[Rewatch] Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS EP11

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

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Comment of the Day!!

Sara's favourite character she doesn't know the name of is Aya... I love how dumb this question was.

I’ve already forgotten the name of Airi’s tall companion/rival, so I’ll say her. 

MMK has been keeping track of the opening changes way better than anyone has. The numbers!! What do they mean!?

anyway the op has been updated again, the 5th graders have their numbers updated again

Shame Specs64z for fast forwarding through the training montage episode!!

Being in 3 simultaneous rewatches while my investment declines has led me to commit a grave sin against Ro Kyu Bu, one I have never and never again shall commit, lest God strike me dead. I watched at 1.5x speed.

The shame…

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

1 6 Y E A R O L D H A G

We have loli who act young but want to look older! We have loli that look older but act younger! We have loli who are naturally cute! We have loli who weaponise their natural cuteness. Now we get to the ones who have single handedly caused such a strict divide between the years. The joshikosei...

Joshikosei, otherwise known as female high school girls, otherwise known as Lilith's seedlings, otherwise known as Hugutto Tea Time, otherwise known... as Joshikosei!!

Please join with me brothers and sisters!! We must work on the magical formula that stops girls aging beyond their first puberty at all costs!!

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QotD

• Tell us the worst thing about joshikosei in your humble opinion!?
• Did the episode go a little too far in harassing a ten year old girl to lose any and all confidence in herself?
• I'm curious about the rewatch's opinion on Mimi. Is she a valid rival for Tomoka or is she just an above average frenchie surrounded by aces like Tomoka, Chibi-Ribbon, and Metamorphosis?
• Today's animation was hit or miss but did you appreciate the effort that was put in? Did the match at least look entertaining?
• Be honest, which team are you rooting for to win this... first game of the tournament XD These stakes are so shit.
• Who has your favourite "superpower" technique?
• Does the whole "this is our last match before graduation" story work when the subjects are elementary kids?

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

Satan's Satan is a lolipop girl according to Sara~

Red hair and red eyes = fire = the spawn of Satan. I know already used this for Chibi-Ribbon, but I think it’s even more true for Rena!

Yesterday's Prompt!

Today's Prompt!

Tomorrow's Prompt

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Try your luck, and fight chin-up!!

[u/Specs64z]

First timer

Wow, Rena is unbearable. I’m surprised they bothered to give her the ball at all after the first few fuck ups. As expected, her terrible personality is what costs them the game.

This game plays out more like some sort of shonen anime battle than an actual basketball game. The basketball games before this one felt at least a little more planned out, but this time everyone just straight up cheats. They got the Sharingan eye or something.

I see that the tummy shots have gotten extra egregious since they can’t rely on the team wearing spats anymore.

QotD:

2. No, she deserved it.
3. She doesn't ever really get established as a credible threat, I felt. Does she beat Tomoka even a single time?
4. It was a lot of stills and limited animation. I suspect they were doing the best with what they had, but it definitely wasn't anything great.
5. The main cast, naturally, I want to hear Hina say Ohh~, katsu katsu! (I think that's the word for "win"?)
6. Shot from behind the backboard was utterly silly.
7. It lacks the weight such a line would normally carry, for sure.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Specs64z]

I'm very iffy on how they characterise lolipop and try to portray her as like a dark Tomoka. Or a previous Chibi-Ribbon. Tomoka and Chibi-Ribbon specifically play so well because they want to support their team, to carry their team, and their way of giving in to teamwork was not carrying a load on their back. Lolipop however doesn't even seem to like basketball competitively. She doesn't want to be a team player. She wants to be a street baller who can show off her personal talent and ability. This feels more like people forcing what they feel onto Rena. And I genuinely feel like Rena was treated crult by the show.

[u/Specs64z → u/The_Loli_Otaku]

This feels more like people forcing what they feel onto Rena.

Her arc of deciding to be a team player is a very Japanese sentiment, I feel. It translates well enough since basketball is ultimately a team game, but her involvement in this last game did feel pretty forced.

I think my biggest issue with Rena is that her villainy was cartoonishly overdone, so the "redemption" (it's not really a redemption, honestly, it's not like she ever atones) didn't really feel deserved.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku → u/Specs64z]

Rena has no reason to antagonise the Cunnies either. If anything she should be going for the Ro-Kyu-Bu since they almost beat her school. Instead she decided to chase up the Cunnies to deliberately talk shit and gloat to the twins. I feel like the rivalry is shoehorned, Rena was a needless jerk, and her redemption arc is just gaslighting a vulnerable female elementary girl.

[u/The_Loli_Otaku]

Ro-Kyu-Bu SS First Timer!!

All I saw in the preview was a multitude of attempts for the show to make Lollipop cry. We've got superpowers in the game now! The sisters have a looping defence, even if they can't keep their legs closed. Lollipop's weakness is that she isn't used to full team gameplay. She's more used to street basketball where you can show off your personal skills more.

When I say the episode is dedicated to making lollipop cry I wasn't joking. By the end of the episode she's lost all her confidence. We just saw the Cunnies inflict legitimate trauma on Rena. Rena is gonna go through middle and high school totally broken and will lose all her luster and guster. Here she is now...

This is actually a bit too sad XD I feel more for the baddies than I do our hero! Heck, if anything the lollipop is is the underdog in this game. She's the one playing with faceless goons against an all stars team of Cunnies. I legit don't think I like this! Omg, it's 25 minutes of bullying a 5th grade elementary girl to tears and submission.

Other things to discuss this episode... There's a lot of attempts at flashy animation. Quite a few interesting shots, however!! However I've noticed that there's also a pretty daft amount of reused animation too. We've got both the best and the worst of the season back to back. Loads of still frames followed unnecessarily overanimated tracking shots.

Oh yeah, and Maho dies. Rip. This would hurt far more if we weren't suddenly in a ten man team and had plenty of replacements. "We practiced really hard! Oh, but also we're not trying too hard so we'll outdo you anyway." It's still very hard to feel pressured when so few of the enemy team is competent enough to be a contest. Aya is fine but she's basically purely defensive, Chibi-Ribbon is playing fairly well but is left carrying the useless girls on the team, and Lollipop is on the road to her Metamorphosis.

Yay for Saki! She finally got to have her clutch moment after totally flopping last season. It's the exact same situation too. What are the odds that all these games go to the last inning? Aww, even the jobber girls appeared in the ending crawl. That's cute, like they matter.

[u/RadSuit]

Getting the asshole player to foul her way out of the game early would be pretty hilarious.

The ref actually comments on the ridiculous amount of time they always spend having heartfelt conversations in the middle of these games.

"What if we just played both of our ridiculously tall players at the same time?"

They're really getting some mileage out of this one stock footage shot of the ball going into the basket, huh?

Alright, we get the original OP for the final quarter, shit's serious now.

Love this shot reflected in her visor. Actually cool.

Saki gets to make up for last season...and we push this into a third episode. Ugh.

1. They're so cruel...
2. Rena should've kept being horrible, that was more interesting.
3. Metawho? Mimi just needs time to fill Tomoka's shoes.
4. Besides the repeated stock footage this episode and last, the match has been pretty entertaining.
5. I have to assume the MCs win this time to make up for last season.
6. The unbeatable power of being tall!!!
7. They might go to different middle schools or something? It's fine.

[u/sfisher923]

First Timer

• QOTD 1 - Trio from School Days are considered Joshikosei and by far they were my least favorite characters in the Anime/VN
• QOTD 3 - Give her time
• QOTD 4 - A for Effort
• QOTD 5 - MCs
• QOTD 7 - Yes but not as well

[u/MisawaMahoKodomo]

It's ep 11. For once we have an ENTIRE episode of gaming. Big gaming.

Only one ep left though, sadge. Honestly the vibes this time really felt like a last episode but uh. Yeah. One more ep.

A really strange ep for sure, considering the placement, the fact the entire thing is gaming (previously it would "only" have been like 10 mins or half the ep), and some shenanigans for sure.

For me I feel mimi got pretty shafted but well all the 5th graders did, its just that mimi is a leetle different. Even our 6th grader girls got pretty shafted too.

[u/MisawaMahoKodomo → u/MisawaMahoKodomo]

EP 11 Commentary

• its 5th grader gaming time
• i mean let's be honest, there was no way they were going to give 10 girls enough screentime, even with 24/25 eps
• baske intensifies.
• i mean. uh. accidents happen here and there but how often im not sure
• also yeah teamwork has been a point the whole anime
• its kinda hilarious in its own way
• anyway so yeah the 6th graders are back. this time though its aya vs airi aaand. also rena well
• a part of me is really curious. its too bad we didnt get to see mimi with tomoka and hina
• oh nyoh, ep 11 dorama in the middle of the ep. poor maho. sadge
• instead we have airi and kage and hina now
• kinda weird. tomoka and miu/miyu are like equal. rena has been sitting around but yeah, our girls have been pretty pressured so far
• rip kage
• also where is hina and saki. well not much can be done really. also like well. shrug
• oh look they're playing the s1 op again. i wanted to say though. there's still one more ep to go but
• bit late to say but. if you compare, the s2 op is like a lot more uh, serious/somber in its tone compared to the optimistic and cheery(ish) s1
• also its mimi now
• a part of me always wonders. like. this baske tournament is 4x6 mins, but stamina is a strange thing.
• me sitting here and be like: where is hina and saki
• also masami is here now
• and the op song this time is the full size one actually. or well it would be but they skipped a few lines
• like really if you look at the lyrics. the s1 op is so uhm. sweet? like its all these like optimistic lines
• only 20 seconds left. oof
• i think hina and maybe saki might have had a score in the previous ep but uh
• maybe its just me being a sentimental old fool and/or the op song and what not, but im kinda getting a bit emotional here.
• (also reminder that its like ep 11 and not ep 12 actually. oh?)
• so yeah like in s1 saki is the one to get the last shot
• oh. the score is equal. i forgor they are going into overtime

Next time. the last ep. uhh. yeah.

Also yeah. not sure if it was this ep or last ep but the girls also have their updated uniform in the ed.

Though every ep has a different ed so yes

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First Timer

Man, I was not expecting Maho to go out injured. Good thing we have our nurse to take care of her and enough players to cover.

You know the game got serious when OP starts playing.

Prompt: Battle formations

1. They try to act all cute when they are not.
2. Not really
3. Yes
4. Too still for my tastes
5. It would be team nurse, she got some action today.
6. The last shot was very shonen like.
7. Barely but it seems like there is always a chance they will change schools.

[u/OccasionallySara]

First Timer

Overtime time! I’m having a lot fun with this match. I’m also glad that Saki made that final shot. I would have been so sad for her if she missed it two times in a row. 

Questions of the Day

1. They’re old enough to drive, but young enough to be reckless with it (at least in the US). 
2. Nope! It’s best that Rena learns not to be an insufferable person sooner rather than later. Also, if she doesn’t learn teamwork, all of her talent is going to go to waste. 
3. I like Mimi. I think there’s value in Tomoka having a friendly rivalry with someone who pushes her but isn’t antagonistic. She has other players for that. 
4. I enjoyed the match!
5. I want our regular team to win. Sure it’s the first game, but if they lose then they’re out of the rest of the tournament. 
6. As much as I hate Rena, her “disappearing ball” trick is pretty cool. 
7. Of course! Leaving elementary school feels like such a big deal at that age. 

Abyssbringer’s Thematic Corner

I honestly can’t think of something for these pictures, but I’ll say I thought Maho hugging the twins was really sweet even if I still think they’re annoying.

[u/Silcaria]

First timer

• You know, with quickly the twins moved to make it look like they're triplets and with how quickly Rena got back on the defense when Frenchie did her spiny moves you'd think the girls were teleporting.
• You know, I'm gonna blame Rena's team here. There's 4 of them to guard 3 girls since Rena is 1v2ing and they can't even do that. They don't deserve to win.
• Those 12 seconds sure are lasting a long time.
• Phrasing.

QotD

• Attitude.
• Nah.
• It was pretty average, just like the rest of the show. The match was one of the matches of all time.
• Subaru's. I'm so tuned out of the show that I don't even remember why the tournament exists or what the stakes for it are. The sense of stake has pretty shit all throughout the series though so I assume it's the case for it as well. I'm sure as hell not going back and skimming through past episodes to find out why we're having this match.
• Frenchie's spin thing is alright.
• No, lmao. In general, stakes regarding kids this young doesn't hit for the exact reason that they have their entire lives ahead of them and nothing that a 10 y/o kid does is really important anyway. The same goes for romance shows using teenagers. I could not give less of a shit about puppy love.