
I’m crying while working, remembering my kind grandmother; this is my diary.
I laughed while crying, it was painful.
Don’t call it an App Hotel.
Some viewers might have cried remembering the funeral that was so particular to them.
Me too.
Grandma’s return makes my emotions all mixed up.
Bunbuku’s emotions are generally correct.
I thought my grandmother would reveal that she hasn’t met Yachiyo at the time of her death, but it seems these raccoons are still keeping it a secret.
APA Hotel and Apo Hotel are the same.
I don’t know if I should cry, laugh, or make a joke; tears start to come out.
I might want a book or pamphlet with Yachiyo-san’s face on it.
The entrance music has a Japanese-style arrangement.
Isn’t that just chanting?
Is it a good story, I wonder?
It’s not that I want to hide it, but there isn’t any reason to say it either.
Everyone thinks their funeral should be something like this.
It’s more reassuring to leave knowing you’re enjoying it rather than being sad!
The problem isn’t holding a funeral in a cheerful manner.
It’s because we’re doing it at the same time as the wedding that I get lost.
>>17Furthermore, a cutting magic for a color change, bam!
After this, the groom and bride will change outfits, and it was no good because Grandma is also changing her costume.
Could it be that the reason emotions get lost is because there’s a funeral being held at the hotel?
Because there are weddings at hotels, but no funerals.
>>20It’s because there are silly costumes and the cutting magic act by the friend representative inserted between the emotional stories!!
Why did you mix it!!!
The specialty is Apocurry with a large picture of Yachiyo-chan on the package.
Body dismemberment magic is quite an out there type of party trick, but…
Considering that Yachiyo is a robot, it’s a borderline safe line.
I only responded to the needs of the customers.
By the way, even after passing away, they don’t revert to their raccoon form.
>>26I thought it was a prank with a fake death since you wouldn’t come back, but I really ended up crying at the funeral.
>>26I thought that changing the color of a corpse would turn it into a raccoon.
>>26That’s thanks to the support device that I have draped over my shoulder from when I was a raccoon, but it works even if I die.
When my daughter brings her fiancé home, he gets hit.
Isn’t it terrible that when my son brings his wife, he gets punched?
Could it be that the leaves are the real body, Tanuki alien?
>>29Because Ponko was a little raccoon and got her leaves taken away by a bully, saying “Give it back!”
Isn’t the body the main part after all?
It was disappointing that this time there was only a storyline that could be understood through Earth’s culture from beginning to end.
I wanted them to do something a bit more incomprehensible and alien-like.
>>32Well, that’s a request to have a wedding on Earth…
>>32The raccoon and the aliens all think they’re participating in Earth’s culture!
>>32Having a wedding and a funeral at the same time, while those around them seem to be fine with it, felt quite like a different culture.
The part that was cut looks suspicious, but it hasn’t gone lower, right? Grandma is small after all.
It’s going to be another round of trouble for the marriage of the raccoon aliens.
Where did Yachiyo-chan’s original body sprout from?
I think having a funeral and a wedding together, and performing a dismemberment magic with the corpse, reflects a very different cultural perspective.
>>39It’s essentially a shape-shifting raccoon…
Viewer (I guess it’s an alien culture…)
Raccoon aliens (It must be Earth’s culture…)
Alien guests (must be the culture of Earth…)
Did you want to see a marriage ceremony with a “tamefun” exchange?
The release of sky lanterns is also a bit of a different culture.
There is no one to make a retort because there are no humans.
I’ll leave it to the ethics of aliens and robots!
I honestly thought the candle service and lantern floating were really well done.
>>45I was moved by the sight of everyone looking up at the sky together.
I’m glad everyone attending seems to be having a good time.
Can you somehow measure the lifespan with the leaves on your head?
If time keeps passing like this and Ponko seems to wither away, I will probably cry.
Far from aliens, even foreigners who watched this story may misunderstand Japan’s culture…
I thought this long-lived raccoon alien would never die, but I’ve realized that it too has a lifespan.
At least we could do it separately!
>>50Grandma wanted to participate in the wedding too!
So, is it okay that I can’t really feel genuinely happy about Ponko’s wedding?
No! It’s ridiculous for the wedding to be gloomy because of the funeral!
Let’s make it a festive celebration.
Was the movie of the badger’s life not a reenactment, but rather a recorded documentation…?
>>54I think Grandpa’s voice is synthesized quite a bit since it has no voice.
It may be impossible to realize because there will be relatives and attendees who may consider it inappropriate in reality.
I think it’s okay to have something like this happen at a wedding where misfortunes accidentally piled up.
It looks like an Apa Hotel.
This ridiculous costume of Ponsutin looked strange in the preview, but once I watched the main story, I understood it was the grandmother’s wish, and it made me cry.
>>57Isn’t it the formal attire of the tanuki aliens…?
I wanted Grandpa Danzaburo to have a voice too.
That’s definitely a big shot.
>>58CV: Hidetaka Ikeda
>>89No joke!
It was very nice to see aliens crying at the funeral of an alien they didn’t even know.
Even Yachiyo has long exceeded her parts’ lifespan, so she’s the Theseus’s Yachiyo.
“It’s my line that emotions get lost!”
It’s impressive that there are photos remaining from Mujina’s childhood, which could have easily been a thousand years ago…
>>63I wonder if that wasn’t a poorly edited collage…
I couldn’t tell which meaning Ponko was communicating with the sky, but Grandpa died on Tanuki Star, and it was the sky of heaven.
I definitely cried during the parts about my grandmother’s death and the video letter.
I got my emotions messed up during the interference at the wedding reception.
Could it be that the tanuki aliens are quite well-preserved?
If anything, I cried at the crazy number of colleagues’ remains in episode 1, so I win, right?
As a result of trying to engage in Earth’s culture in the absence of humans.
I think it’s the best kind of cross-cultural experience when things turn out a bit misaligned.
There were no photos of Grandma’s childhood.
As a result of substituting with a poorly edited photo of Ponko, didn’t Grandma end up being duplicated?
We’re not doing severing magic even for just the wedding ceremony, you know!?
I see, usually funerals aren’t held at hotels, so Yachiyo only knows how to do weddings.
It’s amazing how you can direct a script with this balance.
The best part is not checking if the body parts stuck together after the dismemberment magic, but flowing it away with a “ponpoko poon,” it’s the ultimate rock.
This seasoning for ceremonial occasions is a bit sharp, but it’s really a very polite conversation, isn’t it?
>>76It’s polite, but maybe just a little too sharp…
It’s definitely inappropriate, but there are places where it’s allowed because it’s an appointment hotel.
There is indeed magic at the wedding…
I’ve never seen a magic trick involving cutting.
Yachiyo-san is quite broken, isn’t she?
>>80I feel like the first episode was the most broken.
>>80=====C
>>88🌈
It was a ceremony done by Yachiyo-san, who is the only one inheriting Earth culture.
This is correct.
>>81Eh…!?
Maybe other colleagues left early because they didn’t have the same mentality as Yachiyo-san.
Not scary Midsummer
>>85I remembered the first groom’s outfit from Ponstyne, like the outfit that gets burned at the end of the movie.
It’s allowed because they are aliens and robots.
If this were a human from Earth, it would definitely cause an uproar, even if it was in accordance with the deceased’s wishes.
The overseas reaction community is all crying and praising it, and it’s really coming through… I’m glad… but…
Some people felt that the tone of the previous episode was a bit off, and it seems there were quite a few mixed opinions about it.
>>90Are you okay feeling like, “This is a part of Japanese culture…” while being praised by people from overseas?
There aren’t many people to point out mistakes, so if everyone gives up on that, it creates nothing but terrible visuals, which is awful.
It becomes a matter of to whom it is inappropriate…
After the cutting magic, I was like “What???” with the ponpoko pon?
>>96Ponpoko pon! Ponpoko pon!
>>96Normally, you would open the box and reassure yourself that it’s not broken, but I covered it up with “Ponpoko Pon”… No, I should stop thinking about it.
>>96That’s the version of the raccoon alien that goes “panpaka pan!” when you succeed, right?
The previous story is terrifyingly real when you think about it in the context of someone who returned to work after becoming disabled due to an accident.
>>98The anime created here is wrapped in a lot of comedic layers, but the essence is often quite painful.
>>98A workaholic has become a prosthetic limb and can no longer work properly.
The workplace that I had been accustomed to for many years has changed drastically due to well-meaning colleagues during my leave of absence.
So it’s working better than when I was there…
Aliens who come to liven up the wedding and funeral of strangers are way too nice.
>>99The upbeat vibe like a Disney mob.
>>99If someone said they’re having a wedding banquet for a fallen civilization, would you go? I’d go.
>>99I have no confidence in being able to crash a funeral and liven it up, unlike at a stranger’s wedding reception…
>>121(I don’t really understand, but this is how Earth-style funerals are…)
I thought I was still pretending to be asleep halfway through.
It’s properly dead…
I felt a connection to the ethics of handling corpses in the baseball episode of Akiba Maid War.
>>102Not dead!
>>102Coincidentally, it’s the same episode 8…
The APA Hotel in Japan holding a funeral and a wedding at the same time is crazy, haha!
The story is simple, but the visuals are strange, which makes me feel the essence of Cygames anime.
The handling of the body is too careless.
Hmm, I want to see it infinitely.
In the baseball segment, the main characters are easily killed and come back with a time lag, which is terrible…
Thinking about it more, it’s pretty heavy that the stars were destroyed by a pile of feces.
>>116War is shit itself.
>>116It may be a matter of pride, but when you think about it, the reality is that territorial disputes have intensified, leading to civil war and creating refugees…
It’s unfair that even though it’s weird during the journey, I end up crying normally at the ending.
The “ponpokopon” from the magic show is undoubtedly grandma’s wish, but the performance is just too edgy.
A bright funeral itself exists even in Africa, right?
Congratulations on living this long! It’s that kind of vibe.
The body dismemberment magic really shows that robots don’t have the spirit of hospitality!
>>123Goodbye hospitality.
>>123It was the deceased’s strong wish to be sent off with a smile.
The reasons and the way of expressing them may be strange, but everyone is supposed to be going through a difficult situation, desperately trying to find meaning in life, occasionally losing sight of it, reconciling, and creating a remarkable drama.
The memories of Tanuki Star are amazing; it seemed like a rural area that could be found around here, but it has already been wrapped in poop over there.
However, Earth has some weird cultures.
>>129Because the previous story depicted the resistance and acceptance of the changing traditions of the hotel, this is why the new Earth culture woven by the robot and the raccoon shines.
Wasn’t everyone taken aback by the cutting magic? Are you okay?
Even at a first-class hotel, you can get punched, so be careful.
The funeral of the skeleton aliens that seem to have come from a planet in Mexico is probably something like this.
>>132In other words, it’s a joke that it’s only natural for the alien who looks like the Calavera doll, a symbol of the Day of the Dead, to be excited.
A mashup of the wedding march and a sutra.
Mr. No-Ju-Jama has proven that extraterrestrial beings can also be customers.
It was an episode that well demonstrated the absurdity born from the principles of hospitality learned from the Ten Guidelines of the Galactic Tower and the logical actions of an android.
The content was so dense that it overshadowed the clichéd story about testicles.
>>137I expected the raccoon gonads, but I couldn’t endure it.
>>139Kinta
There’s no one to stop me…!
Anonymous… When I die, please perform a dismemberment magic trick with my corpse… That’s all I ask…
>>140If you look around the Earth, there probably are people who have done body dismemberment magic at funerals.
I don’t think they directly cut the corpse… it seems like it would be against the law…
How do you wrap it up with “testicles” as the first punchline, Fuguri…?
>>142M***obukuro!
>>142Mother
Patience bag
Kobukuro
Bukuro
The previous story would have been quite heavy if Yachiyo-san hadn’t gone through her adolescence, right?
>>143It’s just pretending with tracks; just putting it on a wheelchair is a pretty brutal story, you know.
To put it more clearly, when I’m feeling a strong sense of powerlessness while being efficiently managed by the hotel, that.
>>156So, this is why I’m acting out and having a discussion like in Gundam.
>>167Ponko!!!
>>156In the end, it’s a story about how I started to wonder what the meaning of my existence is, and what I was doing, when someone else fulfilled the owner’s desire for prosperity.
>>170It’s not working, huh?
Because I’m a robot.
What are the remaining two bags?
>>144Scrotum (right)
Scrotum (left)
>>144Pay envelope and stomach.
I couldn’t cry, and it was painful all the while I was watching.
Let me cry.
The three bags are like human testicles, but I wonder if raccoons have a different kind of ending…
I understood the feelings of countries that celebrate things like coffin dances and the Day of the Dead!
I thought it felt like I couldn’t transform without the leaves.
It’s nice that culture remains like this even if humanity has perished.
A creature that combines two beings: a leaf and a raccoon…
I want ready-to-eat curry in collaboration with Apa.
>>155I created it with the image of the Tanuki family from episode three.
>>155The package is a raccoon.
I think that thing hanging around the neck is set as a transformation assist device.
The leaves… I don’t know…
In fact, the leaves are parasitic life forms…
Is the president Yachiyo in cosplay…?
I wish they would release a plastic model of Yachiyo-san in 30ML or Hexagear…
A day will come when I can genuinely feel sorry for Tanuki Papa.
I feel like my emotions are being destroyed.
When you die, the colors fade… said the leaf.
I might have heard Gentle Sakakibara Yoshiko for the first time.
And also a song.
>>171Sakihabara-san is a wonderful lady with such a natural voice and personality.
If you get a spinal injury and end up in a wheelchair, unable to move both hands properly, that would be really tough…
I’m looking forward to it, Ponkoko Jr.
Somehow, the hair color is just like that of the hotel staff.
>>175Was she Yachiyo’s daughter?
>>175There’s a possibility that during the transformation, their mother told them that the hair color should be pink.
The story of Yachiyo-san successfully completing the role of acting manager will come to fruition during the funeral and wedding episode.
At an unclear timing, seriously (while showing a corpse magic show)
The previous story confirmed that the grammar of robot anime is quite convenient.
Being an animator is tough.
>>179Rather, it seems like they want to draw.
Is my daughter admiring Yachiyo-san and dyeing her hair like her?
It’s nice that Mom was more emotional than Dad, who is usually so laid-back…
The hotel that was kept safe has turned into an anti-air missile base…
Why did you make it look like a Nirvana statue? That’s too much of a valid point and it just won’t do.
You definitely thought I was dead halfway through, right?