Dive!! Episode 12 Discussion

Kohta said:
I'm a bit ticked off that they didn't even show Tomoki's last fucking dive..... or the final score.... What even is that....

leelee619 said:


They didn't show it but what's the difference cause it was enough For Tomoki to be a representative for Japan by winning the competition

Lelouch0202 said:
Plot Armor the finale?
One moment Yoichi is failing dives, then he's instantly better once the coach explains the situation that the guys misunderstood. Then he becomes a pro diver again, random dramatic stair climb and then he wrecks everyone and gets first? What? Not to mention Tomo getting selected and they didn't even show his dive. MDC were shown somewhere in the middle of the pack and at the end 2 of them got selected. Well, whatever.

I liked how the Pinky dude got selected, the last scene with him and Yoichi going at each other was fun to watch.

Overall, this was a pretty average show. I wasn't expecting anything great but I was hoping it would at least be as good as Free, seems I was mistaken. The story was all over the place, one moment we're trying to get the club to survive by aiming for the Olympics, then we go into random love triangle drama and then some random teen angst drama. The show lacked a concrete goal and direction, there should have honestly been more emphasis on the sport itself. They should've decided whether they wanted to focus on the sport or character drama, I get the sense they wanted to achieve a working mix of both but unfortunately the direction just didn't hold up to that and as a result we have a mediocre show with no meaningful theme. Hardly any of the characters passed of as likable to me.

6/10, cause it was at least better than Battery.

Kohta said:


The difference is we saw the dives that everyone else had been working on for a good few episodes, and and the end of the entire anime we don't see the most important dive from the MAIN CHARACTER of the anime.

Whats the point of and anime ABOUT DIVING if they're not going to show us the dive.

phantomfandom said:
I don't know why there's comparison between this and Battery.

Kohta said:
I'm a bit ticked off that they didn't even show Tomoki's last fucking dive..... or the final score.... What even is that....

Shion657 said:
I feel the same here. I wanted to see Tomo's dive. I was so mad when they didn't. What the heck!!!!

sakurayou said:


same here. I also want to see Tomo's dive >< It's the important dive that got him to the Olympics man how dare they don't show us that!

The animation on Youichi's dive is nice though

Agree with everyone who have issue on pacing which is bad throughout the series, part of the reason the story's flow suffer.

However, I do enjoy the series with good moments here and there, so personally i give it a 6.5

tsubasalover said:
Fever... Everyone talking to female coach out of staying. So it was Nakamura-san's character who was invited to go to the US, not the coach, for guaranteed recovery.

The couple there and actually cheering him up with their hearts!

Everyone to their best and realizing their true goal. Did he not make it (not showing main guy's final dive...)?

lol @ Sugita-san's character and Sakura-san's character combi.

Leo_10 said:
All the characters misunderstood the coach' intention.

Seems like Youichi manged to pull it off and Shibuki did his swan dive. Though we didn't see Tomoki's dive.

Had a hard time watching this but the finale was actually good.

Kohta said:
I'm a bit ticked off that they didn't even show Tomoki's last fucking dive..... or the final score.... What even is that....

leelee619 said:


They didn't show it but what's the difference cause it was enough For Tomoki to be a representative for Japan by winning the competition

BlackCicero said:
I thought a good job was done with how the dives in the episode were executed. It was disappointing that Tomoki's dive wasn't animated though.

Overall the show gets a 6/10 from me.

tingy said:

Agreed...how disappointing. I'd rather see his last dive animated and him not being the representative than not seeing his dive and him becoming representative. All the excitement went to Yoichi's amazing dive, and none for Tomo :/

The story's flow was all over the place. There's wasn't a proper climax, and felt like there were random climaxes which were quickly resolved. Especially in this last episode, we started with Yoichi's failed dive, and then it was all okay. Then again when Yoichi was having trouble walking up the stairs, but then everything was great again. Also the drama. I can't get over how terrible the drama with Tomo and his girlfriend was.

That being said, I still enjoyed most of the episodes. I stuck around mostly for the characters because I found them likable despite them also sometimes being stupid. I also really liked watching the ED, and the ED song was quite calming.

Lelouch0202 said:
Plot Armor the finale?
One moment Yoichi is failing dives, then he's instantly better once the coach explains the situation that the guys misunderstood. Then he becomes a pro diver again, random dramatic stair climb and then he wrecks everyone and gets first? What? Not to mention Tomo getting selected and they didn't even show his dive. MDC were shown somewhere in the middle of the pack and at the end 2 of them got selected. Well, whatever.

I liked how the Pinky dude got selected, the last scene with him and Yoichi going at each other was fun to watch.

Overall, this was a pretty average show. I wasn't expecting anything great but I was hoping it would at least be as good as Free, seems I was mistaken. The story was all over the place, one moment we're trying to get the club to survive by aiming for the Olympics, then we go into random love triangle drama and then some random teen angst drama. The show lacked a concrete goal and direction, there should have honestly been more emphasis on the sport itself. They should've decided whether they wanted to focus on the sport or character drama, I get the sense they wanted to achieve a working mix of both but unfortunately the direction just didn't hold up to that and as a result we have a mediocre show with no meaningful theme. Hardly any of the characters passed of as likable to me.

6/10, cause it was at least better than Battery.

Kohta said:


The difference is we saw the dives that everyone else had been working on for a good few episodes, and and the end of the entire anime we don't see the most important dive from the MAIN CHARACTER of the anime.

Whats the point of and anime ABOUT DIVING if they're not going to show us the dive.

Animex_SIMS said:
Quite honestly I felt the pacing a little off for this one. I understand that all four divers needed their closure in this episode but seeing them one after the other getting there without a break looked cheap even. Also, considering there were very specific agreements for the representative to be chosen it was disappointing not seeing how Tomo beat everyone else with his last dive and the fact that the synchronized diving wasn't mentioned until NOW also seemed to kinda come out of nowhere? Everything just wrapped up too nicely too quickly in my opinion.

Overall I think there were unnecessary subplots in the series like the girlfriend and brother one: Just there to cause conflict and when not needed anymore they were all ok again just like that, it happened here again with the coach whose real reasons to talk about USA made everyone just go "Oh, ok then; I'll be perfect now". Would have loved to see the characters develop through a conflict that was actually relevant to the story or better built up to the conclusion.

It wasn't necessarily a bad series (it was way better than Battery for this studio) but kinda "meh", the ending didn't help much its case and it's a shame because a well-managed ending could have done a lot for it.

TheDoggoneGirl said:
It was a good finale. I felt everyone's anxiety during the diving competition, and seeing them happy and contented afterwards.

Asaki-san made it clear that she's not going to America for herself, but for Shibuki's some sort of therapy, so he can dive properly again.

Youichi and Pinky will be Japan's Olympic representative for the synchronized event. Nice. The only thing that pisses me off is that they didn't show Tomoki's final dive that made him one of Japan's Olympic representatives. What the hell!

Anyhoo, I decided to give this show a 7/10. Almost dropped this so many times, but decided to go on and give it a chance, and I managed to finish it.

Good for Tomoki, Youichi, and Pinky!

Oona_Shea said:


I agree with everything you said right down to the same score. I kept waiting for it to get better and kinda feel like I wasted 12 weeks on something so meh.

TsundeReaper said:
I wanted to give this a 6 coz I'm being lenient to this series, not really a fan this kind of anime (screams out gaayeee), terrible execution, unnecessary drama with the gf, didn't show Tomo's last dive, and most importantly they just had to show the biatch ex and douche brother acting all caring now all of a sudden so

1/10

Shion657 said:
I feel the same here. I wanted to see Tomo's dive. I was so mad when they didn't. What the heck!!!!

SailorJenny95 said:
Overall I really liked this show. Not perfect but just easy going and enjoyable. Though I feel at times that they forgot who the main character was. The last few episodes including this one focused mostly on Youichi and Tomo was kind of dropped. They should have shown his final dive. But I always found the other characters more interesting than Tomo anyway so I don't really care.
6/10 for me.

matias067 said:
it was okayish!
Youichi was able to execute 5255B perfectly!
And Okitsu was able to do the Swan Dive beautifully!
but did Tomoki able to do four and a half?!?
4/5.
7/10.

Inoyama said:

i expected that onee hahaha
i got the feeling somehow they will skip it...
5/10 for the show

sakurayou said:


same here. I also want to see Tomo's dive >< It's the important dive that got him to the Olympics man how dare they don't show us that!

The animation on Youichi's dive is nice though

Agree with everyone who have issue on pacing which is bad throughout the series, part of the reason the story's flow suffer.

However, I do enjoy the series with good moments here and there, so personally i give it a 6.5

gophercg said:

Thought video skipped but no... Tomo got trolled like how his bro stole his gf lol. At least he's in the Olympics thanks to Yoichi's rematch stunt.
Finally some nice pro level dives. Liking the xmas sync diving there.
I know the show's very flawed but I never really got bored, stuff like that ntr & Yoichi's hamfisted drama were weird but still fun. It's like KnightsnMagic in how bad the plot/pacing is but remains quite enjoyable. And OP/ED both quite nice.

Juliana_Alencar said:


Tomo's dive is in the end of the opening..

Juliana_Alencar said:

Tomo's dive is in the end of the opening..