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gumbaloom
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It’s bar maybe a panel or two following the manga quite closely. The skate sequences are exactly where they are supposed to to be |
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doomrider7
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Original source. |
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Oggers
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I appreciate how during Hikaru's program, there weren't any comments or inner monologues from the other characters; it just showed her program in full, with only a few cuts to the other characters' silent reactions. It lets Hikaru's level of skill really speak for itself.
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MFrontier
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Poor Mike. She's a fiery spitfire and very talented, a truly playful cat on the rink...but she's still a kid and isn't prepared to mess up. But at least she's got a coach who understands and accepts her for who she is.
Hikaru was utterly dazzling and bewitching on the ice. I love how Inori can't stop committing homicide against adults and then trying to revive them by pouring teas over their face. It's flattering that an Olympic Gold Medalist remembers Tsukasa. Less flattering is being so frank with Inori that he crushes her hopes of competing with Hikaru. But Tsukasa believes in Inori enough to stand up to Yodaka, and that's what Inori needs. |
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doomrider7
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New episode was...incredibly good, but incredibly weird as a source reader with how much they changed in terms of the mood and vibe(significantly less comedic and more melodramatic). Again not bad, but really not my thing ESPECIALLY compared to the manga.
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gumbaloom
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I think todays episode was deliberate in terms of pacing but yeah they did really expand out what was meant to be a comic interlude. Main story continues with the next badge test spoiler[I think they’re aiming for the Kyoto competition / time skip to be the climax of this season] |
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MFrontier
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spoiler[I had honestly forgotten the Kago family hadn't appeared yet even though they were in the series as early as the first chapter...but it made an excellent way of introducing Tsukasa's backstory.]
It really goes to show how great a coach Tsukasa is that he tells Inori his story but prefaces it that he's only telling her because she asked and he in no way wants her to assume it's relevant to her story or that he's projecting his past onto her. It's kind of amazing how skilled Tsukasa is that he started even later than Hitomi with little to no professional training and still managed to make it as far as he did. Of course he's harder on himself than anyone so he could never see it that way, only in terms of the failures and how he failed Meiko. Not realizing how much they valued him for more than his skating successes. I would so totally watch a prequel anime about Tsukasa's career with Hitomi, and also for more Meiko screentime. Though it would only make it even harder not to ship Tsukasa and Hitomi together. Like they would be the perfect leads for a skating romance series. This family needs Tsukasa in their lives to keep them on the up-and-up when they do crazy stuff at sushi places! |
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doomrider7
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Yeah reading the review makes look less favorably on the changes and omissions from the manga and fanbook since they change a lot about Tsukasa's spoiler[perceived issues as well as his relationship with the Kago's. They also damn near overhauled Mr. Kago's character making him significantly more mature and serious than how he is in the source material.]
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DerekL1963
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Tsukasa would have a much easier time if Hitomi, his own former partner, was a just a little bit more supportive and understanding.
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doomrider7
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Can you explain? I'm an episode behind so I dunno how things differed in the anime vs the manga(source reader). |
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MFrontier
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Both Tsukasa and Inori have severe self-confidence issues and belief that they aren't anywhere near as good as they actually are, but it makes their mutual support and belief in each other all the more heartwarming.
Inori owns being a worm girl more than Ema does being a pigeon girl. Though at least worms don't attack people. But points for trying, Inori! Yudai! It's nice to see a chill and respectable coach and how he and Tsukasa become skate coach bros. Suzu is cute. But that's a given, isn't it? It's nice to see that Tsukasa's time as a ice dancer can actually benefit Inori as a skater because his keen eye that he needed to keep up with Hitomi can also be applied to observing and analyzing skating. I love how you can tell the significant characters in the crowds by their distinctive character designs. Oh poor Inori. That moment when you realize you forgot something vitally important, which when you're a kid with self-confidence issues hits doubly as hard. |
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FireChick
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I have to admit, I was not expecting the voice of Alain from Unicorn Overlord to pop up in this dub, much less sounding like a cowboy in some scenes, but I welcome it!
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DerekL1963
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She's always... Not holding him back per se, but always kind of a voice of doubt, always at least lightly trying to put the brakes on. This isn't just the most recent ep, it's more of a developing pattern. |
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TJ_Kat
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Some of the dialogue in this episode reinforced a nagging thought I've had: was Tsukasa actually an ice dancer or was he a pairs figure skater? Was a mistake about that made somewhere? Did someone assume they were the same thing? It's always seemed odd to me that an ice dancer would be coaching a figure skater since ice dancers don't do jumps, or any of the more acrobatic skills for that matter.
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FanGamer24
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I think the idea is that he's done both, he was primarily an ice dancer than towards the end started doing pairs figure skating. |
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