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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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I

I'm so confused

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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That ties in pretty well with Papika not having a form until Cocona recognises her.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Hmmmm

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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lol Yeah I spotted that too, then forgot about it

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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DisDisDis posted:

The transformation sequences in this seemed way more sexualized than stuff like sailor moon

unrelated: I didn't like this episode as much as the first two

Which is amusing because the transformations in episode three literally stole all its poses from Sailor Moon. They just weren't glowing shadows like in that.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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When are we getting an episode titled Pure Imagination?

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Darth Walrus posted:

So the enemy of the week was an oppressive setting coated in lesbian symbolism where a degree of girl-girl affection is allowed, but only within certain tight constraints, and the girls are slowly turned into a single hollow archetype forever experiencing bland, trivial pleasures in an eternal school.

Good to see that our heroines have breezed past the Class S stage, I guess.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Keeping your fingernails trimmed is lesbian shorthand for 'there might be some sex going on soon', for hopefully obvious reasons.

E: I mean it might be a bit more subtle than that and be just to remind us of green hair senpai and by extension the danger of unkwoningly changing something they shouldn't now that we know it's possible. I can't remember exactly where the nail clippers popped up, so. I've a feeling it was during the love hotel bit though in which case, yeah...

Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Nov 19, 2016

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Cialis Railman posted:

It was a joke because nail clippers are a totally mundane thing to find in someone's desk, yet Cocona was scared about what she'd find poking around.

This is the most likely answer and I'm just projecting


LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

i feel like that's common sense for any sexual encounter, really. is this actually a Specific Lesbian Thing? (i ask in the anime forum)

I mean yeah it's a stereotypically lesbian thing, in straight sexual encounters men are much less likely to have fingernails worth worrying about and woman are less likely to be sticking them in anywhere, though obviously that's not universal.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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I mean people saw stuff in the first episode (Cocona's reaction to Papika moving her face towards her in episode 1 being a prime example) and tweeted the director about it and he literally stated 'yeah that's what we meant'. Also the writer (or senario director or something like that) is well known in yuri circles and even does a yuri column in Newtype magazine.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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The only thing I didn't really like about this episode was how little context we had for exactly why Yayaka would go that far against someone she obviously cared about that much, other than her presumably getting kicked out of an organisation who's goals we don't even know.
I guess the episode hinted at her growing up there and maybe not knowing anything else, but it just seemed like her motivations we weak from our perspective.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Zeruel posted:

MUSCLE

Incredible. Phenomenal. Anime of the Year.

But ohhh boy its still kinda weird Papika is like "I've loved you before you were even born" if its still romantic.

I'll be honest that and the rest of this episode put me firmly into camp Yayaka

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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It looks cool

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Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

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Suddenly a lot of things make sense.

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