Couldn't help but reach for the low-hanging fruit, eh
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always
that monster looks like half yokai half watermelon
>>922084 Oh, is it a birthmark? Looks like how burns are usually portrayed
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Weird birthmark on that one girl
Yeah could be a burn too
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Man those are some tired eyes for a young girl.
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ah cutting I had a friend in high school who was a cutter, I worried so much
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YOROKOBE YOUKAI KOTOMINE
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>>922086 They'd given us glimpses of her scars previously in the show, but it was kinda brushed over as "a thing in the past" But I guess not.
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The further we get into this series the more warped the girls they're trying to save are
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Well, that voice is hard to argue with.
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The Pokeballs also act as walkie-talkies eh That's pretty convenient
Yuu
The turtle is strong.
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Kind of representative of Rika too She's got a tough shell and when the pressure turns up she retreats behind facades and her shell.
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They're all so colourful aside from Neiru Yellow, red, blue. But Neiru is just grey
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i was half-expecting rika to die for real
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That was a good episode.
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It was a toss-up between a Mami moment or a big epiphany and triumph
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this show is pretty good and picking up steam more people are noticing it too i hope it wraps up nicely in one season and doesn't end up becoming a franchise tho
Yuu
okay go-toubun
remember saten? the poster you guys all hated her but I liked her and wanted her to stick around
okay let's start
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nino is for _____ [_] hating [_] bullying [_] caling names [_] never getting married
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[x] None of the above
She's just a fictional character man no need to be so angry
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>>922101 i remember saten being really mean to me and basically nothing else
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It is kind of weird for a dad to be calling his daughters, even step-daughters, ~kun
>>922101 I feel like they might've been before my time
He still got high eighties at LEAST in all subjects I know he's a study junkie but that's still high-
Wow
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I don't like Nino that much, I think she's far from the top but the chemistry between the two is hard to deny
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Futarou's such a prickly guy, he kinda needs someone who can play ball with that. It's partially why, despite being a nice girl, Miku just doesn't work with him She went too far on the dere scale once she started falling for him I think it's also why him and Ichika don't really feel much in the way of romance either.
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>Why isn't he reacting at all Maybe because he was driving a NOISY BIKE and didn't hear you muttering a confession behind him
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as for futarou, nino and itsuki probably have the best chemistry i can't really relate to futarou though
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I can kinda Maybe not quite relate, but empathize, I think that's more accurate.
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hahaha tenchou
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yeah you can't really hear shit when you're on a bike
oh wow what the hell
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Wow That's kind of an extremely rare occurence in a romcom like this She went "fuck misunderstandings and mishearing, I'm clearing this shit up ASAP"
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she gains points for sure but she is way too far in the red to come out positive by the end of the show
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That was a good face she made though
See this is why Miku's kind of a weak character She has a perfect chance to be straight with him but can't
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Not that a grocery trip really is an ideal place to admit your feelings for someone.
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>Any man and woman who ring this bell together are forever bound" Hmmmmmmmm
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wow
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Oh no it keeps happening
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Itsuki is best girl and the one I'm rooting for.
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I'd be happy with her or Yotsuba winning Nino would be okay too if they keep building this relationship The only ones I'd feel kinda dulled by would be Miku or Ichika
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i feel like itsuki makes the most sense
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yotsuba and ichika are the best but i don't think either of them make a good pair with futarou
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Their stepdad's such a petty bitch it's kinda fun
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he's a cold fish but i think he cates cares
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oh no
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>>922131 Yeah, definitely Probably a bit of "father knows best" to the point of fault, but overall I think he wants them to be happy
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oh ok
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I really like how Futarou reacts to stuff
Oh hah hah the girls are playing tricks on him Dressing up like each other again
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Oh, it was a fake Itsuki.
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Now that she's gotten comfortable with him Nino sure has turned on the flirt
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Nino really pulle oh
Yeah it was Nino Nino really pulled a 180 fast.
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It's almost kind of endearing I am kind of partial to forward girls like that
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The fake Itsuki was probably Ichika Since she overheard Nino outright confessing to him
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i'm just not willing to forgive nino
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Nino is just the token tsundere.
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itsuki is the most reasonable and smartest but she isn't particularly interesting or seem to have hobbies or anything she seems like a good mix for futarou kind of for that reason though
nino is both token tsundere and also incredibly unstable i can't imagine anyone being better off for having her around i know she's just an anime character but she's also the only one out of the 5 who doesn't act in a way i consider to be up to par with socially functional humans
ichika is probably the most interesting just because she has something she's passionate about and also the most practically and socially experienced, but yotsuba comes in close second in my book for similar reasons
the author murdered miku like S1E4 or whatever she got replaced with a fu-kun loving robot
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I'm still pretty convinced Itsuki is Best Friend tier The way she interacts consistently with Futarou is never on a romantic scale but rather two people that are on the same level
Which in real life would make her an easy candidate for a romantic partner but this is anime not real life
>>922145 I know! That's how it works in real life! But anime usually approaches romance in more of a dynamics and complimentary fashion If you try to approach anime expecting realistic romance I think you're generally just going to be frustrated.
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The best couples are best friends first.
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i think the romance so far has been _mostly_ realistic so far there hasn't actually been that much of it but that's kind of what feels normal about it but also i'm pretty sure he's just going to find out who the girl he knew when he was a kid is and just pick that one that sounds to me like anime writing
Yuu
okay gekidol okay lets start
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Yeah it's the classic Love Hina beat that's been done and redone probably hundreds of times over since that point. If there's a romance partner you met as a kid and made some kind of promise to, then no matter what circumstances arise in the literal decades since that point, you've got to marry them when you find them as an adult
Okay ready for Gekidol
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Was that the incident that made the giant vaporized pit in the middle of Tokyo I wonder what their theatre troup's director was doing there all wrapped up in it
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This show's definitely been my sleeper hit of the season There's better stuff airing but I kinda expected to enjoy them I went into this one not really expecting anything and have been really surprised by it.
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Oh when she started unbuttoning her coat I thought that was going to head down a different direction
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I feel like this show will end up going full eva by the end
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Well I dunno if we'll hit anything like Instrumentality by the end of this But things might start tumbling down
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Using the android as an actor is kind of cheating She seems to have some kind of actual hypnosis ability after all.
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Okay maybe we are getting something kinda like Instrumentality
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So is she not the girl he knew as a soldier? It seemed like she died under his supervision, but it could've been just a serious injury she survived but was left with a lifelong inju
Oh but she's actually able to walk fine What's going on here
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The android is really crazy though scary
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They never did use the proper ED for this show Or even try to get a version that would fly with their prudish standards. Cowards.
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Kinda sounds like despite their success with the show, that guy that wants to shut them down still pulls something I hope we get to see what's up more with that ground zero place next episode though That mystery's been hanging over the show since episode one
Yuu
hataraku okay lets start
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What the cell
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We've really gotten the full shounen recap at the top of this episode for Cancer's return
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yeah I figured this would be less comfy since cancer is back
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Seems like cancer's doing as cancer does and is growing en masse in the body
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Ah yeah there's the beat I was kind of waiting to see hit The biggest problem with cancer is the body can't really recognize it as a malignant force since it's just your body's cells behaving as they should So your immune force is limited in its ability to counteract it.
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The first cancer arc kind of ended on a fairly contemplatitive note too That cancer isn't "wrong" per se, that it's just the cell behaving as it should It's just as it should is going to eventually kill the body So as the body ourselves, we need to kill the cancer
Yuu
what time are we at?
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14:20 14:25 14:30 14:35
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ah thank you
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The regulatory cell has been doing a pretty good job so far protecting the cancer cell from the other cells Cancer is really the kind of thing that you can't really let your body take care of itself And it's not a toxin or poison to your body, not literally So it's not something you can rely on healthy diets or the right things to eat to take care of. Your only real recourse is medical treatment.
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Cell is in trouble.
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Especially since the usual defense for bacteria currently has his hands tied And this last bacterium isn't particularly useful right now for protection either I wonder if lactic acid bacteria are actually useful for dealing with harmful bacteria though
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That was really one whole episode of hardship, eh Not one thing went right during it
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yeah I'm guessing lactic bacteria is going to save the day somehow
okay horimiya okay let's start
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Reaaaady
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Guess the friends are kinda feeling the space between them and Hori and Miyamura, and the space between Hori and Miyamura
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How clutzy
I still insist this green-haired girl is plenty cute, and people comparing her to Beast don't know what they're talking about
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Liking someone because you feel like you can protect them kinda feels like to me an unhealthy basis to form an attraction to someone on But I guess he turned it around in a decent bit of self-analysis and realized it was more him depending on her rather than her being protected by him
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yeah. seems like side character plots are picking up
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Looks like the theme of the blonde friend is she's always the one giving things up for others Gives up on their friend because green-haired likes him And even with small things, like that book, because even a total stranger wanted it too.
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Wow look at this ladies man Going after two girls' baked goods
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Poor Hori Missing her boyfriend
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hori lonely
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And then your phone buzzes but it's not from who you wanted to hear from
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>A cute girl gleefully watching slasher flicks is creepy I dunno I'd find it kind of charming
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These two dweebs do work really well together Just goes to show cuteness comes in all shapes and forms
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Hori is a really good character
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All the characters are really well-realized in this series The two main characters the most, obviously But they're all pretty nice.
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Wow gosh I wonder what they were doing there.
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It was much more clear what was up in the manga, hah hah The chapter they slept together was one of the few ones I saw posted on /a/ And I think the manga also had the kid brother have a much more knowledgeable understanding of what had happened too. Rather than the kind of ambiguous way it was handled there.
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Oh okay nevermind that was pretty explicit Also a clever way from Hori to keep him from keeping that shorthair
Yuu
yeah it's a mark of ownership
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She really did prefer his long hair! So it works double as possession and also encouragement to keep his hair long What a lucky guy.
Yuu
that's a good series thanks for anime
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Hopefully it sticks the landing I'm completely blind from hereon out And shoujo can defintely get a bit turbulent towards the end of their runs.