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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Eitarou, trying to convince the amnesiac Minato with his middle-school mentality won't do you any good to bring him back to water polo. And the whole Yamanami water polo team knows it all too well, losing Minato at this stage in the prefecturals will fare them no better. Eitarou's a walking enigma of feelings. Worse still, Minato tries to pick a beef with his old teammate Riku, and bringing up the past up only to the latter's chagrin. Let the past be the past and move on, which Minato in his current state absolutely cannot do being an once egostical ace led by their coach (which is the current Shogakugan High School coach). And to add salt to the wounds even more, is the fact that his alternate half circumstance was hidden from his own family, which adds to the frustration. The recorded video message from his amnesiac self before the personality change...hopefully that is able to open up the current Minato's cold heart. And it did, bringing him back to the water polo team with the same coach-like stern expression from before. The others may feel that Minato is being arrogant, but the memories will not waver his thoughts along with his talents, bonding the whole team once again. How long will Minato go on his own crusade? Chinu finally knows of Minato's amnesia, and the promise is still done as promised, and this calls off their "relationship". The challenge is on, and the schools prepare for the prefecturals in full fashion. |
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| Well, another 2.31-like adaptation.. Sport animes that tend to focus more on the drama aspects rather than the sport pretty much ruins the whole concept for me. Anyway, Inter High is close and he's back in the game. Can't wait for him to play with his old skills again. The video from the other Minato was just amazing. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Man... I miss the kind Minato and I really dislike the new and arrogant Minato. But, I guess it's nice for a change. The kind Minato did a good job of keeping the recording there. So, someday it might help him if something bad happens. And, it actually worked. Minato isn't quitting Water Polo for the time being and will keep playing with his new club. But, that was nice that he wasn't OP because of the lack of practice. He will have to become strong with everyone in the club. I hope he becomes kind like before soon. All the club members are really sweet. I love this team. |
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| Worst coach ever. |
| OK episode I know everything about the premise of this show feels a little far-fetched (between having amnesia and then remembering then having re-amnesia), but the idea that Minato left himself a video letter, just in case he lost his current memory felt super far-fetched. Other than that, it was a good episode. Hopefully we get some game action soon. |
| To be honest Minato recovering the memory was a bad move, in 2 episodes made me lose the will to keep cheering. Is expected them to lose to Shogaku, loss is sad, but at least with 6th grade Minato had a positive feeling of them playing. |
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| Hope we get a season 2 |
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| bruv, what bullshit was this cd? but okay, the episode was pretty mid, wasted a lot of time with a forced drama. |
| bruh what is even going on anymore lmao? - so Coach turned out to be the reason why Minato became the absolute dickhead he is wow - wtf was that structure of the video it's almost like Minato knew beforehand he was gonna tap the road and get amnesia again lol - Eitaro is secretly a masochist or has some incredible patience to put up with Minato's shit twice now - Everyone being perfectly chill with the douchebag Minato despite him treating everyone like absolute shit. bruh this is some Hanebado type shit kekw Oh well, at least the nakama scene towards the end was kinda nice. |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| At least the mean Minato had enough kindness to not let a man kill himself. Pretty good episode! So it was the coach that asked Minato and now Momosaki to become an egoist as the ace. I mean I understand it, as the coach you gotta make your team the best. But it was still ass how much Minato changed. Being selfish and self-centered for the team is fine, but I think he went too far into it. At least the nice Minato pulled through, I missed the man when I saw his recording. Chinu at least have come to like the nice Minato, but now that he's gone, she don't want anything to do with the mean Minato which I understand. Looking forward to the next episode. |
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| The coach confuses me. How is he a Middle and HS Coach? |
| Looking at the poll results, the anime hit its peak with episode 7 but now people don't know what to make of it I wonder what they have planned for the ending, since this is clearly getting a continuation based on the slow-moving plot. MAPPA is rich now so I doubt they would have a problem putting out one more season. |
| So the coach told Minato to be a selfish scorer in waterpolo and somehow, the kid ended up turning into an arrogant asshole in every aspect of his life. Okay. Well, this has reached "Hanebado!" levels of bad drama. Guess the idea behind this show was to make it a sport drama from the beginning? I mean, that would explain why we got so little waterpolo since forever. And also, why is Chinu still around? Her role as drama device is already over. |
| Called it. Like I wrote in the discussion forum for episode 8, there is no way a person who's kind-hearted by nature would have such a drastic change without a reason. I can't wait to see him finally learn to be proud of himself - his real self - instead of being so harsh on himself and acting like a completely different person just to live up to someone else's expectations. Also, I love the fact that the person who convinced Minato to return to the club was Minato himself. His past self, to be more specific. That aside, this episode made me officially place Eitaro on the list of my most hated anime characters this year. Perhaps ever. As if taking advantage of a guy's amnesia and lying about the two of them being friends wasn't bad enough. He now had the audacity to make a suicide threat. What the hell is wrong with him? "The most passionate person about water polo"? My ass he is. He decided to quit the club the moment he realized that Minato truly had lost his memories of how to play. You call that passion for water polo? Having a person you look up to is fine, but Eitaro has crossed the line multiple times and has ultimately faced no consequences for it. And people are complaining about Minato's behavior??? Minato should be filing a restraining order against this creep. |
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| The only good thing about dark minato is his sense of style fight me. |
| I liked this episode much better than the last episode. I can appreciate Meanato having to learn to harness the power of friendship, and Minato leaving that video 'just in case' was so cute. |
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| i thought this whole episode was gonna be like last week just him being a bitch and going to his bed to cry but im glad he's back in the team and that he's weak now he'll grow physically and maturely |
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MonkeeDan said: Better than last ep, overcame his problems kinda. But in general im kinda disappointed by the show since it pulls out a generic plot imo. Had pretty high expectations at the beginning. Right? I thought the amnesia plot resulting in a player losing his talent was kind of unique, but the show writers just lost their balls halfway through and went back on it so that they could get "talented douche" Minato back. And it's utter BS that they're trying to blame real!Minato's assholery on the coach. The coach was talking about scoring in water polo, not asking out pretty girls who clearly don't like you or talking shit to your parents and sister or treading all over "weaker" players. |
| Randomly spouting out some things now that I'm caught up. I really love how Baba and Yoshiharu are lowkey just besties. Also, bless Minato's little sister. That video recording was bs, but whatever. I'll take it. I'm glad that he decided to come back. I'm glad he didn't come back with all smiles. I really am interested in Minato's character development from here. I know it seems jarring to some, but it seems like it can be relatively fulfilling by the end if done right. They've already done some things "wrong", but I'm really hoping the result will feel good enough for me to wave those off. |
| Chinu shutdown MC to the maxx! LOLZ! 4/5. |
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| I understand the narrative better & where it’s headed with this episode, I wish it were 2-cour they would definitely be able to deal with the amnesia a bit better. That was a real great scene when it hit with him saying how Ejiri is straightforward & with him realising & the “kind” Minato telling the current Minato about the team. So touching! Amiami spittin FAXXXXXXXX. Their expectations of him. I feel bad for Minato and hope he can find his peace & work thru this. |
 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 |
| they gonna make mr.coach as the bad guy or |
| Fuck that bitch dude! Your done with him????!!!! You are the one that helped turn him back into that by helping to crush the new ego that helped lead him to reverting back to the old ego! Fuck you bitch, I hope you get a hentaiade with you in it and the tags include ugly bastard, group, mind break. Peace |
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| So the asshole attitude is mostly that dumb coach fault with his 'all aces should be egoistical'. Good to see Minato trying to play waterpolo with the team, hopefully his stubborness in wanting to do things on his own will stop soon by realising team work is important in a team sport |
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| The amnesiac tropes continue.. Minato was convinced by his post/pre-amnesiac self to continue water polo via a video recording he addressed to.. himself. Chinu is no longer interested in Minato, or at least that's what she claims. Personally I find her obnoxious. I'm also not sure what purpose she serves in this story apart from being a walking talking plot device for Minato to restart water polo.. We also found out that Minato was originally kind, just like he was during the past year, but his coach (somehow) managed to change his personality into a first class a-hole. Is that really possible? To switch from kind to cruel as easily as if you flipped a mental switch? Probably only in anime... |
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| I liked the coach before (solely because he's hot ofc), but it's lokey his fault Minato even became an asshole imo |
| Coach told Minato to be more greedy. That's just good coaching if you ask me. A lot of teams thrive when building around an ace player. It's Minato's fault that he became an asshole. Off the field he should have been a more friendly and supportive player. |
| The coach is the true antagonist from this anime. New Minato predicted the future for some reason. |
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| I can feel it lol Her little sister is a part from an another anime called Hibike! Euphonium (just kidding) |
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