氷菓: Week 9 Discussion

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Week 9

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Start Date: Mar 7th
Last week: Week 8
Next Week: Week 10

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What’s the name of Chitanda-san’s oji-san? I forgot the reading…

Edit: Sekitani Jun! 関谷純

Not to be mixed with his name in the live action movie
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@Sylph Could you add his name in the proper noun list in the home thread? :slightly_smiling_face:

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Ah, I was gonna bring that up when we got this far.

I mean like, whyyy? I read a review of this movie that someone posted saying “ugh, the director’s so stupid - the tone accent on ‘Fukube’ is ‘FUkube’ not ‘fuKUbe’” or whatever, and all I could think of was “you’re gonna pick on the speck in Fukube’s eye while ignoring the plank in Sekitani’s eye?”

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Done! (please check I got it right)

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I just finished this before uploading the new week and I have to say it looks like it finally got interesting. Just hoping it continues like that and doesn’t do a ハルヒ and continue with something random and not relevant to the main mystery (I’m assuming that’s what this is).

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That’s of course very subjective, but for me it felt consistent after it finally became interesting. ^^

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Does anyone actually know what the saying means?

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狡兎死して走狗煮らる。
When the enemy is defeated, the victorious soldiers can be killed off/ when the numble rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked.

I kind of get it but not really. In other words, I just don’t get it.

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I guess “when you’ve accomplished your goal, you can throw away the tools that helped you get it”.