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Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds
While Machi's social anxiety was difficult to watch, I still thought the utter despair the shoppers felt around her sales pitch was hilarious. It was a guilty laugh but it was a good guilty laugh.

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Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds
Isn't the whole commercial thing straight from the manga though?

Also, Machi wasn't particularly sexualized in her swimsuit (by anime standards, anyway; no slow pans or sparkly backgrounds). I thought she just looked cute and awkward jumping around while everyone around her blew their lines. Maybe I'm just impervious to girls in frumpy school swimsuits.

On a more meta note, they had to do something embarrassing to Machi, since her reacting to such situations is like 50% of her jokes.

Bear in mind I'm also probably subconsciously comparing this to the only other Kadokawa production I've seen, Heaven's Lost Property. Compared to that, this stuff is Mary Poppins.

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds

HellCopter posted:

Just a mention that the previous bear was a real tough guy compared to Natsu. I wonder if there's only one talking bear allowed at a time.

Since Natsu is fixed, there must be others around there. I think the story was that all the bears in the region could talk. The others are probably off in the woods, you know, making GBS threads.

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds
Oh, come on, it's not that bad! Everybody got what they wanted and all conflicts were resolved! It even had Natsu and Machi wrestling around and giggling and having a great time! It's the happiest ending ever --

... yeah, no, that was pretty much Bad End: The Musical. It's too bad, too, because the show was kinda fun for a while there. If there's ever a second season (which seems pretty iffy at this point) I don't see how they couldn't have Machi wake up and the last two eps be a dream, no matter how cheap a copout that may be.

Still gonna put the ED song on loop and do all my chores to it, though.

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