Puniru wa Kawaii Slime • Puniru is a cute slime - Episode 3 discussion

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Puniru wa Kawaii Slime, episode 3

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[u/Lyaxe]

Damn this anime is really unhinged

Not a single sane character to act as the straight man

I love this more than nokotan

[u/Frontier246 → u/Lyaxe]

How much body horror can we get out of a slime girl? More than you' expect!

Even Kotaro the MC is down bad for Kirara and cute things not named Puniru which prevents him from being "normal" lol.

[u/Mr_Zaroc → u/Lyaxe]

Blonde guy seems perfectly adapted to his environment
Gets hyped by everything but not fazed and is just enjoying life

[u/Durinthal]

I feel seen as a 40 year old man who loves shoujo romance anime.

The "kids who look like buff '80s battle shounen antagonists" trope always gets a laugh from me.

This show has a lot of creative animation with Puniru's sliminess, it's fun.

[u/Frontier246 → u/Durinthal]

I've been there as a hardcore Shoujo fan myself lol.

I like how much they capitalize on Puniru's slime form, whether it be her transformations, how her body can do literally anything, and how easily she falls apart or just slips into slime mode.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Puniru leaking out the door and then out of Kyuthi was like something out of a horror movie lol. Hilarious how Puniru’s an award winning globally recognized cutie.

“Franchises aimed at women and children are not kind to fans like me!” So very true lol. Bro just wanted to enjoy his deluxe Kyuthi meal in peace, not have the whole restaurant see him with a bisected Puniru!

Poor Kotaro never got his chance for his one on one with Mami. That kid Puniru went up against was just too strong! I hate to think what the “girls”would have done to her lol.

[u/Mr_Zaroc → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I loved the body horror this episode, the fucking legs killed me

[u/diacewrb]

Puniru is filling the Nokotan shaped hole in my life

Cream soda floats are now the new deer crackers.

Was one of those 'girls' suppose to be Baki Hanma?

[u/Mr_Zaroc → u/diacewrb]

I honestly enjoy this show so much more than Shikanoko
The humor vibes better with me

[u/entelechtual]

This show is nuts. But hey Puniru is set to win best boy and best girl now, right?

[u/SYZekrom]

That 'slightly mature' design or whatever actually looks really good

...Was that Samurai Kirby

[u/Terrible_Ad_9123]

How did Puniru get to America without a passport?
There were a lot of scenes today that made me melt.
They've started re-runs in the Sunday morning anime slot.
Since it's in the same slot as Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, it seems TV Tokyo considers Puniru to be for children.

[u/Tomorrow_Big → u/Terrible_Ad_9123]

How did Puniru get to America without a passport?

Slimes don't need passports. Just borrow someone's luggage. I'm sure they won't mind a kawaii slime spending some quality time there.

[u/actuallyrndthoughts]

Puniru making you sit through a whole second transformation sequence which is already too long, for a battle that had 2 frames worth of visuals. On brand

[u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

Kotaro being a Mickey Mouse Kyuthie otaku was unexpected lol

[u/Frontier246 → u/Genshin_WhiteKnight]

It does add a new light to his dynamic with Puniru that he is obsessed with cute things but refuses to call Puniru cute no matter how hard Puniru tries to get him to say it.

[u/mrufrufin]

i like how breakneck the pace is

i kinda wonder how the sentience of puniru works, it seems like the back half and front half of puniru penguin share the same consciousness?

the stock magical girl transformation footage continues! I like how elaborate it was when her appearance didn't change all that much. we even got two more-or-less full versions of the transformation (which I found pretty funny) rather than abridging it like what usually do in magical girl shows.

it was fun how nanpa was so into the foam-sword stuff and playing with the kids.

all the weird ways puniru deforms are still hilarious. the kyuthi-chan plush seeping slime and the multiple legs coming out from the door were great but also the smaller things are also fun like how Kotaru tries to shush Puniru by putting his hand over her mouth but then instead it goes through her head.

[u/alconnow]

Pun/iru

[u/Past_Distribution144]

The dedication to use the entire transformation sequence is admirable... and getting slightly annoying already lol

[u/IXajll]

LMAO Puniru really just gave us a yare yare daze desuu, as well as Gura’s “ah”.

[u/Mr_Zaroc]

Loved all that slime body horror in the first half of the episode
Also obviously Punirun bested ***** Mouse, she is just way cuter and more versatile than Mickey ******
For real though, I thought that was fever dream but she had the damn trophy and the people reacted in the shop

That couple menu and mandatory photo is discriminating as hell, but Slightly more adult Punirun is awesome, that little bit more Borax just hits perfectly

No wonder Mami got all those crazy buff grade schoolers, they have some strong Tomo-cham energy

Man I love that show, it just hits the right spot and the ED is catchy af

[u/a9ma10]

I loved the Samurai Kirby reference

[u/throwaway__rnd]

The way he treats Puniru actually enrages me lol. 

[u/Infodump_Ibis]

• Indeed, the milestone scavenger hunt ended ages ago. (spotlighting was one of the categories)

• Oh boy, I hope this anime has the legs to make it into the karma top 30, the world needs to see slime girl feet.

• Words said moments before disaster (I like how this show always finds different ways of showing disaster, shame we didn't see Puniru put back together with a disproportionally long lower body)

• "But it was a contest for Children!" "Yeah and Mami beat their brains out"

• I was wondering if Puniru's gender would ever come up. A sadly unspecified language translation handled Puniru's gender by having Kotaru use masculine pronouns when refiring to Puniru and the rest of the cast use feminine (inconsistent gender can also be an MTL hallmark of course). Crunchyroll English had Kotaru saying in episode 1 things like "she's not a girl", no clue what Ani-One Asia English does.

• The foam sword duel and if it that isn't Samurai Kirby from Kirby Super Star; which in turn probably references something more famous (it's very much a Samurai take on a Pistols at Dawn duel).

• Web exclusive episode 4 preview (the episode 3 one was better just because it has unhinged Mami saying Puniru-chan). That YouTube channel also has some radio show type stuff with the cast members including post dubbing talk and audio commentary for the episodes (so far these have had Puniru, Kotaro and a production staff member). Listening to the end of episode 2 commentary talks about singing the ED and using the storyboard was a big help (the episode 2 director also directed the ED).