It all started with this tweet. What Kurogane said wasn’t important, but it highlighted a scene in Saki Achiga-hen episode 10 that had several interpretations. It looks like this:
Near the start of the episode we visited Nodoka, who is in a dream. She realizes that she is in a dream; and she sees her Achiga friends, but looking like how they were when she left them for Kiyosumi.
The joke gets a little clearer when later in the episode, Toki goes into a flashback about her “see a turn ahead” power and how she fainted trying to stretch it into “see two turns ahead.” When she wakes up, she wasn’t sure if it was a dream or not, so she reached and grabbed Ryuuka.
That just seemed odd, but now, I GET IT GUYS.
I also realized why it didn’t hit me the first time I saw it: during Nodoka’s dream sequence she actually rationalizes it out verbally as to what is actually odd in her dream. And naturally I wrote away the fact (or was I rather distracted?) that her “downward view”/grab is just, well, fanservice. Or rather I should say, what makes Nodoka who she is.
For more insightful connecting-the-dots from Saki Achiga-hen, check out Yaranakya’s analysis.
June 19th, 2012 at 10:54 am
I think you might need to walk me through it a bit more specifically.
June 19th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Surely you jest.
June 19th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
I think the main thing to spell out is a matter of heft. Typically in a dream, you do not feel the sense of physical resistance as a sensation of touch. Both Nodoka and Toki grab from below, which may explain some things. I think in Nodoka’s case there might even be something to be said of the way she makes herself comfortable using Etopen.
June 19th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Ok,that makes sense.
As for…”support”, its well established that Nodoka does not wear a bra (or panties, for that matter), so Etopen probably does provide a quite needed service.
June 19th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
that explains all the more why she went straight there during a dream.
June 19th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Ha ha. I saw this discussed on a Japanese forum, too xD. This might by anime original material – as far as I remember the manga, Toki confirms Ryuuka’s identity by the sight of her bust but without confirming things physically :).
Thanks for the mention, too :0!
June 19th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
It’s the little things… :)