community? For those who don’t know, the Oneida community was a group of people that tried to achieve perfectionism. Lead by John Humphrey Noyes, this community tried to create utopia. Of course, such a dream was impossible to achieve, and eventually the community collapsed (mostly [...]
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A college dorm built in 1913, unmaintained for years, because the university wants to tear it down (a similar move in Tokyo in 2001 required over 500 security guards and staff to drag reluctant residents from that dorm). Maybe thirty years ago it was in good enough shape to be Greenwood. Check the CNN article’s [...]
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Where………………….was Akashi this episode? She appeared for like twenty seconds at the end……. I don’t want The Tatami Galaxy if she isn’t in it……… I have come to the conclusion that Sakamoto Maaya makes and breaks shows. Arakawa would not be anywhere near as good without her, same thing for Kara no Kyoukai and Escaflowne. [...] Related posts:The Tatami Galaxy 2 The Tatami Galaxy 4 The Tatami Galaxy 3
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This is just a hunch I have, but I bet that there are 4 different “continuities” total. Let’s call them A, B, C, and D. Each of these continuities overlaps with two other ones in some way. So, B overlaps with A and C, C overlaps with B and D, etc… Then there’s the room itself which [...]
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So, the time has come for Watashi to join yet another new university circle as his life is rewound once again, and this time our protagonist chooses a decidedly friendly-looking softball club with a decidedly tempting male to female ratio (not that he'd make a decision based upon that alone, oh no). What could possibly go wrong in this kind of lovely environment?Quite a lot, as it happens, as
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Mr. Yuasa is great with his synchronization between the stream-of-consciousness of Watashi and the visual field that the viewer perceives: he paints the kind and nice nature of the Honwaka’s members with a light palette and a cute addition with the bee antennae. More of Watashi’s cynicism and negativity is underlined in this episode as [...]
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Pranking that goes out of control –> Disastrous confrontation with egotistical neat-freak –> Icarus-level self-defeat –> Cult-like discipleship –> Heaven’s Gate 2012 doomsday whackos That’s some Gurren Lagann-styled escalation there. I like how Tatami Galaxy is playing the field here with the way the various clubs are presented. The first four episodes dealt with the main [...]
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Summary: Ever heard of this guy named Jesus Christ? Obscure guy, I know–but apparently, millions of people all around the world know him and even pray to him. I wish was that popular. If I did, then I wouldn’t need to be on the internet screaming for attention. Hell, that’s the only reason I’m apart of [...]
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