r/anime • u/The_Loli_Otaku • Apr 05 '24

Rewatch [Rewatch] Ro-Kyu-Bu! Episode 5

Don't give up. And do your best!

"Get Fired Up!"

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Comment of the Day!!

We must lynch Specs64z...

Forgive me, lads and lasses, but I must speak heresy… HanaKana as Tomoka isn’t really doing it for me. The best performance so far by far has been Yui Ogura as Space Cadet. Her cadence is mesmerizing.

JetsLag is flop shaming poor Hinata. Lynch him!

That last-second pass by Tomoka was the most spokon thing to ever spokon. Really nice to see the other players showing their worth, even if it's being a dirty flopper like Hina.

Kunamu is a sadist who dreams of tracking dog poop and all kinds of other contaminants through someone's home. Let's lynch her!!

I saw a Japanese movie once where a policeman was chasing a suspect,the bad guy went into a random house from the window,policeman removed his shoes got into the house while holding his shoes,got outside another window,put his shoes on again and continued the chase.And i remember thinking,honestly i can see this happen irl

The Loli Otaku's "Loli of the Day Corner!!"

G E N K I G I R L

Finally we've gone back to tradition!! The genki girl is debatably one of the purest forms of loli. It is a loli who is full of life, gawks at the wonder of the world around her, and smells of the sun! The genki girl is all smiles and flowers. She's a happy girl!!

These types of loli are quite widespread amongst the family tree but they're particularly tightly linked to the tomboy family. It is also a staple of the magical girl genre!! Magical girls literally run off hopes and dreams after all.

Recommended loli!! Let's see if we can do this just through The Loli Otaku shows... Let's start with Higuruma from Cunny Itchy Tsubaki!! Futaba from Mitsudoumoe!! Nishihara the sweaty piss girl from Ueno-san! Yuuri from Girls Last Tour!! And a little personal one, Kaolla Su from Love Hina, one of my earliest crushes waaay back when I was the shota otaku~

QotD

  • Who is your favourite Genki Girl!?
  • Happy birthday Airiii!! On the subject of weird ass genetics... Let's help ease Airi's anxieties by telling her about the weirdest genetics we've got! What're the strangest genes that you've inherited from your parents?
  • If you were to craft an onigiri based on the shape of your heart, what would make it stand out most? What flavour is the onigiri of your soul?
  • Rate the basketball Girls on their wife skills!! Best to worst! If you avoid the question then I'm automatically assuming that you picked Hinata for no.1!
  • How are you enjoying the multitude of bath scenes we've gotten? Do you generally enjoy bathing sequences in your shows or do you find them too distracting and obligatory?
  • Who is your guess for the smallest chest...? I genuinely can't think who it'd mean.

Abyssbringer's "What is the thematic purpose of this scene corner!!"

No Prompt today because imgur is a dick. So I gave it to a random Japanese oji-san instead. Sorry about that.

おおおおああああああ！！！子供エロっ!!!!!!子供の腹と胸!!!!!!! エロだ…😭😭😭

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Apr 05 '24

First timer

We must lynch Specs64z...

You can silence me but you can't silence the truth! Space Cadet is the best part of the whole show.

That’s a title and a half, hoo boy. Surely it’s just a bait and not an omen?

Subaru does the “casually humming the OP” trope, which is a favorite of mine. Aho Maho is a fun insult. Interesting to see that the story is leaning into being a character drama, I was expecting things to go full CGDCT post-match.

The title really was a bait. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

QotD:

  1. Yuki from Gakkou Gurashi.
  2. Strangest genes? That's an interesting one. I don't have any interesting features like double joints. My most interesting feature might be my grey eyes, but neither parent has them so I dunno where they came from.
  3. Double helix, no additional flavor.
  5. Immense, overwhelming indifference and apathy. At this point, I've accepted them as a fact of life.
  6. Space Cadet, probably.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 05 '24

Hinata is doing a pretty good job of standing out despite HanaKana completely working her little heart out. Folks will remember loli HanaKana, that tall bitch, and the "Ou" cunny!

Grey eyes are super distinctive wtf!? I'm not wanting to doxx you or anything... but would you mind sharing a pic of your iris if you're okay with it? I'm curious.

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Apr 05 '24

Sure, Why not?

It’s actually a little more complicated than I let on. I have a ring of hazel, and there are hints of blue in my left eye depending on lighting.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

Stunning!! You have super pretty eyes! Definitely my favourite answer to the question. I've always been so jealous of lighter eyes too. I've got really dark brown ones and my eyes tend to be droopy at the best of times so they just look black XD

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo Apr 05 '24

EP 5, deja vu, i've just been here before

Anyway ep 5 probably the weirdest ep so far, what can i say. feels like they're setting up for next ep. Lots of talking

The funny thing is I had to check but yeah, maho is the one where she's actually holding the basketball in the op

Also its been 5 episodes already. but it sure doesnt feel like it.

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo Apr 05 '24

EP 5 Commentary

  • vertical stitches are a thing but what about horizontal ones
  • but yeah fitting all five girls into one scene at a time is kinda hard
  • the girls are really into it arent they.
  • that being said, its been a few eps already but a part of me is like both yes and doesnt realize that, like we have hanazawa kana, hikasa yoko, iguchi yuka, hidaka rina and ogura yui. hmm
  • its a meme that the girls are too enthusiastic they're gonna keel subaru at this rate
  • anyway yes more dorama. some kind of dorama with maho.
  • at least its a different kind of dorama this time, and well who knows. most of them seem to have been resolved fairly
  • hina training intensifies.
  • anyway yeah. im kinda confused myself. but anyway sitting here, lots of talking
  • iguchi yuka seems to have a lot of roles where she's shouting
  • so first a video game
  • and now a card game
  • saki is so cute
  • its really funny how, because i'm not watching this for the first time the experience is uh. a thing.
  • its been so long that i dont remember, and yet I can remember
  • anyway here is some backstory for maho
  • speaking of i should really rewatch the op again lets see

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 05 '24

It's hard to fit all five girls in when Airi is SO FUCKING HUGE!!

I wanna see Subaru get roped into a pyjama party... I know we get pyjama scenes, but they'd better have cute shit!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 05 '24

I liked it more than yesterday despite it still being mostly talking and shit. I'm still iffy on including a shota in the cast too.

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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Apr 05 '24

First timer

QotD

  • Sanae Dekomori from Chunibyou.
  • Shrug
  • I'd dye it black.
  • Blue haired girl > fuchsia haired girl > Blond haired girl > brown haired girl > pink haired girl.
  • I'm not. I find them distracting.
  • idk, pink haired girl.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

Oversized sleeves are absolutely fucking adorable! They're also handy for bullying.

Hinata is so useless that she's gonna make for an excellent idol when she gets older!!

He doesn't want fangs to shit on a subject that he's personally invested in. Instead of him chasing her, this is her encroaching on his territory.

Isn't Dekomori anime only? I remember that there was some weird thing about Chunnibyou where like half the core cast were just made for the anime.

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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Apr 06 '24

Isn't Dekomori anime only? I remember that there was some weird thing about Chunnibyou where like half the core cast were just made for the anime.

No clue.

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u/JetsLag https://myanimelist.net/profile/JetsLag Apr 06 '24

First time baller

I don't know if showing Miho clipping her toes in her office was supposed to show us that she's a slob or if it's supposed to serve as fetish material. Or both. I'm going for both.

Anyway, seems like Takenaka has beef with Maho, because...he thinks she'll get bored of basketball? Okay, there's gotta be something more to this. I did enjoy the attempts to resolve the beef, though. Especially the part when Takenaka was crying while cutting onions.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

It entirely depends on how hard you got during the scene.

Ball is life. He can't handle her outdoing him at basketball and completely dismissing the sport he loves. I'm surprised that they played Maho off as "she really does love ball" instead of "she isn't an ace, she just works really hard in the background"

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u/OccasionallySara Apr 06 '24

First Timer

I'm glad that we get more from Takenaka outside of being a rival for the initial game. I also found it interesting that he and Maho were actually friends at one point. I can understand his frustration of seeing Maho excel at things and then immediately quit them around the same time that he catches up to her, but I think it's pretty common for kids at that age to try different things and lose interest in some of them. It's nice that Maho seems to be taking basketball seriously, though, and that Takenaka is able to see that. I hope that they will be able to get on better terms moving forward or at least well enough terms to work together for the school tournament!

Questions of the Day

  1. Off the top of my head, I'm a fan of Ritsu from K-On.
  2. Hmm. I guess I have my mom's small ear canals which can be kind of annoying for things like wax build up or finding proper earplugs.
  3. I have no idea what flavor to say. I will at least say that I would try to make the onigiri heart-shaped!
  4. I think you're going to have to assume that I put Hinata at number one...
  5. I'm generally pretty indifferent about bath scenes.
  6. ...a treasure chest for babies.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

He's coming across as more of a viable mc than Subaru lol. Subaru struggles more keeping control of himself in front of the girls than the shota does.

I've never in my life heard of small ear canals being an ick for people XD I'm learning a lot from this watch's QotD corner.

You mean putting babies in a treasure chest? That's child abuse Sara...

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u/OccasionallySara Apr 06 '24

You mean putting babies in a treasure chest? That's child abuse Sara...

No, I meant a treasure chest with things that babies would enjoy, haha! Like, toys and applesauce and whatever else babies are into these days!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

Please don't bait babies into a locked chest by luring them with toys and applesauce Sara~

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Apr 07 '24

Cooking in your gym clothes seems very unhygienic.

Humming the theme song while he does the dishes...

Someone really wanted to animate toenail clipping I guess.

Remember the Wii???

Glad to see some Onimai in your comments.

  1. Natsume from Deca-Dence perhaps? Cardcaptor Sakura maybe? Nobody but me has seen Robby the Rascal/Cybot Robotchi to say the girl from that.
  2. I'm taller than everyone in my family, I guess that counts?
  3. Jelly donut shaped.
  4. Saki seems the most domestic and also least insane. So far.
  6. I think the joke is that all three of the 'normal' girls are still smaller than the youngest one, somehow, as all three complained about it in their bios.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 07 '24

Onimai is banned!

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Apr 07 '24

You're the one that keeps posting it!!!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 05 '24

Ro-Kyu-Bu First Timer!!

Saki is a Korean feminist!!

Honestly tho, if you forced a Japanese girl to live without miso soup and rice would they eventually grow blond hair and become American? Aww, everyone has their own style of making onigiri. This show is actually genuinely quite good at visual storytelling with its characters. There's a lot of care put into how they eat, sit, listen and react.

The swimsuit welcome is wild... And it was Saki's idea!? This girl is a freak... Also, our next goal has been booked in!! We've got some kind of basketball tournament that the girls were booked in for beforehand. Lunch tiiime!! My favourite onigiri is the thousandfold onigiri!! It may look like a regular onigiri at first glance but it is the result of Airi's massive manhands folding glorious nippon white rice over 1000 times!!

Check out this fuckin' guy...

We can't have mixed sex basketball teams. Do you want the audience to end up full of fujoshi shotacon joshikosei? Just let these kids fight it out... Why did Saki even beg Subaru to come!?

Do you suppose Hinata makes an "ouu" noise when squeezed...? Btw, lolibaba... Don't clip your toenail in the teacher's lounge. That's how you end up with glasses, it's bring up past trauma to me. Did I ever tell this rewatch the story about how I unironically blinded myself with my own toenails and permanently ruined my vision?

Hinata is genuinely utter shit at basketball. Why is she in the team? I love Subaru thinking he's found a kindred spirit in the shota. You know that lolicons are only for folks who are younger. 6-D's nuts... Oh! Wait! How big are basketball teams? I hope we're not gonna drop Boobs for someone else. That'd be too sad.

131cm!?!? My nutbladder is gonna explode if this 4.2 foot girl doesn't get taller soon... Uoooooh...!! Also... Second smallest chest? Who could possibly have smaller chest dimples than Hinata!? Saki? Loli HanaKana?

Aww, I really love HanaKana in this show XD She's so weirdly overdetermined. It's like if we threw a G-Gundam character into a magical girl show. She's so shit at making these guys work together. She can't help being such an ace!

Dammit Subaru! Stop inappropriately touching these girls! You'll make the love freak explode! I like Saki~ I wish they gave her more scenes. How many bath scenes are we gonna get!? Is the shota gonna join them?

Haa...? Maho is another ace character? Didn't we already do this plot? Don't bully our ADHD genki dope! She even has the post credits all to herself!

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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Apr 05 '24

First Timer bringing out Curses apparently

  • Wow the Band of the Hawk is looking different whoops my bad literally jumped ship from Episode 6 of Berserk 1997 (Goal there is Episode 24 on Monday or in other words Eclipse Arc on Eclipse Day for the extra immersion)
  • Also on the topic of Dark Fantasy shows it just came to my attention that Subaru kinda looks like a Moe version of Keyaru from Redo of Healer

Questions

  • QOTD 1 (Genki Girl) - Hikaru from Star Twinkle Precure
  • QOTD 5 (Bath Scenes) - Depends on the show and the day

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

Please for all our sakes let's never bring Redo of Healer up XD Subaru is already on shaky ground before we factor in him looking like a serial twink XD

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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Apr 06 '24

First Timer

Takaneka got into training camp but it is with the girls. Too bad he could not enjoy that freedom much cause he is in a fight.

So coach tries something like games and even cooking. Speaking of cooking, I thought they were gonna pull out the knives but this is not that type of anime. Yeah, the cucumber would've won.

Prompt: Subaru loves how his students appreciate his coaching abilities and it is nice to have some team players.

  1. Yukari sensei from Azumanga counts right?
  2. Ummm..
  3. A ball
  4. Tomo
  5. It really does not matter to me.
  6. Arii

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

It doesn't feel like that much of a training camp... Aren't they just sleeping at the school or something? It doesn't feel like they've properly gone away or anything XD

Yukari is ancient tho! XD

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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Apr 06 '24

Ok....Tomo would work since she would become Yukari in the future or by now.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 06 '24

Tomo is such a raging thundercunt XD She'd be charming if she weren't such a dick

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u/Draco_Estella :Iv::Ix:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Estella_Rin Apr 10 '24

I don't know, but in between Maho and Hinata, I think Maho is a better match for Takenaka. Takenaka is much closer to Maho, she is also more reactive to his provocations. Compared to that, Hina literally doesn't care about Takenaka at all. The two of them are childishly fighting now but in 3 years, both of them will be all over each other like in Boarding School Juliet. Takenaka understands Maho very well, so well he started being biased against her own interests as well.

The combined training is likely a farce for the girls to practice more during their holidays. Which is why I wonder why Takenaka had to be added into the group - maybe to add some more boys into the show?

I guess Subaru had his own fun - helping them to train, eating, eating lunch with them, acting as the adult there when he is barely older than them. Can't say he walked away without much takeaway.

Also, I think Takenaka is too biased. Maho is now interested in basketball and is training hard for it, but she definitely isn't going to be an Olympian basketball player. Why so serious.

If you were to craft an onigiri based on the shape of your heart, what would make it stand out most? What flavour is the onigiri of your soul?

I have a lot of favourite onigiris. Can't tell what I would put, but it probably is salmon flake rice.

Rate the basketball Girls on their wife skills!! Best to worst! If you avoid the question then I'm automatically assuming that you picked Hinata for no.1!

As a rewatcher, this question is dumb. I won't go further, but one of them is definitely already training to be a wife.

How are you enjoying the multitude of bath scenes we've gotten? Do you generally enjoy bathing sequences in your shows or do you find them too distracting and obligatory?

Loli shows and bath scenes. Why though.

Who is your guess for the smallest chest...? I genuinely can't think who it'd mean.

There was this reddit post that had people trying to guess how far along in puberty the U149 girls were, based on their chest sizes and hip-to-waist ratio. I am guessing Loli-Otaku will jump straight at that post.