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It's Rei's birthday in Japan.
Let's give him an utsukushii birthday thread.
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Happy Birthdayfifthbest Free. Hopefully Kyoani will get a clue from this debacle and you'll be the focus in the sequel movie.
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>>134710081
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>>134710081
Lots of sushi.
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>>134710081
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGp01xC4LzU
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>>134710081
>>134710081
Also, trending topic. Let's see for how long.
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>>134710081
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>>134710081
>This is your day!
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>>134710081
Happy birthday. Thank god Rei wasn't part of the horrible flop movie and those shitty replacements can burn in hell.
Rei is the purest free.
Happy birthdayseventhbest Free. I hope you get a lot of nerdy books.
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>>134710081
>>134711587
>seventh
Even below Nitori and Momo? Wow.
What would you give to Rei for his birthday?
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>>134710081
Happy birthday to my husbando.
>>134711674
What are you talking about, Momo is great.
How popular is Rei in Japan? It seems like he wasn't very popular among us /a/nons.
I love how the PVs made him seem like the typical megane no-fun-allowed character, but then he ended up being silly, lovable, and husbando material.
>>134712146
Rei isn't very popular that's why Kyoani ditched him for new characters in the new movie but the new characters aren't very popular either and they caused the movie to flop.
>>134711816
Nagisa's severed head on a plate.
>>134712229
Oh, that's too bad. Rei was always my favorite.
>>134712261
You can't kill Rei's first friend Anon, that's not nice.
>tfw you share a birthday with best Free
>>134713294
Your birthday is on January 4?
I was very frustrated when Rei got sidlined for the guy with the shark teeth.
>>134713521
Rei got every more sideline the the movie. Four new characters replaced him and Nagisa.
Happy birthday, Rei!
>>134712146
>It seems like he wasn't very popular among us /a/nons.
He is popular here. Not the favorite, but anons seemed to enjoy his turbonerding goofiness.
Japan kind of hated that he was not the expected no-fun-allowed megane. But he has his followers.
>>134715314
The Makoto birthday thread turned into a Rei thread near the end.
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>>134715445
Makotofags seem to like Rei a lot, too. It's the innocent smiles and goofiness.
Alter figure never.
I want to break Rei.
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Will you watch the flop for Rei's scenes, Reifags?
>>134717977
>Reifags
Who?
>>134718246
There's at least one Reifag in here. He asked us to come for Rei's birthday.
>>134717977
Probably, although I'll do it partly for Makoto too.
>>134717977
Did the movie really flop? I hear it wasn't really good, but the earnings don't seem terribly bad.
>>134719052
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/?yr=2015&wk=49&p=.htm
Yep, it earn less than 100 million in it's opening weekend when it opened in over a hundred cinema screens.
>>134719147
Looking at that table, it looks good.
All movies had more than 100 screens (except Digimon and GuP) so 5th of 15 movies (the ones with weekend gross data) ain't that bad.
It did only $100k less than some movie that had 300 screens.
It's not the success a Free movie should have been, but I don't think anyone was expecting all fujos to pay for shota.
>>134719567
I hope you did not compare an anime movie to a normalfag movie.
http://www.kogyotsushin.com/archives/topics/t8/201304/22200933.php
Steins;Gate movie opened in just 18 theatres earned ¥86,822,800, while the HS opened in 120 theatres and took in only ¥95,550,000. It did badly.
>>134719567
>I don't think anyone was expecting all fujos to pay for shota.
If Kyoani did not expect fujos to pay for shotas then why did they run the movie in over a hundred screens? Why did advertise so much for something they didn't want many to see?
>>134719787
Because KyoAni fucked up. They should have made another OVA.
Would an Olympics movie do better? The 2020 games will be in Tokyo after all, maybe this summer they will release a sequel film and start to build hype. I know I would much rather have seen that movie, and Rei could actually be in it.
>>134720243
I was personally expecting KyoAni to keep the franchise going until 2020, to have a special movie/OVA or something.
But I guess we ded now.
>>134720243
>Olympics movie
No thank you unless Rei and everyone of the main cast will be joining the Olympics.
>>134720330
Doubt it. Only Haru and Rin went pro. Maybe Sosuke, if they decide to give him some magical resolution.
But the others could be the pretty cheerleaders.
>>134720379
Then don't waste everyone's time with a movie that shafts everyone but two characters again.
>>134720439
I'm not KyoAni, Anon.
Happy birthday, Rei, I hope it's truly beautiful. It was my birthday yesterday as well so I will celebrate by eating the leftovers from my birthday cake.
>>134720471
They deserve another flop if they do that again.
>>134720330
I doubt anyone but Rin and Haru would be swimming, but there are a lot of other things they can have going on to excuse getting the whole group together, especially if they actually just set it in Tokyo. Besides, we still don't know what's in their time capsule, and the main five would all need to be present for that at least.
>>134720533
>time capsule
They took about 10 years to open the last one, right? Will they open this one ten years later too?
>>134720812
Could be. Maybe they want us to see them at all ages, so that no matter what age the viewer is, they have a chance to fall in love with one of them. What would a more mature Rei look like?
Happy Birthday Reindeer, may you stay forever beautiful. I was watching the seiyuu event earlier and his is actually pretty cute, he looks so huggable.
>>134721258
>dilf Rei
>dilf Free!s
Made for sex.
>>134721965
>I was watching the seiyuu event earlier and his is actually pretty cute
Daisuke a cute.
Happy Birthday to Best Free!
