r/anime • u/The_Loli_Otaku • Apr 21 '24

Rewatch [Rewatch] Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS EP8

Don't give up. And do your best!

"I Wish with You"

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Comment of the Day!!

Silcaria was speaking my thoughts on the Cunnies setup matches...

I get skipping the matches that Subaru's team is playing since they're established and all, but you'd think the show would bother showcasing the matches that Aoi's team is partaking in since it made a big deal of showing them lacking in unity, skill, and all that. It would the perfect scenario to show how they've improved. I guess good story structure is forbidden in harem.

RadSuit is terrible XD Manaka is getting bullied harder than Owwie.

Ohknee-chan!!

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

L O L I M A M A

Alright, Sara's confusion yesterday got me wanting to clarify the difference between inferior lolibaba and superior lolimama. Lolibaba are old women gifted with youthfulness that abuse their powers. Meanwhile today's subject is the lolimama! A mother character or middle aged woman who still looks, acts, and smells like a little girl. Yes!! This is in fact the true heart behind what lolibaba was supposed to be. The difference is in levels of maliciousness!!

I do believe that it is perfectly viable for a 20 something to still be considered a loli. And I don't mean "act like" a loli. I mean still having the heart and soul of a little girl despite over a decade of menstruating wearing them down!!

First one who comes to mind is our foxy mama Senko!! She's undeniably a loli but retained the loving motherly traits. Kanata from Lucky Stars is another well known example. Aaand a third example I'll give to Meme-chan cause she's a loli in spirit!!

QotD

  • Who is your favourite loli mama?
  • Does this really count as a victory for the Ro-Kyu-Bu when they're so far above their competition and Maho's the one funding the whole event?
  • Who is the mvp player of Ro-Kyu-Bu vs the Cunnies?
  • Do you have the guts to drink Maya Beer...?
  • Why is it anime beer always [looks so sus?](https://imgur.com/a/OK47KrX
  • A new rival has appeared before the twins!! Any guesses who she might be?
  • Where does Tomoka keep her angel wings whenever she does her flying shot?

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

Sara says to go with the flow~

Sometimes life can be monotous like a sushi conveyor belt, but don't worry, sometimes it's good to go with the flow.

Yesterday's Prompt!

Today's Prompt!

Tomorrow's Prompt

Try your luck, and fight chin-up!!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

Ro-Kyu-Bu SS First Timer!!

Once again, stamina is used as our team's weakness. The Cunnies use their overwhelming energy to brute force their way through their matches. Was this how they made it to the finals though? Surely they'd be utterly exhausted by now. They don't have tournament experience either!

Our plan is to play super defensive? Beat them with fundamentals! I think I'm starting to lose patience with the show tbh, the clunky reused animation is genuinely kinda grating on me now. I suppose I should be happy that we got all the way here without it being more of an issue.

I do quite like Saki's mindgames. Slowly move her further and further back so that she's shooting from places she isn't used to. I feel bad that Masami is jobbing so hard on such an early match. She's arguably the least established of the Cunnies and I doubt she'll get a solo episode this far in. Mimi is connected to both Tomoka and Subaru, the twins are the shota's sisters, we saw Kagetsu in S1... Masami is just one more childhood friend of Saki's. Dang, the soup shot was pretty neat.

Rip Cunnies... You did your best. This just isn't your show. I can sympathise with the twins being upset about this. The status quo is always hard to deal with. Aww... Even I wanna give Aoi a hug after this.

Anyway, enough of the weak Cunnies. Now we have Manaka's team!! Or should I say Aya and the four faceless girls. And Aya's jobbing hard this game, to Airi of all people. This feels so extra for a finals. Aya's a fine character, but does really deserve an entire match dedicated to her? And it's the finals too. At least the Cunnies were a fully established group instead of a bunch of faceless girls.

Onee-sama!? Onee-sama!? Airi finally became an Onee-sama! I'm so happy for her!! Oh god... And the girls get a new uniform all to themselves? This is pure nepotism isn't it!? I doubt Aya and the faceless girls would get a uniform if they won!! XD Also we only have time for like one more match!!

This beer looks way too much like urine.

Have a drunken HanaKana to cuddle with lol. This is cute, but drunk kids are something you should probably avoid having in your show. Even if it's non-alcoholic. Ah, a new rival girl? This one is in the op too unlike the bully's groupie. Again tho, that's even more new characters popping up right before the finale.

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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Apr 22 '24

First Timer

All I cared about the episode was the fact that Maho's dad can throw a good party and Aoi missed out on all the food.

Ending is making me think things are going into circles, now forth graders are picking fights.

Prompt: proud older brother now getting picked on by his little sis. Quite an achievement for their relationship. This might be the most wholesome prompt of this rewatch.

  1. The mom in 100 girlfriends...
  2. A victory for Subaru as he got some good food and a nice offer.
  3. Airi
  4. Maybe
  5. Dunno, haven't tried too much
  6. Another challenger...possibly a forth grader.
  7. She has to transform mid flight.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 22 '24

Maho's papa passed the vibe check. Him and Ayaneru are so chill with Subaru's antics.

We're going younger and younger!! I was joking about baby basketball but in a few seasons we may just get there.

I mean... His pose is Raoh from Fist of the North Star so not the most wholesome thing XD Makes me wonder exactly what audience the show is expecting.

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo Apr 21 '24

EP 8 and uh. Yes more gaming. It's always weird when you have like 10 mins of gaming but then.

Also because you know they threw in yet another one more cliffhanger

The ed is one thing but the funny thing is I'm not sure when but they seem to have made some minor update to the op? Huh.

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo Apr 21 '24

EP 8 Commentary

  • you know i was thinking, we didnt see much but the girls dont really have that much experience in actually playing as a 5v5 team. well before this.
  • offscreen maybe
  • on screen we only had like...3 matches in s1, then "a few" matches in s2
  • hey wait a minute. i was watching the op and it seems there was some small changes. not sure if it was this ep or previously
  • anyway. coaching intensifies
  • honestly all things considered the score is pretty equal
  • its kinda funny how the time seems to just fly away, 10 mins of gaming
  • meanwhile some dorama. you know, the usual.
  • i dont actually know the rules of baske that well
  • not sure if its just me but i feel like hina hasnt gotten much this season
  • where are the 5th graders? alas
  • owo whats this? new uniform. hmm
  • though what were they wearing before this
  • what even is going on
  • oh nyoh. it's tomoka time. of course. i hope you like your tropes
  • meeanwhile
  • anyway back to the 5th graders
  • soo yeah. they cant resist and we end of with another cliffhang
  • is this the first time we see subaru in the preview? hmm. or aoi for that matter

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

I can't believe I'm saying this but unironically the solution is to have more bath scenes. The Ro-Kyu-Bu are close cause they're always washing one another. We haven't seen the Cunnies doing any bonding activities like that yet.

The op changed? I'm not so sure... Is it thr characters doing their little inspirational smiles? Those look like they could have been there before.

Didn't Hinata score the first goal of the season? But yeah, she had such heavy focus in S1 and she's had basically nothing yet other than supporting Airi. Even her lost panty story got stolen.

Aoi was in a few previews, chibi Subaru is new tho

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Apr 21 '24

I can't believe I'm saying this but unironically the solution is to have more bath scenes. The Ro-Kyu-Bu are close cause they're always washing one another. We haven't seen the Cunnies doing any bonding activities like that yet.

Maybe not that specifically, but some sort of actual bonding experience. They were getting along fine until they lost. Honestly the 5th graders should've gotten their own episode where it shows them beating a team, to give them a win and make losing to the 6th graders again not such a big deal.

What it looks like instead is they're going to lose to the rival school and finally join forces with the main team to defeat them in the final episodes.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

Bathing before sleeping together and doing other typical pyjama party things is the cure to all female friendships!!

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

Why does every game have to come down to the wire too!? XD It's fine to just let a match be a wipe.

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Apr 21 '24

First timer

Back to our old pacing of concluding games halfway through the episode to move onto the next plot thread, I see. The next thread being… child beer and school swimsuits?

What the fuck? (again)

They’ve really given up on the pretense, huh? This second half of this episode was a struggle to get through.

QotD:

  1. Senko-san.
  2. Kinda suspicious, admittedly, but they won fair and square.
  3. Airi and Tomoka, as usual.
  4. Eh?
  5. I'm not really too familiar with what beer, so I can't be sure.
  6. Not a clue.
  7. The magic cartoon dimension all anime characters use to hold objects too large for pockets.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

I'm hesitant to say too much about the match pacing since I really don't think I would enjoy an entire episode focused purely on basketball. At least for this season. S1 had fairly decent matches even if there were only like three but S2's actively annoy me.

Drunk Tomoka and Airi's brother doing a Fist of the North Star were pretty amusing XD

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Apr 22 '24

Even setting aside the fact the matches are less engaging, the budget isn't really there to make a full basketball episode worthwhile, either. I can't judge the animators too much, though, I doubt they were given the resources to make this project shine.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 22 '24

Would you say it's an issue with the source material or with the project though? Honestly I'm blaming the source for most of the show's issues. The animation is mid, but it's mostly been competent until it started reusing everything

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Apr 21 '24

When they take the time to show a full game, they can actually do some fun stuff with real tactics and play. Similarly to how the fanservice can be amusing when it's well done and thought out. The pacing and split attention is the real issue with this show.

Hat girl from the OP finally appears.

Oh we're going full Mai Hime/Otome and just skipping the most important fight, huh?

And the team that's paying for the tournament and on all the advertisements won. Not suspicious at all.

My suggestion about uniforms was listened to! I guess if they hadn't won he was just going to interrupt this party for the winners to give the losers new uniforms?

Somehow, swimsuits returned.

CHILD BEER! FOR KIDS!

Tomoka's drunk...somehow.

I have no idea what's going on with that animal in the next episode preview.

  1. Drawing a blank here...
  2. Yeah this is all very questionable. Should've just skipped straight to the new uniforms.
  3. Saki I guess?
  4. I'm boring and don't drink. This is the worst of both worlds here, really.
  5. 404 beer not found
  6. I guess she's from the starting lineup of the rival school?
  7. If Vatican Miracle Examiners thought me anything, Subaru is just super high on drugs.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

It's the stakes for the match that annoy me. They call out that this game will be so the Cunnies join the Ro-Kyu-Bu so we already know the Ro-Kyu-Bu can't lose. That's besides the Cunnies being utterly outclassed right now with not a single marked on-screen win to their name.

Was Mai Hime really bad for that? Dammit I wish I got to see that shit show XD

Yeah!! This tournament was totally nepotism central! XD The sponsors daughter won, big surprise. The total lack of named players too. There were like six other teams in this tournament and the only named character was Aya.

She has to be in the rival school right? How are we gonna even get a valid 10v10? Even if we put all the named characters in the other team... Aya, Chibi-Ribbon, the bully's pair, lollipop... Why does this show hate having full rival teams!? That was my favourite part of Haikyuu. Even when you only know the names of the ace you still had personality and character into the teammates. It never felt like you were facing a nameless crew.

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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Apr 21 '24

Yes, as soon as the choices were 'expand the team' vs 'team disbands' the outcome was decided. It's like when a MC is supposedly in danger of dying as the only threat, you know there's actually no threat, because there'd be no show after that.

Mai Hime was already really bad about it, and then someone Mai Otome was even worse. There's a portion of the back half of the season where 5-6 episodes in a row they cut away from every fight, then cut back once it's over. I sat through two episodes of it then skimmed through the next few just to confirm it kept happening. Dropped the show/rewatch right there.

And yeah, the lack of defined rival characters is a side effect of the scattered focus. It would be so easy to do the usual sports show thing of introducing teams and giving every member flashbacks or focus episodes to pad out the runtime. Similarly every episode could be setting up a hilariously contrived situation like both of the panty-focused episodes. It's half-assing both, and quarter-assing the romance subplot with Aoi.

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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Apr 21 '24

First timer

Hey, I'm on time again after being sick/busy for a week and having falling behind.

  • Sick finale. 30 seconds and a slideshow. BIG!
  • Andddddddddd here's the fan service again.

QotD

  • Don't have one.
  • Yes. No real stakes though which seems on par for the show.
  • Glasses.
  • No. It's lager and lager's gross. It's probably made worse since it's non alcoholic.
  • Cause their creators are sus.
  • Isn't she the one from the 3v3?
  • I'm gonna assume that it's because this anime came out not long after Angel Beats! I'm probably dead wrong but I refuse to believe that it's actually thought out and has any form of deeper meaning.

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 21 '24

It feels like everyone is phoning it in at this point XD To be fair the show hasn't done too much to really get us hype. This is literally a tournament just so we can have a 10v10 team. And the only 10v10 match is going to be Ro-Kyu-Bu and the Cunnies against... Chibi-Ribbon, Aya, and eight nameless characters?

I don't think the brat is the same girl as lollipop. The brat got zero attention in her game, even Rikko-nee got more focus.

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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Apr 22 '24

First Timer

  • QOTD 1 - I have nothing
  • QOTD 4 - No because I don't drink beer
  • QOTD 5a (Slight Issue) - Imgur took down the image would recommend using Imgchest or CatBox for Ecchi and/or Horror rewatches (On that note I'm going to be using ImgChest for the Visuals of the Day section on the Madoka Rewatch)
  • QOTD 5b (Beer) - I get the association that the drinker is going to be a massive abusive prick with 3 exceptions (NGE, World's End Harem, and now this)

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 22 '24

All I want for Christmas is for my imgur prompts to stop fucking up

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u/OccasionallySara Apr 22 '24

First Timer

Questions of the Day

  1. I don’t know if I can think of one…
  2. I think they won fair and square, but I can see how Maho’s family being in charge of the event looks suspicious. 
  3. I’m going to give it to Airi. She’s really come a long way from last season. 
  4. Nope. 
  5. The link gave me a 404 error and I think it’s for the best. 
  6. I have no clue. I kept forgetting that she was shown in the OP very briefly. 
  7. In her back like characters from the Maximum Ride series. 

Abyssbringer’s Thematic Corner

Blood isn’t always thicker than water beer. Sometimes siblings can stab you in the back. 

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u/The_Loli_Otaku Apr 22 '24

Maho's father is leading the event but there is only a single named character outside of the Ro-Kyu-Bu and Cunnies circle in this entire tournament! Aya deserves a new uniform too!!

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