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| Luou makes his way into school as a transfer student, though Junpei of course is in a different class. Luou isn't acclimatized to school given his long absence, and soon becomes the prime target of bullying with his strange attitude from Hyouta, while all that Junpei cared for was not for his ballet secret to be exposed. Even worse, Luou's the rumored child of a high-profile parental scandal, and Miyako avoided Junpei like the plague for not protecting Ruou. This boy isn't meant for the outside world, he's only meant to live within the world of ballet, and Junpei for better or worse has his own reputation to live by in both school and family. Ruou Mori's real identity as Mori Mazuru, Hyouta just wants to make Ruou's life even harder in school, and once his infamous song comes along, the whole school eggs him on, except for Junpei whom wants to stop this. And Ruou did the one thing he could: present his ballet to the entire school that leaves Junpei in tears, even impressing Miyako. I get that Junpei's meant to be the laughingstock of his friends, but when it comes to ballet, he just can't stop his excitement, giving up his position in his soccer club clique to pursue ballet fully. You don't need to shave your head though. |
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| Was a tough episode to watch with all the bullying. On that note, shows how bad is Junpei's Jeet Kune Do teacher is. By not teaching a martial artist philosophy, and just say some vague bullcrap about being man of the house. Partly making Junpei gutless. |
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BlichoBoy said: Was a tough episode to watch with all the bullying. On that note, shows how bad is Junpei's Jeet Kune Do teacher is. By not teaching a martial artist philosophy, and just say some vague bullcrap about being man of the house. Partly making Junpei gutless. Honestly, I found the bullying part to be kind of obnoxious. It's hard to not look at it as a purely narrative device, designed to tell us which characters we should hate and which one we should sympathize with. In my opinion there wasn't too much depth in this episode, considering how serious of a topic bullying is. |
| Inspired by Luou, Junpei finally decides to go all out in pursuing his true passion of ballet. In doing so, he leaves the soccer team, and severs ties with pretty much all of what he thought were his friends. Guess they were never really his friends to begin with. |
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| damn I hate these bulling episodes |
| Good episode, now Junpei made up his mind, let us hope he will stick with it. Yes the bullying was sad to watch, but it did look like he could handle it fairly OK. So I was not overly tormented by it and since the dance and Junpei's confession it looked like they might leave him alone. So in the end it turned out well, sort of. |
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| Bullying? This episode is pure madness! Jumpei doesn't need trashy friends like that and it was the best decision to cut ties with them, but seriously, he should have made that decision since the first red flag :( I would have loved to see some karma in action and let that sneaker do a head shot at that bully >w> I'm sure a lot of us would be a very satisfied. |
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| "Being "manly" means being able to stick to my beliefs!" Infuckingdeed It's a simple thing to say, but it requires a lot of courage to let actions speak, especially when your "friends" are just a bunch of hobby bulliespussies who don't get you. Welp, he earned Luou's respect. Great episode again. Jumpei tearing up after the performance and his declaration were my favorite moments. And lol @ the buzz cut. It worked better for Sakuragi. |
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| I wanted to slap the Junpei so hard when he did nothing against this bullying plus hearing his thought process didn't help at all. It was really though to watch. Fuck bullying. |
Easily the best episode of any show that came out this week. What a character progression!  |
_yikes said: Easily the best episode of any show that came out this week. What a character progression! Those are some manly tears |
Graduated High School in May of 2022. Summer vacation has finally arrived. I have once again regained the power of a new anime fan, being able to watch multiple anime episodes in a day. Time to binge-watch every single anime I can into the night until college arrives. SADGE. SUPER SADGE... College has begun as of Monday, August 30, 2022, so you won't be seeing me much around these parks. See you on weekends, I guess... School me is back. Sigh! I'll at least try for one anime a day with all this course load. |
| finally finally finally Junpei's free! I feel bad for Luos but he's so good at ballet! |
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| Man... I've never hated someone's friends so much. Junpei's friends were such assholes and I'm glad they're out of his way and now he can focus all on the ballet. I wanted to punch them so fucking bad. AGHHH... He'll do great alone from here on out. Poor Luou. I felt so bad for him in this episode but he was so good during the ballet. The animation was so good for the movements during the ballet. Really enjoying this show so far. |
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| those bullying scenes were really hard to watch. and even more so with junpei kinda half assing helping luou. i mean yeah its because he doesn't want to get shunned or lose his friends but fuck??? luou wasn't only pushed mentally anymore they literally pushed and kicked balls at him. junpei eventually stepped in but going "what the hell is wrong with you" to the victim???? come on man. even if you're frustrated n shit that was just.. ugh. i understand why junpei did and didnt do whatever this ep but still ,, dont like it. junpei's friends tho.. after he told them about his worries and how he's got something he wants to chase for now? get a load of these fragile men. "you found something you really want to follow but you gotta quit the club and hang with us less?? wtf man😕" UGH!!_+$ and then they'll show how the green eyed black haired dude is actually a "good guy" or something. junpei shaving his head tho LMFAOO dude😭😭😭😭 |
| Correct me if I am wrong, but Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake has a male lead with shaved head, doesn't it? I kind of don't like Junpei here. I can understand why he didn't step in when Luou was getting bullied, and I don't blame him. Kids are just like that. But, he somehow found a way to frame himself as being the victim when Luou was getting bullied. That was just shitty behaviour. Luou's reactions still make me feel like he's getting/has been abused. Miyako is still a boring character. Junpei is annoying. I wish Luou was the actual protagonist. He's a lot more interesting so far. I want to see his growth the most. Will Junpei's hair ever grow again? Or, will the OP be updated? It should just take a week or two for his hair to go back to its previous length. But, artists sometimes don't make characters' hair length grow realistically. (An understandable decision.) |
| Holy fuck, this show really knows how to make me uncomfortable lmao. Great episode! Junpei's friends- I mean, excuse me, former friends were absolutely horrible. Glad he cut ties with them. This was incredibly realistic, and that was why it was incredibly painful too. Well, despite everything, at least Luou was able to release some pent up ballet. Let's go Junpei, that's right, what's important is what's on the inside, though ya did not need to go bald for that lmao. |
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| I usually wait with my "judgement" of an anime or character until I get at least halfway through the anime, but after watching this episode, my opinion of Junpei has been set in stone. I agree with Ruou. Ruou should be the prince instead of Junpei. |
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| Maybe a little too realistic with the kids not finding anything wrong tormenting the weird kid but going what a traitor and immediately tossing Junpei out when he wants to do something else with his free time. Hard stuff to watch. The real question is whether it'll handle the fallout properly or this will just be a ham-fisted excuse to make abandoning his friends and former passions for ballet the moral choice. |
| this episode was fantastic, i'm so happy that I can watch this series |
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| The best anime of this season. Truly inspiring. |
| I find it really baffling how this series gets overlooked and treated so far, maybe the deep character study is too much for people to handle? Or even ballet turns them off, literal projection here in this episode? The biggest injustice of this season for a so far very positively surprising production. |
| I'm completely disgusted right now. Junpei took far too long to respond to Luou's terrible bullying. This episode had me ready to punch those kids. And Junpei it’s my least favourite right now. How can you sit and watch someone being treated like that. |
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| After two so-so episodes, I gotta say this one was actually pretty good. The bullying as well as Junpei's "friends" acting like retards felt realistic enough and man did I love Luou's dance. Seriously, it looked so damn smooth and clean with the way in how they increased the framerate for the dance movements. Now as for Luou's behavior, seeing him being so passive towards absolutely everything lowkey bothered me a bit. Not gonna lie, it really makes me wonder about his past: was he abused?, does he come from an abusive household?, etc. And fucking Junpei at the end tho xD Dude wants to dance but he now looks like he's about to enter fight club. |
| omg! so we now go to bullying (just like the bullying of Girls' of the Wild [Manhwa]) and even your own soccer friends disown you! kinda heavy episode! 5/5. |
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| The bullying scenes were handled quite well. I wanted Junpei to do something about it but at the time, I can understand why he didn't. He did it later though! Luou has my respect for making the best use of the situation he was put in and demonstrating his talent to everybody. And finally, my boi Junpei; he did it. He took the first step by questioning the concept of manliness. I am so happy with this development. Great character progression here. That ending scene though lol. |
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| It's not shounen so I don't really understand how people were expecting Junpei to suddenly become a superhero saviour. And why should he bother? He met the kid twice and he was hostile towards him, and now he has to babysit him and lose his cool kid rank? Also Miyako is so damn unfair wanting to use Junpei to make Ruou's life better. Junpei doesn't owe her shit. I don't even like Junpei but this is bullshit. And by the way it was Ruou's own decision to come to school, he knew this was coming. Don't read further if bullying is a sensitive topic for you. gonna explain a bit from my own experience being an occasional bully in the past. |
| see you, space cowperson . . . |
| The bullying was very hard to watch. On the topic of Junpei's reaction, no matter how unlikeable he is, his reaction to the situation was realistic. As audience members, we have to remember these are 14/15-year-old kids, so these situations are awkward and hard to handle. There is also quite a bit of toxic masculinity, and fingers crossed this would be discussed a little more. However, this is a relatively new topic and Japan isn't exactly at the forefront of these sorts of topics. I would also love to hear the struggles female dancers have to go through too in ballet, but this seems unlikely. |
| I have a huge trigger with bullying so I couldn't watch this episode without me wanting to beat the hell out of Junpei's classmates. I'm sorry but as a victim of bullying, I agree with everyone who said that those scenes were hard to watch- in fact, I even considered dropping the show because of it... Triggers are a serious issue. And before anybody asks me "why did you watch it then?" well, I didn't see this coming and I haven't read the manga? lol Glad Junpei stood up by him at the end... |
| everyone hate on junpei that he didn't stopped the bullies (they where his friends but it doesn't matter completely) and i just wanted them to get hit by a truck. fucking toxic morons with small pee pees |
| Oi oi, this was so stressful. I paused the video so many times because I just couldn't take the embarrassing situations. Children are so cruel when they want to fit in and hurt the others who are a tiny bit different than them. And there is Junpei. The build-up through the episode for him to realize that he wants to come out and reveal his real passion for his "friends" was well-done. The facial expressions were nice. I guess Junpei won't be bullied and I assume his hobby will be recognized by his friends and they will get on well again. This show won't get too dark I guess. |
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| I liked how realistically they portrayed the bullying. It made me hate Junpei but even his behavior was realistic. But I'm glad that in the end he did speak up. When Luou started dancing without giving a shit about what others would think, that scene was truly beautiful. Luou's English tho, Ucchi did such a great job. |
| I understand that Jumpei doesn't want to oppose his friends, but he takes the L for not stopping them. In a way, he looks up to Luou and was expecting him to be "cooler" and defend himself, but just watching doesn't make it any better. I really like the last scene and the scene where he just confronts his friends and implicitly tells them to stop teasing the transfer student. I really hate it when people just watch others suffer, we'll see if that behavior of Jumpei will change. |
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| Good choice Junpei, good choice. He left the soccer club, and now he's going to practice Ballet seriously. Good chapter. |
| thought i was watchin some sort of Netflix live action ngl. I found the bullying to be typcial in tvs or movies but you dont really see much of it portrayed in anime. So seeing it was rather interesting. Also, crazy to see this level at least. |
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| Even though I didn't like Ruou before it hurt to see him being harassed and mocked by everyone, good thing that Junpei left his friends, they were shit anyway so no regret, now he's gonna 100% focus on the ballet |
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