PV for ep 11 is out
Leaked ending btw
>>290797282Gay
The fireworks scene we all need and deserve.
Grace and Rigmor will kiss in the flashback, which will pave the way for Lara and Mari.
>flashback episodeI'm starting to get more and more the feeling that a second season was needed
>>290797242flop lol
>>290797600I still don't understand why you're saying this. There's basically nothing else to do but to completely reveal Lara's true love and that will solve the problems. I think extra episodes could have been used to smooth the pacing out but because of the cour system you'd have to jump to 24 episodes, which I would probably enjoy, but it would require more content.
>>290797600>inb4 Episode 12 isn't the finale and it releases with a Season 2 announcement
>>290797600The pacing's fine though?
>>290797696We hardly got to know the side characters.
>>290797242Reminder that everybody involved in the production say it’s a friendship ending.
>>290797711Season 2 will be about Mari getting hired at a boxing association but instead of being allowed to box they make her work the concession stands and the moral is to love whatever job you are given
>>290797744Well they're side characters. I don't think there couldn't have been more content, but the main plot is basically done and absolutely can be wrapped up in a single episode. 12 episode anime originals with a plot aren't where you go for extended slice of life hijinks (for better or worse). Not to mention I've seen people here already call the cake shop stuff filler.
>>290797744They're not secondary characters, they're stepping stones for Lara to grow through her journey. What we learned of them is more than enough for their purpose.
>>290797869throughout*
Luca won
>>290797242this show has been thoroughly mediocre, just another original anime to continue the mid streak
>>290797929He sure did I wonder what bottom noises he makes
>>290797769>>290797929This isn't going where you think it is going.
>>290797852Cake shop absolutely irrelevant now.
>>290797974No kiss, no love confession. They don't want to alienate the chuds and the majority of otakus are chuds
>>290797929Luca means light
>>290797974Would you bet your life on that? Would you die for yuri?
>>290797470Lara's braid is clipping through the ground.
>>290797769Nothing wrong with kissing your bestie
>>290798187Do you expect them to already say "her romantic relationship with Mari"? Before the show is even over.
>>290798041>he doesn't believe>>290797700
>>290798249>t.
>>290798278She will (try to) die.
Why are they born from clams?
>>290798278>says Mari as she is about to stab herself for Lara
Remember when Lara said she's willing to die for a cake? It's foreshadowing her willing to die for Mari.
>>290797242Why is there even leaks for this mid ass show?
>>290798385She is already doing it. And she is willing to let her merfolk die too.
>>290798359
>>290797242The true love was the friends we made along the way.
Do you guys think Lara already knew she loved Mari? There is her reaction after Mari tells her good for you after the firework festival, and then the whole episode 9, especially when they are talking in her room, felt like Lara was waiting for her to stop her from going out with Luca
>>290798620...and the girlfriend
>>290798385>>290798563Do you think it's possible for the dagger to accept Lara herself as the sacrifice? Cause that's absolutely the choice she'd make over both killing Mari or letting her family die. And that's when Mari will come in and prevent it while also not letting Lara kill her instead, there's your callback to the cake shop conversation.
>>290797600>no confession or kiss until the 2nd season>5 years later>did I say the 2nd season? I meant the 3rd
Lara wil sacrifice herself to save Mari and the dagger fish gonna eat Lara instead ending the curse with her, thus saving mermaid race and humanity alike.Nobody knows if Lara gonna revive again or not.Time pass, Mari channels her rage into becoming pro world champion but she feels empty after beating up multiple women around over the world, while back in her hometown she visits places she walked around with Lara and meets past characters from Lara lifee even Luca who became infamous poorfag artist, at the end she visits cake shop but of course there's no Lara there.Song starts playing.Now as she is walking on crossroads she somehow meets a readhead woman she finds familiar who holds a cake, crying she hold her dearly while smashing the cake.'I'm home Mari!'Welcome back Lara!The End.
>>290798702The confession and kiss will be in episode 12 and you will cope and seethe about it.
>>290798278Then she lays her life down for Lara. Absolute fucking cinema. (then she gets brought back to life by Lara)
>>290798839Please no, I hate when they bring characters back to life after an emotional death, it feels like a cop out and dismisses the impact of that scene
>>290798385Mari isn't that old yet
>>290797470Biwa fireworks being wasted on Luca's date probably infuriates the local tourism board.
>>290798635On a subconscious level she probably did. She looks very sad as she is about to kiss Luca. At the very least she is aware that her true love is not Luca.
>>290798661With the message of the show being about loving yourself then absolutely yes she is an acceptable sacrifice.
>>290798839Next episode will be pretty much the climax if they're gonna do the 12 viewing right afterwards. After Grace and Queens backstory we will probably get two outcomes.1. Give up her soul and die or become a mermaid. Giving up her dreams of becoming the champ.2. Dues Ex Machina: Grace's final spell. Turn the mermaid mortal and give them a mortal soul.
>>290798635Lara normally sleeps on her back so her sleeping on her side facing away from Mari really gave the impression that she was feeling like she was about to betray Mari in a way and couldn't face her. Also reminded me of ep 3 when she was moping about Mari kicking her out.
I like to imagine they quickly animated this cutaway and added it to the episode the week as a HERE DAMN addition
>>290799147platonically*
>>290798661They'd still die, did you not even watch the flashback prince episode. Only viable sacrifice ending would be the dagger gets destroyed to save the townsfolk at the expense of Lara and the merfolk.
>>290797242
>>290799147Would be nice is someone made a webm that cuts Mari out then distribute it everywhere. We mandella effect a Luca ending out of the show.
Lara will bake a Pancake for her marriage with Mari
>>290799059I think the end of the ep 11 will lead into the climax and finish out in the first 1/2 or 2/3 of ep 12. You probably don't need to do much an epilogue depending on how you tie everything together in the climax
>>290799211>They'd still die, did you not even watch the flashback prince episodeLara does not get absorbed by the dagger there, she just stops it from absorbing the prince. She dies by foaming due to the potion's effect running out, completely unrelated.
Grace is definitely still alive, but she's gonna die in the next episode
>>290798948But it would make sense. Lara's magic creates life itself. And there's no bigger proof of love and devotion than dying for another person. It would shut Rowan up permanently and redeem humans in the eyes of all mermaids.
>>290799296I don't wan Mari to die
>>290799292My bet is on her having left some of her magic in a mirror through which she relays her story and one last goodbye to Mari.
>290799239Calm down, fatso hater
>>290798635Not on a conscious level, no, it's pretty clear that it hit her in episode 10 and not before.
>>290799296This would work because yuritroons would be satisfied with their scraps while normal people would get an actual kino ending and not yurishit
Nips on Twitter are wondering why this show is so popular overseas. Apparently over 80% of likes on Lara posts are not japanese
>>290799296Even if it were logical, I don't think I would be able to enjoy it.Then again, I highly doubt they will go for something like that.The anime is called "sayonara Lara", obviously someone will say goodbye to Lara, or maybe Lara herself will disappear
Mari will realize that she loves Lara romantically after Grace flashback perhaps?
>>290799418If only they knew that this anime is popular only because of troons and the het vs yuri debate, kek
>>290799418Good yuri is popular overseas
I wanna see Mari sucker punching the fish dagger.
>>290799320>>290799357I'm saying she'd die, but then be revived. Like in Tangled.
>>290799463Where's the yuri part?
>>290799418Y U R IURI
>>290799418Same exact reasons why Kaguya is almost exclusively popular in Japan, locally famous fairytale but yuri.
>>290799515Me and your mom
>>290799433Ep 8 is when she already realized it
>>290798635I think she only realized it when Rowan said she has to pierce the heart of her true love and then it finally clicked that Mari is the one person she absolutely does not want to hurt
>>290799418the show isn't very popular overall, just more popular in the west for obvious reasons so the jap fanbase is much smaller
>>290799418Tranny mafia
>>290799570I don't think she knows that she loves Lara romantically yet, at least in a concious level
>>290799418I admire the nips' innocence. It gives me just a little bit hope for the future, that the western disease of outright gay worship has not taken root there yet. Otherwise they'd recognize the popularity of Lara with westerners instantly for what it is.
>>290799486Well obviously she would stay dead. That's the best way to avoid making this yurishit so that 100% is what's going to happen.
>>290799541Next mission is to make a fairytale yuri anime with a fairytale popular in both Japan AND the US
>>290799574It's always at the top of western polls
>>290799637Alice, duh.
What's the name of this fella?
>>290799620Unfortunately they are pretty determined to subvert anime. Just look how hard they're pushing to turn madoka into tranny shit even though that show is the pinnacle of wester Christian values
How hard is it to set up a Cytube room? I'm planning on making a marathon right before Ch. 12 airs
>>290799638i don't know about any polls, but just going off of any of the anime tracking websites the amount of users watching is way below current season shows like yani neko
Are they fujobaiting with lucas now?His antics with the brother were kinda sus
>gray pupilsIs Lara's mother blind?
>>290799695The twist is Grace fell in love with the horse
>>290799733What did you expect when he looks like a cute twink.
Why are yuritroons melting down right now?
>>290799780Somebody leaked 11-12.>>290799695So she just wouldn't kill him huh? After all the humans have done to them she refused to kill him to save her own people.
>>290799776East asian women loves pretty (and bordeline feminine) young men.I didn't think much of it
Are anons ready for when it's revealed Mari is Lara's cousin?
>>290799418Japs seem to not understand why any anime is popular overseas. I'm rooting for the yuri but even if this was entirely straight it would stand out due to its artstyle and animation. Trying to pretend the yuri is all it has going for it is retarded.
>>290800077I have been waiting for this anime to release for 2 years and it was mainly because the artstyle caught my attention. It has lots of soul vs. All the slop that airs in recent years. The yuri is just a bonus.
>>290799620>gay worship has not taken root there yetYou're acting like Kaguya isn't omega popular in Japan
>>290799956Then why is she a gook?
>>290800153They moved to Japan obviously,
>>290797242wait yuri actually won? I might even watch now
>>290800077That's just the seething flip. He's horrendously asspained that Luca has already lost.
>>290800155Anon looked over his shoulder 3 times and checked under his bed 7 times for Mossad while writing this post
>>290800162Yes.
>>290800218woahnice!!!
>>290799569Are you a girl?
>>290800330Yes
>>290800378Post them.Your toes
>>290799695>>290799956So Grace is showing this flashback to Mari, which will make Mari realize that Lara needs a true love's kiss to turn the dagger into the light that will save the merfolk. I can't see how this will end in any other way but a kiss between Lara and Mari saving the day.
>>290800465Mari chickens out due to embarrassment and solves it by punching the giant dagger instead.
>>290800133Kaguya is class S at best, the girls are just really good friends, but eventually they'll marry guys so they don't have to lead a life of regret.
I finally gave in and took some time to figure these flowers out.The one in the background is dog wood ハナミズキ. It has japanese flower meanings of "permanence/durability", "return gift" and "please, accept my feelings".https://hananokotoba.com/hanamizuki/It also apparently has some religious symbolism of rebirth and resurrection of Jesus.The flower with Luna is sweet pea スイートピー. It has meanings of "departure", "parting" and "tender meories".https://hananokotoba.com/sweetpea/The flower with the oldest sister is Leucocoryne リューココリーネ. It has meanings of "warm heart", "trusting heart", "careful love" and "noblewoman".The flower with the last two sisters is Nemophila ネモフィラ. It has meaninigs of "success everywhere", "I forgive you" and "sweet/cute"https://hananokotoba.com/nemophila/
>>290800133based Kaguya led to a BIG lesbian awakening in Japan
>>290800521If we're talking about popularity then that's not why it's popular in Japan. Take a look at Kaguya fanart scene or any of its discussions on 2ch or xitter.
>>290800600Do not reply to bait.
>>290800547So is the flower that Lara wears in her hair a lily?
>>290800683Yes, it's explicitly called that in her character design sheet.
People can change.
>>290800683Yes. As confirmed in this character sheet posted by the official twitter.
>>290800700>>290800748That's pretty gay
>>290800705>turned by episode 3This is someone with low prejudice willing to follow along the story being told. Nothing in common with the lobotomized retards who ever entertained the idea that things with Luca would go differently.
>>290800748>recommending to cheat the angle of the lily so that it's facing the camera as often as possibleCute.
>>290800748mhhh...I'm noooticing
>>290800077Overseasfags have shit taste. News at 11Even Kore Kaite and Ibitte are much better than this ugly sack of shit.>it would stand out due to its artstyle and animationlol lmao
>>290800766I think it's mainly there for the purity and rebirth symbolism, but it's highly likely they thought about the yuri meaning too.
>>290800521The side novel pretty much explicit a establishes that Iroha’s mom will never have grandkids.
Last episode kiss will be amazing
>>290800748It's interesting that this kind of implies that they might have originally planned for Lara's back fin to pop out more often that just the first meeting with Luca.
>>290800155>pretending they are womenThis is just your tranny obsessed brain jumping at shadows. We need another law similar to Mutt's law about bringing up trannies unprompted instead of bringing up blacks.
>>290800830This is pretty funny. I want to believe all this symbolism is on purpose.
Seems like our name idol guy turns out to be a GMT+11 person. He curiously went dead silent when someone brought it up in the current yuri thread
Why is Rowan being such a Prick to ningens
Calm down, AP
>>290801404Supposedly they killed his wife but I expect there’s more to it than that.
>>290801455Grace yelling at Rowan and hitting his shell makes me wonder if he had anything to do with Rigmor’s death
>>290799479Too bad she can't see it.
>>290799418Nips also wondery why peoples think it's Yuri?
>>290799418>>290802065>Nips also wondery why peoples think it's Yuri?No, the person who tweeted that is a yurifag so that's not the part he's wondering about. He also made up the 80% number as basically a random guess. It's not like he actually has a way to know what percent of likes comes from overseas.
Rape
>>290802313
Tbhfam I'm expecting an yuri end but with no kisses or explicit declaration of love. Takeshit has the easiest slam dunk in history here, but you just can't trust him with an ending.
>>290802698>I'm expecting an yuri end but with no kisses or explicit declaration of love.It wouldn't make sense at this point
If the kiss happen, I will bly the blu-rays
>>290802773buy*
>>290802773why bly when you can buy bro
The real prince right here
>>290802698>no kisses>no confessionDid she at least break up with Luca telling him that she has someone else she likes?
>break up with LucaWhen They're dating?
>>290801769...yet.
>>290802955Uhm, episode 9? They both declared they want to become each other's lovers. As far as I can tell there was never a break up.
>>290801769There has been that theme of "Lara is hiding something" or "Lara isn't showing her true self". It makes me think there will be a scene where Lara will finally open herself up for Mari and that will cause the dagger to become visible to her. Then Mari has to look at it straight into it's gaping maw and still choose to accept Lara as she is.
>>290800521Copium
YagaKimi isn't real yuri because the girls could always decide they like men off screen after the manga ends and Nio Nakatani approves of fan art where guys impregnate Sayaka.
>>290803246This has nothing to do with Lara you schizophrenic drama-obsessed nigger
>>290802698Japs can't into endings in general. What was the last original that had a satisfying ending?
Final Episodes Hint."Goodbye, Lara" have different meanings
Rowan cannot be defeated.
>>290803506Do it Yourself! had a pretty good ending.
So What Lara and Mari will never hangout with Luca again?
>>290803707Best case scenario: Luca remains a good friend and implied gay lover to Mari's brother after Lara and Mari share their explicit feelings for each other.Worst case scenario: Luca's going to haunt the non-commital ending and be a source of shit posting for years to come.
Lisa and Kota didn't need a whole episode. Nothing has become of them since.
>>290803707They will stay friends and hangout with him when they're not busy smooching.
>>290803707At minimum they’ll still be friends. Mari and Luca have been bonding over their shared love for the dumb fishe.
>>290803707if it happens it will be because he's getting his asshole blown out by Yoshiya
>>290803820That was the important plot device episode
>>290803820Their episode was the most romantic one so far
>>290800521Anon her brother literally transforms from nerd to full blown twink after getting backshots from his underage trap friend just as a side thing. That movie is horribly gay.
>>290803946It's not a romance if nothing happens to them by the end. If they're not dead and don't kiss, they are not lovers.
>>290803946Where’s their kiss then?
>>290803706Not a feat when it was a CGDCT
>>290803707I hope Mari gains a new friend in Luca. They seem to get along well in a funny way- the lesbian tomboy boxer with the effeminate bisexual artist.
Luca will be the sperm donor for the girls
>>290803506Apocalypse Hotel?
>>290803969Endangered straight species
>>290803653Putting the filthy humans in their place one cultural mainstay at a time.
>>290804414/ourcuck/ can fix her, babies or no babies.
>>290798359Isn't everyone?
>>290804952Can I take a bite out of you?
>literally no one:>/a/: I want to suck Mari Otsu's dick.
>>290805091No way that's a /a/-only feeling.
>>290802999Retard or liar? Likely both.
>>290804685https://exhentai.org/s/1704a9eea7/4162085-10
>>290805091Lara is the top tho
>>290805169desu while I understand the appeal of the more feminine and submissive girl doing the fucking, that's more of a novelty based on the subversion of the usual dynamic. So I think the tomboy should still be the top 90% of the time
>>290803820Lisa's episode was one of the best though. I bet she'll turn into Lara's ally
>>290805257Lara looks a lot like Grace with that curly hairstyle...
>Female boxer is a lesbianThere's nothing subversive about this, unless Mari marries a man in the epilogue. Considering the director said he didn't want to make typical things
>>290805353Just gorgeous
>>290805169
>>290803820I dunno I really liked finding out what happened to Lisa. The fact this odd anglerfish followed her is pretty peak.
>>290797242Will Lara kiss the girl?
>>290805535Yes
>>290805535No way
>>290805535Maybe
>>290805535I don't know
>>290805535Hug
>>290805535Fug
>>290803820It was the best episode so far, so the fault lay with the other episodes.
Gracebros we're eating goodhttps://youtu.be/mPnuec2jUjI
>>290803820Kota deserves more screen time. What we didn't need was the cake episode.
>>290803946Kota and Lisa's baby soon
>>290805925Well it is our last meal.
>>290805274Who decided tomboys aren't subby girls?
>>290805929The cake episode is the most important one in the entire series
>>290805535Look man, you'd think it's us but they're actually the ones setting up everything for a kiss. If that's not the intention then I don't know what the fuck they're doing
>>290805929Nah
>>290806157Deconstruction, to symbolize that the hug between Lara and Mari at the end is just as strong and important as the kiss shared by people in love.
>>290806268This way of thinking is a cop out. It would be one thing if these "friendship" endings weren't extremely common, but knowing that people do cop out like this, it's hardly a deconstruction or subversion.
>>290806268I gagged
lesbians...
>>290806268Tbh what grinds my gears is not that this could happen, but that I will have to spend the next year listening to people say this was in fact peak "romance" because my fellow yuributas have no standards.
Is Lara gonna be banned from sleeping in Mari's room or will her family tolerate such shameful behaviour?
>>290806465Gon-chan doesn't mind as long as their lesbian antics don't keep her awake at night.
>>290806465There's a non-zero chance Lisa stays on the surface with Lara and she just lives with her if it becomes an issue.
Lara tops btw
>>290806562Gon-chan is dead.
>>290806581Mari and Lara will go to Lisa's for their wedding night.>>290806583Mari likes how long Lara's fingers are.
If Grace's relationship with her prince is meant to parallel Lara and Mari, depending on how they spin it, Grace could be similar to the OG Little Mermaid. She probably lost the prince to another girl because of inaction, paralleling how Mari was unconsciously holding back her feelings and letting Lara meet Luca even when she felt uncomfortable with that
So in the preview, Lara's mom gestures to the image of Mary, and Grace responds dismissively. 200+ years later, she's saved by Mari from death, and in turn saves Mari from grief. I'm confident Lara and Mari will have a happy ending, but Mari losing Grace is going to be devastating.
>>290806608I was thinking it would be interesting if they went this direction. That Grace's story is much closer to the original story than Lara's.
>>290806443I’d say the show can manage to be really good at the end without a kiss but it would pretty much be knocked down a tier or two in my mental ranking without it, especially in terms of yuri
Rowan probably did something really retarded with the human realm that got Rignor killed, and in his infinite retardation he blamed humanity, or Leggers as he calls them, for his own actions getting his wife killed and the light removed.He doesn't give a shit about his girls, only his hypothetical kingdom and his hatred for the surface world. Grace fucking hates him and loved Rignor a whole lot. No way a guy like that didn't do something stupidly evil.
>>290806662>LeggersDropping the hard R just like that?
>>290806662Rowan is an affectionate father who is loved by all his daughters; the story won't change that.
>>290797242is this the new tourist anime?
It's the new shitposting magnet.
So what day and time, EST or CST, are they doing the episode 11 and 12 screening? Is it the same day as the normal airing, just earlier in the day, or will it be Saturday in the US when it happens?
>>290807052I think the screening should be done by Saturday at 10AM CST.
>>290807184So a full day early. I wish they wouldn't. Or they should just keep the people who watched it captive for a week until episode 12 airs officially.
>>290806562I hope the flashback shows how Grace becomes attached to this lonley boxer.
>>290805535suck and fuck
>>290805535yea n she’ll rub it a little
Don’t forget Mari was holding the gay cotton candyAlso are they doing all four seasons for this? Are the last two gonna be back to back at the end here?
>>290807221>When you find out the show is actually - Sayonara Mari.;_;
>>290803653What did he sing?
>>290805535Male otakus want the girls to remain pure and female otakus want a Luca end. A Lara/Mari kiss only appeal to western trannies
>>290803820It was the best episode
>>290807184No. It starts at 4:40 pm Japan time on the 13th which would be 3:40am eastern time. Each episode is slightly less than 30 minutes so it should end roughly an hour and 20 minutes later later so about 6 am Eastern time on the 13th.Or use this converter https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sayonara+lara+early+screening+ep+10-12&iso=20260913T1640&p1=248&ah=1&am=30
>>290807433wasn't it half an hour earlier? should it should be 12am in Japan instead of 12:30am no?
>>290807456....What? I did not say noon. It starts at 4:40 pm in Japan.
>>290807494do not talk down to me boy
>>290807433Ah, I thought I had read it was at midnight.
>>290807384Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid. A fantastic rendition.
>>290807528I just realized you meant half an hour earlier from it's normal time. Sorry. But no it's showing at a special event hours earlier.
>>2908070522000 JST 11th Friday or 4AM PST/7AM EST Friday.
>>290798151Red herring and too obvious that's why the staff said ep 9 is a "twist", also, it's funny how his name means bringer of light (Akizuki Luca) but the light lara's feels for him is basically the tiniest of all.
>>290802732>It wouldn't make sense at this pointFamily Friendship Yuri.
Friendship kiss!
>>290807804Friendship sex!
>>290799479Surely she's going to punch one more fish before it's over? Rowan seems too easy being half dead and wheelchair bound.
>>290808031She'll punch Lisa to take Lara's ring back from her.
>>290808083I would fall out of my chair if Lisa made the same exact face
>>290807769An exclusive twist for people who ignore or can't read, too dumb to notice any subtext that proves Mari is her true love
>>290808031Mari doesn't bring any gloves with her.
>>290808736You do realized that the gloves in boxing aren't to protect the person throwing the punches, right?
>>290807390>female otakus want a Luca endYou are not a female otaku anon.
>>290808831This is why there will never be a kiss or confession from either side.
Mari is so cute
>>290808757Huh? Boxing gloves are there to protect the hand.
>>290808977Less to protect the hands and more to protect the face.
>>290809023No, boxing gloves were primarily created to protect the hands.
New VA report comic just dropped.
>>290806562Mari fishing for the threesome.
>>290805257>we didn't get naked LaraThe mermaids all wear too much clothes desu
>>290809868They're princesses. They're held to a high standard of decency. I'm sure whore mermaids exist in their kingdom though.
>>290809868These are classy mermaids not those Disney sluts.
>>290809868I was honestly wondering if that was even clothes or if what looks like clothes are part of their bodies. Although one weird thing I noticed is that when Lara is being flung out of the water in the first episode, as soon as she breaches the water she's in that dress she usually wears. Though she still has her tail. Pic related is when she starts being pushed up.
>>290809968And this pic is right as soon as she leaves the water. She still has her mermaid tail here.
>>290809968It's likely just clothes since Lara and Lisa are shown to be able to change out of it. As for why it changes once she comes out of the water I guess it's magic, something to do with the human potion she drank.
>>290810059>Lara and Lisa are shown to be able to change out of itAs mermaids? I don't recall seeing any of the mermaids change clothes or take anything off. But the idea of the "human potion" giving Lara a specific set of I guess "human clothes" is pretty funny.
>>290810155hrmmm... it's true that maybe it's part of their body as mermaids, but that'd just be rather odd. Baby Lara at least doesn't have those clothes but instead some weird binky thing, Lisa and Luna have the "shirt" but not the sleeves when they're kids, and finally Rowan doesn't wear the same clothes as the mermaids when he's king, but he apparently did when he was a young merman. So either it's weird molting or it's just mermaid clothes.
Grace has the same transformation when she ends up on land. It's likely they all wear mermaid clothes and the rest of it materializes when they get human legs.
>>290810461They should be naked when they transform.
>>290809985Poor fish.
>>290810481But then they'd be cold
Surely this is going to be an actual kiss and they're just not showing it in full for the trailer right? They're not going to avoid showing this one right?
>>290810512He probably had fun, I think.
>>290810533There's no reason to avoid it.
>>290810533>he still thinks """true love""" is romantic
>>290799695>>290799956Flat mermaids are stealing all the princes away from the busty land princesses. This is reason enough to genocide them.
they've told us with how to destroy the dagger from the very beginning.
>>290810533Their lips are already touching
>>290810605jumpscare
>>290810557Despite the staff saying true love is all kinds of love so they don't want to upset fans and trample their interpretation of what true love actually is in interviews, they're sure frame true love through a romantic lens in the story, from Grace and her prince, Rowan and Rigmor, the whole Lara and Nikolai, Lara and Luca, "marry human" thing that Rowan and Lisa opposed to.
>>290810619Just don't cry at the last episode when it's a friendship ending
>>290810640How it ends has nothing to do with what they've set up. It just means that they're not following their own setup.
>>290810619I agree. There's such a total focus on romantic love almost to the detriment of some of the character relationships.
>>290810705exactly if they're not following throught with what they've been set up from the beginning then it's just feels wasted.
We don't know whether that guy was Grace's true love or if even Rowan was Rigmor's true love. For all we know Grace makes a mistake thinking it's him. Stabs him to survive so she doesn't turn to foam. Plan fails and her sister gets caught in the crossfire between the humans vs merfolk conflict. Maybe even gives up her light for Grace to survive.
>>290810654Death of the author, right? Yurifags love Barthes because it's common for their favorite creators to claim it wasn't yuri
>>290810732well grace rings turns red with that prince in the opening, same as lara's ring turns red with mari
so Lara/Lala means lesbian in chinese
>>290810732Grace and Rigmor are likely parallels to Lara and Lisa, which means Lisa will have her happy ending. I will say that despite Rigmor looking similar to Lara she's likely more meant to be Lisa's parallel as the conservative but ultimately caring mermaid sister of the two.
>>290810812yeah, grace and rigmor parallel lara and lisa, and grace and her prince parallel lara and mari, while rowan and rigmor parallel lisa and kota
Luna never ever
>>290810769Hmm. Now that I'm seeing it. It does look red. However, the only time it doesn't look red is when there's a close-up or a clear shot of the ring. But it could just mean the ring turns red when the sister's are nearby as we saw in episode 1 with Lisa's ring. But then when Grace and her sister were holding hands it wasn't red?
>>290809956Gib shell bra slut.
>>290810891>But it could just mean the ring turns red when the sisters are nearby, as we saw in episode 1 with Lisa's ring.It's not like it turns red when Lara's sister is nearby, but more like it's glowing red hues while the ring colour itself remains blue.
>>290810891Maybe her sister never had a ring to begin with. Could be Grace made them and gifted them to her sister for her nieces. I don't see her with one in the OP or PV.
https://x.com/paralleldream/status/2096760011171000716This post is hilarious. I'm so surprised all the comments aren't actually from chinese flamers like usual.
>>290810891>>290811034The rings are red AND blue. There.
>>290811208What was the point of Lisa's green ring btw
>>290811177The LATAMs latched on to this really hard so not surprised.
>>290810619Even Himeka dating a rando offscreen rather than hanging out with Lara more.
>>290811177You care about twitter
Personally my favorite thing has been the Chinese harassing the writer, as if big bad Anna Kawahara forced the animators, sound team, and VAs to dedicate multilple episodes to Luca while Koide watched helplessly.
>>290811208What they mean is that, it turns fully red with Mari
>>290811487And don't forget Yoshiya saying romantic love isn't the same as family love and Grace repeatedly emphasizing Lara must find true love with one person only.
>>290811487See, it's all about romantic relationships
>>290811544Yoshiya "no one loves me"Yoshiya's grandmother "I love you tho"Yoshiya "that's not the same at all"
I agree with what each and every one of you said. And I look forward to discussing further when the friendship ending leaks this weekend.
>>290811647You need to learn to believe again. Let love into your heart.Surely this will manage to be the one good anniversary project anime.
>>290810929Here you go.>Would Rowan let his daughters dress like this?
>>290811536Holy soul mates
>>290811854Rowan only looks at people from the waist down.
>>290811536Why was Lara this wet for boxing tomboy from minute one?
>>290811863Sounds familiar.
>>290811882Wouldn't anyone be?
>>290805535Sha la la la la la
>>290810891I Mean If The Ring is True Love Detector. They why Grace ask Lara to forgot about it.
>>290812196Because she probably though lara could manage it on her own
>>290812196>>290812471She must've seen that Lisa found it and she didn't want Lara to meet her.
>>290812471Lara did manage to find true love but doesn't realize that it's Mari since ep 3, only realized it now when things already went to shit, because Mari doesn't fit into the role of a "prince" who is a boy and has this royalty vibes that Lara and Grace believed in. Mari is just an ordinary tomboy girl who loves boxing.
>>290811378That is her wedding ring, Kota has one too.
>>290812534Mari is a great prince.
>>290812565She is, it's just that Lara and Grace were blinded by the typical-looking "prince" they believed in for ages.
>>290812565I love this shot
Friendship ending would be the lamest cop-out. Lara has already found love for humanity, friends, colleagues, etc. but the fish dagger only ever reacted to Mari and no one else (aside from that one time it attempted to eat Luca). The implications are strong that only a romantic love can move her heart.
>>290812723They can (and should) show that Mari is friend and family to Lara but also her romantic partner, and all of that makes her Lara's true love. Otherwise it would feel like an ending that was meddled with last minute at this point.
Wait a spell...in the PV it looks like the light came from above instead of within the palace like it does when Lara is born. Could it be the light originates on land and technically the mermaids took it?
>>290810891>However, the only time it doesn't look red is when there's a close-up or a clear shot of the ringIt could just be that it's too much of a pain to draw and animate both colors when it's far away.
>>290801000I am sure it will.
>>290797242>flashback episode before the finaleit's cooked.
>>290812915>this isn't even bait
here's a truth nuke:with only two episodes left, LaraMari relationship is not developing further than best friends
>>290812994Nah, they're not even friends. It's clearly they barely tolerate each other. Acquaintances at best.
Yuri wonned Hets lostPermanent brain damage for lucafagsMari is raised to the the level of Chikane as an official HETBUSTER
>>290812994Final episode is 23 minutes of full on clam jam.
>>290812565She's so gentlemanly. When you think about everything she does for Lara without being asked it's swoon worthy and you see why Lara fell in love quickly.
>>290813069you fag don't even watch the show, you just bait.
after the PV, I’m actually a little scared that if they make Mari parallel to Rigmor, it could end up framing their relationship as sisterly love rather than romantic love. Especially since Lara seems to parallel Grace, while Luca parallels the prince. The fact that Mari is currently in danger of dying, while we see in the past that Rigmor is dead, makes me feel like they might be intentionally paralleling the two.Maybe Grace’s wish, which she entrusted to Lara and Mari is for them not to end up the same way she and Rigmor did.
>>290813155The leaker already confirmed that Grace and her prince story will parallel Mari and Lara's
>>290813155Mari parallels Grace's prince you retard. Rigmor is Lisa's parallel.
>>290813120Mari also did a classic princely move in episode 2 when she saved Lara from drowning. Her gently giving Lara some hot cocoa later was also very smooth.
>>290813197>Grace and her prince story will parallel Mari and Lara'sBut How? Unless Grace go find true love with someone else before realize it's the prince.
2023 yuri marriage end2026 yuri kiss end2029 yuri sex end
Why even doubt a kiss? Cute girls kissing isn't really controversial. Other anime do it with no issues.
>>290813241frankly it’s hard to say since we haven’t seen the episode, but Grace likely made some sort of mistake that Lara is on the verge of repeating. I think it’s a good thing that it’s not obvious right now though, makes the wait for the episode more exciting
>>290813241>>290813202>>290813155Or MAYBE, there are no parallels to be drawn here and we're just given a glimpse into Grace's past.
So if this show does get a kiss in the finale, are we retroactively adding the yuri tag?
What is love?
>>290813298The hetbait won't work if we add it, we should keep it off.
>>290813297don’t get too high off that copium brother
>>290813223She took her home and put her in a warm bath after that too. When Lara was depressed that Mari was upset in episode 3 she sits in the bath with the shower on because it calms her. The rain pouring on them in episode 2 while they argued was now a good memory to Lara because of how Mari treated her.
I feel like it’s funny that all the hints toward the ending that people already deduced throughout the show were probably supposed to be Koide going “now when you rewatch this you’ll see all the signs” for the general audience, not expecting the army of yuri autists to piece everything together months in advance
>>290813315The simpler explanation is she is fish and fish like water.
the morning after
>>290813335Yes people with room temp IQ tend to not connect dots and don't enjoy shows like these. They also thought Lara loved Luca because "she said so" lmao
>>290813326The endings of episodes 2 and 3 are way too blatant to be just hints. If he wanted the yuri ending to be a genuine plot twist, he shouldn't have included them.
Mari keeps making fish wives
>>290813416And yet, blatant as they are and shitposting aside, you had people dismissing them at every turn.
>>290813416>>290813446It’s pretty underestimated how much the general audience wouldn’t expect a show to focus on a gay romance if it doesn’t explicitly say it will
>>290813416We still had multiple people thinking those were super friendship moments, do not overestimate the average viewer.
Question: what does Lara look like ethnically speaking? I would assume she looks European to some to degree since that seems to be where the kingdom was originally
>>29081344690% of that was akemi
>>290813526why would she look like any particular ethnicity when mermaids aren't human or even 'mortal' in the same way
>>290813326The show has some genuinely subtle visual storytelling but most of it is very very blatant. Maybe not to genuinely retarded modern audiences, but to anyone whose brain still hasn't been fried by tiktok.
>>290813540I just mean the closest to our understanding. Obviously mermaids wouldn’t necessarily look like any ethnicity to a tea I’m just wondering how much she would stand out in Shiga (beyond the whole red hair, blue eyes thing)
>>290813546She's a white girl duh
>>290813510>>290813511Bit sad that you can hit people over the head with yuri """"hints"""" that have zero subtlety at all, and they'll still be like hmmm I dunno looks like nothing to me...
>>290813526The merfolk were based somewhere near Denmark, weren't they? So yeah, I assume European.
>>290813555Much like Lara herself, general audiences are inclined towards het because it’s usually the norm
>>290813570I wonder how different it would have been had Grace not gotten into Lara's head that she needed to find a prince, and had just said "true love" instead without specifying anything else.
>>290813546She looks like a foreigner. Likely Danish like Hans Christian Andersen. The couple that drives her in episode 2 assumes she is unable to speak Japanese. She is canonically a stand-out beauty as the whole school is staring at her in episode 4 and you can hear the students comment on how cute she is.
Mari kisses the fishe
Mari and Lara kiss with this playing in the background will be too much kinography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faebswi3hG0
>>290812994If they could introduce Luca in episode 7 and add an almost-kiss by episode 9 then surely they can have a true love's kiss between Lara and Mari saving the day.
>>290813622With him being sidelined for Lara x Mari in episode 8 too.
>>290813311Or maybe the leaker-kun just really likes that theory?
Final Episodes hint.Good Bye Lara, have more 1 means
>>290813632He watched that episode anon, why he would like a theory retard?
>>290813526Better question is what does Luca look like? Considering prince Nikolai was a European male and Luca is his carbon copy.
>>290813641He and Leo have Italian names so European as well.
Let's be real 24 Minutes it's not enough.
>>290813155>>290813283Rowan know about The Fish Dagger thing. So It's clearly that Grace fucking up her relationship with the prince and The Fish Dagger go rampage which lead to human war with merfolks.
>Lara with Mari>Luca with YoshiyaYaoi also won
>>290813690Let's be real, it is.
Will we get to know any leaks after the screening? Is it better to abandon these threads by the time the screening has taken place?
>>290813804>Will we get to know any leaks after the screening?If it's only japs watching it, then they won't leak a thing, but if a chink goes watch it too, then it will leak 100%.
I doubt it will have a leak, it's a small advance screening
>>290813804All it takes is one person posting about it, and someone here will find it and share it. If you really want zero risk of spoilers, leave the threads and don't come back until the finale's done.
>>290800132>Waiting two years for this shit animeShit taste: the faggot
Lara and Luca will start from scratch again.
>someone envolved with the anime team draw and posted thisLisa is falling in love with Yoshiya lol
>>290814048Kotabros...
>>290814048This looks more like her wanting to kill him. Probably unhappy he got merch but not Kota.
>>290814083Lisa didn't get merch yet too, doesn't make sense I think
>>290814098My bad, it makes sense. I think you're right.
>>290813997
>>290814116I meant >>290814083
>>290814124Her light will be visible from space when Mari kisses her.
>>290813378Perhaps Director-san was right to fear that people wouldn't get things without more exposition...
>>290814672The Blu Ray should come with helpful director commentary.>This is a subtle metaphor for the waterfall that just formed in Lara's panties
>>290813510People keep obsessing over whether it's "tagged" as yuri on MAL or whatever. As if MAL is some kind of authority.
>>290797242Did not like it
>>290814818internet disc horse is all about finding some aspect of someone's argument that they can't provide any kind of appeal-to-authority proof for, and treating that as disproving their entire position. and at the same time dismissing any prove against your position as being falsified by people on your opponent's team. so MAL scores and tagging are proof when they agree with me and are botted when they don't, so to speak
>>290814919>disc horse
>>290814818It's not even tag "Yuri" on japan site.
>>290814818>>290815060MAL is definitely not an authority, but also, for the purpose of the story the creators are trying to tell, it makes sense that they wouldn’t tag this series as yuri. Yes Mari and Lara’s relationship is going to be the crux of the climax but much of the show has been about things beyond that. It’s also a semi-spoiler
So They Abandon "The Warmth" that Lara feel from Luca?
>>290815207It's mean Platonic/Friend/Family Ending.
Yuritrannies, are you bracing for the super friendship ending? You have to promise you won't sperg out.
>>290799418I witness the exact opposite phenomenon with most series I like, even if I draw fanart for a western game 80% of the likes come from Japanese artists.What I wonder even more about is how Jaadugar managed to be so popular there. It gets the lion share of all fanart posts I see and most of them come from Asians, but I didn't expect it to be popular there, at least not JP. I love both shows though, but I wish Lara had more fanart.
>>290815207by that logic Die Hard isn't a christmas movie
>>290813202>Rigmor is Lisa's parallel.PV Hint that Rigmor interesting in Human World unlike Lisa who seem hate it.
>>290815372It is
>>290815388What Lisa says and what she actually does are different things. Look how Rowan goes full autismo at the sight of legs compared to Lisa
>>290815591Yeah, it's quite obvious that Lisa will accept Mari, even if just out of love for Lara.
Why Peoples on X Keep saying that's Lara's doesn't Love Nikolai?Did They Skip Episode 4?
>>290815674They are retards. She did love him, but not as strong as she loves Mari.
>>290815674>NikolaiWho?
>>290815718No she didn't. She thought she was supposed to but could never muster the actual feelings.
>>290815674Unironically because people prefer binaries and hate bishit.
>>290813804Depends if any foreigner gets in
>>290815372it isn't
So Peoples who's give love advice to Lara are Wrong?
>>290815870Jesus Christ man, take a break.
>>290815242That was called friendship
>>290815870It's not their fault. They were working under the assumption that Lara was genuinely interested in him, which she wasn't. Only Mari knew her well enough to understand that and Lara even told her outright, but Mari had no love experience or advice to give and was keeping her own feelings at bay. Funnily enough the only one with good advice was Rowan who came to the correct conclusion from just feeling Lara's light despite him having missed her entire search of true love.
>>290815674I like how only you care about that character when the show itself didn't care enough to even formally say his name.
>>290815207It is tagged as a romance. So far the most romantic shit we have seen is LisaxKota and MarixLara.
When will they release the plush
>>290815674I have nothing against bisexuals.My personal belief is that she did not love him in a romantic way. He is indeed the first human she sees, and she is also pushed to find her "prince" so she is trying to fall in love with him and find her light. And even if she did fall in love with him- he was obviously not her true love. The boxing tomboy is.
The prince is an archetype. His name doesn't matter because only his role was important. He fulfilled his role as a perfect prince but he failed to love Lara and be her true love. Luca is not the perfect prince, he fails at every prince metric but he managed to love Lara as she is which made him also fall short of her true love because she could only fall for a prince. Mari comes out as the winner since she demonstrated every prince quality that Lara falls for and also loves Lara for who she is which made her the true love.
>>290815870Fucking hell, learn English, you fuck.
>>290816120>Mari comes out as the winner since she demonstrated every prince quality that Lara falls forDamn right. Look how handsome she is.
Be real bros, what are the chances that we get a kiss in episode 12?
This show looks interesting, is it yuri?
>>290816120Luca doesn't love Lara for who she is, he straight-up says he feels like he's never seen her true self. He might have, but he was never given the chance.
>>290816163>Be real bros, what are the chances that we get a kiss in episode 12?No.
>>290816163Fairly high. They want to make Mari the true love and Lara has already thrown herself on Mari for a big fishy hug. A kiss would seal th deal and secure the show as AOTY.
"True Love" it's a combination of any form of love.Just saying.
>>290816163>true love's kiss generates the lightThe only reason why it wouldn't happen at this point is executive meddling if the higher ups only vetoed it at the last possible moment, like Greninja fainting instead of Charizard at the end of Pokémon XY.
>>290816183He says he wants to be with Lara because she's her in episode 7 which inspires Lara to give him a chance. That inability to see her clearly despite all the time they spent together was plainly Lara knowing she couldn't feel love for him and growing frustrated with this absence. Lara doesnt and didn't love Luca. She did love the prince who betrayed her. She now loves Mari. People are likely saying Lara didn't love the prince but she clearly did and that's what brought on this mess with the angry light. But he was not her true love as we also clearly see through this mess with the angry light. Mari was always her true love even at their first meeting.
>>290816120He doesn't, he only loves the idea of her being his muse, when Luca said he couldn't understand her that's when we supposed to know that his love is only on the surface (mermaid and human appearance) not the real Lara the ugly side of her (again not in appearance wise but within, the heart), he couldn't understand or get a great of her no matter how because everytime he tries to get close to her, lara builds more wall within her heart. So despite his saying he likes her the way she is in ep 7, it's not about lara it's about the mermaid part of her.
what if they met
>>290816333Bed-breaking sex
>>290816330Which means Lara despite the confession, doesn't romantically love him either, she only sees him as a friend.
>>290816357Love need time to shape, anon.
>>290816163Pretty high but it will be super ambiguous.
>>290816333Wow Mari's mom is such a handsome beauty.
>>290816415Lara's love towards Mari happens anon
If the show really not end with Yuri. What's going to happen to 4chan/Twitter/Reddit?
Lara's first failed love with the prince came down to appearance. He fell for the idea of her, the beautiful mute girl, and when her transformation happened all those images he'd built up in his head just fell apart. That's probably why episode 7 with Luca accepting the mermaid part of her (fascinated by it) ended up healing that trauma for her.The second time around is different. Her heart was already somewhere else, and she probably knew it on some level but avoided facing it, because the thought of hurting Mari with the dagger felt far scarier to confront. On top of that she doesn't really believe Mari could ever fit the role of "the prince" anyway.
>>290815674I saw it as infatuation. He was the embodiment of human society which Lara wanted to be part of. She idolized him.
>>290816656>On top of that she doesn't really believe Mari could ever fit the role of "the prince" anyway.We need Lara to have a vision of Mari in a prince's outfit when she arrives to save her.
>>290816618We all move to thailand with ESL-kun.
I want to see this happening
Honestly,Why Mari doesn't tell anything to him?
>>290816710Honestly, why you doesn't learn English?
>>290816257No it's not. Your lies are getting tiresome.
