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| One of the official posa twitters said they cut parts of the story to fit the schedule they're given. 12 episodes isn't enough to tell a story like this. I personally wanted to see Shizuma try to calm Reiji after losing lol. and i don't think they met at an actual stride event when they were kids. they were just there because their parents were all involved with stride and they just went along... i mean it still kinda fits. who cares if they made that promise a long time ago, they were destined to be in stride anyways. |
| So they happened to know each other when they were younger, yeah right. The episode itself was decent but that was just poor. |
| everything about this was amazing but that ending was such a lazy scene, madhouse coulda atleast animated the idol part instead of using stills |
| That was a great episode. I need the name of that insert song that was played in the last few episodes. |
| Hell yeah so much hype |
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azwarrizal said: Lyrisia said: Maybe but then it makes no sense... what kind of tournament is that? Start tournament -> no matches against other schools -> oh semi-finals already yay Not showing them is okay but at least mention it... and how come they even had time to practice like that right in the middle of the tournament? Should have matches! oh well didn't they do pre-elimination tournament on the previous episodes?. When the glasses shogi guy got injured and got replaced by long hair guy But then that would only be the prelims... don't tell me the tournament starts at the semi-finals? oh well probably just me being confused I guess |
| Oh great, childhood friends-get-amnesia blahblahblah. Why does Japan love this trope so much, anyway. The race was at its peak when Heath jumped from the upper track to the ground, dat was really cool. Rest was okay, I was mostly annoyed by the transition scenes. At least, they changed the line-up to how it shouldbe: Riku and Takeru next to each other, their efforts finally paid, lol. Asuma x Riku, best bromance. |
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| The race was really awesome to watch. I'm glad the line-up changed so that Riku and Takeru are together. I know a lot of people are "eh" about the 'forgotten friendship' twist and I was all, "How did they not remember?" at first too but they only all met once so after 7 years, I guess it's understandable. I've made friends as a kid, even made promises together, but I can't remember their names or faces anymore. |
| Honan finally got their satisfying deserving revenge against Saisei...and now they must also go for the sweet revenge also for Kakyouin because of all those taunts Kakyouin made their prev stride match... 4/5. |
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| They were childhood friends? O_o I swear the fujoshis are eating this all up xD |
| Really entertaining. How it's possible that they didn't recognize them after have spend so many time together. The osts and the action are still very good. |
| Good race. Keeping it close kept up the intensity. I expect the final to be much the same. |
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| finally honan won. I was tired to see them lose all the time to saisei. Let's see what will happen in the final. \o/ |
| Takeru, Riku and Sakurai knew each other before well that's new |
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| I loved this episode, except maybe for the closing scene. I kinda understand "why", but I still don't like it. |
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| What a match! I really like how the incorporated the flashback into the race. Since Stride is about connecting feelings, I can't help but believe that Takeru was able to relay those childhood memories to Nana and Riku through his raw desire to fulfill their dream. |
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| They knew each other from before but only Takeru seemed to remember!!! |
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EfiChan said: It was obvious Riku and Takeru met before from Takeru's memories (even if just flashbacks). Nana was a surprise though. At the beginning I thought Riku lost his memory for some reason... but they came up with just horrible excuse... I mean, really? It's at their names changes or anything. Takeru didn't even take his glasses off (not all the time anyway). But still, nice episode. they hadn't seen each other in ten years..... DazzlingAnime1 said: Am I the only one who thinks the whole plot point about how Nana, Riku, and Takeru knew each other before 7 years ago seems to be really contrived? I mean, it's interesting, but it just feels forced in the show just to make it seem that these 3 have an everlasting bond. didn't feel that way at all. yaoi_senpai said: haikyuu is boring af, kill yourself. right now. Madara22 said: They knew each other from before but only Takeru seemed to remember!!! if you have played FF7 the same thing happened with cloud and tifa. therefore it makes sense to me that people forget. FF7 showed me that "childhood friends" doesn't automatically mean "friends for life to this day" so it was alright they forgot. --------- ooh, another nice episode! interesting that they all knew each other from before. i thought riku and sakura were being cruel for recognising him but didn't say anything, and takeru said nothing about it, but that's all changed lol. riku and sakura came by coincidence but takeru came by intention. just proves he's the teddy bear of the bunch. really nice running tricks btw. another 5. i've been voting average ever since like ep 3-8. maybe even more. i was only here for the action and had low expectations for the plot, but the story is pretty nice. |
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| A predictable win, but it was still enjoyable to watch. They knew each other from before.. but they didn't recognize Takeru.. O_o |
| that was a great match! pretty entertaining to say the least. i know they did allude to them knowing one another when they were kids but.....that bit felt a little rushed & thrown-in lol i have a feeling the last episode will be rushed.... granted it's only 12 episodes. on hindsight felt like they could have done away with certain filler scenes |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| I love Saisei team's sportsmanship and their friendly rivalry with Honan! one of the best really |
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