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Old 14th June 2020, 10:09 AM
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Ep. 4 is up https://blitzfansub.com/m-ai-subeki-...ite-episode-4/

According to Blitz Fansub on Twitter: "M is back! Episode 4. The news is that much of the script was rewritten during the haitus, and the screenwriter removed significant amount of Reika in the second half of the series."

Wasn't the biggest fan of her character in the first place so I'm quite happy with the decision. She was only added to stir things up so it's not like she needs to be in it that much anyway.
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Old 14th June 2020, 05:33 PM
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This episode sucked. Now the series is just Masa fighting against everyone for Ayu to be taken seriously and Reika being a psycho while Ayu is standing awkwardly in the background.
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Old 15th June 2020, 12:51 AM
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This episode sucked. Now the series is just Masa fighting against everyone for Ayu to be taken seriously and Reika being a psycho while Ayu is standing awkwardly in the background.
I couldn't agree more. It's been the worst episode by far... It looked like Reika was the main character
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^this lol Sometimes I even think they tried to make a comedy. I never disliked a character that much as I do with Masa’s. Just ew.

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Old 14th June 2020, 06:17 PM
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The fictional reika is annoying. She really don’t need to be there. Ayu seems to be like a puppet that is dictate fully by masa
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Old 14th June 2020, 09:06 PM
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They have to stop filming again due to covid infections rising again in Tokyo, and they’re unable to secure additional filming time from all the actors involved due to schedule conflicts, meaning it could be cancelled or postponed for a “season 2” type of thing.
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Old 14th June 2020, 09:21 PM
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It was nice to hear Kalen actually sing poker face!
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^ I saw a piece of information that the cast and the screenwriter of the show gave an interview on Tokyo FM radio how they had finished recording the last chapter.
I enjoyed episode 4. Aside from some very few flaws, this show has kept giving me a good time! And to me, the less Reika the better
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Old 15th June 2020, 12:07 AM
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It'll probably end up being like how some anime end up split into multiple cour per season so there'll probably be more later.
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I don't really get the whole "Oh, Masa fighting against everyone for Ayu to ve taken seriously" thing... She was a nobody whose producer was investing a lot more than a label should based on a hunch.

It's not like Ayu could do much more other than working hard. You can't make a power move yourself when you have no power to begin with...
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^ Except in the show she is not working hard at all. She is just shown as a naive girl who can’t do sh#t by herself.

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In this last episode, she is shown to be emotionless while singing in the studio for poker face, then Masa comes in and tells her to sing as if she was singing to the person she wrote the song for and thanks to him she manages to sing properly.

Then because of her naive ass, Rika managed to get her sick and she is shown failing to sing in front of a producer because she has a fever. Instead of showing her determination (I thought she would end up trying as hard as she can to sing despite her condition, showing how determined and hard working she is), she just gives up and is being yelled at by Max for being unprofessional. So, in this episode, hard work is NOT the term to describe Ayu.
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^ Except in the show she is not working hard at all. She is just shown as a naive girl who can’t do sh#t by herself.

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In this last episode, she is shown to be emotionless while singing in the studio for poker face, then Masa comes in and tells her to sing as if she was singing to the person she wrote the song for and thanks to him she manages to sing properly.

Then because of her naive ass, Rika managed to get her sick and she is shown failing to sing in front of a producer because she has a fever. Instead of showing her determination (I thought she would end up trying as hard as she can to sing despite her condition, showing how determined and hard working she is), she just gives up and is being yelled at by Max for being unprofessional. So, in this episode, hard work is NOT the term to describe Ayu.
The episode depicted Ayu in such a bad light. She seem to be someone without any form of potential to be a star (no effort, nothing). And masa is the one that seeem to aggressively want to make her a superstar. (And everyone thinks that he invest so much in Ayu is cos he is blinded by love)

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Old 17th June 2020, 09:17 AM
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@attractive nausea Ayu herself said more than once she didn't realize she actually enjoyed being q singer until Dearest... She is pretty much being portrayed as someone with zero experience in the industry dealing with lack of trust on herself... What fits the official story of her beginings...



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I want to watch next episode so bad we still don't get to A Song for XX

At least for me ep.3 and ep.4 were the most fun to watch
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We can’t deny that MAX really pushed Ayu when she made her debut !Nothing wrong with this but let’s be real she was a nobody and her sales were rather bad in comparaison to a lot of her contemporaries who debuted at the same time. Notheless she was invited to perform at prestigious TV shows and was able to make commercials for well known brands of course it thanks to him. Max and Ayu also stated that a lot of channels producers back then didn’t believed in her potential and succes so I don’t think this episode was wrong at all.

On a side note I observed that even though her name and character are not in the drama they make reference to namie Amuro quite a bit when they talk about the trend of taned girls or that tanned girls are what is selling today or that Ayu is too pale etc...
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Even though I have my issues with Kalen's acting, I think some people are conflating the ayu we know today to who ayu was back then... which was a nobody. Having her start from zero leaves room for personal growth later on in the series.
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Reika is getting her own spinoff, "L -Reika no Shinjitsu-" starting next week.
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Reika is getting her own spinoff, "L -Reika no Shinjitsu-" starting next week.
Oh... my... god... so unexpected I can't believe it but I'm glad because I saw the billboards and she looked so prominent, now she has her own space
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