I think that's because it is a rural area, and the employer is a small inn.
I think that's because it is a rural area, and the employer is a small inn.
Peace.
I remember, though, from five years ago a TV documentary where a person from the West had moved to (metropolitan) Japan and was complaining how annoying it is to pay your electricity bill in cash to an employee who makes a round through the neighbourhood, from door to door, collecting the money. And that was apparently the only way to pay (perhaps in addition to visiting the company itself, I can't remember exactly). However, it's still hard to believe. It would also be bloody nuisance.
But silly Japan is also Japan, I guess.
I think it would be hilarious if it turned out to be Nako he's after.
Huge "EH!?" reaction from all 3 of them.
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Good twist. Let's go with that.
Minchi and Ohana can just get it on in their room. Yuri ftw.
Peace.
That's true. He could very well be ogling Nako... while Minko would probably misunderstand it and beleive its Ohana creating a new conflict.
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Reminded me of that one FMP:Fumoffu ep.
This was easily the weakest episode so far in my opinion.
I liked it. It was a lot of fun.
Peace.
I agree.Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Also confirmed that both Nako and Ohana are equally worthy "targets". Tohru might actually be a harem guy.
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I'm going to go with Kraco on this one. While is was fun, it felt like a portion of the cast was just completely out of character. Minko getting angry about them not eating food is fine, but her actually charging down the hall to verbally assault customers is not, and then getting all sparkling when she was praised. Tomoe was fine during most of the scenes at her apartment or in the kitchen (stuffing her face with leftovers because she was stressed out), but going all madcap just didn't seem like I was watching the same series I have been for weeks. In the end, it felt like Ohana, Nako and the Okami were the only ones in character.
It was entertaining, but it felt like I was watching some other, mislabeled series.
I agree as well. Seeing how stressful real life is... I prefer to enjoy the series I choose to follow (after dropping a few in the way) instead of nitpicking at every little detail.
I LOLed at Ohana taking an infiltrated bath on the MEN's bath instead of cleaning it.
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This episode really made the previous feel like a filler. Not only is Ko arriving to see Ohana - something I didn't really dare hope for due to his actual presence having been nothing but the tiny bit right in the intro part of the show - but things got so critical also at the inn suddenly, in many ways. Funnily enough even the miserable consultant is there to further make things more troublesome. I'm glad Ohana gathered her thoughts and told her off before everything was ruined beyond redemption.
I'm really looking forward to the next episode now.
I'd like to just say, "Ditto," to Kraco's post, but that would be poor form.
What surprised me is that Ohana opted to take the long trip to the city and try to track Tohru down so he could take the long trip back to the inn rather than going down to the kitchen and doing it herself. She called Nako in, so the waitress staff wouldn't be that adversely affected (certainly no less than it is with her running off). Ohana can actually cook, and both the chefs seem to think she cooks rather well. I really don't see why Ohana's current actions are preferable to throwing out the same, "all guests are equal," pep-talk to Ren-san and doing the work herself. She's has almost a decade of practice herself. Even then, she could resume waitressing after the majority of the work is completed.
As it stands, it seems like she is doing more harm than good.
Lastly, to throw this out there, why would Yuina be worried about her photo being taken? She doesn't do anything at her inn. A mystery reviewer would be just as likely to think she is another guest. I'm kind of hoping they make Yuina less of a background character. She's annoying as it stands, and she's would be a nice contrast character to Ohana. Lazy and nonchalant to Ohana's trying-too-hard.
It certainly seemed like a very strange and highly ineffective decision like you said. But on the other hand, it suits her impulsive and well-meaning but not too deeply thinking personality perfectly, underlined by running through the city in her waitress uniform. It also fits together with her general inexperience, that is, the incapability to utilize limited time to the max.
You guys seem to take professional cooking a bit lightly. Cooking well for a staff meal where you decide the menu (usually something you know and can cook well) is worlds different from cooking for guests with a specific (usually luxurious since it is a ryokan) menu that Ohana most likely is not even aware of, much less practiced for.
I'm sure Ohana knows that she isn't up to the task, just like Minchi who has been training for that specific job for a much longer time.
Risking it and cooking herself then serving inadequate (not bad, since she is good enough a cook to avoid that, but standards are different) food is the worst case scenario. Like the irritating meddling woman said, it all begins and ends with the food.
Peace.
I'm with Shinta in this. Ohana's cooking may be good... but it doesn't mean she knows how to prepare on a pro level. Her decision will probably be the best on the long run... though I do worry how long it took her to get there and how long it will take her to return.
Minchi has finally left my hate list... and the list is currently being occupied by the consultat, Takako and the stupid son of the landlady. How can this two be so blind to commit such terrible mistakes each and every time is beyond me. At first I thought it was because the stupid son liked her... but now I think its just because he is stupid.
Yes, I fully agree Ohana wouldn't be up to the task of preparing the meals. However, psychologically thinking the chef might have recuperated really fast if Ohana had appeared in the kitchen to try to cook fancy meals, especially if she had told the man to forget the consultant's bullshit and just do things like he always does (because I've no doubt he never serves second-rate food in the first place). This would have taken ten minutes instead of a long bike ride, train ride, and running through the city, randomly searching a big building - and whatever is going to happen in the next episode. Let's not forget they were already preparing the meals; how long will the customers now have to wait?
However, naturally for the story this development was more interesting. And like I said, it suits Ohana's personality.
Zell, I think the son is just stupidly in love with the woman and his filters are all offline. Thus anything she says will sound like words of a sage in his ears and, moreover, he probably subconsciously tries to think of plans that would be alike to hers. All to the ruination of the inn.
I don't think Ren would have recovered from Ohana telling him to treat all customers equally. The thing that hit him was "Dinner is the key". The fact that he has to perform top notch tonight is killing him, not the fact that only some customers are to be served something spectacular.
As for Kraco's comment about having the customers wait, Minchi said she was fine with all the preparation - only cooking it was the problem, and that's where Tohru comes in.
As misguided as Takako is with her sense of what's "good" for the inn, I love how she spouts out all the not-that-horrible English whenever she can. A prime example of having learnt knowledge but not knowing how to apply it.
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