Nov 30 2008
Clannad After Story 5-6 - That Thing About Smell
As always, Clannad is unexpectedly touching. I had tears in my eyes at the end of both episodes. -sighs- And while I did say I would solidly blog Toradora this week, I’ve realised -everyone’s- doing it! So I’m gonna go do Earl and Fairy or something. XD Or maybe -finally- finish watching Junjou Romantica, then go on to watch JR2…hmm. All this will have to wait until this week is over, since I have to translate two chapters as well as make/finish mom’s present by Wednesday. -wry-
In this ep, Tomoya and Nagisa get an invite from Misae to attend the autumn festival because she’d heard that Tomoya’d neglected taking Nagisa out. XD Tsk tsk, Tomoya. The rest of episode five (half of it) involves Misae when she was younger and alumni in the same school, and a guy called Shima Katsuki. It seems she was taking care of people ever since she was younger, in a kind of rough love way. Story continues to ep six, so I thought I might as well make a double.
My first thought when I saw the intro to this ep was, “She’s building a balista!?” It’s interesting to see the story of the girl and the…uh…construct (?) continue, though; I thought we’d seen the end with the first season, and it wasn’t a bad end either. I found it hilarious that trap!Shima talks to Misae outside of the student council room and asks her to be with him forever. XD As a cute girl! Turns out Shima was a cat, whose owner Misae comforted before he died. In Clannad fantasy form (remember Fuko?), he morphs into a human and comforts Misae, finally leaving her after she wishes he’ll love her forever.
I wonder about that, though. Shima -wasn’t- with Misae until a few days ago, wasn’t it? Where was he in the meantime? Limbo? (Don’t cats get old? XD He does look a bit bigger than originally..)
Click on da moar for a small bit on the smell thing. Picasa gallery is here , slideshow below.
Ah, this was the part in the preview –> “It’s great that I’m liked, but I don’t know what they see in a woman that only yells.” “You don’t just yell, you worry about others, which is the good part. And the rugby boys say you smell like soap, and they like that.” –> this is mirrored in ep 6, when Shima says, “Things like you yelling at me and worrying about me. Also, whenever you put me in a wrestling hold, you smell good…and I like that.”
How true is this? I think niisama smells wonderful; like clean laundry and clear skies. ^^ And his sense of smell is (ahem) atypical at times when it comes to me too…(you know what I’m talking about, dear). And also! There’s a section about this in Belle de Jour.
“The conversation strayed to evolutionary biology and the role of pheromones in attraction. How well you like someone’s smell is, apparently, related to the likelihood of producing children together with as few congenital defects as possible. Not the usual overture to incite romance, but it works well enough on me.”
Have you been with someone who smelled really great to you? :)
The girl isn’t building a ballista - she’s obviously building the first generation Gundam 00. OKay - just kidding :P
I swear, Shima looked so much like a girl i was referring to him as her before i corrected myself -_-. Misae’s awesome though =) Did you catch how many 1-hit KOs she threw out in these two eps?
@jay: Film? Do you mean the one that kinda looked like it had dodgy art? XD I’ve actually heart Air was pretty touching too, but still on the ‘going to watch it’ phase, sigh!