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[Shintou (#31788)]

 We could be related, but we could be strangers

[Freddy C (#31563)]

LOL!!! i pointed this out explictly in my review of OT, yes yes it was one of the most cheesy thing about OT, i just cant help to think that is this done delibrate to extremly highlight the point that they might be....etc or did they just run out of ways to end or continue a conversion between characters so they just bunged this in?

[Wizard-of-Oz (#21859)]

I actually think that that saying was what made me completely dislike that series. That and the constant talk of incest. Nasty stuff.

[ToxoT (#82125)]

Well I guess I am the only one who disagree with it. The saying might sound a bit cheesy after say 3 or 4 episode but it's there to constantly or deliberally remind the audience their current relationship since some viewer CANNOT connect with the story or the mood of the character. If you actually connected with the story and the character which means not watching the story as an audience or outsider but more as the character in the situation you probably wouldn't dislike that quote. I don't think you'll even realize they said that quote . That's how it was for me anyways. And I think that's probably why there are very few anime that I either hate/dislike or neutral, since most of them actually had good story.

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

[cranston (#84421)]

Gotta agree with Ken 100%.

[Yabin Suzunashi (#87839)]

I was a little annoyed by the repetition of that relative-or-stranger juxtaposition, as if those were the only choices. And, indeed, it turns out that the girl who isn't his sister was their childhood friend.

But, in the course of my erratic language studies, I found a relevant feature of the Japanese language that goes a long way toward explaining it. It's one of those us/them dichotomies that you find in every culture. In this context, everybody is classified and labeled with a word that we can easily translate as "relative", or with another that is most simply translated as "stranger", but would be more precisely translated as "anyone not recognized as a relative", regardless of any other connection.

[Thomas(akaTammo) (#57694)]

But Yabin... after all... we could be family! *starts to gaze at Yabin with big teary eyes, suddenly shifts, like struck by a totally new and UNEXPECTED idea* But!!!! We could be strangers!

Yeah, precisely. I must say, Yabin, I recomend You greatly the lecture of review done by Kaj on this series.

Link

Especially the part about that line... :-)

[charn (#40191)]

[cranston (#84421)]

[Yabin Suzunashi (#87839)]

I finally followed that link to Kaj's review. (Gee, Kaj, don't hold back; tell us what you really think!)

Toward the end of his review, Kaj asked what gives with Matagu's nosebleeds. The answer is simple: it's a conventional usage in manga and anime, at least partly influenced by Japan's century-old anti-abscenity laws. A nosebleed is the standard euphemistic substitute for an erection.

Matagu gets nosebleeds all the time because he's a frustrated letch.

[xin (#102823)]

As with elfen lied and FMA, this one had a lot of recurring phrases as a boost to its theme. Im on episode 5, and i think this is a marginal anime. Perhaps better than green green tv, cause at least it has some trace of suspense. I'm enjoying it enough to finish

[cranston (#84421)]

[shadowfox (#102560)]

On the whole I actually enjoyed Onegai Twins more than Onegai Teacher ... even though I gave it a lower rating overall ...

Despite someone somewhere saying that it was impossible to connect to the characters in any way, I found this to be miles from the truth ... Despite one or two flaws this was a very good series.

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

[shadowfox (#102560)]

A lot of people seem to have a huge problem with the whole incest thing ... people ... incest is defined as sexual relations between two closely related people ... none of that actually happens in Onegai Twins.

I know Karen spends a lot of time holding on to Maiku - think about it this way:
Here is a girl who's single lifelong wish was to meet the brother in the photo. So now she's 16, she's met him - had I been in a similar situation I wouldn't let my sibling go either. Put that together with the fact that she does love him - come on guys, get past the whole incest thing (I think some people are a bit obsessed about that) and look at the whole story for what it is.

[cranston (#84421)]

[shadowfox (#102560)]

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

[cranston (#84421)]