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Jan 10, 2:42 PM

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2 episode in and we already lost a member.
Looked like Erika was going to go but they got Yuri instead, and just when she was making good friendship progress with Renge.
Jan 10, 11:15 PM

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Yuri is indeed a moment thing?

Don't fret, Renge. Let's kill them all for the Yuri! All hail Yuri-sama!
Jan 11, 2:18 AM

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Oh shit, now that was unexpected. Is Yuri dead for real, or will she come back (somehow)? We will see.

Good-looking action scenes were good, indeed. The intensity of moe and CGDCT moments was a little bit too much, but not enough to make me drop the show. xD

It seems, judging from the preview, that we will learn the origins of their team in the next episode.
Jan 11, 6:22 AM
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I hope this keeps this darker tone. looking at the previews for ep3 though I am unsure.
Jan 11, 11:49 PM

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the only good from this anime only the animation ..

everything else is so trashy
Jan 12, 2:14 AM

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what the hell just happened
Jan 12, 5:21 AM
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Ain't no way she's just dead like that lol.
Jan 12, 5:35 PM
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Hey, I have a good idea: Let’s kill off one the more interesting characters in the 2nd episode!
Jan 12, 8:42 PM

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Yeah, I don't think I'll stick to Momentary Lily. I'll wait to hear if it's actually worth watching, but I'm just not getting any enjoyment out of it. I want to - I really do love the premise and the animation - but the characters are unbearable. Not just in the way they act, but... I can't really explain it, the second episode; just got bad vibes from it lol - I knew Eri wasn't going to die (despite how hard they tried to death flag her), even without my knowledge of Yuri's death beforehand, but they did such a "great" job at getting her to be alone.

The plan was clear - for Eri to hold off one so that the rest can deal with two.

And I highly doubt such a bad plan will ever be replicated again: not just because of the risk of her getting overwhelmed, but the show made it very clear that these Wild Hunts are not small fry, even the basic ones.

They require a team effort to manage, and one mistake can be fatal. Anybody, in this situation, would realistically have her paired with another; or they would retreat; or they would change tactics to isolate and take one down. It's already hard taking down one normally - Ei thought she could fend off one, not for a decision that required a hard choice or an unavoidably high risk, but because the story needed her to be alone for... this: This scene where she's slobbering and snotting and begging for her mama whilst dragging her fatass tits across the grass. It was honestly unpleasant to watch, and not because it was a tense or harrowing scene; it felt fetishistic. It felt like... not "sadness porn," or even "drama porn." I just felt like, in this moment, I saw the writers' strings attached to the characters, puppetting them to do what they wanted to do instead of presenting the carefully-crafted illusion of organic-feeling drama.

Like, this wasn't the only plan they could've done. But the show wanted to make us believe that, and that on top of everything else just gave me bad vibes.

Especially telling that this was the first moment Eri had any real character. Except, I didn't feel like it deepened or served her character in any way - not in the sense that it gave context to her actions. Mama demeanor aside, it felt... half "oh she's gonna die, here's something to make you empathize with her in the last second" and half "look at how infantile this 'mature stacked mama teen' actually is, isn't she complex?" I just don't trust the show to take these emotions seriously; I haven't bought into it yet.

She went through all these emotions, too, and she clearly wasn't talking rationally, but when she became enraged that the others "never come," why wasn't this problem in the past emphasized sooner? Why would anybody even agree to her version of the plan without a second of discussion? Why did this feel so forced?

It's because it was.

And it feels juvenile. This whole show feels juvenile in the worst of ways.

My brain is already fabricating a potential counterargument to this scene with Eri; like, "But isn't that telling? It shows how forced her 'mama' demeanor is and how hard she tries to maintain it for the younger girls. The break in character emphasizes the gulf between her persona and her own self."

And to that I say, I understood what they were going for. I just think everything around it was evidence of the writers being degenerate weirdos instead of trying to craft a complex character.
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Jan 13, 12:52 AM
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An improvement from the first episode. It looks and generally is better. Surprised they offed one of the girls already. Is GoHands cooking a cult classing doomer series? Of course I'm joking a little, but I'm actually somewhat excited to see what's gonna happen next time now.
GoatChanJan 13, 6:55 AM
Jan 15, 3:41 AM

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This must be what bpd feels like
Jan 15, 7:39 PM
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EL MEJOR ANIEM DE LAH ISTORIA
Jan 16, 2:22 PM
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Reply to Alfredo-Sauce
I'm not sure how I feel about this episode as it was all over the place, from the awkward conversations the girls had with each other, to another brief cooking lesson, and then the combat against goliaths and death of Yuri. Speaking of Yuri, I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of her.
@Alfredo-Sauce Me too, I don't feel bad with her death because for some reason it feels like she would return.
Jan 17, 1:15 AM

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That was probably the worst voice acting I've seen this past year
Jan 17, 5:27 AM
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Damn. They killed off one of the main characters in the second episode? What a shocking moment! R.I.P. Yuri.

This anime is not fucking around. Nobody is safe in this show. I like that the characters don't have plot armour just because they're main characters. Of course, there's the possibility that no one else dies in the rest of the show.
wildhoodJan 17, 5:33 AM
Jan 18, 4:57 AM
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i smell another madoka since eps.1 but.... did'nt expect it comin so fast...
Jan 22, 9:33 PM
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Sorry, who? We barely know anything about these characters. How are they going to try to drop a death and expect people to truly care?
The most it does is show that death for our main cast is, indeed, a possibility in this anime, but I really hope they don't expect us to feel too moved aside from shock value.
I'm not really interested in seeing all these characters eventually die though, so hopefully we don't keep going down this path.
SwiggyJan 28, 10:39 PM

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Jan 26, 1:23 AM

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I only started this because I saw tits jiggling, now I am happy to see moe blobs getting killed just please don't kill oneesan
Jan 30, 6:46 PM

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I was so afraid for Ecchan then they saved her. Just as it seems okay, that unexpected death of Yuri. Ugh. Looks like the stakes are high here and our protagonists don't have much of a plot armour.

That said, why does it seem she is alive in next episode's preview?

ETA: From episode 3, Yuri appears as they tell Renren how they met her. RIP Yuri
patkarununganJan 31, 4:29 AM
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Feb 19, 1:22 PM

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Did Onee-san just say "Screw you guys" when she thought she was dying? That was unexpected, almost as unexpected as the blonde one dying. Will we only see her in flashbacks now, that doesn't seem right.
Mar 3, 8:07 AM

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Renge getting introduced to the girls and their Andavari weapons, and she might be very well their key to understanding what's going on in their singularity world full of the mech Wild Hunts.

Of course, they could just do whatever they want, though this would expunge their efforts even before encountering the Wild Hunts, So then, what better to do than to cook some food and get their bellies full before meeting the Goliaths. But if one of them wasn't hard enough, the horde proving too much for the girls to handle, much less Erika with her less-than-ideal Andavari shield being under attack from 2 Goliaths, it takes the entire group to save her within the nick of time, though at the expense of Yuri's sacrifice.

This early, and someone's passing so soon, Renge must be hurting this bad.
Mar 28, 1:02 AM

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Sep 2024
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lmfaoo, where was the deus ex machina heal? XDD
Apr 5, 10:53 PM

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was going fine but that ending



sure messed the girls doing things atmosphere
Apr 9, 6:03 AM

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Jan 2017
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Shoulda just killed off Erika with her real personality being that, what a shame

Should I be concerned for Yuri as she appears fine in the next episode's preview?
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