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ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else
Finally got around to trying the Master+ for the event song. Super fun chart. Probably my new favorite in both Master and Master+ difficulties.

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Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ChubbyThePhat posted:

Finally got around to trying the Master+ for the event song. Super fun chart. Probably my new favorite in both Master and Master+ difficulties.

how could you say that right after junjou

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else
I really like what they did with the holds in the chart. The Master+ patterns aren't too crazy in the middle either. Overall just super drat fun.

Zenostein
Aug 16, 2008

:h::h::h:Alhamdulillah-chan:h::h::h:

ChubbyThePhat posted:

I really like what they did with the holds in the chart. The Master+ patterns aren't too crazy in the middle either. Overall just super drat fun.

It's weird, they're both super slow. …mostly in comparison to Junjou, which is fun as hell but in a different way. I really like the tiny holds! But it's very much like Akane's song, in that it's way slower than it looks? seems? Something like that. :v: I managed to break 700k points on it, even! …And then saw that that wasn't even close to being in the top 40k or whatever. :/ I thought 700k got you a neato badge, too, but I guess not.

Christmas Cake posted:

I guess that's what happens after an event that doesn't let you pick your own songs or units.

It's the power of "the chuuni normal people can probably understand" and also Fumika. Also probably how easy this song is compared to the last few…

Still, goddamn.

Polsy posted:

This is upsetting my carefully-written deresute_border graphing code, now I can't reasonably compare the numbers from previous events for the bottom two tiers. On the plus side, now I can put in slightly less effort and still get at least one of each SR.


:v: it's fine, for a day or so the new distinctions broke deresute_border, too. It had the new blocs (that's how I knew they'd changed, actually. Because like hell would I notice otherwise), but 60 and 120 were stuck at 0 for a while.

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
CG ep 22:

252 posted:

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 7:47 PM
I have a quesadilla and a martini
therefore
IT IS TIME
FOR
IDOLS

lotta blue in this performance
and good to see some humility from suit lady
"of course, I picked them"
ah, here's some pink

I hope this garish collection of outfits isn't going to be all on stage at once
individually, the costumes are fine, but togther they look like a bunch of harlequins
OK, Kirarin's group look like harlequins by thenmselves

good job P-chan!
communicating in Rankoese!
oh good they changed karen's hair

HOLY poo poo
MIO ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT HER FEELINGS
this scene should have been last episode

Rin wants to see her gf
ganbarimasu!

taser rates - Today at 7:57 PM
rinzuki

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 7:57 PM
uzurin

☆彡 - Today at 7:57 PM
udurin

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 7:57 PM
/kick star lines

these little 5 second clips of songs are jarring
I'd sooner fewer, longer segments
with animation
oh good, they changed outfits for their group performance
bookish girl really isn't suited to being an idol
kawaii boku is good

"I need help" - Mio, as subbed by Daisuki
「力を貸して」- Mio, as I hear
"LEND ME YOUR POWER" - Mio, as I translate in my mind

I love love love that Natsuki has her guitar with her idol outfit
good job buying time, friends
Trancing Pulse is good
Anzu continues to be wise
Good animation here
they can do it when they want to
I just wish there was more of it
and now we've returned to the Land of Still Shots

old guy manager is so useless
I suppose he serves a narrative purpose
but I'd sooner they either found a way to do without him or made him a real character

Uzuki left out..............
ganbarimasing only gonna get you so far, girl
does Miho have defining traits?
she seems identical to Uzuki, but without her main character status
well, less ganbarimasu
ah, she's finally realizing that ganbarimasu ain't enough

taser rates - Today at 8:15 PM
ganbarimasu intensifies

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:15 PM
girl needs to chill

That was a good episode. Trancing Pulse was great and looked beautiful, and it's a shame we haven't really seen anything else like it this season until now.

graybook
Oct 10, 2011

pinya~
The Trancing Pulse perf is raw fire yes.
Prepare to shift into maximum Dookie

Zenostein
Aug 16, 2008

:h::h::h:Alhamdulillah-chan:h::h::h:

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:


That was a good episode. Trancing Pulse was great and looked beautiful, and it's a shame we haven't really seen anything else like it this season until now.

I feel like they hold off on actual performances unless it'll be useful. Like, they'll gleefully pepper songs in, but actual performances are punctuation. I'm a big fan, since it isn't like pripara or aikatsu or whatever where you just throw in a performance as a matter of course.

The more of these I read the more I'm reminded of stuff and sink further into "they really just wanted to remake idolm@ster but with more people to play with."

They had too many people :/

No.1 Uzuki Snack Fan posted:

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 7:57 PM
/kick star lines

:same:

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
23:

252 posted:

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:24 PM
desert, then 23

☆彡 - Today at 8:25 PM
Bring a lot of water.

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:27 PM
I was hoping you were telling me the episode was going to make me thirsty
but no, I just misspelled
cheesecake + Corn 'n' Oil
well-provisioned, I enter the idol desert

I don't know...
I'm not certain Uzuki is actually better
Uzuki's also not really suited for idoling, I think
She'd be better off in more traditional Japanese employment
where hard work over years generally pays off, eventually
Dr. Anzu has no words of wisdom this day

hmm
this cocktail is good, but it doesn't pair well with the cheesecake
an ill omen

I feel like the girls are getting to be big enough deals that they should begin being recognized when out on the streets
Ranko is so great

poor Uzuki
she knows that dancing by herself isn't going to solve anything
but it's all she can think to do
it's tough when you don't know where to apply effort

it seems to me that it's time for Mio to be the pushy genki friend and forcibly make Shimamu open up
"Maybe she's the type that keeps things bottled up"
THAT'S EVERYONE IN THIS GODDAMN SHOW
except maybe for ankira

lol
Producer just sitting, watching Uzuki flail her hands about
lol
I have to gif this

Allarion - Today at 8:59 PM
Uzuki running into reality hit me hard, so probably why I like her arc

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:59 PM
yeah, I can identify
good job, P-chan
she needs to be pushed
OK, I can't really identify with her total lack of self confidence
but the whole "trying hard at the things that are supposed to bring success, to no avail" thing, that I can identify with

silvertome - Today at 9:04 PM
Too real

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:04 PM
"I intend to keep approaching her until she agrees"
that's the Producer we know
dammit, shimamu, that's not how confidence works
Mio & Rin too concerned about what they've done to hurt Uzuki, not concerned enough about what she needs
thank God, Rin
Mio was being decidedly unhelpful
lol, the CEO taking notice when a single worker skips one day of training
it's been like 3 days, Mishiro, chill
Rin's voice when she's passionate about something has a noticeably different timbre from her normal detached tone

sure, lessons are important
but
you can eat all the idols you want
but if the fingers don't tap right, it's doesn't matter
this is the wisdom I have learned from idol rhythm games
I hope this helps you, Uzuki

uzuki has only too good a grasp on what makes her a weak idol
that's sad

mishiro has picked a very poor metaphor for her point
stars shine for a long, long time
and yeah, there's an obvious reply when you say that it's covered by a cloud
it's... it's almost like...
like the writers chose it to make P-chan's point, rather than hers...

silvertome - Today at 9:20 PM
wow


Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:21 PM
they all cry together, then: "alright, we're going home"
that's... that's not quite resolved yet, Mio

Allarion - Today at 9:21 PM
well, what else can you do really
well, other than the other ways to boost her confidence

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:21 PM

I guess, but Uzuki was still rubbing tears from her eyes

☆彡 - Today at 9:22 PM
It's like they wanted to write her as an antagonist through ideological opposition but couldn't come up with anything besides short sighted and mean.

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:22 PM


Allarion - Today at 9:22 PM
lol, writing mishiro too well would get too close to their bamco overlords

☆彡 - Today at 9:23 PM
Haha. Maybe they vetoed a more compelling version because it was too on the nose.

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:23 PM
written well, she would have been a force that stresses the idols' relationships, not a villain
an apologetic "I'm sorry, but we can't continue to employ an idol that won't perform" would have accomplished the same thing
it's weird that the clock has raced ahead and is now frozen at midnight

silvertome - Today at 9:24 PM
http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2281708 "relevant" to end of 23

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:25 PM
lololol
I saw that comic a while ago
but had no context for it
now, it's hilarious

This is a drama ep done right. Could have done without mishiro, but the conflict is fundamentally an internal one for Uzuki and an interpersonal one between New Generations, she's just incidental. It's lost a bit of its impact due to the last 8? 10? 12?? episodes being drama episodes, but this is better. Actually, that's not fair, last ep wasn't drama and was a welcome break. Still, they should have saved most of the drama for the end of the seasons and for New Generations.

The scene I mentioned wanting to gif:

https://jii.moe/N15FhyXBb.webm

Everything about this cracks me up, the awkward arm-flailing, Producer super awkwardly sitting and watching, Uzuki then complaining that her 2-step "dance" routine is complicated.

Zenostein
Aug 16, 2008

:h::h::h:Alhamdulillah-chan:h::h::h:
The only thing harder than dancing is animating dancing.

Have you not seen random fanart of Mishiro as a huge Uzuki fan?

Of course she'd notice if she'd skipped a day at the office

Huge fan.


as an aside

powerful valkyrie warriors
https://twitter.com/silsil17c/status/744833205845385216

and a ghost i want in my puchiroom.
just a fuckin' koume ghost statue. pop it in the corner.
https://twitter.com/mikotonori/status/745335593366859777

Zenostein fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jun 22, 2016

Sylphid
Aug 3, 2012
Good Fumika.



Pics of a smiling Fumika are so much better than depressive Fumika. Such a sweet girl does not warrant such slander.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Sylphid posted:

Good Fumika.



Pics of a smiling Fumika are so much better than depressive Fumika. Such a sweet girl does not warrant such slander.

https://twitter.com/morune1/status/745640995732127744

Sylphid
Aug 3, 2012

Ain't nothing wrong with shy / blushing Fumika. It's just the ones that have her on the verge of a nervous breakdown are the ones that irk me.

graybook
Oct 10, 2011

pinya~
I think what seems off is the lack of bangs

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
From what I've seen she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown most of the time, though?

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

From what I've seen she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown most of the time, though?

Yeah but who isn't?

Sylphid
Aug 3, 2012

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

From what I've seen she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown most of the time, though?

Nah, she's just shy and gets stage fright easily, at least early on in her idol career (which seems to be where she is in the anime). Anime proves she is actually a very nice and good girl who gets along very well with other idols (especially Arisu), and likes talking about how much she loves books. Uzuki and Mio had way bigger breakdowns in the show than she ever had.

Phantom Limb
Jun 30, 2005

blargh
I'm very upset.

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else

Phantom Limb posted:

I'm very upset.



Did you fumble the patterns in the middle? I do this often.

Polsy
Mar 23, 2007

ChubbyThePhat posted:

Did you fumble the patterns in the middle? I do this often.

Not with a 781 combo

Phantom Limb
Jun 30, 2005

blargh

ChubbyThePhat posted:

Did you fumble the patterns in the middle? I do this often.

Nah, nerves got to me and I choked near the end, happens pretty regularly.

IAmTheRad
Dec 11, 2009

Goddammit this Cello is way out of tune!



The reason for Full Maximum 3D mode.

I swear my timing is getting better. I need to learn to not compensate for the non-existant lag.

Christmas Cake
Dec 25, 2008

Phantom Limb posted:

I'm very upset.



最低Jewel

graybook
Oct 10, 2011

pinya~
Had to look that up but lmbo

Zenostein
Aug 16, 2008

:h::h::h:Alhamdulillah-chan:h::h::h:

IAmTheRad posted:




The reason for Full Maximum 3D mode.

I swear my timing is getting better. I need to learn to not compensate for the non-existant lag.

Reason for Max3d MV mode.

Because y'know, all those lines and poo poo are in the way of the increasingly-neat looking stages.

Phantom Limb posted:

Nah, nerves got to me and I choked near the end, happens pretty regularly.

The secret to FCing that is to first play on m+. Then when you play it on M, it is significantly less busy, and easy as cake.

Although I think I've also always had 5 greats. I wonder if they're the same ones :v:

graybook posted:

Had to look that up but lmbo

same

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

ChubbyThePhat posted:

Yeah but who isn't?

Ha ha ha.... ha ha ha....

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
Episode 24:

252 posted:

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:20 PM
24 time
ganbarimasu
Uzuki finally comes back, and everyone immediately confronts her
chill out girls
maybe talk with her one-on-one later

uzu-nyan!
aww, no more uzu-nyan
I still really dislike that they transliterate Anya's Russian
the gibberish was so much better
mishiro's a cartoon villain
one disappointment, and all previous accomplishments are null
I wish Kaede drank more in the anime

producer is still so wonderfully awkward
the king of long awkward silences

☆彡 - Today at 8:38 PM
I want to produce him.

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:39 PM
same

nice

it kind of feels like Uzuki's coming to a realization that she's not suited for idoldom
I mean, she's almost certainly coming to the opposite realization
"I thought that doing my best... wasn't good enough anymore"
yes
true

Rin unsatisfied
that was not the hand she was hoping would hold hers
here's that 10% of the tears in the show that aren't mio's
ah, and some of mio's

oh my God Producer holding up one corner of his mouth is the most moe thing in this whole show


lol, she's going out in uniform?
one would think her school would object

Azu - Today at 8:49 PM
are you at the episode where she just randomly does an impromptu solo

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:49 PM
I think that might be about to happen?

Azu - Today at 8:49 PM

o sry spoilers

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 8:49 PM
SHOW RUINED
aww, everyone supporting her with the glowsticks
cute
also a good performance
WHOA
SUIT LADY SHOCKED
STUNNED BY THE SMILE
and just leaves

A decent episode. Not a lot to say, though, that's not said above. When they decide to animate performances, they do it right. On to 25!

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
And episode 25:

252 posted:

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:09 PM
25
this was at the start of the show
and maybe at the end of s1 or the beginiing of s2
or both?

multiple stages in one room seems like a bad idea
and one of the girls is dressed like...
a potsicker?
a slice of daikon?
wtf
BINGO

silly old man
suit lady is FAR too busy looking grumpy to enjoy the concert
it's weird to me that they have backstage uniforms
why would they make dozens of matching tracksuits
when they can just have folks wear whatever
wearing whatever would be cuter, too

Mio super happy to be performing as newgen, but didn't they do that just last episode?
or rather, right after, presumably
and that can't have been more than a few weeks earlier
lol, Miria & Rika in their kindergartener outfits
uhhh
she's a sun....
good for her, I guess
this is gimmicky as gently caress
the crowd goes wild as kawaii boku falls on her face!

Azu - Today at 9:18 PM
good

Yes_Cantaloupe - Today at 9:19 PM
Mishiro just doesn't understand the concept of morale at all
if you fire folks who mess up once
those that remain start wondering
I mean, if Uzuki had had a meltdown in public, she might have a point
but taking a week off?
christ, suit lady

heh
Anzu beat the video game girl at her own gimmick
"ash-covered dreams"
mishiro trying to be a poet
has Mio always called Mika "mika-nee"?
I hadn't noted that before

man I wish they had more than 3 performances in s2
this is a lot of idols to have on stage at once
whoa
2 performances in 1 episode
it's too powerful....
though both are shortish

and this shot sucks

Ranko seems like she has the most fun on stage
Kirari continues to be very good

she's the best
holy poo poo jougasaki sisters interacting
aww, it's Rika that text Miria, that doesn't jive with the meme at all
tiny theater

and again meeting at the stairs
all the magic/palace/cinderella stuff falls kinda flat to me
ah, and finally, after 3 episodes stalled at midnight, we move on to 12:01
that was nice
I wish the episodes leading up to it hadn't been so melodramatic, but the finale was solid

Yeah, a solid conclusion. I had high expectations for s2, but overall, they weren't met. Episodes 14-21 or so had some good moments, but were overall frustrating to watch. I was hoping that they'd gotten the drama out of the way in s1 and could spend s2 having fun, at least until the final arc, but instead every episode was gloomy. I'd rate s1 & s2 pretty similarly, as better then LL s1 but weaker than s2.

But! The OVA episode 26 awaits, and I expect it to be fun times.

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!
We're gonna synchwatch ep 26! Join in now!

https://io.synchtu.be:8443/r/Kotori

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
Since we synched it, I didn't really livepost, but let the record show that 26 is amazing. Really, it's everything I wanted from s2: the characters having fun with goofy misunderstandings and wacky hi-jinks. If each little part of this ep had been expanded out to a half or even a full episode, I would have been well pleased with the resulting season. Heck, with a few alterations, they could have bookended such a season with the beginning and end of s2 and it would have been superior, imo.

Polsy
Mar 23, 2007

Huh, that was sooner than I expected

https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/745836795930120193

graybook
Oct 10, 2011

pinya~
Holy shiiiiit
Sylphid where you at bud

Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005
Yay! I wanna watch it. It'd be fun to synch it if the time works out.

Sylphid
Aug 3, 2012
Wow, that is sooner than you'd think. Still, I promised Kylra I'd wait on her to fix her computer problems before we did the synctube.

Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


Chill la Chill
Jul 2, 2007

Don't lose your gay


It is Thursday my dudes. Time to reminisce about Wednesday frogs.

graybook
Oct 10, 2011

pinya~

Sylphid posted:

Wow, that is sooner than you'd think. Still, I promised Kylra I'd wait on her to fix her computer problems before we did the synctube.

Sounds good. The more the merrier, as ever.

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else

Adorable.

Still slogging my way through the SIF event. I decided to try and get the SR from the SS event as well but I just don't think it's going to happen.

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

coolskull
Nov 11, 2007

today I got my first SIF SR without having to spend 50 gems at once. it was an umi, if you were wondering.

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Yes_Cantaloupe
Feb 28, 2005


Soon Rin, then I can leave this insane event behind me. 2/3 of the way through, and t1 is at 72k...

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