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Who Is The Ultimate Warrior
Umiko Ahagon
Hajime Shinoda
Suzukaze Aoba
Sakura Nene
Tooyama Rin
Yagami Kou
Takimoto Hifumi
Iijima Yun
Hazuki Shizuku
Christina Wako Yamato
Momiji Mochizuki
Tsubame Narumi
The two background characters who I think are a gay couple
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Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
1; Get into Grad School

2; Become better at playing Tabletop, both as a player and as a GM/ST/W/E

3; Get rid of this goddamn avatar.

you saw nothing

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Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

good show. i liked peco and the competition parts and all the nene content. i liked the first season a bit more. this one seemed to move awfully quick and i didnt really come to understand momo. they introduced the third high school friend of aoba and nene for no real reason. give yun a center

Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015


https://twitter.com/tokutaro/status/913064264549548032

I don't know why Umiko and Hifumi are upside-down.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

They're laying down and perspective is weird

Mirage
Oct 27, 2000

All is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds
The trap door just opened and they haven't had time to react yet.

Sidesaddle Cavalry
Mar 15, 2013

Oh Boy Desert Map
they're the bottoms, that's why

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

I don't think Umiko has ever in her life been any sort of bottom

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Maybe they've fallen for someone.

Revalis Enai
Apr 21, 2003
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-revalis_enai.gif"><br>Wait, what's my phone number again?
Fun Shoe
They're the foundation for season 3

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
there dead rip

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Spiritus Nox posted:

I don't think Umiko has ever in her life been any sort of bottom

Nene cannot be contained or controlled, this is canon to begin with

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
I feel like this season wasn't quite as fun as season 1 was. It felt like they spent way less time actually doing stuff about the game, especially after that freaking episode with Aoba trying to win against Kou and just feeling she was leagues behind her. Like once Momo and Narucchi came in it kind of felt like everything reset to point 1 to let the new chars in? I dunno it just felt like there wasn't as much stuff this time for some reason. I liked it in the end but I dunno, these are just my thoughts after finishing the show last night.

HerpicleOmnicron5
May 31, 2013

How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?


Good Listener posted:

I feel like this season wasn't quite as fun as season 1 was. It felt like they spent way less time actually doing stuff about the game, especially after that freaking episode with Aoba trying to win against Kou and just feeling she was leagues behind her. Like once Momo and Narucchi came in it kind of felt like everything reset to point 1 to let the new chars in? I dunno it just felt like there wasn't as much stuff this time for some reason. I liked it in the end but I dunno, these are just my thoughts after finishing the show last night.

Agreed, along with the old cast feeling like they didn't really develop much outside of the Aoba/Kou match and the few glimpses of Yun being less driven than the others and probably a bit too much Nene compared to the others.

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

probably a bit too much Nene

excuse me

esselfortium
Jul 19, 2006

Cumulonimbus Antagonistic Posting
I liked this season way more than the first one, which seemed to spend a lot of its time on fanservicey fluff. I went into season 2 expecting to keep being very lukewarm on the show, but it blew my expectations away completely and really came into its own as a workplace drama.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Agronox posted:

excuse me

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i don't know how you could say less stuff happened in this season when season 1 was literally just some people hanging out for a bit and occasionally some random tidbits about game development. like, i guess you could say season 1 spent more time on the game??? but it's not like that was ever even the most interesting part of the show, and season 1 didn't really have anything driving it in any interesting way. this season was less chill but like that's also why it was actually interesting and engaging

The Colonel fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Sep 30, 2017

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
i liked season 2 alot

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Even in that regard I'd say PECO was way more interesting and had way more of a unique personality to it than Faeries Story. Faeries Story always felt like a fairly generic Ys Souls sort of thing to me, whereas Peco has a lot of Aoba's weird, funny mix of cutsiness and sadism in it.

Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 30, 2017

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
fairy's story was just a look at bog-standard game dev on a really safe sequel to a popular game, peco is cool because it's the show giving a look into the development of a weird original title and all the internal chaos it causes and what the people making it learn from it

Stallion Cabana
Feb 14, 2012
1; Get into Grad School

2; Become better at playing Tabletop, both as a player and as a GM/ST/W/E

3; Get rid of this goddamn avatar.
Yeah in Season 1 they basically admitted when Aoba got there that Fairy's was basically done already. While it was useful as a backdrop to us getting to know the characters and meant the stakes weren't as 'high', it also meant there wasn't much to the game as a whole; it was mostly done, Aoba was just there to watch the progress and help a little bit here and there. It was cute and neat but there wasn't really a huge amount of seriousness on the focus of Fairy's.

PECO starts at the concept art and we have 12 episodes of slowly making a game basically from scratch. Unlike season 1 we also aren't just looking at artists and then debugging; while the Motion stuff is light, we see the conceptualization of a game both from a visual and a mechanics standpoint, the drawing of key art and assets, the modeling of NPCs, the creation of mechanics and mini-games, etc. There is a larger cast because they're focusing on more of the game, and that means some characters may not always get spotlight and stuff.

I liked both seasons a lot.

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Both seasons are good, but I think season 2 was stronger in terms of finding aspects of almost every character that you can identify with, if maybe at the cost of being not as strong in the characters just goofing around together.

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
Haha I did say season 1 felt like it spent more time on the game yes. And I totally agree PECO sounded way interesting which I guess is maybe why I was kind of hoping to see them do more stuff in it there? I think maybe if Momo and Narucchi showed up an episode or two earlier it wouldn't feel like everything happening kinda paused halfway through? Like I said, I still liked the show just a bit less than the first season is all.

Good Listener fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Sep 30, 2017

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

iunno why you feel like things paused halfway through when literally all the character drama stuff happened after they were introduced

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
yea obviously opinions and all but I just can't see how the point when it went from 'let's make a game haha so cute Aoba has a weird idea' to actual character development and conflict moments and all was when things paused. Like as soon as the new girls show up it goes from fun slice of life stuff to fun slice of life stuff where characters actually have to face their flaws and grow and all.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
shirobako is really depressing

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Baloogan posted:

shirobako is really depressing

its actually very hopeful and loving towards the creative process it just also shows a lot of the difficulties of said creative process

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005

Baloogan posted:

shirobako is really depressing

And it still kind of pulls its punches. But it gets much less so as the series progresses.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
im on episode 6
everyone is lovely and sarcastic towards eachother
i hate tauru

Agronox
Feb 4, 2005
Ema is having a rough time, Aoi is stuck cleaning up other people's messes, their older coworker is treated like a joke, and yeah, Tarou is a jerkass.

Actually maybe it is pretty dark early on.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

I loved Shirobako a lot and didn't find it depressing at all when it hit. The characters get worn down to the bone and work really hard get really stressed out, but the show always seemed to stress that things would work out okay because basically everyone involved was basically a decent person who cared about the end product and cared about their coworkers.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
id just like to be clear im not criticizing shirobako, I'm watching it and liking it.

new game! wants you to love its setting, shirobako doesn't care if you love its setting

eagle jump doesn't have a storage room with a cage in it

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

you're allowed to hate tarou throughout

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

shirobako cares a lot if you love its setting tbh

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant


Shirobako: the gif

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

Spiritus Nox posted:

but the show always seemed to stress that things would work out okay because basically everyone involved was basically a decent person who cared about the end product and cared about their coworkers.

Except Funny Story. gently caress that guy.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

StandardVC10 posted:

Except Funny Story. gently caress that guy.

I said basically everyone

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
He is a great example of the difficulty you can encounter when people are lazy AND don't respect your work.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
also want to say season two shirobako is very good, just finished ep 13 (or whatever S01E13 is, i guess the first episode of season 2?)

Baloogan fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Oct 6, 2017

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Mentat Radnor
Apr 24, 2008

~Water flowers every day~

Baloogan posted:

also want to say season two shirobako is very good, just finished ep 13 (or whatever S01E13 is, i guess the first episode of season 2?)

Shirobako is one of those rare shows that is great the whole way through, except for the last 3 episodes which are even better.

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