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WHAT
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>>135271412
You lookin' at me?
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>>135271412
Is it not obvious?
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>>135271412
FFF
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W-WHAT
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>>135271412
Kumiko is .P E R F E C T I O N.
P
E
R
F
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C
T
I
O
N
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>>135271610
WHAAAAAT
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>>135271610
>I love Taki-sensei
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Reminder that they're not really lesbians.
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>>135271726
I tell myself that every morning I wake up.
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>>135271470
You are irrelevant.
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Why is KyoAni so lewd?
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>>135271816
>winner
>irrelevant
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WHY DIDN'T I SELF INSERT AS KUMIKO

FUCK
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Friendship is nice
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>>135271412
AOTY
O T
T O
YTOA
No but really this is easily AOTY.
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>>135271877
Wait, since when does fist bump mean they want to fuck?
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>>135271961
read the novels champ, they fuck
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>>135271898

Kumiko looks pretty comfy here.
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>>135271961
remember that depravity is maximum here
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>>135271961
Fist bumping is hand holding for public spaces.

You wouldn't hold someone's hand in public would you? That would be disgusting.
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>>135272040
Have you? Are you sure you're not just regurgitating what some anon who can barely understand nip and just looked at the back of the book said?

>>135271908
This desu.
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Were the novels this gay or it was just a Kyoani thing?
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This was honestly the most shocking sequence I've seen out if all the shows this year. Holy shit.
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>>135271877
>no even handholding

Try harder.
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>>135272476
It's a money-making thing.

Otaku are degenerates.
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Who wouldn't fall for her?
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>>135271412
Yet there are people on the board right now who don't accept that Kumiko is a lesbian.
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This was a terrible week for Hibike threads. Nothing to do with the episode, which was really good. But Hibike threads were unsalvageable after this.
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>>135272523
As are anons in general.
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Kumiko and Reina are some of the most erotic characters I've seen in awhile
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>>135272503

I will never forgive them for baiting this hard.
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>>135271884
>He didn't self insert as Kumiko
You messed up, bud. You should've caught on as soon as Normal McPlainJane started obsessing over the raven-haired bombshell.
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>>135272814
It's your own fault for getting reeled in Anon.
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Why is she so irrelevant?
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>>135272930

I know, I know, but christ almighty they should have toned that mountain scene down if they planned on a faithful adaptation.
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>>135272638
Honestly threads were bad from the 2nd PV. First came the Keion memes and comparisons then came band blogging and general faggotry and then we got into endless yuri vs het shitposting with some ribbons hate sprinkled in. Hibike had one of the worse threads this entire year.
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>>135273134
> Hibike had one of the worse threads this entire year.
Are you kidding me?

They were the time of my life
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>>135273204
Oh trust me I loved every single second of shitposting especially on the Mountain episode with those 4 simultaneous 500+ threads but compared to comfy threads like Wakaba Girl and Working they fucking sucked.
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It's her description of that bait hook that lead to yuribait.
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>>135273134
>band blogging
I kinda liked that. It's because Hibike was surprisingly faithful to the feel of actually being in a high school band. It was super-nostalgic.

I guess you could say the /u/ discussion was unavoidable, too, but the difference was that the /u/ vs anti-/u/ shitflinging was so awful. People could leave the lazy K-ON! trolling and the bandblogging alone, but they couldn't leave the /u/ hornet nest be.

Anyways, the real travesty of all this is that after so much yuribaiting shit, there are only 3 (THREE) Kumiko/Reina doujins on the Panda, and they're all non-H.
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This is Hibike
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>>135272503
Is this normal behavior between two female friends?
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>>135271852
>Why is KyoAni so lewd?
Stroke dicks == sell discs.
This is the KyoAni formula.
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>>135273281

I'm quite miffed that I didn't get into this show until after the fact, live mountain threads must have been something incredible.
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>S2

Thanks jesus.

The yuribaiting in this show was so good.
Also the show itself was good but that's an afterthought
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>>135273727
Honestly Kumiko/Natsuki/Kaori were the best thing about the show.
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Is this another K-On or does it have a shitty self insert MC?
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>>135271412
again? leave /u/!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>135273633
I had a busy summer and got fucked as well. Only now catching up, can't believe I missed the shitstorms.
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>>135273550
This
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>>135271884
>WHY DIDN'T I SELF INSERT AS KUMIKO
You fucked up, son.
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>>135273964
It's nothing like K-on. The story is far more focused.
Kumiko is somewhat self-insert but she's hardly boring.
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>>135273476
>That ending.

Fucking perfect.
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>>135274573
I didn't know there was a new Fukumoto anime.
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>>135273476
10/10
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>>135273476
>left to right
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>135274573
ATARI
ATARI
ATARI
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>>135271412
just friends

shut up

how is that gay in the slightest
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>>135274761

I get a lot of the complaints that people have just slapped on yuri goggles, I really do, and you can look at most of their scenes either way, but good lord >>135272503 is just gay as fuck.
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>>135274946
But Reina's a weirdo, you know that.
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>>135274982

Man, even if she's a weirdo that is some gay shit.

I can accept just about everything else, even the rest of the mountain scene, as them just having a rather unique friendship, but that scene was going too far. Fucking KyoAni.
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>>135275075
Oh boy another deluded yurigoggles thread?
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>>135275233
Whoops, didn't mean to quote
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>>135274640
>>>/r9k/
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>>135275233
Actions speak louder than words.

Reina's actions say "I want to keep Kumiko in the band room after dark and show her proper fingerings until her voice crescendos loud enough that the neighborhood hears it".
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>>135275233

I accept that the show does not intend to portray the relationship between Kumiko and Reina as romantic in the end, and that their interactions can absolutely be read as those of platonic friends, but you have to admit that even in that instance >>135272503 is some pretty blatant baiting. This should have been toned down.
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>>135272985
It's the fate of us euphonium players to be forgotten.
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>>135272985
because her relevance is a focus later, not early on
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>>135271412
Lolo

go away
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>>135275075
It's not like it's super uncommon for kids to unintentionally come across with gay body language, especially the weird ones. It's even more common with girls because they don't have that self-aware terror of someone misconstruing something they do as gay-leaning and ruining their social life with the accusation. Weird people, especially those that are exceptionally self-unaware, will act or say things all the time that come across differently than how they intended, including coming across as too touchy-feely or downright gay.

I mean, pretty much anyone can see Reina was acting pretty gay on the mountain, but that's different from being gay or even from having even a shred of gay feelings. It probably never occurred to her that touching another girls lips could be seen as sexual, especially if she doesn't see girls that way.
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>>135274573
>Hibike! Euphonium Crystal
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natsuki is bestsuki
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>>135275473
Nah.

Their relationship isn't normal. Maybe for Japan, but I have my doubts. I've seen some very strong girl friends in my time and they've certainly not been so...romantic. When you really become strong friends with someone, usually you end up like siblings.

Not saying a little gay can't/never happen(s), but it's relatively rare. Reina and Kumiko are so gay my little sister was convinced this was yuri and she doesn't bother at all with the genre.
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>>135271412
BEEN AROUND THE WORLD DON'T SPEAK DA LANGUAGE
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>>135271608
>FFF
>fortississimo

louder than the Seahawks?
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>>135272503

It's literally fucking nothing, you guys need to stop overhyping this scene. Holy shit.
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Man, S2 is going to be such a shitshow.
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>>135275588
>>135274025

who is this guy?
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>>135275677
I understood your reference.

It made me smile.
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Nothing from Hibike will beat this in terms of lewdness
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>>135275707

Yeah, anon, gently running your fingers over your friends' faces is totally normal.
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>>135275730
>>135275677
That poor OP of weeaboocisco
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>>135275722
THIS is how you spot someone who doesn't know freedom
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this show has so many best girls that i don´t know how the managed with 13 episodes
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>>135272503
That ever so subtle upper lip bounce made me classify her Best Girl Of The Year
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>>135275789

It's also not full blown sex either. I suck KyoAni cock pretty hard, but you /u/fags are seriously insufferable.
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All I want is for S2 to have many scenes of Reina being autistically playful like this
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>>135271519
No
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>>135271726
they literally fuck each other every night off screen
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>>135276003
>Can't come up with a proper counter-argument.
>Resorts to /u/ shittalking.

Holy fuck anon, at least don't make it so obvious.
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S2 was confirmed?
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>>135276148
No, just the movie.
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>>135276051
This desu
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>>135276102

Counter argument to what? The scene's just not that special.

"OMG THEY'RE TOTALLY GAY FOR EACH OTHER BEST SCENE EVER!"

There's other well done character development scenes in the show too that you literal faggots don't hype up because there's no implied faggotry for you to get off on. You're pathetic.
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>>135275709
No it won't. The pretty shitposting going on in these threads will continue in the next season's threads, making them mildly unpleasant, but bearable. The post-episode eight's season one threads were 500+ threads from Tuesday to Friday that were filled with the same rehashed, restated, and reactionary posts/arguments every thread.

Nothing will happen in the second book two that will cause the same massive shitstorm as the first season. Everybody pretty much knows the whole entire plot of the novels now, so there will be no more surprises unless KyoAni goes completely off course (which they won't).
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>>135276186
Now you're trying too hard.
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>>135276198
I heard this other books are more gay. Maybe Reina and Kumiko will have sex.
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>>135276198
it should

Shuichi is a lousy love interest

I'm not even saying make it end in /u/. Hell, make it end in nothing. From what I understand, the later story isn't really about Kumiko anyway.
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>>135276186
The scene on the mountain the pretty great. It's Kumiko's turning point as a character and it's done extremely well.
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*farts*
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What would their sex be like?
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>>135276549
Reina would clumsily try to do all the work and melt like butter as soon as Kumiko did anything in return.
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>>135276549
Platonic.
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>>135276592
>Platonic sex
how does that even work
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>>135276198
Meh. If they adapt the pool scene in the night and do as much yuribaiting as they did in EP 8 there will be more shitposting than ever before.
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>>135276549
Lots of loud noises.
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>>135276654
>>135273476
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>>135276186
>There's other well done character development scenes in the show too that you literal faggots don't hype up because there's no implied faggotry for you to get off on.

So we agree that this scene displays a remarkable level of physical intimacy when compared to the rest of the show, then? Good to hear.
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I don't think they were acting overtly sexual or anything other than just being close. My friends and I have done similar things and I wouldn't say we were being yuriyuri.
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>>135276046
;_;

i love hibike so much
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>>135276974
You will never a cute girl doing cute things with your cute friends.
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>>135276272
>>135276663
If we take everything at face value, both the author and directors have expressed that they don't see Kumiko's/Reina's relationship as a serious romantic relationship. Coupled with the fact that elevens doesn't buy anime that directly focus on homosexual relationships, (some of the Nips were even complaining that face-holding in episode 11 was too gay) it's unlikely that KyoAni will change the canon or focus on that aspect of their relationship that much anymore. Any possible Kumiko and Reina gayness will most likely be magically transferred to the two new girls and these two before season two. That way, KyoAni will keep most the audience that wants yuri and the audience that doesn't want Kumiko/Reina to be lesbians.
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>>135276549
With men.
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>>135276449
What a thoughtful girl, farting here in the presence of dirty otakus rather than in the presence of her extensive harem. Truly best girl.
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>>135277354
Absolutely savage, anon.
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>>135277126
i'm a cute little girl
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>>135273476
degeneracy
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>>135277836
On the internet, I am a cute little girl.

In real life, I am still a cute little girl.
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>>135276032
Is there a gif/webm of just the elbowing?
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>>135278004
this
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>>135275601
How is it possible for one character to be so best.
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>>135276549
Don't we already have an image for that?
The one were Kumiko and Reina had hot, steamy and passionate hand holding
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>>135272594
>>135271412
NEVER EVER
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>>135276032
I like how they displayed these kind of interactions. No one else does that, even tho it really happens irl
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>>135272040
i would but grammar is a bitch
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This isn't a hard concept. If you just look at the animation itself, it would clearly have yuri-undertone or to the degree that it isn't just friendship.
However, if you add that the actually basis for the story says they should be straight and straight only, then the only answer is KyoAni yuribaiting.
How are these threads still not banned yet?
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>>135271852
the other two are chuu2 right?
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>>135273528
Kousaka's pretty intense. she also has like no friends, probably for this reason
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>>135278373
I don't remember top being chuu2 but I might be wrong.
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>>135276549
They can't have sex. Two girls can't ever have sex.
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ntr, cuck, unrequited love, yuribait, shit
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>>135278504
Rubbing sex parts together by any other name would still feel as sweet.
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>>135278504
They can hump and lick each other, which is what yurifags get off to.

Anyways, glad to see yurifags getting blown the fuck out, as per usual.
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>>135278499
anyone know what it is? I'm a kyoani fan and I don't remember any god-damn hand holding. I didn't watch chuu2 though.
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>>135279178
Clannad.
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>>135279308
oh. thank you.
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>>135271519
>that thickness
KyoAni p-please....
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Reminder that /u/ got BTFO with this show.
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>>135271412
What?
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>>135279394
I forgot to finish this show, tell me what happened, did nee-san get laid?
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>mfw there are actually people on /a/ who DON'T like fucking yuri
You've changed /a/. You've fucking changed.
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>>135280901
I fucking know right? What's wrong with girl on girl action?
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>>135281067
Some people just don't appreciate pure love anymore, anon.
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Why is this allowed?
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>>135275788
What is this? Kyaonis new anime?
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>>135281713
Do you enjoy that rock you live under.
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>>135281103
Hey Mordin, there is no forbidden love, you fucking homo faggot.
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>>135278350
This isn't a hard concept. If you look at the animation itself, you clearly see the K-ONs in London.
However, if you add that the actual basis for the story says that the K-ONs never went to London, then the only answer is KyoAni is Londonbaiting.

It's quite simple, really.
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>>135281812
i just havent looked at the new season yet
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>>135272574
I need the webm.
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>>135282226
Found it
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>>135282065
Yeah it's the new kyoani show, people are hype because it looks like a battle shounen, at least in presentation. Trailer had tons of ass, leg, and tits shots and was focused on the main girl doing a flashy fight against some monster in a school yard.
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>>135282530
No, people hype because it's a kyoani show.
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>>135282381
Lewd
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>>135282551
No, it's because it deviates from the moe kyani formula people have grown to expect.

Although to be fair they have been dabbling in action recently with stuff like Chuu2 and KnK.
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>>135282381
https://youtu.be/CSFRPGRLu54?t=25m52s
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>>135271412
>>135271610
>>135271675
I haven't actually seen this show but if that's the real dialog and you people are denying yuri happenings you need to literally drown yourselves in the Nile River
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>>135282960
What got me is that in Kumiko's inner monologue she said she'd die for Reina basically 3 times.
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>>135282622
when does the show fly?>>135282530
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>>135283112
right

and yuri doesn't necessarily translate to full blown strict lesbianism. this is what yuri is for the most part.
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>>135283169
Fly? I assume you mean air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-Mh5gMPwQ
It begins airing in January, so next month with the new season of anime.
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>>135283177

But people are retarded sempai. Degenerate animes like Yuru Yuri made them think that yuri is about flamboyant moe lesbianism, they have no idea about how lesbianism works IRL.
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>>135283275
>ONAIR
>TOKYO MX1 2016年1月6日より
>12:00AM~12:30AM

>ABC朝日放送 2016年1月6日より
>02:14AM~02:44AM
I wish my hobby wasn't so niche.
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>>135283177
>this is what yuri is for the most part

Yuri has such a loose definition that the only thing people can agree on is that it involves at least one person with a vagina.
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>>135283418
I wonder if regular people with jobs can only watch late night anime at the end of the next day.
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>>135271908
Impossible to be AOTY when NNB aired this year, but it was probably the best thing Spring had to offer. And Spring was this year's best season.
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Excuse me, there's a boy present in the show how can it be gay?
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>>135284625
Reina mah waifu

But that's merely my personal choice, for Kumiko, Natsuki and Reina all tied as best girls
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>>135284625
>*farts*
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>>135283177
>and yuri doesn't necessarily translate to full blown strict lesbianism. this is what yuri is for the most part.
I hate this. Yuri is such a board term that it's practically meaningless. It can mean literally everything from two girls talking to each other once to onscreen scissoring. And because of that you get people assuming that just because two girls talk to each other they want to scissor each other, since it's all yuri. This makes finding real lesbian content in anime hard as fuck, since 99% of the time people are talking about yuri, they mean the light subtext type of yuri, not the actual lesbians type of yuri.

At one point we had that shoujo-ai term which was helpful in differentiating between real yuri and bullshit subtext yuri but you faggots had to bitch and moan until everyone stopped using that term.
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>>135283991
I understand the nature of your post but /a/ isn't exactly intelligent. The usage of the word "yuribait" is a good example.
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They literally bumped uglies on screen.
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>>135283177
Also it's not as if feelings are set in stone and easy to understand. It's stong and looks romantic, but charaters may not think as far as being gay, and sexual. Not all highschool crushes end in furious sex.
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>>135284625
She's so fucking gorgeous, mates.
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>>135284625
Post more Reinas
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>>135284762
>I don't know what yuri means.
>It must have no meaning!
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>>135285067
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>>135285024
Yeah.
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>>135285199
I literally puked. Thanks man, I didn't like these sheets anyways.
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For those seriously arguing that this is AOTS or even AOTY, you're idiots. It's a show with a somewhat interesting plot and good visuals that was completely destroyed by focusing almost exclusively on one relationship that only existed to sell to the otaku.

It's almost sad how badly KyoAni sold out with this show. It really just took what was a legitimately good show and turned it into "let's see how much money we can squeeze out of these fuckers"
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>>135285388
We talked about this, Anonymous. Stop saying that the people who have different opinions than you are wrong.
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faggots
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>>135285481
you're welcome, bro.
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>>135285388
>hey let me dismiss one of the most well-written and interesting relationships in anime as "otaku pandering" for no reason
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>>135285388
AOTS and AOTY are both relative terms though.
What else in 2015 can you seriously try to argue was better than this?
NNB is not an answer
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>>135286841
JoJo
Parasyte
Food Wars
Roku no Yuusha
Owarimonogatari
One Punch Man
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>>135287122
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>>135287122
Did you just come from Facebook or something?
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>>135285481
Anytime
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>>135272503
Riddle me this, /a/.

If they were lesbians why didn't they fuck right then and there?
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>>135282960
The only people say it's not yuri is because later on Reina (black hair) tells Kumiko that she's in love with their band teacher, which is why she's at the school in the first place.
But fuck, guys, everyone's had a crush on their teachers at one point, and even though Reina says it's not a crush, you trust her pubescent judgement? Or that she's seriously considering romantically pursuing him?
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>>135288149
But he's criticizing the posters, not the show.
And where the fuck is Tv?
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>>135288195
They did.
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>>135288195
IRL lesbians would because they're filthy sluts
Anime lesbians are partaking in yuri, the purest form of love, which does not include rushing into sex with someone who just romantically confessed their love to you atop a mountain. It ruins the nice mood
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>>135288195
Because they climbed up there to practice music, no consummate their forbidden love.
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>>135288232
It doesn't matter if it's just a silly crush she'll get over eventually.
The point is that she likes him now, which means that her interactions with Kumiko weren't meant to be taken romantically and was just chuuni talk.
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>>135288425
Because you can't have romantic feelings for two people?
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i just finished watching this
post kumiko reaction images
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How do we fix Hibike season 2?
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>>135288573
The confession scene made it obvious that's not the case here, though.
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>>135272258
>>135272508
>>135271877

Nigga please.
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What are the chances of Kyoani changing the end pairing so Kumiko will be together with Reina, and Shoe with Hadzuki.
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>>135285067
big fat reinas
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>>135283275
Adaptation of completely failed ln.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%84%A1%E5%BD%A9%E9%99%90%E3%81%AE%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89-KA%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E7%A7%A6%E9%87%8E%E5%AE%97%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E/dp/4907064136

GOOD IDEA, KYOANI!
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I've been looking up spoilers for season 2, apparently things get gayer.
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Not even gay.
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>>135288637
I'm posting this rare Kumiko, but only because you asked so nicely. Promise me you won't save it, or the value will start to plummet.
I take my rare Kumikos very seriously.
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>>135290973
What do you call girls like this?
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>>135290973
>kissanime
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>>135291004
>>135291004
Pillow buddies.
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>>135291004
Platonic sexfriends.
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>>135291012
It's called "I downloaded the anime, deleted it, and wanted to take screenshots after so I googled it and found a random fucking stream".

Sue me, I don't give a fuck.
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>>135291063
Why didn't you download it again? Or take screenshots before deleting?

You only have yourself to blame.
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>>135290546
The OVA opened the possibility of Shuuichi developing a crush on Hazuki, so they still want to string people along. Still, chances are lower than following the novels. It all depends on the author suddenly changing her mind
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>>135291112
Because I didn't need screenshots till after I deleted it, and I didn't want to bother redownloading it to take a full fucking 3 screenshots for an argument I was having in 1 thread.
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>>135291063
>not hoarding your anime
What the fuck is wrong with you?
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>>135291163
Yeah, I'm sure your Internet tussle couldn't wait ten minutes.
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>>135291174
I do with anime I actually think I'll rewatch, even a 5% of rewatching. The anime was pretty medicore and the only good parts were the psuedo-yuri and I don't even like yuri.
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>>135291220
>Spending 10 minutes to download it when I can spend 10 seconds to google it
>Then deleting the episode/series again
Why fucking bother? You wouldn't even know if I cropped the shitty logo out.

Look, I took it out. Who gives a fuck? I download all my anime to watch it, but I don't keep shitty series on my HDD when I have terabytes of stuff I want to keep. Plus I usually only keep BDs if I can help it, so if I want this series on my drives I'll wait for the bluray.
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>>135291443
>Why fucking bother?
It encourages streamers. Casuals who use web streams as their primary method of consumption see shit like your screenshots and think they're in good company.

>You wouldn't even know if I cropped the shitty logo out.
Well now I'm just going to go:
>1366x738
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>>135291564
It doesn't ''encourage'' anyone.

>>135291564

>1366x738
laptop. Which doesn't have any downloaded anime on it. Literally does not fucking matter. It isn't some 480pscreenshot with ads on it. It was a screenshot for explanation purposes.
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Kumiko is talking about me again.
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>>135291685
No, she's talking about Asuka
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>>135291654
Shots of web streams being more common would definitely make them appear to be more accepted on /a/.

>laptop
No duh. Do I have to spell it out for you?
>Taking screenshots at monitor resolution
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>>135291737
I could resize it to 1280x720p and it wouldn't matter. I'm not going to do that for every shitty screenshot though because there is 0 reason to.
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>>135291851
You shouldn't need to resize. Something is wrong in your workflow.
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>>135291890
Not really. You literally wouldn't have responded if I had cropped out the little watermark.
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>>135291961
As opposed to figuratively not responding?
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>>135291961
That doesn't really mean anything
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>>135292034
It means a lot, because the entire argument is void if you don't notice or care to see the difference. I took it from the first shitty stream site that popped up just to get dialogue and scene pictures for some random thread. It means nothing. Just because streaming is shit to watch anime doesn't mean someone can't use it to take a quick screenshot.
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Everyone ignoring best girl.
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>>135292257
>girl
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>>135292301
>Implying she isin't a girl
Give good reasons fagott.
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>>135291135

The OVA more or less settled the awkardness between them and Hazuki supporting Shuichi getting the fluff.
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These yurifags are strangely tenacious and optimistic. Season 2 threads is going to be a fun read.
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>>135292919
I don't give a fuck about yuri but the homoerotic scenes between fluffy and her side bitch were pretty much the only reason to watch the show, so I probably wont even watch season 2.
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>harmless, off-the-cuff banter between friends
>th-they're totally gay!!
Yurifags, everyone.
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>>135293052
Eww get that heterosexual shit outta here.
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>>135293052
They had literally no chemistry with each other the entire show. I dunno about what they had in the LN, but the anime showed pretty much nothing.
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>>135292985

>I probably wont even watch season 2.
Thank you for deciding to not make my life miserable with your presence.

Oh wait, you said "watch".
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He's gonna wait til she graduates
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>>135293031
>Literally saying she would die and be happy to herself
>Banter between friends
alright
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>>135275788
>this is what kills the fairy
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>>135290851
It's selling better than Chuuni.
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>>135293158
>Actually liking and enjoying this sub-par series
The only really good thing about it was the instrument animation. There was nothing else.
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>>135293241
What did you not like about it?
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KyoAni baited hard, but anyone who was familiar with the basic story had to have known it wasn't going to actually to that way.

Yuri is low-tier shit anyways.

As much as I love the show, I think it would have been way better if they had dialed it down a bit. The motivations for the friendship and overall interactions like the elbowing on the train or their jabbing conversation on the way up to the mountain is depicted in a way that most animation studios can't replicate. KyoAni always includes certain character interactions or behaviorisms that add a bit of realism to scenes that makes them pretty great. Like in Hyouka there's this scene early in the series when everyone is walking somewhere, and Mayaka bumps into Oreki when they're suddenly stopped by someone. There wasn't anything that was said after she bumped into him; it just sort of happened and that was it (she didn't yell at him and he didn't say anything back).

So it kind if sucks that such a good show and studio resorted to baiting yuri shit, as it leaves an unnecessary impression for a show that didn't need it.
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I didnt watch this because it hit too close to the forced drama in my high school band.
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>>135293342
I didn't say I didn't like it.
It was just mediocre. It didn't stand out at all. I watched all of it, so I had to like it to some degree. It had cute girls and the animation was pretty, but the actual plot, romance, and music was pretty meh.

>>135293431
I agree. They baited WAY too hard. It's obvious it's not going anywhere towards actual yuri but it was so homoerotic. Most sexual scenes I've seen from them in awhile.
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>>135293241
>>135293489
>>Actually liking and enjoying this sub-par series
>I didn't say I didn't like it.
You are a remarkable tsundere, Anonymous.
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>>135293241

Not only was it a generally great-looking production, it was also a heartfelt story about team-building that offered a lot of funny and intelligent insights about individual members and their relationships.
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>>135293474

Without a bevy of cute girls, I'm guessing.
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>>135293431
As a yurifag, I agree. I like the show, but I don't like being baited like this. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It would have been fine as a het romance as long as they gave Shu some character.
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>>135293617
I like eating shit but I recognize it's shit.

>>135293622
It was generic as fuck. Yes it was great looking, so is pretty much all Kyoani stuff.
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>>135293677
>. It would have been fine as a het romance as long as they gave Shu some character.
This
Not a yurifag, but I like romance. They baited hard and had good chemistry between the two girls. It can be two girls, two guys, a guy and a girl, a girl and a space donkey, etc. As long as it has proper development.

Too bad there was none except the girl who got rejected and MC/Reina
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>>135271412
>no ecchi
>no yuri

waht the hell, who watch this shit?
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>>135271961
It doesn't. Natsuki fist bumped her right before that happened, that's why Kumiko had fist bumps in mind as a display of camaraderie.
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>>135271519
T H I G H S
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>>135271412
I want all of you to keep remembering that in Japan yuri is basically childish shit you grow out of. Then again, girls in high school and college grow out of it too. Just because Reina talks chunni doesn't mean she wants to slick it to Kumiko, she wants to please old men for headpats.
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>>135293677
>>135293761

Just because you don't see it, and everything doesn't happen right away, doesn't mean it isn't there.

Hell you only have to look at how dazed she was after he asked her out.
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>>135293923
It was completely overshadowed by all the yuribaiting.
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>>135293923
Yes, it's because some guy shes known as nothing but a friend for years asked her out, and it can potentially ruin her entire friendship with him if she says no.

>Implying the river scene or the yelling scene meant ANYTHING between them
There was 0 romantic development between them compared to the yurishit.
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>>135293701
>It was generic as fuck.
I'm sorry the emotions didn't come across to you. I thought at many points they were pretty visceral.
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>>135294188
Anon please, my eyes tear up at the littlest of things. There was like 1 good part that wasn't yuri baiting shit, and it was the re-audition. I think they did the difference between them really well.
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>>135293990

One romantic element or another of a show is only overshadowed to the extent that shippers (in this case, yurifags) shit up threads obsessively about something else.

>>135294029

>and it can potentially ruin her entire friendship with him if she says no
>subsequently, she says no
You mean, ruin her entire friendship with her new friend who likes him. Which conveniently also allows her to avoid confronting her own feelings.

>Implying the river scene or the yelling scene meant ANYTHING between them
>There was 0 romantic development between them compared to the yurishit.
kek, this shrill denial. As if you aren't a yurifag.
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>>135294271
The re-audition was done so well. Normally in music shows you'd have some voiceover or inner monologue telling you exactly who is playing better but in this show they just made it apparent through the music alone.

It really sets Hibike apart from other music anime.
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>>135294345
If she has feelings for him, which apparently she does according to the LN, it was done extremely poorly. Because there was no indication she gave any fucks other than losing a friend. I hope we get much better scenes depicting her love for shoe, and I hope we get better Reina scenes showing her love for her shitty teacher. Because if not the series is going to remain trash.

>>135294365
The re-audition was easily the saving grace of this. You could definitely tell who was better.
And it wasn't that the first girl was bad, just not as good as Reina. The notes felt stiff, didn't flow as well.
>from other music anime.
Is there even any other music anime worth mentioning besides K-On and that one where the blonde girl dies? It's not exactly a difficult genre to get in to.
Unless you count idol shit.
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>>135294492
Nodame Cantabile and Beck automatically come to mind, Tari Tari too kind of

But I think Hibike blows them all away in terms of instrument depiction
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>>135294579
Yeah Beck was alright. None really go in to depth about the instruments. I've read manga that does but that doesn't really count.
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>>135294492

>Because if not the series is going to remain trash.
Well that's obviously the problem you have. Why do you expect a romance show from Hibike? That's clearly not what it's supposed to be. The romantic elements of the show are generally subtle and incidental to the central story about the band (Reina's yuribait fingerfucking of Kumiko's face notwithstanding).
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>>135275562
Great taste.
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>>135294766
I didn't. I watched it for instruments and cute girls.
Instead I got cute girls being psuedo lesbians while trying to play instruments.
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>>135293197
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>>135288637
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>>135294824
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>>135294824

Why did I only just discover this now?
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>>135288283
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>>135294821

Then why are you butthurt about a slow-moving side-romance between Kumiko and her childhood friend? And frankly I think it's much more realistic that two people who have known each other for years and are just coming into adulthood would be awkward and take a while to come to terms with their feelings. Especially when you have Kumiko who is capable of considerable density.

As for the yuribait, I didn't think it was a big deal.
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>>135293126
Please make her gay Kyoani, thats all I want for Christmas.
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You know if ever there are gonna be Shuichi-Kumiko scenes next season it'll only just get nerfed, right? Kyoani's main pairing is Kumiko and Reina. That's just how things go. Accept it already.
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>>135295039
I'm butthurt because they showed more romantic development with the girl than her supposed person shes in love with. She shows no romantic feelings for him at all. None.

I don't remember her promising him she'd never leave him or that she was ever happy to be with him and could die happy.
The yuribait ruined everything.

>>135295107
This is fine too as long as they do it right.
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I'm going to marry Kumiko!
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>>135295123
>I'm butthurt because they showed more romantic development with the girl than her supposed person shes in love with. She shows no romantic feelings for him at all. None.

That sounds a bit more like you constructed your own expectations to be dashed. I won't deny you your ability to dislike the show for that, but it's a very personal dislike that's mostly you, not the show.
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>>135295190
I'll be your best man, Shuuichi!
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>>135295278
I just watched it for music but since that didn't deliver much till the re-audition I had to latch on to other shit.
Most of the entire show was the relationship between band members. Which turned out to be yuri, baiting or not, with chemistry shown to be good between two characters.

But apparently they're going to literally shoehorn shoe in when there was no real development with him. Hes just fucking there, hes even worse than best friend tier.
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>>135271412
wait what's happened? Was something released?
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>>135295190
does anyone else think kumiko's hair is ugly?

buy a comb you dumb bitch.
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>>135295419
I think it's fucking great. Hairstyle of the year.
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>>135295419
>does anyone else think kumiko's hair is ugly?
Only femanons would think that

>buy a comb you dumb bitch.
Definitely a grill posting
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>>135295107

>Kumiko muttered, trying to feign apathy as best as she could. Bathed in the rays of the setting sun, the dark brown loafers she just bought shone dully. The young man before her smiled as if embarrassed, and made a flimsy attempt in changing the topic. By the way you know, there's a really beautiful girl in my class. Upon hearing those words, Kumiko unwittingly gave him a good and hard kick from behind.

How butthurt were the hets when this got removed?
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>>135295123

>I don't remember her promising him she'd never leave him or that she was ever happy to be with him and could die happy.
Anon this is what I'm saying. Your expectations are completely unrealistic. Their relationship is on a simmer, not a blowtorch. They're working up to being more honest with their feelings.

>But apparently they're going to literally shoehorn shoe in when there was no real development with him.
There has been development. You've just built your expectations in a way such that they'll go unmet, as >>135295278 said.
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>>135295617
Novel Kumiko is blatantly in love from the start. It's already too late.
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>>135295475

I'm pretty sure a lot of grills would kill to have her volume and floofyness.
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>>135295679
Japanese people don't even have fluffy hair. It's always flat and straight. I've watched enough JAV shit to know.
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>>135272427
Well obviously they didn't fuck but the novels do in fact confirm that Kumiko is in love with Shuichi and that they hook up.
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What is the point of hetshit? Why can't it just be about music?
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>>135295881
No, but Natsuki did.
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>>135295881

Asuka stole my dick.
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>>135295625
Different anon here, but their relationship is overshadowed by the yuribait. I think most people would assume Shu didn't have a chance until Reina mentioned she loved Taki and the novel spoilers. That's not to say I thought it was going to be explicit yuri either. Yurifags aren't allowed to be happy. Either way, the show baited too hard and it's worse because of it.
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>>135272574
Shuichi. Because he has the superior girl, Kumiko.
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>>135295915
>hetshit
Good stuff
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>>135273476
What did the original ending say?
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>>135296028

I thought there was chemistry from the first episode, even if it wasn't clearly romantic. And once Hazuki asked Kumiko about pursuing Shu, you could she had feelings even if she wasn't acknowledging them. Her relationship with Reina mostly feels like grills who are close friends being flirty with each other--which grills who are close friends do.

Of course I marathoned the show alone months after it aired, so I wasn't subject to the yuriswarming of the threads.
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>>135296562
I get what you mean about girls getting flirty with each other, women tend to have much more intense friendships than men do and tend to be a bit more sexually open and fluid. A lot of straight girls will tell you that they've made out with their best friends in middle/high school at least once. But even then... the bits with the tracing her finger over her face and lips and holding their faces close together is not normal. It's a bit gay.
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>>135296562
I can see what you are saying, and in hindsight I should have completely expected this. It wasn't clearly romantic though, which is why it was so polarizing. And I don't know anyone who flirts with friends like that. I'm willing to bet if you showed scenes from this to most people they would just assume they are gay which is why I think they baited too hard.
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>>135296783

Yes, the finger thing and the face thing were a bit gay. Then again, Reina has a habit of doing out-of-the-ordinary things, especially since in her own telling she's an extraordinary person.

In the same way, she never considers that becoming closer to Taki might be unobtainable. She just does what she needs to do to make it happen.

>>135296885

>And I don't know anyone who flirts with friends like that.
Oh I know a couple girls who are like that, including the kissing part that previous anon mentioned. But yes, not in exactly the same baity way as you get in a KyoAni show.

Let's just be patient for S2, and we'll see things unfold.
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>>135297195
Well, it's obvious now they are going down the Shu route. I'll still enjoy it, but it would have been better if it didn't try to bait people into watching it. As cool as it is around here to hate on yurifags, it's a dick move to do this to them. They suffer enough.
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>>135297564

Ironically I don't normally have a problem with yurifriends. But in Euphonium's case, I would support their removal.
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>>135275233
I see the arc going like this.
>Go after Taki
>clearly doesn't get with him
>falls right into Mcs arms
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>>135297741
Usually yurifags can be kind of obnoxious about their ships where they don't really belong, but here they were clearly baited harder than normal. Of course they would be upset. It's natural to be bitter when you never win. There are obviously cancerous people on both sides though.
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Can Kyoanis outyuri KumikoxReina with MizorexNozomi next season? I think they can.
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>>135297195
>Oh I know a couple girls who are like that, including the kissing part that previous anon mentioned
I think your girl friends may be a little gay, Anonymous.

>Let's just be patient for S2, and we'll see things unfold.
I also think this is the most important advice in this thread.
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>>135298044
I tend to find the "I hate yuri" guys a bit more cancerous just because some of them like to get all fedora/redpill MRA about it. Off of the top of my head, we have that one anon we see once in a while likes to enter harmless threads so he can act like a preachy faggot and to go on and on and likes to repeat "heterosexuality is the norm" and will never shut the fuck up and keep preaching on and on about the evils of homosexuality. And then there's a handful of anons who will get all rabid at the mention of yuri and start shouting the same kind of shit. Thread is ruined, every time.

OTOH, the yuri guys have crack-kun who will shit up a thread about how a certain yuri pairing degrades the characters. Dude has next level autism. Thread is ruined, every time.
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>>135271519
>>>>>>>>/hr/
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>>135298044
>>135298381

Indeed, there are problems on both sides.

>>135298237

Just a little. They do both love cock.
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>>135287122
go back to leddit faggot
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>>135298596
This guy.
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Why do people keep insisting this is yuri?
Yes, KyoAni bated you hard, but the information from the novels have been out for quite some time.
As if that's not enough, Reina herself said, in the anime, she loved Taki and Kumiko showed herself uncomfortable when she helped whatshername with Shuuichi.

Hibikek is pure yuribait. If you believe there's any chance, at all, of this ever going into yuri territory (which I wouldn't mind, by the way), you've taken KyoAni's bait and hard.

Kumiko and Reina's relationship is absolutely platonic.
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>>135298237
>I also think this is the most important advice in this thread.

That should go without saying, but then we wouldn't have shitposting and we can't have that.
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>S2 threads
>yurifags BTFO
>yurifags saying S2 sucks because of het

I hope they don't force a pairing of Hazuki with some random boy out of pity, though.

I want an episode to see banter between the boys. They're always showing them laughing and having fun, and I want to hear them talking about their female band mates and whih ones they want to fuck. Shuichi is one lucky son of a bitch, though.
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>>135285067
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>>135299543
>>S2 threads
>>yurifags BTFO
>>yurifags saying S2 sucks because of het
But Anon, what if it's the other way around?
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>>135299948
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>>135292363
I want her cock in my mouth, and since she's fictional character and we can't actually check if she has a dick, it's now truth that she has a dick.
And girls with dicks are just dudes
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>>135300299

In kyoani we trust. dont underestimate their pandering.
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I watch Hibike for the plot
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>>135298481
Is something wrong?
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>>135300381

Daily reminder that Shuichi will never be this intimate with Kumiko.
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>>135288149
>^^
>Tv
Please go away.
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>>135271519
Are those legs shooped
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>>135300973
No Kyoani always draws big juicy thighs
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This thread seriously lacks Hazuki.

>>135301043
It is shopped though.
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>>135300550
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>>135299543
>I want an episode to see banter between the boys.
We probably won't get this since it's mostly from the girls' perspective, but if we did It'd be fucking great. It doesn't even have to be about which girl has the best tits or whatever. I want to see these tight-knit male band members calling each other faggots for blowing on long, phallic instruments, beating the shit out of each other for fun, and squatting around together eating cheap food and talking about life after practice. After watching that BD special about them I can only imagine all the fun shit they do together.
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>>135301519
I want to see Hitoshi-kuhn be a cute boy doing cute things.
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I have a question. The competition in ep13 wasn't actually the nationals, was it?
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>>135301909
Did you even watch the show?
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>>135301909
I think it was the qualification to get selected for national competition.
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>>135301909
It was to win their prefecture
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>>135301981
I did, that's why I'm asking. Kumiko explained in a monologue once that there are regional competitions before the nationals, and they mostly refer to the whole thing as "the tournament."

What made me ask is Kumiko's dialogue with Asuka when she tells her that they "still have the nationals afterwards". Wouldn't make sense if they were at the nationals right then and there.
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>>135302037
The guy at the end pretty clearly said that they were announcing who was qualifying for the national competition.
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>>135302106
Oh. I guess I should finish the episode, then.
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>6 months later, they're still falling for it
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>>135302134
I fucking hate you, Anonymous.
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>>135301134
She's the only straight girl and couldn't manage to score the only male character, how much of a fuck up can one character be?
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>>135302218
She scored with my heart.
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>>135302256
That's too cute anon, you know I just being tsun with you, all Hibikes are qt
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>>135302037
They won prefecturals.
Now they have to win regionals. And only then there are nationals.
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'sup
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>>135299543
> Don't want to see yuri stuff but bantering between boys.

You just want to see some dicks, do you?
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Like pottery.

They belong together.
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>>135302675

Makes more sense than Shuichi - Kumiko will ever be.
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Why are yurifags so gay?
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>>135302818
>gay people being gay
KumikoxReina OTP
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>>135302218
>the only straight girl
Well memed
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>>135302818
For hetfags seeing at least one dick is the minimum. Yurifags just want to see cute girls.
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The novels are still ongoing guys, the author could easily change his mind.
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>>135302923
I thought yurifags were fine with dicks so long as the dick gets NTRd by another girl?
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>>135274573
I didn't know Sailor Moon gets another season
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>>135285067
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>>135273134
I'll take band blogging and keion memes over het/lesbo/waifu shitposting every time.
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I don't understand yurifags, sorry.
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>>135303395
This. Shipping retards are the worst.
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Midori supports NTR.
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>>135299543
>I want an episode to see banter between the boys.
There's actually an OVA episode that's just about the band guys, y'know.
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>>135292801
That's the more likely direction, but they didn't need to have Shuuichi blushing about Hazuki to settle the awkwardness between them. They wanted it to look like he could have a crush on her too.
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>>135306695

It's nice to hope isnt it?
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Serious question.

Is this a yuri anime?
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>>135307040
Yes.
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>>135307040
No
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>>135307040
Yes.
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>>135307100
>>135307089
>>135307064
I'm getting mixed messages here.

Are there lesbians in it or not?
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>>135283778
Nah i bet they are recording them and watching it later
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>>135307040
Just full of yuri bait, the actual canon is quite heterosexual.
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>>135307040
Define yuri.
What constitutes a yuri anime?
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>>135307123
Yes. The two main girls are blatantly gay for each other, and it's the main drive of the series.
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Because goggles evolved to binoculars and got rekt by trumpets.
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>>135307040

The author is lesbian and she wanted to create a new yuri series like her last work but her editor in charge made changes.
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>>135307040
It's anime, so yes.
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>>135306484

It's too short we need a full male-centric episode with Knuckles as MC.
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Would you?
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>>135308524
The author is a guy who is straight you retard.
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I want to stick my dick in Kumiko's hair
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>>135271519
These legs should be illegal.
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>>135295028
source?
reverse image searches throwing up nothing
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>>135271519
Why did Kumiko take off her shorts?
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>>135308524
>>135308952
You two are cute as hell. Would buy your sex tape.
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Cute amputee girls doing cute amputee things when?
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>>135309608
http://exhentai.org/g/883169/74c23ab1f8/
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Why is Asuka such a cunt?

>>135307040

It's a yuribait anime.
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>>135308933

How many children?
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>>135308952
>The author is a guy

I wish she was so I could suck her dick.
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>>135310826
>sucking a lesbian's dick

what
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Well now that it is nearly confirmed that Hibike S2 won't have Yamada as a series director will you be hyped for it anymore /a/? Also isn't 2 Ishihara anime in a single year too much?
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>>135311464

KumiRei is too popular. I don't think he'll risk the series by pissing of the fanbase.
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>>135272503
'friends'
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>>135279350
In Clannad, Nagisa dies
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>>135311587

I find it hard to believe that they won't end up adapting the Kumiko x Shuichi romance.
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>>135311623

They won't. Not like will ever reach that far anyway.
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>>135298939
>Reina herself said, in the anime, she loved Taki
Way to analyse superficially.
Reina is a confused girl right now. Although she could've initially had feelings for Taki, she clearly realizes her own affection growing towards Kumiko. I'd say she's conflicted, and the second season will develop this conflict further reaching to a point she'll have to choose between the two.
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>>135312363

Yes, this whole Mizore & Nozomi debacle will help them realize how important they are to each other which will lead to a serious realization and maybe a confession.
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>>135311464
>Well now that it is nearly confirmed that Hibike S2 won't have Yamada as a series director
She didn't direct the first series either. She was just Ishihara's assistant.
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>>135273204
My brother.

>>135273281
Though wakaba threads were golden, I agree.
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>>135273476


THAT ENDING. OH SHIT.
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>>135312731
pin pon?
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>>135312609
Read the interviews and watch the show. She is pretty much all over the episodes except EP 4 and 10. Even the official site had Ishihara as director and Yamada as series director but you would know more than KyoAni right?
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>>135311710
They will adapt all the novels
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>>135313054
They will? How many seasons will that be?
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>>135311464
I don't care. I really, really don't care about the fucking shipping and yuribait, whatever the fuck a "hetfag" is, or any of that garbage. I just want to see a cute show about a high school band working hard together to play well together. The band episodes might not have gotten as many threads, but they were objectively better.
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>>135313092
They'll do 2 cour for season 2 and some OVAs for the sidestories
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>>135313092
If they want to adapt the rest of the main story a 24 episodes S2 would be enough.
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If season 2 is 1-cour I dont mind them trimming cotent so we can reach vol 3 material where Asuka will be a prominent character.
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>>135312818
pin pon
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>>135312852
Calm your tits, Anonymous. And stop implying implications. She was the one who described her job as Ishihara's assistant on the show (although admittedly it may have been with a dash of modesty). Maybe you should read these same interviews you cite. Or at least listen to the show's audio commentary.

But that aside, it was my fault to assume you were talking about the person actually credited with directing the show. Not sure where you're getting the info that she won't be on for the second season, though.
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>>135313337

I'm very excited to see development for Asuka, given how much of an enigma she was in S1.
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>Kyoani changing creative staff for subsequent seasons

When's the last time that happened
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>>135313450
Free, Haruhi
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>>135313518
Thought Haruhi was Ishihara all the way
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>>135313450
where are people getting that the staff is changing?
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>>135313801
their asses.
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>>135313729
It was Ishihara+Yamakan for S1 and Ishihara+Takemoto for S2+movie.

>>135313801
Because the KnK film overlaps with season 2 and Yamada won't be able to handle both.
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>>135313878
>Yamada won't be able to handle both

>doubting Based Yamada
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>>135313938
At the very least there will be less of her visual shitposting in S2.
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>>135314027
>visual shitposting
Is this the same as forced animation?
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>>135314027
>visual shitposting

Memes
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>>135314079
You can do visual shitposting without keyframe spamming, so no.
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>>135294824
Woah I was just reading this right now
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>>135314230
>Keyframe spamming
Do you mean "having a budget" anon? You know that the whole keyframe system is a limitation due to money and time, right?
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>>135314027
>Wanting less of the talking feet and tilting heads
Fag.
>>135313801
Season 2 will overlap with KnK unless they push it back to 2017 which is not probable.
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Haruhi S1 and Full Metal Panic aren't even in the top 8 Kyoani works.
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>>135314460

I'll give you FMP S1 and Second Raid, but Fumoffu is god tier.
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>>135314460
>implying there are 8 shows better than Haruhi

Don't be ridiculous.
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THEY ARE HETEROSEXUAL
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>>135314558
Not merely shows but all of these are better than Haruhi S1: Hyouka, Tamako Love Story, Nichijou, K-On!!, K-On movie, Disappearance, Euphonium.
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>>135275657
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwnfFsAr3Q
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>>135314782
That's only 7 so Haruhi makes top 8 after all?
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>>135288637
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>>135277309
>Elevens get assmad if there's heterosexual good end
>Elevens get assmad if there's homosexual good end

the fuck do Elevens even WANT
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>>135314848
Only for the meantime until the next Yamada work comes out.
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>>135313094
That's my bandmember!
All this dumb romance is just icing on the cake.
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>>135277309

So elevens buy anime that baits homo stuff, but not if it goes full blown?

Otakus remain a mystery to me.
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This OVA really made me want to "support" Hazuki from behind.
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>>135311623
They killed almost all of it in the first season. Why stop now?

I really can't picture Kumiko a few days after 13 pouting because Shuuichi didn't invite her to the fireworks.
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I will marry Kaori.
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>>135282381
I always start welling with tears when i see her beauty in this scene.
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>>135290990
WAY TOO RARE
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>>135275677
Underrated reference.
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Reminder.
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>no doujins of Reina getting railed by Taki-sensei

This is so fucking disappointing holy shit
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>>135275233
DELETE THIS
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>>135275730
>>135275798
>>135317743
Literal autism.
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>>135320192
I sure hope you are not implying that's samefagging.
Or are you actually this autistic to get rustled because I got a joke you didn't?
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>>135299948
DELETE THIS
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>>135315014
Elevens don't want this ride to end.
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>>135319163
What are the names of these ladies?
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>>135320658
Biggs and Wedge
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>>135320658
I dunno but they sure are some smug fagotts
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Has any other anime baited this hard?
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>>135271519
THICKNESS
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>>135319163

>fagott-chan is actually a dyke

Poetry
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So who is this girl and what does she do?
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>>135321822
She has a lesbian harem.
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>>135320444
See? Literal autism. Purest form.
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>>135321858
every girl in this series seems to have a lesbian harem
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>>135322148
All I see is a retard who can't make proper use of the word "literal".
Start making sense if you want someone to take you serious.
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>>135322354
>he keeps proving I'm right
This urge to show your mental disease is hilarious. Well, at least you help bumping the thread.
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>mfw this won't be in S2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arLCqkU7Kc0
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>>135322590
Except there's nothing to be proven "right" here, besides your lack of reading comprehension, of course.
You're rustled because you had to search up on cancerous KYM a reference you didn't understand and are now trying to appear smart by repeatedly pressing the same "kek autism" key.
Why am I still replying? Because it infuriates the shit out of me, pathetic MAL kids like yourself who come to comfy threads spread your disgusting MEMES.
Also, who are you quoting, you fucking piece of shit?
I'd dumb navy seal pasta here but I'm afraid it will reach char limit and you wouldn't get this one either.
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>>135322871
This isn't K-ON, music is no longer allowed to be fun.

It's all suffering with a little dash of scissoring from now on.
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>>135323342
*dump
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>>135299543
Kumiko is sex.
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>>135323371
As long as they continue drawing the most beautiful anime girls ever I can deal with it.
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>>135279178
How do you not remember the after story sex scene?
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>>135323342
Holy shit is this a modified pasta or something? I call smell your autism from here, autistic mongrel.
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>>135323543
Is she an ojou-sama?
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>>135323730
She's a good girl.
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>>135277309
they're going to need to put their animators on a leash then cause they were going full on ham dyke on that shit
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>>135323801
I loved how the animated some dust under the spotlights during these scenes.
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>>135308667
I agree. Maybe a full ova like they did with the last one. I can dream
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>>135311623
The cut all the "romance setup" from season one between them, and added a bunch for Reina. I mean its unlikely but its certainly possible.
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>>135323342
Nice blog. Link me your tumblr id be glad to tell you how pretty your armpit hair is.
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>>135287829
Ribbons is a good friend and did nothing wrong.
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>>135324545

Ribbons stirred up shit even though she knew Reina was better and Reina would have been screwed over the exact same way Naori was last year.

That said, it's Taki's fault for letting things progress to the point of a popularity contest vote anyways. What an awful idea.
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>>135324512
That's not blogging, though.
It's just a fag platinum mad.
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>>135324924
She didn't know Reina was better at first, she only found that out later when she overheard her practicing, which happened after the second audition was already announced?
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>>135325285

Reina practices absolutely all the time around the school grounds, plus they are all part of the same section and sit right next to each other during practice.

It's very difficult to believe that Ribbons wouldn't already have known that Reina is better than Naori. In these kinds of ensembles, everyone can suss out the best players pretty quickly.
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>>135324924
Ribbons was the one to speak out and demand answers from Taki, when it was discovered he already knew Reina and her getting the solo could be a blatant case of nepotism.

She was the only one with enough balls to stand up against the entire class and a potentially corrupt teacher, all for the sake of her senpai.

She is justice.
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>>135325352

Ribbons nearly derailed an entire half year's worth of work because she couldn't accept that Reina was objectively the most skilled trumpet player, something she should have already known, and likely did.

I appreciate where she was coming from, but at the end of the day her actions were selfish and jeopardized the entire band's work for the sake of one person by forcing the issue.

Like I said, Taki is still the biggest idiot in that particular affair for deciding to have a popular vote, but Ribbons herself still messed up, to say nothing of dragging Kaori through having to admit once again that she simply wasn't as good a player as Reina.
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>>135325535

She wasn't rightfully suspicious, because Reina was clearly the best player.

Like I said, if you've played in this manner of ensemble, you know that you can pick out the real stars pretty easily, especially if they're in your section.

The only reason to suspect nepotism would be if someone who was clearly a better player was passed up, but everyone should have known that Reina absolutely was the best trumpet player and Taki made it very clear that seniority would not be considered in any way, so there really weren't any grounds to be suspicious. It's not like he even taught her or anything, as far as the show indicated, he just knew her.

The best way to defuse the situation was Naori admitting that Reina was better, which of course did happen, but could have been done with more tact.
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>>135325650
>Like I said, if you've played in this manner of ensemble, you know that you can pick out the real stars pretty easily, especially if they're in your section.

Not him, but this clearly isn't the case here. Call that unrealistic if you like, but it's pretty obvious that everyone is surprised at how much better Reina's solo is when it comes to the audition, and before then that Ribbons was surprised when she was listening to her practice.
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>>135314079

>forced animation

>>135314230

>keyframe spamming

sasuga /a/
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>>135325327
>It's very difficult to believe that Ribbons wouldn't already have known that Reina is better
That's how the anime framed it. They showed her overhearing Reina practicing and being surprised at how good she is, and after that she approached Reina and begged her to let Kaori win.
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Americans are so homophobic that they think skinship=being gay
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>>135325871

I'm not convinced that the anime was suggesting that Ribbons only then in that moment realized that Reina was better. We see that Ribbons is distraught because she knows Reina plays better, but this does nothing to indicate that she didn't already know.

If Ribbons knows in that moment that Reina is better than Naori, then she must already have a clear gauge on Naori's skill, but how can she know how good Naori is but not know how good Reina is?

Not only are these characters all in the same section, but they play together in sectionals for hours a week. Reina is clearly intended to be a cut above most of the rest of the band in terms of skill and drive, and there's simply no way this could not be apparent to somebody who played alongside her for so many hours throughout the year.

Plus, Naori and Asuka's conversation prior to the second audition pretty clearly conveys that Naori knows Reina is better already, and that Asuka knows she knows. Naori wanted the solo, but she herself, who had the most at stake, never thought it was nepotism, because she already knew Reina was better. Even Natsuki knows Reina is better, and she's a bass section player who didn't even try until halfway through.

It's quite clear that the characters already know Reina is on a different level, and that Ribbons is just acting out of (understandable) sympathy for Naori.
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>>135325486
>to say nothing of dragging Kaori through having to admit once again that she simply wasn't as good a player as Reina.

But that's a very important point. Ribbons was not the one who really couldn't accept that Kaori lost, it was Kaori herself.
Ribbons - as a good friend - could tell that no matter how she tried to deny it, Kaori was not happy with the audition results and would forever stay bitter if nothing was done, so she resolved to help her in whichever way she could. Even if that meant going against a teacher or throwing away all the band's hard work. She was willing to get in trouble with an authority figure or become hated by the entire band for the sake of helping her friend - that can hardly be called selfish.

In the end, even though she still lost, Kaori got the chance to prove herself fairly, lose without ambiguity, and thus finally accept that she was not yet good enough.
She'd never have resolved this issue if not for Ribbons' unfaltering loyalty and sense of justice dragging her through the whole thing (even though Ribbons herself probably doesn't realize this).
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