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Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013


Grand Blue (or Grand Blue Dreaming) is a sports* drama* romance* comedy manga about a diving shop called Grand Blue and the colorful people that inhabit it. The anime started on the 13th of July, so it's the right time for a thread!

Tell me more!
Kitahara Iori is moving in with his uncle and his two girl cousins at a lovely seaside town, and he's starting his first year of college... but suddenly, he's roped in by a bunch of strange men into joining the diving club "Peek-A-Boo"! There's just one problem, Iori can't swim, so he doesn't see himself as a diver. His life is quickly spiraling into endless shenanigans!



This looks horribly generic!
Well gently caress you, this ain't YOUR MAMA'S sports* drama* romance* comedy manga anime! If you like drinking, partying, comedic reversals of fortune, betrayal, girls in swimsuits, and drinking then Grand Blue has you covered!

Oh.

And it has some great reaction faces.



:siren: Grand Blue airs on Fridays! :siren:

*: The series may feature slight elements of these genres from time to time. Nevertheless, this is a diving anime.

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gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
someone's gonna emulate the drinking on this show and kill themselves eventually. it's a small price to pay for grand blue's existence.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


https://i.imgur.com/QJOf8Rj.gifv

Phimose Knight posted:

And it has some great reaction faces.















i gotta stop otherwise i'll be going all day

where the red fern gropes fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Jul 19, 2018

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum
i watched like 10 different college comedies about levels of drinking you should never emulate, while in college, surrounded by hard liquor, but i lived

this is like that but one of the chars is a perverted otaku. nice

DisDisDis
Dec 22, 2013

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


really looking forward to the My Room chapter next episode, they better not gently caress up the reaction

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
So hey, the first episode was funny and I liked Baka to Test, but how much weird cousin bullshit is in this? Because skimming the wikia, uh, it sounds like more than a little bit.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


Mordja posted:

So hey, the first episode was funny and I liked Baka to Test, but how much weird cousin bullshit is in this? Because skimming the wikia, uh, it sounds like more than a little bit.

it's not that kind of series

Meme Emulator
Oct 4, 2000

Mordja posted:

So hey, the first episode was funny and I liked Baka to Test, but how much weird cousin bullshit is in this? Because skimming the wikia, uh, it sounds like more than a little bit.

None at all really. Incredibly mild spoils: Chisa is clearly being set up as the main romantic interest but as of being current with the comic nothings really happened yet. The romantic subplots are very mild and dont advance often, theyre generally limited to "Hey, I like that guy" and setting up some Threes Company poo poo. Its mostly a series about hanging out with your buddies in college

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

the cousin is definitely the romantic interest sorry everyone but its also not the kind of series where it comes up much

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


whenever iori does anything humanising, he immediately fucks it up and she goes back to hating him

next ep will sort of establish that a bit more

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

Cakey will triumph

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

They did the non-blood related thing so Cakey is defnitely doomed forever

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

chisa is a false idol

Paracelsus
Apr 6, 2009

bless this post ~kya

Rodyle posted:

Cakey will triumph


Rodyle posted:

chisa is a false idol

True goddesses pad their chests, after all.

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Official dakis are equal opportunity

:nws:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiiQ813UEAEXsWX.jpg:orig

Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013
Episode 2 is out and it's a good one but really, in the end, it just made me very impatient for episode 3.

I forgot how empty the shop feels without the full ensemble too

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


Fallen Rib
big fan of the music that plays when kohei's on screen in the first episode

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


the manga has much better comedic timing and detail on the reaction faces

i'm really looking forward to seeing cakey in color though

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

kohei's a loving criminal

wolfs
Jul 17, 2001

posted by squid gang

Futaba Anzu posted:

kohei's a loving criminal

they're all criminals

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


cakey was not as powerful as i had hoped, but i still got some stuff

https://i.imgur.com/qGNJAla.gifv

and from last week:

https://i.imgur.com/5yKM899.gifv


e: poo poo that first one is way bigger than the preview on the export showed

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
I'm glad Iori finally got to dunk on someone instead of getting dunked on. While also dunking on himself.

Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013
Aina's VA is a little lacking compared to everyone else, but I'll take it

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
Show is good. Animation isn't perfect, but its getting most of the comedic beats well enough and that's what matters. This latest episode has been the best so far, I think. Hope next week's surpasses it.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


new manga chapter (47) is out and there's some great poo poo



Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013
I. Am. Nii-sama.

Rody One Half
Feb 18, 2011

link

Nipponophile
Apr 8, 2009

I'm clicking on your link, but nothing's happening.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
In this week's episode, the two stooges become four.

I love the absolute lack of loyalty between everyone in this series.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


this episode got adapted pretty well

i hope "nice buddy" is translated properly

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Shinjobi posted:

In this week's episode, the two stooges become four.

I love the absolute lack of loyalty between everyone in this series.

one thing the author excels at in all his series is portraying the friendship between young men

i.e just constantly ruining your friends' lives

Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013
It was the best episode yet... but I don't know why they cut out the "perfect girl for him" joke

Phimose Knight fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 11, 2018

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

this got some legit belly laughs from me, it's so drat good

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

Cakey thought she was getting into something normal, I don't even feel bad about her

Phimose Knight
Mar 5, 2013
Iori and Kohei playing some high-stakes gambling by suggesting the senpai need to join the Pocky Game too

you don't chuck firewood into a burning building if you wanna put it out

Xad
Jul 2, 2009

"Either Sonic is God, or could kill God, and I do not care if there is a difference!"

College Slice

Phimose Knight posted:

Iori and Kohei playing some high-stakes gambling by suggesting the senpai need to join the Pocky Game too

you don't chuck firewood into a burning building if you wanna put it out

they are not clever boys

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

Iori could have made some real gains on his relationship with Chisa but lol

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


stuff is a lot better with aina around


next week: tennis match, and iori getting his poo poo kicked in

week after: THE BAR :supaburn:

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Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Carlosologist posted:

Iori could have made some real gains on his relationship with Chisa but lol

Xad posted:

they are not clever boys
College freshmen and naturally judgment-impaired. :mmmhmm:

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