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Oct 28, 7:57 AM
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Certain characters in this show really does have more expectations than others. Ayano is one of those characters where she had to achieve new highlights in her life.

Glad to see Tsunagu and Mari's relationship continue to grow in the show. It's obviously the pair has chemistry from the day they've met.
Oct 28, 8:32 AM
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Again some tension this episode but this time with female friends, Ayano seemed to have a hard time dealing with her parents.
Hopefully things will be alright with her parents.
Mari is setting steps forward in the relationship with her and Hidaka, tho i wonder who he will bring on their date.
Seems like Ritsuka accepts the relationship but the outside world has a lot of trouble with accepting it.
Oct 28, 8:56 AM
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I want to examine Hidaka's rut too but should I learn to be a doctor or a veterinarian to get a license to examine beastmen?
Oct 28, 9:19 AM
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They’re working on getting Hidaka closer to his classmates.
And wow, what strict parents, huh? The girl gets first place every time and still isn’t allowed to choose to do anything.
The episode confirms that Aida is interested in the protagonist, but I think his partner will end up being the cat girl from the opening.
Oct 28, 9:32 AM
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“Keep writing and show me before anyone else” IM INVESTING IN THE YURI!! Nice episode to introduce and develop some of the supporting cast. Can’t really blame Ayano for being upset about finishing below Hidaka in the exam rankings. Her mom is the usual POS anime mom who lives vicariously thru her child and doesn’t want to let them do anything they actually wanna do. She didn’t need to get racist towards Hidaka, but all’s well that ends well.

Ritsuka is a really great friend for begging Hidaka and Asaka to help out with Ayano there. In all seriousness, I do get some really strong Yuri vibes there and hopefully that gets developed later on along with her mom getting told to fuck off.

My messy love triangle is officially on! Poor Aida don’t even know he lost before he ever got a chance to get started. Better off finding you a beast girl at this point lol.

“I want to be helpful to you” ahhh Asaka making sure to grab Hidaka hand in public so the haters could see she’s not ashamed of him was so cute, flex your man, I know that’s right 😂 too bad Hidaka cockblocked himself at the end there inviting Aida to come on what should’ve been he and Asaka’s first date lol

Another really pretty episode, that one shot of Ayano and Ritsuka’s eyes was soo good, just can’t get over how good the show looks.
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Oct 28, 9:35 AM
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I just can't take anything Sirius 🤣
Oct 28, 10:15 AM
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I had a hard time with the classmates' names as I was focusing on the main couple.
But the plot is really nice, the triangle stuff hinted at might get interesting I think.
Oct 28, 10:15 AM
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Ngl I also expected her for a second to jump off the roof glad she didn't, hella caught me off guard though. This episode was super cute the last few minutes with Tsunagu and Mari was super cute. I hope we get more 1 on 1 scenes of them
Oct 28, 10:55 AM
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I just can't take anything Sirius 🤣
@Ahohite-killer I'm always Sirius & stop calling me Shirley
Oct 28, 10:56 AM
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I had a hard time with the classmates' names as I was focusing on the main couple.
But the plot is really nice, the triangle stuff hinted at might get interesting I think.
@DevOpsElfMage I really hope they keep that more as a friendship. Triangles just get too messy. And I'm still not over SNAFU.
Oct 28, 11:32 AM

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Well, this is more like what I was hoping for from this show.
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/u/34774/novels

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Oct 28, 11:35 AM

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Quite a relaxed episode compared to the first two. I still can't believe how good this is compared to what I first expected this show to be. I initially was watching it for the comedic factor of there being a human-like dog, but now I'm drawn into the story, although I still have many questions.

I still really love Aida and his little snag tooth!
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Oct 28, 3:01 PM
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This does have a graceful style we will see how they play out the race card. And now I want to be your dog.
Oct 29, 12:45 AM
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I'm so glad this episode was very tame compared to the last two
Oct 29, 2:46 AM
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I wasn't expecting a suicide subplot in the horny furry anime but I think it worked really well, my favourite episode thus far.
Oct 29, 3:00 AM

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WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, DID HIDAKA CONFESS HIS FEELINGS TO ASAKA??? Or did he just mumble it in his heart? Omg. This episode was so sweet. I'm glad the drama with the two girls wasn't dragged out and they immediately apologized for judging Hidaka.

Looking forward to their (triple) date ~ haha

Oct 29, 7:08 AM
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Do we just witness a yuri dev? Pls tell me it's a yuri dev.... kyaaa~
(even if it's not, pls just let a man dream... being halu for yuri ships FTW!!! wwwwwww)
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Oct 29, 1:33 PM

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"Does she like Tsunagu?"

Dude, you locked her in a room with him to see if he rapes her and she came out happy and beaming and all. What more do you need to know?

Also glad that the writer-girl issue got resolved quickly, that was such an unfair scene where Tsunaga didn't do anything wrong. Fuck those racist bitches.

And lastly, i cannot help but think this anime should be about black people instead of beast people. But that's too much for Japanese people, huh, lol. We're gonna accept beast people before we can have black people in our anime >_>
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Oct 29, 4:26 PM

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Bruhhh this anime is SO much better than it needs to be! For a story about romance and racism, it's so much better than it needs to be.

EDIT: Whoops, wrote that so off the cuff I ended up writing the same thing twice. 😅
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Oct 29, 7:37 PM

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Sorry Ayano, seems like a skill issue. Shoulda studied harder.

But seriously, she can't find a way to secretly write? Or wait until she moves out of her parent's place to write? Seems unrealistic in our otherwise super-duper realistic anime.

Anyways, fingers crossed they just decide to become a throuple.
Oct 29, 10:51 PM
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Other than the "want a bite" line which is on me for initially misinterpreting, a pretty tame episode, relatively speaking.


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Oct 30, 12:11 PM
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Well there goes my Aida X Catgirl ship since he's interested in Mari.
I'm glad that little drama was not overblown.
Oct 30, 5:08 PM

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deltahalo241 said:
wasn't expecting a suicide subplot in the horny furry anime but I think it worked really well, my favourite episode thus far.


Well, kind of an attempted suicide fakeout. According to her, she was just throwing her notebooks with her self-written stories in them off the roof.

MyllerPhiem said:
Dude, you locked her in a room with him to see if he rapes her and she came out happy and beaming and all. What more do you need to know?


Even beyond that, immediately after the gym storage room incident, when they were in the hallway together walking back to the classroom, she outright asked him if he thought it was okay to have her heart stolen by a beastfolk boy. Does this guy have amnesia?
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Oct 30, 11:47 PM
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This episode was fine. If it just keeps being a normal (furry) high school romance without the weird ecchi alpha/omega in heat SA stuff, I might give it a 6 star rating as opposed to a 4. But seeing as how the predecessor was apparently smut, well, I won't get my hopes up.
Oct 31, 4:54 AM
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We can see the society and discrimination toward beastfolk and Hidaka especially, the solution was rather too simple but hey this is not psychological. It sweet tp see Mary supporting him and just not letting other opinion to sway him just his friends support aww. That raining scene was precious
Oct 31, 8:17 AM

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This episode was fine. If it just keeps being a normal (furry) high school romance without the weird ecchi alpha/omega in heat SA stuff, I might give it a 6 star rating as opposed to a 4. But seeing as how the predecessor was apparently smut, well, I won't get my hopes up.
@The_Ruise Disagree. I want full-on BEAST DICK PENETRATION and I want the girl to bear quintuple puppies!
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@The_Ruise Disagree. I want full-on BEAST DICK PENETRATION and I want the girl to bear quintuple puppies!
@MyllerPhiem Oh if they go all in on it like that I'll give it 8 stars (lol jk)
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@The_Ruise Disagree. I want full-on BEAST DICK PENETRATION and I want the girl to bear quintuple puppies!
@MyllerPhiem woof woof ahooooo iykwim
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Nov 12, 7:48 PM

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Aida looks so cute with his little fang. Mari already told him that Aida likes Tsunagu previously so idk why he needs more confirmation

Tsunagu is the boy I never knew I needed, he's so handsome and considerate!!! This shit is so fucking cute.

Yuri subplot in the making??? Please <3
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Nov 14, 5:46 PM

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the japanese texts not being translated (at least in the english dub) is driving me a bit nuts ngl lol

oh man, they both are doubting themselves and each other's role in it! poor things...

I'm all for hopeless romantic teasing, but adding on the discrimination (whether outright or just passive aggressive) against the beastfolk is just not right!

lolol he immediately gets excited when he catches her staring and she apologizes! then the flirting begins and the other guy (aka, the third wheel) is just trying (and failing) to ignore it!
OH! IT WAS HIS MATH ASSIGNMENT OR WHATEVER SUBJECT "FRACTORIZATION" FALLS INTO!

THEY NOW KNOW HINAKA IS SMART! aaand i don't think that's gonna fly with some of the others... oh boy...

yea, I've never liked how it seems commonplace for japanese schools to post test scores with the students' names... it just invites bitter fights/rivalries and even bullying... whenever my school posted grades publicly like that, it was only with our student id numbers, so it was much more private, and I like that much better...
yea, and it also invites things like this, where parents are much harder on their kids if they don't get top scores... I mean, some parents here are disappointed/harsh if their kids don't get all As, but I do feel like it's a lot less common than in japan, or at least, it seems that way based on the various media i've consumed...

I love how they all insisted on reading her novel! hopefully they're able to convince her (and her parents) to keep writing!

oh i think he has a crush on her... esp with that headpat and the way he just decided to not say what he wanted to... too bad she has feelings for Hinaka!
"Why can't I ask her if she likes Sunagu???" yea, either he ships them, or he has a crush on her.... I honestly can't tell yet lol

AHHHHHHHH HE ADMITTED HE'S FALLEN FOR HER!!!!!!

aww she asked him out but he doesn't get it and wants to invite their other friend! poor girl lol

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For now, the trio keeping their close contact since the 2 days Tsunagu's entered human society, he still has to keep his distance.

Even with Mari's close friends of Ritsuka Kawashima and Ayano Shitara, knowing their good friend is stuck with the beastman along with Yukihiro, the duo not expecting Tsunagu to be the smartest person of the trio to help them get good at their proficiency exams, it's only natural that he comes out on top for being smart, that pisses even Ayano off. This is apparently so when both families are actually close to each other since elementary school, that Ritsuka knows what Ayano wants best and to become the very best in order to continue her dream as a writer (that unfortunately is stuck with her parents' high expectations).

Even with the spoiled notebook riped to shreds containing her mystery novel, Tsunagu doing his duty to recover it and have it read for him, Mari and Ritsuka to discover her dream, these two are lifelong friends, maybe even Yuri friends in the making, that accounts for part of Ayano's racism against Tsunagu. However, it's Yukihiro's relationship between Mari that is a romance plot already in the process of failing since he also has an interest in her. Mari and Tsunagu getting closer in the rain while on the road home together, it's just cute, but also teetering on the point of her asking him out on a date...the three of them, obviously.

Lovely episode that fleshes the side cast.
Dec 17, 9:33 PM
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I'm late as fuck cause I am just now watching but like, bro, she said her heart was stolen or whatever, what more do you need? What the fuck would the point even be in asking if she likes him, she already told you lol.
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Sorry Ayano, seems like a skill issue. Shoulda studied harder.

But seriously, she can't find a way to secretly write? Or wait until she moves out of her parent's place to write? Seems unrealistic in our otherwise super-duper realistic anime.

Anyways, fingers crossed they just decide to become a throuple.
@ExpandCheese I agree, like, bro it's writing. It's not exactly complex in terms of what you need to do it. If you can't sneak writing when you are literally at school for 8 hours a day or whatever and then presumably in your room for some hours, if you can't come up with any time during that to write, I don't think I want to read anything written by you, you seem dumb as a brick.

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