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I personally wanted Operation Honeytrap 2 smh. I hadn't heard of kouglof until this anime but I am intrigued, the Czech version looks particularly interesting. Lions are cool but mb I like red pandas a little more than lions tbh. The fire scene was nice, particularly with fire Bocchan and Alice dancing and occasionally obscuring Zain and Cuff.

Tonosama is still triggering Chrono Trigger/Robo memories. And it looks like Chika's dog made it into this anime too? Nice to see Yohane's chuuni tendencies in this anime when she's doing the fortune telling.

Ruby with the fairy-sized cotton candy makes me kinda wonder how food portions work with her being that she has a human size too but maybe I shouldn't think too hard about it. I also kinda wanna see her ride the ghost sea slug. Unlike Lailaps, I still consider butterflies bugs.

Guess I was wrong about the festival song tying in with the "kokoro no oto" plotline (Genjitsu no Yohane you tricky anime) but it was a nice tune nonetheless. I don't really keep track of Love Live things outside of the anime so it's fun to hear a return (at least to me) of Love Live SIP and Sunshine-era style tunes with the upbeat, distorted electric guitar driven,..ness (I guess what really helps define the sound to me is the lead electric guitar, and I think of things like Sunny Day Song from the SIP movie).

Whenever I hear the last name Saotome, Getter Robo pops into my head.

Sora would be too OP for the show if everything were explained to her in the context of being a hero.

It's kinda funny that one of the sisters is Kaguya and then other Kaguya's VA is Ellee's VA. Also, Elle didn't know how to walk at the beginning of the series and now she's walking on stage in front of people *~*~*character growth *~*~*.

I guess the ranborg's tentacles were wires? The ranborg doing 👉👈 was pretty funny. Sora and Tsubasa's teaming up move was fun, is it the first time they've done that this series?

I liked the Ageha's retort to Minoton to give some context to the sisters' always mentioning fun and smiles, was getting a little worried that we wouldn't get that payoff for a bit. Ageha getting to show off her kid skills and her sisters' support of it all was pretty nice too.

lots of fun faces this time, with wide face/no mouth bocchan, alice, and cuff and big eyes bocchan. i guess the animation can look a bit stiff at times, but it's at times it can have pretty expressive faces, like with all of the townspeople when zain froze time. A nice fluffy episode and the fight was well done with the flashbacks. Probably my favorite ep of S2 so far.

A lot of fun animation this episode, with Mari imagining what girls' nights are (kinda reminded me of Utena with the silhouette-y figures) and everybody else's wishes for a girls' night (which kind of looked OP-esque in a way? especially with the white borders). The preparation montage was fun too with the flying countdown pages. "Monsties" is kind of a cute translation for obakechan, I will give the translators that one. A "live" at a "festival" with everybody singing together,.. in my Love Live anime?! Also I'm betting that'll tie in into our "kokoro no oto" plotline. The last shot with the stars reflected in Yohane eyes reminds me of so many recent anime, Oshi no Ko and Bishounen Tanteidan for example.

Anyways, a fun episode with nice brisk pacing and it feels like the animators got a chance to play around a bit more. I think it's one of favorite episodes of Genjitsu so far.

Feels like this ep is a bit of a missed opportunity to mix up the usual pairings and also cement the themes of appreciating qualities of other people by being thrown in their shoes and having to learn about airplanes, use makeup, etc. by having them use their newfound abilities in the fight but eh, it was a fun enough episode. I liked the little Master Roshi pig and the door monster saying what they are kinda reminded me of Sailor Moon.

Animation looks a bit bumped up in quality from last ep? Clothes look more detailed at least. The episode looked pretty good, particularly liked the wavy distortions of the hot summer air (I forget what season we're in in Hirogaru land) when Minoton was waiting for the Precures.

I guess Skyland wouldn't have airports given Tsubasa obsession with planes and all but they probably have flight-related hubs? The airplane peach mascot for Momozora airport is kinda crazy looking but I can dig it. Cool plot detail to have Shoko's mom be the pilot (also was kinda afraid her plane was gonna get ranborged when that detail was mentioned).

alright, recently finished up Futari wa Precure and binged this series up till now so now I can participate in weekly discussion things. Is (American) football big enough in Japan to have football pads and what not around (because of course I as an American have at least one set for every room)? Maybe I shouldn't think about it too hard... I kinda wonder if Skyland tapirs and skunks have blue variants too (ahem, tatapirs and skuskunks, excuse me).

Kinda was curious to see a capybara ranborged but the inanimate object is a better candidate. Was it just me or did this week's ranborg and Minoton kinda lack shading compared to other things? I guess things that aren't hair and aren't metal don't really get a whole lot of shading now that I pay more attention to it... but I guess compared to other shiny things the dinosaur didn't seem quite as shiny,.. eh oh well. Anyways, it'll be interesting to see how Ellee's communicative abilities get explored more, especially since she's a baby and part of the way this series as shown her growth is her growing ability to vocalize her thoughts.

octopus symbol and spectre...errr.. spectral bride in the same episode, eh? Anyways, the red string of fate gag was cute (and so was the bubble pipe waving around in the air). Wouldn't an anglerfish not be able to survive at the depths as the rest of these other fish? Eh, I guess it's a magical anglerfish (also it looks like not all anglerfish live in the deep sea? but then the subs mentioned deep sea,,.. eh). Nice to see some progress made in terms of the curse, at least there's a more solid lead to follow.

I guess they're really sticking with Resonance for "kokoro no oto". I mean, "sound of the heart" or i dunno, something shorter to mash up the words like "heartsound" or something would help sub readers connect themes together like Yohane trying to find something fun only she can do and basically everything Mari said and this being Love Live and all, but eh,.. I guess resonance kinda half sorta works, oh well.

Yeah, I don't think trying to hide that you're a fairy really works for Ruby (but I guess that's half the point, unless maybe there's like Hakumei and Mikochi-sized wingless pepole too?!). Anyways, a nice character-growth episode today and prob my fav of this series so far. The afternoon and sparkly sea shots were pretty and so was the whole scene with the bridge shadows (which also helps visualize today's themes as an extra bonus).

Hah, I would recognize Mamoru Miyano's voice anywhere (well, almost. he's a little harder to pick out in his more subdued roles). Makoto Furukawa's voice I have more trouble with (like he was in Gundam NT, what?) but I guess he's pretty recognizable here.

It's fun seeing all the zombies in different getups, I kinda wonder what's with the guy in the sailor fuku. Kencho's speech kinda reminds me of some themes in recently airing anime... I guess the sun dimming as it passes by buildings and then coming out, the literal leaps of faith, the stripping off of formal clothes, and the helping hand were kinda,.. on the noise, but it was a fun and pretty sequence.

Susumu Hirasawa also did the OP and ED to Kon's Paprika and I haven't managed to find clips of him performing any of Paranoia Agent live, his live shows look like a trip with him performing with a laser controller