http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-06-23/kumamiko-creator-remarks-on-cruel-comment-in-final-episode-script/.103547
Kumamiko: It made nobody happy
I actually just finished it, that was bullshit. Who makes character development then throws it out in like three minutes?
>>143234593
>throwing out character development
>she talked to a little girl and decided to give it another shot but the PTSD game too strong
>Pierre Sugiura, one of the anime's writers, deleted his Twitter account and removed Kumamiko from his Facebook resume. It was also deleted from his filmography on Wikipedia by an IP address from Aichi Prefecture — where Sugiura is from.
You scraped this from 4chan didn't you ANN
clever girl
>>143234593
>development
When did Machi ever develop? She was always in panic all of the time and didn't make any progress despite repeated attempts.
>>143234333
I never watched it but the drama is entertaining, so it made me happy
>Yoshio compares Machi's appearance at an idol contest in Sendai as the representative of her village with the offering of her ancestor as a human sacrifice in the folktale told at the beginning of the series.
That comment felt so out of place it was ridiculous.
The show was just bully porn so whatever
>>143235433
Stay there.
>>143235297
Yeah, the last episode completed her development into a mindbroken retard. Throughout the show she was just getting worse.
>>143235433
Kill yourself
>>143235433
Get out.
> Pierre Sugiura, one of the anime's writers, deleted his Twitter account and removed Kumamiko from his Facebook resume. It was also deleted from his filmography on Wikipedia by an IP address from Aichi Prefecture — where Sugiura is from.
>>143235456
>>143235486
>>143235528
What? Got mad that someone lower than you beat you to the punch?
How childish.
>>143234333
>What Yoshio said sure was cruel
There. That's what she complained about, nothing to do with what happened at the end.
But of course, ANN is a bunch of retards too so they found a way to criticize Machi giving up.
>>143235455
>bully porn
Literally why I watched and enjoyed it. Bonus because miko loli.
>>143234333
>click the linked review because I enjoy suffering
>tl;dr so skim about
>Machi doesn't have to work on her social anxiety at all to live in the village? As someone who struggles with it myself,
Time well spent. That's hilarious.
>Rating: C
>>143235348
The fact that Hibiki "saw the light" and relented at that point was the moment I knew this train was going right off the cliff.
>>143235618
Thanks, I didn't want to have to give them page views over a shit thread like this.
When will anime makers learn that making anime original endings that shit on the source material can be detrimental to the anime's popularity?
>>143235990
Never, seeing as they never learn from the graveyard of previous anime mistakes
>>143235990
They know, but they don't care. With creativity especially, if someone's given an inch, they want a mile.
>>143234333
Can you pussy little daisies just shut the fuck up already? Machi tried to face her fears and failed this time - it happens. Better she tried and failed than never tried at all. She'll learn and grow from it. Yoshio clearly has her best interests at heart and is trying to help her improve as a person; Machi even fucking said herself that she wanted to learn to get over her issues. The shit with the human sacrifice was a poor choice of metaphor, yeah, but it's pretty clear from the rest of the show that Yoshio cares for Machi and wants what's best for her in the end. Stop being such little faggots holy shit just how gay can you even be.
>What Yoshio said sure was cruel
Yoshio BTFO
>>143235990
You realize that these kind of anime are literally just advertisements for the manga or LN, right? They don't give a shit about that, and they shouldn't. It's a commercial for the source material.
>this thread again
>>143237414
>it's this meme again
you're not cool because you spout this cynical shit about every single 1 cour adaption every made you fucking faggot.
>>143237414
Sales of the BDs matter too. Kuma Miko's BD sales dropped like a rock after the ending. That's a huge amount of loss in money that could have been avoided simply by tweaking the ending a bit.
>>143237491
Go back to /v/ if you want to call everything you don't like a "meme"
>>143237550
The people who are the most butthurt over it don't even import BDs, so it's irrelevant.
It's just bad writing.
If she gains confidence she would leave for the city, and then how would Natsu fit into the story?
>>143237632
Dude, a lot of japanese are butthurt with the ending too
>>143237632
>accuses someone of crossboarding
>actually uses the word butthurt
Is this satire
This show was clearly going to be about machi suffering from ep 1. Of course edgy fags here will like it, I'm just happy that most everyone else didn't like it so this dumb show can just go away
Wait I dropped this ages ago, what happened?
>>143235455
>>143235670
This. Any further considerations are pointless and misguided.
Could someone snuck her out to better place like Hirosaki?
I fear for her safety.
cry more babies
>>143235483
That's because it was all Natsu's fault. Seriously, once you rewatch the episodes, you slowly realize Natsu had been sabotaging Machi's effort to become a city girl. He's like the GOAT villain.
>>143237741
Japanese get butthurt over anything. Seriously, they get mad that an anime character might not be a virgin.
> Pierre Sugiura, one of the anime's writers, deleted his Twitter account and removed Kumamiko from his Facebook resume
wew. It amazes me how you can have a good show all the way through but throw it all away in the last few episodes. Author didn't even care to approve the script.
Anime original endings always and forever will fail.
>>143237414
and bad advertisements
are bad at advertising
>>143238718
I don't understand why they keep doing this.
>>143238382
There's a reason her parents are missing.
>>143238765
I don't understand how you can be this gullible. Of course the author had approved of it, or at the very least, heard of it beforehand. She is playing the victim card and pushing all of the blame onto the anime studio to cover her ass.
>>143238850
How does approving a shit ending benefit the author though?
>>143238907
She probably thought it was a great idea at the time. Maximize the loli miko bullying. Then the fan backlash happened and she is now covering her ass so her manga sales wouldn't be affected.
>>143234593
Kyoani, with Hyouka
Here's a list of things complained about in this thread and the next one tomorrow to save you some time:
>things people made up in their heads
>creative freedom and original endings
>idolshit
>blatant advertising in an advertising medium
>>143237414
>It's a commercial for the source material.
Based on this logic are we going to expect the similar ending in the manga either? Just like AgK?
How's the manga? I assume it's different and not that heavy on bullying the loli?
Wait what happened in the ending? I stopped watching this at like episode 6.
>>143241621
If you like the loli, you don't wanna know.
I didn't watch past episode 2 but now I really want to finish it.
>>143241734
No worries there. I can handle it. Does she get bullied to death or something?
>>143241621
She gave up, apparently.
>>143241799
She gets bullied to the point she gets mindbroken and acts like a 5 year old girl.
>>143241871
Are you for real? Is this played seriously or just like comedy/cuteness?
Because if its serious im in.
>>143241871
Isn't that the whole show?
What if I told you that ending is the best marketing scheme.
>Everyone hates the last 3 minutes of the anime
>you have to watch the whole anime to even get to that point
>people will be talking about this for a long time
Any publicity is good publicity.
>>143242020
This is a perfect description of it.
>Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of her nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. She had won the victory over herself. She loved Kumade village.
![[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 08 [720p].mkv_snapshot_13.43_[2016.05.22_19.03.54].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OWmtPgi.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 08 [720p].mkv_snapshot_13.43_[2016.05.22_19.03.54].jpg")
>>143242020
She gets bullied.
>>143242153
She can't even do retail and Yoshio thought she could be an idol? Is that guy fucking insane?
Machi clearly has severe issues, and with this in mind the ending was perfect. There is no way she would be magically healed like that, she needs therapy
>>143242037
It doesn't work that way for Japan.
>Damn, I loved this show but the ending made me mad. Now I don't feel like buying the BDs
That's how it'll go. Remember we are talking about the country that rips their merchandise to shreds when a character has a boyfriend or a seiyuu is suspected of having done porn.
Help I'm been dragging by a bunch drag queen retards in this thread!!!
DOUSHIO?
>>143242180
Yoshio and Natsu are the true villans here. Machi needs Hibiki.
>>143235531
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY
>>143241871
That's not even what happens. The "bullying" is all in her imagination, and instead of Yoshio and Natsu correcting her they support her delusions so she'll stay in the village.
Clearly she needed a better friend.
>>143235531
>Pierre
Is this just a nickname?
Happy end.
>>143234333
Wait, do I pick it up just to see what happens? I'm sort of interested now.
>>143242443
It could be a real name, some parents are westaboos and give their kids names like Alice.
>>143235162
It's bullshit, his twitter is still up.
>Tell me, do you break? You will.
>The anime has Machi successfully doing a performance in front of a crowd (with great difficulty and only by going to her Happy Place and seeing the audience as the forest) but once she completes her performance, she hallucinates that the cheering crowd is throwing rocks at her and has a complete breakdown. She continues to falsely believe that the crowd attacked her after she gets home and becomes terrified of the city. Then Machi, broken and dead-eyed gives up her dream of living in the city and declares she will never go to the city again. Natsu and Yoshio, instead of correcting her delusions and getting her psychological help just decide to happily celebrate her decision. Natsu tells Machi that she never has to think about anything ever again and the series ends with Machi seemingly mentally regressing to the personality of a 5 year old, becoming more ignorant about the outside world than ever before and becoming more reliant of Natsu than ever before. And the show treats this as a happy ending with happy music playing in the background.
Holy fuck that is awful.
>>143242848
>seemingly
key word here.
It's all made up in your head. She could, you know, recover like a normal anime character in a gag manga.
>>143242941
The show ended. At least berserk showed you guts got out of the eclipse before rolling the final credits.
>>143243045
And? It's still all made up that she is mentally retarded forever. If they didn't show Guts getting out, would it make it that much worse of an ending? This parallel is nonsensical.
>>143243199
Before ending the show, they showed that guts gets past the cliffhanger.
They didn't do the same for Machi. As far as the viewer and the show is concerned, she's retarded forever. Any belief otherwise is pretty much headcanon because the show doesn't indicate that.
>>143243273
The show doesn't indicate that she is retarded forever either. Both are headcannon, why don't you get that? If a character doesn't get past the cliffhanger, they automatically get the worse end, is that what you're trying to tell me?
>>143242848
What the fuck
I heard they dropped the ball on the ending of this show, but jesus christ this is fucked up
>>143243371
>The show doesn't indicate that she is retarded forever either. Both are headcannon, why don't you get that?
No, one is supported by what the show portrays at the end, the other is just making shit up to negate what the show portrayed at the end. Kind of an important difference.
>>143243489
Neither is supported by what the show portrays at the end. It was more of a non-ending than whatever atrocity or banality it could be. Only people who wish to see it as a permanent affliction will see it that way.
If you can keep a cool head, you will see that things are up in the air. It's not exactly a pleasant ending but it's far from atrocious. Stay deluded if you wish.
![[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_16.09_[2016.04.18_09.01.48].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/joYF3OU.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 03 [720p].mkv_snapshot_16.09_[2016.04.18_09.01.48].jpg")
>>143234333
> Pierre Sugiura, one of the anime's writers, deleted his Twitter account and removed Kumamiko from his Facebook resume. It was also deleted from his filmography on Wikipedia by an IP address from Aichi Prefecture — where Sugiura is from.
>no one slapped some sense on Machi
Completely weak. The moment they accepted her
>THEY CALLED ME A HICK AND THREW STONES AT ME
I just paused and went to do something else before finishing the episode
I said this in the other thread but
Where did everything go so wrong that /a/ watches a genre deconstruction and is just BAFFLED, has NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED like WHERE DID MY GENRE GO
Kuma Miko is a satire of all these "healing" country life shows that have been coming out recently, like Non Non Biyori and Barakamon. It pokes (horrific) holes in the fantasy of rural innocence that has nothing to do with what rural Japanese actually live or want.
>>143243566
>Stay deluded if you wish.
Rich coming from the guy making headcanon to negate the events of the ending.
Here's the thing anon, things could possibly change for her, yes. But the show gave no indication such a thing would happen. As such, you can only go by what it portrayed: she returned home mindbroken and regressed. It's funny, but the ending to this anime is more hopeless than Berserk's.
It's like a "happily ever after". Could an ending like this actually result in a divorce? Maybe, but that's not what the story implies.
>>143243719
>deconstruction
Here we go
>>143243719
>muh deconstruction
It's just a comedy.
>>143243719
>Kuma Miko is a satire of all these "healing"
It's not supposed to be. The ending isn't intentionally dark, it's just dark as a result of incompetence, because in the manga it's part of an arc. They decided to stop the anime during the low point of the arc.
>>143243719
That doesn't make sense. Kumamiko is also supposed to promote Sendai. You don't make a satire while trying to make a positive outlook of a particular area. That's just retarded from a tourism standpoint.
Man ANN is slow. This was like the biggest thing every since it aired. Nips were literally having threads that broke past the 1000 post mark, 4000 post mark even.
At this point, I just feel sorry for everybody else involved in this because of how much backlash the ending got. Hopefully Machi's VA gets more work in the future and the manga gets a huge boost in sales.
>>143243719
>Where did everything go so wrong
Right around the time when people who don't know anything about writing started pretending that anything that subverted any level of expectation, no matter how it was done, was considered a "deconstruction" and that it intrinsically held artistic merit and was immune to criticism.
>>143243719
>Animeonlyfags
>>143243719
The best deconstruction is objectively Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. It's a deconstruction of Japan.
>>143243740
>making headcanon to negate the events of the ending
Nice ad hominem there. I could say the same to you that you're making headcanon just to get unnecessarily mad but that wouldn't help discussion, will it?
There is no indication that she is mindbroken foerever as well which is what I am calling delusion. If you can see the possibility of her recovering, why not have the benefit of the doubt and not get pissy about it all? I don't see why you need to keep bringing Berserk into this either.
Literally the biggest problem with the ending was the sacrificial maiden line Yoshio made. That single fucking line completely fucked over the joke. I mean, that was the specific line the author complained about as well.
>This would be cute, if not for the sequence showing Machi devolving to even more ignorance of technology than we've ever seen before, with Natsu shrugging it off as "you don't have to know these things anymore!" They hug, and the episode ends.
So even the "professional" reviewer completely missed the point and let their own feelings change how they viewed a perfectly innocent scene? Fucking amazing.
>>143243719
Except for how nothing of that happened. Machi just gave up because she realized she couldn't do it anymore, and went back home to live her usual life. The end.
>>143234333
>It made nobody happy
That's bullshit. The reactions in the few initial threads were mixed, but that just proves there are people that enjoyed it. I personally did.
>>143243964
Two shitposters and that one idiot who genuinely thinks that the ending was ok doesn't mean people liked it. Stop deluding yourself.
>>143242267
Hibiki doesn't care what happens to Machi as long as she can get closer to Yoshio
>>143244023
Care to show how you know that it was just three people who liked it?
This thread doesn't need to be a circlejerk you know.
>>143243890
I don't think you know what headcanon means. The show ends on a low note. There's no indication she recovers. Deciding she does is headcanon because your'e creating events that are not hinted at or implied by the show. Whereas I'm just saying that the show's ending is the implied ENDING. Story's over.
>>143243890
>I don't see why you need to keep bringing Berserk into this either.
Because Berserk, despite being a much darker anime, had the good sense to at least show the viewer that, despite the hopeless situation guts was in, he makes it out. If it didn't have the epilogue, you'd have to assume guts didn't make it out of the eclipse. Just like judging by the anime only, we have to assume Miko never really recovers. Because there's no indication otherwise, in fact her "friends" encourage her to remain exactly like that.
>>143242848
She went full Kamille?
>>143244023
>Stop deluding yourself
Listen to your own advice. The ending was absolutely fine and you're just overacting.
>>143244023
No, anon. Shitposting does not mean "posting things I disagree with".
The only dickish part in the episode was Yoshio's line about sacrifices, and even that was on point with his character somehow.
>>143243911
If everyone "missed the point" one can only conclude the point was incompetently made.
>>143244107
>the implied ENDING
Emphasis on implied. It's ultimately based on your perceptions. I saw it as a Miko who went back to living with her bear happily and may or may not stay mentally retarded. You see it as a Miko who is certain to have suffered permanently and will stay miserable, am I correct?
>We have to assume
No we don't. People differ in opinions from what I know.
>>143243911
>So even the "professional" reviewer completely missed the point and let their own feelings change how they viewed a perfectly innocent scene? Fucking amazing.
What was the point?
>>143243570
I feel like everything would have been fine if they just didn't put in the sacraficial metaphor
>>143244187
I'd say it was partly because of that, and partly because so many expectations were broken. It feels like more than majority% of the people watching this expected Machi to get healed, but they didn't get that so they're lashing out at everything they can.
>>143244115
Yeah man. That one 4000~ post 2chan thread had a good chunk of people pointing out how Machi got the Kamille end.
But the best part is how they when completely off the rails and talked about equally bad adaptations
>>143244023
The author had no problem with the ending just that one comment from Yoshio. But you and the 3 other retards who try to circlejerk it into some kind of tragedy are too delusional to reason with.
>>143243911
Its the context. We all know its supposed to be a lighthearted gag scene with Natsu and Machi happy together, but the scene with them before it and the changes they made to that ending scene kill the atmosphere and make it feel like something else.
The last bit we see of Machi is her having a freakout to the point where something snaps and she's dead eyed and defeated looking. Then comes the end scene.
In it she's talking in a more childish fashion and lighter voice than normal. She also doesn't seem to know what a tablet is despite seeing natsu use one multiple times over the series and refer to it as such. And they botched the Saito joke. In the manga Natsu says he ordered the cake from the Amazon website. Machi knows what the internet is, but not Amazon. This leads her to think someone called Mr. Saito delivered the cake from Brazil. The anime removed the amazon (most likely due to copyright) and Brazil bits, whivh just makes her sound like she doesn't know what the internet is at all.
This combined with the previous "broken" bit changes how the ending will be viewed by people. Honestly all that was needed was a short line of dialogue or something in the previous scene that shows Machi is okay. Have her ask for food or something, don't just show her limp and dead eyed being hugged and spun around by a bear.
The ending as it stands just makes it seem like something really is wrong with her and is difficult to take in a light hearted way.
>>143244231
The point was that Machi returned to her usual life in the village, as that scenes proves. She's no more retarded now than she was in the first episode.
>>143244274
There's no need for context in a two-page gag, though - people are just adding their own context to the scene due to how they felt about the episode. Just like someone in one of the past threads said that the Kumamiko-chan segments took place after she got mindbroken and all that and now it's suddenly a lot darker.
As for the scene's changes, the tablet part was probably an oversight while trying to change it (because of the Amazon thing) and it can be assumed that Machi never knew anything about the internet - she knows about Skype and wi-fi, but if she was never explained anything about those should could have easily assumed that they're unrelated.
I bet that even if the Amazon bit had made it in, people would still be saying that she became retarded.
>>143244274
No you're just trying to see it in a dark way because of your autism and desire to shitpost. Like one of those fags who retardedly thinks every manga is like their hentai and brings up "was she raped" whenever they can.
Was she raped?
Is this like Rebellion all over again, where desperate fanboys perform world records in mental gymnastics to justify plainly and objectively bad writing?
>>143244274
This is basically how I felt about the whole thing, though since I wanted a cute show about a country miko and a bear having fun I was disappointed only a few episodes in. The bullying turned me off right away. But the ending was just too depressing. I'm glad I didn't have to contribute to sales or viewership ratings by watching this. It really was just really drawn out mental (and sometimes even physical) abuse of a little girl. Even if I thought lighthearted bullying was cute this would be too much.
>>143244434
The last episode has no bad writing. It's just horribly depressing.
>>143244434
Rebellion is the only good thing to come out of Madoka.
Please stop bullying Machi :(
I just wanted a nice SoL
>>143244434
I'd say probably, given how everyone got so buttblasted over having their expectations broken that they can't stop coming up with reasons to hate the episode.
>>143244445
>It really was just really drawn out mental (and sometimes even physical) abuse of a little girl.
There is literally nothing wrong with this. Normalfags please die
>>143244434
Well thanks for proving the hurr she got mindbrokenfags are just shitposters. In case it wasn't already obvious.
>>143244479
You're trying too hard.
>>143243719
>anime gets obviously badly written/scripted shitty ending
>guize, it's a deconstruction
top kek
>>143244495
I'm serious. The people who are genuinely upset "muh comfy!!!!" need to fuck off.
>>143242020
She gets physically (and verbally) bullied by that yankee/blonde girl too
![[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 01 [480p].mkv_snapshot_21.33_[2016.04.10_19.47.44].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hiZaqEc.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 01 [480p].mkv_snapshot_21.33_[2016.04.10_19.47.44].jpg")
>>143244445
>Couldn't tell what kind of series it was in the first episode
Wow what a retard
>>143244538
Hibiki did nothing wrong
What's there to argue about? It wasn't bad because it was a bad end. It was bad because it was unfunny dragged out shit that pulled different parts of the manga and rammed it into this really shitty final arc that quite honestly a chore to watch.
The only funny part during that entire arc was Natsu screaming out to the gods about Machi by sheer virtue of how hilariously melodramatic it was.
I just feel so bad for Machi
>>143244547
First episode was and still is the best.
>>143244576
DJ Natsu was the peak of the series desu.
>>143242512
>when Asirpa recontextualizes her tribes whole belief system in order to get some whale meat
This manga really is something else. It's like Dorohedoro in that none of the main recurring cast are really a bad guy or a good guy. Everyone's broken in their own ways.
>>143244547
I figured it would have teasing and off-color jokes. I was cool with that. Right around when yankee started pulling her hair was when I started to rethink it a bit.
If this was just supposed to be bullying porn, then it's just not made for me. That's fine. I just wish I hadn't gotten lured in by the cuteness and humor.
KumaMiko proved that 'muh comfy'fags are cancer incapable of understanding what they're watching and then get butthurt like they were tricked.
>>143243719
You know, as some one who literally attending Philosophy 101 for a semester, I still don't fully understand what Jacques Derrida means with 'Deconstruction'.
>>143244627
The anime really stretched out the bullying scenes compared to the manga.
>>143244558
People argue because there are people crying and overreacting over 3 minutes of anime and won't shut up about it. It's fine if you think it's bad but why bother making threads crying the same shit every single day. Oh nevermind, we're on /a/ during summer season.
>>143244675
Philosophy 101 is only good for ethics.
>>143244685
Yeah, how dare anyone voice negative opinions on current anime?? Especially if I've heard that same negative opinion somewhere else. Fuck those guys. Promoting anime discussion on /a/ is the real cancer.
>>143244685
>Why is the final episode of a series that ended less than a week ago still getting threads?
Next week is the dead week between seasons too so expect more threads without the bulk of the new seasons shows to draw attention yet.
>>143244710
It's not a discussion. It's a circlejerk based on delusional headcanon about her getting mindbroken and having a bad/tragic ending.
>>143235618
>There. That's what she complained about, nothing to do with what happened at the end.
>But of course, ANN is a bunch of retards too so they found a way to criticize Machi giving up.
What the fuck do you think she CAN say? Thank's to the nature of the industry it's not like she can out right shit talk anyone. She either will want to get other works animated or wants to keep the connections.
The fact that she didn't even try to give it half hearted praise and instead just thanked the guys who have no say in it is a pretty big red flag
>>143244750
Do you have any idea what a circlejerk is?
Because a thread with both agreement and disagreement in various posts is not that, and no one in here is using trips, so I would love to know where you got that idea.
>>143244781
Wow first you guys go 2deep4u on Machi's ending and now you're doing to the author's comments
bravo, your retardation is supreme
I really like art in this anime.
Guess I won't be picking it up though.
>>143244819
The thread was created with the intent of starting a circlejerk like the previous threads over the ending. A couple of people coming here to tell you guys to fuck off already isn't a discussion on the anime.
>>143244858
Try it out if you like comedies about technologically incompetent people, because that's what most of the show is about. Don't go in expecting "comfy" however the fuck your personal definition of that is though or else you'll become like the people in here.
>>143244921
When you don't like a thread, you have several options:
1. Report the thread if it's against the rules
2. Hide the thread if it's simply something you dislike (aka an opinion that you just can't stand)
3. Shitpost
Now, I know option 3 is really quite appealing, but think of all the free time you would have if you just picked 1 or 2? All that time to watch anime, or read manga, or masturbate. The possibilities are endless.
>>143245199
He might be autistic, retarded and dense, but he's still a good guy who cares for his village deep down. I bet Hibiki can completely fix him just by using the good old rape.
>>143245004
Then we'd have an army of delusional faggots who haven't watched it but would parrot your retarded opinion. They wouldn't even follow the ANN link but assume the author hated it too and repeat it as well.
Delusional circlejerks are cancer and it must be checked.
It's amazing that people are defending this ending.
The only explanation I can think of is that they're weeaboos in the truest sense and think that every single that comes out of Japan is golden.
>>143245004
This is how cancer and generals start. Nobody says anything because it is not explicitly against the rules and the inbred community inside will flip shit up. Don't know why you would want that to happen on /a/ where people are allowed to tell others to fuck off and stop whining. Heck, even posts simply saying that OP is a faggot isn't as common anymore and people making shitty one-sided threads think /a/ is a safe space for their opinions to go uncriticised.
>>143243045
Berserks movies were utter dogshit compared to the source. Got me to reply 2/10.
>people defending a mindbreak end
What happened?
>Comfy show
>people expecting something more
>probably thought she would get hit by a truck when she got lost
>all this butt frustrated disappointment that it left off with the comfiest ending possible
Not everyone needs to go to high school. If you have found your place in society there isn't much need to change it. That being said we need to burn Yoshio at the stake.
>>143242848
Thats fucking hilarious.
Is it the last episode? I have to see this.
>>143245573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDQoHhSzbt0
>>143242848
Are the people who are mad at this SJWs? Sounds great to me. Machi is for bullying and abuse.
>>143234333
I know ANN is shit, but how can anyone be so far behind when your website has "news" in the title? It's just the same blog update from like 4 days ago, it's time to move on.
>>143245544
Fuck off retard.
Makes you wonder about all kinds of things. Was Yoshio really an innocent man. Was he just a dense idiot or was he a predator. Did he really not realize that jumping on a young girl to remove her clothes isn't normal or did he know exactly what he was doing?
Is he planning on becoming a cult leader? No one can hear Machi scream in the middle of the forest now.
>>143245231
>I bet Hibiki can completely fix him just by using the good old rape.
>implying she wouldn't just lay on her back motionless while he does his businesses
Hibiki is the shittiest tsundere I've seen in a while.
>>143245742
>SJWs
>>>/v/
>>143238661
>seiyuu and animators aren't virgins
So what you guys are saying is....this anime heroine is bluepilled as fuck?
>>143234333
Hi guys, I dropped this but I heard everyone is salty as fuck with the end so I'm curious. Summary please?
>>143234333
watamote episode 12 doesn't look that bad now doesn't it /a/
>>143246263
>pedo handler
>random transe/alternate personality moments
>hallucinations
>reverts to a toddler personality in the end
We're saying that she's an mk-ultra victim.
>>143246361
The girl went back to the forest with the predatory man and the possessive bear, never to be seen again. The end.
>>143237175
nice essay
>>143246443
>The girl went back to the forest with the predatory man and the possessive bear, never to be seen again. The end.
>>143242848
Fucked up but they played this as a comedy, right? I remember toons when I was a kid about people trying too hard and others warning them to stop. In the end they failed hard and stopped trying, realizing the people stopping them were right all along.
>>143246389
/a/ you can help me and my friend all over the internet right now to help watamote get a season 2.
you don't have to put up with a bullshit ending like you seen in kuma miko.
>>143246642
I will see you guys next week when I get watamote manga volume 2 and 3.
>>143234333
so it's an anime ending? how does the manga fare?
>>143234333
Nobody gets that the anime ending was Yoshio's Mind of Steel route, do they? He chose that he'd revitalize Kumade, no matter the cost. He's a hero.
>>143242037
>Any publicity is good publicity.
That's about the dumbest statement anybody has ever made.
>>143243911
I see the manga namedrops Amazon (what kind of retard would order cake there?). I dropped the show in part due to the heavy-handed product placement. How much worse is that aspect in the manga?
>bullying the miko by dressing her in idol slut outfits
ha ha, th-this isn't bullying, it's cute. and sexy.
>bullying the miko by having a delinquent yankee physically abuse her
ha ha, hi-hibiki doesn't mean it
>bullying the miko by forcing the socially anxious bean into terrifying public situations
i-i'd buy your nameko!
>mindbreaking the miko and having her accept it's her destiny to live alone on the mountain with a NEET bear
OH GOD WHY DIDN'T ANYONE STOP IT
ShindoL was the shadow scriptwriter for kumamiko
>>143246511
This is on "Tom and Jerry sit on the railroad tracks waiting to end it" level if we're talking about cartoons.
>>143247267
I think the big issue is we where all expecting to see her get the last laugh and overcome her troubles.
this like if the bad ending of Waynes World was the cannon one
>>143247349
>canon
>>143247349
Nobody was realistically expecting her to suddenly overcome her anxiousness and become a city girl. Self improvement, perhaps, but not fully overcoming it. Instead she completely regressed and gave up. The bullying broke her.
Best Cute Girl Suffering anime for awhile, 10/10.
>>143247527
until watamote season 2 come out.
>>143247688
>Tomoko
>cute
Disgusting.
I feel really bad for the mangaka. Getting an anime adaptation for your manga is supposed to be a happy time, it's got to be such a fucking let-down when they screw up.
He was gracious though in praising the animators for their hard work.
>>143242215
>a seiyuu is suspected of having done porn
Voicing hentai or doing actual porn?
>>143244675
and that's why you failed the course, try harder.
>>143243781
>Kumamiko is also supposed to promote Sendai
That reminds me how the best healing anime promotes fucking Canada of all places.
>>143247453
>Self improvement, perhaps, but not fully overcoming it.
I too was expecting some sense of self improvement. Glad to see im not the only one that thought the ending was horrible.
>>143248048
>Disgusting.
Poor Tomoko just needs a hug.
>>143243801
>Nips were literally having threads that broke past the 1000 post mark, 4000 post mark even.
I see 2ch is full of lolicons.
>>143243761
>They decided to stop the anime during the low point of the arc.
Best plan. This will make people want to know the continuation and read the manga.
>>143243964
>>143244023
I like it since people are so mad about it.
>>143245592
She looks healthy there.
>>143234333
>It made nobody happy
Is there a prerequisite a show has to make anyone happy or something? Just take it for what it is. The amount of drama that gets generated over this shit in Japan is insane.
>>143247267
Any link to those scenes on Youtube?
>>143234333
My dick was happy as heck.
>>143243570
holy meltdown
>>143235348
>>143235863
It actually was a good idea, just poor executed because it has no value if it's Yoshio who says it. It should have come from Machi or from Natsu, someone who had something to lose from Machi idoling. The problem is that Machi would have never said it, so they decide to use Yoshio.
>>143248583
Pretty much this. Though honestly, they should have just removed it completely and didn't try to make that part feel so serious.
Would have made the punchline flow better.
The ending brought conclusion to what the series was builing up to. The anime staff understood this work better than the mangaka herself. Also, it was entertaining.
>>143246036
Not seiyuu or animators, but the actual anime character. As in, fans were massively butthurt that a centuries-old goddess might have possibly dated someone in the past before meeting the MC and started a massive shitstorm over it. I trust otaku's reaction as much as I trust youtube comments.
>>143234333
IS THIS SHOW ANY GOOD OR JUST MOESHIT
>>143248744
>The anime staff understood this work better than the mangaka herself
Now that's hilarious.
>>143242848
Aots, and I'm not even kidding. Finally something not crammed with cliches.
>>143234333
>judging by a post on his Tumblr account
*her
Why don't they just remove the whole idol arc as some bad dream and just continue from there? I don't get why they have to burn the whole existence of it just because it left on a sour note?
>>143248974
If they are smart they will add a scene in a ova to show the the miko is fine now.
>>143248984
When I first saw the ending I felt like she would be fine since knowing how dumb she is. Machi will get over it because she saw something cool from the city which incited her to try again.
>>143234333
I honestly thought they will no worse than Keknaiver, Memeyoga and any variation of fujocrap this season.
>see this
AYYY
>>143242037
Just like Usagi Drop, am I right?
>>143238850
>Of course the author had approved of it, or at the very least, heard of it beforehand
Any reason why this is apparently a matter of course?
>>143237175
Do you know what it is called when some keeps trying at the same thing but keeps on utterly failing?
Incompetence
You might have seen this among the trash of society such as the poor, libcucks, socialist, welfare and entitlement queens, lgbt, niggers, spics, sandniggers, yellow niggers, and cowards.
>>143249157
I still don't understand why people are so mad about the ending to Usagi Drop.
She gets harassed and bullied throughout the rest of the series to the point where Nips were making shitload of porn about Machi getting abused, why is it suddenly wrong? Did they really want some Disney ending?
>>143249258
You don't rise a 6 years old girl just fuck to her when she grows up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APWDIpdJILQ
They treat the author like shit, what the fuck.
>>143249303
I bet half of /a/ would do exactly that if given the chance.
>>143249303
You don't. But it can't be helped if the girl wants you to be her husband.
>>143249314
Where does it get bad? I'm not watching all that shit
>>143249356
Read the comments.
>>143249258
I think that a lot of people didn't like how seriously the weirdness of is was presented. If it was a silly shounen romcom for guys they wouldn't have minded, but it was a somewhat serious josei story and people didn't like it.
Personally I am more annoyed at how the Kouki's mother disappeared without a real explanation, they should have formed a family.
>>143249314
The author is a guy?
this shit´s depressing, i even had it in my backlog, it was one of the cute lighthearted anime i save for when im extremely depressed. What the hell is this, fuck you whoever produced this, fuck the scriptwriter and the director. Fuck you, i just wanted something lighthearted.
>>143249314
They tell her something and she says "hai!" then laugh. It doesn't seem like they treat her bad.
>>143248744
But the mangaka never said anything about how the anime ending, the only point she criticized was Yoshio's line about the sacrifice. It's safe to assume that she was perfectly fine with it.
>>143249356
Basically the editor (?) is an asshole to the author and the nips call him out on it
>Pierre Sugiura, one of the anime's writers, deleted his Twitter account and removed Kumamiko from his Facebook resume. It was also deleted from his filmography on Wikipedia by an IP address from Aichi Prefecture — where Sugiura is from
Hah. Nice. I wonder how it feels for your subordinates when you do something like this, probably pretty bad though. The mangakas comments to the animators were nice and definitely deserved. The animation surprised me at times, like this amount of effort was being put into this really shallow thing. But then it wasn't as shallow as I thought and it didn't have the happy endinhg I expected either. Surprised me up until the end.AOTS
>>143249412
It was never cute and lighthearted. It was always sadistic shit about this girl getting bullied, tormented, and sexually harassed. I honestly don't know why people are pretending it was some comfy NNB type show that was ruined by a surprise ending.
>>143249412
>waaah, I just wanted something else, waah
Then look for something else and stop being upset. You need to be an adult to post on 4chan.
![[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_20.13_[2016.06.24_22.24.19].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Qmssse1.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_20.13_[2016.06.24_22.24.19].jpg")
Holy shit, this hit me harder than Shutter Island when Leo recognised reality but chose lobotomy because it would make life easier.
I never asked for this.
;_;
>>143249463
Maybe if you're an oversensitive normalfag you could be blind to Machi's cuteness, but thankfully most people in here aren't like that and they were able to the show for the comedy that it is.
So what're the chances that this show still sells well?
>>143242848
Damn, I heard that they kind of fucked up with their ending, but this....
>>143249536
Most people in here were offended by the ending.
>>143238765
>I don't understand why they keep doing this.
One theory was that Sendai was trying to use this anime to promote the town for tourisim. And the result is the changes that lead to the Idol arc that took place in Sendai. Except... Now I think I hate Sendai more than I used to before I knew this anime existed.
I wish that guy were right with his interpretation.
>>143249520
I still prefer the interpretation that he was right all along but driven to insanity. Anything else would also weaken the film.
>>143249545
Unfortunately quite low. People are too blinded by their rage to support this show all over the globe.
>>143249608
I doubt that most of the people in here are going to deny the fact that Machi is cute or that the show is a comedy (or at least tries to be one) though.
I'm just mad that the anime wasted it's last few episodes on unfunny idolshit.
![[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.23_[2016.06.24_22.31.13].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lN89HQD.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Kuma Miko - 12 [720p].mkv_snapshot_15.23_[2016.06.24_22.31.13].jpg")
These two girls could have been good friends with Machi.
They could have saved her, they could have had a SOL show with Machi in a city high school, helping Machi in her trials and tribulations.
Never ever.
;_;
>>143242848
>series ends with Machi seemingly mentally regressing to the personality of a 5 year old
Jesus Christ, why would you ever think this is a good idea?
>>143249398
The author is a woman.
>>143249356
It's just an overall thing. They basically tell her to be quiet and not talk.
>>143248194
Tomoko getting a hug was in the manga not like Kuma Miko.
>>143249640
If it was a comedy, it wasn't a very funny one.
