They're still making this? Talk about trying to squeeze water from a stone. The original anime ended with finality (and lined up with the plot of the Manga) but they were like "oh no, we can't let this cash cow die" and now we have a FOURTH extra season.
Mercuri
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Oh boy, what a fantastic episode. Loved the pacing and the excitement.
First, Ren tells Kyoko about her crush on Kanata
Then Mami gets sad that Kanata never messaged her (because he lost her socials)
And finally completing the love triangle, Nozomi gives Kanata a shrine charm.
Oh, and racing qualifiers happen too. I love how they just briefly touched on the other racers and then show us what we really want to see: the reborn Turbo 86.
Oh, I love 86, but it is very emotionally intense. You're in for one wild ride. But don't worry, it's not all downers. Hedgehog dilemma is definitely an appropriate metaphor.
I mean... only in the same sense that Beastars is all about furry porn.
Popular girl ends up liking nerdy guy but is terrible at expressing her feelings so she ends up bullying him, but it's not like he gets off on the mistreatment or anything. Still, not surprising that it draws in that sort of crowd.
I'm getting Hi-Score Girl vibes. Definitely going to watch this.
Okay, I really liked this episode. Noel plotting and basically being a villain is great. And the dichotomy between Blue Beyond and the Winged Knights is fun to watch.
One minor gripe is that Wilheim from Re:Zero basically pulled the test out of his butt. Even if he's gunning for Noel to be the commander, setting it up as a competition between two B-ranks seems far-fetched. Then again it's just for clan admittance and Noel might be pulling strings behind the scenes.
Another gripe is the Puppeteer guy. We're introduced to him at the start of the episode and then never see him again. Feels like they forced his scene in there because they didn't know where to put it. I'm sure he'll become relevant later but by the end of the episode I had all but forgotten about him.
Episode 9 was a ton of fun, but this one…wasn’t. It had its moments, but it weirdly felt like a bad imitation of episode 9.
Full agree. This episode didn't really bring too much to the table. We got a brief rundown of what happened with Will Seeker and then a whole lot of nothing. Not even very many cool villainess moments. And seriously, ANOTHER rumor of name calling and ANOTHER brainwashing reveal? Felt like a filler episode.
Like, this is Grade A creeper stuff Alicia!
And Creepy Prince does creepy things, surprising no one.
Are you wearing LAST year's Sonic bag? Gross! Only the latest corpo merch is acceptable.
Oh yeah, nothing against him working at the gas station. He wasn't really even a racer in Initial D. But we see all these other Initial D characters doing different things and there he still working the same job he had in high school. I wouldnt be surprised to find out it's the same station. Anyway he's got a wife and kids now so he's definitely happy there and making ends meet no problem.
I remember reading the show description and it was something like "Generations after the defeat of the demon lord, an elven mage takes an apprentice," so I thought it was going to be a lighthearted relaxing little story.
NOPE!
The cinematography and art direction continues to impress me. Changes in field of view, angles, colors... just everything comes together so well. It makes even the silly dialog scenes stand out.
I also REALLY love this callback to the original Acrobatic Silky:
As for the joke at the end, we all saw it coming and yet they still made it funny with the fisheye field of view, wacky animation, and cartoony art style
Dandadan makes even the predictable impressive.
A relatively silly episode with no insight into Akitsuakane, but still good.
Bilac makes some AWESOME gauntlets for Sunraku with the crystal scorpion parts.
How dare Sunraku blow off my girl Bilac like that though! Seriously, Bilac is like my favorite character. And you KNOW something silly is going to happen because Sunraku didn't bother to RTFM with his gauntlets.
A huge part of the episode is a joke about who Sunraku is going to ask for help getting to Fiftica. We all knew it was going to be Rei/Psyger-0 but they tried to do the silly misdirect anyway.
The last bit of the episode is basically just a rundown of all the new skills Sunraku has as he fights the area boss.
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One curious thing is that Sunraku's level is "99 EXTEND" IIRC, 99 is the level cap and I don't believe anyone else had "Extend" in their level. This is definitely setting up for some way for Sunraku to surpass the level cap so I'm interested in seeing how that plays out.