Dr. Stone Go-toubun no Hanayome Idoly Pride Episode 9-11 Kai Byoui Ramune Episode 3-6 Log Horizon Episode 7-11 Show By Rock Episode 11-12 Tenchi Souzou Design-bu Episode 8-11 Yakusoku no Neverland Yuru Camp
It's going to be a loooong three months through the spring season I think there's actually quite a few split-cour things coming out of this season that'll likely pick up in the summer Higurashi, Slime, Mushoku Tensei
yeah, long wait they didn't give us any good reveals or anything at the end too
okay dr. stone okay lets start
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Sutoun
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HAYAI I guess the pink girl was still loyal to the spear guy
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Also the new Monster Hunter comes out today (Friday) But 'round here they seem to have severely underestimated the stock of physical copies And even despite still being in the pre-order stage, the game's entirely sold out at all vendors. Best Buy, Amazon, game store chains
Yeah, I know I have it downloaded but I have work tomorrow and can't skip and a certain someone wants to play with friends and zoom ahead of me so we may be fighting in 12 hours or so
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You can play with me instead! I probably won't have any chance to play until late tomorrow evening
>>929659 maybe I will cause if he zoomes off without me i'm going to refuse to play with him
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Senku at least pulled off his usual "lol I was actually thinking a dozen steps ahead of you always" and was never in any danger I guess Tsukasa they just hand-waved him surviving with his insane strength Though it also sounds like he's still in critical condition
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Huh, so Senku thinks he can petrify someone eh Judging from what we've seen, that might help Tsukasa reocver
Seems like Tsukasa is really messed up I guess they're going to have to go to great lengths to save him
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We've seen the petrification seem to work on recovering bodily injury It fixed Senku's neck after Tsukasa snapped it in season one And being petrified allowed Tsukasa's imouto to heal from her literal brain problems Somehow They're definitely handwaving that part of this whole situation.
But I guess for the time being they're just gonna cold-sleep Tsukasa.
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Oh that's a smart use of the petrification Long-term perfect food preservation
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>>929660 Well if you are really up for it, you know where to find me I'll probably be around most of the weekend. I'll be going up north for the weekend to my parents' place, but I'll have Internet and my Switch
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>It's because he only thinks he's gotten big That's an interesting theory on Mario They referenced quite a bit of Japanese pop culture this episode
Yeah seems like they have to unravel the mysteries of petrification earlier in the series than i thought it would happen
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It's good to have ambitious goals! I'm pretty sure even if they're starting now though, it's a long-term goal Especially if they want to Yeah Make a full-on ship to cross the world.
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>It's been two and a half years Wouldn't that actually make Senku almost an adult now I think he was like grade eleven or so when he got frozen, putting him at around seventeen or so
Would be nice Dr. Stone is a consistently popular series in Shounen Jump Not super-popular, but it always manages to at least perform in the middling of the popularity charts Honestly I think they didn't even really need to make this season one-cour, I'm pretty sure there's enough material for it to have filled out a full two-cours without running up against the manga. Maybe they just had production issues because of Covid, like a lot of series.
well it's a nice series I hope to see more of it I think they have more ti adapt, yeah
okay neverland okay lets start
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This has kind of been an underwhelming finale to this series I was checking in on some of the chatter about it, and apparently the second season cut a few whole plot arcs of the manga (one in particular that most people seemed to think was the best part of the series after they left the orphanage) And instead a bit of all that talking they did last episode was actually them covering some of the things that were important to the finale that they'd cut out. People were already disappointed by the manga when it wrapped because they didn't really stick the landing But this adaptation seems to widely be a disappointment on top of disappointment for the people who read the manga.
oh yeah well in that case I agree I think this season of neverland has a lot less direction than the first and the big punch line has already happened i think
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Wow he really would rather die than not continue manufacturing children for demons to eat
>>929681 Gutting whole plot arcs and having to compress the ones they did adapt is probably responsible for that It's hard to maintain focus when you don't have the time you need to tell the story you want.
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Plus it's the kind of thing that turns big cathartic moments like this into what feel like cheap, forced-feel-good moments Like if we'd seen more of their House Mother this season, maybe seed the fact that she hated the human support for the demons in this world, it would've made her actually have a redemption arc
A lot of the loose baggage is leaving too they can mvoe quicker and stuff
oh looks like their mom is escaping too
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She'd be a smart one to take along, since the House Mothers seem to all be combat operators But they do also need some adults in the human world party Even if the kids are all pretty capable of handling themselves, having an adult or two along will probably make it easier for them to integrate into human world society
Is that actually the end of the series? I can see why this was controversial.
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I wonder if the manga actually covered them attacking the demon capital and what seemed like a big final battle. Or if this was kind of what they did in the manga too.
>>929691 Yeah Like even if this was how it went down in the manga Man it really feels like the author just went "okay I'm bored of writing this let's just cram the ending in all at once"
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The first half of this season was pretty cool though Them adventuring through the demon world and meeting Mujika and her bodyguard, the search for the first bunker they went searching for That was all pretty cool But I guess with only one season to finish the rest of the manga they had to cram stuff HARD and it made the rest of the season kind of spin out of control Shame too
He was the head of top guilds on the Japanese server when Log Horizon was still just an MMO Unlike Shiroe he was content to take on a leadership role In terms of skill as a player, he's probably as good at his class as Shiroe is at being his
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They used Kunlun as a place in this show too I wonder if it's the name of some historical mythical place Since Last Dungeon also used that name.
>The Kunlun is a mountain or mountain range in Chinese mythology, an important symbol representing the axis mundi and divinity. Oh okay that makes a lot of sense then
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>>929702 Maybe in terms of strength Since he's a class that focuses on straightforward combat, where as Shiroe's is a support-based class But Shiroe makes up for being a "weaker" class by being an absolute tactical genius and high-level schemer
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Krusty's also kind of insane He gets off the high of battle in a way that's probably pretty reckless for someone who has something to lose
It's been a while since they actually fought things in this series in a way befitting of an MMO That chimera-esque creature they were fighting was a full on raid boss
Yeah it did feel a lot more mmo than the last few episodes have been
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Previously the role of MMO antics was left up to Scrub Horizon, who are all, well, scrubs. So it's neat to see MMO activities at a max-level degree.
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Judging from what we know about Monk-chan, who used to be Shiroe's guild leader, she's probably all on board to go with Krusty to the moon to fight raid bosses She was always the lynchpin of Debauchery Tea Party, who rushed new content in the game whenever it came out to explore alien new experiences.
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Oh speaking of Scrub Horizon, we get some of them next episode
okay let's skip ahead to yuru camp if it's okay with you i wanna go to bed need to get up early tomorrow
okay let's start
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Yeah, that's okay We probably won't have too much to watch over the next week since most things have ended
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Oh this looks like someone I'd love to visit in person Cool geographical formations are always fascinating to see up close.
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Oh it's already March there The water's still pretty cold
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There's a few locations in Japan that take advantage of the tide coming in and out for cool effect You've probably seen one of them, that temple that's built on a beach that's basically entirely boardwalk So that when the tide comes in you're surrounded by water as you walk around on these boardwalks It's the place with the torii gate that is entirely out in the ocean when the tide's in
I think this series is best viewed in winter when it's really cold the cold puts you into it
>>929716 yeah that sounds like it looks nice I've probably seen pictures of it before.
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I've only really ever gone camping in summer Aside from a few pre-Scouts groups my parents put me into as a kid where they had us doing some winter camping. Though winter camping here is a much different experience than winter camping in central Japan hah hah
It's kind of neat, if you look at this from the perspective of their Sensei's character arc As far as a comfy SoL series can have a character arc When we first saw her she was practically a raging alcoholic And while she still seems to almost instinctually reach for a drink at times, she doesn't get that hammered
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Instant miso soup early in the morning would probably be pretty nice in the cold morning like this Miso has a very hearty feel to it that must be great for making you feel warm
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Sunrises are nice Recently here with the days getting longer, the sun's coming up just as I need to get out of bed And the windows in my sleeping area are pretty much directly in my line of sight when I'm waking up So I get to wake up to sun in my eyes
Which is nicer for me than it probably sounds I really do love basking in the sun.
