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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
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^ Seconded. Somebody went to a hell of a lot of work for that animation. Very nicely done, and in character for Chika Fujiwara, who seems to be the lively open spirit for this show. And I liked the music, which is seldom the case ( me not a big fan of J-Pop ).
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FilthyCasual
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I can't believe we already got the best ED of the year.
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dm
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The ED for episode two (with allusions to Laputa and maybe On your mark) was very nice, but episode three's was absolutely delightful.
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DuskyPredator
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Unfortunately the review did not mention the buttery smooth ED, that must have been some form of rotoscope without feeling quite uncanny valley.
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saihamaru
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he's so broke that he need to sell his bicycle now? poor guy jokes aside, i think you mean "pedaling" |
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kinghumanity
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What did Chika spend 16 minutes telling Kaguya?
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Animegomaniac
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Maybe I watched a badly translated version, though it was official, but I had to restart the "twenty questions but really ten" segment several times and I still didn't get what Miyuki was trying to solve for.
The version I saw went from a discussion of how much Miyuki knew about her right to explaining the game directly to playing the game. Was the goal outright stated in other version or was it just a given that the game was about the thing that improved Kaguya's personality? |
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GrimaH
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He didn't really set out to solve anything. He'd made an offhand remark about understanding Kaguya better nowadays, and that led her to bait him into the 10 Questions game to make him prove it (and at the same time goad him into a "you thought I liked you? How cute" moment). |
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Animegomaniac
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I know they had to skip over the "I am a person, place, thing or idea" opening part of the game otherwise the whole gambit wouldn't have worked but they quickly skipped over the reason for it as well? Also, it's sad that Miykui had to waste a question on what should have been a given.... and the fact he was led to confuse person and thing should have been a tell. Then again, this is not "No Game, No Life". If it was, the second question asked would have been "Is it something in this room?" as line of sight thinking is a given for most people. |
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S0crates
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Episode 4 was absolute gold. xD
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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
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Very fun episode. And we got to see Chika dancing some more when (minor spoiler) spoiler[she switched to her rap vocabulary to play the game,] with the animation quality staying quite good.
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killjoy_the
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N-no. He just wanted to see how he'd react to being insulted to his face by someone not from his school. He's surprised at the lack of reaction and even comments that "It's almost like he doesn't understand any of what she's saying" |
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John Thacker
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Fantastic guest appearance by Takehito Koyasu as Shirogane's father.
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XerBlade
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Based on that review, it really feels like Amy and I were watching two completely different episodes.
This isn't anywhere close to the first time I've gotten that feeling from ANN's episode reviews, but it might be the first time that the ratings still matched up. Yeah, that sounds nothing like the episode I saw, but it's still A-. P.S.
Kaguya's whole shtick is just an act she puts up to cover up that she's really just too embarrassed to confess herself. Per Episode 1's final scene where the narration literally stated that. |
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Animegomaniac
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And Miyuki's situation is that while he is intelligent and genuinely feels he belongs among these elites, Kaguya comes from a family whose wealth tallies in the trillions of yen while he comes a more normal background so he knows he can't be the first one to make a move because his appearance of strength and quality is his only thing that allows him to stand alongside Kaguya. To borrow a phrase from another show, if Miyuki goes "Oh", he will forever behind Kaguya socially. Maybe the show needs to go back to spelling out the relationship dynamics each episode. They're not doing this because they enjoy it or because they're bad people. And it's odd how this review just skips past the highlight of the episode, the forbidden word game. My advice? Ch-ch-ch check it out. |
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