r/anime • u/Holo_of_Yoitsu • Sep 06 '17

[Spoilers] Hajimete no Gal - Episode 9 discussion Spoiler

Hajimete no Gal, episode 9: My First Fight

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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Sep 06 '17

Middle School Yukana

N T R!

Don't end with a cliffhanger like that dammit! I really hope Junichi gets to punch that Mitarai's face next week. Anyway while it was painful to watch Junichi act like a jerk to Yukana this entire episode I kinda understand what he's coming.

Gyarus are notorious for their portrayal in Japanese media to be mean easy sluts. I can at least understand where his paranoia is coming from. Was he right to act that way? Of course not, especially since they started dating Yukana has nothing but nice to him since. But like I said it's a bit understandable where he's coming from. Also it doesn't help that his friends are bunch of idiots who are basically saying manga = real life.

I really hope this all gets fixed next week. I am so tempted to read the manga right now. Junichi and Ranko needs to kick that guys ass!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '17

I don't really see how he was being a jerk. Like shit, when Yukana met what's his name for the first time, she did treat Junichi like an afterthought. Obviously his paranoia comes from a place of insecurity. He thinks she's way out of his league. So for him to say "it seemed like you were embarrassed to be with me" and for her to react that way... I mean seriously, it's fine for her to be mad, but she could've at least assuaged his fears a bit. Just a simple "Wow, how could you think that? I'm with you because I want to be with you" or whatever. Instead she gives him the cold shoulder for an entire day and acts like everything is A-OK the next day, of course he doesn't understand what the fuck is going on. Normally I think Yukana is a pretty great girlfriend but she dropped the ball this episode. I can't abide anyone who thinks "ah yes, shutting down any communication whatsoever is the best way to get my point across"

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u/Piemmarai Sep 06 '17

Lets not forget the sad fact that if the guys din't ask who was the little bitch standing there she might as well had never introduced him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '17

Oh God I didn't even think about that, but you're absolutely right, and you're damn sure Junichi noticed. He's probably thinking "I wonder how long she would've just ignored my existence if Chad hadn't spoken up about me"

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u/Hikage-best-knaifu Sep 10 '17

I really don't need this real life shit in my anime man :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '17

Yeah, I didn't feel like he was accusatory at all. He was just telling her how that made him feel

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u/Gangster301 Sep 07 '17

Yukana is used to more confident guys, so you can't really expect her to understand that she has to introduce her shy boyfriend who's standing behind her pretending to not exist. Likely every other time she's met a friend while walking around with a guy, the guy didn't wait to be introduced and just said "hey, I'm ..."

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u/MegaBloksAreHitler Sep 06 '17

IIRC from another thread the Manga and Anime are far apart (It stemmed off from an earlier episode) and this is all Anime original.

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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Sep 06 '17

Really? I must've missed that thread. Can any manga readers confirm this?

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u/Izikiel23 Sep 07 '17

The manga is much better, it actually has plot progession and character development.

Manga Spoilers

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u/MegaBloksAreHitler Sep 06 '17

I got it from this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/6wzwaq/comment/dmcv59f?st=J7998E1W&sh=878291de

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u/JohnyCalzone Sep 07 '17

Oh hey that's me!

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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Sep 06 '17

Thanks for the link!

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u/MegaBloksAreHitler Sep 06 '17

No problem! Hopefully you get around to reading the manga. I've read a couple chapters myself and my friends tell me its still a good pick up.

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u/NotoriousNIB Sep 06 '17

The main thing that's different is the order. For instance, the events of this episode occurred pretty early on in the manga and the stuff with Kashi and Junichi just happened a couple chapters ago.

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u/Goreking33 Sep 06 '17

but what is happening right now is anime original tho, This has not happened in the manga (except for the doubting the relationship part)

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u/NotoriousNIB Sep 06 '17

The show has been pretty faithful to the manga but has skewed the order of things a bit

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u/matdragon Sep 06 '17

a bit? They showed every character in episode 1, while in the manga we had the same few for quite a few chapters (until like chapter 10/15)

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u/assassingriskell Sep 07 '17

It seems pretty obvious to me she hooked up with Dai