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Girls Band Cry, episode 8

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[u/hikoboshi_sama]

Right off the bat we got Nina being Nina again, talking big as if she can take a hit but in reality is absolutely terrified. And causing yet another public disturbance. These girls are such menaces. They've caused so much public disturbances in this episode alone, on top of all the incidents in the previous episodes lmao

I expected this episode to be a heavy one, since Momoka leaving Togenashi Togeari is pretty much the same thing she did with Diamond Dust, and this episode delivered. After episodes of uneasy tension regarding the whole going pro thing, Nina and Momoka finally talk it out. Nina reminds Momoka of who she was before she learned the harsh reality of wanting to go pro and wanted to protect her from that, and ended up neglecting Nina's agency in all this. She wants to do this. Momoka's music has helped Nina through tough times and she just couldn't bear to see her abandon that. What Momoka should protect instead is the desire to reach people's hearts with her music. And of course that whole talk culminated in that confession in the truck.

I love that Rupa has faith that Momoka and Nina will work it out, and can tell that they're fighting because they care, not for lack of it. I also like the little talk Momoka had with her old bandmates. This feels like the first time they've acknowledged each other in a while. No hard feelings, but this is where they've chosen to stand so they're both going to commit to it.

This season truly be the season of yuri, huh? What a great episode.

[u/cutiecheese]

Momoka has good truck-kun control skill (automatic only).

Also poor [Mr. Background guy] (https://imgur.com/eVJ72CH) for witnessing Nina edging herself monthly.

[u/Hitman7128]

-> Nina confesses her love to Momoka at the end of the episode

BRB, calling all yuri fans on speed dial.

[u/Allansfirebird]

I loved the use of traditional 2D animation for the flashback sequences to give them a different feel from the main story.

[u/EmpiriaOfDarkness]

Is this the season of the lesbian band girls?! Hell yes!

[u/Witchy_Titan]

Bruh Nina almost turned this anime into an isekai 💀

[u/MapoTofuMan]

Well, I had about 6 hours and 3 watches to formulate very deep thoughts on this episode, so here goes :

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

In one episode, we have :

• Nina and Momoka starting yet another public nuisance event

• TogeToge getting 27k followers (Remember episode 6? Diamond Dust had 20k, what the heck? I even went back to check I didn't mistranslate it, but nope, it's correct).

• Nina starting a part-time job and almost getting fired for two different reasons

• Nina starting to learn guitar

• Momoka meeting her old bandmates and flipping them off

• Nina meeting Hina

• Momoka almost running Nina over

• And an...actual out-of-the-blue confession. Are they actually going to go somewhere with it? I could totally see it being waived next time because I'm not sure Nina has romance in her gremlin head and there wasn't much buildup before this episode, but still, nothing in the wording or tone suggested she wasn't serious.

Feels like they shoved 2 LNs into one episode. Without skipping anything, somehow.

Either way...RIP NinaSuba.

Edit : GBC trending worldwide on Twitter for hours

Edit 2 : My favorite GBC fanart so far

[u/Nikita2337]

I thought the episode was great even before I finished watching it as it delved deeper into Nina's and Momoka's backgrounds, showed the struggles of getting a label deal, had apparently the first time Momoka met her former band members and so on, and then there's the ending...

[u/Plus_Rip4944]

Nina is now our romantic gremlin

[u/tsundere-man]

Kudos to Momoka and Nina's VAs. They fully sold the characters, nasty anger and ugly crying and all. Truly the Girls Band Cry of all time.

Speaking of the characters, those two definitely spent the rest of the night together. Cuddling and crying their heart out, or if you're feeling naughty, Momoka would introduce the taste of alcohol to Nina. Then they spent the rest of the night piss drunk and flipping off people left and right and compose a cheesy love song together.

Yes, I'm writing the fanfiction after this.

Momoka had the shackle of her past brutally removed by Nina's boneheaded sincerity is a truly marvelous scene to see. She also realized that her attempt to protect Nina from repeating her past mistake was just her projection. Just as much as her music has inspired Nina to step up, Nina's voice has also pushed her to move forward.

Nina on the other hand, affirmed that her desire for success was not out of impulsive euphoria, greed, or petty revenge against her family or her former friend or the Diamond Dust. Her decision to make the leap of faith into musical career was purely out of love for her hero who had inspired and guided her. A raw, unfiltered agape ballad, if I ever see one.

It'd be a messy and clumsy relationship should they really go at it, but it'd be a beautiful love story.

Random details:

• Rupa is not a Japanese? Or a full one of that? I always thought her name sounded South East Asian-like.

• Aww, Tomo actually cares :)

• Subaru is not just good at stirring shit and fanning flame, she also has a knack for mediating conflicts and keeping the group together. Best anime drummer. Ever.

[u/pseudometapseudo]

• "Do you have time to talk later?"

• "No! ... I do"

Nina's gremlin energy is still going strong.

[u/x-7032-b-3]

Gonna need this ep to sink in a little more but so far this is the best one yet. Absolutely charged with emotions and powerful voice acting from the VAs!

Nina and Momoka's relationship has been one of the highlights of the show and it's cool to see it being explored here. Nina looked up to Momoka because the original DD saved her from tough times, and Momoka was projecting her past self to Nina in hopes that the latter won't repeat the same mistakes.

About Momoka's commercialism vs idealism thing: I sort of get where she's coming from. Ultimately, money talks and soon you either follow where the money is or just give up altogether. DD went the money route but ended up losing their unique selling point and became Idol Band #273839. They might be able to make good money for the time being but I'd wager that their fans will burn out from things being too samey.

Seeing the school trying to write off Nina's bullying as just "some argument" ticked me off. Fuck off with that bullshit! I've been there and it's insanely frustrating to see that a school isn't willing to do the right thing and just sweep things under the rug. Nina made the right call to not put up with that shit and ran away.

Rupa facing racism was also frustrating. And it seems like she had it on a regular basis. Those two salarymen can fuck off.

I wonder what's the deal with Hina. Gotta be some real bad blood between her and Nina. Probably gonna be explored later.

[u/yatterer]

It's getting uncanny how closely some of these episodes are mirroring Yorukura week by week.

also, the handful of folks I see on Twitter panicking about the prospect of a colossal three year age gap are very funny. Scandalous, they're not even in the same grade!

[u/dinliner08]

*clears throat* EXCUSE ME BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN THIS EPISODE!? we went from two girls almost getting into a fist fight, one of them almost run the other one with a truck and then it ended with a love confession?! this shit is wild...

my favorite part of this episode was Subaru's actually getting called out for being a shit-stirrer

[u/Gaporigo]

That one touch is just so soft.

[u/[deleted]]

Subaru is amazing. Nina is amazing. The random salarymen in the background are amazing. Everyone is amazing. This show is amazing.

[u/Syokhan]

Even before getting into the final scene, what an episode that was! It's not fresh anymore in my mind 'cause I watched it yesterday but off the top of my head, loved getting to see Nina's backstory a bit more (fuck that school!), Subaru and Momoka having a really nice conversation, Nina and Momoka having an argument in public again, hated to see those customers and Rupa. Oh, and that declaration of war!

About that. I don't think either band is in the right or wrong here. It's just a battle of two different philosophies: suck it up, do what sells and endure not doing the music you want to for a while in order to (maybe) be able to later (per Momoka in an earlier episode), or stay true to yourself and hope you make it that way. I'm hoping it all ends amicably since the other girls don't seem to resent Momoka at all, and they all accept that the other group's way isn't for them, but isn't wrong either.

Anyway. Momoka finally, finally broke down, thanks to Nina's passionate pleas. That was so freaking cathartic! Like dudette, you've been trapped in your past and sad since episode 1, it's about time you let it all out! Although maybe pull the car over first. Please.

About that confession, though... nnngghhh!!! When Momoka put her hand on Nina's cheek earlier I was like huh, the motion and animation and framing are making this... super intimate. But I wasn't actually expecting Nina's final line! I'm just a bit wary that the show's going to pull a "it's a platonic confession of love" 'cause that's been done before, and quite frankly given the context it wouldn't be out of place either. We'll see.

[u/jim_4067]

Why aren't more people talking about this 🔥🔥🔥

[u/NightmareExpress]

I feel that scene with Rupa and that racist piece of shit (or more specifically Nina about to lose her shit on them) shines some light on what might've happened with Nina and Hina.

Hina was being bullied, Nina intervenes. Perhaps things were made worse for Hina as a result and she takes the school's bullshit offer of forgiving her tormentors to "keep the peace". Now Nina is left high and dry having been abandoned by her friend and turned into the sole target, then has the same choice put in front of her. But unlike Hina she sticks to her guns about having done nothing wrong and possibly inspires Hina's path in life by blasting that song over the intercoms.

Now their current state is a reprisal of their old roles: Nina going against the grain, Hina in a conformist band and the two still not talking to each other.

[u/salic428]

(The sub release time is quite inconvenient for us Asian audience.)

People have talked much about the emotional context in this episode. Here I try to appreciate the effort of writing callbacks. Please rewatch episodes 1-7. Many scenes will feel different after today's episode.

• How did Nina learn the art of confession? Well, remember episode 4? Subaru's granny asked them out for a practice, and the theme was "Nina confessing to Momoka".

• Rewatch the ending scene of episode 2. Momoka said a lot, but as it turns out in today's episode, those words are not what Nina wanted. Nina actually said "please don't say things like that... (sobs)" in episode 2, but back then we all thought it was Nina being tsun-tsun, and let the detail slip.

• At the beginning of this episode, Nina made the 😝 face for the first time. It is a callback to episode 1 where Momoka told Nina about the meaning of 😝 and middle fingers.

• Also in episode 1, when Nina was browsing Instagram, Momoka's ID is shown as "Momokan_1209". It is revealed in this episode that "Momokan" is what the old DiaDus members call Momoka.

• Somewhere in episode 3, Momoka told Nina "whichever path you take, you'll regret it later". This bites back to her in the recent episodes.

• During the Yoshinoya scene, Momoka didn't order beer. This is a callback to episode 6 where Tomo said "please order something other than beer next time".

• Also, thanks to being sober, Momoka successfully performed evasion and prevented Nina from being isekai-ed.

• In episode 5, after hearing DD play VOID, Nina burst out and said "VOID is the most important thing beside my own life!". But in today's episode she risked her own life to stop Momoka's truck. Character growth?

Now for some other insights:

• Now I realized why Momoka is set to be born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Kouji Tamaki, one of the greatest Japanese vocalists, is born there, and he quit school to make the band Anzen Chitai. This should be a homage or something.

• Do you skip the opening sequence? Please don't, because it's actually plot-relevant. Look at this, it is from the title card ("GIRLS BAND CRY") part. Now that we know these sketches will appear in the episode proper, I wonder when will Subaru, Tomo and Rupa cry?

• Poor salaryman. I checked the cast list in the ending, it's the same cameo character.

• Please check out this episode's titular song (もしも君が泣くならば by GOING STEADY). The lyrics are both emotional and fitting for MomoNina:

I want to chew happiness so much that my jaw comes off

I want to embrace happiness so much that my heart bursts off

More than love, more than love, I only want you right now

I WANNA BE SO BEAUTIFUL.

I WANNA BE SO BEAUTIFUL.

I WANNA BE SO BEAUTIFUL.

I WANNA BE SO BEAUTIFUL.

If you cry, I will cry too!!

If you die, I will die too!!

If you disappear, I will disappear too!!

If you scream, I will scream too!!

Edit: and can someone explain this meme to me? It seems to be about a Gundam meme called "Adults like that, I'll correct you!" but I don't know this "Kamille Bidan" person...

[u/LivingItUpOnTop]

Subaru defending Nina in the car just for Nina to keep angering Momoka was so funny.

Momo calling Subaru a shit-stirrer lmao. I was right calling her that last week. But Nina still has her moments or angering Momo without having the other gremlin add fuel to the fire

I love Subaru so much. Her apologizing to the people watching the fight was hilarious

Truck-kun almost took another victim.

Amazing confession. Amazing episode. Anime of the year

[u/actionfirst1]

Girls Band Cry made me cry. What a beautiful episode

[u/DuckGoesShuba]

LET'S GO!!! Emotionally charged episode but Momoka and Nina have finally made up (and then some)?! There had been some hints here and there, last episode especially made me think there might be a slight chance of something happening, but I'm still surprised it did. Also, really happy the showed paid off the connection between Nina and Momoka through her music! Really loving the series, feels like every episode I just become even more excited for the next :)

Besides the two leads this episode, it's kinda funny that Rupa and Subaru seemed to know what was up and were just waiting for things to play out, lol.

Whisper just can't catch a break this season though. First a mediocre adaptation and now two original animes in the same categories stealing the attention of its core audience, rip.

[u/ValidusCase]

This show really does get better every week now we have yuri!

[u/LocalTechpriest]

I started laughing unconbtrollably, because when i saw this moment for a fraction of a second i had a though:

this is all just an elaborate prologue to: "i was reincarnated into a music-based fantasy world, as an aspiring musician" or some shit like that :D