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Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! / Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! episode 1
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i just finished Hoshiai no Sora. and wtf.
i get it, they were supposed to have 24 ep, fine. but to finish it like that and then kind of “ask” the audience to help? idk it feels like a dick move. i feel cheated as a viewer. having half of a show, is like getting half movie, then telling you to help them to publish the rest hour of the movie, and then pay more for it.
i would not mind if it was and open ending, i really wouldn’t it will be amazing open ending, but the fact they turning to the audience, saying: we have the second half, if you want it, come and help us!
i am not saying it’s now a great anime, it is. having a queer characters and taking about it so openly is amazing, and the moments where they did play and train was cute. showing domestic violence is impotent as well (although i think they took it to a bit of the extreme) and what it can do to a kid (more nao and toma, less end!maki, which could happen of course).
i do love the anime, but they pulled a dirty at the end and i dont like it.
It’s a “dick move” that the animators and crew who worked so hard on the show and getting told so late in the stages of production that their show was getting axed, decided to tell the story they believed in instead of having to go back and completely rework their entire show and waste all their effort? A story that they poured so much work and heart into, to bring to viewers under the premise of 24 episodes, to try and cram a mediocre spark notes version of the story into 12 eps?
They got backstabbed by corrupt figureheads and are asking for support from who’s willing to give it.
**I do not mean to come off so upset over an anime but when the industry is constantly plagued by so much BS from the people on top while the little guys who actually put in all the work get screwed over and overworked, it just becomes tiring.
Hoshiai no Sora Official Campaign
As you guys must have seen in this post, Hoshiai no Sora was supposed to be a 24-episode series, but due to a last-moment decision, it was cut to half (which is why the “ending” doesn’t seem like an ending at all). The director decided to leave the story as it was because it would be too much to cram into just 12 episodes, and the animators would like to deliver the rest of the story, but for that, they need feedback. And this is where we come in.
As I have mentioned, right now, a campaign is happening on Twitter and the official site. It’s a three-part campaign, which started when the anime began airing, and it’s currently in its third stage. The campaign will last until the 31st and is mainly about giving your impression of the series and choosing your favorite scene. There will also be a lottery with everyone who participates, and the prize for the people who participate in the last stage is a poster autographed by the cast, as well as one of the script librettos autographed by Toyonaga Toshiyuki, Satou Keisuke, Amasaki Kouhei and Kobayashi Yuusuke.
Here’s how to participate:
On Twitter, all you have to do is tweet your impression of the series. They also ask the fans to introduce Hoshiai no Sora to their own followers. I think people who don’t know Japanese can tweet in their native language, but I advice using Google Translate if you can.
In the official site, there’s a button that takes you to this page, which your adblock might warn you against, but it’s totally safe to disable it temporarily. There, you have to fill the boxes to answer a small enquete. All the fields are obligatory. You put your handlename in the first box, select your gender in the second (the options are “male”, “female”, “other” in this sequence), type your age in the third and select the scene you want in the fourth. There are images of five scenes from each episode identified by episode number and letters, so you just have to search in the box for the number of the episode and the letter that represents your preferred scene. Further down is a small box where you can write a short comment, and above it you have to check whether it includes spoilers (left side) or not (right side). The last box is where you put your Twitter username, if you want to take part in the lottery. Then press the button at the bottom and it’s sent!
To everyone out there, even the people who aren’t in this fandom, please consider doing this. The studio is betting all the time, money and hard work that they spent in making 24 episodes for almost three years into the series by ending it like that and making this appeal. They deserve our support, if nothing else.
Good luck to everyone who will participate in the lottery, and please boost this if you can!
In light of what happened,
Hoshiai no Sora has set the bar for a whole generation of slice-of-life and sports anime, and I’ll keep applauding it until I die. Even if we don’t get a second season, I’ll keep cheering for this wonderful staff, cast and director to keep delivering us the good stuff.
Also, with all that’s happened, I don’t ever want to see edgy antis in my inbox again screaming at me every time I talk about issues in the anime industry and trying to convince me that I’m just talking off my ass simply because they want to believe that they’re consuming “““progressive””” material instead of looking at the real situation of the business and the way it drives creators to the edge.
The current scene of anime production nowadays is extremely grim. So grim that anyone who tries to do things like Akane Kazuki and make a realistic series with present-time issues, rejecting fanservice and looking down on adults for neglecting their role of nurturing the next generations in favor of pretending that they’re doing what’s right, gets this kind of disrespectful treatment.
You’re not a bad anime fan for acknowledging that the anime industry is full of bullshit. If anything, you’re supporting creators who want to break this vicious cycle by doing that. There’s a lot of fakeness and so much shady stuff going on in it that most of you probably can’t even begin to imagine the true dimension of the issue.
It’s okay to criticize and make noise. Just remember to be constructive. Your favorite animators really need that push.
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Hoshiai no Sora and the focus on dysfunctional family relationships
One of the major complaints I’ve noticed that people have about this show is the heavy focus on the very unhealthy relationship the majority of our soft tennis boys has with their family, particularly their parents. People find that it’s either too dramatized, unrealistic or too heavy handed to be introduced to these issues in each episode.
While I see some validity in the fact that many of us didn’t expect to have such heavy topics presented in our deceivingly chill sports anime about soft tennis, I think a lot of these complaints are shortsighted. After the first episode scene with Maki’s dad, it becomes very clear that this anime was gonna be tackling some very heavy subject matter. And as each eps goes by and we learn more about our characters, we’re introduced to such a variety of very real issues that affect so many people, maybe even ourselves. Abusive parents both physically and mentally, helicopter parenting, parents who don’t support their child’s dreams, kids struggling with their gender/sexual identity and parents being non-supportive of that, adopted kids insecurities and so on and so forth.
Yes, that’s a lot. Yes it’s ambitious. Yes the sport is not the main focus. But that’s the story that the creators of the show are using this anime medium to tell. The story of these very real life familial problems that have drawn these characters together to find the comfort, companionship and support in each other that they so desperately lack at home. These are middle school aged kids and there are so many issues that kids this age deal with in all walks of life. And this story chooses to focus on family relationships. And they’ve been telling that story with so much care and nuance. Either it resonates with you or it doesn’t. Either way, that’s valid, but I think it’s important to acknowledge, that these are very real issues that they’re tackling and it’s not as simple as “why does every parent suck that’s so lazy and unrealistic”. I only wish they had more episodes to flesh out these stories but I am anxious to see how they choose to wrap everything up.
“Is it that important to decide between being a man or a woman? Or does it even matter? Is it strange to worry about that sort of thing? I mean, there’s people out there who do. You can’t understand a pain of the heart you don’t feel. But I think you can imagine the pain at least. I don’t force myself to understand. But I think it’s good to put myself in their shoes.”
I’m hearing so many good things about this week’s Hoshiai no Sora episode and its respectful and intelligent tackling once again of lgbt issues. Something that rarely ever happens in anime far less a sports anime. Can’t wait to watch it in a bit but my god this show is so special.
“By the way, Maki. You’ve got incredible reflexes! Did you do any sports?”
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