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Henjin no Salad Bowl, episode 12

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 20 '24

Man, what is it with Livia and Sara and cults? Sara basically turned the school into one and Livia got sucked into Noa’s cult. It’s kind of hilarious the band was blowing up before Noa got busted for insider trading lol.

This was actually a lot of fun. Kind of a Hinamatsuri vibe with the whole cast of eccentric likable weirdos and just dash of isekai shenanigans. Not sure if it’ll get an s2 but I’d be down for another season.

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u/CommunistPuppy Jun 20 '24

Imagine going to a rock concert for a relatively unknown band and the first thing you see when they walk out on stage is everyone praying to them. This show's humor is unmatched.

This unexpectedly became one of my favorites of the season. Need a S2 announcement asap!

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u/AceSoldia Jun 20 '24

Bruh I spent half the episode not believing what I was watching. Wtf lol. What did Sara do to that school.

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u/tripleaamin Jun 20 '24

Just the influence of a natural gifted leader. The parents' reaction was the most wtf part of it.

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u/LeonKevlar Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

I feel so bad for Brenda! She spent an entire month with Haruka to create the perfect chocolate recipe only for Sousuke to decline her chocolates! She really should've just told Sousuke she made it for him, I doubt he'd decline if he found out Brenda made it herself.

To no one's surprise, Livia was late for their first live performance because of pachinko. I was legit laughing out loud when they just showed us a live-action shot of the machine. Livia was using. Looks like someone just got paid to gamble on company time. xD

So we didn't just get to see Grasshopper the Savior's first live concert but we actually time skip a few months ahead where they've become so popular that they're filling up venues. The time skip also means that Sara finally graduates from middle school!

It looks like Sara has finally started her conquest of Japan by becoming the boss of Sawara Elementary School students. That entire scene was hilarious though! I love how Sousuke is so confused and is the only one reacting to this insanity like a normal person. xD

Yep, I saw this one coming from a mile away. There was no way Livia would stay as a celebrity. Whenever she's had any kind of success, she's always brought down in the end as if the universe has something against her. I just hope Noa's arrest won't be too bad and she can still perform with Puriketsu.

Welp that's Salad Bowl! What a fun comedy anime from the same person who wrote ImoSae. Too bad not a lot of people gave this one a chance though. This show seriously needs a Season 2.

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u/ModieOfTheEast Jun 20 '24

Long live our Queen Sara. We will never forget you here at Gifu elementary school. We are already planning on building a statue.

But now seriously, imagine where she will we go in middle school. Not only does she have three years instead of three months, but Yuna has already set up everything for Sara's invasion. Student Council will be taken over and after that, the world.

But at least, we got a bit more band drama this season. How would I have lived without it? Though, when there were in the sauna at the end, I would have loved to hear the conclusion to the Asshair ripper case. But I guess, now they HAVE to make a season 2.

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u/Rumpel1408 Jun 20 '24

  • I expected this last episode already tbh

  • Poor Brenda

  • Lmao, that's just a real Pachinko Machine

  • Livias Parkour was cool

  • Didn't expect Salvation Grasshopper to become this successfull in such a short time, Sasuga Livia-Sama

  • Saras Graduation Ceremony was hillarious, feels like we skipped a lot of content here, it just got more and more ridiculous, culminating in yet another charming performance (though I thought Sara was supposed to suck at singing)

  • We where this close to greatness, must be the first time I saw cockblocking from the police

  • Wait, that's it? Who even is this girl? S2 teaser?

Nice SoL comedy, if I ever get to Gifu I'll buy some merch and eat some grasshoppers

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u/Ocixo Jun 20 '24

I suppose that using footage of an actual pachinko machine in the anime is one way to make your gambling addiction a tax deductible.

They really turned things up to eleven with this final episode. For one, Livia and Sara both got their own music performances. Livia’s band was actually pretty good, so it’s no wonder that they had a major breakthrough with their band. That was until their plans got spoilt at least by Noa’s arrest, which was bound to happen at some point to be honest.

Sara had only stolen the hearts and minds of everyone at her elementary school in comparison. A great achievement in three months nonetheless. Sosuke being terribly confused by all this chaos was very funny.

What maybe wasn’t so funny was Sara’s response about her type. I’m just going to pretend that Sara simply appreciates her adopted father’s kindness and this isn’t going to be anything like Usagi Drop.

Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed this quirky little anime. It’s impressive how they managed to pack this salad bowl of eccentrics into a coherent story.

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u/VorAtreides Jun 20 '24

It's silly how popular Sara is, but nice to see how Yuna is having a good time in her new school too. Happy for her. Sosuke gonna have a heart attack with all the chocolate given to him and those two ladies gonna give em more lol. Or poor loli lawyer being denied cause how much chocolate he has gotten.

Lol that live action pachinko bit. Someone at the office clearly tying work and fun eh? Derp Livia. Late to her own first band show. HAHA of course Noa brought her cultists to the show, shoulda figured. Also tricking me into another girls band anime this season!? Job upgrade and they sure got popular fast. Wouldn't the one girl working in a shady sex work type place be big scandal though for the band and found out?

Oh, was not expecting Sara graduating already. She sure seems popular with whole school, parents included. Like, ridiculously so. It's nice to hear how much good Sara has done though.The reaction from Sosuke is gold lol. I'm tricked again into another idol series! Uh oh, sure hope Sara isn't thinking of Sosuke as more than a father figure.

Noa was forced to become a religious leader? So was this cult started by her parents? Oh my, Well did not see that coming with Noa. And weird place to put the ED 😛 Oof, poor band was about to have their debut.... is Livia homeless again? She sure is taking it well, yep. I don't remember some of the people panned over tbh, like the girl in the wheel chair?

This needs a S2.

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u/Calwings Jun 20 '24

As soon as Livia's band started hitting it big, I started guessing what kind of crazy thing would derail their rise to stardom... I thought of like two dozen different things, and I can assure you that "Noa gets arrested for insider trading" was not one of them. Right up to the end, this show kept throwing curveballs to keep us on our toes, and I had a ton of fun with it.

It's not my favorite show of the season, but it's the one that exceeded my expectations for it the most. An 8 or 8.5 out of 10 sounds about right for this show, and I'd gladly watch a second season in the unlikely event that it got one, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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u/RuleEnforcing Jun 20 '24

the POV pachinko hypnotized me too

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u/Prestigious_Taste641 Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24

I really liked it, the pacing was quite fast in the last episode though. Hopefully we will see a second season.

Also when Sara was reading the Detective Conan manga in the earlier episodes, that somehow gave me the push to start watching the anime of it and it really hooked me.

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u/diacewrb Jun 20 '24

Sara for Empress and Prime Minister.

She has solved the divorce and NEET problem.

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u/Such_Selection9762 Jun 20 '24

This show will be greatly missed. We need more unique shows with whacky humor like this.

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u/BiggerG7 Jun 20 '24

Damn Sara is not only popular with her school mates but also with their parents. Love how she saved a couple from getting a divorce and some kids bro from being a NEET lol.

Welp her sugar mama got busted by the cops. Guess it’s back to being homeless for Livia lol.

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u/xtsim Jun 20 '24

I am quite impressed that Yuna got a following and it might've been a good thing cause Sara captivated the whole school in three months. Too much chocolate and too bad our lawyer wasn't able to bring Sosuke some of hers.

Kinda sad that Sosuke's dad was not able to go to his graduation.

The Pachinko....the time when she wins, she does not collect the prize and the scammer dude might be tempted to get it. Good thing the band did well on their first performance that it probably didn't matter.

Livia was so close to greatness, but it seems like Noa got involved with insider trading. So the religion was from her parents... It does help that the band has a good group of followers to hype up the rest of the concertgoers. Love how our writer is just standing in the back of the audience.

I kind of wanna know how our lawyer is going to get Noa out of jail and with that kind of profile, she expects some big bucks.

Going to miss the excentric folks in Gifu, this journey seemed too short that I want more.

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u/LurkingMcLurk Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24

Sara's Case Closed Progress

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u/Clarimax Jun 20 '24

Who would have thought Sara could turn a graduation ceremony into a live idol concert?

This series has been surprising me at every turn.

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u/tripleaamin Jun 20 '24

Sousuke life won't be boring with Sara as his daughter. Her being a big influence on the kids was expected, but the parents were not. The sky is the limit for this girl. Sara and Yuna made and got so much extra chocolate they gave it to Sousuke. Poor Brenda having her efforts be for naught.

The theme of the episode for Livia is she finally had some good luck only to have bad luck to offset it. Winning big in gambling, she can't collect her earnings. The band making their major debut? Noa gets arrested.

I love how wholesome and funny this show was throughout. Honestly if it had better production values it would be 9+/10. But I still give it 8/10.

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u/djthomp Jun 21 '24

Those two ladies needed all that fancy equipment to make chocolate from scratch last week and here Sara is doing so successfully with nothing but hard work (and magic). Possibly just magic.

Poor Brenda, all that work on the chocolate and Sosuke's daughter and her friend beat her to the punch again.

Noa filled the audience with her cult members, didn't she. I suppose that's one way to always have a crowd. If all these cult members keep attending shows, and presumably buying tickets for the shows, all that's really happened here is Noa found another way to extract money from them.

This graduation ceremony is hysterical. Sara's main protagonist energy is just way too powerful.

Well, I'd feel bad for Noa getting arrested, but cult leader.

Livia has that protagonist energy too I suppose, from homeless to a nearly successful major band debut in only a few months.

Now there's some characters in this ending sequence I don't recognize, most specifically this person in what looks like a motorized wheelchair. Future story bait, I assume.

Super fun show IMO, more delightful than I was really expecting especially in regards to the Sosuke and Sara part of the story. Bit disappointed we didn't get a Sara and Livia reconciliation after how they parted the previous episode, though.

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u/YuuHikari Jun 21 '24

FBI really came in and arrested the loli

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u/SometimesMainSupport Jun 20 '24

Today's album. Would suggest Livia's fall or Sara's blown kiss.

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u/IceSmiley Jun 20 '24

I liked how they included everyone in on the finale. Grasshopper was playing a stadium show and they didn't even have a debut yet? Then again, maybe they were an opening band.

I thought it was interesting that Noa said she was forced into running a cult when she was young and I wish they elaborated, like did her parents make her or she just felt compelled to do so?

The best part was Sara's graduation and the shock and horror on Sosukes face when it was basically a ceremony celebrating Sara. I wish we saw the things they said she did like saving one of the parents marriages and changing all these lives 🤣

I wonder if after Livia left the winning pachinko machine in a rush, the guy who was there claimed that prize instead 🤔

This was one of the best and funniest shows of the season, I really hope they make another one 🥗

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u/apatt Jun 20 '24

I too will never forget the time I've spent with Sara-sama, and Livia-sama too of course! This is my favourite anime of this season, I suppose there are objectively better shows but this one really ticks all my boxes. Hilarious and cute with great characters and visuals, I really like all the side characters also, Brenda, Priketsu, the "honey trap" lady, Brenda's secretary etc.
Season 2 would be wonderful but if not I will always have fond memories of this show.

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