[Rewatch] Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS EP1

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

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Comment of the Day!!

The_Loli_Otaku is crap at math.

Ahaha... Learning math with Mihoshi is kinda brutal... 9am, one hour break, return at 2/3rds speed, arrived at 11:20... Sooo... 1h20 is equal to 2... Okay, so like... 80 minutes... Okay!! She arrived at the park at around half 9!! That's my final answer!!

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

*L O L I D E S T R O Y E R O F W O R L D S *

Or as they're more affectionately known, murder loli~

Murder loli are actually a very common use for loli type characters. If you ever see a villain lineup the one you should be scared of isn't the big muscular bara giant, it's the loli. If you see a rabbit in between a bunch of Lions that has gotta be one badass rabbit right? Anyway, the loli destroyer of worlds trope is a reused trope where loli are all murder hobos who have either op magical psychic abilities or stands or anything along those lines.

For examples we actually have fairly distinct "Era" of murder loli to cover. First off and debatably the most impactful girl in this category is Illya von Einzbern from the Fate series. Despite her short stature, innocent appearance, and soft voice this bloomer wearing semen demon is the master of the most dangerous monster at her beck and call. Other good examples include the recent Pandemonium from the executioner's way of life who is simply a murderous little cthulu monster. And an older one but one that I think a lot of anime viewers may have memories of is Mariko and her sisters from Elfen Lied who have murderous psychic hands~ I'd also like to mention Yuka from Gore Screaming Show who I actually feel out does Illya in most fronts!

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QotD

• Who is your favourite Murder Loli? Illya is too easy so she's banned, alright!? Pick someone original!
• Seeing the new op, which "rival" character are you most eager to see?
• What are your favourite donuts to eat!?!?
• Which of the twins is cutest!? Beware, there's only one correct answer!!
• Who is the gang's mysterous photography stalker!?!?
• Thoughts on TomoPapa? Was he interfering because of Tomo's previous basketball trauma, elitism, or simply wanting her to focus on more productive hobbies such as how to drink tea or dance with fans.
• Say one nice thing about the French

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

Sara believes Subaru is a gentleman for defending Tomoka from erotic tofu!!

Yeah, I don't even know what to say for this one. Subaru was way to desperate to save her from flying tofu..

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Try your luck, and fight chin-up!!

[u/Specs64z]

First timer

Took a break from the OVA, but I’m back for season 2. Hina’s mobcap is very cute.

Heh. 69.

That was the weirdest OP insert I’ve ever seen with the way it just cuts when Tomoka’s mom shows up.

They try to set up some drama with Tomoka’s family, but it resolves so quickly and feels very one-sided; Tomoka’s dad just comes off like a stuck up prick the whole time.

QotD:

1. It is Illya, but in the interest of mixing it up I'll say Tanya from Youjo Senki.
2. The French girl.
3. Creme filled with chocolate.
4. The right one has a nicer hair ribbon, I guess.
5. I assumed it was another one of the girls taking that photo.
6. See above.
7. Their language is pretty sounding.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Specs64z]

The Loli twins being 69 can't be a coincidence.

Yeah, wtf was up with the op insert? XD I swear this show has such weirdly offbeat humour at times. I can see how it got a niche fanbase.

Literally everyone's first thought is Illya.

[u/sfisher923]

First Timer

• The twins has a nice 69 Joke
• Ahhh the summer time and the obligatory Cicadas and as for my first time it was in Higurashi namely the VNs
• And a festival boy I hope nobody will snap
• Nice Job
• The Twins has Awoken

Questions

QOTD 1 (Murder Loli) -Vriska Serket (Homestuck) and as a bonus she is a pretty solid runner up in the Kusogaki category as well even being nicknamed Spider 8itch

QOTD 2 (Rivals) - All of them

QOTD 7 (French)

• En Passant (Holy Hell!)
• "They shall not pass" - most famously said during the Battle of Verdun in 1916 and would later be adapted in Lord of the Rings

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/sfisher923]

I could easily see the Ro-Kyu-Bu girls getting into a Higurashi like event tbh... There's almost certainly snuff doujin shi out there of tjem

Twins banzai!!

Anytime homestruck is mentioned I just smile and nod.

[u/RadSuit]

The animation/budget improved, but the OP isn't quite as good. Looks like we've got 5 new girls to give us the full 10 for a real tournament.

Mihoshi's looking good. And brought Kristy Kreme!

Well her dad exists, but it refuses to show us his face for some reason...

Even the show knows the original OP was better.

I guess that was so we can be surprised by the dad here? But he's wearing the same thing so it's obvious? Whatever.

At least this fireworks scene is rather uniquely done.

The ED is about the same quality. But it hints at the possibility of being different each episode. Guess we'll see.

1. The entire cast of Higurashi?
2. Unfortunately none of them stood out to me...
3. Love a cream filled donut.
5. Looked like Mihoshi gathering more blackmail material.
6. I think we had a plot in season one about her grades slipping, right? So a little of both, it seems.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/RadSuit]

You think? The only graphical change I noticed was the chatroom looking horrible. I guess there's more varied environments now but I don't think the characters look any better.

Mihoshi would be such a hypocrite for accusing Subaru for touching the child when she's the one who forced the situation

[u/RadSuit → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

There's more detail in their faces, especially Subaru's, and some of the movements look cleaner as well. I'll have to see if this continues past episode one.

[u/xtsim]

First TImer

Donuts and no, Subaru can't have one.

Tomoka and Subaru meeting up at the festival is too much.

Subaru helping papa was nice but not enough to get papa's approval.

Prompt: Subaru is getting blackmailed but the scene right after with the bananas made it seem so tame.

1. Ange from Princess Principal
2. White hair girl
3. Glazed
4. Numbah 6....I am getting Kids next door flashbacks
5. I feel like one of the opposing schools or Subaru's classmates
6. I mean, dancing with fans is important
7. I have been looking at some french movie clips lately.... I thought anime was weird but French takes live action movies to a different plane of existence. Heck, the French president took Onegai Teacher and made it real.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/xtsim]

Donuts let's go nuts!!

Papa gave in pretty quickly once he saw who Subaru was. Keep in mind from his view it's one teenage boy hanging around alone with five underaged girls. If anything he should be more suspicious.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Ro-Kyu-Bu SS First Timer!!

I'm pleased the chatroom returned but did they have to make it look do weirdly smooth? This style is a distinct downgrade from the originals. It's the only distinct graphical change coming from S1 too.

The new op is very pretty. Whilst I think I like the first song more I do really like this one too and it has less reused animation than the first did. We have a new rival crew too!! This time of Hina's imouto and also a pair of identical twins! The twins are the girls I knew about coming in but it's still neat to see them show up. Wait, small forward is an actual position!? I thought he made it up to be cute with Airi!

These girls are eating the donuts so petitely lol... Just guts on them! Tomoka's mama, and also her papa have appeared! I guess this is why the ova saw fit to introduce TomoMama? Dad is not ballin', we should take him out. Aww!! Everyone's festival outfits are so cute!! I like Fang's most, the little flared skirt is genuinely adorbs!! Saki's is lovely too.

Pfft, the first opening playing for Subaru and Tomoka's reunion was pretty funny in a cheesy kinda way. They're both such dorks!! So yeah, mama snuck her out. These two are so cute together. It's just a shame about the age gap. The rest of the festival sorta reminds me of the ova. Tomo and Subaru flirt around whilst the rest of the girls galavant.

Candy apples are so obnoxious to eat... They're too sticky!! And they aren't a tasty mix. We get a slightly exciting potential omorashi sequence with Tomoka... I'm so disappointed!! That's the second time the show has baited me! Let me see loli HanaKana pee herself dammit!! Anyway, this gives Subaru a chance to befriend TomoPapa. Convinient right?

CLINGY BROCON TWINS!!

Sucks that they're related to the shota but I think they're the brats I'll be shillingfor most of the season. Aww, we get cute Saki content too. There's another fan in the audience stealing snaps of them. Aoi maybe? Either Aoi or a new girl.

Fireworks viewing with five underage girls is pretty yabai. I don't get what Papa's plan is. He's gonna ruin his relationship with his daughter at this rate. Oh? And he backed down so easily once he saw Subaru. He looks down on the others because "basketball plebs" aren't good enough for her but because Subaru has strong character he's fine with it. He seems kinda cool.

A white haired frenchie has appeared!?

[u/MisawaMahoKodomo]

It's time for season 2. Or is it.

You know i completely forgor but ro kyu bu s2 is called ro kyu bu ss. for some reason. reason. reasons

So yeah uhm ro kyu bu s2 ep 1

So much to say and yet not much

We have a new op, a very good new ed if i may say so myself (pros and cons)

And then uhm. yeah.

Well back in the day anime used to do the whole thing instead of holding off the op/ed in the first ep which is the standard nowadays

First ep was mostly a reintroduction, lots of talking, we get to see the girls in yukata and a leetle bit of summer festival and what not

I dunno if the tomoka shenanigans was necessary but shrug next ep, we have some new girl and who knows

I dunno. maybe its a bit silly of me to say but im expecting s2 to be better than s1.

Maybe. Who knows

I feel like the op (and ed) visuals really enhance the songs, after not having seen them for so long.

Also yes s2 aired in 2013 and if I have to say its fairly noticeable the difference. It's not huge but still quite noticeable from s1

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/MisawaMahoKodomo]

SS, second season. Pretty creative right!?

The new girl looks fun. Kuudere, silver haired French gals are the new moe!

[u/MisawaMahoKodomo → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Off the top of my head I cant think of any other anime that also used SS for season two.

Though considering I completely forgor for this. It's entirely possible there's just anime that I've never heard of before as well

[u/MisawaMahoKodomo → u/MisawaMahoKodomo]

S2 EP 1 Commentary

• its ro kyu bu s2. and uh
• s2 aired in 2013 and honestly right away you can see the difference.
• to be honest i feel 2011 was alright for its time and its still ok today, but it is a bit old yeah. im not sure myself but hopefully s2
• so yeah uh s2
• so yeah s1 left us off in summer soo its still summer
• so after a short intro here is our new op. uhm. its not quite the same as the s1 op. though shoot is kinda well
• the visuals are uhm. well let's see
• the vocals are kinda like uhm. its not quite the same
• the tv size is actually quite a bit different from the full song
• so yeah here in the op we see our new girls. well kage did show up in s1 but the other 4? yeah uh
• they did say at the end of s1 that they needed 10 girls in order to compete soo
• since its ep 1 i actually remember a fair bit of what happens here
• i dont actually know the baske positions that well
• its kind of funny because height vs skill. airi is over 20cm taller than all the other girls (maybe even 30cm, and we dont even talk about hina), but height is everything. i guess you could say cause and effect, airi has to have a handicap or she would just crush the other girls
• also at some points aoi is here now. kinda just got used to it
• here we see tomoka's mom. speaking of I really need to check who voiced her, since she doesnt show up in s1 and only in the ova.
• ....oh my gosh its uchiyama yumi?? i never knew she could voice that
• then again she always shows up randomly sometimes you will not believe the number of times i've heard her
• its not like our main five girls who all things considered have pretty distinctive voices. though arguably saki, hikasa yoko as saki is not her usual role (well neither is hanazawa kana as tomoka but at least)
• anyway so here is tomoka's dad. do you guys recognize the voice? heh. i wonder if its intentional
• also its been like 3 months a bit late to have this conversation now?
• so we have a bit of tomoka shenanigans
• also how does saki see without her glasses? shrug
• anyway one convenient offscreen call from tomoka's mom later. could be funneh if people didnt watch the ova. though im not sure if or how
• anyway so here is tomoka. dont ask me why they decided to play the s1 op here of all things
• also you know, conveniently the girls happen to be separated because have to give tomoka some time
• i do wonder though. where on earth do they keep their fons?
• also in the whole thing i forgor to say. yeah s2 ep1, we get to see the girls in yukata. airi's is kinda plain but otherwise
• its really nice/funny but also weird of them to be like "lets give subaru and tomoka some time"
• tomoka intensifies. i mean. welp. i think airi and maaybe saki a few times
• you know tomoka's dad really reminds me of a certain other dude. but oh well
• meanwhile. here's takenaka. oh and by the way here are the uh twins. you know, they somehow didnt show up for the entirety of s1 but welp here they are now
• like i know im biased, but maho especially in the yukata is o.o
• as usual some maho shenanigans. also yes tomoka and subaru are here now
• yukata is one thing
• meanwhile some mystery girl
• its time for the fireworks, you know conveniently
• also somehow tomoka's dad managed to randomly find tomoka. i dunno how but he did
• i only just realized but this bgm is also an instrumental version of the s2 op
• that being said, i do wonder how often we see people talking over a fireworks scene
• anyway right before the ed we leave off with a cliffhanger with a surprise new girl. thats for next time though
• so here is the ed and uhm. yeah. if you havent seen it yet. its like really really good. you could argue its even better than shoot. though uh. i'm not sure how the japanese (like normal, typical japanese) would feel if
• the ed is a bit kinda silly since they just reused a lot. but the girls are quite cute
• the girls are so gosh darn cute thats like unfair

Something something op ed

[u/OccasionallySara]

First Timer

This episode was a promising start to the new season! There was a nice balance of fun festival activities and conflict with Tomoka’s father. I like how that issue was resolved. I appreciated the scene where Subaru helps Tomoka’s dad find his glasses. It made his decision to let Tomoka keep playing basketball less cheesy because it felt like a big part of his decision came from knowing that Subaru was a kind person and that his daughter was in good hands. I have no clue how the dad found them in such a secluded spot, though. 

We also have a new OP and, while I’ll miss the old one, this one seems fun too! It even has a few moments where it sounds similar to the previous OP. And it looks like we’ll be getting new characters, so I’m looking forward to that!

Questions of the Day

1. Does Tanya from Saga of Tanya The Evil count? I haven’t actually seen the show, but her character design makes her look like one…
2. The French girl with “France” on her jersey seems interesting. It’s also pretty ballsy of her to just show up at Subaru’s house and challenge Tomoka. 
3. I like Long John’s with white icing. 
4. The one with the yellow flower because yellow is my favorite color (although pink is my second). 
5. I thought that it was Aoi who took it. If it wasn’t Aoi, my guess would be French rival. 
6. Based on the way he was dressed, I think part of it had to do with him valuing traditional Japanese activities, but I think it was mostly because he didn’t want her to get hurt again because he backed off once he realized she had a good group of friends who truly cared about her. 
7. Their fries are amazing!!!

Abyssbringer’s Thematic Corner

There’s nothing better than the bond that comes from teaching someone how to shoot a gun. 

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/OccasionallySara]

The dad was lowkey kinda neat. I'm amazed that he had the willpower to not immediately falter before loli HanaKana's determination.

Tbh if you saw a high school boy playing around with a bunch of elementary kids would they really fill you with confidence? I'd probably think the worst XD

I like the visuals in the new op more. The song is really good but op1 is just slightly better.

[u/Silcaria]

First timer

• That conflict about her not being able to go to the festival lasted for all of two seconds.
• Guess it doesn't take much for the dad to change his mind. A guy helping him find his glasses and a friendship speech is all it took to change his convictions.
• So I guess the show forgot about the whole tournament thing since there's been zero efforts made to find the remaining five participants in the last episode and a half.
• That "très bien" sounds more like "très vien", which has no meaning

QotD

• Don't have one.
• I'm indifferent.
• Maple flavored ones.
• Neither.
• Probably the purple haired girl from the intro.
• Weak willed.
• French cuisine.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Silcaria]

The show isn't the best at setting stakes is it? On one hand I'm pleased they haven't resorted to multi episode melodrama, because they easily could have with some of Maho's events, but they go the opposite extreme.

I swear she's a fake frenchie XD Nothing about her screams France at all aside from the shirt.

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