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Spike Terra
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So there is over 1000 games for the Saturn but around 935 of them were never localized for America. Episode 2 also has my favorite Eva joke that I don't will ever be topped in my book. I don't know why Netflix has these episodes on a two week delay for certain territories and not for others as they an english sub for them on release date.
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Minos_Kurumada
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I mean, if we are gonna be picky about tsunderes, Akane is way older than Azuka, Sayaka older than her and Lum even older.
Simply put, Uncle doesn't care about anything not Sega. |
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MFrontier
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This anime has a lot of ladies unlucky in love.
We have the elf girl (who Takafumi is surprisingly invested in seeing again), Mable who misses her chance at love and actually living a more fulfilling life because the Uncle basically re-affirms her being a hikikomori, and Fujimiya who is pinning hard for Takafumi who only seems to see her as a friend. Even the Ending is basically elf girl looking forlornly and melancholic, probably because of her feelings for Uncle. Also mage girl makes her cameo. I wonder if we're ever going to see Mable again or if this episode and her scenes in the Opening are just it. |
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Covnam
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Just caught up and really enjoyed it.
Just curious about something. For anyone that knows, without any spoilery details, do we find out how/why he returned at any point? |
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Sven Viking
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Really not a spoiler imho, but tagged just in case anyone doesn’t even want to know yes or no: spoiler[There’s been foreshadowing so it should be revealed eventually, but it hasn’t been revealed so far in the manga. It seems to me like something that might potentially be left until close to the end of the story or at least a major turning point.] |
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kgw
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As an uncle with memories of the console wars and Sega just this close to winning it, this series is painful to watch.
The joke is always the same "My uncle doesn't understand this world, or the world he was in… Haha!", which I guess it should be funny for readers in Japan. |
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jdnation
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Haha! This show's great! I like its understated style. And it's nice to see a show actually show and reference real-world properties, though I guess any actual branded imagery will only be tied to SEGA.
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MFrontier
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Takafumi's faith in humanity and the internet is restored while the uncle's faith in himself and people is destroyed.
The plight of elf girl continues. Like, okay, constantly calling your love interest "orc face" is a bit much, but she always defends him in front of people and makes sure he's safe, she's goes on a one-woman suicide run to protect him and the whole city (from a mess he caused), and all she asked for in return was a dinner date...and he high tails it out of there rather than be "extorted." Poor girl. Takafumi wastes no time when he sees his uncle as the elf girl. Because cute girls and sex sells. Especially when they're pantsless. Haruka Tomatsu having to play the uncle playing "aunt" was hilarious. Especially when she started talking about Tails and SEGA games. I guess that explains why Takafumi has difficulty seeing Fujimiya as a love interest. Her bullying him and basically being someone he thought of as a boy for so long makes it difficult to see her romantically...all the same the two still seem genuinely close in spite of that, and it actually seems to help uncle realize a bit about how the elf girl truly felt about him. Even if it's also what inhabiting her form is telling him. |
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Sven Viking
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Iirc in the manga they said the barrier was unbreakable so testing it seemed more reasonable.
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Sven Viking
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Apparently the Japanese broadcast is skipping a week due to COVID. I wonder if that means the two-week-delayed Netflix release will catch up by a week.
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GracieLizzy
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Okay so I have just watched the episodes that Netflix have up (in the UK at least) and I really like it. But I think I hate Fujimiya at this point, she meets the (from her point of view) a possibly mentally ill uncle that the guy she likes is supporting and her reaction is to tell the newphew in question to throw him out on the street and cut ties? Leaving said uncle homeless and destitute?
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FilthyCasual
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As for the episode itself, hilarious as ever. Uncle's snoring as Elf stands in silence and then her red eyes the day after are hysterical. |
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Sven Viking
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The post-credits scene was a bonus chapter in a manga volume release which is why it’s kind of outside the normal tone.
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blahmoomoo
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It looks like US Netflix is delaying the delayed release too. The episode listing says the next episode will be out on August 31. |
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MFrontier
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I continue to pity poor Fujimiya and Elf Girl. They try so hard, they're so cute and attractive, and their feelings become more and more overt...and it just doesn't get through to these dense idiots.
Although I guess at least it becomes more clear that they genuinely care about them even if they don't see them as romantic interests...though Takafumi does seem flustered around Fujimiya's beauty (just not in a "gets turned on by a middle school girl in a swimsuit" sort of way). I guess it's not the first time I've seen a woman willing to get caught naked by the guy she likes...or in a boyfriend shirt...but being so desperate to make sure he didn't forget about it was kind of sad. Elf Girl looked amazing in that dress. And she may not have gotten laid, but she did get some intimate action in the post-credit scene. |
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