This is a rare occasion I've been sitting on the front page waiting for the thread to pop up hah hah
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Ahiru no Sora Chihayafuru Hatena Illusion Episode 4-5 Infinite Dendrogram Itai no wa Iya nano etc. Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi Episode 4-6 Murenase! Seton Gakuen Episode 4-6 Pet Plunderer Episode 4-6 Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita Episode 6-7
Yuu
okay
ahiru infinite dohecohodrion (what ep?_ pet muranase rikei 6
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Should be episode five.
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Also I'd imagine you'd rather sub in Itai Iya for that final slot.
Yuu
oh yeah forbot about that
okay ahiru okay lets start
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Baske!
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Their chances of winning this game aren't looking too good.
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Well I guess it's only a three-point difference at the moment. That's a pretty narrow gap to close.
Yuu
More narrow than you'd expect from these guys
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Even when he's got a good dunk lined up Momoharu can't land balls. He seems to never be able to score.
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Feels kinda bad for him really. Sure no one likes a quitter but it's even worse when you want to be done with something and there's people trying to drag you along unwillingly.
Yuu
He's tsimdere fpr basketball. tsundere
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Now the MC's mom is going rogue. She seems pretty sickly, her priorities should be staying healthy.
Yuu
It's over, he has a leg crmap those happen so often in anime
Anno
Aaaaasdsdf I hate HATE hate leg cramps.
Anno
Yeah I've never had a leg cramp in the ways they always pop up in anime. It's always when I'm waking up and stretching my legs in bed in that sleep-hazed way that I cramp a leg.
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Oh Madoka's onee-chan is the MC's mom's nurse. They're practically family already.
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That's a pretty human reason for usual shounen trope of seeming like you were holding back. Not being able to multitask is really normal for most human beans.
Yuu
This is still a pretty average basketball anime
okay infinite 5 okay lets start
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Geimu or something or other
Yuu
I wonder where moon is tonight
Anno
Yeah, not sure. Maybe just busy with work. There's not too much to miss out on tonight at least.
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Oh he's weak to gatcha. Poor guy.
Yuu
gacha is strong
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First time we've seen his human self since he got booted for dying. Both MMO anime this season spend very little time in their real worlds.
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I wonder how long he's stuck with those doofy ears. Maybe he'll eventually just get accustomed to having them around.
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He's kind of a dweeb.
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For how emotionally human they make these NPCs that's a pretty morbid quest to come up with.
Yuu
There's totally going to be a twist that they're acutally humans and this is an isekai world
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There's probably a hook somewhere along the way like hat. That, even. Unlike Itai Iya this show doesn't really have much grounding in its MMO world.
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This dweeb and the monotone girl are totally dating or siblings. Or both.
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>Maigingear >Maijingear >Mazingear If Maria was here he'd be in apolectic shock.
Yuu
Wow, giant robots. This has some of everything
Anno
So you've got to have a loose grip on reality to be a Maiden Master like the MC eh.
Anno
Wow yeah that's pretty macabre for this series. It's had a tinge of seriousness to it but not like "We're so evil we raised the dead kids we ate".
Yuu
The bad guys really enjoyed killing the npcs in the first episode. I think that kind of thing will show up here and there.
Anno
Koyasu again, eh. He's got a good voice for villains like this though.
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Oh a suitably BIG monster for the mecha to fight.
月
hey there how are we tonight
Anno
I'm okay. Feeling really tired for some reason. So I guess I'm anticipating the sleep I'll be getting later tonight. You good?
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We got like three minutes left in Dendrogram by the way
月
a lot of hospital appointments and stuff... one in like five hours and another tomorrow morning my days are all getting eaten up
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I guess I didn't see that coming. Guess this mecha player is like the MC and also is sufficiently delusional about the reality of this MMO.
>>805456 Are things at least going positively. I guess you don't have much you can do about the situations so it feels like that's the only recourse.
Yuu
hello moon!
>>805457 This shoes doesn't seem to know what it's doing it just does whatever
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I've poked my head into some of the threads on /a/ to see the chatter and it looks like it's a pretty disappointing adaptation. They throw out a lot of the worldbuilding and character establishing stuff, which is probably why a lot of these characters feel pretty flat at times. And it doesn't even come at the exchange of engaging action scenes so I dunno. It's still a show, at least.
月
>>805457 i wouldn't characterize it one way or the other things are just going as they are
Yuu
I can see that explains the really disjointed storytelling
pet! okay lets start!
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Petto bottoru >>805460 Well I hope things take a turn for the better but at least hope they keep level. Try not to get too underwater with all it.
月
birb
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This show has really leaned heavily into the pet analogies. The first two episodes didn't really talk abou it at all but as soon as this black-haired guy showed his true colours they've been on full throttle.
Yuu
I expected this show to be crappy but it really hasn't been bad
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The premise I read before the season start certainly didn't leave me with a particularly favourable hunch. That first episode was kinda so-so up 'till the end where the mind magic started happening and things got weird. And then the second episode was just so outright weird any previous opinions I'd been forming about the show just got completely wiped hah hah.
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She's decently cute really. But also feels like she knows how to use that to her advantage.
月
this is one of those shows that i can't really follow along too well without some kind of medication
i still enjoy watching it but a lot of it's kinda what
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Well don't fret too much about it. Even though I generally feel like I know what's going I'm still pretty consistently what about it too.
Yuu
This show just doesn't make a lot of sense.
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I think it's pretty internally consistent. There's a lot of weird stuff because it doesn't really inform the viewer on what's going on but it makes sense with in the setting.
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The way this pet of his goes half fish is definitely one of the weirder things. Not because it doesn't make sense but because it's just fucking weird to look at a fishman.
月
happy valentines day
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Another pretty decent endcard. This show flips fairly crazily between weird endcards and decent ones.
Yuu
murenase 6 oh we're on ep 4
ep 4
okay lets start!
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>>805484 Hey now we've only watched the first three episodes of the show. Shouldn't we do episode four?
月
oh okay i need to get 4
月
ready
月
it's been a while since we've watched this
this dumb dog though why can't she be normal
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When are dogs ever normal.
月
it reminds me of that gif/webm of that girl who runs on all fours it's horrifying
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I don't have that but I do have this.
月
id go find it but seeing as i plan on trying to sleep for a bit, i wont
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Sloth-chan getting a startling amount of dialogue.
Yuu
Not kemono friends
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>Twenty degrees below zero Yeah sounds about right.
月
no
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Blimey, that is a big woman.
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It's not good to lie.
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She REALLY is a big wolf gosh.
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I mean in a real wolf pack they're already all family so that last detail is kind of unnecessary.
月
they'll pick up unrelated loners they're not too picky
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>I wondered what kind of male you'd be But all the males in this series are normal animals. So if - Well okay kinda-normal animals. It's the female animals that look human-ish. So this isn't a male hyena it's a female one.
I guess we'll be getting a pseudopenis reference soon enough.
月
male hyenas are tiny and wimpy they really have it rough being a male hyena is probably one of the worst existences you can have
Anno
Oh he called her out on it hah hah
YuuAnno
For a guy that HAET AMINAL so much he's pretty well-studied in animal facts.
Yuu
He kinda needs to be given his surroundings.
月
oh no not these
Anno
Wow gosh.
Anno
These hyena males have pretty cute faces. A considerable departure from how they normally look.
Anno
Yup. Pseudopenises.
YuuAnno
The animal kingdom is really full of weird creatures.
月
she doesn't have much to gain from being a male hyena anyway
the MC sure has a lot of weird girls stuck to him
Yuu
It should be pretty obvious since the animals in this look er the men look like animals and the girls look like girls
little freudian slip there
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Yeah I'm pretty sure hyena packs operate on a matriarchal structure anyway. So there's literally no downside to being a female hyena.
>>805525 Wow I won't stand for this disingenuous insertion.
sorry moon bad bookkeeping on my part tonight okay lets start
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Again, are you sure you wouldn't rather watch Itai Iya.
月
okay...... let me get that then sigh
月
okay ready >>805528 it's fine i wasn't looking forward to rikei anyway this is a much better show
月
she's gotten too sucked in
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She's really become a problem case. I wonder if that's going to become a more prevalent thing as VR becomes more and more commonplace. People already go on day-long gaming binges. Imagine how that'll mess with people once your visual sensory experience is as high fidelity as with games like this.
月
as with anything, you get used to it you get used to the VR environment, but you also get used to switching between them the more you do it the less severe it gets
月
i want to buy a house lucky
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A VR MMO house would be super cozy too. Monster Hunter World has a crazy sub-mechanic that involves acquiring design stylesa -styles and various pets you catch to decorate your bunk and then apartment and then house. Being able to deep dive into a housemaking mechanic like that in a VR game sounds absolutely delightful.
Yuu
yeah a mmo in vr is like the holy grail of gaming
月
are you keeping your eye out for something like that?
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Wow what a vain way of naming your guild hah hah It's a cute name though. Just funny that it derives from her player name.
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That was kind of a smooth transition into the battle theme.
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Oh dodging attacks to build up attack damage sounds like my kind of jam. I love active mechanics like that.
Yuu
I guess these guys are gonna be recurring party members now.
I think a fully realized MMO environment for a VR system is still a fairly long way off. Maybe with the engine that Half-Life Alyx is supposed to be flagshipping, we might see some more complex game environments for VR. But there's a LOT of layers of complexity that would go into a full-fledged VR MMO.
月
im trying to buy my mom a VR headset
she's gonna be bed-bound for most of this year and the lack of stimulation is gonna drive her crazy i think VR would probably help.
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Yeah I could see that helping a lot.
I'm still pretty heavily tentative on VR though. There's not a lot it can do currently which I'm happy to use a regular gaming set up for instead.
月
>cafe radish cute
Yuu
oh these girls are cute
Anno
We did see them briefly earlier in the series. They seem to be the kouhai to Maple and Sally.
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Also maxing STR seems pretty fun. Probably not my stat of choice to max out on but I can see why it would be a lot of fun to play with.
月
i think i would, in a world like this, just go open a VR cafe/boutique and sell cute things
im sure custom modelling would be supported so you can make and trade things like that
Anno
It would be neat if they used voxel engines to make it so you could take digital matter apart in the game world and shape it by hand. Like imagine being able to make your own pottery and selling that.
Yuu
nice shadow clones
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Yeah Sally's build seems closer to what I'd enjoy in a game like this. I like moving FAST and getting up in baddies faces sounds fun.
月
the problem with recruiting newbies is they just never sign in again
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Well it's at least their second time logging into the game. So maybe they're more reliable than a total newbie.
月
well i hope we get a cool VR world soon im pretty tired of this one
Yuu
tanking is fun so is healing
Anno
If a game is action-oriented I like being able to move around a lot while playing. I think that's kind of in part what always turns me off a lot of MMOs. No matter how they try to spin it there's always so much time spent standing in one place while fighting. Maybe some time move out of an occasional dodgeable AoE attack. There's a lot about MMOs that makes me allergic to them but that's a consistent turn-off for me.
Yuu
mmos these days are bad
thanks for anime
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Mhm, thanks. See you two tomorrow.
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Or well maybe not I guess it might be a toss-up day.
月
thanks, see you i'll probably be here but maybe not we'll see
Anno
Wait no I'm being tired-dumb. Clocks don't work that way.