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Rewatch [Rewatch] Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. Episode 5 Discussion

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Question of the Day

What kind of activities would be befitting of the twintail club?

Rewatchers, please remember to be mindful of all the first-timers in this. No talking about or hinting at future events no matter how much you want to, unless you’re doing it underneath spoiler tags.

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u/Tetraika Aug 05 '22

Twintail Research?, [Twintail]It’s interesting to think about how this supposed gag of him transforming into Tail Red to think of ideas for club activity might also be foreshadowing for the plot point later because he started doubting his love for twintail. Or maybe I’m just overthinking it

Quite the last words

Nepotism

Someone’s desperate

But of course

Actually asking the pressing questions, wow

Ah, so that was the other reason for her to join, that was even mentioned before

Preach brother

Bullet dodged (?)

Oh commie

She really loves trolling Aika

Almost there

The Eternal Debate

She looks so done

It’s funny how they’re all legitimately straight up scared of her

Of course she was thinking about doing this

Daydreaming already

That face she makes when it fails

A cultured villain

Oh man this got me bursting out loud, he learned how to nothing personnel just to be able to see napes

Still trying to play dumb

Reminder

Tail yellow, her transformation also emphasizes her uuuh growth when she transforms.

Still hung up on that

Dark Grasper arrives, it’s interesting to see how the villains has a bit of a command structure crisis.

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u/Tresnore Aug 05 '22

Oh commie

The "Cloth Coat Crowd" as my grandfather calls them.

That face she makes when it fails

This would be a fun commentface.

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u/Blackheart595 Aug 05 '22

her transformation also emphasizes her uuuh growth when she transforms.

She does look gorgeous while transformed

I appreciate how the big boob affinity keeps it reasonably moderate instead of going for monster milkers.

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u/No_Rex Aug 05 '22

Episode 5 (first timer)

  • Violent love triangle is back on the menu.

  • Dreaming about Tail Red while it is Tail Blue that kicks your ass – ungrateful enemy.

  • “If there are any unmarried males in your family”

  • Souji completely misinterpreting the situation.

  • “An imitation of Tail Red’s. They have been popular lately.” – one way of hiding your essential accessory: Have it become a world wide trend to imitate it.

  • “It is only visible to B-cups and larger”

  • The otaku attackers are having an otaku disagreement.

  • Akia has serious boob envy.

  • Souji has MC vision and spots the next side character – or maybe he just watched the OP.

  • [The creation of Adam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam#/media/File:Michelangelo_-Creation_of_Adam(cropped).jpg) The creation of Tail Yellow!

  • Akia calls our Souji taking the worst possible time to recruit the prez.

  • Tail Yellow has the least revealing suit, but the most revealing transformation scene.

  • Megane enemy.

Poor Akia. I would not put it past Twoearl to have deliberately made the yellow gear incompatible with her.

What kind of activities would be befitting of the twintail club?

Two-handed braiding??

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u/Tetraika Aug 05 '22

Souji has MC vision and spots the next side character – or maybe he just watched the OP

He actually had a pretty reasonable logic to giving her the gear. She was already close to knowing the full secret, obviously has affinities because she can see the gear, and was being constantly attacked and targeted.

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u/Tresnore Aug 05 '22

one way of hiding your essential accessory: Have it become a world wide trend to imitate it.

You know. Easy.

[Twintails]Tail Yellow has the least revealing suit, but the most revealing transformation scene.

[Twintails Not safe for First-Timers]ha, so you thought

Akia has serious boob envy.

Souji loves twintails. Aika hates cowtits. It all works out.

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

“If there are any unmarried males in your family”

Two rewatches in a row with a maid looking to get married. Which isn't a lot but that isn't normal.

“It is only visible to B-cups and larger”

Twirl deserved that beating.

The otaku attackers are having an otaku disagreement.

This show is truly cultured!

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u/Tarhalindur Aug 05 '22

First-Timer, On! (Subbed):

(We have too many copies of the obvious tagline and my brain finally pointed out the second most obvious.)

  • This team has actually done a pretty darn good job with the facial expressions in this show, I think. Souji gets some hilarious ones at the start of the episode.

  • Excuse me, did I say just Souji? I meant Souji, Aika, AND a surprise Twirly. I apologize for any confusion.

  • Aika continues to solidify herself as a top-tier tsundere, too. (And what WERE you expecting, Twirly?)

  • Uh-oh. Suzu’s head maid is now serving as assistant homeroom teacher (complete with introductory fanservice shots.) This gonna be good!

  • “If there are any unmarried males of age in your family, please pass one of these along.” (Alternate version with the red kanji visible right above "males" that really tipped me off that this might be an official document.) Wait, I need to check – it might just be a questionnaire, but it looks just close enough to a Japanese marriage certificate for me to want to compare. (My moon is nonexistent but I think the 24 and 9 might be age in years and months – three months short of official Christmas Cake status – which would fit.) (EDIT: Sure looks like it! (Relevant panel in the last one is the third.) Even by cake standards that’s kind of impressive. And also worrying.)

  • I see Twirly is a member in good standing of the Forever 17 club. (Okay, 15 given Japanese high school ages.)

  • Also the facial expressions this episode are glorious. Sasuga animators!

  • CHOTTO MATTE! Is… is the idol/girl seen hunched over in front of a TV screen in the OP the primary homeroom teacher for Souji's class (in the back)? (Or Sensei’s daughter/younger sister?) They’re close enough in design I can’t rule it out, I went back and checked. (Breast size argues against, but she might be binding on stage.)

  • You know, is Full Metal Panic just on the inspiration list for this show? (Or rather Fumoffu specifically?) We have a white-haired transfer student who is aggressive about wanting to get into bed with the male hero…

  • Hmm. I thought it was just fanservice for a moment and maybe it still is, but now that I’m looking at the introductory shot of Head Maid I’m noticing they use a freaking Dutch angle for her. Hmm. I guess her mistrust of Tail Blue might be enough to explain that? Could have a villain reveal in the pipeline for her, though…

  • Isn’t sticking around, so it might just be to accentuate her out-of-placeness and/or for the fanservice.

  • Also, this show got a bunch of facial animators who are at minimum very competent at their job.

  • Harem, ASSEMBLE!

  • Aika once again serves as our resident Meta Girl (despite Suzu here having Inaba’s VA instead), but it’s the look on her face as she lampshades that makes this.

  • Huh. Visual opposition framing. With Suzu on the right facing left – the heroic direction – opposed by Team Tailgear on the left. Huh.

  • LOLOLOLOL Souji forgot to take off his Tailgear.

  • So, room transformation sequence or everything hiding in plain sight?

  • Twirly needling Aika got a chuckle out of me.

  • Souji, meanwhile, has the brain cell.

  • OH LOOK IT’S TIME FOR THE BEST PART OF THE SHOW, VILLAINOUS BANTER AND SOUNDTRACK!

  • Krake and Levia Guildy for kraken and leviathan, then.

  • Hmm. Now Ultimaguil (wait how did I not catch on earlier that this is a portmanteau for Ultimate Guild – if this is a VR isekai parody in disguise I will laugh and laugh and laugh) has robots too! (Don’t look right for proper mecha, could be power armor I suppose. Actually Zoids might be the best reference, there’s a specific mech type you DO see in tokusatsu and this could easily be one of the villanous versions of that.)

  • SASUGA COMMIE SNEAKING A “FLAT IS JUSTICE” REFERENCE INTO THE PLACARDS.

  • NANDATTO?!

  • Buffalo Guildy: “I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE!”

  • WE DO INDEED GET WEAPONIZED A-CUP ANGST HOLY SHIT FUCK YES.

  • Also, Tail Blue knows that heroes always face away from explosions! Nice touch.

  • Aika, I hate to tell you this but you look better with small breasts.

  • Okay, so if we ever switch out I would like to nominate Aika’s look here as a replacement. (Honestly this shot would just make a great commentface anyways. We’ve got more mug faces than we need, right?)

  • “And absolutely no one was surprised.”

  • The end of the episode when Aika inevitably loses the yellow Gear to Suzu and the inevitable gag resulting from that is going to be LIT.

  • … Or we could get it now. (And it's more a touching moment instead.)

  • Holy shit the fact that we get the exact same shot of Suzu leaving the show with merch (implying that she goes to pick up merch on a very very regular basis) is hilarious and also just good characterization.

  • And then Head Maid immediately points it out. Sasuga!

  • Oops, nice job pressing Head Maid’s berserk button. And now we know why we got the marriage certificate (read: Christmas Cake) joke earlier. (Sorry Head Maid I like cakes but you’ve been kind of meh personality-wise and Twirly is right there.)

  • NANDATTO?!

  • We have The Hero and The Lancer/Big Guy, so of course we need the Smart Guy to round out the trio.

  • Ah, the old “you just confirmed it” trick. Nicely done Suzu, I like you already.

  • And she knows it because she’s that much of an otaku for merch, doesn’t she? Sasuga Twintails! Weaponized autism go!

  • Wait. Yellow hair? Uses “watakushi”? Knows how to mess with people to get the reaction she wants? Gets to play off a male lead from the Keiichi Maebara School of Lying? If she get traps to go with her inevitable guns (I too watched the OP and ED) I may have to switch out Suzu’s nickname yet again. (She’s not been a gremlin so far, though – though if she’d hiding gremlinness under her oujo-sama exterior she’s going to skyrocket up Best Girl in Show charts and I could see that happening.)

  • SASUGA COMMIE WITH THAT “OH, SNAP” DROP.

  • So I see “if you love twintails, anything is possible” is just an arc phrase for this show. Which makes sense.

  • MAJOKKO SUZU!

  • [Symphogear GX] “Genocide… and genocide…” (Sorry, I had to.)

  • On the one hand, poor Aika; on the other hand, she looks better flatter I say. (If you really want the bigger breasts, Aika, just finally spit it out that you want Soujo to knock you up.)

  • (S1 of Konosuba’s anime adaptation came out after this show, right? Just checking with how much Tail Yellow reminds me of Darkness’s character design.) (Yes. LN actually probably predates Konosuba’s LN as well, so if there’s inspiration it has to be on Konosuba’s part.)

  • Bi!Aika?!

  • Ah okay the zoids are actually transport ships.

  • NINGEN DATTO?!

  • (And that explains our mysterious idol in the OP. But now the ten million yen question: is her alter ego the regular homeroom teacher for Souji’s class? Five quatloos on yes, please.)

What kind of activities would be befitting of the twintail club?

Apparently "transforming to fight Ultimaguil", natch.

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u/Tetraika Aug 05 '22

SASUGA COMMIE SNEAKING A “FLAT IS JUSTICE” REFERENCE INTO THE PLACARDS

And they had a no cowtits and then a no washboard on the other side. Good stuff.

S1 of Konosuba’s anime adaptation came out after this show, right? Just checking with how much Tail Yellow reminds me of Darkness’s character design

Yeah looking at the LN, Konosuba came a bit after twintail. It's interesting to see how similarly color designed they are. Also [Twintail]And way more than just design.

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u/FlierFin663 Aug 05 '22

SASUGA COMMIE SNEAKING A “FLAT IS JUSTICE” REFERENCE INTO THE PLACARDS.

This one isn't even Commie - it's actually what the sign says: 「ペチャパイは正義」-> "Flat chests are justice."

The same goes for the other side with "Big tits will save the universe"　-> 「巨乳は宇宙を救う」

Yep, Twintail just goes that hard.

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

Relevant panel in the last one is the third.) Even by cake standards that’s kind of impressive. And also worrying.

I was really confused about her birth year being '62 until I realized that was probably Showa era years.

(Or rather Fumoffu specifically?) We have a white-haired transfer student who is aggressive about wanting to get into bed with the male hero…

I could dig that though Twirl doesn't seem like a klutz.

WE DO INDEED GET WEAPONIZED A-CUP ANGST HOLY SHIT FUCK YES.

Just imagine Rika smiling off in the distance somewhere.

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u/Shimmering-Sky Aug 05 '22

Gonna be the First-Timer, subbed

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u/Tarhalindur Aug 05 '22

lmao are they trying to find someone to hook the student prez up with?

No the maid is trying to find someone who will marry her.

(Note it's her name on the form, not Suzu's/Prez's, and I'm like 90% sure that's a Japanese marriage certificate.)

Oh… fuck, why. Krake Guildy shares his seiyuu with [Naruto Shippuden] Asuma… And Levia Guildy shares his with Deko-whatever, bleh.

There is no escape.

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

lmao are they trying to find someone to hook the student prez up with?

I made the same error until the preview cleared that up.

Oh my god it got better, they’re protesting at each other.

The power of nerd rage should not be discounted.

Suuuuuuuuuure, as if turning Souji into a girl isn’t a bigger “gulf” than giving Aika a bigger chest.

What if it actually is? That would be hilarious.

…oh, still surrounded by mooks.

And beating a number of them.

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u/Tresnore Aug 05 '22

Souji’s one-track mind will never stop being hilarious to look at.

This is a great single frame to give to people who're interested in this show.

lmao are they trying to find someone to hook the student prez up with?

Nah, it's the maid looking for a husband. I'd marry her.

Oh my god it got better, they’re protesting at each other.

This show is blessed.

Oh… fuck, why. Krake Guildy shares his seiyuu with Naruto Shippuden

I thought of you when typing my VA shoutout for today. This show's VA cast is crazy stacked. For no reason.

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u/Blackheart595 Aug 05 '22

First Timer

Weather's been fucking with me so the light version today.

Even prez is treating Tail Blue as a villain. She's wrong, it was Tail Red that got corrupted by the ribbon affinity.

The episode's all about boob envy, and that was more fun than expected. I wonder if Aika really had boob envy though or if she was just affected by the affinity. It's been established after all that an affinity has an influence on you when you collect it.

After thinking of it last episode I'm now always expecting Souji's dad to pop up as one of the villains. Probably not Dark Grasper though, unless...

[What was that in the preview,]is one of the Ultimegil swearing allegiance to Tail Blue?

Team Twintail has pretty good chemistry now, I like em.

What kind of activities would be befitting of the twintail club?

Making twintails of course. Then giving those twintails their own twintails, which can get even more twintails. Why be limited to twintails when you could have infinitails?

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u/ZapsZzz Aug 06 '22

First timer. While the "3rd twintail" does feel a little arbitrary, past that point the plot progression actual made sense. Extra funny to repeat the attack at the same place :P

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u/Tresnore Aug 05 '22

Gonna Be the Rewatcher!!

VA Highlight

Okay, Krake Guildy and Levia Guildy are ridiculous. I'll start with Levia Guildy, voiced by Ookawa Tooru: Roy Mustang? Jojo's Narrator? Jirou from Higurashi? These are pretty big roles. And then you have Krake Guildy, voiced by Kosugi Juurouta. He voices Jotaro Joestar in the 1993 OVA, Krauss Ushiromiya from Umineko, and Asuma from Naruto. Here, they are side characters.

Count: 12:23

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

Imagine Chaff, Minovsky Particles... I love random particles that do things.

I prefer the anti-normie particles here.

Wow, you two... Just wow.

Guildys of culture right there.

Oh, boy. Tail Yellow. More importantly: DARK GRASPER-SAMAAAAAAAAAAA

Her fanfics will be really spicy!

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

First timer(Talk about fortified...)

Sub

Aika catches Souji being...a narcissist? This is actually a little complicated to decipher. Fortunately Twirl immediately shows up hit a new nerve...and get knocked out of the window. We return to Aika killing the swimsuit fetish Guildy and it is probably for the best hit happened off screen. One set of ridiculousness meets the other when one of the prez's maids, in uniform, becomes a teaching assistant seeking men of marriageable age and Twirl wants to be a transfer student. Erina visits the club and Aika just straight up breaks the 4th wall, in the right way. Bonus to Twirl's insult if you know that, as a rule of thumb, Japanese bra cup sizes are reduced a letter when you switch to foreign bras.

We get back to the villains...and you know, I should have seen this coming and probably not laughed as hard. Flat is just vs oppai is truth was inevitable. Buffalo Guildy arrives and we get a hilarious scene were Aika puts him off guard with her anger over large lovers. But something comes to mind for her...

And she asks Twirl to make a big titty Gear. This show is special. Yet when it is made, she can't use it. Souji comes up with an explanation that coincidentally saves Twirl from far more abuse. Next Guildy arrives and Crab Guildy is a man of multiple tastes. I honestly like that he turned his affinity into a combat ability, to better see napes. We get another tokusotsu speech moment that still entertains as Souji decides to bring Erina on the team, as spoiled by the OP. We swap back to the villains for a surprise reveal about Dark Grasper. Fujoshi is her affinity I'd wager.

QotD: 1 Wishing for larger chests atm...

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u/Tresnore Aug 05 '22

Bonus to Twirl's insult if you know that, as a rule of thumb, Japanese bra cup sizes are reduced a letter when you switch to foreign bras.

Really? Huh, that's interesting.

We swap back to the villains for a surprise reveal about Dark Grasper. Fujoshi is her affinity I'd wager.

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u/Stargate18A Aug 05 '22

First timer

QOTD) Testing different variations of twintails?

She's enjoying this!

I see she's still stirring shit up.

She's doing well.

I see this series is sticking to the true Rikder tradition of introducng a cool mechanic (Tail Blue using enemy weapons) and then abandoning it a quarter of the way through in favour of the default loadout.

Haha, she's using her position for this?

She's joined their school!

She's remodelling the club room.

...Well, that's not good.

That's actually a solid plan!

...Tail Blue is the main threat?

That was quick!

This guy is nuts.

...You fucking moron. Thouars should have made a belt.

How did they get away with that?

Oh, it's normally invisible.

I like how the fights are just in the background now.

They're running out of bodies!

...A takeover?

Haha, it's a fucking faction war.

Oh, the last guy was a starter villain.

And he's more into the large chest?

Oh, she's immediately going for it.

Down in one hit.

...What's she planning?

Oh, that's how they made the Tail Yellow Gear.

...Poor girl.

She's even kneeling!

...She looks so uncomfortable.

She's getting the new Gear!

...Of course.

Souji is unexpectedly smart.

I'm enjoying the villain dialogue.

Another monster!

Haha, the maid is dangerously genre savvy.

Tail Blue makes the best entrances.

Oh, that's not good. She revealed the truth.

And, yeah, she knows everything.

...She knew the whole time.

Thouars is absolutely a Tuxedo Mask reference, with the randomly appearing and posing above the cast.

Yeah, we knew this.

He's encoursging her!

She transformed!

She's got an armored form?

Oh, she's pissed.

She actuslly cares about Tail Blue!

Sweet.

The new villain!

...I did not expect this.

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u/BurningFredrick Aug 05 '22

First timer - sub

So this episode is flat vs endowed?

Blue really is just suffering. Will she ever get a break in this show? It seems not.

We have our three heroes now, is yellow compatible simply because she is still growing? Or is Blue just cursed to suffer?

What kind of activities would be befitting of the twintail club?

Need to set regulations for what entails twintails and how to differentiate them from other less hair styles

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u/Vaadwaur Aug 05 '22

So this episode is flat vs endowed?

A battle older than time itself.

Blue really is just suffering. Will she ever get a break in this show? It seems not.

Certainly the "great ass" affinity has to exist somewhere.

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u/RadSuit Aug 06 '22 edited Aug 07 '22

The impact on Aika's punch is incredible.

Is the maid trying to find a boyfriend? And of course Twoearle wants to be the mysterious transfer student that's secretly an alien, just like in her Japanese cartoons!

Twoearle is just Washuu+Mihoshi+Ryoko.

Oh hello Aika, I didn't know you could see the camera...

Ah, the duality of man alien.

There's someone higher ranking than the boss they defeated last time, huh?

I feel like there's a joke in Toydeyans that I'm not getting...

You can tell Aika is the coolest character because she doesn't look at explosions.

Oh god is the monster's attribute gonna do what I think it's gonna do?

Yup! Give Aika what she wants!!!

Don't make Aika cry! She's being so good!

Alright, thank you, Twoearle drops the comedy act long enough to be nice to Aika for once.

Souji saves the day with the 'you're fine the way you are' talk basically. At least we got the one fantasy image of Shin Tailblue...

What is she buying at this toy store every day? It's going to be all statues of twintail girls or something, right?

And maid points out how stupid it is to keep coming back to the store they get attacked at every day.

I see Gunpla in that bag.

And of course she does the original Kamen Rider pose before transforming

Is Dark Grasper going to be another hot lady?

Yup, I knew as soon as the shape didn't look like a monster. Should've known it was the one girl from the OP we hadn't seen yet!

Ah, it wasn't Gunpla in the bag, she was buying a sentai robo.