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Great episode. We see Gyro’s past and that his family is a family of executioners. Executing an uninvolved nine year old in a treason case is effed up, and Gyro winning the Steel Ball Run is the only way for the boy’s life to be spared.

Regarding the ED:

Lastly, the alt-universe Stroheim appears and tries to kill Gyro with superior German Science! However, he’s no match to Gyro and his, uhm… balls of steel. To top it off, he did it in absolutely cinematic fashion.

But you asked after my balls so gentlemanly. Yeah, why not? Seize the day

- Gyro, in a suggestive tone and pose

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@rikka@ani.social

Pretty good episode. Kurumi being the straight girl to Mebuki’s airheadedness (or is it?) is fun to watch. Mochiko is thoroughly quite the snake oil salesman, I would want to stay away from the likes of her IRL if I want to keep my money.

The jig is up when she stole her family savings and had a Light-esque expression trying to justify to her dad.

What’s Arima Kana doing in the banner? 😱

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@rikka@ani.social

Mfw I want to produce [LibreOffice] Calc Saga

I was also enjoying the conceit of nobody knowing what Stands are, then f*cking Cowboy Tim has to say it.

That’s in the manga. The first chapters tried to frame SBR as completely separate from JoJo.

Fullmetal Alchemist

The Apothecary Diaries

Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Jujutsu Kaisen

Vinland Saga

Dandadan

One Piece

Mob Psycho

Bocchi the Rock

Spy x Family

Made in Abyss

“Hahaha! Did you get the false imperial brother? Shame on you! Hahaha!”

my anime tastes probably wouldn’t have moved beyond sexy elves into genuine quality with things like Your Lie In April and Anohana

*Frieren not impressed*

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Thread in MAL about the downtime

Do you mean that… “The Ramparts of Ice” and “You And I Are Polar Opposites” are Polar Opposites?

As good as it is, I don’t see how Bocchi the Rock is a blueprint for girls band anime tbh.

The closest that would fill Bocchi’s position here IMO is BanG! Dream. However, five years passed between the first season of Bandori and Bocchi. Only a year passed between Bocchi and MyGO!!!!!, Girls Band Cry, Jellyfish Can’t Swim and the Night, and more girls band anime released after those three.

Toradora

I was not watching anime at the time they aired, but I remember it was that, Haruhi, and Kimi ni Todoke together

I might be partially wrong about the battle shounen. I could argue more strongly that FMAB (and DBZ Kai) set the tone for future manga-faithful remakes (Fruits Basket 2019, Rurouni Kenshin 2023, Ranma and Urusei remakes, etc.)

I forgot about how SAO became the blueprint for modern isekai 😂

It may be there immediately after the Funimation merger

I agree with you on all fronts (including the action/last episodes of VE being its weakest). At the same time, it seems to be a more niche opinion. The most mainstream-popular anime do have constant action: JJK, Demon Slayer, etc.

No way that Araki went that hard on a villain of the week. Oyecomova is a Neapolitan terrorist (which btw means Italy is still divided in 1891) who seeks to hunt and kill Gyro.

He has golden ratio curls and his ability is a pain in the butt to counter. How Gyro and Johnny overcame him is very creative. The clocks appear to be a Salvador Dali reference and when the steel balls finally hit his face, it turned to a Picasso portrait.

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@rikka@ani.social

Oh, I thought it happens on episode X + 2. I’ll request again.

I thought I have commented here. Apparently, not. This desert is not any ordinary desert. Mountain Tim got his stand here. In a moment of desperation and self-preservation, Johnny manifested his stand, too. Now, the BooomBoom family is no more.

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@rikka@ani.social

Imagine shorting on the dip, lol.

I think the pacing should be quicker. Taking three or four episodes to introduce the cast and bring them together is limiting the time to tell a whole season of anime. In this case, the script and writing has become one-dimensional. It might be better off combining all of this into a movie-length first episode, like how Oshi no Ko did it. I’ll continue watching because it’s been a while since I watched cringing in secondhand embarrassment.

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@rikka@ani.social

I haven’t watched this yet; based on the context clues I can find, it’s news to me that sexual thoughts are attached with the word “maiden”. My gut reaction is to say that, perhaps, one should consider putting their head out of the gutter.

Anyways, it’s a good point that you recognize, again, based on context clues, that thinking sexually of children is bad.

It’s mainly exposition on how over-leveraging is basically gambling. Like Watamote, I’m mainly cringing on the second-hand embarrassment on what Kurumi is getting herself into. I am uncertain which direction future episodes would bring the show to. I guess it’s not unlike actual stock, crypto, or FX trading lol.

Banner: Mochiko’s menacing aura

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@rikka@ani.social

The earlier comments aren’t kidding. What the actual psychological horror in my CGDCT anime?

It resonated to the point that it hurts too at a personal level. Seeing Kurumi’s mom dead inside before, her, well… and now Kurumi thought she knew better and ended up falling to the same trap.

Welcome to wallstreetbets the anime.

Peak fiction.

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@rikka@ani.social

That’s a shame. I’ve only seen one of the CMs where Iguchi Yuka made 20 dialectical dubs. She seemed to have worked really hard to do her best here.

I’m getting glimpses on why the manga is highly acclaimed. This is still largely at a stage where Araki is trying to not to show Stands. In fact, this is the first episode where Stands are explicitly hinted at. The abilities are utterly unique. The Boomboom family feels like episodic villains but they’re well written and it’s easy for the viewer to hate them.

Mountain Tim’s ability would be familiar to Part 5 watchers, and he’s showing his badassery when he tried to apprehend “Johnny”. They have no idea that they’re being set up to go… boom.

Just realized what Gyro’s belt buckle exactly means, lol.

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@rikka@ani.social

We have Kokoro and Arale interaction! This is not a drill!

It’s been a journey. Indeed, we all are GANSO! BanG Dream Chan!

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@rikka@ani.social

True. Gotta be realistic, no?