Luca won

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Endgame. How many fucking hints do you need.

>>290441550
Mari had her hand on Lara's flat chest for who knows how long.

Is this the latest addition to the yuri slaying list?

Luca will impregnate both Mari and Lara

>>290441299
HETBROS OUR RESPONSE??!

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I love this show but I won't fall for yuribait

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>>290441407
Leaked reality

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Give it to be straight.

>Friendship end chances.
>Het end chances.
>Yuri end chances.
>Grace kills everyone chances.

>>290441601
The flatter the chest the closer to the heart

is this an anime original, a manga adaptation, or an old story remake?

>>290442301
yes

>>290442301
no
it's an old story sequel

>>290442238
Friendship and leaning towards het if the leak is to be believed. The leak being that Luca did not instantly return her feelings, he does love her but he wasn't 100% sure if he can return the feeling right at that moment.

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Love his cute little face. The things I'd do to him.

>>290442238
All-in yuri here, though my faith wavers.

>>290442695
>>290442916

>Het having any chance at all
Actual fucking delusional and zero media literacy

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>>290442916
The things i'd do to him...

* bisexual heroine with a prior male prince fixation
* repeated prince language;
* visual compositions that directly rips lines and scenes from Utena;
* Utena and Anthy promise to be together forever sitting down at a table drinking Tea, Mari and Lara promise to be together in the future while sitting down at a table in the same scenery*
* “someone will stand beside her” framing from Mari's mother with the dad looking to a shot of Mari and Lara together affirming that she found someone;
* the prince role treated as something a girl can occupy and now potentially the princess becoming the prince for another girl.
* true love is a woman and not the prince she invisioned
* Childhood meeting with the Prince sparks a false romance in adulthood which leads to her realizing he's not the one she loves
* Lara's heart literally only reacting to Mari and causing enviromental disasters in Episode 3 and Episode 5 and Episode 8 when Mari is in danger or makes her blush
* Lara visibly head over heels in love with her at the end of Episode 3
* Luca being a trigger to make Lara admit what she wanted was Mari which forces her to move the ocean to get her back to land to see her boxing match

Anyone who can't see what's happening is retarded, this show is directly ripping off Utena in every way.

>>290442180
Lyrical Recoil is confirmed yuri regardless of how much you delusional retards cope about it

>>290443030
what are the visual motifs that it’s borrowing from Utena??

Also Utena was still somewhat subdued in its depiction of Utena and Anthy’s romance (until the movie of course), so I’ll be surprised if this commits to any explicit lesbian love

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>>290443015
made for delinquent boy dick...

>>290443102
>Utena is subdued
You are fucking delusional, it's very blatant about the romance between them.

>>290443030
If you think Lara is gonna somehow start making out with Mari after Luca turns her down, you're straight-up delusional. I am 99% sure it's gonna be that everyone is friends with 60/40 Luca at this point. The 40% can circlejerk their yuri-headcannon all they want while the 60% can move onto a better show.

>>290443149
Is this the last Hetfag cope?

>>290443171
>I have no argument here's a strawman HETFAG! hahahaha
I guess we're done here...

>>290443030
I don't think you even need to watch Utena to understand where the story is headed. The camera swinging to Mari/the hot chocolate can everytime they talk about true love is so obnoxious I'd be offended if I didn't know how stupid the average audience member is.

>>290443149
>According to reports from Anime Expo, director Takushi Koide explained that he aimed to avoid typical yuri genre conventions, focusing instead on a natural, character-driven emotional connection between Lara and Mari. He emphasized creating a grounded, intimate relationship between the two girls rather than relying on standard melodrama
Cope

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>>290442238
Yuri end but they won't kiss on screen so shitposter will keep screeching that's it's not yuri for years in his asspained rage.

>>290443209
>poorly translated interview

>>290443105
Leo has the biggest dick out of the three btw

>>290443223
Cry
You cannot "mistranslate" the word yuri. It is a specific, native Japanese loanword used internationally. When Takushi Koide spoke about the genre of Goodbye, Lara, he used the literal Japanese word 百合 (yuri)

>>290443209
people keep bringing up this argument as if:
a) he doesn’t put in quotes
b) he’s not using the Japanese interpretation of yuri which is just strong relationships between women. Lara and Mari could just be sisters under this definition

>>290443271
>百合 - genre focuses on the close intimate relationships between girls. These relationships can be sexual but can also mean sisterly or a close friendship

How will grandma Ema react when she learns both of her grandchildren were corrupted by homosexuality and won't reproduce?

>>290443102
First ever yuri anime works

1997 - Revolutionary Girl Utena (cast of Bisexual characters)
1998 - Devilman Lady (Lesbian heroine, two love interests, lesbian antagonist)
1998 - Adolescence of Utena (see Utena but without any subtlety or restraint)
2004 - Kannazuki no Miko (Chikane falls in love with Himeko a long time before the show starts, Himeko doesn't remember and falls for her slowly before Chikane pushes her towards a male character & gets jealous, she rapes Himeko which converts her back to loving Chikane and rejecting the male character, it ends with them resurrecting and becoming eternal lovers retaining their memories)

>>290443030
>>290443188
Utena had an overall commentary on patriarchal roles and how the concept of a prince is shitty.

This show is not interested in doing that. The theme is that love doesn’t need to come in the form of single person. It’s not saying anything similar to what Utena did so people really need to stop comparing them

>>290443291
>Show only exists because of it's influence from Utena
>It's not yuri though trust me
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA

Hetfags are so delusional
What pathetic copium

>>290443371
Uh, is Utena REALLY the first? Very doubtful. What about Rose of Versailles?

>>29044129
Was it necessary for this useless thread to kill a better one?

>>290443390
Point to me where the Utena influence is besides Lara being schizo about what a prince which is basically just a stand in for her “true love”. There is no Utena influence. Compare this to shit like Revue and you can see the difference

>>290443374

Why does Akio call Utena a "lifeform" or "creature" when he tells her there never was any such thing as a prince in the first place?

>>290443374
speedwatcher with the speed force speeding to dementia

>>290443405
It wasn't yuri, Oscar and Marie Antoniette and whatshername the younger girl that had a cursh on Oscar were alll straight and had male love interests.

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>gets rejected by Luca
>down in the dumps
>talks to Himeka
>makes it obvious (even more so) that she loves Mari, which is why Himeka is making the face she does in the trailer
>Himeka puts it in plain terms for Lara
>Mari gets attacked by Kouta but somehow he gets stopped
>Lara finds injured Mari and in that moment confesses to her
Maybe this next episode ends on the cliffhanger of Kouta confronting Mari and some of that stuff carries into the next episode though.

>>290443444
huh? How does what Akio say connect to the point I was making about this show

>>290443510
already confirmed Himeka is giving advice to Lara on what true love is. The Luca confession scene probably happens right at the end of the episode

>>290443584
Wrong, the leaker explicitly said that Luca didn't give Lara the right answer and that she was told he didn't know what True love even was, which prompts Lara to ask around about what True Love is

>>290443557
You brought up the theme that Akio's line touched on exactly and I've always wondered why the line was said like that.

>>290443584
>already confirmed Himeka is giving advice to Lara on what true love is.
I don't see how this goes against what I said.

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>>290443616
I don’t think so, this reads like an end-of-episode sequence. His comment about Himeka and Mari was separate from this

>>290443633
Isn’t is because he’s so jaded and fucked up by the end of the show he doesn’t really perceive Utena as a person with any value? I do think that touches on the themes of Utena but not really the themes present in Lara

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>>290443649
Also fuck leakers holy shit. Is it common for anime originals to have leakers? Because animefags on /a/ always complain about mangafags spoiling adaptations for them but even with this original series you have faggots spoiling the series. I'm losing the tiny shred of feeling bad for animefags I had to begin with.

>>290443651
Cope


Daze
@dazedaze1111
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Lara confessed to Luca because she thinks she is running out of time, not because she truly likes him, it seems that even in this episode, she hasn't yet realized who her true love actually is
d0nut2x
@d0nut2x
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yh i think you are right, she confessed thinking something was gonna happen, but nothing happened when she confessed to Luca, thats when she got angry
Aria ‍
@Aria_NL
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how does Mari and Himeka play into all of this?
d0nut2x
@d0nut2x
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13h
Lara talking to different people - she's still trying to find the answer to what true love actually is (she knows that she needs to hurry)

Mari ran into Kota when Kota was at her house

>>290443689
So i assume
forced/desperate confession to Luca
nothing happens, so she gets angry and confused
she starts asking people what true love really means
Himeka likely helps frame the answer
meanwhile Mari gets pulled into the Kota/Witch danger
Lara learns Mari is in danger
that finally causes the emotional/supernatural breakdown

These threads are more entertaining than the actual show...

>>290443689
Sure but can’t these sequences of events play out both ways?

1. Lara getting closer to Luca, isn’t feeling the spark —> asks people about true love, gets a mixed bag of answers —> feels pressured by time and just decides to confess and it obviously doesn’t work
2. Confesses, it doesn’t work —> asks people about true love —> comes to an answer but maybe Mari gets kidnapped or something?

I don’t think we have enough info to know what exactly happens, but the leaker doesn’t say anything about Lara coming to a conclusion about her love so the second option makes less sense to me

>>290443784
Because like Lyrical Recoil or Higurashi, het fags are having meltdowns trying to justify it as not being yuri

>>290443445
only someone with severe early-onset Alzheimer’s would think Utena and Lara have anything in common. Speedwatching has nothing to do with being able to actually interpret themes

You realize they're gonna drag out confirming LaraMari till the last moments of the last episode only implying what's gonna happen, right? Watch as Mari will resolve herself to save Lara but won't explain how she's going to do it.

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I miss old /a/ when everyone was united and it was a place where people can come enjoy their favorite genre toegher. Now it's just endless bickering.

>>290443943
Episode 9 - Mari getting jealous of Lara, Lara shutting the door on the Prince as a love interest
Episode 10 - Probably Mari starting to realize her feelings for Lara or they realize it for each other without any confrontation
Episode 11 - Someone gets kidnapped and needs rescuing, presumably Lara
Episode 12 - Lara sees Mari rescuing her, she's the prince she invisioned all along, they fall in love and become a couple, flash forward to that photograph of the boxing match in their home together with Mari working as a baker

>>290444000
It's been 10 years since we've been trapped in this eternal summer.

>>290443739
I don't think Mari is in any kind of danger. The end of the leak says Kota is heading to Okishima—meaning he’s already left Mari’s house—and if he were with Mari, the leaker would have mentioned it.

>>290444000
You probably also dream of the time when Naruto was supposedly banned, which goes against your hope here of peace and love. Bickering isn't an issue anyway as long as you don't have schizos who make it their moral imperative to make threads unusable.

>>290444053
I think I had the most fun during GL and SNW. The speculah threads were on another level compared ot this drivel. IIRC the SNW predictions were 90% correct in relating to the ending.

>>290444107
>>290444000
4chan was better before general culture.

>>290444107
I never watched Naruto I watched some of Bleach but I eventually got bored.

>>290444142
4chan was better when /u/ was literally 1 post per day and was slower than other boards like /m/ or /k/.

>>290444160
Not my fault that /u/ is one of the very few boards that escaped mass invasion.

>>290444034
Mari’s not getting jealous though

>>290444107
>as long as you don't have schizos who make it their moral imperative to make threads unusable.
Which is the case here and on many other threads. Modern shitposting is the type of mental illness that in the old days would lead to people getting banned and getting their own article on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Luca is the hero we need, but don't deserve

I want to fuck Leo

I want to fuck Mari’s grandma

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>>290443105
They're here too.

>>290444347
we don't know that yet

>>290444034
I predict something like this too desu

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ur a prince in the club and this girl slaps ur girls ass, what do you do?

>>290444034
>>290445459
I looked back at the photo scene from episode one and no, it is in the same area we see in episode 8. I was thinking maybe it was shown to be in a different place, maybe pointing to the flash forward you mention here.

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I just want a scene better than this one. Episode 3 remains the best episode for me yet. I can't believe Lara can be this fucking dense

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>>290444034
Mari is not "jealous" of Lara/Luca. She has shown ZERO romantic interest in Lara or anyone else (Lara's own feelings are debatable). This was her face as she was being cucked by Luca. She fully ships it.

Mari's backstory is about how she has NO FRIENDS. Her grandma says she never has any friends over. Add to that the flower in the empty hot chocolate can she gave to Lara is a daisy, which is a symbol of friendship, not romance.

If anyone here bothered to read The Little Mermaid they would understand why friendship is the only ending that makes sense for the anime.

>>290445716
The original story is meaningless beyond inspiration. The first episode doesn't even stick rigidly to the original story. There is no way a terminally sick mother thinking about her daughter's future is going to obsess over her having friends. It's clearly about some sort of more involved partner. I would expect clearly a love interest, but it could be something else. Still not just a simple friend.

>>290445716
>Mari is not (headcanon)
Embarassing