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 Lycoris Recoil is a girls-with-guns action anime about Takina Inoue (long dark hair on the left) and Chisato Nishikigi (center), two girls raised by the organization "Lycoris" to be secret anti-terrorist state assassins. But where serious Takina is driven by a strong sense of purpose (and maybe just a bit of bloodthirst), playful Chisato has a total aversion to killing that defies her nigh-supernatural talent at gunplay and prefers to goof around as a staffer of the Café they use as a front for their operations. It's a very well executed show on a technical level, with colourful, expressive character animation, great fight choreography, powerful fashion design, a delightful dynamic between its leads in part carried by Chika Anzai's fantastic vocal performance as Chisato, and a kind of hinky plot with an awkward grasp on the themes it touches on that I don't always feel great about. But of course, the real reason LycoReco is great is that it animated a whole legion of fanartists to draw cute pictures shipping the main duo, which is really what we're here for https://twitter.com/Farat_irasut/status/1550812983839817728 https://twitter.com/kanariabe/status/1548285708410191872 https://twitter.com/K_Kohjima/status/1550914173483520000 https://twitter.com/yurakubo/status/1551423426577203200
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 Show rules. Japan is Safe. Move along, citizen.
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Aug 14, 2022 08:35
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I was pretty hesitant to actually watch this show because I thought it was going to be like Gunslinger Girl or Noir or any number of other bad girls with guns anime, but the actual show does seem to have an inkling that yes the premise is both weird for anime reasons and weird for rational reasons, so my consternation was probably a lot of hot air Granted that's only my impression after watching the first episode, but still
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Aug 14, 2022 08:49
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Chisato is very wholesome and makes everyone around her into a better person.
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Aug 14, 2022 10:26
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OnimaruXLR posted:I was pretty hesitant to actually watch this show because I thought it was going to be like Gunslinger Girl or Noir or any number of other bad girls with guns anime, but the actual show does seem to have an inkling that yes the premise is both weird for anime reasons and weird for rational reasons, so my consternation was probably a lot of hot air As someone who use to own the first Gunslinger Girl dvd, and then promptly threw it out last year while moving house because I came to the realisation it's terrible (imo), I feel LycoRyco manages to walk the Cute Girls With Guns tightrope quite well (ep 7 so far) without falling into the same pitfalls that previous series do. It's not perfect, the villains plot-line is still underdeveloped, however the fact that it's given each character space to develop themselves so far has been a real big bonus for me. This, alongside Call of the Night, have been the top two surprises this season in a sea of mid-level originals and sequels. Recommend from me. Also...yea, even the production staff are full steam on the Chisato x Takina ship in the most wholesome way.
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Aug 14, 2022 14:51
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it's a really strong show episode to episode, just a ton of fun scenes and details
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Aug 14, 2022 14:51
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I've seen some very sweet yuri gifs from this anime that made me really want to watch it even though I couldn't care less about the premise. Don't hold a gun, hold each others hands!
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Aug 14, 2022 15:10
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Cephas posted:I've seen some very sweet yuri gifs from this anime that made me really want to watch it even though I couldn't care less about the premise. Don't hold a gun, hold each others hands! That's more or less what Chisato is trying to get Takina to do.
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Aug 14, 2022 15:48
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Thread title should be tactical Sweets Action Chisato and Takina had some big time outfits in the latest episode!
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Aug 14, 2022 16:12
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/rjs-licorice-recalled-after-using-lead-contaminated-sugar/EGCEB7U7KEJI4XMCCMG2SRNR3E/
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Aug 14, 2022 20:12
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Yo this anim owns
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Aug 14, 2022 20:50
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Aug 14, 2022 21:45
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Not empty quoting. There exists no human more terrifying at RPS than Chisato.
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Aug 17, 2022 00:57
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I'm really really struggling to start this show even though many people have told me it's good, because it's just such an aggressively anime-dumb concept. Why have adults do literally anything when you could have a high schooler do it?
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Aug 17, 2022 12:16
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Aug 17, 2022 12:58
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A jargogle posted:I'm really really struggling to start this show even though many people have told me it's good, because it's just such an aggressively anime-dumb concept. Why have adults do literally anything when you could have a high schooler do it? I mean, the show itself seems entirely aware that there's something screwy about a country where the law is enforced by an ancient cult of child soldiers.
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Aug 17, 2022 15:29
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Indoctrinated child soldiers as tools of the government, a concept that is exclusive to anime
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Aug 17, 2022 15:47
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denying children the ability to grow up and have a childhood so that they can more quickly become agents of state violence? anime nonsense
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Aug 18, 2022 01:49
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jokes aside, please watch this show. it owns
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Aug 18, 2022 05:21
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studio mujahideen posted:jokes aside, please watch this show. it owns this. it's my anime of the year unless the second half is entirely about the green haired joker guy.
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Aug 18, 2022 15:18
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Big Leg posted:this. it's my anime of the year unless the second half is entirely about the green haired joker guy. Why so serious?
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Aug 18, 2022 17:48
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Majima and Robota are clearly going to have a quirky romcom character arc to mirror Chisato and Takina.
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Aug 18, 2022 18:07
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i thinkt he second half is going to be entirely about the joker
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Aug 18, 2022 19:11
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Endorph posted:i thinkt he second half is going to be entirely about the joker life can be so cruel sometimes
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Aug 18, 2022 19:24
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studio mujahideen posted:jokes aside, please watch this show. it owns  Endorph posted:i thinkt he second half is going to be entirely about the joker When those two meet again the world might end.
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Aug 18, 2022 21:24
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This week we have a good ol fashion “Save the Cafe!” episode and absolutely nothing else happens! fuuucck that cliffhanger! what are they gonna do to Chisato, why was her heart GLOWING!!
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Aug 20, 2022 17:49
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Takina making a safety warning system for her girlfriend! Also related https://twitter.com/toumake/status/1561013368500080641
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Aug 20, 2022 18:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnun8y7r8_U
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Aug 20, 2022 19:23
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This week's episode was really fun and made me actually care about the story for a change. Majima and Chisato hanging out finally made me interested in the plot and the "villain", so I hope he and Chisato end up being friendly rivals if not buds that hang out and watch Die Hard. Like I said in the seasonal thread I wish there was any sort of explanation for all the random terrorism that requires an entire corps of high school fixers. I get there's a mysterious main plot, but even apart from that they make it seem like dealing with bombs and poo poo is just a part of daily life in Japan now. If it was just crime then yeah I'd buy it, but terrorism needs some kind of motivation or ideology and there hasn't been any of that to speak of. It doesn't even need to be a good one! But a flimsy reason would be better than nothing.
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Aug 20, 2022 20:25
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Alan Foundation sure feels like it's Shocker but with a better PR department
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Aug 20, 2022 23:42
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Coxswain Balls posted:This week's episode was really fun and made me actually care about the story for a change. Majima and Chisato hanging out finally made me interested in the plot and the "villain", so I hope he and Chisato end up being friendly rivals if not buds that hang out and watch Die Hard. Most of their actual day-to-day work seems to be cleaning up after the yakuza (see also, the restaurant bombing they were using hardball negotiating tactics on). It's not specified why the DA only works to lightly trim organised crime rather than eliminating it altogether, but there's quite a lot of potential reasons why they might see it as being outside their remit (especially since they're just not an especially moral organisation).
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Aug 21, 2022 10:45
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Darth Walrus posted:Most of their actual day-to-day work seems to be cleaning up after the yakuza (see also, the restaurant bombing they were using hardball negotiating tactics on). It's not specified why the DA only works to lightly trim organised crime rather than eliminating it altogether, but there's quite a lot of potential reasons why they might see it as being outside their remit (especially since they're just not an especially moral organisation). I got the feeling that was mostly the cafe crew's daily grind, which is fairly different from the standard lycoris jobs. Takina was surprised when she discovered that Chisato was on speaking terms with the local yakuza.
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Aug 21, 2022 11:01
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I got the feeling that was mostly the cafe crew's daily grind, which is fairly different from the standard lycoris jobs. Takina was surprised when she discovered that Chisato was on speaking terms with the local yakuza. Mind you, that could also just be part of LycoReco having a very different approach to the same problems. Not like the average Lycoris does much talking with their typical targets.
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Aug 21, 2022 11:07
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Yeah the entire point of the DA Lycoris program is "No one expects a schoolgirl to be an assassin, it's the ultimate urban camouflage!" which would be completely negated if they regularly interacted with the underworld. (It all went to poo poo pretty much immediately when Majima found out who the Lycorises were)
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All of the costume design is so good, I love that stretch in the op that shows them in a bunch of different regular fashions.
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Aug 21, 2022 18:58
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The show has some really good fashion and it really helps add to the characters
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This show owns, but I'm definitely glad I went in blind when it first popped up on Crunchyroll, I imagine if I knew the premise before going in I would be like a lot of other people turned off by the premise instead of just being blindsided by the assassination montage.
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