Would this show still be popular if not for the obvious Yuribaiting?
>>290368130This stupid thread again
This is a mid show that casual viewers will forget soon. The only thing you're seeing online is bunch vocal minority who are terminally obsessed with certain genre astroturfing its relevance.
>>290368313Every day until the mods stop hating /a/.
>>290368313We need more.
I don't think actual yuri bait has ever existed outside of the minds of schizoid lunatics
>>290368941Define "actual" yuri bait.
Yuribait is better than vanilla yuri.
>>290369244Age-old debate.
>>290368941Bait is because retards like you think it's initially yuri later cry about it when it's not
>>290368130This show is hetbaiting actually and it would be even more popular if it didn't do that
>>290368441I notice how much noise yurifags produce whenever they latch onto things. This board really has a far higher concentration of them than any other well known, anime related space I have visited.
>>290370952Obnoxious yurifags exist elsewhere too, this is just the only place where people dare to call them out, which makes them act more aggressively and stick out more.
>>290368941Sure, whatever.
>>290368941Depending on how this show goes, this would be a 100% confirmed case.
>>290372679>make an offtopic low-quality post>be surprised when you get banned
I usually enjoy original anime threads but this anime's threads have been nothing but shitpost battles and arguing about yuri or whatevera shame
>>290376033This anime stands and falls with the question of they got the balls to go full yuri, so that's what people discuss
>>290376170I completely disagree. Maybe that'd be the case if you were the sort of person to only like something if its yuri or not yuri but I'm the sort of fag that likes anime for what it is.I'm not gonna suddenly think this show that I've been enjoying a whole lot is shit if it ends in a romance between the characters
>>290376273A shit ending can ruin an anime for many. Just look at Attack on Titan. In this case, a retarded Lara x Luca end would obviously destroy what made the anime special in the first place.
>>290376418it's one thing for a bad ending to ruin a show and another thing entirely to equate your ship losing or your yuri vs not yuri "team" losing to a bad ending. either way you are that sort of person I mentioned.Carry on then, but I won't ever understand thinking like you, especially if you ostensibly are enjoying this show right now since you watch it weekly
>>290372494That could be a reason. But even then the number yuri related discussion is still significantly higher in this place. It could be that very few schizos regularly make threads and sustain it.
why is this guy talking to himself
>>290374814they're literally just roommates and one of them clearly lusts after boys
>>290377509he's talking to your mother, but you can't hear her responding back because she has his dick in her mouth, and mine in her ass, while her lesbian ex-girlfriend watches
why did you feel addressed by that post though?
Is the yuri schizo having another melty?
>>290377567After this episode, it seems that Lara has lost interest in Luca.
>>290372679oh no... getting mild pushback for being a retard, how could this happen to you..
When was the last time an anime had hetbait this blatant?
>>290377567>one of them clearly lusts after boys
I don't really care for Luca as a romantic option for LaraHe was introduced too late and they really don't have much chemistry between each other.I almost wish the LISA=LUCA thing was real because that was funny as shitWe have 4 episodes to go but it feels like that was the penultimate one. What could even be left? Lara found her answer, Mari similarly feels resolved. What little Luca had going on similarly feels resolved. Lisa/Kota have been rejected. All this buildup, surely the studio wouldn't be retarded enough to add in more filler now
>Lucuck
So is Luca = Lisa theory still alive?
>>290378664DeadLuca was at the fighting arena talking with Lara while Lisa/Kota were right beside her
>>290378591Leo probably exists for a reason, should be a Leo/Luca episode, Grace's past and ultimate goal need an episode.
>>290378527Lara is feeling tired from the marathon sex she just had with Luca.
>>290378664It was never alive, anon.
>>290378746That's another concern I haveLuca was introduced so late and came with Leo, so what we get another backstory episode? And then another for Grace? Sounds awful, but to be expected of an anime original
This is your male love interest. Say something nice about him.
>>290378591I think the whole point of the show is Lara’s character development, not exactly sure though. She’s not the main character, right?
>"You did today, Mari."
>>290378398
Luca is a cuck
>>290378846So is Luca in Kahoot with Lara's sister or is this just a case of extreme autism
>>290378837Guess the show’s over then. We’re all boycotting the remaining episodes. No one’s buying the BD. It’s over. Pack it up boys.
>>290378893Never watched this yuribait. Did he like the MC?
>>290378893But Kai won
>>290368130I am so fucking tired of seeing this forced overrated piece of shit clogging up the board
>luca spends half the episode running after lara>they arrive separately back at mari's matchwhy is luca so useless
This anime is amazing so far. Hope they stick the landing
>>290379050Do you have to consider all the times he tripped over, anon
>mari knew lara was there without looking up or lara saying anythinghow
>>290379111Fish pussy
This anime is shit so far. Hope they don't hit the fan
This anime is kino so far. Hope they keep it up
so what exactly was lisa's plan after getting lara back
>>290379021You could just ignore these threads and everyone would win, antiyuri schizo
>>290378967Yes, he had the only romantic storyline in the show. The girls just saw each other and sisters and nothing else
This anime is cringe so far. Hope they die very soon
>>290379050>get a message from lara that she won't be able to see you again for a while>takes him two days to talk to mari about itTerminal autism
>>290379208Lucabro...
>>290379196Man, sounds like a pointless show. As expected of P.A Studio
>>290379196>this is what hetfags actually believe
>>290379177Put the sexiest fish she could find in Lara's bed while she sleeps.
>>290379177Introducing her to a handsome seabass or something.
do you think lara was curious about kota at all
>>290379111Did she know? I don't think she acknowledges it. She just suddenly gains energy after thinking about her. Now I could see this as potentially a side effect of Lara's "light", which would be an interesting thing to put into the show. Lara shows up at the match and her light affects Mari. Maybe even the light does let Mari know that Lara is there without looking.
>>290379241Cope as always
>>290379280>yuri pseudoincestNice!
Yuri is good. There is no reason to hate on yuri.
>>290379196>The girls just saw each other and sisters and nothing elseDidn't know Kaicuck is an ESLtard
Filler episode. I hope Grace's flashback arrives soon.
>>290378893This Kaicucks post still lives rent free in my head years later just cause of how well they played it with only the raw footage of the episode out at the time
>>290379346>Filler episode.lmao
>a mediocre anime from half a decade ago nobody, not even yurifags, remembers besides one raging, stinky, delusional, brown hetfag from a third world shithole who can't cope with lossAquatope's legacy
FUCK! i haven't been this invested in shipping since Mitsuru and Kokoro. Praying to god Luca X Lara happens. There's just something about boy failures with a bit of autism that touches my soul
>>290379264Mari's "Why won't you listen?" is referring to Lara coming back to her side despite Mari telling her to be with Lisa. She saw her.
>tomboy is christian >litte sibling is crossdresser Who the fuck made this?
>>290379264>Did she know?Of course she knew, what do you think this line is about?
>>290379391In 10 years, Lara will be the same lol.
>>290379391Nice projection lol
>>290379407>Who the fuck made this?Me. AMA
>>290379264She had a line of sight to her.
Which looks better, the Otsu family dinner or Lisa's dinner?
>>290368130No, is quite easy to check the archives and see how 99% of the appeal is that.
>>290379473Arr rook same
>>290379473Soul / souless
>>290379473Otsu family because I don't like salmonIs that salmon?
Be straight with me bros. What are Luca's chances now?
>>290379350The show would have been actually good and memorable if this had happened instead
>>290379473The tako-bowl is pretty cute.
>>2903795200
why isnt lara wearing pants
>>290378893Since we're on the subject, the sol episodes of Aquatope were better than those of this mermaid anime.
>>290379552Because she is the husband and Lara is the wife
THEY WON
>>290368130
>>290379552She's always leaking so that would be too much clean-up.
>>290378733>>290378817Holy shit, these writers. It seemed like such a plausible and obvious theory too. I wonder how else they will troll us
>>290379568It's just a shame they never moved forward with the two couples.
>>290379668>tongue detailNice
>>290379692>It seemed like such a plausible and obvious theory too.It really didn't.
Excuse me.But where the FUCK is Luca??
>>290379866On my bed.
I dont give a fuck about yuri this, yuri that.What I like the most is that this anime looks fantastic, has a compelling story, has a great OST, great animation, and I want more anime to replicate the retro style that Lara is going for.Hell, I almost bought the damn JP blu ray for this.
>>290380039i bought the blu-rays and the ost.but i also bought the blu-rays and ost for aquatope, so....
>>290379391let's be honest if they confirmed a shit anime is yuri you would munch it out without question and call it great simply because how low is bar for the genre. You lack taste until it's shown to you with rudness.
>>290379692I think the more plausible approach is that Luca is a plant by Lisa to drive her away from the Otsu family. Or something along that line. Lara was stable as a human in that environment and only began to change when he showed up. Whether that's just a coincidence is a different matter.If Lisa was shown to have some amount of magic along the lines of Grace I'd buy the theory but to me it was only a meme
>>290380039As far as shoujos go, Lara is just as generic. Wish it had been more like Anne
>>29037952050%
hetcucks...
>hetfagI swear I hear it more from bunch of SEAniggers than twitter trannies. Why are third world yurifags so aggressive?
>>290380174It ain't over yet
>>290380117Let's be honest, third-worlders should learn proper English before coming on an English image board and shitting it up with their third-world opinions.
>>290380112I had to cancel mine because I couldn't bear to buy something without any kind of english subtitlesProblem is that Lara may never see a physical release
>>290380232Ok, hetsister. Better?
Based nips
>>290378398>hetbaitNot a real thing
>>290380174Elan would've won if he hadn't jobbed to a microwave.
>they are also saying that Luca is a cuckkek
Well, that was interesting. Moving on to my actual romance series now. See you next Sunday, sisters
>>290380258I just don't get how those people are always ESL man
>>290380232>aggressiveAnon, we call pretty much every fan of "something" "somethinfags" here, that's just like saying hello.
>>290380232>hetcuck hetshitThis stuff is so ridiculous especially when it comes from a straight guy.
Mari's strong hand over Lara's flat chest...
>Mom died of cancerThat sucks
>>290380455So what normalfag is better?
>>290380504Myabe if she had cut that awful hair, she would have lived. Girl looked like a lesbian
>>290380553Anon, that haircut wasn't by choice, you know that, right?
>>290380466>literally in Mari's lap>completely emotionless...
>>290380455Anon, most yurifags are transbians. You should have realized it by now
>>290380553Shut the fuck up you fag
>>290380232You will never be white.
Welp, looks like now we are going into endgameHope it doesn't go full End of Evangelion
>mfw responding with 'lol'
>>290380553Are you retarded there bro?
>>290380039
>>290379668Imagine being so butthurt at a comparatively niche series (compared to Bleach and Youji Senki) that you make this image.
This episode was marvelously directed, Lara's expressions spoke a thousand words.It's insane how people can't grasp obvious visual cues. Tiktok ruined a generation.
Oh, it's true, they used the moon this time.
>>290380129Name 20 shoujo anime like it
So Luca isn’t Lara’s true love? Then what the fuck was the point of the last episode?
>>290380843Imagine unironically giving a shit about a comparatively niche series that's utterly dogshit in every aspect
Luca is another victim of lesbian NTR
>>290380982It's not NTR if the bull was there first.
This is a nice sports series.
Hetfags got hetbaited lmao
>>290380943He will help Lara and Mari get finally together
Lisa and Kota ara still the best
>>290380866I've noticed the subtlety too , hell I might watch the episode again
I find it funny how Lara uses text to speech because she can't read.
>>290380943>>290381012
>>290380955>anything being worse than Bleach
>>290380934Every shoujo
I don't understand why you faggots have a massive boner for this shit anime. Kore Kaite and Ibitte are so much better
>>290381075Really?
>>290380943Friendship ending over "romance". People were retarded to think otherwise, just as retarded as people thinking Mari will suddenly go gay. Coincidences like that are pure wish fulfillment
apparently it’s the same writer doing all the yuribait episodes
>>290381075I don't understand why you faggots need to shit up these threads instead of sticking to the threads of the anime you like.
>>290381055the last shoujo i watched wasn’t like it
>>290381126I hope he does the final
>>290381126>who handled episode 3Bless.
>>290381139I'm pretty sure it's just one very dedicated schizo shitposter.
>>290380955Imagine being so asshurt about an anime that you go to a thread full of a thing you hate to obsess over it
>>290381008>/a/ suddenly likes tomboy boxingwhy
Why are they so bouncy?>>290381126I would think the lead writer would veto anything that doesn't match with their vision though. Surely they don't give episode writers free reign to do anything they want with no supervision?
By the way. i kinda missed it because of how chummy they were being on the dates, but are Lara and Luca currently dating? Don't tell me Luca is so autistic he doesn't know what love is
>>290376033Retards don't know to not put 'yuri' in the thread title or post. There's literally a schizo who ctrl+f's 'yuri' every moment he's awake and samefags in those threads. Why he hasn't been banned for good despite shitting up threads for years is beyond me.
>>290381126Really feeling that writer change
>>290381110> people thinking Mari will suddenly go gayShe was pretty gay this episode
>>290381239The subtle tit bouncing was nice
>>29038100830seconds in this clip and this mogs Megalobox fuuuckk
>>290379177Make her see that merkind is her true love. Sadly doomed to fail because Lara is dork with a fetish for mankind.
>>290381239well if the lead writer is pleased with the script despite there being some yuri undertones, why would they change it? Leads to more engagement and discussion anyway, as we can see.Now the directing is a different question, because there’s been a lot of visuals that would support this that don’t necessarily reflect in the text itself
>>290381275Boxing is straight, anon.
>>290381110It's not a sudden thing. Mari's a very stoic character and her facade started to crack when she learned that Lara was going away.
Explain this.
>>290381110>SuddenlyThis episode had Mari brag about how she was going to be the best boxer in the world then Lara would "understand"She's about as subtle as a brick
ripped from last thread but it’s painfully obvious the story was supposed to longer. They wanted it to be a SoL and a drama at the same time and had to compress it into 12 eps with mixed results. They’re putting way too much focus on individual character relationships if it was supposed to be a “Lara meets a bunch of people and over time comes to love all of them under the umbrella of humanity” ending, which it’s gonna be
I wonder why Yoshiya didn't come to watch Mari's matches until the last one.
So, was it a girl in the end?
>>290381471>yuri anime becomes a friendship anime due to time constraintsIt's Jellyfish all over again.
>>290381471Honestly I think it could have been worse but what we have is fairly good for the most partBut yeah a 24-26 episode series would have been awesome.Like man imagine having that many episodes of such high quality animation
>>290381422Girls that do boxing are gay.
>>290380866Ooooh, her left eye twitching. Hadn't noticed that.
>>290381504Writers of Jellyfish said there was no yuri so even with 100 episodes it wouldn't have happened
>>290381471> was supposed to longerIdk, I couldn’t see it go to 20 episodes(without people crying that it’s boring)> with mixed resultsI would say that until now only 1 episode was mediocre, the other were decent to great.
>>290381446>looking the same direction>Mari is looking right as Lara is looking leftYeah I'm confused as well.
>>290381602Luca is an autist that is obsessed with Lara. That's what she's feeling.
>>290381456>>290381446>>290381441>>290381275You people clearly haven't seen enough anime. Don't say i didn't warn you when you are hit with the SSF (Same sex friendship)
>>290381528> many episodes of such high quality animationlol, it would go QUALITY half way through and the threads would be about that
>Current status:>Platonic friendship ending: 85% >Yuri ending: 15%>Luca ending: 0%>Grace destroys humanity ending: 0.0001%
>>290381602>from him>not towards him
>>290381629>actually watching Nigashita
>>290381629baby’s first yuribait for a lotta people here
>>290381503Obviously not.
>>290381795I like Lara's clam.
>>290381795so that's a mermaid toilet huh
>>290381629If I can get a yuri anime about witches in not!world war 2 I can believe in yuri little mermaid
The real true love was the friends we made along the way.
>>290381795Interesting that it's still glowing
>>290381126The person you're showing the post of is in charge of series composition. She's the one who comes up with what happens in the overall story and basic ep breakdowns. What she's talking about in that post is that Arose did the screenplay for those eps.
>>290381795Why's she taking a poop with her clothes on?
>>290381894that will be the ending, yes.Japan doesn't do romances, like ever.
>You rang?
>>290379196Years later and you are still coping.
>>290382103THERE GOES MY HERO
>>290381961makes for an even greater case that they adapted the writing into a format that could include bait, even if not in the original writing or part of the overall series
>>290382097>Japan doesn't do romances, like ever.They make like a gazillion every season. It's just that 99.999% are straight
>>290382200>mountains of shoujo/otome sloppaain't no one watching those shows, anon.
>>290382200And yet some people complain about yuri being too prevalent even though it's almost never as straightforward as straight romances.
>>290382135>sisters
>>290382097especially a show with this flawless of a production. Almost every yuri anime needs to have a mountain of production issues for it to actually be yuri
>>290382237Yuri is a niche fetish after all
>>290382234I don't watch them either, but if Japan still makes a fuck ton of them every season, then it's because they have their public
>>290382103Is he a yurifag?
>>290382291>MikadonoStill going nowhere
>>290381097>>290381200Yeah you judging from your whore name
>>290381471>>290381590What if it ended up being like >>290382135? More episodes=/=more quality
>>290382135>>290382135>bought the aquatope figures and blu-rays because i thought it was yuri>bought the goodbye lara blu-raysSurely I can't get burned twice.
>>290381634Half of me is hoping for the ultimate doom-despair-destruction ending that comes out of nowhere.
>>290382346Meant to also quote >>290381528
>>290382360>aquatope>yuriHow anon?
>>290382360That figure is really cool though, I would have bought it for the artistic merit alone
>>290382346Yeah, Aquatope was a perfect example that more episodes do more harm than good. The series could have perfectly ended at episode 12 and nothing would've been lost
>>290381471I tend to agree, and to be honest, the concept trailer looked more interesting than anything we've gotten so far. Would have like to have some more scenes set in the past, and the seemingly dropped plotline involving her other sister Luna.
leaks are saying there’s a follow-up movie to this series planned where Lara and Mari are both adults and married to men, but they reunite to fulfill the promise from this ep and it’s leads to a full-scale double-NTR yuri story
>>290382360Wtf are those bottles?
>>290382291>then it's because they have their publicI will truly never understand what are japense studi ocriteria to make an anime of something.Lets say they pick up some boring 0 years old dead manga and make anime out of it, or they choose the same harem LN sloppa each season instead of making something original.I suppose studios have zero says in it and are asked by publishers in such cases.
>>290381602He has a constant fever that causes him to trip every two steps but he's too autistic to figure out he's supposed to get it healed.
>>290382433>full-scale double-NTR yuri storyBased. Surely true and not bullshit.
>>290382433The only leaks which are true are the ones coming from your lying ass dumbo.
>>290382433What is the cope called?
>>290382237Yuri can be straightforward if the writers want, but yuri is niche, so naturally it isn't as abundant as, say, straight romance. Which is only natural considering how the world works, but you get the idea.
>>290382399The promotional art was the epitome of yuribait. I can't blame him
>>290382431Nta but I disagree, there already enough little mermaid adaptations, including anime ones. I am happy we moved from the past and the series had episodes way better than the concept trailer. I wish we got more Luna though
>>290368941Are you.... are you saying yuribait doesn't exist, or are you saying yuri doesn't exist. I'm confused.
hetfags are having a melty?
>>290380706IS actually a Rocky remake!
>>290382360Meh, i've gotten burned so many times i don't give a crap anymore. I just buy what I think is pretty
>>290382517Luna will show up, I hope
>>290382476>>290382481it’s true, my father is Koide himself. Don’t tell anyone but he’s super into NTR yuri stories. Actually set my mom up with someone because of it.
Luca is Luna
>>290382437Most media gets made if it can make money. Anime originals just don’t do it. How much money did Odd taxi made? There are a few studios that don’t adapt everything, only very specific stuff and those tend to have more control
What do you think anons?
>>290382573Because you are a complete retard, any sane yurifag would know that Grindman would never deliver on yuri knowing the franchise and studio behind it, same with Hibike with source material being not yuri.
>>290382573This one got a movie that confirmed the het and slayed the yuri...Kaibros and Lucabros, don't give up hope
>>290382629oh good, that means we’ll get another episode where Lara has to find the courage to face what she fears! Hooray! What is this, the 3rd time? 4th time?
>>290382135He's also coping here >>290381960 alongside his gay crush for Majima >>290381123
>>290382629I also kinda got that impression from her last conversation with Lisa. It may lead to her ultimately turning Luca down.
>>290382667Of course she would be scared anon, did you forgot what did happen the last time she got rejected?
>>290382616But most adaptations of LNs and manga aren't even made to make money, hell they even aren't made to have any minimal profit anymore, they are made as advertisement for the source material to have some boost in sales.Most shows each season don't even sell more than 1k BDs anymore combined.
>>290382437I would say it is a bit of both. Studios animate manga or LN they want either because they genuinely like it, because it can be used to train their staff, or, well, because it can generate good income. Like pic related. Not a big seller, but the main staff in the studio liked the manga, and that was enough
>>290382646>This one got a movie that confirmed the het and slayed the yuri...Since original anime didn't have any yuri in it, I can't understand how the movie could slay something which didn't exist there anon.
>>290382706That scene of them in the park is her turning him down for good.
Some details lost in translation in the final scene: https://x.com/saekoandmiwa/status/2091572949329293530
>>290382727And the money is from the manga/ln sales which is more than the money made by anime originals. I am asking again how much money did odd taxi make? How much money did the new movie directed by the odd taxi creator make? Very little.
>>290382250Hey. Yagakimi looked great.
>>290379177>>290379250>>290379252It's as if some of you aren't even watching the show.
>>290382238>>290378987>>290379196Ruri Rocks is yuri
>>290368130Feet status?
>>290382727PASSION as simple as that. Konosuba ended years ago with no more content yet one day they suddenly decided to go for it and finish the LN because why not.
>>290381647Don't take Crunchy's shitsubs so literally.
>>290382812good thing it got a second season and wasn’t a waste of a good budget on half a story
>>290382822You are retarded and wrong btw
>>290382867They are accurate in this instance.
>>290379280That was onee-sama wording and we know what it means in yuri japanese slang for unrelated individuals.
>>290382437I always took it that they adapt some stuff that will make them money, then they do adaptations/originals that may lose them money, but at least they can recover via the stuff that does make them money
>>290382646Were you cucked by a lesbian or something?
>>290382709it’s just amusing to see her get scared and then unscared several times over with not many differences each time
>>290382234Hell of a lot people watch them and even buy the merch, reason why more and more studios have been picking those up recently
>>290382917>I always took it that they adapt some stuff that will make them moneyIf that was true then many studios are under cause there are a bunch of them which never created a show which could sell better than 5k BDs to get that extra profit.
>>290382885Calm down, Kaicuck
So after the episode the anime will go full Evangelion/Utena with the apocalypse, symbolism and mindfuck taking the forefront, right?
>>290382938Well female customers actually buy things from even niche series they liked. Male otaku are just words over words.
At least Kaibros aren't fat filipinos
Poor poor Majima/Kai/Guel/Yuuta/Shuuichi/Kousaka/Andrew/Shuji/Luca faggot can't fuck Ruri Rocks because it has no yuri slayer. No wonder that anime is so relaxing and the threads were devoid of anti-yuri shitheads like him
>>290379177she should just turn mari into a fish problem solved
>>290382766>Since original anime didn't have any yuri in itEh, i agree, but people will see a girl holding hands with another or thinking about the other and instantly say it is yuri. To be fair, the merch didn't help either. Even the Japanese fans who went to an event asked the director if it could be called yuri. So if Western viewers and Japanese viewers got confused, then we are certainly the smarter anons for not falling
>>290382994Are you gay anon? Why you love Filipino men so much?
>final episode>Lara and Mari are embracing each other, the mermaids are about to be revived>Lara: Mari, I love…>Mari: I love you too>Lara: …all of humanity!>Mari: oh, right. Me too.
>>290382950She literally had her head in her lap and showed zero emotion... what are we meant to be seeing?
I still don't know what's left for Lara to learn. What's her issue? Self-hate? Fear? Where do we go from here
>>290382791Thank god the subs don't add that southern slang shit to its translation. I love listening to kansai ben, but to see it converted to American hick talk would just annoy the hell out of me.
>>290382949> then many studios are under No shit, why do you think since 00s so many studios filed for bankrupcy?
lara is clogging my toilet !!!
>>290383010Kousaka mentioned
>>290382930The main difference in Lara's behavior between episodes 7 and 8 is her becoming aware of her limited time. She could be more carefree in 7 because the only real issue was Luca looking like the prince, while in episode 8 she retreats because she's terrified she's just going to die soon anyway. There's a direct parallel with Luca convincing her in episode 7 but not in 8 and it takes Mari (i.e. her true love) to push her past even the fear of death.
>>290382437>to make an anime of something.99% it is money, rest if i creators like something or another case where they produce some dogshit just to write it off as loss.
>>290382991>Male otaku are just words over wordsMale otakus also buy shit, anon. Why else do you think Shonen still exists?
>>290383029Trigger and Grindman franchise with having a boy who is into Rikka.Why retards thought this would give them yuri is beyond any hope.Only one-sided yuri characters are treated as a joke fetish, boys almost always get the prize.
>>290383060yea it’s probably self acceptance, whatever that form takes. But we’re also missing crucial elements of the story still like Grace’s true plan which could recontextualize a lot of things
>>290383033So Mari and Lara love me as well?
>>290378908He can either be a transformed fish or a subtle metaphor for the modern emasculated male who is unable to reach his goals and stumbles miserably, while the young women, set themselves free form the roles imposed by the patriarchal society and run towards the realization of their dreams.Or a recurring gag
>>290383078Here's an idea, ship Kousaka and Kai with this >>290369507
>>290383097Difference is male otaku usually buy big stuff from popular series, female ones buy everything from series they like even if it's niche shit bringing better constant profit.
>>290383033sequel series about Mari learning to cope with her unrequited lesbian love
>>290383147Well excuse me buddy, there's barely any good Mato, Iruma, Mikadono, or Vermeil in Gold merch going around
So taiari aots confirmed
>>290383135First idea is too Utena-pilled for this mainstream slop
>>290383078Of course the seething Kaicuck would hide behind his Turkey shit and his yuri slayer fuckboy. Thank Christ Ruri Rocks didn't have him
>>290382234>ain't no one watching those shows, anon.Speak for yourself, shoujoslop can be kino as well
In Utena movie they transformed into a car, so here they could transform into a motorboat.
>>290383097>ShonenTbf fujos are there too
>>290383060We'll probably get a Grace/Rowan backstory around ep 10 or 11. Ep 12 will just be misunderstanding autism with Lisa. Yeah, not super optimistic about the ending desu, unless they throw something completely out of left field
>Thank Christ Ruri Rocks didn't have himlmao
>>290383270True the most popular ones being kept alive are thanks to fujobucks.
>>290383237>mainstreamI am pretty sure this is less popular than Utena was. Do people even care about it?
>>290368130Probably. It's still a very cute, comfy, charming show.
>>290383168>Mari becomes a highschool boxing coach who gets handsy with her female students
>>290368941Gakkou Gurashi was genuine yuribait.
>>290383135>He can either be a transformed fish or a subtle metaphor for the modern emasculated male who is unable to reach his goals and stumbles miserably, while the young women, set themselves free form the roles imposed by the patriarchal society and run towards the realization of their dreams.Fuck you for making me laugh. Good one
>>290383168...by going to lesbian brothels
>>290383297
>>290383313this is what the show should’ve been about anyway. Mari grooming a group of young boxers and we get well animated fights every episode
>>290383353Nice seing you don't read it then, but it's obvious seeing what retard you are.
yuristatus?
>>290383403yuriful
>>290380039Without romance, I think the story would feel incomplete.
>>290383392But enough about you, Kaicuck
>>290383301Utena was as mainstream as it gets, it aired in the same slot as Sailor Moon. Kinda crazy in retrospect.
>>290383403yurisovl
>>290383131short hair Lara is fucking cute
Our gal can make custard now! She has come a very long way and I am proud of her.
>>290383403megabait
>>290381422And hook, and cross.
>>290383301no but a studio wouldn’t dare to make an explicit yuri with Utena’s themes as their anniversary project. Thats too much of a statement when they can just make pretty animation with a standard “true love is the friends we made along the way” plot
>>290383451Unironically I think short hair is always better on girls
>>290383424it will probably feel incomplete by the end then
>>290383431Seems you don't even read posts you reply to shithead, I don't give a shit about Kai, or any guy in yuri works, try to read posts with better understanding.
>>290383488Tbh it would be a retarded statement, they should make one showing how hard modern women have fallen compared to their old ways and how much better retro women were. We need an anime like that.
>>290383557Just ignore the schizophrenic falseflagger.
>>290383534Well it's the expectation for anniversary projects to drop the ball.
>>290383557If you don't give a shit about Kai, then why did you reply immediately when you saw that Ruri Rocks is yuri? What's next, are you going to say that you don't give a shit about Majima and Kousaka all this time?>>290383590Nice samefagging too, falseflagger
was reveue starlight feminist slop?
What the fuck is even Ruri Rocks
>>290383571in a meta sense, they’re doing that by not having any Utena themes. That show is old enough to be retro
>starts telling with hesitation in her voice that she will get closer and closer with Luca>suddenly makes a pause when she says "true love">all this sequence happens Yeah, I think Lara deep down knows that her true love is indeed Mari and she is scared to cross the bondary with her and lose her (or getting her killed), so it will be basically a call back to episode 4. So Lara is basically in denial mode.
>>290383652The only time is replied is the negative reply for the trolling image from Green manga you retard.
>>290383691A bland cgdct P-kun got obsessed with for some reason
>>290383701eh or she just knows that Luca probably isn’t “the one” so she’s faltering there. I don’t think this says anything in particular about her romantic attraction to Mari
>>290383691CGDCT + mineralogy, zero yuri, zero hetero, just comfy manga. But author is a dirty yurifag and shotafag as his adult seperate doujin works go with content.
>>290383691Just some random cgdct/non-yuri series that our local falseflagging Filipino uses to shitpost.
>>290380039But anon, the story IS yuri, and it’s not exactly subtle. If you’ve watched the show this far and still aren’t thinking about yuri, you’ve probably done more boxing than Mari.
>>290383703Says the retard who keeps trolling that Ruri is hetShouldn't you be happy about that Green image? You do hate ChisaTaki and FuuKuku and love Majima and Kai, right?
>>290383759Thing is she doesn't have time, she thinks that if Luca is into her and she finds him acceptable she must force herself to love him so he would be a true love to save her mermaid race.
>>290383797‘Yuri’ in the broad sense of “intense relationships between women” yes
I really thought they'd try to make Luca more likeable. He feels like such a nothing plot device character.
>>290383699But Lara is an old woman and Mari acts a little like how old women acted( even though she is a filthy zoomer). Anyways I am talking about real life women, feminism has destroyed them. We need an anime that portrays this decadence. It would be great.
>>290383834Are you mentally ill? That would explain a lot.
>>290383691A good show, watch it.
>>290383876He is annoying brat, but maybe women like such shit.
>>290383876unless there’s more in store for him I agree. Even in this episode his role could’ve been given to Yoshiya or Himeka (who’s probably not getting anymore plot relevance after episode 4)
>>290383725>>290383785Calm your (fake) tits down, AP
>>290383759She's forcing herself to fall for Luca and make him "the one" because all the other people are telling her to do that. It's not what she wants deep down, what she truly wants is Mari, she isn't following her heart.
>>290383896How yuri focused is this? Because I don't care for constant yuri in my CGDCT shows. K-On is still peak
>>290383951There is none, you're good
>>290383131Short hair Lara is big cute but I’m not a fan of long hair Mari. She’s too tomboy for it.
>>290383951Are you a retard? Few anons already gave you answers it has zero yuri and zero hetero.
>>290383797I just dont care
It would be a good ending?
>>290383951It has almost as little yuri as is humanly possible for an all-girl cast. But it's still a good show and manga.
>>290378893They should have left it open to interpretation on whether or not Kuuya was actually gay, although I can't deny Kaoru being the one to relax his opinions on women was a good choice for character development.
Sisterhood is yuri!
>>290383889>Can't even better to answer a simple questionAre you, as you love to say to that P guy back in the days, moving the goalpost?Anyway, I accept your concession.
>>290384022The merfolks don't deserve Lala's sacrifice.
So why'd they not include Lara calling out Mari's name? That's such a weird choice.
>>290383691What Sayonara Lara should have been: no males and het bullshit. Just girls doing things
>>290383951Nothing overt. But you can tighten your yuri goggles and see Ruri's intense admiration for her older senpai, Nagi, as infatuation. Especially when Nagi will embrace Ruri like this.
Why these fucking mentally ill schizos are talking about another show in this thread?
Euphonium, Gridman, Lycoris and this are all yuri. Yuri doesn't mean romance.
>>290383889He is. He thinks everyone is his tripfag nemesis, for whatever reason. Not sure why he hasn't been rangebanned yet.
>>290384051this is intentional. When Grace reveals she was in a romantic relationship with her sister, Lara will realize romance between women is possible. This line lays the groundwork for Lara following the same template as her aunt.
>>290384100i only see an older girl babysitting a brat
>>290384131>>290383889Can you stop being so predictable?
Don't open
>>290384158But we know from the OP Grace was a ningen-fucker.
>>290384189Tighten the goggles more!
>>290379473why cant they fucking remove the head?
What is it about this episode that caused hetschizos to melt down? I don't think I've ever seen a worst thread, even episode 7 the hetbait episode had better ones
Luca will get the last laugh
>>290384223There's so much good Ruri Rock art out there and you had to post slop?
>>290384232Why would you? Just eat it
>>290384223Cute ojisan onaholes
>>290384209well you see, much like Lara herself this is a misdirect. Grace tries to displace her incestuous impulses by dating a man, but it doesn’t work out and she ends up causing disaster because she didn’t bump tacos with her sis.
I watch the dub. How much do you hate me?
>>290384267forgive me, senpai, i didn't open the thumbnail
>>290384272That's a nice way to say about your cure sluts
>>290383859Yuri in the broad 'this show is beating you over the head with the relationship with Luca hardly working and Lara summoning the giant fucking fish to yeet her boat towards Mari' sense. Yes. You are the brain damage patient I’m talking about. Do you realize he was at the tournament too? And that he was even talking to her while she was getting off from the steamy women boxing he was showing her?
>>290384129They aren't yuri, but whatever floats your boath antiyurischizo.
P is super upset
Nice job getting this Sayonara Lara thread converted into Ruri Rocks thread, Kaicuck the AP Idol Schizo
Yurichads won
>>290384323>ready for ugly bastard
P you say?
I am going to be honest, I dislike these threads and current /a/ in general. I also dislike myself.
>>290384199Cute!
>>290384022No, it's shit, sasuga chinks.
>>290384506>Mari princess carrying LaraCute
>>290380258This smells like AI autocorrection.
>>290384473Blame our incompetent (and sometimes actively malicious) moderation staff.
>>290384357I want to trust in the yuri but the show goes to great lengths to never quite explicitly insinuate there is a romantic thread being Lara and Mari. Everything shown so far is exactly the type of thing creators in the past have cited as strong friendship with no romantic connotation
"P is super upset"-kun is super upset about Producer-san
It's going to be non-romance yuri end, a yurifags' favorite
>>290384506
>ctrl+F "blade">phrase not foundThe blade moved again, and has only ever moved because of Mari or for Mari's sake. This is beyond over.
What if it ends in poly?
>>290384506>>290384599REPOSTISPROHIBITED!!!!!!
>>290384599seething lmao
>>290384458>>290384272>Sees girls>Thinks of ugly bastardsI'm starting to think that you hate womenBoth posts are from the Flip-hating idol retard btw
>>290384312You do you, anon. We're all adults here.
>>290384681Not anymore
>>290384648There's no agreed-upon name for this thing, but it's been discussed.
Mataba
>>290384708>the people itt are modern day adults Grim.
>>290384506At least give some boobs to Luca form.
>>290381446This scene honesty makes no sense if it's not talking about Lara. There's been nobody else that has the potential to be a love interest for Mari. With Lara you at least have Luca, but there's nobody shown to be even a potential love interest for Mari.
>>290384506What are they running from? the sushi chefs?
Larasisters we keep winning
Mari will get her soul devored
>>290384727Each time you repost art without permission, 10 artists spontaneously combust...
>>290384796Lara and Sitara taking the lead
>>290384786Every girl needs a purely platonic soulmate to stand by you through life so that you eventually find the right man
>>290384022Pointless suffering is boring. Happy endings at this point are more subversive.
>>290381446...in a platonic way
>>290384801Seasoned with salt, pepper, and MSG!
What if the whole "true love is the friends we made along the way" ending is actually saying that friendships are more meaningful than romantic relationships, and you should always put your bros (female) before hos (male)?
Don't know if it's been posted already, by the storyboarder and director of this episode.
Is everyone ready for Mari to get cucked by all of humanity?
>>290384796Jaddugar is legit dogshit god damn I have no fucking idea what's going on in that show.
>>290384846Plato was a faggot and a nigger.
>>290384312You're missing the heavy kansai accents. I switched to the dub for a few seconds just to see how it was and it was as shit as any other dub.
Something big will happen next episode. Maybe Lara will finally realize her feeling for Mari on full moon, because moon = tsuki = love?
>>290384898Have you tried reading the subtitles?
>>290384843They can touch and make each other feel good too while waiting on their husbands.
>>290384565This show had MULTIPLE things like that one Kaguya line people still cite that compares her love for kaguya to her parents’ love. Except that was side material from the novel.Superfriendship shows don’t contextualise the superfriendship with romantic heterosexual couples and have one of them searching for "true love". Because that raises questions. Sayonara Lara constantly rubs your face into Mari being much better for Lara than Luca, and thoroughly selfless. I guess it could still be a "true love is bros before hoes" kind of thing, but at some point even that is silly.
>>290384898It's been a treat for mongolfags
>>290384898I love :3
Fuck. Fishe.
>>290384992>>290385003Go back to your thread fuckers
>>290385003sex
>>290384984It’s very silly yes for the show to do this much and then end like that yeah, which is why I’m expecting it to happen
>>290384898Not the show's fault you're a brainlet.
>>290384992>>290385003Stay in the thread, I don't care
>>290385034The Mongolians claimed this thread for their empire
>>290384992>>290385003Stay right here.
>>290384084No need for a big shout, the direction they went with was much more creative and intimate. The ring lights above Mari were like Lara's light, you could see them blurring from Mari's point of view when she is taking a beating and come into focus when Lara opens the gym door. All sound stops and the two of them are connected by their heavy breathing and the sweat dropping from their faces, then they just give each other a look and Mari gets her second wind. You just witnessed pure kino.
Now this is what a Sayonara Lara thread should be. Full of shit
>>290385167Why?
>>290384992Is it strange this is first time I actually checked in google that there's a country like Mongolia?
>>290385098>We claim Lara's Kingdom for the Mongol Empire
I liked how expressive mari got this episode
>Mongols invade Lara's Kingdom>Mari has to box pic related as part of single combat for the fate of the KingdomCould she win it?
>>290383353Nobody gives a fuck about him, people hate green Yuri because the designs are ugly
>>290385373She's becoming even more expressive each new episode, I love it so much.
>>290384898You have been IQ filtered, I'm afraid.
>>290385429Based
>Sorry dude, she's mine.>Eh? But I went on a date with her and I bought two buns.>You ate both of them.>She didn't ask for one!
Stop posting screenshots of that ugly muslim anime in this thread. I need eye bleach.
>>290384898It's about revenge, and by that I mean doing nothing for several years and sympathising with your slavemasters
>>290385423Mongols? strong?
>>290385529It's actually a mongol animeBut yeah I would say that this mogs Jaadugar in terms of looks, even though both are great looking anime in their own right
>>290385525This scene there is making me curious, I can't predict what it means
>>290385529Only Tengrists here, no idea what you're on about.
>>290385525>B-but girls can't love girls! She needs a man like me!>"Man"!? *laughs*
Can a story be a yuri story without being "yuri baiting"? Because why does everyone get upset about this show? It wants to clearly make a show with a specific premise, is it somehow to be condemned for that?
Masaya is mad
"Luca=Lisa-friends in shambles" was the first thing this ep made me think once it was over.
>>290385776Yes, it can be real yuri. Just like this will be.
>>290385776Yes, what is the point of having Lara go on dates with some guy? Yuri bait is very obvious and if you can't see it then you need to look harder. Obviously if something does end up as yuri people will largely look past the stuff before but yuri baiting is usually called out when there's heavy yuri hinting only for the girl to end up with a guy at the end of the series.
>>290381498Might be because only last match was on a sunday? So he had school to attend.
>>290385946Oh right, the end of this episode took place today. Lara and Mari were on the veranda just a few hours ago and are now asleep cuddling.
>>290385884>>290385902This seemed pretty clear from the beginning to be yuri. I guess Luca's very existence is causing people to meltdown. I believe most of us already know the ending will either be happy: Mari and Lara end up together and the mermaid kingdom is saved OR tragic: Mari and/or Lara find out they love each other but are somehow torn apart and the kingdom falls to ruin.
Why did she blush even more in this scene after told Mari about "find" her true love if she doesn't even know she loves Mari that way yet??Suspicious as fuck.
>>290386060People are annoyed because there's been so many other series that tease yuri only to be not yuri or maybe just non-committal. There's no way to be 100% sure what this series will be until the end of the final episode.
>>290386183The curse of being an anime original
Looks like Nagahama lost to the opponent Mari beat in the final.Had she won, the two would have gotten their rematch.
>>290384918It might have some symbolic meaning too, but primarily it's to show the passage of time.
>>290386368Yet that is actually the BENEFIT of an anime original. Why watch an anime you already know the end of? An anime original is just the same as reading a manga that isn't finished yet, you're "along for the ride"
>>290385776Because the concept of a friendship that is so strong it defies any sense of normally understood human relationships is dumb. It’s essentially a stale trope at this point. It is especially the case for a show like this that seems to want to have a commentary on human relationships. If you’re gonna do that, showcase realistic relationships. Lara and Mari’s interactions tilt between things that friends wouldn’t quite do and things that can be interpreted as romantic and that’s annoying
>>290386523Yeah it is great until you get a Towa no Yuugure, Darling in the Franxx, or a Metallic Rouge.I have a good feeling that Lara wont go down that route
it's gonna end with lara making cakes in the bakery, the mari going pro. lisa will also do some humanshit. it's gonna be a nothingburger "open" end. 'cap this.
>>290385048There just is no reason to go for super friendship on an artsy original that already alienated all the waifufags by introducing a traditional male love interest. That’s where we’ve left all traditional executive meddling behind us, yumes are just not a well paying demographic.So we’re purely in the creative realm, and Takushi "no typical yuri" Koide, who worked on Yuri Kuma Arashi and made his directing debut on Revue Starlight, simply isn’t a Ayano Takeda or Naoko Yamada. I mean he doesn’t have a vagina for one, so that’s already one source of retardation less. But the story is also just really tightly written so far. Hardly any detour, everything was necessary. It’s fine to expect this team to not go full retard in the end.
>het forced romance is literally killing herLMAOYURI BROS WE FUCKING WONNERED!!!!!!
Are you cool enough to get into this club, anons?
delicious
>>290386599If this was a manga adaptation that is what would happen. But that can't happen here as the show has emphasized there is a limited time window for the mermaids. Lisa and Chomper at least are on the verge of foamtown with no alternative due to the faux potion tolerance.
>>290386574Haven't seen Franxx, but Towa no Yuugure and Metallic Rouge showed signs very early of the narrative (or other things) going off the rails. Haven't seen that from Lara yet.
>>290386523The curse of anime original is to end up like wonder egg priority
>>290386702>asking to get in>>290386715Franxx's issue was that the other studio that was working on the show took over after episode 15 and the writing took a massive nosedive.
>>290386702Come on and slam, and welcome to the clam.
>>290386574Did you just get mad with Franxx since Zero-Two won?
>>290386702Welcome to the Hotel Shellifornia...
>>290379177Make her look at her comatose relatives and hope she falls in love with having comatose relatives.Lisa has been alone and angry for so long she doesn’t even realize that not everyone is like that.
>>290386702That's an Ikuhara elevator. It's too ominous, I don't want to get in.
>>290386788I was pissed off because they screwed her over actually, I was rooting for the girl the whole time
>>290386833I guess that makes sense since not everyone will like the reincarnation angle they went with
>>290386574Never watched any of them though but yeah most of everything will be shit, that doesn’t erase the good originals and their charm.
>>290380243This guy lost too.
>>290386813Deeper....go deeper...
>>290386537> Because the concept of a friendship that is so strong it defies any sense of normally understood human relationships is dumbDepends, I think irl guys can be in a strong friendship that would allow them to even sacrifice themselves for the other one without any gay shit. Maybe not the same for women since they are weaker.
>>290386624Maybe so, and maybe it’d be satisfactory to get an ending in the vein of Cosmic Princess Kaguya. But I definitely don’t see it going beyond that
>>290384898I hate the fact I have to share a board with people as stupid as you.
>>290384796Chinese yuri going strong too.
>>290385776Yuri bait is a retarded term invented by yuri haters.
>>290382436Ink
>>290386574All of those are kind of bad from the start. The path of Wonder Egg Priority where things suddenly collapse is less common than people believe.
>>290382629If you look at this scene with this mindset it makes it look as if Lara was trying to get a jealous reaction out of Mari. But when Mari instead showed support it made Lara think Mari isn't romantically interested in her after all and that caused her to start turning to foam.
No anime will ever be worse bait than Jellyfish. It takes a special kind of shit to beat that. Wonder Egg looked like a masterpiece in comparison.
>>290388265That was the vibe I got from this scene too. She was too surprised by Mari's reaction to not be something.
>>290388265We also have this scene right here >>290383701
>>290388315No girl in Jellyfish ended with a dude
>>290386702Velvet room has seen better days.
>>290388265Oh no, Lara's learned how to be a woman.
>>290388606They didn't end up with each other though
>>290384022It would certainly be an extremely yuri ending.
Do not forget
>>290384898>I have no fucking idea what's going on in that showThat says more about you for not being able to follow the plot
