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- Comment on Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray - Episode 6 discussion 3 days ago:
This will be the last time we will see you March
- Comment on Umamusume: Cinderella Gray • Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray - Episode 6 discussion 3 days ago:
I didn’t plan to watch Uma Musume at the start of the season. I only heard it’s airing from r/anime discussion. Considering that it was made by Cygames and the several praises for the movie, I gave it a try. This is the biggest surprise for me this season. It was beautifully animated with a lot of hype moments, especially her rivalry with March. March was voiced by Ise Mariya, so I kept hearing Killua when she talks.
I cried a little watching this week’s episode. Kitahara decided to sacrifice his dream for Oguri after putting her in a pinch last episode. I was rooting for March to win (I love her, she is so cool) because I didn’t want Oguri to move out to nationals. I want her to still be with Kitahara and compete with March in Toukai. At last, Kitahara showed some resolution after seeing how conflicted Oguri was during the race. He finally decided to push Oguri to the nationals with his speech.
I will miss March, I don’t think we will see her again after Oguri transferred to the nationals.
To think that I would be this invested in racing horse girls playing a historical reenactment of real life horse race 😭
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
I’m not ready when Yachiyo will learn about humanity’s fate. They keep brewing just like this episode.
- Comment on Food for the Soul • Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi - Episode 4 discussion 1 week ago:
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We got another socially anxious girl to the roster. Watching her and Makocchi interact for the first time in the club room was rough. Thankfully, Tsutsuji is here to help!
ImageOr maybe not. Her attempt at a pun was a disaster, and her next idea, to do a little dance to help break the ice, was even more awkward.
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After being broke last week, Kurea was kind enough to help Shinon-chan get a part-time job at her place. She was pretty bad in the kitchen, but at least she was good at customer service.Image
At the end, Makocchi was able to get on Nana’s side with the help of her cooking!Image
Nana is quick to open up once you know her. Quite a contrast to her socially anxious persona in the start.I’m happy we got a lot of funny faces this week. I have compiled more reaction faces here. Because if I put it here, the comment will just be filled with screenshots 😅.
- Comment on Food for the Soul • Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi - Episode 3 discussion 2 weeks ago:
This week’s food didn’t look as appetizing as the last two weeks, so I won’t post it here. Instead, we had Shinon-chan being stupid and the group hiking Mt. Takao.
Shinon-chan at her knee, crying and begging everyone to help her. Everyone else looked unsurprised
Thanks to our hopeless, dumb girl Shinon-chan, the group started by helping her find her money. She “cleverly” hid her money behind a treasure hunt to make sure she wouldn’t be able to spend it. Though, of course, because this is Shinon-chan, she forgot to hide her 5000 yen in the first place, which was in her wallet all along. Never change Shinon-chan.Crying makocchi after being told not to spend her money to buy snacks with caption "Uh… how about eating as we go? Eating and walking?
The second half was spent on hiking Mt. Takao. There, they tried out the chairlift, eating dango, and eating out at the restaurant Mokotaro. Makocchi has also started to open out to the group and be more assertive about her foodie side.Image
Unfortunately, Shinon-chan, was swept by the enthusiasm, bought the walking stick, and had to be broke for the next two days.
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Yachiyo was really cute in this episode, from her little dance to her outbursts. As others have pointed out, there was some emotional gut punch brewing in the background, though it was a given for a left-out by humans kind of story. I hope Yachiyo (and me) could brace it
- Comment on Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Now, if you allow me to request yachiyo burst as the post thumbnail
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rikka@ani.social - Comment on Food for the Soul • Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi - Episode 2 discussion 3 weeks ago:
A hot still-on-pan Camembert curry pilaf steaming with cheese and half-boiled egg as the center piece
Our weekly food for the week is Camembert Curry Pilaf. Never had one, but the look seems tasty.Image
Shinon-chan’s plan to make the club a fake club failed as the clerk had the responsibility to check on a newly formed club. Fortunately for Makocchi, this was the push for her to suggest cooking as the club activity. She now has a place to try out new things.Image
Shinon-chan is a goof, no thought, head empty, but sincere in solving the problem. Thankfully, Shinon-chan’s power of socialising secured the cooking appliances, leaving the cooking job to Kurea and Makocchi, while Tsutsuji got the job as the OST.I can’t wait to see what the next food will be, now that the club has settled.
- Comment on Anne Shirley - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Just found out the OP and ED were directed by Naoko Yamada, maybe I should give this one a watch
- Comment on Food for the Soul • Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi - Episode 1 discussion 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad, I hope it can pull more people to watch it
~shinon-chan best girl candidate~
- Comment on Food for the Soul • Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi - Episode 1 discussion 4 weeks ago:
Watching this at night was a mistake, that Sauced Katsudon looked really tasty, now I’m craving it A brimming hot serving of Katsudon cut into dice-shaped pieces with brown sauce on top and a topping of half-boiled egg
I’m really tempted to use this as the post screenshot (and maybe also for future episodes if the format is a weekly food focus)The art style is really nice, loving the water-painted look for the background art. The characters also really expressive, especially ~~oshinko-~~Shinon-chan attempts at “bribing” the admin. Shinon-chan repeating her welcome with a louder voice and raising two hands because the first one got no response is really funny.
ImageThis is definitely a low tension CGDCT, although they hint at some development for Makocchi. She tried to be more open to new things, and hoping the club will help on that if not for Shinon-chan quickly shooting down the idea since it was all just a farce.
- Comment on Witch Watch - Episode 1 discussion 5 weeks ago:
This was a great premiere. The animation was great, and the joke was stupid as the manga. Can’t wait to see all the shenanigans Nico will bring with her magic. The visual on the OP is amazing, it was filled with many references for future events with a really smooth and fast-paced animation. I don’t really vibe with the song, might need to listen to it a couple of times to vibe with it. The soundtrack during the anime was pretty rough, felt a little too generic. Overall, a great start for the anime.
- Comment on Aside from music anime, which ones do you consider to have a unique soundtrack? 5 weeks ago:
Any anime with Kensuke Ushio as the composer, most notably Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird with prepared piano. He also composed the soundtrack for Dandadan and Devil May Cry
- Comment on 7 Anime That Break the Fourth Wall 5 weeks ago:
Fourth wall breaking and no mention of 100 gf? Not only they are self aware, they diss the author (nakamura-sensei) a lot and praised the artist (nozawa-sensei). In the adaptation the animator also didn’t get spared
- Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14] 1 month ago:
Finally finished my Winter 2025 list
- Bang Dream! Ave Mujica: My biggest surprise this season. It was a bold move to incorporate psychological horror into a girl band anime, and they have done a great job. They do a great job with the composition, timing, and soundtrack to keep us on the edge each time the band clashes. You wouldn’t know where they will take you each episode. They were brave enough to write a broken band descent into madness and believe they could still garner fans for the real-life counterpart. There were some issues with the pacing, otherwise, it would easily have been a 9/10 for me. I won’t stop glazing it. 8/10
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2: They did a great job translating the joke to anime form, same with season 1. The overall animation is rather inconsistent, though, for some scenes they did an amazing job animating it (karaoke eps), others have awkward layouts and inconsistent form. They did a great job making sure the impactful moment still got a great animation. 7/10
- Blue Box: I don’t have much to say. Mostly only follow it because I read the manga. Same with 100 gf, it has the same issues with its animation. The last 3 episodes were amazing 7/10
- Comment on Director of Japan's First AI Anime Defends New Spring 2025 Work: 'It Will Give More Opportunities to Animators' 1 month ago:
No, Ave Mujica was great. You can criticize its direction, but please don’t call it AI works because there are real people involved behind it, who took a lot of care in composing, screen write, and animate it. They did a great job experimenting the format, incorparating horror element on a band girl anime. Especially, when there are worse anime out there made by people who know nothing about animation, e.g. Ex-arm.
The animation in half the scenes is like 12 FPS (because they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a full render)
That’s like the standard fps for an anime. Anime was animated in what they called on-2 (a picture holds for 2 frame in 24 fps), so any other anime also animated in 12 fps. They left it as stylistic choice, and I didn’t find the lower frame making the anime feels stiff or awkward
The characters lips move like goldfish eating flakes whenever they speak/sing.
That’s also the standard in anime, they only have mouth animated with 2-3 frame open and closing. Ave Mujica did a great job at making it emotive despite that limitations
They appear to have used stock mocap for the characters playing instruments and couldn’t be bothered to match up their movements to the music.
They actually took their VA performance’s motion capture with actual experience playing their instrument. Like any Bang Dream anime, Ave Mujica has a real band counterpart and you can see their live band performance on bandori channel. I think they did a great job to emote the performance and still keep it in sync.
So, no, it was not that bad
- Comment on Bang Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! / Band Dream! Ave Mujica Sequel in Production! PV 1 month ago:
So excited for this one. Our journey with these girls isn’t done yet!
I highly recommend everyone to watch both Bang Dream! It’s MyGO!!! and Bang Dream! Ave Mujica, This is the right time to catch up before the sequel airs. It’s MyGO!!! was a soft reboot from the original series, so watching the main series is not needed. You can start right from It’s MyGO!!! then Ave Mujica.
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- Comment on Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast - • BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 13 discussion 1 month ago:
Thank you, Ave Mujica, for filling my Thursday each week with a mind-breaking psychological trauma for the past 3 months.
I have never experienced the same excitement and on edge each week the same way Ave Mujica has given me. I also love reading the community reaction. Watching the community breaking down was part of the experience of Ave Mujica. Fans who come after will miss half of the fun.
Thank you for closing it with an amazing performance-heavy episode. MyGO with their poem in the interim and Ave Mujica with their stage play. What a way to end the series. (Umiri still brings her trustworthiness to the stage 😭)
Nevermind, they announced a sequel for AveMyGO!!! Trauma is back on the menu!
- Comment on "Journey Home After School" Anime Adaptation Announced with Illustration 1 month ago:
NO WAY!!! This is getting an anime??? My favorite romance manga is getting an anime! I love their chemistry and how much the manga could show the love between these two without using a single word
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #09 - Winter 2025 (Anime Corner) 2 months ago:
What happened in Amagami that made it sore that high?
- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 10 discussion 2 months ago:
My reaction to the episode has mellowed a bit after watching others’ reactions and re-watching it several times. My only gripe for the episode was how last week’s emotional build-up was thrown away in the first 5 minutes. I was expecting a more climactic reunion, where everyone throws their problem at each other.
Sakiko’s moving on from Mutsumi’s desire also felt a little too quick, though probably after Mutsumi’s break down last week, her resolves had faltered. On top of that, Nyamu also demanded Sakiko to take responsibility for asking to give their remaining life. Sakiko finally gave up and decided to revive Ave Mujica for the girls’ sake.
This episode is a kind of juxtaposition from MyGO ep. 10. In MyGO’s reunion, every member was dragged one by one after each live performance, building up to an emotional climatic live performance where everyone looked at each other and cried. In Ave Mujica’s, on the other hand, Sakiko was the only member who needed to be dragged by everyone until she finally gave in. We got an unsatisfying reunion, where they were only there for their selfish ideal. Noone was looking at each other.
We got two banger songs out of it though, Uika’s twisted love song to Sakiko and the revival of Ave Mujica
- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 9 discussion 2 months ago:
I don’t know what to say
I lied
There’s a lot to unpack in this episode. There’s one singular theme, though: everyone is on the verge of breaking down because of their exes.
Starting with Uika, who has been on the back burner for the last couple of episodes. Thanks to Soyo posting on CRYCHIC’s account, Uika pried into CRYCHIC through Anon. She didn’t seem too happy learning that CRYCHIC is going back together. On top of that, she learnt Ave Mujica was formed as a rebound from CRYCHIC. Her fantasy of being together with Sakiko had now been shattered. She’d do anything to form Ave Mujica back together. She even thought of throwing Mutsumi in anger.
ImageSakiko is still filled with guilt of breaking Mutsumi after forming Ave Mujica. She was determined to fulfill her wish to bring back CRYCHIC together, even after having her resolve in episode 7. She wasn’t really keen on getting back together either, but her guilt is what fueled her to grant Mutsumi’s wish of getting CRYCHIC.
ImageCRYCHIC being back together meant death for Mortis. Kinda ironic that her character role was one who not fear death, and she was determined to bring Ave Mujica back to prevent her from dying. Because Ave Mujica was disbanded because of her inability to play a guitar, she had been honing her guitar skills, thanks to Umiri. While Mutsumi is still unhealthily attached to CRYCHIC, because the Mutsumi-chan we knew only exists for the sake of CRYCHIC. In the end, Mortis accidentally “killed” Mutsumi and now pretending to be Mutsumi in order to bring Ave Mujica back.
ImageUmiri’s case was a little unique, she shouldn’t have that much attachment with Ave Mujica. When Ave Mujica disbanded, she was shown to be unaffected. Her resolve was only started after watching CRYCHIC performing together. Either because of jealousy since she couldn’t connect with her other band unlike them or Taki’s comment or it was her impulsive behavior that we explore last episode (her buying beauty product and her only drinking protein shakes as sustenance). She is seen as someone untrustworthy by Taki and Nyamu. To gain back that trust, she even had to quit her 50 other bands. Funny that Umiri only started acting up after Taki commented on her both being emotionally distant from Ave Mujica and untrustworthy (I’m definitely not biased with my UmiTaki goggles).
ImageUmiri also parallels Soyo from last season. Both are bass player trying to bring back their former band member after listening to Haruhikage on episode 7.
Nyamu, on the other hand, didn’t crash that badly. She was still haunted by Mutsumi’s acting and had a hard time auditioning. Umiri also kept bothering her to join Ave Mujica despite her having no interest. Same with Umiri, she didn’t have much attachment to Ave Mujica, so she has no reason to join back. Thanks to that, she is the only sane person to stop Ave Mujica and criticize how stupid they looked.
ImageGotta give it to the OST in this episode. They enhance an already stressful scene with an anxiety-inducing OST like a ticking time bomb. This was the most intense episode of Ave Mujica yet, and we will probably see the climax next episode! (same with It’s MyGO!!!)
Yes, Raana, they are a bunch of interesting girls.
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- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 9 discussion 2 months ago:
Bro, WTF?! I don’t know what to say, this episode is just crazy
- Comment on "Touring After the Apocalypse" Anime Adaptation Announced with Teaser Visual, PV 2 months ago:
The title is a clever pun on 週末 (weekend) both pronunced shuumatsu
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 09] 2 months ago:
Ave Mujica kept giving surprise each episode as someone who avoided watching bang dream franchise. I only discovered it because I have nothing to watch this season beside 100 GF and it was on Muse. Decide to give it a chance and instantly hooked from the first episode, knowing it’s a sequel to it’s MyGO!!! I binged watched it instantly. Both give a different take on traditional band girl anime formula.
it’s MyGO!!! is a group of individuals still haunted by their past trying to make a new band with each member only have their individual interest in mind. It was filled with interpersonal drama and a satisfying climax.
While Ave Mujica was a take on psychological thriller on band girl, because they were formed out of egoistic leader. There were no coherence between the group member as they only have their individual interest in the group. I still have no Idea what’s the end goal of the series. I need more people to watch it!!!
- Comment on The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2 • Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion 2 months ago:
Ughhh!!! Shizuka’s karaoke segment is too cute, I didn’t need Kusuri’s drug to be yamchad to the wall
- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 8 discussion 2 months ago:
After a rather happy and hopeful last episode, we returned to the usual Ave Mujica, dysfunctional girls getting worse each episode! Finally, Umiri got the long-overdue characterization she needed.
When everyone already moving on from CRYCHIC in the last episode, it looks like Mutsumi didn’t get the memo that CRYCHIC no longer exists. That’s why we didn’t get her inner monologue during Haruhikage. Unlike everyone else, she still clings to the old CRYCHIC days. Here I thought they’d have their closure 😞
ImageWe also weren’t done with Mutsumi it seems. Mutsumi-chan was only one of the many entities(?) of her DID and by disbanding Ave Mujica Mortis is on the chopping block. So Mortis desperately needs Ave Mujica to be back together.
ImageMori Minami did not beat the allegation, she is even worse then what I imagined. She wasn’t only neglecting her DID issue, she saw her as a competition. She even saw her as a monster, yuck. No wonder, only Mutsumi’s caretaker was seen during couple of last episodes. The worst anime parent in the season.
ImageI love Umiri’s gap moe shown throughout the episode. During the season she was always depicted as stoic and distant from everyone else, keeping herself out of any drama. It was because of trauma she had we her first band, left alone by everyone during audition is suck, that betrayal.
ImageIt seems Umiri is brewing something with Mortis! Can’t wait what we’ll happen next episode! Image
- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 7 discussion 2 months ago:
We got a rather happy episode this week, ex-CRYCHIC members get to play again together and find closure. Thank you Soyo for being such a great girl for last two episode by being there for Mortis and dragging Sakiko to meet Mortis/Mutsumi.
ImageSoyo is so cute bring cucumbers as a gift, probably the same cucumbers Mutsumi grew at school. We know it withered at the start of the season but now it can produce some cucumber thanks to Soyo, though she isn’t as good as Mutsumi in growing one. A reversal from it’s MyGO!!! where Soyo reject Mutsumi’s cucumber.
ImageAre we finally at the turning point? Is Ave Mujica going to get back and finally get a happy ending? Umiri, our stoic queen, seems trying to, though we don’t know about Nyamu or Uika. Nyamu is too much of an outsider to want to get back unless it has merit for her, and Uika probably still delusional.
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- Comment on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica - Episode 6 discussion 2 months ago:
This episode focus more on Sakiko and Mutsumi/Mortis side, with Umiri and Nyamu only got some screen while Uika is nowhere to be seen (I truly fear what she’ll bring, clearly she is not okay)
Raana, the stray cat of MyGO, is able to befriend Mortis by just a single night. Compared to Soyo who had been with her 3 days and nights by her side in her house. We got character development for Soyo, from an egoistic manipulator to a blunt caring friend who clearly cares for Mutsumi/Mortis circumstances.
ImageSakiko finally adopting her Oblivionis (Forget) persona by forgetting about CRYCHIC, Ave Mujica, and even Mutsumi, pretending like everything hadn’t happened. Now I wonder how the other Nyamu with Amoris (love), Umiri with Timoris (fear), and Uika with Doloris (grief)
ImageWe got a little glimpse of Umiri’s side of the story. Umiri only started to care after Taki was upset that Umiri didn’t care about her band, especially Mutsumi/Mortis. Unfortunately, this is the only UmiTaki moment we got, no lovely dovely couple 😔 Image
I love Sakiko, but I fully support Soyo to gobsmack Sakiko after saying that! Please save us Soyo!
