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May 10, 2024 10:11 PM
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Why people only talking about animation? What I liked was the fight, so intense, so emotional and deep, and most importantly so meaningful! Great scene
May 12, 2024 5:33 AM

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Apr 2023
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Dropped. Main girl can't stop being a cunt.
May 14, 2024 8:09 AM

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oh man! Nina is extremely unstable!! she could explode at any given point of time!
3/5.


May 14, 2024 10:17 AM
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Such a Great watch and I love that Concert part especially because of those Camera movements and the realism in that scene and Nina is the Cutest
May 16, 2024 5:40 AM

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I wasn't a fan at the beginning but story and CG grew on me. It's great!
May 21, 2024 10:21 AM
scientia exitus

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Mar 2020
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hell yeaaa brotherrr


NYANPASU
whiskey tango foxtrot

May 27, 2024 8:57 PM

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Nina sure can be dramatic.
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Jun 16, 2024 2:34 AM

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Love Nina's mannerisms and Subaru-chan overall, they're so cute!

Great performance though!
Jun 24, 2024 3:18 PM

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time to fight the past...
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Jun 30, 2024 4:08 AM
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Damn, it must be really hard for Nina to see the one who used to bully her becoming the singer of her favorite band, and meanwhile we had more and more struggle for our main trio, but at least they managed to play in front of people in the live house!
Jul 2, 2024 9:56 AM

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The reason of her bullying and so on joining the band she loves, that's one shitty situation. Both Momoka and Nina now has bone to pick with them. They were both hellbent on not changing and becoming something they didn't want to. Loved the character interactions again and the performance was good, specially the animation. Momoka and Nina throwing drinks at each other lolz.
Jul 2, 2024 9:59 AM

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Ashhk said:
Damn, it must be really hard for Nina to see the one who used to bully her becoming the singer of her favorite band, and meanwhile we had more and more struggle for our main trio, but at least they managed to play in front of people in the live house!
Don't think she was the one bullying her but was the reason she was getting bullied. Nina said she was her friend too.

Likely scenario is Nina's friend was getting picked on, Nina stood up for her and the bullies targetted her instead and Nina's friend as shown in the short flashback didn't do anything for her and even said it was Nina's own fault instead.
Jul 9, 2024 4:05 PM

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Man Nina really needs friends at her "school" if only so she has someone to sell her tickets to. I wonder if she got bullied because she is a gremlin or the other way around..

So if the band pays for the tickets up front, how does the club know which ones have been actually sold? I mean they did not have the name of the band on them, did they? So I assume profits get split?

Club dude is a real one, gets free tickets to a big band and doesnt go because he is only supporting small ones.

Fascinating choice to have traditional animation mixed in with 3DCG here.
The dude from the other band at the end as well!
Makes for strong contrast.

Here comes the drama! Though I feared it would be the girl who bullied her, not a former friend.
Momokas situation is also interesting.. she really did betray her friends.

The energy of the animation did not match the energy of the song, but it was still good. Honestly surprised 3DCGI works so well here. (just shows that most CGI is just used wrong in other shows)

Didnt like the song much, this is the issue with music anime, if its not your taste it just feels off. But I still have hope, since void is fantastic.

PS: Does anyone know what they each do for a living? I guess Subaru doesnt have to work, but Nina probably has a job, right?
Comander-07Jul 9, 2024 4:38 PM
"This emotion is mine alone.
It is for Madoka alone." - Homura
or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.
Jul 16, 2024 8:47 PM
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Boy, I could watch Momoka harass that guitar and Subaru abuse those drums forever lol. Another great socks-off rocking performance at the end, and after such an emotion filled episode too, if only these girls could choose a non-public place to do their shouting matches lol, but hey that’s a concert in its own way for the bystanders. I do hope we eventually learn the exact reason why Momoka dropped out of her old band, but I’ll take what we got for now.

There was also the reveal that a friend Nina had a falling out with is actually the new lead vocalist for her favorite band, ain’t that some universe giving a middle finger type shit lol, but she sounded good tho and looked like she fit in the group, it’s like Subaru said that she must have stood out in the audition. But I get why Nina feels the way she feels, and I gotta say I loved reading “indistinguishable gremlin noises” in the subs lol, so thank you for being an angry gremlin on main Nina.
Jul 22, 2024 8:15 AM

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Damn that live song at the end.
I already said in a comment from a previous episode that I'm not a fan of CGI, but honnestly, it's really well done here, with a lot of visual nuances I haven't seen much in other musical anime with a more traditional animation.

Still not a fan visually, but really really appreciate the level of art and effort put in that anime.
💖💖💖
Jul 22, 2024 6:01 PM
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Now they are throwing drinks on each other.
Aug 6, 2024 11:44 PM

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Great performance at the end there.
Aug 18, 2024 6:16 AM
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Some of these musical scenes are really reminding me of Scott Pilgrim in a good way. One at the end was amazing, right off the bat they've got passion, energy, not to mention songwriting skills

Nina really is so selfish lol, she wants Momoka to be pissed off and depressed with her about how her old band went, not even because she thinks it'll help anything, but just cause she wants her own feelings validated
Nov 11, 2024 2:46 AM

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Anyone else getting annoyed by this main character Nina? wtf

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Dec 25, 2024 3:39 AM

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Nina, please, shut the fuck up. It's fine if she hates the vocalist, but stop fucking crying to Momoka, stop trying to make her feel like shit too, damn.

Subaru... I love her so much is insane, she is so nice and funny, and so mature, so inteligent. I also love how she is always lying about dumb stuff to make herself look good in front of other people, that makes her even more likable since we do know how she really is ❤️

Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

Jan 1, 7:35 PM
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This is the moment where the series started to pick up.
Apr 1, 2:17 PM
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Off you go Nina! What an amazing episode, the words written on the shirt is so funny yet true about Momoka "Withdraw" from her band, SUbaru "Lie" to her grandma, and Nina "Drop Out" of School, though the song itself isn't as good as the other ones possibly done on purpose
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That fuck are with these fansubs lmfao 😭😭😭😭
@Ryuseishun Rivalry to Yuri, average shonen trope
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Nina badgering on Momoka and raging against Diamond Dust was a little grating...

I get that Momoka's attitude is kind of frustrating, but it's really not relevant enough for Nina to derail practice sessions and start questioning the band. Why does it matter that Momoka doesn't want to talk about her former band? They have a ton of work to do as a new band anyways, maybe focus on that? They're there to make and play music, not to act out their issues and hold therapy sessions.

Nina came across as way too selfish here. As Subaru (I think) says, Diamond Dust is not something that's special to only Nina. At the end of the day she's nothing more than a fan, and if an ex-member doesn't let it affect her, what gives a fan the right to get all emotional and drag this out in the open?

I guess all's well that ends in an exciting live performance. They'll probably address this conflict later, but things got a little too frustrating for me.
Apr 12, 2:02 AM
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Every shot/scene is so well done, I can think of a million ways to edit them! Great show to watch and I am looking forward to edit it after!!!
Apr 13, 2:38 PM
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Nina badgering on Momoka and raging against Diamond Dust was a little grating...

I get that Momoka's attitude is kind of frustrating, but it's really not relevant enough for Nina to derail practice sessions and start questioning the band. Why does it matter that Momoka doesn't want to talk about her former band? They have a ton of work to do as a new band anyways, maybe focus on that? They're there to make and play music, not to act out their issues and hold therapy sessions.

Nina came across as way too selfish here. As Subaru (I think) says, Diamond Dust is not something that's special to only Nina. At the end of the day she's nothing more than a fan, and if an ex-member doesn't let it affect her, what gives a fan the right to get all emotional and drag this out in the open?

I guess all's well that ends in an exciting live performance. They'll probably address this conflict later, but things got a little too frustrating for me.
@perseii Many, if not most western viewers have the same issue with GBC: they just can't stand Iseri Nina's personality and antics. On the other hand, Asia remains crazy about GBC exactly because of our beloved gremlin.
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It's just personal preference, I but I would have liked Nina's singing voice to be more scratchy and rough to reflect the lyrics. I'm always expecting her singing to sound like she's screaming into the void, but it instead comes out way softer and coherent than I'd like.

That aside, I'm also noticing that less important characters are 2D compared to the 3D main characters and characters important to particular scenes and episodes. It certainly makes the characters we're supposed to pay attention to stand out, but I'm not sure if this is intentional or a result of production-related decisions.
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It's just personal preference, I but I would have liked Nina's singing voice to be more scratchy and rough to reflect the lyrics. I'm always expecting her singing to sound like she's screaming into the void, but it instead comes out way softer and coherent than I'd like.

That aside, I'm also noticing that less important characters are 2D compared to the 3D main characters and characters important to particular scenes and episodes. It certainly makes the characters we're supposed to pay attention to stand out, but I'm not sure if this is intentional or a result of production-related decisions.
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not sure if this is intentional or a result of production-related decisions.

Money... It costs a whole lot to create convincing 3D character model. Not affordable for animating NPCs who appear only once or twice, in a production which aired for free on TV (i.e. not having reliable revenue expectations). Background art also saw some cost cutting in GBC for the non-climax scenes. Maybe graphics quality will be equalized a bit for the two-part GBC compilation movie set to debut in late autumn 2025.

However, what mattered for me in animation were the main characters and their live-in-concert scenes. Studio Toei and their indonesian sub-contractors delivered 100% there.
May 11, 10:37 PM
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Me toco una fibra sensible. Loco no puedo no soy de fierro. El concierto estuvo muy bueno también se ve donde se fue el presupuesto
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a lot of fighting and yelling :D
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