Minami-ke

[KrayZ33]

Minami-ke Okaeri - 02 (Ayako)

Minami-ke Okaeri - 03 (Ayako)

someone please update the releases, I'm way too important to do that myself normally :P
(will download them tomorrow so no comment to the eps yet)

[KrayZ33]

Is nobody watching this anymore?
the last 3 episodes were great..

Minami-ke Okaeri - 04 (Ayako)

Minami-ke Okaeri - 05 (Ayako)

Minami-ke Okaeri - 06 (Ayako)

[Kraco]

I surely am watching. This feels like a jolly good season, better than the second one.

It also makes me happy Fujioka is getting decently screen time. He's a cool guy (though obviously not as cool as Hosaka, but that would be asking for the impossible anyway). I don't much care for Mako/Makoto, which feels like a really stretched joke already, but even he has a few good screnes.

[KrayZ33]

I like Natsuki from the Minami-brothers, hesis really funny . In my opinion he is Hosaka's archrival

in terms of comedy and maybe even in love!
and his "interaction" with that Hitomi-girl was really cute too ^^

"Those eyes of Natsuki...it's like they saw the light of hope!"

I don't much care for Mako/Makoto, which feels like a really stretched joke already, but even he has a few good screnes.

well the problem is that he doesn't get into situations like Touma does ^^ (with Fujioka for example when they played that tag-"game")

[Kraco]

Hosaka's extra delusion:

Minami-ke OAD - gleam



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Edit: I liked this ova. It pretty much collaged most central elements of the series, and so while it presented little totally new, it covered many of the elements, which make Minami-ke a jolly good series. Hosaka's delusions included. I guess one novel element actually was Fujioka getting Valentine chocolate from Kana - even if it was half by accident as Kana didn't remember it was Valentine's day, and just gave them as food to him. A scene of Chiaki sitting in Fujioka's lap also warms my mind every time.

[Kraco]

BSS has been recently doing a great service to the cultural heritage by releasing some Minami-ke extra material:

Minami-ke Drama CD - 1 - BSS
Minami-ke Drama CD - 2 - BSS
Minakike Net Radio clip - BSS


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The first drama CD clip was somewhat dull in my opinion but the second one is great. However, the radio thing is the best of these three. It's basically Chiaki's VA ordering food using Chiaki's voice. That was great. I don't know how genuine it was (if she really ordered food or if it was just a studio stunt) but it was great nonetheless.

[Ryllharu]

the radio thing is the best of these three. It's basically Chiaki's VA ordering food using Chiaki's voice. That was great. I don't know how genuine it was (if she really ordered food or if it was just a studio stunt) but it was great nonetheless.

I enjoyed how you could just catch hints of all kinds of their various characters' voices in the other two as they were laughing while Chihara ordered. I love Rina Satou's laugh.

[Marik]

There was a new season of Minami-Ke for three years in a row, from 2007 to 2009. After that, there was no sign of the slice of life comedy besides an OVA. Now that there's more manga to adapt, that's about to change.

A scan from Weekly Young Magazine, the magazine in which the Minami-ke manga runs, has confirmed that a fourth season is in the works. This follows hints last year of a fourth season from a bonus track on the character song CD bundled with the ninth manga volume.

Fourth season for Minami-ke is confirmed

[Kraco]

For me personally this is the best news since... Fate Zero news or something. Minami-ke is my favourite slice of life show, despite the highly fluctuating and generally not too smooth art.

[KrayZ33]

fuck yeah!

I still have to watch the third though, I believe I stopped somewhere in the middle (for no reason)

[Kraco]

The third season was better than the weakest second season, so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to finish it.

[Ryllharu]

I honestly can't remember what events occurred in the second and third seasons. The first season was great, the latter two were a huge disappointment. They've blurred together in my head as a mutual slog to get through.

Which one had the annoyingly depressing neighbor boy whom Chiaki hated? That was the worst one.

[EinReB23]

wow this is good news... last i remember of this show are the 3 brothers I think...

[Kraco]

Which one had the annoyingly depressing neighbor boy whom Chiaki hated? That was the worst one.

The second season. He's clearly the main reason why the season was inferior, as well. He brought no comedy onto the table and had zilch closure either. He clearly belonged to some other, more duller show, but got lost and appeared in Minami-ke by accident.

[KrayZ33]

I honestly can't remember what events occurred in the second and third seasons. The first season was great, the latter two were a huge disappointment. They've blurred together in my head as a mutual slog to get through.

Which one had the annoyingly depressing neighbor boy whom Chiaki hated? That was the worst one.

don't hate the third one! its nearly as good as the first.
from what I can remember

[Marik]

Minami-ke's 4th Season Titled, Slated for January

[Kraco]

Minami-ke Omatase OVA - Ahodomo




Quite a nice Minami-ke ova. It had all the usual elements including a couple of scenes of Hosaka to ice the cake.

[Kraco]

Season 4, Episode 1 - UTW





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I didn't foresee UTW choosing to sub this show, considering how the earlier seasons always seemed to struggle with the lack of even remotely quality translations. But with UTW in, there's no such worry anymore.

Quite a conservative start, even though they introduced a new character right off the bat. Or at least I have no recollection of this Miyuki. It was good to watch Minami-ke again, but perhaps I failed to follow Chiaki's advice and expected far too much out of it. This was never that sort of a story, in the end, which is one of its charms. So, perhaps this kind of a beginning is better than bringing out the big guns like Hosaka right away. The correct way is to first get into the Minami-ke mood and then get things really rolling. Though I was always a fan of the Fujioka-Chiaki interaction, so that scene was a good one for me personally.

[Ryllharu]

I think a new character like Miyuki is necessary. Kana is already somewhat pathetic enough as it is, leeching Chiaki's dumber friends or Touma as her own. Without Miyuki, Kana really just has Keiko (Fujioka doesn't count), and we all know that Keiko really just tolerates Kana. Sure, they all interact with each other's friends, but Kana needed another one her own age. Even so, Kana's attempts at manipulation by proxy have backfired, and she has created a monster who uses puppy eyes to get what she wants.

I had forgotten that Chiaki's angel side looks pretty much like she does but more polite, but her devil side is an adult with a chest the size of Haruka or slightly greater...and both of them usually come to the same evil conclusions.

I don't expect much out of this series, and they tell you not to anyway.

[Ryllharu]

Minami-ke - Tadaima - 02[UTW]


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I'd be concerned that Chiaki is colorblind. Maybe...Kana should report that one to Haruka and make Chiaki go to the optometrist.

Also, holy crap can Touma sew! I never would have expected that out of the series tomboy.