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| Ugh, this Mobuo guy gives the creeps. He's almost stalker like but I guess he's not a bad guy, just creepy. Glad to know their teacher is looking out after Kaya. Speaking of her, she got to spend time with friends by the pool. It's too bad these peaceful days isn't without those ghostly monsters again. |
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| More disturbing implications in this episode... Those kids sure can't catch a break with all these monsters attacks.  |
| Mobu is a bit creepy but he definitely isn't a Stalker. It's so good that Kaya was there to save the boy from drowning. |
| Another very good episode! I tell you what, Ken Ken won’t be making fun of Kaya’s swimsuit anymore after she saved his dumbass lmao. Chie sensei as usual said it’s her break hour and was nowhere to be found as one of her students is drowning? I know they gave the “because of the environment it can be easy to drown” spill, but nah you gotta be counting heads at all times as an adult guardian. Remember y’all, if Mob can get a wife and kid, you can too. Didn’t think his backstory would be that sad, that was really tragic though. Lose your daughter in an accident, get her spirit to hang around and then it eventually turns into a mindless evil spectre, a shell of her former self. No wonder he’s so indebted to kaya for releasing her spirit and letting him move forward, but there’s better ways to handle it than stalking she and Chie lol. It seems like he’ll be useful in saving Kaya’s mom so I’m looking forward to that |
Marinate1016Jan 25, 4:45 AM
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| Surprised Chie would still trust Mobuo, especially after Kaya banished his daughter. Surely he would have gone insane and tried to get revenge. Love that Kaya saw something wasn't right with the teacher in the mirror and thought, that's an issue for next week. Tbf shes gotta have a break, free Kaya. |
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| Mobu is such a good dude, even though he doesn't give you the best possible first impression. |
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Reply to uncleqrow
THEY WASHED DOWN THE STORY SOOO MUCH!!!!!!
In the manga Mob's story was so much more emotional, and yet we got a rly washed down version of it!!!!! Screw u studio!!!!
Now I'm rly curious whether they'd also wash and tone down the later EPs involving the Ebisumoris as well....
I knew the airing time slot being 17:30 JST is very suspicious for this kind of anime!!!!!!! It's a PG time slot... This title is sooo far from being a PG show with much darker tone in later stories.....
In the manga Mob's story was so much more emotional, and yet we got a rly washed down version of it!!!!! Screw u studio!!!!
Now I'm rly curious whether they'd also wash and tone down the later EPs involving the Ebisumoris as well....
I knew the airing time slot being 17:30 JST is very suspicious for this kind of anime!!!!!!! It's a PG time slot... This title is sooo far from being a PG show with much darker tone in later stories.....
| @uncleqrow Yeah, it concerned me a little bit too seeing how blandly delivered and directed such a important and impactful moment was. I felt so bad for the guy when reading it in the manga, but here the delivery wasn't great. Aside from that though, at least the monsters are handled fairly well. |
| I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life. |
| I like the vibes of this anime. Sad to know about mob's story. |
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| As far as I know, the replacement in the mirror is still a replacement, or maybe the problem has already been solved in the manga, although maybe it's not such a big deal? But overall, the story is scary, with a kind of bad ending, although apparently not for children, given the change in the teacher's character. Here's what I didn't like about Mob's backstory: the glitches were detrimental because they didn't convey that feeling you get when you read the chapter, when slowly and at the same time quickly the ghost becomes a specter and already offers his father to cross over to the other side, but overall the episode is good. |
| Alright, lesson learned. When you get run down by Truck-kun, just move on. Live your best life in some shitty isekai, instead of sticking around and turning into that. Uncle Mob is very tragic, still belongs in jail. Good to understand him. Kaya's still adorably kicking ass, and the real Sensei is apparently still trapped in the mirror. I wonder if Kaya can recruit the little brother to her side. |
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| I usually wait till later in the day to watch this because spooky anime fit best when the sun is going down, but there is a bad winter storm in my area this weekend so I figured I’d hit this early, thankfully good horror still hits no matter what time of the day it is lol. And ngl, I don’t think the nearly 2 minute recap was necessary, but this episode was still fantastic. The first bit with Mel Sensei wasn’t the scariest but the way it ended was quite horrific, so you’re telling me Mel was replaced by a mirrored version of herself and no one realized? And the real one is trapped in the mirror now? Daaaamn that is tough, I know she was kinda mean but I don’t think she deserved that, but what I do like about this is that it shows that this show isn’t afraid to do terrible things to some characters, yeah maybe the kids get a nicer teacher now but someone technically got trapped in a mirror forever, not sure if this is ever resolved in a later story or not but I wouldn’t doubt it stays this way. And after this was the pool segment, it was nice seeing the kids have fun but poor Ken nearly drowned thanks to one of the scariest looking ghosts so far imo, but thankfully Kaya saved him and now he sees her in a different light, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the end of him picking on her. I also really liked how this tied in “instinctive drowning response” and how it’s especially hard to notice in a pool full of kids, it may have been a spooky ghoul that caused it here but it’s a very real thing any kind of parent or guardian needs to be wary of anytime they take their kid to a pool. I’m really liking the way this show mirrors real life, it really adds to the horror. But then came the stuff with Mobu (Mob? Might just go with Mobu from now on), he may have seemed like a creep at first but maaaan that shit was sad, I knew it would be the moment he brought up that he had a family but it still got me feeling depressed, what a terribly awful thing that happened to the lad. Like not only did the ghost of his daughter slowly decay into an unrecognizable specter, but his wife could only see it as Mobu going crazy since she couldn’t see ghosts like he can. RIP to Mobu’s daughter, and I’m glad because of Kaya getting involved as a baby, Mobu’s still around today. And looks like he’s aware of what’s going on in Kaya’s house, should be interesting to see how he plans to try and deal with it. And as a final note, I’m a bit confused on if the adaptation of Mobu’s story was great or not, I see some complaning that it was watered down but another saying nothing was skipped. I’m gonna choose to believe it’s an overreaction because I thought it was well done. |
TheColonel76Jan 25, 6:52 AM
baby Kaya is so cute!!!! |
| This show is way more unsettling, dark and sad than I imagined it would be, I liked a lot the fact that Kaya got tricked last episode, meaning she is not invincible and a bit of a reminder that she is still but a child and now the mystery of the teacher and the mirror that didn't get solved. |
KanameYuukiJan 25, 9:04 AM
| wow that teacher really got replaced and the story just went on like that, wild :D |
| Ok creepy Mobu has got a sad backstory but COME OONNN! You got Kaya's home address, photos and personal details under "Top Secret" file. A kindergarten kid for the love of... Stop being creepy lmao "I was being haunted by my dead daughter, and was taken out by Baby Kaya" "Oh my how sad I'm sorry to hear that, hello Police!" |
| "You can't spell slaughter without laughter". |
| Chie-sensei suspected what was up when she heard the troublemaker line, but shrugged it off until it went down. Seems like she’s still in denial/ doubts all this occult stuff even after experiencing and being aware of it. Damn, truck-kun… |
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| So Mobu-san has a sad backstory, poor guy Great episode. The mirror world teacher who came out of the mirror seems like a better person than the original teacher. At least she pretends well lol |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| Damn. Mobu with the unexpected sad back story. Did he really become estranged from his wife because of this, too? Makes the blow even more painful. After reading this episode thread, I might have to check out the manga, just to see if it does in fact hit a little bit harder. |
| Even with his personality, Ken had a way more subdued reaction to almost drowning for a kid than I expected, let alone when a freaky pool spirit thing held him down. Poor Osamu. |
phantomfandom said: yeah, the boy Kaya saved in the pool. No way a 5yo would be so mature and apologize or thank. So unreal it was pretty cringe.Gotta love how kids in this anime doesn't act like real kids but more like adults pretending to be kids That said, the show is IMO still decent so far. Sad backstory was sad too. What's worse,Kaya "killed" the dude's daughter right in front of him lol. I don't know how that wasn't devastating for the guy who couldn't let her spirit go. Did the daughter even pass on? Hopefully we'll find out what happens to spirits Kaya punches. |
| damn rip that teacher lmaooooo |
| Looks like they got the better deal switching their teacher for the mirror version. I like how they turn weird things like at the pool into ghosts. Thank goodness for Kaya, these teachers are the worst half the class should be dead by now. Poor Mob what a tragedy, damn Kaya been saving people since she was a baby. |
| I had not previously heard of this instinctive drowning response before but it is a thing. My guess is kids young enough it's like returning to the womb and also them being unaware of the danger they are in. I wonder how long before they figure out Mel sensei got replaced. Mobu has such a sad backstory. Actually there probably are a lot of people that seem odd that are just like him but we never know since we never know from just observing strangers. |
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| Losing his daughter to a impostor truck is just oef. Thanks to that backstory, we can understand him better. Also rip Mel, mirror swap seems to be a non urgent thing which is kinda odd it's creepy lol. |
DevOpsElfMage said: Befriending the kindergarten group one by one by saving them. Really nice turn out with that boy, the "quiet drowning" really was scary and I'm not even a parent. Would anyone know if they teach swimming in pre-school in Japan? I grew up in (West) Germany and swimming was something for the 3rd year of elementary school (ca. age 9) as far as I remember. Also in lots of anime characters not being able to swim is often shrugged off as something like not out of the ordinary so I was wondering even more if it was just an plot device to single Kaya out or being able to swim in kindergarten is more normal? Befriended one by one? I didnt watch ep 2 nor 3 bc I thought the kids’d and staff still not believe Kaya and hate her (minus Chie) when the school has ghosts as seen in episode 1 |
| Honestly, the background story is a really good one. You could turn that into an anime by itself or some kind of short movie. It really surprised me. I know the budget isn't quite up there but that was an interesting way of introducing a now potentially main character and subverting the expectations of the viewer a bit. Looking forward to seeing what'll happen to the mirror version of Mel-sensei. It reminds me of the Synchronicity mission in Control. |
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Reply to uncleqrow
THEY WASHED DOWN THE STORY SOOO MUCH!!!!!!
In the manga Mob's story was so much more emotional, and yet we got a rly washed down version of it!!!!! Screw u studio!!!!
Now I'm rly curious whether they'd also wash and tone down the later EPs involving the Ebisumoris as well....
I knew the airing time slot being 17:30 JST is very suspicious for this kind of anime!!!!!!! It's a PG time slot... This title is sooo far from being a PG show with much darker tone in later stories.....
In the manga Mob's story was so much more emotional, and yet we got a rly washed down version of it!!!!! Screw u studio!!!!
Now I'm rly curious whether they'd also wash and tone down the later EPs involving the Ebisumoris as well....
I knew the airing time slot being 17:30 JST is very suspicious for this kind of anime!!!!!!! It's a PG time slot... This title is sooo far from being a PG show with much darker tone in later stories.....
| @uncleqrow That's sad to hear! I might give it a read if it's that heavy |
| that pool thing was kinda creepy |
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