Thread #847796

Hi hey hello
You're pretty early here again.

Brand New Animal
Great Pretender
^{Episode 2-5}
Arte
Fruits Basket
Gleipnir
Honzuki no Gekokujou
^{Episode 22-24}
Listeners
Nami yo Kiitekure
Yesterday wo Utatte

What episode of BNA are we on?

Episode seven.

great pretender 2
brand new animal
listeners
arte

maybe a 5th if we make good time and i'm not sleepy

great pretender 2

yeah, and having a lot of trouble sleeping lately
I just lay in bed thinking

okay
lets start

Been kept busy during the day?

>>847803
Ah that doesn't sound good.
Are there some particular anxieties that are getting stuck in your head?

As is often the case, I'm having relationship troubles.
I'm thinking about breaking it off.
Well, I think it's more accurately described as I'm currently trying to gather the strength to break it off and be okay afterwards.

I'm sorry to hear that.
You've been pretty quiet on that front lately so I was hoping things had at least stabilized.
I don't know how much help it might be but you've still got friends here that can try to cheer you up.

This is a much more plain scheme on his part than the last one.
A bullshit tea rather than a phony water purifier.

I guess it's as bad in Japan as it is in North America.
The blemishes of your past can make it all but impossible to find a good job.

I had a feeling his conclusion would be that he wanted to be a con man,
i guess we saw that in the first ep
but it's very like him to use that reasoning

He was working as one in the first episode, but it did look like it was kinda small scale stuff.
Hawking that tea and fake purifiers is probably pennies compared to the money this French guy moves I'd bet.

I had a feeling the drugs were an act too.

Yeah I had some similar ruminations in the first episode too.
I wonder if the little baggie of cocaine he had on hand though was authentic.
But the candies were definitely nothing more than candy.

Hah hah that was some clever prep on his part though.
Got the white guy early as an easy payee for their meal.

This kind of has vibes of a less bloody, more colourful Black Lagoon.

The colors really are so nice.

Yeah.
Studio WIT normally has really amazing backdrops and environment illustration but it's been a while since they've had this kind of poppy look.
They haven't really done it since The Rolling Girls.

I guess that's the major divide.
The MC back in Japan just conned fools, but the French guy is-
Yeah, the MC said it for me.
They're acting a bit like Robin Hood.

I'm pretty sure the character designs are by the artist for Monogatari, Grisaia, and some other works.
But the anime really makes it look like Uchouten Kazoku.
Maybe she also adapted the Uchouten characters for anime though.

hey.
i can fit in a couple shows tonight
you don't have to change up the schedule for me though unless you really want to catch up on honzuki

Heya Moon.

Yeah, maybe we can fit Honzuki in.

I also feel like this drug thing is going to explode on them
I can't see any way that it won't
cause the drugs are fake

Pretty much, hah hah.
Ideally for them they grab the money and vanish before the details come clear.
But that doesn't make for very exciting plot!

Man I'm always down for some Freddie Mercury.

brand new animal 7

okay\
;et's start!

BEE ENU EH
Last episode was kind of the mid-season climax and cliffhanger.
I wonder if they'll reset the intensity a bit for this episode.
>>847827
Just expect a lot of animalpeople.

ready
i dunno anything about this
and that's always exciting

there's nothing wrong with animal people
but there's nothing really right about it either...

birds are good animals though

Most birds are assholes.
Though most of my favourite animals are birds hah hah

hey i recognize that seiyuu

She's been in a few Trigger shows before this one.
Not a lot of work but consistent year-to-year.

This guy's sure got a chin.

Albatross are cool birds though.
The vast majority of their lives are spent in flight.

birds are like living fossils
they're so cool

That bodyguard has a hexagon for a head.

This blonde human reminds me of the guy from Little Witch Academia.
Though he was a lot more uppity and grouchy.

The synthy parts of the OST are really nice.
I like the sound of them.

reminds me a little of last exile

Man what a dick

I guess considering what we've heard from the albatross it makes sense he'd have a bone to pick with the civil rights movement.

PINGAS

Shiro is kind of a noir-esque detective at times.
He kinda employs the appropriate amount of cynicism for the job.

i wonder if we'll ever have a society with beastmen
it's not altogether impossible in the future

it'd be pretty arbitrary but certainly possible

Nazuna does make for a pretty wolf though.

>>847845
I guess there's a clear interest in some people to be more animal than they already are.
So given the development of technology to permit it, it wouldn't be impossible.
Still a weird thing to consider.

owch
must be hard to fly with a fat wolf hanging on to you

>>847846
well if that level of engineering is possible, im sure other functional improvements would be more practical
it'd just be designer for animals really

Her powers are so crazy lately.
It's not really even being an animal anymore.

Yeah, but she is a tanuki.
Infamous in Japanese culture for being shapeshifters.
I'm fairly confident that's precisely why she can transform.
The fact that her and her friend are abnormal beastment and both have transformational abilities.
And that she's a tanuki,a and her friend's an inari wolf, another famous shapeshifting creature.

tanukis traditionally have gigantic testicles too
they haven't shown it yet but i imagine she does too

Oh trust me we've definitely seen Michiru's huge balls.

oh i guess i gotta watch it all now

The albatross did say the other bird would do anything for money.
Rather than get paid to off the blonde human, I feel like rather he got paid to act in that assassination.
To give Nazuna a chance to play the hero and sway the opinions of people to let the cult stay in animacity.

pretty cute character designs though...
tanuki girl looks really cool

Yeah Michiru has been a great character.
The wolfboy is surly but kind of a nice foil to her naivity.
As expected of a Trigger show there's been a lot of really vibrant characters too.

okay, listeners
okay
lets start

Listening!

ready

how cross would an albatross toss floss if a cross albatross could toss floss

Probably pretty far.
Albatross get some good altitude.

i wonder if you could tie some floss to one's leg then let him go flying
if you just had like miles and miles of floss

Well this is kind of an eleventh hour new character.

kulaakusudaeru

Burusu town

This girl sure enthusiastic to catch the rebound.

no sense wasting time if you know what you want

Oh, records.

I've mentioned this in other episodes but the people don't seem to know what music is.
Every reference to musical stuff is obsfucated by trying to explain it without ever referencing music.

cows are scary

moo lol

Working a farm with just six hands makes for a lot of work.

non-homogenized milk is really good though

i need to find a farmer's market nearby to buy some

Oh he got his own jack now.
I guess he'll get to toe-to-toe with Mu now.

I figured he'd get one eventually.

i hate when that happens

They finally turned that tune all the Players have been humming into an actual song.
Though it's a bit more country-y than I was expecting.

country is already an adjective

Yeah and this was country-y-er!

it's weird though that other -y words do
clayey, wheyey, skyey
they always add -ey after the y

so i guess it'd be countryey

How does one be a listener without any ears.

arte
okay
lets start!

i expect i'll fall asleep somewhere during this episode
we'll see

>>847885
i'll do my best

Well between you and Rika if you both can stay awake we could maybe do a Honzuki afterwards.
Though I figure it's fine regardless.

>uncle yuri
hmmm

If this was Russia it would be fine too.
It's a bit weird of an Italian name.

>>847887
Also he's thirties-something single man who has a lot of trusti -trust in his male assistant.
Might bat f or that team anyway.

very strong honey and clover vibes from some of the characters

not the style of illustration per se though

I thought it was more of a bread pudding than a bread soup.

This little girl really doesn't have much interest in the banalities of being nobility.

Arte really both literally and figuratively barges her way into eveything.

aRTE HAS
oh caps
she has the best clothes

At least when she's not dressed up like a proper noble.
Those clothes always look more comedic than fashionable.

She's picking some problematic fights again hah hah
And kind of lecturing in a bit of a "holier than thou" aspect.
At least they're not the ones payrolling her.

This is a cute outfit Arte's put on though.
Kinda has a merchant-y vibe to it.

I wonder if this guy has any male heirs though.
So far we've only seen Katarina.
Without a male heir, honestly his wife holds a fair amount of power over him.

okay yeah, that's all for me tonight
thank you for having me

Okey dokes, night Moon.
Take it easy.

I think I'm going to crash too
very sleepy
night

I hope you can get some good sleep at least.
See you tomorrow, Rika.

night night