Hi hello again Did you manage to get a chance to rest up this weekend?
Yuu
I rested some, but I still feel pretty sleepy.
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Brand New Animal Great Pretender Episode 3-8 ARte Gleipnir Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! Hamefura Honzuki no Gekokujou Episode 22-25 Kaguya-sama Listeners Nami yo Kiitekure Tamayomi Yesterday wo Utatte
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>>849695 Well remember to look after yourself Take the self care you need!
Yuu
bna pretender 3 listeners kaguya
Yuu
bna okay lets start
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BEE ENU EH
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Going with a cold open eh I think aside from maybe the first episode it's the first time they've done that for the show.
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The mayor's animal form shows up in the OP but I don't think we've ever actually seen her take it in the show.
Yuu
She's really just gone completely wild with the super poewrs.
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I think they're pretty consistent. Honestly the initial weird extendo-arms are the ones that are kind of out of order. The stuff she's shown like wings or gorilla arms are more consistent.
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Mutant rhinoman I guess that cinches that the masked priest guy is up to no good. Not that it's a particularly surprising revelation but slightly surprising is he's working with the blonde CEO of the pharmacy group.
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Ah Oh fuck
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I guess Shiro is literally immortal though. Which I think if I remember correctly was part of the muth -myth of the actual Ginro-sama they've been claiming Nazuna to be.
Yuu
Those sparkles looked familiar.
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They're a very Trigger-poi kind of effect hah hah
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Yeah I kinda expected this reveal from pretty early in the series. Good time for it though.
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I think regardless of your prejudices, waking up from an accident to one day discover you're now half-human half-animal would terrify anybody.
Yuu
Big infodump
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Yeah, long story about Shiro.
Ah man when you talk about a persecuted race in WWII that got herded into concentration camps and used for experimentation. There's not many real-life groups to draw parallels with.
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I wonder if that cult priest guy is trying to recreate this story that made Shirou though. After all the world seems to have gone into genocide mode on the beastmen since then. Anima City is probably the first time since then that so many beastmen have been gathered in one place. A good chance to trigger another catastrophe and make a new Ginrou-sama. And he's already got a new candidate in mind, I bet.
Yuu
pretender 3 okay lets start
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Reaaaady I think this show runs story arcs in sets of five episodes. Which is kind of a weird number for an anime show. But maybe it'll do more than just ten episodes.
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Ah I really don't like pickles on my cheeseburgers either.
Yuu
I'm fine with picklets. pickles
Anno
I like them with chicken sandwiches but something about cheese, patty, and pickles just doesn't mesh for me.
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Man he didn't last long.
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He talks about Toyotomi Hideyoshi being some great schemer because he went from being a peasant to Daimyo -- which is no small feat of course -- but the main reason he was free to do that was because Nobunaga was betrayed by his other retainer Mitsuhide Akechi. I guess taking advantage of luck to turn the situation to his advantage is an important skill for a conman but to put the worth in the man rather than the luck is misguided I think.
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That's probably a good thing to keep in mind when you're playing cons though. Don't try to take too much money from your targets so that they get too cautious about paying out for you.
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Man, Laurent really thought out everything. Even made up a fake placement for the MC at the center he claimed to work at.
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I wonder if the cop will be some kind of regular antagonist for the gang.
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Ah it's just a corrupt cop I guess he won't stick around.
Yuu
This is a pickle for him since the drug is fake.
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I feel like he might've wanted to prepare some kind of act to pretend to make it. Though yeah ultimately there's not really anything he can do under scrutiny since it's fake as fake gets.
Yuu
Oh, this is how he's going to get out of this one.
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It's a decent delay task but I think it's gonna be a bandage solution at best. Especially since the movie guy obviously Yeah. I was gonna say has a sterile lab for making drugs on hand but I guess this is about the same.
Yuu
Yeah, that just puts more pressure now that they're going to renovate.
Anno
Hah hah this FBI lady isn't very well liked it seems.
>>849746 At least it gives them time. Honestly I'm kind of confused as to how they fooled the movie director in the first place though. Like sure they had Abby pull off an act for it. But like literally anyone else would take a sample and realize it's a dud. I guess maybe Laurent had Abby slip in early and get deep in the director's trust so he wouldn't doubt her act. But it still feels like he's a real fool for taking a single demonstration.
Yuu
But he's under their care 24/7 He has no room to breathe.
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Yeah. He's got a sharp mind and seems to be really good at working in short time under pressure at least. Maybe he can put together a way to escape.
The notion I'm thinking is he might try to play off the guy who's bodyguarding him. Laurent an episode or two back said the movie director took over Mafia that the bodyguard used to be the head of. And while the bodyguard has been doing every order the director gives him, I kinda feel he has some negative sentiment to the director. So that might be a workable out.
Yuu
But you can't dream up being a seasoned drug designer. He's doomed.
I think the cops will cause stuff to go wild before his deadline though.
listeners okay lets start
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Okay, listening
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They've been bringing back a lot of characters from earlier episodes.
Yuu
that guy's voice doesn't match his appearance
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I think it does. Maybe not quite outfit but his face looks like the kind that would sound that kind of smooth, slightly husky.
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This is a bit of a weird role for KanaHana. Like she does the character fine but she seems like such a small part of the series. Which normally you don't get from a big-name seiyuu like her.
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Everyone thinks they're responsible for Mu turning into the last boss and wants to stop her. Yeah this guy's like the only one going "Yeah maybe we don't need to beat her up". Aside from probably Echo but we haven't heard back from him yet.
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Seeing ghosts in reflections is always spooky
Yuu
she called forth a lot of shadow monkeys
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I don't know if Mu's gotten paler or something but her lips feel much more stand-out than they did when she was normal. It kind of gives her a bit of a clownface, especially with the dark eyes.
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Hah hah It's hard to not hear "ZA WA-" and expect it to go somewhere entirely different.
Yuu
oh it's over already that went by fast
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HIIRO KENZAN
>>849771 Yeah, they'll probably settle everything next week for the finale.
Yuu
yeah. O I'm sure of it
kaguya okay lets start
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Time for CHAIR SQUAD
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I guess after the judo toss things didn't remedy well.
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>She has to act like she doesn't care but she wants to grill him for the details She's not even worried for her onii-chan she just wants the juicy deets hah hah
Yuu
I'm sure she cares on one level or another.
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In a recent chapter of the manga their dad even tries his hand at being a YOUTUBER He wanted to be a Vtuber but the kids shut him down hard over it.
Yuu
vtubers are HUGE right now I'll admit that I watch them a lot too
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Yeah, I know.
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Whaddup, Daddy in the house
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Their dad is so fucking weird hah hah
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>>849779 Yeah I tune into some streams every now and then. That manga page up there has an obvious Asa Coco parody in it.
Yuu
I watch the translated stuff. The streams are usually at hours that aren't good for me.
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Translations help but I can generally follow along gameplay streams. That's a bit why I like Coco's stuff since she's a native English speaker and kinda drifts into it from time to time.
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Wow oh now. What is Chika stuck teaching Shirogane to do now.
Yuu
I like Korone and Pekora.
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Being Chika is suffering
Yuu
The way she just screamed at the end of the rant was funny.
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Wow
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Yeah that was good. I hope Chika's seiyuu is having fun playing the character.
Yuu
Does this qualify as winning or as losing?
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For who? This feels like a loss for Shirogane at least.
Yuu
For Shirogane. He has two girls fighting over him.
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Oh and it even granted him the ability to do the SOU-RAN dance. I guess it's a victory.
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Hah hah Chika's board game club is great. They're all about as chaos-oriented as she is.
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Oh yeah being Ishigami is also suffering.
Yuu
At least this discipline girl likes him in her own way.
Anno
I'd actually missed out on these details. Didn't know Iino's friend had sympathies for Ishigami.
We get some good moments from the first-years now that Iino is a part of the regular cast. It means there's actually first-years in the cast for him to play off.
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Chika's dad looks extremely normal. As opposed to Shirogane's dad who, still, is fucking WEIRD.
Yuu
He has a top tier voice, though.
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Yeah, Koyasu is a great choice for him. He's kinda perfect for these weird ojii-chan charact
Ah oh no
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Despite being a total layabout though his dad is extremely talented.
Yuu
He's done a wonderful job of harassing her.
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In like three minutes he managed to lay absolute waste to both Shirogane and Kaguya hah hah
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Though hm. I think in the manga Iino also gave a quiet "ganbare Ishigami" when he was running the race too.
Yuu
I guess he gets to win that one.
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Maybe that happens later though. Though maybe the sports festival isn't the finale of this second season like I thought.
>>849811 It's impressive what a bit of practice can do! Plus the guy he was tagged with is kind of your standard good-natured jock type. So pretty athletic.
Yuu
It was a decent episode for Shirogane.
okay that's all for me, sleep time see you tomorrow
Anno
Yeah thanks! Get some good rest. Good luck with the Monday