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| Lol, this turned into a treasure hunt. Gotta love how Ruri just immediately gives in to curiousity in this show. Having additional characters like Inari also adds more fun to the mix among the duo. |
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| Imari is a girl who is in the same mineral laboratory as Nagi. The black octahydrate crystal has a metallic sheen; this rock closely resembles obsidian. So, are they mining treasure in Higashiyama or Kitahayuyama? Are sapphires really that valuable? I've never seen a sapphire before. Unlike iron, which is a versatile metal. So, is the blue glow actually coming from animal feces? |
SyureriaJul 20, 5:35 AM
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| More interesting and beautiful looking minerals. Imari is a great addition to the show. I like her hilarious personality. That glowing fluorite looked very pretty. |
SerafosJul 20, 7:17 AM
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| this show has hit mastered hitting the emotional peaks of the episode's plotline each week so far. it's so nice to watch and feel that wonder each time. imari is so relatable lmao. i'm not studying geology, but when studying anatomy and then trying to identify it on a cadaver is genuinely so hard without "field" expierence. |
| Imari is an absolute cutie and a great addition. Really sweet seeing how excited Ruri gets when she is looking for treasure. |
| Japan really don't keep closed mines marked on maps? They do in Poland for coal mines, specifically to keep people from exploring and potentially hurt themselves. |
| Ohhh!!! I feel so jealouuuuuuuuuuus I want to scream!! I want a Nagi-san in my life!!! Ughhh how did Ruri get her name on a research paper, and I’ve spent five years at university without publishing a single one! Ughhhhhhhhhhh!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! I want someone like Nagi-san in my life, who smiles at me and says… “Look, I added your name to my research because you contributed so much with us...” Ughhh… I worked so hard in the clinic, handled so many rare cases, and yet I couldn’t even publish *one* case report... Wish me luck... I’m currently working on 5 research projects and want to publish them soon... Anyway, jokes aside—do you remember the pyrite from episode one, the first part of the episode? If not, I talked about it in my post below—go check it out 😉😉😉 Honestly, it’s amazing how the anime doesn’t throw out information randomly—it actually turns it into something real. It gives theoretical info, then applies it practically! Also, a new character appeared! Imari Yuko—I’m guessing she’s the lab supervisor, right? Overall, it was a lovely episode! But now it’s going to keep me up all night just so I can update my post! Wait wait waaaait… NAGI-SAN!!! She’s assigning research! She gave Imari a task and brought Ruri into a project about blue sapphire!! Aaaaaaaaaahhh I’m jealous again—curse every professor I studied under! I want a Nagi-san in my life! Why won’t anyone open their arms and say, “Come, join our research 🥹🥹💔💔”? They should really invest in young talent... Ugh! If every faculty member in my university were like Nagi-san, I’d have gotten straight A+’s and published 50 papers by now\... I’m seriously jealous of Ruri… really... Alright, joke time’s over. I’ve released a new post about this anime! It includes *everything* explained in the previous episodes! As for today’s episode, I’ll be adding it within the next 15 hours! I don’t know exactly when—I need to rewatch the episode a few more times! Take a look and let me know what you think! Thank you 💕💕👇 [https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2224689](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2224689) See you next week! I’ve added tons of screencaps for you all! Enjoy! 👇 Episode 3 added to the project! |
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| Imari is so adorable omg! We got our trio now and I can’t wait to see what other adventures they get up to. The fluorite cave was such a beautiful scene, now I wanna shine some UV light on some! Also, are y’all noticing how Ruri is slowly coming on these trips with better gear and more prepared? She’s got full PPE on now and even her behavior is better. She still does the occasional childish thing, but she’s really growing up before our eyes |
Marinate1016Jul 20, 10:04 PM
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| Nagi isn't the only one with airbags, Imari is well equipped too. This was another nice episode. The OST during exploration and vibes in general are still so pleasant. And I like the addition of Imari, too. |
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| Such a beautiful episode. Loved how it turned from cleaning a room to ending up finding one of the most beautiful things I've seen ever. Everytime I look at bismuth, I always wonder how it forms like that. It's really nice to look at and probably my favorite crystal of all time. That fluorite ore vein was something different, as soon as I saw it, I got chills for some reason. Such an amazing scene and will be for a very long time. 5/5 |
| Ruri-chan's motivation and child-like joy over every piece of rock is the real treasure here for Nagi-san. Though these characters are barely flashed out but I can kinda see that why Nagi would put so much energy and time into bringing Ruri with her everywhere. She might see in her her old youthful enthusiasm that inspired her to choose this academic field. |
IshitatesoJul 20, 8:39 AM
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I don't like how Ruri's dangerous behavior lead to big discovery. It usually lead to fatal accident.
| @phantomfandom Yeah, Ruri's impulsiveness needs to be curbed. Her immaturity is really starting to annoy me, and realized this episode that she's in high school? I thought she was supposed to be like 11 or 12 from the way she acts. |
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@phantomfandom Yeah, Ruri's impulsiveness needs to be curbed. Her immaturity is really starting to annoy me, and realized this episode that she's in high school? I thought she was supposed to be like 11 or 12 from the way she acts.
| @Ego_Altar yep, was about to ask how old she is because she is such a chibi and behaves like a middle schooler. |
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@phantomfandom Yeah, Ruri's impulsiveness needs to be curbed. Her immaturity is really starting to annoy me, and realized this episode that she's in high school? I thought she was supposed to be like 11 or 12 from the way she acts.
| @Ego_Altar This manga has a subtle yuri subtext, it wouldn't work with such a big age gap, lmao. |
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| Haha, yeah i will also be one to say that people should be careful when exploring old or unknown caves... they shouldve put a disclaimer before they started exploring! you never know what will happen in a cave (such as what many here have suggested already), and not to mention the potential to be knocked out from increased CO2 levels! in this case, i think Nagi and Ruri shouldve been more cautious like Imari otherwise, great episode. Glad we get a little discussion on fluorite and its fluorescence property! |
| The duo has now become a trio with Imari’s introduction, and wow all these girls are packing some dumptrucks lol, does being into rocks make you extra thicc or something? Jokes aside, I like the addition of Imari, she’s a cute glasses girl and has a fixation on books, but when it comes to being on-site she struggles a bit, so she’s not necessarily a replacement for our field guide Nagi lol. But boy was their little research room a mess, and it was here we got to see a not so perfect side of Nagi since she really didn’t want to clean that mess up, can’t say I blame her but I wouldn’t have let it get that bad in the first place lol. I also really liked the info on bismuth here, incredibly pretty rock that one is, how it crystallizes the way it does went over my head a bit but it was very cool to learn about. And we got another outside excursion in the second half, an old abandoned mine is pretty exciting but yeah you definitely don’t wanna go in one of those, as cool as it may seem. The gang ended up having to go in anyway when they got stuck in a cave-in (I need Nagi to land on me the way she landed on Imari lol), but this led to the discovery of that beautiful wall of fluorite, it may have been Ruri acting out that got them to notice it but I guess this is one of those times her being bratty was a good thing lol. I also really liked Imari’s reaction here, that girl has probably been in books so much that seeing the real thing really struck her to her core, good on Nagi for letting her handle the research on the place. And Nagi knows where to find some sapphire huh? That’s probably one of my favorite gemstones (and one of my favorite Pokémon games) so I’m excited to see if they end up finding them or not. |
| Another amazing episode and my God I love this show. This might be the best show of the season maybe even the year so far for me and its only been 3 episodes. Words cannot express enough the warm feelings I get when I see Ruri learn about something she's passionate about. She wants to learn everything and she's getting hands on learning from a mentor (Nagi) that enjoys teaching her these things. All of this makes me want to learn about rocks and all these amazing subjects I'm interested in. There is so much passion put into this series its lights up my day. We got a new character today and she's obviously very book smart, but when it comes to practical application she obviously struggles. That's why both hands on learning and reading about a subject go hand in hand. However its not only that its also about reminding yourself why you love a subject in the first place. When she see's the fluorite in the abandoned mine she's speechless its like she's fallen in love all over again. What an amazing scene, and a fantastic episode. |
| I've read plenty of horrible stories about going into caves and mines (suddenly collapsing, toxic gases and fumes, etc.) that this episode was more scary than educational for me. |
| This week’s episode had two very different parts. I was really surprised by how good the drawings and layout were in Part A. Even though it all took place in one room, the cool camera angles made it feel fun to watch. Part B though, was out in the wild. As usual, Ruri acted like a little gremlin while hunting for stones and minerals, but that’s what makes her cute. And yeah, Imari got “flattened” twice. The way Nagi fell on her was so funny xD This scene in Part A also stood out to me because of the cartoony style. At first, I thought it might be Ayaka Minoshima or Toshiyuki Satou, but they weren’t credited.  |
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| Youko's design is nice, too. |
| Imari using those airbags of hers |
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| Imari being a nice representation of academics becoming comfortable in their books and forgetting about the joy of being out in the field. The combination of what she discovered in the mine and the enthusiasm of Ruri will definitely have her questioning that, and I look forward to seeing more of her on our mineral expeditions! Nagi continues to be the ultimate spokesperson for mineralogy. Even my little one is asking me a lot of questions about rock-related careers while watching. |
| I wanted even more time with bismuth because not just the beautiful and striking "alien"-like (as Ruri would put it) crystals derived from it, but in general the properties of that one have always interested me. I remember some years back watching a series of videos about extracting the bismuth metal from Pepto Bismol (the over the counter medication which uses bismuth as its key active ingredient) and always wanted the experience of experimenting with it, although I stopped purchasing that medication for personal use a pretty long time ago now so would be just for the purposes of the extractive experiment. It would be something to obtain the metal and then reduce it further. But neither this field of science nor hands-on stuff is really my forte (I guess somewhat like Imari in that latter respect). That's yet another reason (mineralogy and geology not a lifelong hobby or any kind of area of expertise for me) why I've been appreciating and loving this series, as there is a certain joy to be had in hearing a collection of things you already know assembled and presented in an attractive manner and recited back to you, but the thrill and additional value of these educational/edutainment series on a personal level, in my view, is when the subject is a little more new and foreign to you and then you really can relate even more heavily and appreciate in vicarious fashion these wide-eyed newbies filled with optimism/idealism and knowledge-craving, making their first-time discoveries. I'm not claiming that it would have literally nothing to teach me in that sense if it was centered on a pre-existing otaku obsessive subject I was already infinitely more intimately familiar with. But it's a question of amount/degree. Fluorite isn't my favorite mineral (actually it would be toward or at the bottom of the list if I were making some very ambitious and only a tad arbitrary ranking order list of all of them, which I'm not going to do) as I'm not a huge fan of what it's mined for (fluorine) and some uses thereof, but one can't deny that fluorite crystals have a certain sublime and imposing beauty that can take the breath away. The fluorite ore vein and the phosphorescence at work and on display there in full glory reminded me a great deal of the site of a former zinc mine which has since been converted to a museum and I toured some years back. They have a whole room in place there just for the largest glowing specimens all bathed in UV that creates quite a visual spectacle. And speaking of visual spectacle, another episode in which Ruri was smoking hot and they managed to work in plenty of nice shots and angles too for those for whom that provides an additional appeal and selling point (of which I won't deny, as I've said before, I also of course am one of them). And by the way, regarding that, now it's the third episode - we're three episodes in, and to the section of folks raising Cain over too much of Ruri being covered up (ironically episode two was an example of the opposite, of removing clothing) or censored with most attractive shots/moments stripped out, all I have to say is that this was another episode, probably not as strong in that department in episode two due to lack of riverine operations, but still one in which a running mental tally or score sheet had to be kept asking oneself throughout whether there were more gorgeous shots of Ruri or the gems. That says it all. And she's augmented by a, now likely two, older sister figures also with a different type of, but comparable-level sex appeal and charm depending on tastes, so between the inorganic materials and the living people, shortage of eye candy from this series was never an issue. |
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| Imari is cute, her confidence took some damage because of Ruri's questions, but she'll recover it soon! Ruri is cute as always |
  Imouto suki Tsundere-Chuuni-Imoutos save me...   |
| Kinda alright, next episode might be pretty awesome though |
I liked this episode. Was a lil more slow than last episode but still throughly enjoyed the end just like last time I mean absolutely beautiful scenes per usual with this anime. Like its THE prettiest anime this season by a long shot. And going off of character interactions i am anxiously awaiting a ruri and nagi romance 👀   |
| Bismuth is always so interestingly weird whenever I see it, it does feel very alien-like. Still, it's so beautiful. The fluorite vein scene was amazing! It's like you're directly under the night sky or is straight up in space. Nagi-san is a really great senpai. |
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| Do your best Imari, we'll make a field researcher of you yet. |
| I actually liked how much the adults stopped Ruri from entering an abandoned mine, common sense is always a treat to see. Getting your name on a paper before getting to university is amazing. Ruri has a great career ahead of her. |
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| I’ve seen enough, its either this show or city the animation is my personal AOTS. Goddamn what a beautiful episode. |
| I still love the anime, but Ruri’s carelessness is starting to wear on me. She acts like an undisciplined 10-year-old, which isn’t just annoying, but borderline dangerous in some scenes. If she were just a normal high school girl interested in minerals, it would make sense, but besides catalyzing new adventures, I don't see what Nagi gains by taking her everywhere. The relationship from her standpoint is rather unexplored so far, which I hope will change in the future. But I wouldn't call this a real issue yet, I'm just making a slight remark that while I do think the anime is fantastic, this might start irritating me later. |
| Imari Youko joined the party and what a add!!! The Saphyr mission is gonna be so great, can't wait to see it! |
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| The animation and character design are amazing, I'm always impressed, the anime is really beautiful |
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| This is just the series suited for one to appreciate background art. I swear that either each episode gets prettier and prettier or it was always like that and now I'm paying more attention to it. Having the theory reflected into practice gives us moments like the one Imari was able to experience in that mine full of fluorite. Quite the astounding view if I do say so myself and it moved her to carry that experience into her work afterwards. Oh but now we're going for sapphire and Kyogre won't be around to spoil the fun out of it (?). I'm eager to see it animated and maybe by that time not get too distracted by the characters'... you know. |
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