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Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

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Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking
it's cool that they made the rest of the show so good even though they could have made it 13 straight episodes of reimi and akira teasing each other and it still might have ended up anime of the season.

https://i.imgur.com/aXmOv42.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/hVlkB4Z.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/SSshh61.mp4

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking
the silence in the opening flashback is just brutal. i think it's my favorite part of the entire episode even though it's like 5 seconds long

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

SatoshiMiwa posted:

That intro scene was akward as all heck and told me a lot about Yoka

Also lamo Duck boat on the River is an amazing comedic touch. Mizushima is in his element here

the duck boat squeaky paddling noises are so funny. also it's cool how both of those scenes you mentioned make use of awkward silence for very different purposes

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

symbolic posted:

ep 3 went exactly the way i anticipated it going based on the ending of last ep but that didn't make it any less harrowing

it owns that the biggest twist is actually how the peaceful short life cult leader is also a bitter, angry rear end in a top hat

https://i.imgur.com/wZmlg0O.mp4

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

Xelkelvos posted:

I didn't think of that interpretation. I assumed it was a mushroom growing on her butt just to poo poo on her a bit more on this ep. Just absolutely no respect for her.

poor akira.

my favorite gag this episode is when reimi blames akira for being a restless sleeper and we clearly saw reimi rolling around like 5 minutes earlier



Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking
between the episode 4 flashback, and the doctors explanation of the 7g incident and how perspective can shape the symptoms, i guess yoka is probably a bigger influence on what's happened to the world than i thought.

https://i.imgur.com/mytRNsN.mp4

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

Squidster posted:

This show is extremely loving charming.

you said it. it's so funny and every character is endearing. like this guy is awful but shizuka still feels a moment of empathy for him

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking
this post is dedicated to reimi doing everything at 110%

https://i.imgur.com/hJXDhDp.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/N7CjtKR.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/9yDY972.mp4

Big Leg fucked around with this message at 06:12 on May 3, 2024

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

SatoshiMiwa posted:

You could tell Mizushima wanted to do a King Kong scene at one point and whelp he picked Reimi to do it

she earned it

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

Southern Cassowary posted:

i believe they are headed to a jiu-jitsu fight with an anteater, which will be the greatest thing committed to film when it airs

i'm worried that this has already happened, but i guess it could be recorded through the power of Flashback

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

Talorat posted:

That was fully insane, I had no idea what was going on that whole episode.

definitely recommend pausing and reading the NeriAli databook entries so you can understand the lore behind the chubby guy telling porkies or the rugby player on a kayak who actually wants to play baseball.



Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

SatoshiMiwa posted:

I absolutely loved how the opening hit us with the gag of itchy stop only to follow up with the sheer terror of reliving your moment of regret which hit everyone (not only the dog) but Shizuru still won't admit her problems with Yoka outloud. Just an unnerving moment and whelp one that probably is gonna come to a head sooner thanks to the Queen of Ikebukoro

the cold open is so fricking good. introducing everyone's deepest trauma for like 10 total seconds and then overtly ignoring what we saw to spend the rest of the episode on a fictional anime lore dump is wild. i imagine you could draw some thematic conclusions about escapism and excessive fandom (not necessarily negative, as nadeko does make peace with her past through cosplay) but i'm too tired so i'm gonna post a funny gif instead.

Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

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Big Leg
May 22, 2020

a corpse is talking

Terry van Feleday posted:

it does connect to Nadeko's big emotional moment later on about how you can't get hung up on what happened in the past and need to look forward, making regret and how you deal with it the bookending theme of the episode.
it's noteworthy that NeriAli was something deeply special to Yoka, given how excitedly the usually taciturn girl launched into infodumping about it, and something she connected to Shizuru over. But here she is downright spitefully destroying it. Connect that with the theme of regret and you start to get a sense of the emotions involved. Is she trying to burn her bridges in a desperate attempt to move on, or is it just another kind of dwelling? This show has the most torque when it keeps a strong tie between the deranged adventure stuff and the inner conflicts driving the lead relationship, and I think this ep did a good job of that

yeah i probably should have said 'subsume' or something instead of 'ignore', since the opening definitely informs what happens the rest of the episode.

i like your points about yoka, since this stop does feel different (more self destructive?) than the ones we've seen so far. like every previous stop has been broken and horrifying, but they at least seemed to exist because yoka remembered shizuru's absurd bucket list and was trying to help her achieve those goals.

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