WOTAKOI EP1 REACTION [early access]
Added 2023-09-14 12:43:46 +0000 UTCthat last scene though what the HELLLL .... very excited to watch more of this 😭
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You are right when you say its part of the culture. Once you are in the work force over there, you are expected to be the good worker bee and work yourself nearly to death for the company. If you leave a job before you work there 10 years, you are a 'job' hopper. My one friend left his job after 25 years and his boss told him, "If I had known you were going to only work here 25 years, I would have hired someone else". He told me that he and most his friends look back on their college days and back further into being kids as an almost magical time where they actually had freedom lol. That probably explains why most anime is set in that age range. Violet Evergarden is perhaps not the best example of suspending disbelief though. I can think of a lot more anime that requires greater disbelief (teenage magician with the ability to obliterate a whole nation with a single spell, for example). While we may not like to think about it, but I know their have been and are child soldiers in this world who have stood toe to toe with adults in war (sadly). All in all, that line of thought gets a bit depressing so I will leave it at that.
C. Davis
2023-09-19 14:12:22 +0000 UTCYeah wotakoi,, next watch relife, beyong the boundry and chuunibyouu please :3
MhdAfi
2023-09-17 12:40:22 +0000 UTCThe one thing that I've always thought is absurd about anime is that the vast majority of the time the characters are all powerful and save the world in their teens, and then that's it, life is over, you suck after that. There is no training somebody from a baby to a teenager as a killer, and then thinking they are superior to somebody in their 20's/30's doing the same thing, especially men who don't even hit a strength peak until into those ages. You truly have to suspend you belief for anime like Violet Evergarden thinking she can take on grown male soldiers as a child. But hey, I've been doing it for a long time now. Sometimes I just wish they would move on from focusing on teenagers at least from time to time. I know that's part of the culture as well, it just seems like a ludicrous thought process. I also grew up loving Marvel and DC, and the ages of those characters makes more sense. Nobody in their right mind is going to leave the fate of the world to teenagers, or let them make world saving decisions, because no matter what story you make up for them, they don't have the wisdom to or experience to do it.
Argentos
2023-09-16 04:33:49 +0000 UTCOne of the better things about adult relationships is that there is COMMUNICATION (mostly). For example Hirotaka just came out and said that he wanted to try a relationship with her.
Red UwU
2023-09-16 02:51:40 +0000 UTCThe term otaku preexisted the terrible incident, but it unfortunately became a household lingo because of what this one guy did. A little story: I once met some deaf people in Japan, and they asked me what my hobbies were. My sign language vocab was too limited to explain, so I just fingerspelled otaku (オタク). They started laughing and then taught me the JSL sign for otaku, which is actually a sign for "enthusiast." I liked the positive take. :)
jacksan1
2023-09-15 16:33:59 +0000 UTCwoootakoooiiii
Sean Espiritu
2023-09-15 15:15:24 +0000 UTCNice I didn't know the history of otaku (too bad it started off so negatively...) thanks for the explanation!
Dennis
2023-09-15 06:13:12 +0000 UTCVERY happy to see that you’re reaction to the show is exactly like I hoped it would be. I’m actually re-reading the manga along with watching your reactions. I love these characters a lot 😅
Jordan Landry
2023-09-14 23:27:08 +0000 UTCWotakoi is god tier romance
Kageyama86
2023-09-14 23:12:02 +0000 UTCchildhood friends always lose tho in the majority of harem/romance animes.
BROB
2023-09-14 21:58:39 +0000 UTCThe opening is one of the cutest I’ve seen!
keniskandar
2023-09-14 19:17:00 +0000 UTCThe best thing about the Patreon is early content. The worst thing is you gotta wait for the next episode. 🥲🥲. Glad you’re liking the show so far. It’s so hard to find non high school romance
Justin Navarrete
2023-09-14 18:40:06 +0000 UTCNifuji’s design and the smoking…. Lives in my mind rent free … then he double it down with the rizz at the last scene 🫣 offering you to level up in games as a form flirting, truly an e-dater move 😂😅
halfeldian
2023-09-14 17:18:09 +0000 UTCIndeed.
Luis Arispe
2023-09-14 17:01:43 +0000 UTCSaekano is goated. The movie was ...chef's kiss.
The Smiling Titan
2023-09-14 16:55:07 +0000 UTCForgot how much I enjoyed this anime! I actually have the manga set sitting on my shelf so this rewatch will probably be my incentive to bust them out. Otakus as far as I’m aware is something that you tend to not reveal about yourself in Japan. It’s not the most attractive trait for ‘general people’. Things could be a lil different now but the divide of normies and otakus is very much a thing there. Also that OP is iconic that I’m surprised you didn’t recognize the lil dance the 4 do. It’s used ALOT for edits and such.
Sacha
2023-09-14 16:39:42 +0000 UTCArisa Date cv: Narumi pitched up the voice quite a bit for this role. Her base voice sounds her real age (early 30s). A little trivia about this VA: She is an established professional mahjong player. At the infancy of this term (80's), it was always spelled オタク (otaku). Then, ヲタク (pronounced as otaku, which intentionally violates the rule of never using を・ヲ at the beginning of a word) emerged, presumably to break out of a rather depressing and strongly pejorative impression of the word otaku in the earlier years (the term first became famous due to horrible murder involving multiple children). ヲタこい(wotakoi) by the sound does not mean anything in particular. Many people write this as ヲタ恋 (that is how it's written inside the pink heart of the ED credit) with the same pronunciation which then means "otaku romance."
jacksan1
2023-09-14 16:27:44 +0000 UTCI'm glad that you like this show. It was a breath of fresh air when it aired in the sea of high school romcoms. I have a confesion to make. I'm Hirotaka. I'm a 50 year old gamer otaku and I'm proud of it....HA HA. Also...Saekano reference alert!!!.
Luis Arispe
2023-09-14 16:00:15 +0000 UTCIt's refreshing to see a romance anime where they get together in the first episode
Matt Brock
2023-09-14 15:58:20 +0000 UTCthere are adults in real life that have higher pitch/childish voice, so id say it's pretty normal
ジェイス「 j a c e 」
2023-09-14 15:31:19 +0000 UTCthis is gonna be a JOURNEY
ジェイス「 j a c e 」
2023-09-14 15:30:34 +0000 UTCIt would be criminal if you didn't watch the 3 OVA's so here's hoping you do.
xACOLYTEz
2023-09-14 14:57:59 +0000 UTCThe only thing I didn't like about this anime (and it is relatively minor) is that the VAs feel somewhat off... Like the VA for the MC sounds like a child... Is it just me getting caught on this? Oh well I can get past it, then story is really good and engaging. Also, fun fact, the name of the anime wotakoi is a play on (w)otaku (using the obsolete syllabary for wo which has a silent w and is pronounced o) and koi, which means love. So otaku-koi! It is explained in the manga. From my understanding wotakoi doesn't mean anything in itself, but I could wrong.
Dennis
2023-09-14 14:06:50 +0000 UTCYeah I think you'll vibe with this one waaaay more. Been awhile since I watched this forgot how cute it is
Lawlach
2023-09-14 13:32:56 +0000 UTCThere`s 11 episodes and 3 ova that you can watch.
Budoy
2023-09-14 13:17:45 +0000 UTCIt’s been a minute since I watched this. I forgot they had buddy playing Monster Hunter 😂🤣
Jason Green
2023-09-14 13:12:04 +0000 UTCdidn't realise the name of this one but it's actually so good
cunjur
2023-09-14 13:10:31 +0000 UTCLegend 🔥
Shehan
2023-09-14 13:04:13 +0000 UTC
