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| Yu lost her bet, and she's integrated into the New-Gen Dream Monkeys team where she received a warm welcome, and a request from her fellow Kushiro Snow White coach-cum-friend. Manaka looks like she's just carrying the entire team on her own in motivation, but at least the girls are following...with Coach Yoko. They're peas on a pod while the other girls just stare in bewilderment. At long last, it's the Nikko Dream Monkeys' debut, and their first friendly practice game is with the Ice Bucks. Nice to admire people, but remember that they're your rivals first and foremost. Yu immediately showing off her ice hockey skills is good, but that individuality of pride and ego lead her to commit the same mistakes again. She cannot do things individually, but instead commit to teamwork with their whole "the bonds of our hearts connect the puck" motto. They may have lost for a first, but it was a good experience. The dreaded victory dance is here, and I just don't understand why the Uma Musume trope is needed here, it just seemed like an extra step to make some "uniqueness". But since this idea came from the fact that this show was a game adaptation to begin with, that's probably why. |
KANLen09Nov 10, 2021 8:34 AM
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| Yu has some nice skills, but she can't do everything alone. She needs to trust her teammates. Yay! A long-awaited idol performance. :D  |
SerafosNov 29, 2023 12:27 AM
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| Yuu should trust her teammates. Ice Hockey is a team sport, you can't win anything with a solo player. woooowww.... The Uma Musume's victory dance at the end That's nice!!!!! They should do this idol dancing in every episode from now. It's time to find some lightstick for this anime.  |
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| To be honest Yu just love the game, she learned from her past mistakes, great. Was a lost, sure, but a lost with just 1 goal of difference is great evolution. Defense is holding. The dance was just perfect, was fully 2D, dynamic choreography, with camera movement, and a great song. Just damn, people making this anime have heart. |
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| Yu learned a valuable lesson during the game and it seems the coach of the rival team really cares about other teams as well, someone who truly cares about the sport. Also the part with the grandmothers was nice, it's always a good thing the see friendships last like that. The one thing i am wondering about are their sticks which are all in black, i remember them being from various brands and in all kinds of colours with in some cases pretty wild patterns on them. It's something that stood out to me. |
| I've never been a fan of who coordinated idol-dance thing, but what they did at the end of this episode was pretty good. Glad to see some development with Yu and the Team. |
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| Kinda sad that they lost the match but they did a really try and we can clearly see an improvement, next time they'll be able to win I think, also that was nice to see an idol representation at the end xD |
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| Great episode! That victory dance xD. Seems the ‘training’ was training for the dance lol. Looking forward to the next episode! |
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| The realization of not trusting someone and the advice of the opponent coach was perfect. Nice episode and finally we got to see the first performance of Dream Monkeys! |
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| honestly yeah that idol performance at the end was really unnecessary and felt cringe to me tbh. at first i didnt really care that this was some sports x idol anime crossover but now after seeing this ep, i really wish it was just hockey and thats it. like this victory dance (aka idol performance in disguise) was supposed to have occurred after their game? like they just got in some costumes and went out onto the ice to sing and dance? why was their choreography so good? those weren't the exact same moves they were doing as part of their stretches. were they practicing off-screen basically? how did they have so much energy after playing a whole entire game of hockey??? am i overthinking this |
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| The Idol thing was my biggest concern and they put that to rest. That song was a BANGER. I want them to focus on an entire game as well because this episode was clean in terms of a hockey game. I loved it. |
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| can't get angry at Yu for what happened. she's pretty much coming out of such a competitive league to come out and play with rookies. Anyways, the Yu/Manaka powerhouse seems to be just getting on its feet. i need more of it in the next games! Victory dance looks incredibly smooth, but since when were they able to sing?! |
| The combo of the Hockey and Idol thing is still pretty surprising to me but I don't mind tbh. The song was nice and I was impressed by the animation for that scene The parts with Yu were cool and I think she's my favorite of the series so far |
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| Really good episode! I am really liking the show more and more as more episodes goes by. It's still pretty much a hockey anime through and through, the idol stuff is just a bonus. 2D Idols though damn, the hockey action looks clean as fuck too, though, since I don't really watch hockey, I don't know how accurate it is, but it looks really good to me. I also like how normal it is, in a good way. They discovered hockey, they fall in love with hockey, it feels really grounded. Except the idol stuff, that's definitely not normal lmao. Yu's definitely my favorite character now, despite only recently joining the main cast. Looking forward to the next episode. |
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| I don’t know how appropriate the dance was in this ending, but everything went to this. Not a fan of idol culture, but the color music and shadows were great. Also our heroines have greatly improved their hockey skills during the preseason. |
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| I still can't believe they do this idol shit. Why do you ruin cute little anime with interesting story with totally random elements of the different genre? This looks soo stupid when they all perform like highly professional idols although they NEVER practiced any songs. And why do they do it?!? The game was cool and the animation was great, but everything ruined by this ridiculous idol shit. Let's just pretend this only happened in coach's head. |
GvendolineDec 22, 2021 12:40 AM
| Yuu has become Manaka's "Riko-chan". Mami... who? "Victory Dance" looked really smooth but the idea of combining ice-hockey with Idol performances is jarring as hell. Not to mention impractical from a logistics point of view. |
| The catchphrase really did wonders for improving Yu's playstyle to be more team-oriented. On a sidenote, its hilarious to imagine tough ice-hockey players irl doing the victory dance. |
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| Yu's integration into the new team seemed a little too effortless. |
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