Okay, my prediction the episodes would alternate between each of the four main characters was wrong. This was pretty much an Emily-episode as well, but nevertheless, it was a beauty, mostly because of the introduction of another character: John. He lives in a cottage on the grounds of the farm of the new moon, though he seems to have managed to claim it as his own property. Furthermore, he hates Elizabeth; if I had to guess then he’s one of her younger brothers as well, though I’m not sure.
In any case, at first Emily easily becomes friends with him, due to the fact that they both hate Elizabeth. His impression of her also was truly brilliant. It’s not often that in anime, characters do impressions of each other, strangely enough. Still, it works great, especially when the more serious characters are copied. I can really understand why Emily almost couldn’t hide her laugh when she talked to Elizabeth later on.
On a side-note, by the way, the trees already looked great during the summer, but now that the autumn has arrived, they really look beautiful, with their wide ranges of colours.
Anyway, back to John, he may be a nice guy, he also goes too far at times, and he clearly doesn’t know when to stop when he plays a prank, by leaving a note near a basket of apples which says that these were meant to get rid of the mice. When Emily came to his house after having a fit with Elizabeth (which resulted in her, burning her own notebook), she ate these apples without noticing this note only after about a minute. Because of this, she really believed that she was going to die.
While Emily definitely was a bit annoying at this, I can definitely see a little girl getting tricked by this. Especially since Emily is overly poetic, and she already was really angry and lost sight of her emotions when she ate these apples. She’s really become a unique character. Most characters of her age in anime are totally different, and she really shows the difference between Japanese storytelling, where you often see characters act more polite, and western storytelling, where characters are more often to speak their minds.
Still, the best part was when everyone found out that Emily was going to die. Perry got extremely worried, while Elizabeth immediately understood that John played another prank of his. When Elizabeth went to his house and actually told him this, he never really realized that this was his fault, and he never thought of apologizing. All he did was yell at Elizabeth. I believe that with this episode, this anime really showed that it knows what it’s doing. I’m hooked; it’s just too bad that so little people are watching this as well, due to the lack of good subs… the fansubbers seem to have something against shoujo-anime…]]>
Kaze no Shoujo Emily – 06
I think it’s more like the fansubbers have something against ‘classical animes’ like this instead =/ Someone from Shinsen-subs refused to take this as a project because they found it ‘boring’ T__T Perhaps C1ANime will have more chance to work on this, after they finish up their current classics project 🙂
And regarding this episode… I found Emily’s reactions somewhat exaggerated too, but that can’t be helped due to the lack of sense of judgment from her ‘depression’.
I thought of John as a comic relief at first, but ended up being disappointed with his close-mindedness, especially with the lack of guilt or remorse over what he did to Emily. He was still taking it as a joke, when it already wasn’t… much worse, his hatred for Elizabeth was enough for him to cut down the beautiful trees in his place! T__T but once again, this is going to make room for some development regarding John’s character, and I am hoping that Emily will somehow defend her aunt against him in the next episode 🙂
Nah, the shoujo-thing is something I’ve been noticing for a while, and Kaze no Shoujo Emily confirmed it. If you take a look at past seasons:
Les Miserables – Three episodes subbed, no more.
Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club – Two episodes subbed, no more.
Shoujo Chang Geum no Yume – Two episodes subbed, SIX MONTHS after its original airdate.
Kirarin Revolution – Two episodes subbed.
Hitohira – Currently stuck at episode 1.
Kamichama Karin – Currently stuck at episode 3.
Futago Hime – Five episodes subbed, no more.
All these shoujo-anime are neglected, no matter what their quality is, while some shounen-garbage actually gets subbed more often. At times, I’m getting really annoyed with this.
About John, I can see him and Emily making friends quite quickly, due to their “hate” for Elizabeth. He’ll indeed become quite interesting in future episodes.
Emily needs to be more polite too. She is not a unique character, she’s downright naughty and annoying.