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Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
The best part is that it'd been hinted in the opening all along and nobody guessed right.




This scene was really well framed.

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Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Episode was good. But I'm also disappointed that this show is going the usual route of Japan dealing with it's past.

...huh?

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
It felt like it needed one more ep, just so the bit with Yuuna didn't feel rushed and/or cheap, plus more time to emphasize their rehabs.

Apart from that I liked it. Objectively it wasn't the best quality but it brought that sense of relief so it worked.

It really feels like they're planning for a sequel/alternate work with 3rd generation heroes.

(There was an interesting theory in /a/, lemme quote it:
Yuuna didn't have any petals on her when they were all lying in a circle after the fight.
Gyuuki wasn't shown disappearing.
Yuuna looked kind of funny when Tougou said the stuff about willpower.
Yuuna fainted during the school play.

This is what I think: Yuuna touching the Vertex soul with her bare hand while untransformed made something happen. She accidentally absorbed a piece of the Vertex, or she had a glimpse into the ways of the universe, or she just used so much power that it brought her very, very close to the holy tree, or all of the above. Whatever happened, she was suddenly in a position to ask the holy tree for things, and she said she wanted the sacrifices back, and for her friends to be freed from the hero system. But the tree still needed someone to protect it...so Yuuna offered herself. With only one extremely pure and possibly semi-godly person in charge of all Mankai, the need for handicaps went away completely. Everybody went home, and it took time, but they gradually recovered their health over a period of a few months.

She had to make sure that nobody ever knew what she was doing, but since the forestize stops time, all she had to do during the school play was ask the tree to put her back where she was after she was done fighting. Time stopped, she went to fight, she came back, and everyone just assumed she was still weak from her recovery.

Yuuna chose to fight alone. The fact that she was doing what she knew was right, defending her friends, was enough to outweigh the pain, the terror, and the isolation of being the only hero.

と言う妄想を語ってみた
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Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
Limited in the source material how? This is an original anime.

It did need one more ep tho.

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
So are you may or may have not heard about, YuYuYu is getting a sequel novel, called Sonoko After. Some preliminary details have surfaced:
Short summary.
In Sonoko After:
>Vetexes will come attacking again
>Sonoko transfers to Shansu and in the same class as the other 3.
>They found a solution for the outside world
>Sonoko's nicknames for Yuuna is YuuYuu, Itsuki→Ittsun, Tougou →Wasshi/Mimorin
>Hero's system gets updated
>Every girl can transform now except that they're weaker than the current heroes
>Taisha plans to reveal the truth to the public
>After seeing the Heroes' hard works, Shinju returned their offerings because it came to believes in human's strenght, that human has enough power to walk on
>The new Hero system is there for the entire humanity to stand up and live on together
>Sonoko calls Fuu "Club leader" and Karin "Nibosshi"
>Any girl can become Hero as long as they're pure
>The new Hero system doesn't have Sange but is weaker and there's no barrier.

The interview
>How Itsuki started to get along with the club when she just entered the school, Itsuki and Karin's bond (things that were cut out in ep9)
>Yuuna's dizziness
>How Taisha gathered information on the girls, how much their parents knew, how much they hid and how suffering they were
>Gods related stuffs
>Future of the franchise


Also pic:

Also, a list of pretty much everything YuYuYu: http://pastebin.com/4ZhpYy2Z

Kyte fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jan 29, 2015

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