Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Kanna Makino from Tamako Market

Requested by @dear-tokyo

Yeah.

Autistic Anime Girls Group 3 Match 2

SUBMISSION PROPAGANDA:

Kanna -

"Kanna always stands out with her atypical behaviour and manner of speaking, but she is always willing to lend a hand, try anything, and to always rise to the top. She is ambitious and has great emotional intelligence, cutting through people's barriers in her own way as she ignores what she views as unnecessary social boundaries to get at the core of the matter. Kanna's speech patterns often makes it difficult for others to tell whether she's joking or not, a fact that she exploits quite intentionally. Her special interest is woodworking and construction, and she is always carrying the tools of her trade. She has a standing policy of never holding anything lighter than a hammer, and has outstanding spacial awareness, able to calculate the holding capacity of a room with just one flick of her tape measure."

Jun -

"The movie is about her struggles when she’s nonverbal and how she has trouble fitting in and expressing her emotions. She loves music so much and singing is so important to her."

This girl has been playing minecraft religiously for at least 7 years and her single player world is probably several gigabytes in size.

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There are always similitudes and differences in media from a specific show, below you could find how subtle changes can affect the audience perception, without ruing the charismatic aspects of the media.

Tamako Market is the 1st anime-only production by KyoAni (not adapted from any other media), directed by Naoko Yamada and the team of K-On!. To date, there's only a 12 chapters anime, Tamako Market (2013) and an 83 minutes movie called Tamako Love Story (2014).

It tells the story of a girl named Kitashirakawa Tamako and her friends. The story is set around the Usagiyama Shopping District in Kyoto, where Tamako lives with her family in a mochi store called Tama-ya, founded by her great-great father.

Tamako, the main character is a bubbly, energetic and joyful 16 years old girl that LOVES mochi and life around the shopping district. She has a younger sister called Anko (like the mochi filling) that is kinda the opposite of her elder sister, she doesn´t like to be related to mochi neither like much the district community. Their front-door neighbours are the Ooji family, like the Kitashirakawa family they also have a mochi store, called RiceCake-Oh! Zee is not as traditional as Tama-ya. The son of the family called Ooji Mochizou is a dear friend of Tamako, they know since they were born, and talk sometimes via cup-phone. There are also Tamako's school friends, like Tokiwa Midori, Makino Kanna and Asagiri Shiori. The first two girls attend with Tamako at the baton club at school, and the last girl is Tamako and Kanna´s classmate. Another interesting character is Dera Mochimazzi, a talking bird that Tamako found in the flower shop of the district.

The story is made in chronological order, being the anime the first part of the story and the movie the second and final part of this word. Both stories are, as previously said, about Tamako´s life and the relationships between her family and friends. The two media present a world view where collectivism is fairly visible and remarkable in the daily life of the characters that live in the district. For example, every day the shop owner welcomes the children of the district with several gifts when they arrived from school, taking care of them in a family-like manner. Another way that collectivism is portrayed is that they do meetings to craft ideas to help each other and thrive in the Usagiyama Shopping District, a example of that is chapter 6, "I felt chills down my spine too" (俺の背筋も凍ったぜ Ore no Sesuji mo Kōtta ze), when Tamako notice that not many people went to the district because it was too hot, and decide to do a “haunted house”.

There are also some differences between the anime and the movie that makes a difference in the perception of the media. Tamako Market has fantasy elements like Dera, the flamboyant talking bird, that the movie does not incorporate (it's never denied, but it's almost irrelevant to the story). Also in the anime, the problems are much non-existence, or not in a way like an antagonist force, Tamako prefers to be non-confrontational because the problems do not affect her at all, unlike in the movie. In the movie, Tamako has to deal with her changing environment, and problems like her future, career and relationships, which worry her to the point where she does not behave like herself because the movie is focused on how life changes when you are in the last years of your school life. In the movie, there's even more depth to certain characters like Mochizou and brief mentions of Dera or Choi (Dera´s boss). Another thing that can be distinguished is the use of colour both media are very colourful but the pallet used in Tamako Market is more consistent, while in the movie there's more experimentation with hues and tones. With that display, both media deal with a difference in the approach to life, whereas the anime is very optimistic, colourful and funny the movie is more gloomy, profound and tense than the anime.

To put it all together, the changes in the two of the media are very slight but they impact in a way that doesn't affect the core of the world of Tamako Market, the changes feel organic because it´s like quite relatable events that occur at that age. The motive of the character evolves as they grew older and experience new things. Because maybe the magic of the mid-teens being kinda lost when you are in your last year of high school and you are also kinda scared that everything you ever know will probably change and that the world is not as you used to fully believe.

To prefer one media over the other would be to disown a part of my teen years, so I recommend you watch the anime and the movie, they are perfect if you are feeling down because I'm pretty sure they will brighten up your day, and it also refreshing to watch something so optimistic for once in this world that has focused on bad news and chaos. Francisca Scopesi ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

Kanna Makino from Tamako Market is autistic!

Queued for February 4th!

Maybe I tried being too close too soon.

KyoAni Month

Day 8: cutest KyoAni work → Tamako Love Story

Autistic Anime Girls Group 3 Round 2 Match 1

SUBMISSION PROPAGANDA:

Kaoru -

"She's super into theater and acting, and getting involved in acting has allowed her to open enough with herself to be who she's comfortable being (a silly kind of princely girl), even if some people think it's too much. She memorizes Shakespeare quotes as well as some quotes from various philosophers and the like, and though she might not always quite understand exactly what they mean, she takes every opportunity to use them because they make her happy. Her love for Shakespeare is so strong that recently in the story timeline, she was successfully admitted to an acting university because she performed a part so well it made the interviewer cry! Sometimes it seems like she's a little oblivious and not picking things up, but she's actually pretty observant and just tries to make everyone feel comfortable and safe by not pointing anything out and just going with the flow."

Kanna -

"It's been forever since I've seen Tamako's Market but Kanna is the girl in that one gif of the anime girl sliding all over the gym floor while trying to walk and I just think that has to count for something."

Cower before her might!!