Thread #903234

Hello yes anime
It's Thursday!
The weekend's practically upon us

Adachi to Shimamura
Akudama Drive
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko
^{Episode 7-11}
Kamisama ni Natta Hi
^{Episode 5-10}
Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou Anrui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen
Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai
^{Episode 9-11}

--Team Confidence
Great Pretender
^{Episode 16-19}

akudama
kimi to boku
love live 9
higurashi
adachi

Thursday always brings with it some pretty good stuff

higurashi will be good

akudama
okay
lets start

Doraibu

A flashback?
Well it's almost scene for scene what happened at the start of the show
Oh but she had money here and didn't get chewed out by the lady for trying to pay with her stamp

half the people in the OP are dead now

As expected from a show that had such a Dangan Ronpa influence

Not just the people from the OP though
It sounds like they absolutely massacred all the citizens that were rioting last episode.

Chekov's Gun!
That hack ball has been sitting in her bag since like episode four or five.

wow anime leather jacke
jacket

We're finally getting some Courier backstory too
Kinda learning where he lost his hand.

Hah hah
Weird to have him talking all polite after how coarse he's been in the series.

Funny that was all it took to break the simulation though.

And here's the other half of the Chekov's Gun!
I figured Hacker would always come back in some form.

Sounds like his body might be gone though and he's just got an uploaded consciousness to his hacker ball.

yeah it's getting nice and abstract

The fancy black thing might be a supercomputer but what's with the rest of this environment
Like there was some weird stuff that happened the last time they boarded the Shinkansen
But it's hard to tell what's even reality here.

Swindler's maturity and character growth has been really good during this series though.
It's wild to think of the girl she was in the first episode.

Oh that was almost bad for her

There aren't many people that getting spiked by a rebar pole would be good for!

Man I wish IRL hacking was as cool as this guy makes it

This version seems a lot more deadly though.

Only because he's already data!
If he still had his physical body it wouldn't be a problem.

I wonder if there's a physical space that represents Kanto too though.
Rather than just this weird half-digital half-real place.

And another one bites the dust

Hah hah
Imouto's been getting quite a personality while Onii-chan needed being rescued.
Swindler's grown into a fine lady too

I guess we see where everything falls next episode though.
They're not out of the woods yet.

yeah I think this show will kill characters right until the end
love live 9
okay
lets start

Rabu raibu

Love Live really likes to make their student council presidents into school idols
Though this one is a bit different from Eli and Dia in that she's keeping it secret ... somehow.

nice outfits

Gotta be /fa/ for exercising

I guess despite her onee-poi maturity, Karin is a bit bad with directions.
That's a bit gap moe.

her face is similar to haruka's

Well there's only so many eye shapes and colours you can combine with face shapes before you start running into the finite limits.

Oh I like this OST track
Nice synth brass

I guess even the bold Karin is going to get stage fright in front of three thousand people
Couldn't really blame her though.

her face shape is similar to idolmaster haruka

I heard you the first time!

Oh her song's pretty unique too
I mean compared to what I normally think when I think aidoru music.

higurashi
oh we did didn't we
okay
kimi to boku
OKAY
caps
lets start

Oh actually we skipped over Kimi to Boku
Do we want to go back to do that before we start Higurashi?

Okey dokes

Iska sure is a witch magnet

the new sister is cute

Technically she's even first girl since he rescued her from prison like a year before he met Alice

Looks like Alice gets to go on vacation too
That'll mean she'll bump into Iska as usual.

I feel like this oldest sister, the green one, is putting on an act
She's acting the meek and wavering one to woo people into helping her
Her lines just feel too perfect for the situation.

I like their casual clothes

It's all very summer-y styles.
Makes me envious a bit hah hah

Ultimately she's kind of asking him the same kind of thing he wants to do anyway.
Iska's been always trying to end the war between the two nations.

Oh but she's still a bit in the Kool-Aid of her side's righteousness
At least Alice acknowledges that both nations are kind of at fault with this war.

that guy is a tuxedo mask wannabe

Yeah but he also has magic
Can Tuxedo Mask do magic

Wow a mechanical dragon
That's pretty nifty.
Guess it's Empire tech since it seems aggro'd on the imouto princess.

wow basically a magic gundam

higurashi
okay
lets start

Excitement!
I can't wait to see how this fragment all falls apart

They're really playing up the villain of Satoko's uncle this arc.
I feel more so than either of the Rescue Satoko arcs from the original Higurashi arcs.

Hah hah hah
If not for the child protection services being kind of dicks I'd feel a bit bad for how much of a nuisance they're all making for them

I don't recall if Keiichi ever sat in on the village council either

Rika is really playing the teamwork angle hard

>>903316
I think he did yeah

Ah okay
It's been a while I'm probably a bit fuzzy.

One thing Higurashi always gets so well is how insular and static these kinds of small towns end up being
They refuse to change becase they thing everyone else refuses to change
Think, even.
It's like a weight being dangled off an edge that won't fall because the weight itself doesn't let the leverage give way.

Time for the kids to bully these old fogies.

Rena is a great weapon in situations like this
She's so good at saying venomous things with a smile on her face.

O YA SHI RO SA MA

Oh wait no they're just talking about the old Sonozaki head.

I think he failed to convince them the first time

Though even if they convince the council they've still got this miserable old lady.
It's hard to not sympathize with Shion killing he r in several fragments.

though I do kinda remember a scene like this the first time

I feel like it didn't happen in the original arc this one is tweaking though.
And instead happened in the Answer arc that reflected it in the second half of the Higurashi series.

Though to be fair so far this new arc has been a melding of both those arcs anyway.

Hah hah Keiichi gonna pick fights with an old lady

>who will bring good change to our village
See that's the problem though Irie.
Old ladies like this one don't care for change, good or otherwise.
She just wants things to remain the way they were in her good old days.

Wow Keiichi's got three Sonozaki women chasing after him now.
How lucky.

I guess things fall apart then next episode.
Ah but that would air on the 24th
That's getting awfully close to Christmas.
I guess a crazy, disastrous ending to this arc would make for a great birthday present for me though hah hah

Yeah, I think it will all fall apart this time

okay
adachi

Christmas eve? Probably not, but we'll see

okay
lets start

Do you think you'd be able to watch anime next Thursday night?
It'll be Christmas Eve so I wouldn't be surprised if you're busy.

I'm gonna be alone for Christmas personally hah hah
I don't really want to go up north where my family is for three days, even if it means not being around family for Christmas
And there's the pandemic going on so it's not like there's anything to do.

As far as normal Christmas activities we'll be doing them this weekend though.

I have no idea what I'll be doing.

You don't think you'll go see your mom?

Hah hah some other socially-awkward girl just slipping in to read her book

Oh I spy a certain Barrel-chan in the background there

Black tights!
Very nice look with the uniform.

>>903351
Not sure.
We both have high risk jobs when it comes to covid exposure so we may call it off if we think we'll get the rest of the family sick.

Very safe and sensible.
I'm sorry it means not spending time with family for Christmas
I don't know about you but Christmas is definitely family time for me.
I'm okay with it if we get to do it a week early or a week late but it would kinda suck to not get any of it one year.

This fortune teller girl is very particularly designed.
There's no way she's a plain character.
Something about her is relevant.

Yeah, we usually do family for Christmas.
Though the big family even is Thanksgiving and we pulled that off without any covid problems.

Well I'm always here if you want family to spend time with!
Nan tte ne

She's kind of embarassing Adachi here though!
How mean
Taking advantage of someone as gullible and socially inept as Adachi.

Oh no is she developing a bad habit of shouting out loud to psyche herself up
That could be a bit embarassing.

gaaay

Very gay!

It'll be nice if Adachi could be a bit more assertive though
She does kinda just let happenstance run over her.
Though it's definitely weirding out the other girls hah hah

Man I really really like Shimamura sticking with her natural hair colour.
Brown hair and purple eyes is a great combo.

Aaaahhhhfsddss
So close
You ALMOST hit the mark Adachi

I love how actually alien the not-Erio is
Like Erio was always just a normal girl who was convinced she was an alien.
But this one is actually an alien.

I think I liked her as a blonde better.

I have a long-time love of brown hair and purple eyes as a combo.
So it's less I think it looks good on her and more I'm just excited to see it period.

ET
PHONE HOME

I guess them coming to terms with Shimamura wanting a bit of freedom from only being Adachi's friend is gonna be the finale.
From what I gathered from the chatter about this series, the romance climax actually hits fairly late in the novels.
So they might not hit it before they reach the end of the next episode.
So there might just be a less satisfying climax for the finale.

i know that "i need to do what's best for me" feel

I wish I knew what was best for me!

Well Thursday's shows are good as usual.
Next up we'll have the Sunday shows after the weekend.
Those are always great too.

We're almost at the end of the season, lots of stuff is gonna be hitting its climax soon.

i think they'll work it out in the end

Yeah, I imagine so.
This doesn't feel like the kind of series that would hit us with a downer of a last episode.
Even if it might not be the big climax you expect out of a romance drama.
Not that it's really been dramatic.
Kinda closer to a romance SoL

yeah, it's like that

thanks for anime

Yup yup
Enjoy your weekend, if I don't see you around!