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| maruoooooooo!! congrats! natsu like always cheer you up sugoi how he play with that pressure  |
| Great match. Impossible to lose when you've got Nat-chan cheering you on! |
| wooop wooop go maruo! |
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| I loved the match, I loved the tension. However, I hated the concept of controlling the pressure. I understand that Marou is controlling genius, but deciding how many percent of pressure to erase is just unrealistic! That really disturbed the match for me :( Edi showed great personality and great game, he should be proud :D |
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| It was nice to see Nat chan showing up near the end to give him the last push into the flow |
| haha ide you liar, you lost! Just kidding, great sportsmanship at the end. |
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| Glad they pulled out the heavy works for this one. If only all of every match could be animated so well. |
antonnn said: Omg, me too! reading through this thread, it seems that there are people who did that as well, more than I would expect. XD Definitely a satisfying finish, a very well animated sequence.I actually clenched my fist and said "YES!" when Mauro got the match winning point. Awesome stuff. Hakaya said: That's what got me too. I mean, it's alright, but it weird me out a little bit. A tad bit less realistic on that part.I loved the match, I loved the tension. However, I hated the concept of controlling the pressure. I understand that Marou is controlling genius, but deciding how many percent of pressure to erase is just unrealistic! That really disturbed the match for me :( |
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| Man, this episode did not disappoint. Although, somehow, Ide is less impressive than in the manga, where I love him unconditionally. ToG25thBaam said: Er, but visualization techniques are a real thing. You acknowledge what's there - pressure - but use a visual prop to loosen its hold on your mental state. Hakaya said: I loved the match, I loved the tension. However, I hated the concept of controlling the pressure. I understand that Marou is controlling genius, but deciding how many percent of pressure to erase is just unrealistic! That really disturbed the match for me :( That's what got me too. I mean, it's alright, but it weird me out a little bit. A tad bit less realistic on that part. For Maruo, it was his problems written down and partially erased. This worked for him specifically because he writes his tennis notes down as things to remember in-game, and having his pressure be a mostly-erased list fits within that scheme he instinctively, emotionally and mentally connects to. It's not magic or a deus ex machina. It actually works. |
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currycurry said: I don't really understand how he could 'erase' his visualized pressure from his mind and thus lessen the pressure load on his mental state. Surely, somewhere back of his mind it's still there. I know that this somehow works in real life too, but not how it was portrayed in the series, therefore the "a tad bit less realistic" and not "completely unrealistic".Er, but visualization techniques are a real thing. You acknowledge what's there - pressure - but use a visual prop to loosen its hold on your mental state. For Maruo, it was his problems written down and partially erased. This worked for him specifically because he writes his tennis notes down as things to remember in-game, and having his pressure be a mostly-erased list fits within that scheme he instinctively, emotionally and mentally connects to. It's not magic or a deus ex machina. It actually works. Or maybe I am just now that knowledgeable on the topic and haven't experienced it myself yet. |
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| Ide really has the sportsmanship to make a match exciting. Well.. Nat-chan making an entrance already raise his winning flag. |
| OMG this match is awesome ! Maruo deserved to win, the luck has nothing to do this time. The erasing technique was interesting and I know that something similar exist in reality. Great episode. |
| That was unreal! Absolutely loved this episode. |
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| I love how they finished it. That was great match indeed, Maruo is totally in peak in this game. |
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| Wow what an incredible exchange! |
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| I almost don't know where to start. I was jumping up and down and shouting the entire episode. It was certainly a stepping stone to getting Baby Steps to the level of play we normally see in sports anime. 2 years in, in show time. And that itself makes it so much more rewarding. That final point was the most insanely high level one in the show and the through the legs return was absolutely absurd as well. In a good way. We've naturally seen the progress of Maruo from brand new player who has no skills to what we'd expect from a protagonist of a hype sports anime. That itself makes it so rewarding. When Maruo got those animalistic eyes and hit perfect harmony between his reason and instinct we understood how and watched him slowly work hard to get to this point. It made him destroying Ide who was playing at his best one of the hypest moments I've ever seen in any anime ever. I did think shoving in the insight about Maruo confronting his pressure rather than avoiding it in before the opening was questionable as it made the start feel rushed. That is the only problem I truly have with it though. That insight is actually fantastic life advice in general, if avoiding your pressure isn't working try confronting it, and if that doesn't work visualize it and erase it. No stress is better than any. Or in this case if you want your body to act at its best you need a little, so strike that balance. My past self who didn't engage in competitive fields and who hadn't read about human mind sets and the effects of visualizing would have thought of this advancement as something silly, but since I know this I can tell how realistic this episode is. Not only did the lesson Maruo learned from Natsu come into play with how to play against the intuitive, but Mike's about visualizing becoming second nature to Maruo did as well. And, Maruo used his lesson from America about the vicious cycle of losing, in this case obsessing over winning causing you to play worse and he was able to quickly add it to his stress list. So many different things came into play to make this happen, that and 2 years of tennis. If you feel good you will play good. We got another great Araya moment where he was first impressed with Maruo's play, and then had a fan fight over who was going to win with Okada. The beauty of Maruo winning the match he needs to no matter how unpredictable the way that outcome is, is that... in the next matches there's no telling how far Maruo will go. I do assume he will struggle to hit that peak again with so much stress gone but it's possible he could. Now the outcome of future matches is completely unpredictable and I'm excited about that. |
| It was a fine and tense match for what it was, even though I personally couldn’t find much investment in it in particular even with the revisit/rewatch. It was tactical after tactical maneuver and it worked out quite fine, though the in-between monologue feels suffocating a bit too often. Very decent segment, nonetheless. |
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| Great ending to a great match as a whole, started slow but the pace and intensity ramped up towards the end. Maruo's tweener shot (between the legs) was excellently done and unexpected too from someone like him, but it worked out for the best. Both Ide and Maruo gave it their all but Maruo in the end handled all the pressure of the situation he was in (facing a fifth seed with the crowd behind the opponent while your future is on the line), and used it to succeed. The fans were even won over a bit by his heartiness despite still feeling the anguish a bit of Ide's loss. Just overall, a really fun match and Maruo's now qualified for the All-Japan Junior tournament regardless of what happens after. He's really getting stronger and his fellow competitors/rivals can witness it clearly. He not only beat the fifth seed in a clutch set but did it with the pressure all on him and the atmosphere that supported Ide to win this according to the scripts. That mental fortitude would be a pain in the ass for them whenever they have to face off against Maruo in the future. |
| Okay this match was fucking sick!!!! Loved every bit of it, especially towards the end, that last set was dope!! Wooo, this episode was sooo good!! |
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| Half disappointed Araya didn't cheer for Eiichirou using his loud voice xD Amazing episode. I was mostly composed until Eiichirou went full Federer with that between-the-legs shot. I totally lost my shit after that. |
| Love the match, probably the best in comparison to others. |
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