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* BoringReturnJourney: The trials and tribulations of making it to Antarctica take up most of the series, with figuring out how to get there and the various steps of the journey each taking several episodes. The trip back is mostly skipped, taking up only a small part of the finale.
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* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: [[spoiler:Shirase doesn't find her mother in Antarctica, though she does find her long-abandoned laptop, providing some closure.]] The main value of the trip (for all of them) was in making friends and going on an adventure together.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') is a 13 episode original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series aired in the Winter 2018 season.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') Universe'', or ''Yorimoi'' for short) is a 13 episode original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series aired in the Winter 2018 season.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Although the whole plot revolves around Shirase's MissingMom, her dad seemingly never existed in the first place. This could be because he would distract from the AmbiguouslyGay subtext between her mother and Gin; at one point [[HasTwoMommies the two of them are half-jokingly described as Shirase's parents]].
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* {{Iyashikei}}: As with SliceOfLife, this is averted. With its all-girl cast and cutesy promo art, it's easy to mistake it for this genre, especially when it aired in the same season as ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' (they even have similar abbreviated titles, "Yorimoi" and "Yurucamp" respectively), but it's actually a relatively drama-heavy ComingOfAgeStory.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The second half of the opening has several of them. One of the more noteworthy is a shot of the girls in midair during a jump with the setting sun as backdrop, their silhouettes spelling ''Yorimoi'' in katakana.
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* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: Shirase does this in the final episode of the series, symbolising a new phase in her life after finally getting closure about her mother. She also happens to look a lot more like her mother with short hair.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: In this case, the 'F' is 'fuzaken na' (politely, this is 'stop joking around', but in this context it is clearly taken to mean something closer to 'fuck off'). Shirase drops one of these [[spoiler: when she slams Hinata's former friends for their disloyalty.]]
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At 16 years of age, Tamaki Mari ("Kimari" to her friends) [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife laments that she's been doing nothing with her life so far.]] Every time she's about to try anything risky, she chickens out at the last minute. That is until she has a fated encounter with another girl, Kobuchizawa Shirase, looking for her MissingMom who apparently disappeared in Earth's last frontier — Antarctica. Shirase wants to go on an expedition to find out how and why her mom disappeared, which makes her the laughing stock of her classmates, but upon hearing her story, Mari eventually jumps at the call and decides to follow her on that journey. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail towards the frozen south.
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At 16 years of age, Tamaki Mari ("Kimari" to her friends) [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife laments that she's been doing nothing with her life so far.]] Every time she's about to try anything risky, she chickens out at the last minute. That is until she has a fated encounter with another girl, Kobuchizawa Shirase, looking for her MissingMom who apparently disappeared in Earth's last frontier — Antarctica. Shirase wants to go on an expedition to find out how and why her mom disappeared, which makes her the laughing stock of her classmates, but upon hearing her story, Mari eventually jumps at the call and decides to follow her on that journey. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, Miyake Hinata, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, Shiraishi Yuzuki, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail towards the frozen south.
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* AmazonChaser: One of the younger male crewmembers has a crush on Gin, the female leader of the expedition; he admits to having a habit of falling for strong women who seem like they could protect him. This is mostly played as a joke, and [[spoiler:he never confesses to her, so [[ShaggyDogStory it goes nowhere]]]].
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* RunningGag: Shirase and her love of penguins.
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** Shirase and her love ofpenguins.penguins.
** Shirase again and her [[PerformanceAnxiety over-the-top anxiousness]] whenever she has to play a role in one of Yuzuki's videos. [[spoiler:Eventually has a dramatic purpose when she overcomes her camera-shyness for Hinata's sake, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech angrily lecturing]] the latter's former trackmates for their ostracization of her.]]
** Hinata [[QuotingMyself quoting herself]].
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** Shirase again and her [[PerformanceAnxiety over-the-top anxiousness]] whenever she has to play a role in one of Yuzuki's videos. [[spoiler:Eventually has a dramatic purpose when she overcomes her camera-shyness for Hinata's sake, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech angrily lecturing]] the latter's former trackmates for their ostracization of her.]]
** Hinata [[QuotingMyself quoting herself]].
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At 16 years of age, Tamaki Mari ("Kimari" to her friends) [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife laments that she's been doing nothing with her life so far.]] Every time she's about to try anything risky, she chickens out at the last minute. That is until she has a fated encounter with another girl, Kobuchizawa Shirase, looking for her MissingMom who apparently disappeared in Earth's last frontier — the Antarctic. Shirase wants to go on an expedition to find out how and why her mom disappeared, which makes her the laughing stock of her classmates, but upon hearing her story, Mari eventually jumps at the call and decides to follow her on that journey. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail towards the frozen south.
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At 16 years of age, Tamaki Mari ("Kimari" to her friends) [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife laments that she's been doing nothing with her life so far.]] Every time she's about to try anything risky, she chickens out at the last minute. That is until she has a fated encounter with another girl, Kobuchizawa Shirase, looking for her MissingMom who apparently disappeared in Earth's last frontier — the Antarctic.Antarctica. Shirase wants to go on an expedition to find out how and why her mom disappeared, which makes her the laughing stock of her classmates, but upon hearing her story, Mari eventually jumps at the call and decides to follow her on that journey. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail towards the frozen south.
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At 16 years of age, Tamaki Mari ("Kimari" to her friends) [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife laments that she's been doing nothing with her life so far.]] Every time she's about to try anything risky, she chickens out at the last minute. That is until she has a fated encounter with another girl, Kobuchizawa Shirase, looking for her MissingMom who apparently disappeared in Earth's last frontier — the Antarctic. Shirase wants to go on an expedition to find out how and why her mom disappeared, which makes her the laughing stock of her classmates. But classmates, but upon hearing her story, Mari eventually jumps at the call and decides to follow her on that journey.
journey. Soon, their efforts attract the attention of the bubbly Hinata Miyake, who is eager to stand out, and Yuzuki Shiraishi, a polite girl from a high class background. Together, they set sail towards the frozen south.
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* SliceOfLife: Notably, for a show with its look made in {{the new tens}} and featuring an all-female cast, and despite initial impressions some viewers had from the previews, this is an '''aversion.''' ''Further'' is an adventure series with fairly high emotional stakes.
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* SliceOfLife: Notably, for a show with its look made in {{the new tens}} and featuring an all-female cast, and despite initial impressions some viewers had from the previews, this is an '''aversion.''' ''Further'' ''Yorimoi'' is an adventure series with fairly high emotional stakes.
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* HeavySleeper: Kimari can sometimes be hard to wake up, and also tosses and turns in her sleep. The girls reveal this to her after she complains about it, and they reveal that they found out during their camping trip.
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* HeavySleeper: Kimari can sometimes be hard to wake up to the point that her mother [[WaterTorture 'waterboards']] her occasionally with a damp face towel just to wake her up, and also tosses and turns in her sleep. The This came to a head in Singapore, when the girls reveal this to her after she complains about it, and they then reveal that they found it out during their camping trip.trip. This ensues a decisive rock-paper-scissors bout between the three just for them to avoid being Kimari's roommate.
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** Hinata reveals in episode 6 that she dropped out of high school because she got tired of people acting nice around her, but then talking about her secretly behind her back due to her tendency to unintentionally ruin people's plans. She figured it would be easier if she didn't have to spend a lot of time around others.
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** Hinata reveals in episode 6 that she dropped out of high school because she got tired of people acting nice around her, but then talking about her secretly behind her back due to her tendency to unintentionally ruin people's plans. She figured it would be easier if she didn't have to spend a lot of time around others. It's later revealed that there's more to Hinata's story than she lets on; [[spoiler:she was a promising member of her track and field team, but her friends threw her under the bus after she was picked to run in a competition over the third year members, letting her be bullied by the third years and spreading rumors about her even though they suggested that she take the offer in the first place.]]
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* AntiClimax: Zig-zagged with Shirase's million yen. She saved it up through many part-time jobs... only to lose it all in a train station. Luckily, Kimari returns it to her, and they become friends. Shirase intended to use the money to pay her way onto an Antarctic expedition team, but they refuse to take it, and she ends up on the team through unrelated means. Later, she uses the money to buy new plane tickets when Hinata loses her passport, but she soon returns the tickets and gets her money back [[spoiler:after realizing she had Hinata's passport in her bag the whole time]]. In the end, [[spoiler:she never spends the money, and decides to leave it in Antarctica for someone else to find. Ultimately, she only made it there because she ''lost'' her envelope of cash, leading to her friendship with Kimari, Hinata, and Yuzuki; the latter convinced her mother/agent to let Shirase and the others come with her]].
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* ChuckingChalk: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] − when talking about their captain for the expedition, Hinata notes that she might throw chalk at you if you nod off during her lecture.
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* ChuckingChalk: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] − when When talking about their captain for the expedition, Hinata notes that she might throw chalk at you if you nod off during her lecture.
* CutenessProximity: The normally-stoic Shirase [[NotSoAboveItAll completely loses her mind]] when in the presence of penguins. Gin has more self-control, but shares the same weakness. The two of them originally bonded over watching a TV show about penguins.
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*** The credits of Episode 1 [[spoiler: shows Megumi in a cafe laughing at a picture Mari sent her. In TheStinger for Episode 4, Megumi is alone at that same cafe, notably silent as she looks at another picture sent by Mari, before she puts her phone down.]]
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* {{Tanuki}}: They tend to pop up quite a bit in the first five episodes. The characters frequently visit a shrine that has a lot of tanuki statues, and around the city there are advertisements with tanuki-themed mascots.
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** In the opening sequence, a gigantic Kimari seems to swallow the other three girls. As she waves at the camera, one of the girls sticks her head up, indicating that they're actually far away from her. She's quickly taken back down by the other two girls lest she ruins the joke.
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** In the opening sequence, the girls stage a gigantic forced perspective shot where Kimari seems pretends to swallow eat the other three girls. As she waves flashes a peace sign at the camera, one of the girls Shirase sticks her head up, indicating that they're actually far away from her. She's and she's quickly taken back down by the other two girls lest she ruins the joke.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Near the end of the final episode, is the message [[spoiler: "The real thing is ten thousand times more beautiful" concerning the Aurora Australis to Shirase from her mother,]] or is it to the audience from the writer?
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* SliceOfLife: Notably, for a show with its look made in {{the new tens}} and featuring an all-female cast, and despite initial impressions some viewers had from the previews, this is an '''aversion.''' ''Further'' is an adventure series with fairly high emotional stakes.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') is a 13 episode original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series airs in the Winter 2018 season.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') is a 13 episode original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series airs aired in the Winter 2018 season.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') is an original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series airs in the Winter 2018 season.
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''Sora yori mo Tooi Basho'' (''A Place Further than the Universe'') is an a 13 episode original anime by studio ''Creator/{{Madhouse}}'', directed by Ishidzuka Atsuko and written by Hanada Jukki, with chara-designs by Yoshimatsu Takahiro and music by Fujisawa Toshiaki. The series airs in the Winter 2018 season.
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** Shirase is seen repeatedly creating a 'Dear Mom' email on her phone, with the payoff in episode 12.
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* EverybodyCries: [[spoiler: During episode 12, Shirase completely and fully breaks down seeing the ''thousand'' emails she sent her mother are unread, giving her the emotional closure knowing that her mother is gone; Kimari, Hinata, and Yuzuki all cry with her outside the room.]]
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* EverybodyCries: [[spoiler: During episode 12, Shirase completely and fully breaks down seeing the ''thousand'' emails she sent her mother are unread, giving her the emotional closure knowing that her mother is gone; Kimari, Hinata, and Yuzuki all cry with her outside the room. Along with most of the audience.]]
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* EverybodyCries: [[spoiler: During episode 12, Shirase completely and fully breaks down seeing the ''thousand'' emails she sent her mother are unread, giving her the emotional closure knowing that her mother is gone; Kimari, Hinata, and Yuzuki all cry with her outside the room.]]
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* TitleOnlyOpening: In Episode 12, the credits are superimposed before the EpisodeTitleCard instead of using the standard opening sequence since it would clash with the drama-heavy mood of the episode.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Megumi does this towards Kimari at the end of episode 5, telling her about the origins of the rumors, along with other attempts to sabotage her plans. [[spoiler:She then berates herself because she secretly wanted Kimari to chicken out from going anywhere yet again, and to be relied on by her again like she's always done.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Megumi does this towards Kimari at the end of episode 5, telling her about the origins of the rumors, along with other attempts to sabotage her plans. [[spoiler:She then berates herself because she secretly wanted Kimari to chicken out from going anywhere yet again, and to be relied on by her again like she's always done.]]]]
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** Hinate: Hinata: Green.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: All four of the main girls wear outfits that match their color regularly, but especially their arctic winter coats:
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** Shirase: Red.
** Hinate: Green.
** Yuzuki: Blue.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Episode 5's reveal of [[spoiler: Megumi's unwillingness to let Mari go and her subtle attempts to goad her into either staying or retaliating against her]] had actually been cleverly foreshadowed in several ways:
** In Episode 1, two older girls try to goad Shirase into giving up some of her saved money. In Episode 4, Kimari's mom reveals "a neighbor" had told her about Mari's plan to go to Antarctica. [[spoiler: Megumi confesses to being the one to tell them.]]
** In Episode 1 and 2 there's a repeated FunnyBackgroundEvent in which [[spoiler: a couple of flirting students can be seen standing behind Megumi as she talks to Mari in class. In Episode 4, however, the couple seems to be fighting- specifically, the boy is grabbing the girl's arm while she turns away, hinting at Megumi trying to keep Mari from leaving her.]]
** In Episode 4 [[spoiler: the "camera" lingers on a silent shot of Megumi after Mari leaves, notably framing her next to Mari's empty desk.]]
** The credits of Episode 1 [[spoiler: shows Megumi in a cafe laughing at a picture Mari sent her. In TheStinger for Episode 4, Megumi is alone at that same cafe, notably silent as she looks at another picture sent by Mari, before she puts her phone down.]]
** In Episode 1, two older girls try to goad Shirase into giving up some of her saved money. In Episode 4, Kimari's mom reveals "a neighbor" had told her about Mari's plan to go to Antarctica. [[spoiler: Megumi confesses to being the one to tell them.]]
** In Episode 1 and 2 there's a repeated FunnyBackgroundEvent in which [[spoiler: a couple of flirting students can be seen standing behind Megumi as she talks to Mari in class. In Episode 4, however, the couple seems to be fighting- specifically, the boy is grabbing the girl's arm while she turns away, hinting at Megumi trying to keep Mari from leaving her.]]
** In Episode 4 [[spoiler: the "camera" lingers on a silent shot of Megumi after Mari leaves, notably framing her next to Mari's empty desk.]]
** The credits of Episode 1 [[spoiler: shows Megumi in a cafe laughing at a picture Mari sent her. In TheStinger for Episode 4, Megumi is alone at that same cafe, notably silent as she looks at another picture sent by Mari, before she puts her phone down.]]
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** Episode 5's reveal of [[spoiler: Megumi's unwillingness to let Mari go and her subtle attempts to goad her into either staying or retaliating against her]] had actually been cleverly foreshadowed in several ways:
** *** In Episode 1, two older girls try to goad Shirase into giving up some of her saved money. In Episode 4, Kimari's mom reveals "a neighbor" had told her about Mari's plan to go to Antarctica. [[spoiler: Megumi confesses to being the one to tell them.]]
** *** In Episode 1 and 2 there's a repeated FunnyBackgroundEvent in which [[spoiler: a couple of flirting students can be seen standing behind Megumi as she talks to Mari in class. In Episode 4, however, the couple seems to be fighting- specifically, the boy is grabbing the girl's arm while she turns away, hinting at Megumi trying to keep Mari from leaving her.]]
** *** In Episode 4 [[spoiler: the "camera" lingers on a silent shot of Megumi after Mari leaves, notably framing her next to Mari's empty desk.]]
** *** The credits of Episode 1 [[spoiler: shows Megumi in a cafe laughing at a picture Mari sent her. In TheStinger for Episode 4, Megumi is alone at that same cafe, notably silent as she looks at another picture sent by Mari, before she puts her phone down.]]
** Episode 5's reveal of [[spoiler: Megumi's unwillingness to let Mari go and her subtle attempts to goad her into either staying or retaliating against her]] had actually been cleverly foreshadowed in several ways:
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* ^ Hinata being a former track team runner wasn't explicitly stated until Episode 11, but her talent for running was shown all the way back in Episode 2 during the chase scene. Not only does Kimari flat-out say she's a fast runner, but Hinata has a more proper running stance (most notable in the way she pumps her arms) compared to Kimari and Shirase's GirlyRun.
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* Hinata being a former track team runner wasn't explicitly stated until Episode 11, but her talent for running was shown all the way back in Episode 2 during the chase scene. Not only does Kimari flat-out say she's a fast runner, but Hinata has a more proper running stance (most notable in the way she pumps her arms) compared to Kimari and Shirase's GirlyRun.
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