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>show mostly takes place in an alternate digital world but some of it in the real world too
>one evil group for each half of the show
>suddenly the mascot buddy that's been with the protagonist from Ep1 turns heel and becomes the secret final villain in a short final arc
Wait a second, this is just Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains!

WakuTomete subs for Ep41 = https://nyaa.si/view/2077119
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>>286127495
That also fits Digimon Tamers, if you consider Takato's crush a mascot character
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our bullies
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You told me it will be a Symphogear for little girls.
But it's clearly a "Symphogear for little girls" for old men watching shows for little girls.
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>>286129331
And we like it that way.
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>>286129331
It was Symphogear for little girls until they discovered that 70% of the fans are not little girls but Symphogear fans desperate for their fix.
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Daily reminder that the Red Queen did nothing wrong.
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>>286130524
She's a bad mother, her sons are all crossdressers.
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The boys are back in town.
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>inb4 Nabiscuit's name is meant to be a play on navigator because irl Lewis Carroll first told the Liddell sisters Alice's story while on a boat trip
And I am bothered Waku went with Carol now; it's clearly Carroll you ignorant sluts.
Also;
>Red Queen has flower imagery
>White Queen has butterfly imagery
They were so fucking.
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>>286127495
Come to think of it, Shinkalion: Change The World was a bit similar as well.
>Takara Tomy franchise
>virtual world
>Two villains + the main characters' mascot buddy from that virtual world as the secret final boss.
Except in that show those three were in the same faction (and the first one was brainwashed).
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Does the Symphogear anime ever actually establish Kanade was off her meds for the concert in season 1? That feels like a pretty important thing to mention but maybe it does and I just missed it.
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>>286129331
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>>286131678
I think it was left to the keywords.
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>>286131987
And the manga.
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>>286127495
I knew that little shit was evil
All thats left is to confirm the princesses were the bad guys all along and Band Snatch did nothing wrong
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>>286132951
About that.
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Please sub before Sunday this week (even if it's the fourth week in a row of a new song)
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>>286127495
>Wait a second, this is just Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains!
Oh so I'm not the only one who saw the similarities. Didn't know there were other princessnons into Yugioh.

On the subject it really is similar, though I dont think it'll be pulled off as well as in Vrains. With AI the heel turn into a villain came out of nowhere BUT makes sense within the story's context and the emotional plight from the previous season transferred into his own character's inner turmoil beautifully. Now with Navisuke they have 3 routes to take, pure power corruption through the fragments, he feels bad about alicepians exploding because of evil little girls, or he has some hidden backstory that was never revealed.

The thing is even with how rushed S4 of Vrains was it was still 17 episodes. While Princession has what? 6 episodes left? Now if you cut out all the duel time from Vrains maybe exposition and plot will have similar runtime but idk. Regardless they really waited until the last moments for this but im still hoping for the best.
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>>286134115
Fine's backstory in Symphogear is about five minutes long and still works. Nabiscuit is going to be someone's reincarnation (we see him crowned in the intro).
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>>286127495
Who is the Roboppi of Princession?
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>>286133840
I swear they're doing this to spite the subbers at this point.
No complaints on my side though. I reckon we will get a Naviyu song in the next episode or two.
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>>286134310
Dodome
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>>286134115
Vrains was wasted potential all around, I'm willing to bet Princession will handle their plot better than Vrains did.

I feel like hidden backstory is the angle writers will go for.

Bandsnatch, Red Queen and Navue/ Naviske all knew about the Alicepean life cycle and didn't seem too bothered with it.
>>286134199
Maybe Navue is the reincarnation of whatever evil Red and White Queen fought in their youth?

Considering how Band Snatch were with the Red and White Queen back in the day, them siding with the reincarnated evil doesn't make much sense...
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>>286134199
I mean yeah obviously they'll write something that "works", I trust them to be competent enough to do that. The issue is if it will be good and memorable or just run of the mill. OP brought up Vrains and in my opinion the way that heel turn went was really good so its got a high bar to reach if we're comparing the two.

I'm only on season 4 of Symphogear so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt but im glad you brought up Fine. I couldn't for the life of me tell you an accurate description of what her backstory is without looking it up, something about getting rejected by god and he locked true language away from humans or something? So her life goal is to get it unlocked and somehow blowing up the moon does that so she keeps reincarnating through girls with her DNA. The point of my yammering is that i dont think it was done well, otherwise I would have cared enough to remember it. Now Carol? Simple backstory yes, but memorable enough to stick in my head and im sure I'll remember that cute little genocidal alchemist for years on end.

>>286134618
Vrains had a LOT of issues but the way they handled AI was not one of them imo.
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>>286134694
>I couldn't for the life of me tell you an accurate description of what her backstory is without looking it up,
Then you probably weren't paying attention. Her backstory is the entire backbone of the franchise. Everything that happens in all 5 seasons ties back to her past in one way or another. You are constantly reminded of her actions and explained her motivations. Symphogear is her story as much as it is Hibiki's.
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>>286134618
Naviyu will be the reincarnation of someone even further back in Alicepia's history and after awakening and inheriting the Queens' powers he and Band Snatch will merely spar with the girls before actually uniting against the true evil and all together they will『Save the World 』
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>>286134115
>Oh so I'm not the only one who saw the similarities. Didn't know there were other princessnons into Yugioh.
Like half of us here are Symphogear fans, and I'd be willing to bet at least a few Symphogear fans got lured into playing Yu-Gi-Oh by the Sky Striker archetype. Or vice-versa, Sky Striker players found out about Symphogear and watched it for the mecha musume.
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Who is she and how dead is she?
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>>286135707
Alice. They literally gave her actual irl child Alice Liddell air.
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90.7
We're so fucking back
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>>286135644
All the princesses are here, and Nacchi too.
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>>286136677
Do you think people are ever jealous that the princesses hang out with a no name nobody like Nacchi?
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You can say a lot of bad things about Waku but the handling of song lyrics is absolutely great. Making something that fits the rhythm, actually rhymes, and works as a coherent text but is also a proper translation of the original takes skill. Song is probably the one aspect where it's preferable to sacrifice some accuracy for the sake of actually making it a song. The best part of the White Queen's defeat is how well Future Never Ends functions as an ideological rebuttal to her philosophy and I don't think it would hit as hard (for a filthy peasant who needs subs like me) if Waku's take on the lyrics didn't flow so well.
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>>286134618
>Reddit spacing
>Navue
I know it's you, Johnny or Falloree. Fuck off with your memesub and never shill it /here/ again you faggots
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'ate Navue
'luv Nabisuke
Simple as
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>>286137049
Instead of wasting their time shilling their shit, find a way to churn them out faster. It wasn't even necessary when no one else is subbing the show. If the Chink subs can be ready in 2-3 days with virtually the same quality as Waku's except the memesubs, what's their excuse...
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https://twitter.com/shinonome_pri/status/2023376070070948155
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>>286137079
I prefer Nabiscuit.
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>>286136819
The lyrics translations are great, and I love the color-coded subtitles they use to separate the lyrics from normal dialogue.

>>286137079
>>286137893
I call him Nabisco
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https://twitter.com/nekogasukinanod/status/2022910819378565321
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I can't believe they already have merch of Nab.
Looks a bit different than I expected.
https://x.com/Potamotorigon/status/2023367894160286033
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>>286135607
Junk Warrior is the OG geah rep
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>>286137049
>>286137328
They don't post here.
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>>286139533
Not provably. Anyways part of the fun of anonymous boards is pointing fingers because an Anon is anyone and no one.

One of my IRL friends has a recognizable enough posting style that anything over a paragraph of his I can sniff out on a board.
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I don't know why it took this long for Drun, Bess and Guita to have prominent singing parts in a Band Snatch song because this song absolutely fucks. Inject it into my veinsssss
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>>286127495
TV Tokyo is pretty big on new anime reusing a lot of ideas from their previous shows. And most yugioh anime just steals ideas from anything iconic or old anyway. Vrains had references to a wide variety of anime like Mazinger Z, Cyborg 009, Astro Boy, Metropolis (especially the Tezuka works it derives from like Maria), Sailor Moon, Digimon (especially Applimon which aired a year earlier), DNAngel, MegaMan Battle Network, MegaMan Starforce, My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball, Devilman, and probably a whole lot more.
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Dark Nacchi
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Shinku no Ibara / Blood-Red Briar - Red Queen - Lyrics [Kan/Rom/Eng]
https://youtu.be/zshIJhnoxlY
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So Nabiscuit really came out of nowhere into Kagari's life, coincidentally just as Jammerwocks began to appear?
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>>286129331
When ppl will learn?
With Japan's birthrates plummeting down, there's no sense in making products purely "for kids". Everything must in some way attract also older audience to be successful.
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>>286144054
Riri will solve Japan's birthrate crisis.
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That was beautiful
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>>286144607
I don't think she can.
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>>286140664
All of the villain songs so far have been great and they just keep getting better. It is incredible.
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>>286145821
It still is.
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>>286143054

You're wrong.

A strange phenomenon occurred this year: sales of all of Kadokawa Group's IPs targeting adults entered a period of decline, while sales of Bandai and Toei's IPs targeting children entered a period of growth.

The "Re:Zero series" ranks first in Kadokawa Group's sales rankings, not because the "Re:Zero series" is very popular, but simply because its sales decline is not as rapid as that of other Kadokawa IPs.
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>>286143054

Sales of Bandai and Toei's IPs targeting children have shown a steady annual growth trend.

Meanwhile, sales of all of Kadokawa Group's adult-oriented IPs have entered a period of decline.
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>>286143054

Precure's sales have entered a period of stable growth, increasing by 1 billion to 2 billion yen annually.

All of Kadokawa Group's anime IPs are rapidly declining at a rate of 500 million yen to 2 billion yen per year.
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>>286148454
Sentai got shelved and rebranded despite the Tegasword seeming to perform very well (consistently topping sales charts) because Toei has been worried about its returns being too stagnant while the cost to produce has been rapidly increasing. Though the largest issue there are more in the toyline than anything else.
Kamen Rider saw a huge boost in sales for a season with something as cheap and collectible as cards but then in Gavv they pulled back due to lacking faith in the gimmick which has caused it to be a poorly performing season (they underproduced the Gochizos and couldn't meet the demand during the prime sales season).
In fact apparently one of the big reasons that Toei finally greenlit Kamen Rider to have a global release with Zeztz is that they're worried that the domestic market is unable to keep up with the production cost of toku. And it's also commonly believed that the reason why Sentai is on indefinite hiatus is because the international distribution rights are fucked by Saban/Disney whereas they have more flexibility with Project RED.
I've also heard that Precure has been able to maintain solid sales in part because they're releasing stuff like makeup kits for adults but I don't really follow Precure.
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>>286148952
Just you wait. Princess Nacchi is real.
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>>286150028
Princess? Maybe. Dark? Never.
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>>286150641
Just you wait.
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>>286128648
An eternal loop of the White Queen failing to stand up, while the Princesses approach menacingly...
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>>286150641
Nacchi is already dark
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You know. With Dark Naviyu, I think every Princess has an "Albion Emanation"
>Princess Ripple = Drun
>Princess Zeal = Callist
>Princess Meteor = Gita
>Princess Viola = Bes
>Princess Neige = Naviyu
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>>286127495
Does it have it's own version of miku?
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>>286152568
Yes.
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>>286154321
I can't wait for KagaNaga to be revealed as the endgame ship.
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>>286152568
A Kanade-coated Miku.
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>>286152568
Miku wishes se was as cool and supportive as Nacchi
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>>286155398
How horrifying
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>>286155483
Unlike Kanade, Nacchi got better.
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>please give my sister her own TMH outfit, she'll look so cute in it
She's never beating the allegations.
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In any other anime the Snacchis would be protagonists.
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>>286155854
Wrong.
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>>286155854
They'd be eaten alive by JKs and JDs.
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>>286156026
They'd be eaten alive by me.
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>>286134618
Posting it here just because
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D9%89
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>>286155511
Maybe they will! I imagined that the final powerup would be basically one last dab at SymphogearAXZ's Golden Hibiki: as one anon pointed out, Nacchi's song fragment has a different shape in comparison to others, so either her song fragment will resonate with all the others to become a "Golden Sunshine Crown" and give the princesses the "Crown Princess" powerup or... yeah, Princess Sunlight might happen in the last minutes like in XV with Shenshoujing Miku bride mode.
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Sex with Riri.
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Who's gonna voice Carroll?
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>>286159791
Nabiscuit's VA if it's him. Which I think is likely since he even looks a bit like the real one.
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The last preview image for ep42 on the official site was replaced with Band Snatch. They faked us out.
It used to be Nagase.
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>>286160085
Based.
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It would be really easy to write a comedy Princession / Symphogear crossover about Hakase being Fine.
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>>286160179
And molesting Lily?
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>>286160300
No, silly. She's got Mirai for that.
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>>286160300
We'll have you know the naked electrocution was entirely necessary.
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Give Riri iPad so she's distracted and vulnerable.
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They're going to rape her.
https://x.com/anzusaku1012/status/2023754339542859915
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JPtwt is saying he will be the keyboardist
https://twitter.com/priorche_info/status/1930761560705970677



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