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Feb 6, 2007

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I finished this show earlier in the week. It's a good show guys. Super pretty, and emotional while still feeling well grounded.

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Fangz posted:

Aaaaah time to stress out about lesbians again

Stressing out about lesbians is not necessary.

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Lucy Heartfilia posted:

...they will kiss!

Don't, you'll jinx it!

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:toot:

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Three things:
1. I'm so glad mini-Sapphire had a cameo.

2. I totally don't remember that flashback of Shuichi asking Kumiko out to the festival actually happening. Which episode was it last season?

3. Outro visuals kind of remind me of K-on for some reason.

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Of all the things you could make youtube compilations of... this may be one of the more benign ones, actually.

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Actually one of the funnier things reading people's reactions to season one was coming across the occasional "Kumiko makes funny noises!" in between all the stuff about the character drama and romantic subtext.

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Who was the girl playing rock-paper-scissors with Hazuki at the midway point? I don't remember her.

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I forgot most of the OVA. Fortunately it's on Crunchy.

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paragon1 posted:

i feel for bad for oboe girl :(

When she first showed up I was all "oh poo poo it's Nagato Yuki the oboist." She isn't actually that, though.

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Parallax posted:

this episode was definitely better than the first two, better direction and some more funny character animation

also kumiko stealth mode


Kumiko being a Bad Eavesdropper was pretty funny. Highlight of the episode.

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Mizore, you need to speak up more.

Also, fix your subs Crunchyroll.

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drat but Taki-sensei has it going on. Reina's got the right idea.

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Also: percussionists!

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A Citroën Ami! Certainly an... individual choice there, Taki-sensei.

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Well, we've finally found a character more difficult to put up with than Asuka. Her mother.

Really good character animation this week. You can really tell how Asuka's having a hard time putting up her usual attitude.

Also I'm worried about Kumiko's sister. :ohdear:

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Sitting in earshot like a lemon while your sibling and parents get into an argument... yeah I've been there.

Other thoughts:
Tiny Kumiko! She's almost too precious.
Not sure what to make of the Aoi scene. Either some lingering resentments, or Aoi is trying to validate her decision to quit the band.
At least Shuuichi is being constructive.

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Not sure what to say about this ep without sounding like a moron, but it's really good. Seems like Kumiko has changed a lot without really realizing it herself.

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Also, KyoAni really likes drawing legs.

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We getting 12 or 13 episodes this season?

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I'm glad we got another Reina yell.

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I guess the scene with way younger Reina was supposed to establish why she felt how she did, but to me it just made the whole idea seem even more wrong, at least from Taki's perspective.

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The finale will be a concert scene. If there's one thing that KyoAni is really good at, it's concert scenes. So that part will be fine.

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a kitten posted:

Pretty good interview with the novel's author

https://twitter.com/SakugaBlog/status/809817404360507392?s=09

Nothing earth shattering (e.g. anyone's relationships), but I did learn there's a spin off story about the Rikka High School Band.

quote:

Also, I wanted to insert more scenes of Natsuki and Yuuko bickering like cats and dogs.

She knows what's what.

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I don't know why I enjoyed that quick scene with Kumiko and Mizore so much. *fistbump*

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I'm a total ignoramus when it comes to this stuff but they were making some really blatant composition choices in the Shuichi scene, and not ones that seemed to imply they were getting closer together.

The real disappointment here is the bronze medal, but I guess it's a fairly realistic result on that tough a stage.

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Kumiko's VA turned in the best performance I've seen all year.

KyoAni's animators turned in the best performance I've seen all year.

Final scene made me feel things. Good show.

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Josuke Higashikata posted:

I don't give a flying fu~~~~~~~~~ck about the oboe and flute players at the start on S2 because I don't even know who they are because S1 didn't show them with any importance at all. Was oboe even there for the group shots in S1?

Mizore is actually visible in a bunch of shots in S1.

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I thought that second drawing of Asuka was pretty fun, so I made an avatar out of it.

I don't usually do this, so it's kinda poo poo, but oh well.

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