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nielsm posted:Diabetes is the first thing that comes to mind. Except it doesn't really match up with the medications that were shown. Nikaidou is based on a real player who suffered from a chronic kidney disorder.
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Rei is a good friend. 
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 Take note of those tatami mats. All laid out in the same direction. This is definitely a space for special occasions.
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Why did they have the finals by themselves with no press, cameras, or officials?
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Yawgmoft posted:Why did they have the finals by themselves with no press, cameras, or officials? There is certainly one or two officials just off-camera during their match recording the moves and time. There might even be an overhead camera for all we know. I think SHAFT just wanted to reinforce the 1v1 battle feeling, especially when the scene was built around how tunnel-visioned Rei can get when he's too emotionally invested in his matches. This was a great episode on all fronts. I like how the animators keep experimenting with new styles all the time in this show. Gritty manga sketch style when Rei is pissed off at his opponent and wants to put him in his place. Pastel watercolor backgrounds when all Rei can think about is helping Hina feel less awful. The amount of empathy he has really hits me hard. It's heartbreaking to see someone you care about go through emotional pain, but especially when you've been there / done that and know just how bad it is.
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That loving episode man. I knew that was coming and i still teared up. School trips like that are the worst when your being bullied, and rei coming over while hina is at her loneliest like that is beyond amazing. And rei knew, he lived it, and no one ever came for him. This anime man, definitely the anime of the year for me.
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Helter Skelter posted:Rei is a good friend.
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This show is so good it's almost painful to wait a week for the next episode.
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Hey Shaft, can we just keep this show going forever? Okay thanks bye.
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At the time it was announced a fair number of people, myself included, thought that Shaft was an odd choice to adapt this comic, but in hindsight they might've been the perfect match given how many visual metaphors/sequences the comic likes to use which of course Shaft has implemented beautifully. I know people sometimes don't care for the asides to some of the ancillary characters but I think almost without exception they're always really well done, including this one. Silver
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The chapters or even arcs which focus on largely one-shot characters are often some of my favourite chapters. I love when the story does a couple of chapters dedicated to exploring a shogi opponent who probably won't show up in a major way ever again, sometimes even with characters that don't face Rei at all. They're usually quite good. Anyway, I like Pigeon man and i'm glad he thinks Rei and Nikaidou are the coolest. And also I am extremely happy Hina is smiling and happy and I hope she never is sad again!!!
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Noguchi is the man. What an absolute boss. https://i.imgur.com/8uDIQsT.gifv Great episode for Rei. Even he can't help but tear up over how much progress he has made. Looks like next week will be significant for Hina's bullying arc based on the preview voiceover. Gakuto x Issa was great too. https://i.imgur.com/aWNFGWY.gifv
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Mentat Radnor posted:Looks like next week will be significant for Hina's bullying arc based on the preview voiceover.
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"When did I get here?" Great ep to come back to after the holidays.
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I love how this show still manages to keep surprising me with just how loving good it is. I also like the new OP and ED.
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That was an exceptionally strong episode to start the year off with. Physically made me shiver. Last year there was another anime I think was supposed to be about bullying/recovering from it, Clione no Akari. I never finished it, partly because it had unsteady releases, but it was also just weak. Hina's arc here is amazing.
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It almost feels bad to have this hero teacher come out of nowhere to lay the smackdown and resolve everything now, because you'd think when things got bad enough that a kid dropped out because of the issues he would have been brought in much earlier.
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I've been eagerly awaiting this episode, and drat it was good. So much frustration and satisfaction at the same time. Hina is so strong  Devil grandpa is ten times better animated. I love it when SHAFT amps up the comedy bits to be even more over the top than the manga, with their trademark crazy color palettes, fast cuts, and super zoomed-in shots. AnacondaHL posted:It almost feels bad to have this hero teacher come out of nowhere to lay the smackdown and resolve everything now, because you'd think when things got bad enough that a kid dropped out because of the issues he would have been brought in much earlier. I'm not sure how much he and the other school administrators knew, and when. It sounded to me like they only became aware of who was doing the bullying when Hina spoke up about it, because the rest of the class was too scared to point fingers. Who knows how much the last homeroom teacher told the administration about the bullying situation with Chiho, considering she just wanted to ignore it all. Head Teacher does come a bit out of left field, but it's nice to show that not all teachers are jaded and unhelpful when it comes to bullying. At some point students have to rely on an adult to step in and stop this stuff.
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It just goes to show how insidious and toxic a bullying environment can become, and how it takes an almost miracle to actually make a dent into it, and as we'll see soon actually doing something about it takes far greater resources/effort from a school than just scolding/punishing the bullies involved.
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Man im gonna miss Flag wo Totero. For me that will always be burned into my mind with hina's bullying and her amazing power to go against it.
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I’m actually really happy to see the bullying arc draw to a close. It’s really well done, but it’s just drawing me back to my time being bullied in middle school, so it just keeps hitting a bunch of old wounds. It’s been about 14 years since then and I’m honestly surprised at how angry I get thinking back on it. The arcs coming up are also really great, so I really can’t wait to see how they’re handled.
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The image of Hina's determination is one of my favourite frames in anime in a long, long time. It's the perfect climax to her personal character growth and it's filled with such a perfect mix of emotions that I teared up a little. This show is amazing, everyone should watch it. 
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Cavelcade posted:The image of Hina's determination is one of my favourite frames in anime in a long, long time. It's the perfect climax to her personal character growth and it's filled with such a perfect mix of emotions that I teared up a little. Seriously, I screencapped it a well. SHAFT also really blew the budget on this one, it was the best animated episode in a while. This show is so good!!!!
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Does anyone have that frame without the subs? I kind of want to set it as my background.
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I wasn't trying to be hyperbolic when I was talking up the new season for months in advance, it's a pretty Big Deal and one of the most memorable arcs I can think of in an anime/manga story. A potential third season might also have another Big Deal to get into, but that's a story/question for another time. E: New episode was, literally and figuratively, "faintly glowing" for sure
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I'm a probably a horrible human being but am I the only one that wants Hina and Rei to end up together?
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MJP posted:I'm a probably a horrible human being but am I the only one that wants Hina and Rei to end up together? hina just gets drawn in a cutesy style most of the time so it's easy to forget that she's...I think a year younger than rei.
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Captain Invictus posted:why would that make you a horrible human being, they're almost the same age It's at least like 3. He's a senior that took a year off when she's just starting high school, so there's a few years between them.
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You know he's the kind of dork that would wait.
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Oh right, shogi. I do rather like this Souya-centric arc though.
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I ship Rei with the older sister, I feel like that's a little more wholesome.
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Akari/Shimada is my ship this conversation is so dangerous
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Raenir Salazar posted:I ship Rei with the older sister, I feel like that's a little more wholesome. Rei is too skinny for her, she'd be all about Nikaidou.
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Nate RFB posted:I wonder if other manga readers caught the little tidbit of foreshadowing in this episode for a development that comes quite a bit later in the story.
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Nate RFB posted:This was a post that I made way back in S1, and we now get to the part in the story where it's revealed just what it was foreshadowing. I've been waiting for this lovely little episode, "Rei and a quiet god play a game of shogi and then hang out in a typhoon." Umino makes such great characters.
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