Heyo I'm here just give me a moment to get situated
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--Erai-raws Adachi to Shimamura Akudama Drive Episode 3-5 Burn the Witch Episode 1-3 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko Episode 2-5 Kamisama ni Natta Hi Episode 3-4 Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen Episode 4-5 Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai Episode 2-5 Ochikobore Fruit Tart
--Team Confidence Great Pretender Episode 16-17
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burn the witch kimi to boku akudama ep 3 higurashi ochikobore
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Were you able to find Burn the Witch this time?
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yeah Just needed a min to find it when we weren't actually trying to watch stuff
burn the witch 1 okay lets start
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Whichi witchi
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That's a very soundful studio credit.
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Wow I want a phone that's a flashbang
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seems dangerous
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This has been really cleanly animated so far. I guess that's the advantage of doing small-batch series.
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Clean style too. It's a little sharper than most series.
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I bet it's animated natively at a higher resolution than 720p. I think most shows still get animated somewhere around that resolution and most 1080p versions are upscales. If this is animated at 1080p or higher than even if you're watching 720p it would look much cleaner than a normal show.
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Wow this is a weird way to test for contamination.
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His chin and hair does remind me a good bit of Ichigo. But his literally everything else isn't very Ichigo-poi at all.
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Oh this one is kind of cute.
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Oh this is less cute.
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Their plaid shawls are kinda weird
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I like them! It adds a nice bit of detail to the outfit. Thought they were scarves at first though hah hah
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Bleach had these spells that were numbered too. Though theirs were Kido and Hado.
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Yes hello?
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oh sorry my file had a download problem and I went to fix it and kept watching it from there
I like this though
okay kimi to boku okay lets start!
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Episode four of this!
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All slots machines are rigged! The odds of them landing on the jackpot is astronomically low.
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another nice dress I really like this one the orange on one
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I like the top half of the blue-haired girl's outfit but the skirt is a bit dull and underwhelming.
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Wow they really do keep bumping into each other. Even when dragged along by their friends the two of them end up at the same place.
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Hah hah hah yeah She's planning their next showdown like she's planning a deito
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That other guy in their squad always reminds me of Archer.
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Guess even in worlds with real magic, there's still sham fortune telling.
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Yeah, they're love rivals they have to have showdowns
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They both got the same fortune telling too. I get that it plays into that sort of running gag that they keep being on the same wavelength but in a hokey fortune telling place like that it could also just be the teller's fallback for an easy fortune.
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Nice camera angle there as they were walking away.
Looks like there's politicking to be done on the magic side of the war. Royal families and all those squabbles.
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yeah this show is as much a politics show as anything else
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Well war is as much politicking as it is fighting. Often just -Often even more politicking than fighting.
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>Of course Iska wouldn't be there You have to wonder how long it'll take before they start being genre-savvy and expecting each other to be where the other goes.
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I think they'll be really cozy with each other in about 2 eps akudama okay ep 3 lets start
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DORAIBU Episode three of this
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The main cast is kind of imbalanced though. You've got like a super hackaa, a doctor who can even bring herself back from lethal injuries, a guy who seems so musclebrained he can surpass human limitations, a highly skilled psychopath serial killer. But then you've got a foul-mouthed guy whose claim to fame is having a cool bike and the petty criminal guy. Plus the MC. The petty criminal had a low sentence so I assume he's nothing special but it's weird that the Courier guy has such a high sentence despite just being a dude with a bike.
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>That's a job only doable by someone small like me I'm sure the fact that you're also a LITERAL HACKER might help with turning off some dangerous security measures too.
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These scene transitions are pretty cool. There's a lot of style to this show.
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yeah I like these kinda cutout talky scenes too
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>Some of them specialize with going undercover I wonder if this is hinting one of the Akudama in their crew is a mole. Would be cool if that's the twist for the MC.
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The talking robo-cat reminds me of the cat from Darker That Black. It also kinda called the shots with their cohort too.
Man I really like this futuristic-Shinto aesthetic they've got going on here. It's super cool.
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Everything here reminds me of dangdangronpa
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Hah hah oh no He's just gonna trash the entire gate.
>>890384 I don't actually have much experience with Danganronpa aside from the one anime series prequel I watched with you and Ika. So it's basically just the designs that are reminscient for me.
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She pulled off a surprisingly big-brained moment there. If she's not careful people are going to actually keep thinking she's competent.
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Wow that EMP burst wasn't subtle in the slightest. So much for stealth.
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hacka-san
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Wow he's bullying a girl about her weight How mean!
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If she's not careful too she's gonna start enjoying this life of CRIME she's fallen into. Honestly it seems pretty fun hanging out with these weirdos.
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time for the good stuff
higurashi! okay lets start!
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Hey Akudama and Burn the Witch were pretty good! Higurashi is undeniably the highlight of the night though. Easy shoe-in too probably for highlight of the week.
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My brain always needs to take a second to re-adjust that Keiichi doesn't know characters like Ooishi off the bat when the loop restarts.
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It's familiarity she has with him like this too that kinda hints that she and Mion have been swapping places for a while now. Would she know what the regular Kei-chan is like if she'd only seen him around for a couple days now?
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Yeah, this one is definitely Shion.
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though we can kinda see her back here Shion has the tattoos on her back but we've barely been not able to see it
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I think the tattoo is a bit smaller than, like, a full-on back Yakuza tattoo. It's small enough that her hair could conceal it. Or maybe it's low enough on her back that the back of the uniform hides it.
The real answer is probably that they pretend it shouldn't be there.
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Oh I don't think the original anime had this scene in it. Though well it ended up being not such a cool moment for Keiichi hah hah
But with moments like that you can kinda see why Shion kinda goes yandere as her brain worms reach terminal stage.
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Twins face-to-face, eh Did this happen this early in the original chapter? I don't remember.
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I think they're switched but i'm not 100% sure Mion is acting way out of character though so I think Mion is Shion
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She's being a bit weird, yeah. But I also think she is the kind of person to break character hard when she gets flustered though.
Plus back at the store, Mion had no reason to go along with Shion if Shion was actually Mion pretending.
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T A K A N O M I Y O
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Takano as always is such a complete troll.
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Really though, Hinamizawa is out in the complete sticks of Japan. There's a lot of wilderness surrounding the town. Statistically it is absurdly easy for people to disappear into the wilderness and just never be found. They fall down a ravine or get lost and then after they die from exposure/starvation they just never get their body discovered.
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Takano is really looking forward to it
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In the last chapter when Rika was doing the Wataganashi dance/ritual, there was a moment right at the end where she swings the hoe down (to strike the futon) And then it cuts
SHAFT HEAD TILT
And then it cuts straight to a shot of Takano's face.
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I wonder if them sneaking into the toolshed will involve a hint of Hanyuu's presence. Since the show doesn't
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need to hide her existence this time around.
But man wow this is a mean place to leave off at.
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Hanyuu wasn't revealed until later in the original series either
okay ochi okay lets start
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It's been a long time since I watched the first Higurashi but I maybe feel like when Shion, Keiichi, and Takano were in the toolshed in this arc the first time around, there was a kind of "something is watching us" moment? Like the kind of thing that could be passed off as just them being spooked about being in an old-ass toolshed where they shouldn't be. But what was obviously Hanyuu watching them in retrospect.
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Wow they couldn't even beat out a parade of kittens for interesting news. To be fair a parade of kittens is pretty high-interest news though.
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It's kinda funny how unabashedly gay Pink is. Oh never mind she's getting all excited about it being a guy too. But like everyone just calls her out for flirting with girls and she's all "yeah so what" about it
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Blonde is thinking more about about this love letter than the actual recipient.
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pink is my favorite by far so fluffy
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She's definitely fluffy yeah I like her and Blonde. And I really liked the design of the tall purple girl from last episode. The imouto of the short purple in their group.
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Pink's kind of a Pollyanna too There's not many people who could get a waterfall of fan letters from one person and not be a bit pertubed.
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Blonde has a baseball shirt for pyjamas. Or I guess it might just be a plain pyjama top.
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I bet those make pretty comfy sleepingwear actually they're prestty soft aren't they
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Been a while since I wore one! But I bet if it gets washed regularly and not used for baseball activities it would keep soft if made from soft material.
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Well her being their fifth was an unsurprising development. She's even been in the OP/ED from the get-go.
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Wow Manager-chan is devious. Getting her friend drunk to get her to agree to a talent transfer. How mean!
But it sounds like it probably would've happened anyway. Since the girl also wanted to transfer.
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Oh okay I was gonna say Now way she's actually E
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Ew, scrap fabric swimsuits
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Wasn't the busty one wearing a bikini last episode to- Yeah the short one remembered too.
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Blonde's swimsuit is nice though. I like the shorts with the top.
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I really love the character design from top to bottom for this
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Yeah, the designs are all around pretty good. The double-buns on purple are a bit silly to me but they kinda fit her character.
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Oh looks like that girl who's kind of a fan of theirs at school is gonna turn into a diehard fan. I guess every good idol needs a stalker or three!
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The ED makes me think they'll recruit a ton more idols too
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Hm, dunno. It is fundamentally a CGDCT series. And those usually cap out at a regular cast of 4-6 characters.
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there's lots of blank spots in the ED though
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Do you mean in the OP? Those at least are all characters we see in the OP Not all of them are regulars.
You can clearly see Manager-chan second from the right and her friend second from the left And the professional idol trio to the left of the main squad. The only unknowns are the two at either end of the line-up
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Though there's also this from the OP which kinda shows all but that one on the right-side end.
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oh yeah I guess it's kinda filledi n already
okay thanks for anime
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Yeah! Enjoy your weekend. I'm gonna probably sleep through like half of it myself.