Thread #972973

Higurashi Higurashi Higurashi Higurashi

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu
Kaizoku Oujo
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
*Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei
^{Episode 6-7}
Night Head 2041
Scarlet Nexus
Shiroi Suna no Aquatope
Sonny Boy
Tonikaku Kawaii (OVA)
Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Dochuu

bang tonight?

oh and kirara too
since it's higurashi

Like I said last night, Kirara might not be here this week because he's hosting Ton and Pan for a visit

With Bang I was gonna give him a moment to see if he was coming in himself
I'll go see if he'll give me an answer

oh I see
yeah I remember that

okay then
well

higurashi

then we'll see if bang is here

higurashi
okay
lets start

Time for more uncle abuse!

Witches, man

It's nice that they're speedrunning the plot in the answer arcs
We've seen all this already after all

Speaking of things we've seen already
Satoko seems to be drawn to men who, more than can't cook, are natural disasters in the kitchen

Funny seeing everyone kinda learn from the cycles
but satoko messing it all up

Featherine or Hanyuu, can't remember which, did say proximity to a looper might be what causes regular people to remember their past loops
If that's true, then having double the loopers now might be accelerating the process

Teppei you're like a mid-thirties at best probably early-forties man
You shouldn't be flustered seeing children's underwear

I wonder if this arc is going to be a bit of Satoko's failure to become a full monster
She does seem to harbour some regret using Teppei like this
And from what we saw in the original arc, he wasn't who she used the virus sample on

well
this arc does end with a rampage
so
and someone who never has in the past
satoko is definitely going to do something

Yeah, but she spares Teppei from being the berserker
Probably, at least

Thiiiis is interesting though
The first perspective of this route in Gou, Ooishi was being particular villainous towards Keiichi and the school's attempt to rescue Satoko
If Teppei got to him and convinced him that nothing was wrong in the Hojou household, then that might explain his interference

Of course alternatively she impulsively pricks him with the virus here and his aggressiveness is the slow descent into terminal Hinamizawa Virus

Door number two I guess

Wow he's losing it

From what we've seen, the virus doses are highly effective
I expected Ooishi to be a bit slower to succumb to it since he's not ani -an immediate local
And he seems kind of in the same vein as Mion in he's pretty level-headed
But yeah it activated fast

HAET OYASHIRO

haha that closeup

They mentioned that little shrine to Oyashiro got trashed the first time around this arc

I wonder if they'll wrap this arc up next week
We're pretty close to everything being in order

And then the real show can begin

Still no sign of bang?

i'll watch maid dragon but i'll appreciate if tilde can make an effort to at least pretend he doesn't want to ruin my night

I've never wanted to ruin your night
It's pretty aggravating for me that you immediately assume the worst in me
Because then literally anything I do is going to be framed by that

Can you do other shows?
Can you guys make up?

>>973002
it's not immediate though
you know the 799th time you said something contradictory to something i've said is one thing but the 800th
i dunno man

What's wrong with disagreeing with you?
We're very different people Bang of course we're going to have contradicting opinions on things and different interpretations

it's that you never frame it as a simple disagreement
you state things matter-of-factly
it's never "i think" or "the way i see it"

Hell no I'm gonna say I use "I think" and "In my opinion" a lot
Or "I don't see it that way", which is in the same toolbox for me

maybe i should pull up that thread where you said my opinion on maids was wrong because you're a maid expert

Oh for crying out loud
We were going to watch Maiddragon, a show with a comically-obsessed maid otaku
I get my attempt at humour did not land well with you but I think it was pretty obvious I was channeling Kobayashi there for a bit of comedy

Do you guys think we can focus on peacefulness
and anime watching

I know you guys have way different ways of communicating
but we can probably just take it easy for awhile and watch some anime yeah?

how many bang shows should I put on the docket?

Looking at the list the only Bang //not-Bang shows I neglected to mark that remain are the Tonikaku OVA and Sonny Boy
Everything else is free game

night head
scarlet nexus
shiroi
kobayashi

can you do that bang?

i'm just having a hard time finding confidence that i'm not going to end up having a worse night by staying
and even more difficulty trying to figure out what i even stand to gain

I'm sure tilde will be nice in the name of peace
what you have to gain is anime!

night head

okay
lets start

okay
but if i disappear don't wait up

I can make a pointed effort to contextualize all my comments as opinion
But I would also like to say ahead of time if it clears things up that everything I post is of my own opinion and is free to be disagreed with

I'm good to go

Rope barriers like that are often used in Japanese spiritualism for sealing or creating barriers for supernatural phenomenon
That they work on psychics means they're implying they have some common base with things like ghosts and other supernatural entities?

This poor woman is really caught up in much more than she wanted

Usually it's not so easy to just present superpowers to a society that doesn't believe in them and then flip that society on its head
People are usually more than happy to stick to the beliefs that confirm to their world view

it's weird that there's so much supernatural stuff plopped into this setting

I actually really like the cross between the near-future science fiction and the supernatural elements
I think the one thing that only really nags me is the way the cops want to make a secret force of psychics to take out the psychics
Partially since it's kind of trope-y though

Come to think about it, I wonder if the whole thing about destroying fiction which presents fantasy or surrealism as real, and it being a destruction of cultural heritage, strikes closer to home with the Japanese
Not that they ever really did anything of magnitude to that, but just across the strait in China, the CCP strove to destroy a lot of cultural heritage material when they first took over

Ah, yeah
Process of elimination
Being the leader was unlikely, the girl was already kinda bucking the trend
And the other guy was shocked to hear the otouto call out there was a traitor

wow lots goingon

I expected the brother to be way better with the telekinesis than them
I mean he's probably got years of training on them
But he's also probably high-potential too I'd bet

Just because society has rules doesn't mean they should be followed!
There's plenty of rules over history that have definitely been worth flaunting

the soundtrack got kinda cool

They've used it really well over the series so far
I wonder who the composer is

Oh, the composer for this OST is the same composer as Vinland Saga's OST
And also Great Pretender and Tokyo Ghoul
Those all had pretty strong OSTs and good use of them

what the

Yeah huh
I wonder if they got zapped back to their time period
Or maybe they just emergency teleported, something like how they appeared in the forest back in episode one in the first place

wild episode

did naoya do a time warp
we still don't know exactly how naoya's powers work
well
we still don't really know how anyone's powers work fully

i think naoto got warped out but maybe he was destroyed

It did look like he was getting dusted at first, yeah
My money's on him and his brother doing some kind of space and/or time jump
Though I dunno if that's Naoya's power or some kind of joint superpower since they're brothers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Head_Genesis

yo check this out

okay
scarlet

okay
lets start

>>973038
Oh I didn't know it had a previous anime
I knew this was an adaptation/tweaking of, well I heard it was a novel but that page says the original is a TV drama

NIGHT HEAD is FujiTV drama aired from October 1992 to March 1993 for a total 21 episodes, with 23 minutes duration for each episode. The story continued with a wide-screen movie sequel showed in 1994. The story was later adapted to manga and TV anime series titled NIGHT HEAD GENESIS in 2006.

I didn't really expect rescuing the blonde girl to be such a long-running arc for the story of this
At this rate they won't get to her until the finale

these two shows are kinda the same

yeah
if i had to pick one it'd definitely be night head
but i like them both

like pretty similar at least

They both have controlling authoritarian governments and psychics
I think as far as genre goes they're pretty different though
Scarlet is more an action drama that doesn't waste time going into the political upheaval
Like when was the last time one of the monsters in this show was really plot-relevant

Night Head goes harder on the mystery of the psychic brothers and the weird time shenanigans that have taken place

i think technology has made governments a lot more all-encompassing and it's probably gonna be a recurring theme that humans are afraid of how powerful they can be

There's a lot of precedence in science fiction to warn about the dangers of authoritarian governments
That's what always comes to mind with Night Head at least
It's very much in that traditional "give too much control to the government and they will destroy you" vibe of classic science fiction

Scarlet doesn't really embody that much beyond the use of the trope, I feel

Are all Others then just organic beings turned into monsters then?
He said the transformation works on anyone with a brain, er, anything with one
So it's not like they'd need a bunch of disappeared people to make all the monsters we've been seeing

But if it's a process that needs to be done and not something that just happens by itself then I wonder why the Other hav erun amok

Wow poor guy
He keeps trying to be cool but everyone's stepping on his toes

Lots of talking and plotting this episode

Well here's your action
Wow it's got guns

They probably shouldn't rush in
Last they saw her she was still a monster

Well she was more docile than I expected her to be

Wait are they just really tiny people in a giant hallway or was the perspective in that shot real whack

probably the latter

okay
shiroi

>>973060
You'd think so because Sunrise but it really does look more like a supersized hallway

oops
clicked done as i clicked back in

okay
let's start

Wow don't pick fights with kids

I wonder how fast they've been approaching their deadline saving the aquarium
I haven't been paying attention to the date in the show
Although the MC also has until the end of summer before she has to go back to Tokyo
So I guess end of summer is the show's limit anyway

I can't get into wearing shirts while in water
I could probably do regular fabric shorts or even pants
But shirts in water feel beyond awkward to me

since the setting is always so close to the beach
i really didn't expect an actual beach episode

imagine going snorkelling in such beautiful beach
where you have the place to yourself

>>973068
Yeah, it must be really, really nice
I'd like to learn how to scuba some day
I would really like to experience the underwater up close

Oh I see
The little girl is one of those girls from the sticks who wants to live big city glamour

tokyo towah

Siblings are tiresome
It's probably a bit of greener grass
I don't dislike my siblings but growing up with three siblings I've definitely been exhausted by them

Grandpa doesn't seem so optimistic that the aquarium will survive past its final deadline for closure

dress with hoodie

Man every time I learn more
I'm reminded how fucking weird marine biology is

The girls are getting really into this hah hah

This little girl has this boy wrapped around her finger
She's pretty strong for her age

tough lemon

comfy episode

the cans say "moontory" instead of "suntory"
suntory is a beverage conglomerate that make a lot of drinks sold in japan
the pun is an english one though
which is funny

Their canned highballs are pretty aight

I hope the aquarium doesn't have to close, but I could really see it going either way by the end of the show

i'm not decided on which outcome i'd prefer
but i think it's likely that it somehow doesn't
i think it would be more difficult for an author to close the aquarium and have a satisfying ending too
but as long as the ending is good i don't know that i prefer one way or the other
and i'm sure it will be

It feels like they're building up to the end of August for the climax of the first cour
But the show's two-cour, so maybe the rest of the month will take much longer
And we still haven't really seen anything of that gremlin god

i'm sure they'll save the aquarium
this feels like a series where the save it, right?

kobayashi

okay lets start

it's two cour?
i didn't expect that

>>973085
i kinda get the idea that it is
but they might make it so that the closing of the aquarium is like a really important growth experience for them
actually before this episode i was pretty sure they'd save it
but they kind foreshadowed some themes just now that maybe yuuya and kukuru not being able to handle the aquarium closing is a problem they have to overcome

>>973085
I dunno
Like I said, I could see it going either way
There is a kind of realism in accepting that your best work isn't enough to save something like an aquarium
And the fact that the one girl is kind of obsessively attached to it makes me feel like having her let go of it is important for her

This is a PA Works show, and while they usually try to end on happy conclusions, they are not beyond a more bittersweet ending

she tried to get the most out of fafnir showing weakness and he was never going to comply

Ah
Ahhhh
I follow Ichiso-sensei on Twitter and she remarked ealier that after watching this week's Maiddragon she really wanted to make a doujinshi
I assumed it was more she saw something that sparked a funny plot
But I guess if this episode is all about drawing manga it might've just gotten her excited

Oh this is right out of Coolkyousinnjya's fetishes

Ah well maybe not entirely

"I Tried Cursing The Older Lady Who Won't Stop Bothering Me But She Keeps Evading All My Attempts" would make for a fun LN though

fafnir kowai

She's actually pretty cute when you get to see her doing something other than being a shotacon

I really like her eyes
The one-eye squint is good too

Fafnir please a book of Lucoa cosplaying would definitely sell out

Hah hah Shouta

>Dragons never sleep
Kanna is like a perpetual napper though

kobayashi looks a lot more feminine when sleeping

Yeah, I was thinking that too
Her fish eyes and glasses, and when her hair's tied back, give her much more of an androgynous look

Brutal

Oh I can kinda understand this
I also in part like being up late at night with the notion in mind that most people around me are asleep

Of course Saikawa would take being called a servant this way
The other kid had a perfectly normal kid way to picture being called a servant

hayai

strange bunch

Kids are good at making weird friends

What an adorably normsdasdsj

wow is that a fairy
weird
we dont see stuff like this very often

I was gonna say the creaky window was an adorably normal explanation for a ghost
A very childly resolution to that mystery

>>973108
Especially fairies like this
He's certainly unusual

he made it home pretty easily

i hope he doesn't cause trouble by spreading rumors

I might go back and rewatch that bit in the middle of the episode about sleep before I go to bed tonight
It feels like something nice to have tumbling in the brain as I drift off