Ge-ge-ge no nyobou 3/29
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mbarkerI'm not sure yet whether I'm going to watch regularly or not, but today was the start of the series, so I took a chance. This is the public television morning drama -- a daily 15 minute segment, six days a week, for six months. This particular one is a dramatization of the biography of the wife of a manga and anime artist, who created Ge-ge-ge no kitaro -- a comic about monsters, basically.
Today's episode started with a very short lead-in segment, where we saw the somewhat overbearing father talking to his daughter who is all dressed up about how to act at the upcoming meeting of the families to arrange her wedding. And a taxi pulls up outside the kimono store, and a well-dressed man and wife get out, with a young man. We see him take glasses out of his pocket and put them on to see the house, and we get a momentary flash of a false left hand. A funny bit with her peering through the slightly parted sliding doors, and him catching sight of a single eye peeking through the doors...
And it's time to cut to the series music, pictures, the whole little intro bit. This seems to indicate a mixture of live action and some anime -- we'll see.
Next, we see a young girl doing exercises with the other children. And when they get done, they line up to get a little card stamped. But her friend points out that she has a full card, so the man who leads the exercises gives her a little box of milk caramels.
She then goes home, where we find out that she is the youngest of three girls, with two brothers. One of the brothers is younger than she is. Father, mother, and grandmother fill out the house. And she tries to tell mother or grandmother about getting the milk caramels, and no one pays any attention to her. Until grandmother calls out, and hands her a large pot of miso to take out to the storage room.
She goes out to the storage room. It's appropriately dark and she thinks she hears something. There's a flash of clouds or darkness or something curling up above in the loft of the room. She backs out of the room, and Dad grabs her.
Next, they are all eating, and she is trying to tell anyone about the funny sound she heard. Again, no one listens.
She goes outside to talk to a neighbor. He has been in the next town, and she asks about her aunt, her mother's sister, that she likes very much. He isn't sure, but he doesn't think he has seen her in a week. The young girl decides that maybe the aunt is sick. And she remembers in a flashback her aunt giving her a box of milk caramels, telling her that they are good for her, and actually paying attention to her.
She asks the neighbor how to get to the other town, and he says just follow the road. It's about an hour and a half away. Then he puts a load in his house, and when he turns back, the little girl is gone.
She runs. We see her running past fields, yelling that she is going to see her aunt when people ask. And then in the neighboring town, she finds the store. The workers don't listen, but she goes around to the side and looks in a window. There's her aunt! But she looks healthy, she is working?
A clerk from the store asks her what she is doing, where is her father. She imagines him yelling at her for just disappearing, and hands the clerk the milk caramels, saying to give them to her aunt. She starts to run back, and nearly gets run down by a man with a cart.
Then she trudges back towards home.
Passing through a woods, she looks around at the trees. And she thinks she hears... footsteps, following her. She stops, spins around, and yells for whoever is there to come out. Nothing happens.
As she walks on, she could swear she hears footsteps. And then breathing. And in the magic of TV, there is a ghostly set of fat feet with straw sandals walking along behind her, and a set of teeth laughing...
To be continued.
That's where the show stopped. I'm not sure whether we'll get more of the meeting to arrange the wedding, or just pick up with the little girl and her ghosts and goblins, but they're both interesting.
Today's episode started with a very short lead-in segment, where we saw the somewhat overbearing father talking to his daughter who is all dressed up about how to act at the upcoming meeting of the families to arrange her wedding. And a taxi pulls up outside the kimono store, and a well-dressed man and wife get out, with a young man. We see him take glasses out of his pocket and put them on to see the house, and we get a momentary flash of a false left hand. A funny bit with her peering through the slightly parted sliding doors, and him catching sight of a single eye peeking through the doors...
And it's time to cut to the series music, pictures, the whole little intro bit. This seems to indicate a mixture of live action and some anime -- we'll see.
Next, we see a young girl doing exercises with the other children. And when they get done, they line up to get a little card stamped. But her friend points out that she has a full card, so the man who leads the exercises gives her a little box of milk caramels.
She then goes home, where we find out that she is the youngest of three girls, with two brothers. One of the brothers is younger than she is. Father, mother, and grandmother fill out the house. And she tries to tell mother or grandmother about getting the milk caramels, and no one pays any attention to her. Until grandmother calls out, and hands her a large pot of miso to take out to the storage room.
She goes out to the storage room. It's appropriately dark and she thinks she hears something. There's a flash of clouds or darkness or something curling up above in the loft of the room. She backs out of the room, and Dad grabs her.
Next, they are all eating, and she is trying to tell anyone about the funny sound she heard. Again, no one listens.
She goes outside to talk to a neighbor. He has been in the next town, and she asks about her aunt, her mother's sister, that she likes very much. He isn't sure, but he doesn't think he has seen her in a week. The young girl decides that maybe the aunt is sick. And she remembers in a flashback her aunt giving her a box of milk caramels, telling her that they are good for her, and actually paying attention to her.
She asks the neighbor how to get to the other town, and he says just follow the road. It's about an hour and a half away. Then he puts a load in his house, and when he turns back, the little girl is gone.
She runs. We see her running past fields, yelling that she is going to see her aunt when people ask. And then in the neighboring town, she finds the store. The workers don't listen, but she goes around to the side and looks in a window. There's her aunt! But she looks healthy, she is working?
A clerk from the store asks her what she is doing, where is her father. She imagines him yelling at her for just disappearing, and hands the clerk the milk caramels, saying to give them to her aunt. She starts to run back, and nearly gets run down by a man with a cart.
Then she trudges back towards home.
Passing through a woods, she looks around at the trees. And she thinks she hears... footsteps, following her. She stops, spins around, and yells for whoever is there to come out. Nothing happens.
As she walks on, she could swear she hears footsteps. And then breathing. And in the magic of TV, there is a ghostly set of fat feet with straw sandals walking along behind her, and a set of teeth laughing...
To be continued.
That's where the show stopped. I'm not sure whether we'll get more of the meeting to arrange the wedding, or just pick up with the little girl and her ghosts and goblins, but they're both interesting.
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wedding interview?
Date: 2010-03-29 10:02 am (UTC)This is the meeting between the families for an arranged wedding. Often this would be the first time that the individuals would see each other. Sometimes there would be a matchmaker involved, but often it would simply be the two families arranging things. And they very well may have biographies and other materials to go over together.
This is apparently what the show started with.
Re: wedding interview?
Date: 2010-03-30 12:17 am (UTC)Re: wedding interview?
Date: 2010-03-31 06:32 am (UTC)