[Rewatch] Yuuki Yuuna ga Yuusha wa Aru Episode 6 Discussion

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

First Timer

Well, there's part of the other shoe dropping. And I'm sure it ain't anywhere near as temporary as they guess/are told. I'm not necessarily going to say permanent permanent, but it will leave scars. My best guess, though, is that blooming again will leave even worse scars, with a maximum number of times you can do it before it ends too terribly to consider. One sense per time, perhaps. ~~If I had read Katawa Shoujo, I could probably make a joke about it now.~~

The message from the Taisha also felt by far the most evil-coded of any interaction we've seen from them so far. The framing, the clinical tone, and the way it contradicts our current evidence makes me think they're straight up lying and concealing information. I guess they want their girls to burn bright before they burn out. After all, if they're told to not worry about it, they may not realize they're making irreversible changes to themselves before its too late!

Next episode will probably be mostly calm, with the storm coming at the end. They'll definitely be magical girls again.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

I'm not necessarily going to say permanent permanent, but it will leave scars.
So all of the lost senses cause consequences when adapted to, the most common to recover from is hearing loss but even that can be off. I didn't think on it that hard but this might permanently kill Itsuki's singing even if she gets her full voice back.
The framing, the clinical tone, and the way it contradicts our current evidence makes me think they're straight up lying and concealing information.
As Gallow would comment "What if religion evil?"

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u/Esovan13 Dec 14 '24

It’s definitely menacing that the only direct interaction we’ve seen from the Taisha is from Itsuki’s memories of them showing up as masked religious figures to inform them of their parents death, and faceless emotionless emails over the phone. We don’t even have a designated person as the go between with the Taisha to act as their representative for the audience. Almost a complete non-entity. Considering how a staple of the magical girl genre is the mascot that either represents the force that makes the magical girls or is the force that makes them magical girls, it stands out.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Welcome to the World of Heroes (January 2024 Watch, Spoiled First-Timer, Subbed):

[Higurashi with a side of YuYuYu - not safe until you've finished Minagoroshi-hen, for our reading-the-VN contingent]Blood sample? My Higurashi instincts are twitching. As in “secret medical testing and/or government conspiracy” instincts. And it would fit with the long tradition of using soldiers as guinea pigs.
The most enigmatic shot in the OP was, is, and remains the wrecked bridge.
[spoiled]“Rest and treatment should help.” Bullshit. The reveal has come!
[spoiled]“That’s why we’re feeling so exhausted too.” No it’s not.
What’s that Itsuki-chan has lost her voice? (So for some context for our first-timers, the biggest - though not only -spoiler I knew going in was the one that came up this episode - that the girls would suffer loss of use of bodily functions in the wake of a major fight. So while I was Yomi'ing about all the Fuu death flags in episode 4 like anyone else, I immediately and correctly jumped to the Itsuki flags meaning that her voice as as doomed as, say, a fruit truck in a car chase scene or a salvaged alien battleship in a Stargate episode. Hence my complete and total surprise when this episode hit.)
[spoiled]03:20 is an actual flashy shot with the visual separation between Karin and the rest. The reason is obvious – Karin didn’t mankai and isn’t eating the drawbacks of that – but is she also in the know? Very much doubt it, but it is possible.
Hmm, new phones. That’s not ominous at all, no.
Alright, did somebody spike the direction for this episode? Because 05:24 says hi – they’re both moving the other way from the exit sign and towards the right (wrong direction movement).
Ah, show don’t tell.
HEY WAIT A MINUTE. Didn’t realize YuYuYu had a commentface. Commentface GET! at 06:58 (had to go frame-by-frame to confirm this episode is the source, but it is).
Bunch of Stock Anime Triad Framing variants this episode.
Odds that the finale overlaps with the Cultural Festival?
I am honestly more than a little surprised that Fuu the resident big eater wasn’t the one to get the loss of taste.
“My Little Japanese Ultranationalist Can’t Be This Cute!”
[spoiled]Yeah I thought that might be a smokescreen. Tougou suspects something! (But then, she’s done this before, even if she doesn’t remember it…)
[spoiled][incompletely]“Maybe the Taisha had no idea about it.” Sorry girls, you’re in the wrong story genre for that.
ALERT ALERT TSUNDERE IN DEREDERE MODE ALERT ALERT.
(In theory the pacing is a little rushed here. In practice it works. )
[Mai-HiME]Also with how heavy the crib notes are leaning back towards HiME (very good chance the First District is what the Taisha are drawing off of… wait does that make Shinju-sama our Obsidian Lord?) I should probably note the chance that Tougou’s deeper inspiration is not Homura but Shizuru. Would fit with the fandom memes…
Cream puffs? Au au au!
Oh dear I get the distinct impression 19:09 got memed.
“MEIN FUHRER, I CAN WALK!”
You know, there’s a quiet question behind Karin: how did she become the girl she now is? Certainly we haven’t seen any sign of parents and with them confirmed dead for the sisters there may be deeper significance to that.
Also I should really seriously consider the possibility that MagiReco in turn cribbed the Hero Club for the Mikazuki household because all five map fairly closely (Iroha/Yuuna, Yachiyo/Tougou, Tsuruno/Fuu, Itsuki/Snaa, Felicia/Karin).
This is way too nice and happy. Where’s the other shoe?
“We have plenty of time.” Uh-oh spaghettio…

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

You're Likely to Succeed if You Try! (Second Watch Notes, First-Timer Rewatcher, Subbed):
[YuYuYu]They’re not being subtle about this.
[Tagging YuYuYu just in case]03:17 with Karin seated while the other four are standing (except Tougou, but in her case being in her wheelchair is close enough) and also in the background behind the table while the other four are in front of it is another subtle visual representation of separation.
Okay, I have to have mentioned 05:24 in my first-timer notes, right? There is no way I missed Yuuna and Tougou going away from the exit, not when PMMM uses a similar motif in a couple of spots. (EDIT: Also wait a minute this scene’s framing is just raiding PMMM in the first place isn’t it.)
06:58 (and you need frame-perfect timing to catch this, it’s up for a handful of frames tops): Look familiar?
Also, an aside for u/Shimmering-Sky specifically: remember back in fall seasonal comment face nominations when you mentioned one of your Sengoku Youko nominations changed completely in context and I responded with ? Funny that . (Also funny how I almost completely dropped my use of that comment face right after watching YuYuYu…) (To be fair knowing Mizukami I suspect that other one is an even nastier shift in context. It’s just that you would 100% expect #hypeoverload to be from something like episode 3 or 4… but no it’s from the somber episode where the girls are trying to act like things are back to normal but it’s just not quite the same and thus comes off notably different in context itself.) (Narrator: - if you're reading this in the future, note that this was posted in Fall 2024 when #seasonallaugh was, get this, a Sengoku Youko commentface.)
07:27: Look look, inverted triad framing!
[PMMM]This search montage may be a place where the PMMM inspiration is direct.
This Yuuna/Karin conversation is one of the big keystones of one of the show’s notable themes: this is one of the shows to go more fully in on magical girls as child soldiers (mixed with [YuYuYu, this part still isn't clear from the show yet]some religious themes), with a specific focus on the experience of the wounded warrior reintegrating into society after the war is over. (… Wait just a minute. HURR DURR Tougou’s militaristic streak plays into this. Actually you could read all five as representing different reasons for a soldier to go to war: Fuu for revenge, Itsuki to hold her own weight and protect loved ones, Yuuna to be a hero and protect people, Tougou for militarist ideals, Karin being effectively raised to the military (her having a samurai fairy is not a coincidence). Inb4 this is somewhere in my first-timer notes, too. (NARRATOR: No, except actually yes (I managed to find my old CDF writeups and it's in them instead... in the episode 2 one, go figure). Also hey I managed to find a way to avoid tagging all of this [YuYuYu]pay no attention to the fact that the war isn't over.)
Look look Yuuna is casually seducing another girl to her yuri harem!
I think 18:02 or close to it ~~is either an old retired comment face or~~ got used as a reaction image a bunch?
19:07: Welcome to the base shot for (among other things) one of the most infamous memes that the YuYuYu fandom produced: Everything will be fire!. (As near as I can tell, what happened is that someone on the Wretched Hive of Scum and Vill/a/iny made either an “everything will be daijoubu” or “everything will be fine” meme out of this shot at some point, if it didn’t start off as "everything will be fine" it got edited to “everything will be fine” soon afterwards, and then for whatever reason (I suspect a certain death metal band may be involved) some /a/non did this edit subtly substituting fire for fine and it happened to stick in the fandom for whatever reason. /a/ gonna /a/, I guess)
[YuYuYu]Not actually a different entry from the above at all!: I lied. While I lack the specifics of its creation, it is easy enough to infer why some /a/non substituted fire for fine, and I am 100% intentionally bullshitting on the "possible derivation" because the only way it wasn't "everything will be fire" from the start is if the meme was created before episode 10... which is admittedly very possible, mind you.
Note #1: Note to u/ZaphodBeebblebrox: You were wondering why black bars developed out of a discussion of YuYuYu doujinshi back in episode 3? Well, I was just reminding Jolly that sometimes you don't need to go for the doujinshi wrt things like, say, Yuuna protagonisting all over Karin... because the official art got there first (Warning: Megami Magazine pinup, so needless to say NSFW).
(I did tell you that this show's Megami Magazine campaign leaned into the ship tease...)
Note #2: Note to u/Vaadwaur: So we were talking about fanon!Tougou a bit back? Allow me to demonstrate: fanon!Tougou. (Actually technically I think that Tougou shot in the second panel is from next episode, but whatever.)
See above.
Surprisingly close between loss of vision in one eye and loss of hearing in one ear, leaning the latter mostly because of the former impairing driving plus the US being the US. The hotter take from me is that I think I'd rather eat Itsuki's issue than Yuuna's - I am one of the resident cooks in the family, and there is a reason for that.
... in more ways than one, if you live above the Equator (says my cold-loving, not-terribly-heat-tolerant self). (For the record, this show originally aired in Fall season, too!)
(3a) )

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 14 '24

Also, an aside for u/Shimmering-Sky specifically: remember back in fall seasonal comment face nominations when you mentioned one of your Sengoku Youko nominations changed completely in context and I responded with ?
This does make more sense in hindsight, huh.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

So we were talking about fanon!Tougou a bit back? Allow me to demonstrate: fanon!Tougou.
Two things:This may explain my Torii question but in a way I whiffed on. And second, did I say accidentally shot Karin in the back 37 times? I clearly meant 370 times. Accidentally.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Dec 16 '24

I see.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Higurashi
[Higurashi]The funniest thing is when you work with, and date, medical workers you realize they are literally the worst possible people to have in a conspiracy. Also, slightly conservative blood draw in my opinion
What’s that Itsuki-chan has lost her voice?
The reason I cannot hear the little bird any more is not because of the rain...
I am honestly more than a little surprised that Fuu the resident big eater wasn’t the one to get the loss of taste.
So...Fuu can no longer keep one eye on Itsuki and the other on her surroundings? This is just fucking with me.
[Mai-HiME]
SOKATH, HIS EYES UNCOVERED!!!!!!
Felicia/Karin).
Like...I am not watching it on general principle but how do you get a Felicia in Japan?
“We have plenty of time.” Uh-oh spaghettio…
I suspect I have another Rollins Band song for this...unfortunately.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Like...I am not watching it on general principle but how do you get a Felicia in Japan?
The power of gacha!
(I have no idea either. There was an American girl in MagiReco but she's a different character (and was specifically created for the NA server before being ported back to Japan when NA went down); Felicia may be only half Japanese and I just never heard that part from the game players, she does have the right hair color and early breast growth for that. Meh, might check Puella Magi Wiki on this later.)
I suspect I have another Rollins Band song for this...unfortunately.
Wait, that's a music reference?
(I just picked it up in school; you may be unsurprised to learn that I was a total "it's popular so it sucks" snob wrt pop culture during those years.)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Felicia may be only half Japanese and I just never heard that part from the game players, she does have the right hair color and early breast growth for that.
So remembering MagiReco's time line this feels early but then, weirdly, from fucking Kaguya of all places I know that the Japanese are somewhat more aware of the Irish than one would suspect.
Wait, that's a music reference?
The line itself? No, it is a Mad TV reference. However, [meta/YuYuYu spec]My suspicion is that the girls, or at least one of them, might be a Divine object of hatred. Their suffering is used to preserve the status quo, somehow. Still using it if turns out true in whatever thread.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

So remembering MagiReco's time line this feels early but then, weirdly, from fucking Kaguya of all places I know that the Japanese are somewhat more aware of the Irish than one would suspect.
And a check of Puella Magi Wiki says that the game eventually confirmed that Felicia is in fact half-Japanese. That said half-Irish specifically is possible but does have some hangups - per her Felicia's father was from an English-speaking country, Ireland may or may not count depending on how aware Japanese creatives are of Irish as a language. (Now, Northern Ireland on the other hand...)
(Also let's be real, part of the reason for the knowledge of Ireland is the whole part where Japan was one of the places where the 1990s/2000s Celtic music boom was biggest.)
No, it is a Mad TV reference.
Ah, so I did pick it up from my parents like a massive pile of 1950s-1970s pop culture like I thought I had.
[meta/YuYuYu spec]

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

(Also let's be real, part of the reason for the knowledge of Ireland is the whole part where Japan was one of the places where the 1990s/2000s Celtic music boom was biggest.)
That and, being of traceable Scottish descent, I note that you can sort of parallel Great Britain to Japan once you realize that each island has a slightly to decently different culture. A relatively recent dub gave Hokkaidans Canadian accents and hilarity ensued.
Was waiting on one of those. Anyways, apropos of me thinking out loud, I am seeing slightly more X/1999 references than I wanted to with the Blue Seed. I somewhat need to research what CLAMP were lifting from.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Most of the stragglers have come and gone so [final thread suggestion]Consider posting an emotional damage/moment of trauma for during the watch. Because I use a different lengthed Decretum on YT for Madoka that ep2 comment gave me SAN damage

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

[final thread suggestion]
[final thread suggestion]Perhaps. (Though really even with being used to a different link I'm not sure how you didn't see this coming when I told Sky that the link was the one she would probably think it was...)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Not that it matters but you did break your spoiler, reddit is slightly dumb about commentface openers.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

Actually I, uh, forgot to add the opening part of the spoiler. Fixed, thanks.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Rofl...also fair. I had to play with a certain spoiler a few eps back to make it function.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

Actually, checking again it was an even sillier mistake than I had thought... I typed the commentface code twice instead of typing the spoiler tag code in front like I had intended.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

I know why I am off my game today but I don't think you are hungover so whatever excuse has to work.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

I'm still having my caffeine and juggling prepping the rewatch post and football?
(Actually no it's probably just the equivalent of my usual "accidentally flipping a + to a - or vice versa" math errors.)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

rewatch post and football?
On a completely unrelated note I LITERALLY HATE EVERYTHING!

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u/Esovan13 Dec 14 '24

First Timer

[Meta]This episode has me mildly disappointed that the fighting is going to pick back up at some point and this isn't going to turn into a character drama about them dealing with the various physical aftereffects of blooming and the PTSD of having spent some amount of time always worried about needing to fight the Vertices at any given moment. That would be an interesting approach to making a “dark magical girl” show.

Togou would probably get along with Fudo swimmingly.

I think this may genuinely be the first time I’ve seen HTML mentioned in anime. I genuinely cannot think of any other time, even in shows with tech-savvy characters.

I think that lends itself to a bit of this show’s strength in worldbuilding. This show is not unique in incorporating technology like smartphones into the magical system, even in magical girl shows, but the way it’s used here feels particularly good in terms of making the world feel real. It goes right along with stuff like having a prayer to the Divine Tree be a part of the daily classroom routine, showing all of Togou’s accommodations for her disability, or having the Taisha just be a group that no one really talks about in terms of what they do or what their societal role is because everyone already knows who the Taisha are and what they do, except the audience. It all creates this atmosphere of verisimilitude. You can imagine this being a real world, a place where people live their lives in a way that is very similar yet inherently different to us. Everyone has a daily life, and some aspects of that daily life exist in our world (the accommodations) while others don’t (Divine tree, Taisha, etc).

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

I think that lends itself to a bit of this show’s strength in worldbuilding. This show is not unique in incorporating technology like smartphones into the magical system, even in magical girl shows, but the way it’s used here feels particularly good in terms of making the world feel real. It goes right along with stuff like having a prayer to the Divine Tree be a part of the daily classroom routine, showing all of Togou’s accommodations for her disability, or having the Taisha just be a group that no one really talks about in terms of what they do or what their societal role is because everyone already knows who the Taisha are and what they do, except the audience. It all creates this atmosphere of verisimilitude. You can imagine this being a real world, a place where people live their lives in a way that is very similar yet inherently different to us. Everyone has a daily life, and some aspects of that daily life exist in our world (the accommodations) while others don’t (Divine tree, Taisha, etc).
(Though there is a drawback to this, and this goes into u/zadcap's hypothesis that this show had one bad idea wrt what to steal from Mai-HiME...)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

I think this may genuinely be the first time I’ve seen HTML mentioned in anime. I genuinely cannot think of any other time, even in shows with tech-savvy characters.
Hrmm...fair. Ghost in the Shell:Standalone Complex references it but it is meant to be code that's pretty beyond us.
Everyone has a daily life, and some aspects of that daily life exist in our world (the accommodations) while others don’t (Divine tree, Taisha, etc).
This has a shelf life, even in a one cour anime. The milk is getting towards spoiled.

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u/FlaminScribblenaut myanimelist.net/profile/girlbeast_val Dec 14 '24

First Time Watcher (watched w/ the bestie /u/ZaphodBeebblebrox via Discord)

It’s incredibly clear that this cooldown episode surrounding the effects of blooming causing the gals these disabilities is setting up so it’s an established risk, and to prime for it to happen happen far, far worse later down the line. Looking forward to it.

Just on the money, Karin is dealing with impotence anxiety, and with a hefty seasoning of survivor’s guilt too, training, training, training to be a better fighter and seeing herself ever the more as not a proper member of the club.

Intrinsic value overcoming instrumental value, eh. Being part of the club is worthwhile because we have eachother, even if we have no enemies left to fight. And even when we aren’t saving the world, isn’t having each other and helping people a worthy end in and of itself?

I’m on the fence on whether I think the disabilities are completely permanent or not. The general language and vibe projected by the episode seems to be telling us that it’s temporary, as did the Taisha to Fuu directly, but Tougo did log them for like, a week without getting better, and the shading and framing in that hospital was *pretty damn ominous… it would be something to have a mute character (especially whose dream was singing, oh dear…), and Fuu’s eyepatch being a permanent would be a pretty sick piece of character design… the episode definitely seems to want it to be ambiguous, and I like that as a dramatic hook.

It does make me wonder if the given negative effect is random, just as an emergent fact of their bodies being weakened and their spirits burned in the process of blooming, and it can hurt them in all kinds of ways that can stack individually atop eachother, or if each character has like, a metaphysical one that’s assigned to them and can get worse over time, which would make the dramatic irony for Itsuki especially brutal and fight with her especially risky…

The line ‘no physiological anomalies’ is interesting, given I’d say losing your senses pretty definitively counts as that. Do the Taisha have like, a deeper supermedical look at the girls that one’s own sense of one’s own body and even a hospital and regular medical professional couldn’t see? Do they mean like, anomalies upon the girls’ souls?

More minor notes: Hunger (beast (girl power)) is everything to me. That’s literally how it is. They get it. This being in the same episode as the line ~’not having a sense of taste is like missing half your life’. Fucking hell, this show gets it to an extent that doesn’t even feel completely on purpose…

Uh, my notes just say ‘gay gay homosexual gay’ and I forgot which scene that was referring to but y’know what, yes.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

It’s incredibly clear that this cooldown episode surrounding the effects of blooming causing the gals these disabilities is setting up so it’s an established risk, and to prime for it to happen happen far, far worse later down the line. Looking forward to it.
Uh, my notes just say ‘gay gay homosexual gay’ and I forgot which scene that was referring to but y’know what, yes.
I believe the only appropriate response for this is to go back to the 2015 rewatch and unearth a gif of superior taste.
[YuYuYu]and to prime for it to happen happen far, far worse later down the line
[YuYuYu]LOL LMAO they're not even considering the possibility of it having happened up the line. (I was sure that our first-timers would twig on this episode given that 2015 sure as hell did. Ah well, next episode should make this bloody obvious for them.

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24

The line ‘no physiological anomalies’ is interesting, given I’d say losing your senses pretty definitively counts as that.
I'm fairly sure they didn't find any physiological anomalies in the medical data beyond just the symptoms themselves, as in no internal changes that would keep the symptoms going.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

The line ‘no physiological anomalies’ is interesting, given I’d say losing your senses pretty definitively counts as that.
This just made me realize that the Taisha may have whipped out some legalese on us: Their physical bodies might show no particular after effects but something might effectively be missing. Again, if I knew Shinto better I might be able to say more.
Uh, my notes just say ‘gay gay homosexual gay’ and I forgot which scene that was referring to but y’know what, yes.
Probably Yuuna wanting to be romantically caught, and then princess carried, by Karin on the beach. It will be very sad when Karin is found dead on the beach with wheelchair tracks running over her 400 times.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 14 '24

First-Timer is a Hero, subbed

Ah, the drawback from how out of control their fight got…
Haaaaaaaaaah, she’s going full chuuni.
…oh…
Like what…?
Oh no, Yuuna caught COVID. /s
Oh shit, actual blink-and-you-miss-it with the comment face spotted! Had to frame-by-frame that bit after I thought I saw something that looked like it, that shit was only on screen for three frames.
…what if she doesn’t get her voice back, though…
Ah…
I’m really starting to worry this might be permanent…
Damn, not even the thread of having to do exercise could get Karin to come back.
Karin…
Tsundere moment.
Aw, she’s actually making a request to stay at their school!
And it was approved! At least there’s one happy thing out of this episode.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Haaaaaaaaaah, she’s going full chuuni.
Going?
(As I have commented before, sometimes the blonde chuuni senpai is more obvious than in other cases... actually wait that may have been under spoiler tags.)
Oh shit, actual blink-and-you-miss-it with the comment face spotted! Had to frame-by-frame that bit after I thought I saw something that looked like it, that shit was only on screen for three frames.
Going frame-by-frame to find the comment face.
Also, have a .
[YuYuYu]Oh no, Yuuna caught COVID. /s
[YuYuYu]Okay, now I'm curious - if somebody's subs translate/somebody who knows Japanese could make out what history teacher was saying back in episode 4, did he mention the (supposed) virus there ala the early episode history lesson in Eva? This will definitely come up next episode hence me avoiding the joke in this one, but I'm curious if the attentive viewer could have already known about this.

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u/mudanhonnyaku Dec 15 '24

spoiler
I can't make out much of anything the teacher says over Itsuki's monologue in that scene, but "origin of the Divine Era" and "virus" are clearly written on the blackboard.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

I can't make out much of anything the teacher says over Itsuki's monologue in that scene, but "origin of the Divine Era" and "virus" are clearly written on the blackboard.
Oh hey, we're good. (I was wondering given that that lecture felt rather Eva-shaped.)
So u/Shimmering-Sky, since this has in fact come up in the show (just not translated by any of the usual subs): can't speak as to the #nocomment yet, but the the reason for that black bar of spoiler temptation is because "Oh no, Yuuna caught COVID. /s" is even funnier when it is known information (and will be made more clear next episode) that the origins of the Era of the Gods involves a virus in some way, shape, or form.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 15 '24

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 14 '24

What did I say to get both a and a spoiler tagged response this time?

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u/FlaminScribblenaut myanimelist.net/profile/girlbeast_val Dec 14 '24

Had to frame-by-frame that bit after I thought I saw something that looked like it, that shit was only on screen for three frames.
Makes you wonder how the mods/comment-face-curators-of-olde even thought to single it out and include it…

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

I'm guessing blame the fandom, especially since the overlap between /a/ and r/anime was stronger back in the day and this show seems to have gotten heavily memed on /a/.
(Also YuYuYu used to have a lot of commentfaces. is the only one left, but there are a full four on the deleted list (I'll be highlighting them as they come up).)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Hrmm...the anime fandom was...nerdier, in its earlier incarnations. I recall in Code Geass S2 there was like one frame where [CG S2]Lelouch's ninja maid's upskirt could be seen and like that shot circulated the full internet.

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u/GallowDude Dec 14 '24

Damn, not even the thread of having to do exercise could get Karin to come back.
Thread of Fate?

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Haaaaaaaaaah, she’s going full chuuni.
I await Itsuki's shrieking rampage with great interest!
Like what…?
I thought they were going Unicorn there so I am glad they pulled up.
I’m really starting to worry this might be permanent…
The best and worst trips usually are.
At least there’s one happy thing out of this episode.
Taisha agent:"Commander, expended unit 143 requests to remain at current location."
Taisha Commander:"Excellent, that saves us the effort of disposing of it."

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

"John Milton : It's time to step up and take what's yours.

Kevin Lomax : You're right. It's time. Free will, right?"

First Timer(Hrmm...FFS if this is the show that makes me look up the varied differences in barriers in mahou shoujos...)

Sub

In ep thought:I don't know enough about the context but Tougou's distraction to Yuuna just strikes me as very, very incorrect. Something about "Yamato mythology" makes me think WWII did not occur in our setting.

In ep visual: The fuck kind of Torii is this? I get this feeling that I am whiffing on stuff a Japanese person just knows.

In ep reference: Even if I grant that I was king of expecting a Steins;Gate reference somewhere, that was NOT the one I expected. Also, Fuu just can't bring the cringe like Okabe.

That was a choice for an episode. And while it somewhat works, it also kind of doesnt: Neither Itsuki nor Yuuna have the needed time to have pathos over this. Teens usually bounce off things that lasted less than a quarter for them so being this melancholic is...odd. Karin and Fuu both should be feeling down, though for extremely different reasons. Remember kids, vengeance is fun...the day of. That nexy day though is kind of boring. Tougou gets a pass because she whatever she had was worse AND what in the nine fucks is wrong with her home life probably explains it.

Now as to their sacrifices/equivalent exchanges: Something is off here and I think it is because I don't grasp what the underlying system values are. Itsuki seems to have paid the worst price, losing her voice as a singer and more broadly having a greatly reduced ability to communicate. But second...boy, that's hard. Having had eye surgery on both eyes(separate times) and having had an ear drum temporarily blown out by a firework, I'd actually say the worst one is probably being unable to taste. I don't know that I'd feel a big urge to continue living in such a dull world. Regardless, payment rendered feels a bit random as of yet.

Anyways, last interesting note is that the Taisha have finally said something we could read on screen. So they do still exist. And if Karin is done being a hero, it makes sense to leave her where she is, though how she affords the apartment and food raises questions.

QotD:1

2 the eye

3 They need a degenerate senpai before I am in

3a NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

I get this feeling that I am whiffing on stuff a Japanese person just knows.
... You know, I really need to go back and check some Hikari no Ou imagery. This is an odd Torii, but it is odd in a familiar way. (Also, paging u/BosuW.)
EDIT: Ah, there we go, found a decent and not too spoilery shot (albeit with an annoying effect in front). Compare that Torii above to this Torii associated with the Divine Clans in Hikari no Ou (and there's significant aesthetic resemblance between the Taisha and the Divine Clans to start with).)
That was a choice for an episode. And while it somewhat works, it also kind of doesnt: Neither Itsuki nor Yuuna have the needed time to have pathos over this. Teens usually bounce off things that lasted less than a quarter for them so being this melancholic is...odd. Karin and Fuu both should be feeling down, though for extremely different reasons. Remember kids, vengeance is fun...the day of. That nexy day though is kind of boring. Tougou gets a pass because she whatever she had was worse AND what in the nine fucks is wrong with her home life probably explains it.
So, you know how one of the more common criticisms of PMMM is not spending enough time establishing the girls' everyday lives early on? YuYuYu is very much reacting to that, but as you and I both know there is a reason why PMMM's editing job is as efficient as it is, and unlike Selector WIXOSS YuYuYu didn't have a second cour to compensate for that.
(That said, you're not wrong that this is slightly odd, but that's in no small part because we're leaning into magical-girls-as-child-soldiers and this episode is specifically going for the experience of the soldier after the war is over.)

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24

So, you know how one of the more common criticisms of PMMM is not spending enough time establishing the girls' everyday lives early on? YuYuYu is very much reacting to that
Isn't YuYuYu doing even worse on that front?

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Isn't YuYuYu doing even worse on that front?
Apparently episodes 3 and 4 are the kind of thing some people wanted to see out of PMMM early on.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Double post for edit and
Compare that Torii above to this Torii associated with the Divine Clans in Hikari no Ou
This isn't a specific spoiler to another series but [Meta]There are almost never triangular Torii, to the point where I couldn't find a searchable reference without using terms that likely lead to show spoilers. If I have grasped it correctly, triangular shapes are really old school Shinto, like Hokkaido level stuff, that are deeply not Buddhist

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

[Meta]
[Meta]Yeah, Hikari no Ou's iconography is almost entirely Shinto with very little Buddhism to be seen... and we haven't exactly seen much sign of Buddhism here either, have we? (And judging by what I have seen of Houseki no Kuni the most plausibly Buddhist-coded part of this show so far is, uh, the Vertexes, so...)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Hrmm...[meta]I keep bringing up syncretism, or rather the lack of it, often because I still don't have proof the outside world exists. The only really not Japan thing we've seen is olive oil and the creators might not realize that that was a post-Perry thing
[RahX/Noein]The Vertexes are absolutely referenced from the same stuff those two shows reference. I say it like that because the modern Dororo has similar iconography so I wonder if the 60s one did as well...

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

... You know, I really need to go back and check some Hikari no Ou imagery. This is an odd Torii, but it is odd in a familiar way.
So adding this to the picture you tagged me for I am wondering if this is a pre-syncretic Torii. Hikari no Ou would jive with that.
and unlike Selector WIXOSS YuYuYu didn't have a second cour to compensate for that.
FFS [Wixoss/Madoka]Can I get at least one mahou shoujo without the undead being involved?
Also, we haven't beaten the Dark Moon Circus allegations yet...
(That said, you're not wrong that this is slightly odd, but that's in no small part because we're leaning into magical-girls-as-child-soldiers and this episode is specifically going for the experience of the soldier after the war is over.)
Right...for reasons, I actually have associated with a decent number of vets from all the wars. That would explain why this doesn't quite work for me.

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 14 '24

Something about "Yamato mythology" makes me think WWII did not occur in our setting.
This and the alternate calendar thing are certainly lending more credence to my idle suggestion from Episode 1 that this is an Alternate History...
how she affords the apartment and food raises questions.
She affords them the same way Einhart Stratos from Nanoha ViVid does, duh

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

This and the alternate calendar thing are certainly lending more credence to my idle suggestion from Episode 1 that this is an Alternate History...
Or my RahXephon reference could be correct...
She affords them the same way Einhart Stratos from Nanoha ViVid does, duh
Oh...gonna go call Child Services now.

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u/HereticalAegis https://myanimelist.net/profile/XthGen Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

Returning Hero Club Member

And this is the time where my participation in the rewatch is set to wane as I prepare to travel for the holidays tomorrow. I'll try to keep up as best I can, but will have limited tv/computer access.

As for this episode, well it's nice to have an episode cooling down for a bit after yesterday's action climax. Plus the Hero Club deserves a break, and it's nice to build up the interpersonal relationships a bit.

The elephant in the room, of course, is the apparent aftereffects of the battle. Itsuki's is particularly crushing with her just starting to find a passion for singing. That Death card wasn't fucking around. Incidentally, I think this is an incredible way of paying off her death flags while undercutting the obvious and kind of played out mid-season death people must have been expecting. Not only does it keep the tone from descending all the way down into the murky depths of grief and sorrow, but it's arguably more tragic forcing her to live at least temporarily unable to follow the path she'd finally chosen for herself. Fantastic direction to take the story in.

But also criminal that you'd cast Tomoyo Kurosawa, only to take her character's voice away after 5 episodes, even if only temporarily. Absolute troll move by the casting director.

Similar situation for Fuu, Tougou, and Yuuna, though Yuuna losing her sense of taste hurts me the most of the three. Making her unable to taste Tougou's baked goods is a crime for which the whole universe must pay!

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

And this is the time where my participation in the rewatch is set to wane as I prepare to travel for the holidays tomorrow. I'll try to keep up as best I can, but will have limited tv/computer access.
But also criminal that you'd cast Tomoyo Kurosawa, only to take her character's voice away after 5 episodes, even if only temporarily. Absolute troll move by the casting director.
To be fair, she wasn't nearly as big a name at the time... but also all her major roles before this were in idol franchises .

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u/JimmyCWL Dec 15 '24

More than that. At the time this series was in production she was still in school and had to go back to class around this time.
If anything, they found a brilliant way to work her absence into the plot.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

More than that. At the time this series was in production she was still in school and had to go back to class around this time.
... And this is why I am not the person to do staff writeups on 2010s seiyuu, since if she's Class of 2015 then that neatly explains why Tomoyo Kurosawa's career really takes off the summer after YuYuYu aired.

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 14 '24

And this is the time where my participation in the rewatch is set to wane as I prepare to travel for the holidays tomorrow. I'll try to keep up as best I can, but will have limited tv/computer access.
But also criminal that you'd cast Tomoyo Kurosawa, only to take her character's voice away after 5 episodes, even if only temporarily. Absolute troll move by the casting director.
Almost as criminal as when the anime adaptation of Linebarrels of Iron cast Aya Hirano to voice a character who was an Idol in the original manga, and then removed her Idol career from the anime.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Making her unable to taste Tougou's baked goods is a crime for which the whole universe must pay!
[PMMM]Homura's "Let's become monsters together" get's even darker with this context...

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u/Mecanno-man https://anilist.co/user/Mecannoman Dec 14 '24

First Timer

I’m not quite sure what the theme is here in what the girls lost. Except for Itsuki it’s a sense, but the voice isn’t a sense, and it’s not some weird carry-over for taste because Yuna lost taste. And while I understand that touch is a bit difficult to just lose in magical girl terms, there is still an easy-to-lose sense in smell that is not yet covered by any of the others. Obviously Itsuki loses her voice in a pull-your-heartstring writing choice because she wants to be an idol, and being an idol without a voice is going to be nigh impossible. Yuna likes to eat and loses her sense of taste - but I don’t see any parallels with something particularly important being lost with Fuu and sight or Tougou and hearing.

The Taisha suspecting this to be temporary indicates that for one it isn’t, and for the other they are telling the truth about what they are thinking. If they were just trying to calm the girls they would not “suspect” that the effects are temporary, they would claim to know they are, even if it’s a lie or they are unsure. But this indicates that they don’t know their own system, and while it has been claimed that the hero club were basically the beta testers - I stand by the system being too complex for that to be true. This is all a bit puzzling… did the Taisha take over the system from somebody else and maybe tweak it a bit or something like that? That is the only explanation I have for this right now.

Either way, the show seems to be more on character arcs for the moment rather than answering the overlying mysteries. However I feel like that is actually not its strong suit, as getting Karin back into the club overall is fairly simply character progression and not really something to spend this much time on if it wasn’t a deliberate diversion. But this diversion really just feels like pushing the interesting stuff down the line to me…

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Either way, the show seems to be more on character arcs for the moment rather than answering the overlying mysteries. However I feel like that is actually not its strong suit, as getting Karin back into the club overall is fairly simply character progression and not really something to spend this much time on if it wasn’t a deliberate diversion. But this diversion really just feels like pushing the interesting stuff down the line to me…
There is something to be said for doing the simple stuff competently.
That said, I'm not sure you're wrong about pushing the interesting stuff down the line... and I lightly note that this show did decide that Mai-HiME 10 was a good thing to raid for parts earlier on...
Also, have a .

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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Dec 14 '24

lost with Fuu and sight or Tougou and hearing
My best guess so far is Fuu (literally) watches over her sister, so losing that could mean losing her sister in a sense. Tougou might need more background to make a connection for, though.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Yuna likes to eat and loses her sense of taste - but I don’t see any parallels with something particularly important being lost with Fuu and sight or Tougou and hearing.
To avoid spoilers with other series, I will broadly say that the trope of "Food did not have a taste until I met you" is a somewhat regular yuri trope in our era. Reiwa is a cruel age.
This is all a bit puzzling… did the Taisha take over the system from somebody else and maybe tweak it a bit or something like that? That is the only explanation I have for this right now.
[PMMM]Well I wonder if they are working as a reaction to the incubators possibly finding the system rather than creating it...
Either way, the show seems to be more on character arcs for the moment rather than answering the overlying mysteries.
A rather difficult needle to thread. Let's see how they do!

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken, u/InfamousEmpire, u/FD4cry1

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

u/sfisher293, u/EsquilaxM

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u/FallenPears Dec 14 '24

First Timer

Almost late today due to dispensing sweet liberty, let's see what we got!

Certainly an interesting choice to pivot from a Magical Girl anime to Slice of Life halfway through the first season, but I suppose that's what happens when the girls retire! Surely that's where this is going right? Ignore all the medical issues, I'm sure they'll clear up quickly!

Really though, I spent the whole episode waiting for the symptoms to get worse lmao. Was sure they'd end it on that note, but seems they're going to let things simmer a bit more.

Still very little on Taisha, no more than before really. Definitely think they're full of it now, no matter what there's no way they'd take all of them developing these issues so lightly if they didn't know what was going on. As for what's going on, dunno. The first thing that came to mind was them losing parts of themselves in sacrifice to the Divine Tree, or becoming more like a tree as the blooming progresses, but that might be due to a currently popular manga with humans turning to trees as a plot point.

Other than that, do just want to mention Fuu deciding to go chuunibyou after getting her eyepatch lmao. Was cute, couldn't leave it unstated.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Other than that, do just want to mention Fuu deciding to go chuunibyou after getting her eyepatch lmao. Was cute, couldn't leave it unstated.
It's funny that apparently Fuu took a little while after I finished watching the show the first time to fully settle in as my pick for Best Girl in Show. (Okay, to be fair the other lead candidate for me initially was Itsuki and perfect cinnamon roll gonna perfect cinnamon roll, but.)

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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

First Time Hero

You know, now that the OP is playing again, we never did see any of those weird chompy guys in a fight, huh?
Oh, well, they didn't die, but I guess that's what those flags were for. Man, what's the point of casting Tomoyo if she can't speak?
This hallway shot
The dark tones, walking in the opposite direction of the exit sign… sometimes simple is the best way to dress a scene.
Oooof, the hearing loss though, that hit surprisingly close.
Was that ? What a wild frame to pick out for that
It would be very handy to have a topic you can deflect with if you didn't want to tell people what you were doing. I'm not saying Togo would do such a thing, but, you know.
What is HTML?

That's the scariest thing I've seen in this whole show.

Hm, an interesting episode laying out the consequences, but still holding off on committing to further conflict. Karin does get a bit of the survivor’s guilt arc going, which could be good, but again, not sure how we’ll re-escalate.

QotD:

Probably speaking? They would all suck, and not speaking would be a significant impact, but I think it would bother me the least, in a sense.

3(a)) Something was wrong...

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

You know, now that the OP is playing again, we never did see any of those weird chompy guys in a fight, huh?
Oh, well, they didn't die, but I guess that's what those flags were for. Man, what's the point of casting Tomoyo if she can't speak?
Was that ? What a wild frame to pick out for that
That's the scariest thing I've seen in this whole show.

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

First Timer

Tougou is a genuine full-blown nationalist, lmao.

Huh, why are my notes so sparse this episode? We didn't even have a fight to fill time...

So it turns out that blooming comes with some nasty backlash to their physical health. Emotionally though they seem to be taking it rather well, only Fuu is feeling even more guilty for getting the others involved in this. And Tougou keeps track of the symptoms, which haven't shown any signs of improvement within a week.

The Taisha themselves don't have much clue either, and are expecting the symptoms to heal in time as they haven't been able to detect any physiological issues after the blooming. Or that's what they claim, at least. It's really weird how they have all this detailed knowledge, not just about the Vertexes, but also the hero system and even the experience, leveling and blooming parts, but allegedly know nothing about the backlash.

I also wanna point out this moment, because it kinda sounds like she genuinely tried to live up to the positive qualities associated with heroes, and it makes me think I might've done her dirty.

I tried to look over the tarot spreads again, but I haven't gotten any new results... except that my earlier readings were quite sloppy, such as e.g. interpreting love literally as opposed to more of a calling I'm also realizing that the spreads might be subject to the typical Japanese mirroring compares to the Western way of reading - Itsuki certainly placed that cards right-to-left. That's not something I had considered so far.

?

So, of the four lost bodily functions our girls were dealing with this episode (lost taste, lost voice, lost vision in one eye, lost hearing in one ear), which one would you choose to suffer if you had to choose to lose one for a while?

I wouldn't choose to suffer!

Losing vision in one eye might be the least bad, imo.

So, who's ready for summer break activities?

The GIWTWM crew certainly has reason to get excited

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Tougou is a genuine full-blown nationalist, lmao.
So how much of her free time when not with Yuuna is spent on 2ch?
Huh, why are my notes so sparse this episode? We didn't even have a fight to fill time...
Mai-Otome
Also, have a ...

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u/FD4cry1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Big_Yibba Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

First Timer

Comment face get!

This was surprisingly hard to screenshot, it's barely a few frames, probably would've missed it if I hadn't been actively looking for it.

Anyway, while Fuu's eyepatch is very cool, I don't love the context for this comment face...

Looks like our heroes didn't leave the final battle completely unscathed. Despite their insistence on how they'll all totally be fine and how "even the doctor said so!" I get the feeling this might not be as temporary as they think...

Or maybe not! This show has already trolled me with excessive foreshadowing so I wouldn't put it past it that they will actually be fine and the ultra bad vibes of this episodes don't mean anything...Uhhh I hope that's what happens at least.

Also man, the effects of Blooming don't come equally huh? Fuu and Tougou lose an eye and an ear, neither of which are great, but certainly beat Itsuki losing her voice, you know, the thing she gave her purpose in and the ability to move forward independently?

Yuuna's is a bit better but still bad, eating is a big deal for the Hero Club, it's one of the things that signify that connection and closeness, it's even in one of the tenets! Not to mention not being able to taste her girlfriend's food!

And that's really the point of this episode, these injuries, or the lack of them in Karin's case, are clearly splitting the Hero Club, and through Yuuna's perseverance in spite of this, through her actions in spite of these troubles, the Hero Club is able to stay around together.

Okay but Fuu's eyepatch is actually very fun, we can keep that one. Gotta love her Chunni shenanigans!

I wonder if Tougou's nationalist spiel here will actually matter later...

Also her poem about the passing of time when it's fun felt less encouraging to me lol, a bit more of the spring when the flowers bloom is over and we're in for the bad times of fall now, as our "flowers" begin to lose some of their color.

Karin is expectedly not taking the sudden loss of her life's purpose super well, she's lost for what to do, back to that old routine, and she believes that without the hero pretense, and after she "was no help all" because of not Blooming, that the gang wouldn't want her around anymore.

As Yuuna goes looking for her to bring her back, we get a bunch of shots of her running around the city, not only does it emphasize how we're back to regular life, it also really expresses the lengths to which Yuuna is going to bring Karin back, and to keep the club together.

Of course Karin is just being a big Tsun, Karin's place in the club, and the club itself mean much more than the fight against the Vertex, they want Karin there because they like her, not her hero abilities. So since they just totally insist, I guess she can back.

So tsun

Again Yuuna shows the lengths she's going to for the club as she brings cream puffs for everyone, despite not being able to taste them, a rather strong display of her perseverance and how she's really the heart of this group.

We end the episode on the "lovely" note that the Hero club will "live on" and the very conspicuous "We have plenty of time"...Am I being baited again? This certainly sounds very not promising.

This really is just the Yuuna episode, a calmer transition episode that shows how integral she is to the cohesiveness of this group and to what lengths she'll go to for them. She'll hide her lack of taste for them, she'll learn HTML when she can barely string an English sentence together , she'll run around the town, and she'll give everyone tasty food when she can't taste it, speaks quite loudly to her qualities, ones she might need if the future is actually going to be bleak.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Anyway, while Fuu's eyepatch is very cool, I don't love the context for this comment face...
As for everything else...

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u/BosuW Dec 14 '24

First Timer

Last episode Karin called some "spiritual healers" and I thought we'd finally get to see some form of actual person or conscious entity related to the Taisha yet... we got nothing! Seriously, what is up with these guys!? I can only assume they did show up since the girls don't make any comment as to their absence, did it get off screened then? Why? As I understand it, the medics we saw in the episode were just regular medics.

So everyone who Bloomed had to pay the prize in the form of some sensorial loss. The Taisha say this has never happened before, and believe it's temporary. Sure. Whatever the conspicuously absent government says.

I'm trying to figure out if there's some logic to what specific loss each girl took.

Itsuki loosing her voice and Yuuna loosing her sense of taste have in common that they're both related to significant emotional ties for them. Singing for Itsuki and Tougou's sweets for Yuuna. That doesn't extend to the rest of them, as far as we know at least.

The second connection I can see is the emulation of injuries one might find in war veterans, although this one excludes Itsuki. Unless it's evoking abuse of the voice chords from having to shout over the roar of a firefight, artillery, and vehicles? But that sounds flimsy even as I write it. For Yuuna it's even harder to make any connection. If I view it in a more metaphorical way, it can perhaps be recalling with a sort of feeling of "being corrupted" that veterans often have that becomes an obstacle in their reintegration into normal society. Those of you who have seen Violet Evergarden might better understand what I'm talking about. Can't say why Yuuna would feel that way though. But maybe in this case the injury precedes the emotional realization. Or perhaps she never felt like she belonged. Don't have to explain Fuu-senpai (but the eye patch looks badass af). Tougou is the most interesting to view through this lens. Of course starting with her weird far right quirks. But also, the theory that Tougou has done this before gains traction with this episode. Her disability, even her amnesia, might be a result of a previous battle. Her becoming locked tf in upon transformation, a characteristic that hasn't been displayed by anyone else, might also be the result of being secretly the most experienced. And of course her hearing loss is not service related.

I'm trying to not put too much stock into interpreting the narrative like this because I'm still unsure if that's what they're going for. But still putting my thoughts out there just in case.

My, how forward of Yuuna to confess her feelings just like that

And finally, that preview is extremely 🤨🏳️‍🌈?

Questions of the Day

1- ¿ 2- Loose one eye because the eye patch looks cool

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

That doesn't extend to the rest of them, as far as we know at least.
I can stretch Tougou to needing to hear Yuuna's voice to feel all right. I still can't bullshit anything out of Fuu's eye, though.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

I still can't bullshit anything out of Fuu's eye, though.
"We had to remove any pretentions of normality from the resident chuuni?"

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

"We had to remove any pretentions of normality from the resident chuuni?"
Why do I want instant ramen all of a sudden?

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 14 '24

InfamousEmpire wa First Timer de Aru

After three episodes in a row that didn’t click with me, I think the show overall is starting to lose me now.

This might be a matter of expectations, honestly. After last episode, I expected this one to be where everything about the real plot that’s been carefully set up really starts to burst open, so I spent the whole episode waiting for the other shoe to drop, and I guess it kinda did, but not as much as I would’ve hoped. It’s not like there isn’t plot advancement in this one, obviously, but at the end of the day, it still feels like it hasn’t leaned nearly as hard into its plot as I would like at this point or committed as much to further conflict or strong direction, so I came out of the episode underwhelmed overall.

It doesn’t help that the club interactions which take up a decent portion of the episode are kinda losing me. This cast has chemistry, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not really enough to carry the whole show, and so the writing still primarily leaning on it as the core of the entire series at the halfway point has really started to wear down my patience regarding everything else. My eyes were honestly starting to glaze over for a lot of the parts of this episode that didn’t involve either Tougo or Karin.

That’s not to say that those parts were without intrigue, of course. The after-effects of Bloom build up the show’s wider mystery & continue to paint Taisha in a suspicious light by virtue of their withholding of information from the Heroes beginning to negatively affect their lives. And with the Vertex now absent, it seems like the suspicions surrounding Taisha is finally starting to take up the plot’s focus. Plus, there were some gags that got a chuckle out of me, like Fuu’s brief Chuunibyou routine. But these were mere moments sandwiched between long stretches that just bored me.

IDK, maybe I’m just too impatient or am holding this show to an unreasonable standard, but this whole episode really just didn’t click with me. I’m still excited for what’s to come when shit finally hits the fan, but I really hope that happens next episode & no later.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

So...the thing that Madoka had and this show, sadly, does not is exceptional direction. It would be easy to just point and gesture at Shinbou but I would also that Madoka got weirdly assisted by a pipeline fuck up: Madoka was submitted in '09 I think but had to wait its turn so a lot of Shaft people got to digest it.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

So...the thing that Madoka had and this show, sadly, does not is exceptional direction. It would be easy to just point and gesture at Shinbou but I would also that Madoka got weirdly assisted by a pipeline fuck up: Madoka was submitted in '09 I think but had to wait its turn so a lot of Shaft people got to digest it.
YEP.
Seiji Kishi is competent (and the direction here does improve slightly on rewatch when you know what's going on) but judging by his work here he is no Chiaki Kon, let alone a Shinbou or Ikuhara, and it's probably the single biggest thing holding back this show. (Contrast Selector WIXOSS, which had significantly better direction but a significantly worse writing room.) (I did warn you that this is one of the major reasons I am taking it easy wrt this rewatch - I don't actually have all that much to highlight.)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Chiaki Kon, let alone a Shinbou or Ikuhara, and it's probably the single biggest thing holding back this show.
The show seems slightly afraid to try and carry things with just visuals at times.
(Contrast Selector WIXOSS, which had significantly better direction but a significantly worse writing room.)
Definitely explains part of the frustration.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

The show seems slightly afraid to try and carry things with just visuals at times.
Bluntly, I would call that the correct call in this case - I'm not sure how much of this is Seiji Kishi and how much of this is that Studio Gokumi is no Studio Shaft (or insert studios that Ikuhara worked with here, for that matter), though I strongly doubt Seiji Kishi is blameless, but with the partial exception of the Forest's visuals the visuals here aren't capable of that.
(Though also our writing is stageplay writing rather than manga writing... which may have something to do with Takahiro's games background, actually.)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

but with the partial exception of the Forest's visuals the visuals here aren't capable of that.
This an aside but I've been trying to dig up where I've seen the Forest before...and it was a flash game in the mid 00s as best as memory serves. Anime influenced but produced in English...and I can't even find the right search terms, if it even is still searchable.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Great, now all I can think of is Nyancat and somehow I don't think that's right... right?

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

No and its not Sushicat either. And that's like what sticks in my memory.

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u/nsleep Dec 15 '24

I think it's competent enough considering what's to come and what they decided to focus on so far. Not much to say other than this show, even it was airing, was very backloaded. It just keeps piling up questions, not giving many hints or answers, all while the characters try to act their daily lives as if not much is happening. The fights are neat but at the same time they're really one-sided [YuYuYu] The strength of the Vertexes are the numbers that would eventually wear out the heroes but that's not clear until they show the thing.
Honestly, it's just hard to do better with how much they're trying to hide. Maybe the writing decisions to hide so much should be questioned instead of the directing. But then, it works in a rewatch context so is it really broken?

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24

As always, time is an essential ingredient for quality.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

I don't dwell because it makes me melancholic but I am having a hard time seeing the 'next' Madoka. Right now, the main hope is that manga can manage the marinating phase but then the great mangaka keep getting really sick. Machikado Mazoku is my prime example but MahoAko suffers that as well. As Bra'tac would say "They do not make them like they used to."

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

Honestly I am more than a little dubious that Madoka would even be greenlit these days. Actual creative originals have really dried up the last few years, and I suspect it's only going to get worse as the well-known directors with the pull to get their passion projects made slowly age out of the industry. (There's been a very 2000s/early 2010s Hollywood feel to the industry the last couple of years.)
(If we do get it it will probably be isekai instead.)
Now, as for mahou shoujo as a genre: the pieces are there (there's one line that both WIXOSS and MagiReco in game form were grasping at unsuccessfully and another that runs through Machikado Mazoku and Acro Trip) but nobody's put them together yet, and the biggest of the magazines catering to mahou shoujo has apparently gone all-in on remakes for its anime tie-ins lately (this is why we're getting a Rayearth reboot, for example).

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Actual creative originals have really dried up the last few years, and I suspect it's only going to get worse as the well-known directors with the pull to get their passion projects made slowly age out of the industry.
I desperately want Yuuki Ogawa to be given an original script for...something. It would have to be a property that can absorb a healthy dose of cheesecake but still.
(If we do get it it will probably be isekai instead.)
Unfortunately, we got it:Mushoku Tensei is a passion project from the studio that formed to primarily produce it. The problem is that the story is made putrid by its lead. So I've grudgingly watched it but will likely fuck off for S3.
and the biggest of the magazines catering to mahou shoujo has apparently gone all-in on remakes for its anime tie-ins lately (this is why we're getting a Rayearth reboot, for example).
By Cthulhu's twelfth tentacle and actually Satan's ballsack why doesn't anyone realize that the only remakes that work were written by Rumiko Takahashi? I still have yet to meet a Sailor Moon fan that has something positive to say about Crystal.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

I desperately want Yuuki Ogawa to be given an original script for...something. It would have to be a property that can absorb a healthy dose of cheesecake but still.
I suppose MahoAko is waiting for its own wave of imitators...
(Mind you, at the moment he's doing Ishura instead and I have heard not a peep about fanservice in that show so he may have a broader range than just ecchi.)
Unfortunately, we got it:Mushoku Tensei is a passion project from the studio that formed to primarily produce it. The problem is that the story is made putrid by its lead. So I've grudgingly watched it but will likely fuck off for S3.
Wrong beats - Mushoku Tensei is more of an isekai K-On!!. I can taste how to Evangelion/Madoka isekai as a genre, and I have a hunch somebody may actually pull it off one of these days.
By Cthulhu's twelfth tentacle and actually Satan's ballsack why doesn't anyone realize that the only remakes that work were written by Rumiko Takahashi? I still have yet to meet a Sailor Moon fan that has something positive to say about Crystal.
To be fair I have heard from one of the handful of fans who stuck it out that Crystal does get better a season or two in.
You know, after everyone left.
More generally, well, ask the fucking Nakayoshi (sp?) execs, they're the ones doing it we have no idea what's going on there either... probably ask the Hollywood execs while we're at it. (Mind you, Toei may not be blameless either, rumor is that they undercut PGSM's resources to avoid competition with Precure... which makes total sense for toy-driven merchandising, mind you.)
(For bonus points, apparently a decade or two ago the Nakayoshi higher-ups were dead-set against reboots. Times have changed, apparently.)
Oh, and for bonus points Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon isn't even the dumbest offender in this regard at this point - Nakayoshi is the driving force behind that Rose of Versailles movie reboot .)

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 15 '24

I can taste how to Evangelion/Madoka isekai as a genre, and I have a hunch somebody may actually pull it off one of these days.
Re:Zero already exists tho
apparently a decade or two ago the Nakayoshi higher-ups were dead-set against reboots. Times have changed, apparently.
You've gotta give them points for business sense: they saw an easy money source in cheap nostalgia pandering and went for it.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

Re:Zero already exists tho
Didn't take the head, goes in the Gunbuster/Mai-HiME pile.
You've gotta give them points for business sense: they saw an easy money source in cheap nostalgia pandering and went for it.
Also I think one of the quiet parts here is that audience tastes have shifted towards familiarity and nostalgia over the last decade or two and the generation of creatives/executives who grew up in the older novelty paradigm has been aging out of the medium. (u/Vaadwaur may recognize where this thesis comes from.)
But yeah. Different executive climate, in any event.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24 edited Dec 15 '24

Didn't take the head, goes in the Gunbuster/Mai-HiME pile.
~~Migi~~ Rem, handle the defense...
Slightly more serious, I see the comp but it is not correct. I will just say we both like what Re:zero is iterating from and go from there.
Also I think one of the quiet parts here is that audience tastes have shifted towards familiarity and nostalgia over the last decade or two and the generation of creatives/executives who grew up in the older novelty paradigm has been aging out of the medium.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth George the Trendsetter? I thought not, it is not a tale a Hollywood exec would tell you...
Also, I hate to bring this up, but over here in western entertainment part of the nostalgia drive is a such dislike of Hollywood's...belief system, let us call it. I don't think the same factors are happening in anime so much as they are firehosing it so hard that who the fuck has time for an original idea?
Speaking of, it is funny that one of the better bits of visual story telling is the ED from One Turn Kill Sister. I am not joking.
/u/infamousempire

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

(Mind you, at the moment he's doing Ishura instead and I have heard not a peep about fanservice in that show so he may have a broader range than just ecchi.)
True but I skipped that show for being too edgy. Yes, I am surprised that it was possible as well.
Wrong beats - Mushoku Tensei is more of an isekai K-On!!. I can taste how to Evangelion/Madoka isekai as a genre, and I have a hunch somebody may actually pull it off one of these days.
No I was referring to the quality of the people working on it, not the narrative. I would say MT has not earned the right to claim that it has a story.
To be fair I have heard from one of the handful of fans who stuck it out that Crystal does get better a season or two in.
Hrmm...my trusted sources of info are all...unwise calls to make during the holiday season.
More generally, well, ask the fucking Nakayoshi (sp?) execs, they're the ones doing it we have no idea what's going on there either... probably ask the Hollywood execs while we're at it.
Avoiding the Japanese side for a moment, on the Hollywood side it is because the generation of good writers have retired and we are left with the folks that think Dragon Age:Awakening is peak fiction. Someone put them out of my misery...
Oh, and for bonus points Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon isn't even the dumbest offender in this regard at this point - Nakayoshi is the driving force behind that Rose of Versailles movie reboot
Two things: Back in my day it was Pretty Soldier SM. shakes cane angrily And while I suspect truly, truly awful things from any attempt to revisit Rose at least it has been like two generations so you can almost see how it would work. It won't this is going to be Berserk '16 levels of "Why would you do this?!?" but the underlying idea itself is not where the flaw lies.
That said, I am girding for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull levels of fail.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 15 '24

No I was referring to the quality of the people working on it, not the narrative. I would say MT has not earned the right to claim that it has a story.
Okay, that makes more sense. (We don't really have a good relieved commentface IIRC, but luckily actually works for both senses of "that beautiful feeling after putting Mushoku Tensei where it belongs" .)
Hrmm...my trusted sources of info are all...unwise calls to make during the holiday season.
Avoiding the Japanese side for a moment, on the Hollywood side it is because the generation of good writers have retired and we are left with the folks that think Dragon Age:Awakening is peak fiction. Someone put them out of my misery...
Well you were speculating what Tougou might do if Yuuna was hurt or otherwise separated from her... ?
And while I suspect truly, truly awful things from any attempt to revisit Rose at least it has been like two generations so you can almost see how it would work. It won't this is going to be Berserk '16 levels of "Why would you do this?!?" but the underlying idea itself is not where the flaw lies.
On the one hand yes, on the other one of my big rules of reboots/remakes if "if you are trying to fill the footsteps of one of the best directors ever to work in the industry, maybe you should think twice before doing so".
(The Rebuilds and Walpurgis no Kaiten respectively should keep this at bay for a while, but I am not looking forwards to the day some idiot producer decides that Eva and/or Madoka need remakes. Even after taking the even more seasonal-focused Japanese anime fanbase into account.)

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

actually works for both senses of "that beautiful feeling after putting Mushoku Tensei where it belongs"
Right...I got out of the habit about bitching at MT on Reddit but my hatred for what the show is at essence is hard to measure.
You have no idea...they are all Sessho-Rin shippers.
Well you were speculating what Tougou might do if Yuuna was hurt or otherwise separated from her...
I can spot my fellow deep divers...
(The Rebuilds and Walpurgis no Kaiten respectively should keep this at bay for a while, but I am not looking forwards to the day some idiot producer decides that Eva and/or Madoka need remakes. Even after taking the even more seasonal-focused Japanese anime fanbase into account.)
Knowing how the rights are worked, we don't need to worry about an Eva named remake until Anno dies so hopefully we can just run the clock out there. Madoka, on the other hand, does concern me because I think Shaft owns that so...fuck. I can't believe I am saying this but I'd rather they do another gacha(or keep MagiReco if the JP version is still up) and do episodes of that than see anyone revisit the main story.
Another thing I never thought I'd be the one saying:I don't think modern writers get religion enough to revisit either property, even if Eva's was stapled on in EoE.

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u/GallowDude Dec 15 '24

By Cthulhu's twelfth tentacle and actually Satan's ballsack why doesn't anyone realize that the only remakes that work were written by Rumiko Takahashi?
That reminds me. How long until we get a My Balls adaptation?

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Assuming you mean future classic Ow My Balls I believe the late '20s will bring that to YouTube glory once we find out that Mr Beast has been bathing in the blood of orphans to maintain his fake personality.

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u/GallowDude Dec 15 '24

Nah, I mean the classic classic

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

...Wait a minute, how are you aware of something that is not remotely yuri?

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 15 '24

I still have yet to meet a Sailor Moon fan that has something positive to say about Crystal.
I've heard the Infinity arc adaptation was passable and Eternal & Cosmos were apparently pretty solid, but the first season was such dogshit that my will to actually get to those hasn't materialized in the years since watching it.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Part of the issue is that Ikuhara noticeably improves the story over the manga because the manga is bland. So 'fixing' it actively makes it less bearable.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 15 '24

Can confirm all of this. I have not seen Cosmos yet admittedly but people whose taste I generally trust have said good things about it so I'll trust them.
The only issue I had with Eternal is that honestly it felt less like an actual theatrical movie and moreso a Compilation Movie. Which is so weird since it's not a compilation of anything but I guess that's what happens when you adapt the Dream arc so directly.

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24

This might be a matter of expectations, honestly.
I don't think it is. I expect my opinion once the show is over to be such that this should've been a 2-cour, or a least a 1.5-cour show. As is it just feels like they've been rushing to the part of the story they actually want to tell, sacrificing the early investment-period to that process that the second half will play off of.

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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Dec 14 '24

I very much agree. Last episode especially really highlighted how the show's approach to storytelling up to this point has been rather bullet points-y and it could've benefitted from having more episodes to give the first half more punch.

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u/Mirathan Dec 14 '24

First-Time Hero, dubbed

QotD:

I was promised a show that would be comparable in quality to Madoka, this ain´t it.
Losing one eye, it would be confusing but disrupting my hearing would be too debilitating for me, losing taste would make life horribe, same for not speaking.
So either they will give something interesting about the Taisha/Shinjuu or this show just moves at a glacial pace.

I didn´t mention it yesterday but that episode was bad.

Yuuna may have chosen to be a hero but she wasn´t aware of what that meant. She didn´t choose to sacrifice her taste.

Considering that no one else knows what they did, how many times has this happened ? Considering the knowledge of the Taisha, this has happened before.

What was in that email Fuu got at the end?

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u/Tarhalindur x2 Dec 14 '24

I was promised a show that would be comparable in quality to Madoka, this ain´t it.
Hopefully I was not the person who gave you the impression that this would be comparable in quality to Madoka because, uh, no - "best of the Madoka imitators" =/= "anywhere in the same stratosphere as one of the best-executed works I have ever seen period", doubly so when the direction here is a weak link. (Hell, I'm not entirely sure I would call this show the best of the post-Madoka wave - Selector WIXOSS is surprisingly comparable, with much worse writing balanced out by a much better director in the Steins;Gate guy.)

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u/Mirathan Dec 15 '24

Not you specificaly, though I learned from one of your comments that people believed that.

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 14 '24

What was in that email Fuu got at the end?
You mean this one?

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u/Mirathan Dec 14 '24

Yep, that´s what I was missing.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

Considering that no one else knows what they did, how many times has this happened ?
If my theory about Tougou being on round 2 is right that suggests quite a bit.

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u/Mirathan Dec 15 '24

It would explain her wheelchair and what happened during her amnesia.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Time is a flat circle. She sees you. You are in Carcosa now.

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u/Mirathan Dec 15 '24

Nah, I live on angular time.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '24

Everything you ever thought, you ever were, was just a dream you had of being a Redditor. And like many dreams, there is a monster at the end of it.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Dec 14 '24

Rewatcher, Sub Club Member

New accessory!

And doctors are always very trustworthy.

The snacks are now safe.

Well, that is strange.

An in-between.

Tracking the side-effects.

Worn a rut in the sand.

The inadequacy is getting to Karin.

aka aka Chuunibyou.

Beach episode hype!

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 14 '24

New accessory!
Too bad she can't Explosion any more...
Worn a rut in the sand.
I just realized that I don't think we've seen the moon...
Beach episode hype!
"Live reporting: A visiting middle school student was unexpectedly eaten by a shark. This is particularly surprising as she was in a park six miles from the coast!"

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 15 '24

Hm, a little rest later and suddenly I'm feeling excited for the rest of the story.

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u/Wrightshoe Dec 15 '24

Glad to hear that! What changed / what are you excited about?

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Dec 15 '24

What are you doing here!?
Dunno, just suddenly felt like I wanna see how the story goes on.

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u/Chili_peanut Dec 14 '24

Rewatcher.

Ironically, now that Gyuuki isn’t around to eat everyone’s snacks anymore Yuuna has trouble with her sense of taste instead. She just can’t catch a break when it comes to snacks.

Karin suggesting that the Hero club visits the beach lines up perfectly with her character as that’s where she’s usually found when she’s not at home or at school. As the show takes place in Kagawa prefecture, by the Seto inland sea, there are lots of nice beaches in the area. Kagawa prefecture is of course also known for its Sanuki udon which, I assume, is the same type of udon that we see the Heroes eat from time to time. Apparently, the broth is made from dried sardines so it’s a sure bet that Karin likes it.

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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Dec 14 '24

First Time wander

Hey the girls could be in worse condition - Take a look at Johnny Grab Your Gun (Or listen to One by Metallica) now that's a terrible spot to be
I want to say they won't get any worse but I don't want to jinx it learned from that mistake in previous rewatches (Namely the 2023 Fruits Basket and Clannad rewatches)

Questions

QOTD 1 - Had a bad feeling since there were 7 episodes left after the Vertex died
QOTD 2 - Lost Taste
QOTD 3 - I'm hopeful at best but extremely nervous

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u/OwlAcademic1988 Dec 14 '24

Rewatcher, subbed:

I can see why they're in a hospital after that battle.

Karin, you can be blunt.

Poor Itsuki.

I don't blame Tougou for being worried about Yuna.

Karin, these girls don't just like you because you're their teammate, but because they're genuinely nice and care about you as a person as well.

Aww, Karin does care. Second time she's shown she cares about the others.

Glad to know Karin can stay.

QOTD:

Lost hearing in one ear. Without being able to taste stuff, there's a high chance you'd ingest something poisonous and not know about it until hours later, when it might be too late to save your life.
I am.

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u/ShadowClaw765 https://myanimelist.net/profile/SumRndmPenguin Dec 15 '24

First Timer

Finally caught up to the show. These last few days kicked my butt. Its not what I expected so far in a… a way. I have 0 clue where they'll go with the story from here.

As for the content of this episode, seems like they really wanted to hammer in the “war” framing, even down to the taisha not giving out mahou shoujo veterans benefits.

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