Yuri won
>>291081678Countless times
>>291081678>Yuri won...the losing competition.
What a nothing burger ending. Every single one I imagined was better. And this track was never used in the end. If that is not proof they planned something else but got cold feet, I don't know what is. https://youtu.be/Faebswi3hG0?si=eiW8WDvyk5J_K3dm
>>291081678't ever win
A very Gainax-pilled episode. We don't get stuff like this anymore.
>literally a Class S endingSasuga Kinema Citrus. You set back yuri by 100 years
Did I do the right thing by avoiding this anime?
very hot Lara this episode, but this jannime has been a fucking waste of time
MY BEST EXPLANATION OF THE ENDING SINCE KOIDE IS A HACK AND DIDN'T SAY SHIT>Lara and Mari are in love to some degree, but Lara rejects the fate of the princess and uses a different source of love she was taught by Mari and the other humans to make a new type of light>this new light is born from her love of human experiences, and as such she needs to constantly nurture it by doing new things and meeting new people>this is why she exhausts Shiga and then leaves, implying she will never be able to linger anywhere>she WANTS to be with Mari as evidenced by their dialogue in the farewell, but she has to move on>Mari loves her so she accepts thisOf course, NONE OF THIS IS EXPLAINED so this is basically my interpretation. If it's not this the ending really makes no sense.Which means it's basically a bad ending. Lara's life is now free, but she can never settle down with anyone anywhere for the sake of her people, so she's still confined by merfolk society in some way, at least until another princess generates light by fucking another fishboy.TL;DR either yuri won but everyone lost or the ending is nonsensical bullshit
Is the director christian or do i remember it wrong
Why is this show filled with so much shitposting? Is that what happens when anime is filled with turdies and room temperature IQs? Is that why no one understands the ending?
Brutal, poor Mari.
At least Mari is a good character. Not like that sociopathic whore Lara.
>>291082274Wait, I forgot to fill in the time skip square.
So in season 2 Lara will fight the merfolk in a big battle shounen war?
>>291082372>season 2
>>291082145This is the most obvious and correct answer. The director himself said he had to rely on subtext, so it requires a little more IQ than the average seasonal trash, but there’s only one possible meaning for the story. It’s clear to anyone with a tiny bit of media literacy, as all of this is spelled out in the first episode. She didn’t ascend to the human world for just a specific man.
>>291082451Subtext is cowardice.
>>291081678>Hibikek unironically saves yuri from the two adject failures, Madoka and LaraApologize. NOW!
>>291082449yes
>>291081678RATE THE SHOW
>>291082125Yes
>>291082548Don't be delusional.
>>2910825658/10. Still AOTY unless something comes out in winter but I doubt that.
>>291082565I can't say I fully dislike the show despite the ending being a dumpster fire. So 8/10 but I may just be reluctant to give a lower rating purely because of how much I dislike the ending.
>>291082145>>291082451>not even Mari understands why Lara leavesThe writers don't either.
what did she mean by this?
>"Read our manga for the real ending" the anime epilogue S-smart....
>>291082627Just curious to know what anime you've watched this year if THIS is your aoty
I hated it
>>291082739nta but the only competition id say it has is Jaadugar desu.
NEVER TRUST A MERMAID
>>2910825657/10. Not the worst but not something i will ever rewatch or think much about.
>>291082777Holy shit taste.
>>291082191No, but he wrote it based on the original story which was heavy on Christian themes and wanted to stay true to the original message. So if he came across as one, he did his job.
>>2910825654/10. Noncommittal bullshit that doesn't tell anything and features characters with the shallowest, dumbest interpersonal dynamics. It fails at SoL, fails at romance, fails at yuri, fails at fiction, fails everywhere. The animation was fairly pretty
>>291082691She hates them
>>291082777futsusuka is better than both
Mari lost everything
>>291082274Mari is a nothingburger of a character
>non-romantic anime doesn’t have a romantic ending>every “WLW” “sapphic” literal faggot on X and (apparently) 4chan: WHERE’S THE SEX???
>>291082451>The director himself said he had to rely on subtext, so it requires a little more IQ than the average seasonal trash“Having to think about it” does not inherently make it good. Does it sort of make sense? Sure, if you assume a lot of other plot elements were only there to be red herrings. But it’s still not a very satisfying ending
>>291082853>poor man's Apothecary Diaries
Hey I know somebody the mermaids will really like.
>>291082807What’s your aoty anon?
Listening to Reply on blast after that ending
>>291082916Do you have the Iroha and Kaguya version?
>>291082861>Grace is dead>Lara is off gallivanting around the human world after leaving you>Your mother's cross was destroyed when you were brave enough to confront the one you loveAdd Mari to that suffering chart that gets posted occasionally.
>>291082565all the seething hetfags will give it low scores btw
>>291082145so basically Lara has to marry and her daughter has to find true love so that she can settle and save the merfolk, mother of class S
>>291082915Either MT S3 or Frieren S2, for now.
>>2910825655/10. Animation is beautiful. Story is pretty good until it completely beefs it at the finish line to the point where I will likely never rewatch this.
>>291082861>>291082959I just feel bad for Mari man, Lara wtf???
>>291082986Holy shit taste.
>>291082879>Non-romantic anime about "finding your true love"It will never be true regardless of how many times you repeat it.>>291082874She came out of her shell throughout the show only to be betrayed by someone she loves (either as a friend or romantically).
>>2910825659/10. I will need to watch it a second time before rating a 10/10. Everyone wishes there were more episodes but achieving what it set out to do with clarity is something very few shows accomplish. Lara is in the small handful of original anime that are actually worth watching, a format that was basically dead for the past decade.
Ikuhara wonFurukawa wonKoide lost
>>291083031Don't worry, just think of all the lessons she learnt from this.
>>291083036You didn’t watch the show.
>>291083032Much better than yours.
>>291083051Anon, you should watch the last episode before rating the show.
>>2910825658/10, mainly carried by pretty art, amazing music and good animation, brought down by the artist bf that is just a boring character.Thought the ending was good and I appreciated the merfolk hatred not being immediately solved by the power of true love and making both hetfags and yurifags mald
Lara and Mari's relationship was undercooked; each one of them was basically doing their own thing until they suddenly cared for each other. Tenmaku no jaadugar clears
>>291082565The most 5/10 show you can think of with literally only a "yuri" element to engage the audience, we have over 50 threads as evidence of that in case someone feels doubtful.
>>291083120I did, and that’s why it’s a high score. Keep seething, yuricuck.
>>291082565I think I’ll go 7/10. Gorgeous series with great ost and I like the main cast a lot. Tbh my only real issue with the ending is Lara not just telling Mari why she decided to leave even if I the audience can figure it out well enough. Poor Mari lost both her fishes…
>>291083106You're just wrong and ignoring extremely obvious buildup only for a wet fart of an ending.
>>291082194Did you?
>>291083149>Bro we are BIG conspiracy masterminds we are gonna bring them DOWN>Both do absolutely nothing the whole show and get played like fiddlesYeah sure maybe in s2
>>291083134>artist bf that is just a boring characterLuca was the 2nd best character after Lara, Mari was a very distant third
>>291083190Not once did Goodbye Lara advertise your WLW sapphic queer LGBTQIA+ romance as the main plot.
>>291082565It tried to be Ikuharaesque and I appreciate it visually, but in the end modern anime just can't do it and produce classics anymore. Disappointing/10
>>291083217>bro I'm gonna find true love>gets class s'dmaybe in the manga
>>291082145>>291082451The ending would have been more satisfactory if it took place after graduation and had Mari follow Lara wherever she goes.
This really is a perfect counterpart to Sonny Boy ending but with a female mc.A modern classic.
>>291082809>The animation was fairly prettyIt reminds of some 90s ovas with garbage writing but nice animation.
>>291082861the ring does not mean anything btw unless it means that Lara still part of merfolk although she became a human
The “people” involved in Lara discourse are why anime has to appeal to the lowest common denominator so no one gets “disappointed”. If the average IQ is 100, that means half of all people are below that, which means everything has to be dumbed down. Lara’s director should’ve understood this and added more slapstick and a simple clam-slam ending to appease the room temps.
>>291083256You keep throwing out your boogieman buzzwords because you just hate yuri and want to ignore all the buildup that was not capitalized on. This ending would have been bad if Luca had been the main love interest too, because it's a corporate non-ending to avoid triggering people like you that seethe at committal endings.
>>291083316This, Sonny Boy and Eva 3.0+1.0 for the trifecta of "bad endings that take place in a train station"
>>291082194doesn't matter, the writing is objectively dogshit
>>291083149Kek keigetsu and reirin were far better than toregene and sitara.
>>291083341"Friendship is the REAL true love" is not deep, anon. This was basically the worst case scenario ending and you for some reason think it's KINO and DEEP to stroke your ego.
>"It's gonna be yuri. For real this time."
>>291083258It should've either gone all the way with the yuri or doubled down on the het, but it eventually half-assed both of them
>>291083347>you just hate yuriCorrect. >to avoid triggering peopleIt seems a lot of “people” are triggered.
>>291083258What do you consider modern? Last 5 years? i think anime can still do it. The talent is still there, Ikuhara can still make a show if he wants
Make it clear if Luca and Lara dated during timeskip. If they did or it’s ambiguous I’m not watching the last episode.
The true ending will come with the Adolescence of Lara movie
>>291082565HETCHADS WON. 10/10
>>2910825657/10 or 8/10. It was a fun ride, and beatufilly animated, but at times it feels like the show doesn't know what it wants to be or focus on.Even from a non-yuri perspective, the ending sours the whole experience from how forced it feels, like it's so above having a happy ending that it just needed to end on a sad note.
>>291082945Didn't know there was one. Searching for it.
>>291083390true, but Toregene is Monogolia's ass, while Keigetsu and Reirin are flatties
>>291083410>It seems a lot of “people” are triggered.Yeah, people who expected any sort of payoff to the buildup in the show. Silly us for wanting an ending that isn't trash.
>>2910825658/10
I think Class S "subtext" is outdated and shit. Everyone's long since moved past that. Commit to it properly or fuck off.
>>291083190>>291083347>>291083505Stop feeding him.
Lara is happy with her gf Mari
>>291083395It’s not deep because it’s been a part of the Christian canon for 2,000 years. Did you ever read the original story this was based on?
>>291083341>the average IQ is 100, that means half of all people are below thatNo it doesn't. You don't seem to understand the difference between a mean and a median. Of course, IQ is normed to a Gaussian distribution so in this specific case they happen to have the same value, but the implication as stated is invalid.You may be on the left side of the bell curve yourself, friend.
>>291083380>>291083316I thought the sonny boy ending was nice though. Idk why people suddenly absolutely hate anti-escapism messages.
>>2910825656/10
>>291083432Luca pounded that mermaid pussy and Mari walked on them
>>291083316>A modern classic.Ping Pong the animation? Akiba Maid war? Odd taxi?
>>291083568Yes, I did. This series' ending isn't even like it anyway. It ended with the prince falling in love with another girl and the little mermaid dying followed by some stupid Christian soul shit. Here we have the prince (Mari) not being part of any love and the princess fucks off for no obvious reason.
Okay but what happened to Kota
>>291083681Fuck meant for >>291083258 as examples of classics.
I want to fully apologize to the Luca = Lisa schizo shitposter. That would have been a BETTER development than everything we got
>in the end we truly were Sayonara, Larabravo nolan
So lara is evil, she just used mari for he profit to get out of sea and live with people. In five years lara will settle down with a man and have a boring nuclear family. Poor mari
This ending makes me wonder if there wasn't a legit bloodbath going on at Sunrise as they tried to write the ending for G-Witch.
>>291083341>it's great, you just don't get it
>>291083316It is a modern coming of age story for young women.
>>291081678>show is called Sayonara, Lara>Lara says SayonaraSomehow people didn't see this coming
>>291083764Mari deserves better and I hope Lara is hit by a car as soon as she arrives where she's going.
>>291083749>everything we gotOther than the ending most episodes were great imo
>>291083190>>291083347the best reiwa tech is indonesian yurigolems falling for the same rugpull over and over again.
I thought anime is going woke?I thought we had moved past ambiguous queer endings?Why did you to lie to me, anon?
This is why Japan is dying
>>291083777Gwitch was much better in retrospect
COUNTLESS times with LucaZERO times with Mari
>>291081678The shitty ending they leaked was true. I have never been so disappointed.
How many dicks?
>>291083852Literally the opposite?
>>291082691She's racist.
>>2910825659/10It's beautifully done, the story was great enough to get me hyped for every new episode, and while I wish more things were explored, I think what we got was satisfying enough.This is definitely going to be something I'll revisit soonEpisode 6 was the peak
Why didn't she answer Mari's question
>>291082970DESU in the end this show had only straight couples
>>291083877sex with Luca was so traumatizing she decided to move away
>>291082691KUYASHI
How many Chekhov's guns went unfired? The ring never mattered again, Mari never punched anyone in the finale, Mari's family's church and christian faith didn't amount to anything, etc.
>they were proud enough of this ending to show it a week earlyImagine the confused japs walking out of the theatre and nervously laughing when asked if they liked the ending.
>>291083887>I have never been so disappointed.Kek, yurifags love to exaggerate. There is way worse media on this planet.
fake bitch
https://youtu.be/Faebswi3hG0?si=eiW8WDvyk5J_K3dmWhere was this track? Why wasn't it used? Was ending supposed to be different?
>>291083890I think we can all agree that Lara is the worst character in this series. Absolute terrible person.
>>291083950>The ring never mattered again,Ana anon explained the ring last thread
>>291083923>Episode 6 was the peaktrvke
>>291083491It's in the extras of the BD which came out a week ago. Maybe someplace already uploaded it, I'm just waiting on my copy to ship so I'm in no hurry.
>have Mari be a competitive boxer>never have her punch one of the merfolk or the stone fishwhat's the point
Do yurifags get off on being swindled? How many times has it been? When will they learn that these days studios only dabble in Yuri as an aesthetic to make more waves online?Not that this shit had much of a splash, but it would've made an even smaller one had Mari been some dude. They never intended to give you what you want.And it will keep happening because you people are good goyim that never ever fail to show up when called.
>>291083955Japs love shit like this. Same reason why childhood friends never, ever win. Idk what their problem is.
>>291082691Well too bad lady, learn to accept living with themMaybe one day you'll get invited to the company christmas party or something
>>291083998She somehow became worse than her racist evil dad who at least loved his wife and kingdom.
>>291083890Twice as many as Sayu
>>291083397It was
>>291083923>Episode 6 was the peakagree on this, shame it didn't go anywhere with it later on which is why i am more disappointed. actually had me hoping that it's going to be on a upward curve from there.
>>291083445Luca lost
>>291083966I don't give a damn about yuri, I just wanted Lara to stay in Shiga. Japanese cannot write endings at all.
When will Lara finally be ready to settle down?
Why did she leave? Did I miss something?
>>291083923For me it was episode 9
>>291083764Mari didn't say the line, 7/10
C O U N T L E S SOUNTLESS
Yurikeks turning on Lara because she is a normal person
>>291084114his virginity to Lara
>>291084128something something wanting to live on her own and not be a mooch even if she was already contributing financially to the household
so her big dream was to become a human normalfag? sounds like a regression story. like all she wanted is have what her parents always told her is bad (human legs)and not only that, at the end she abandons everyone to... do what exactly?
>>291083836Luca really feels weird in retrospect though, just a rando who looks like the prince for no reason and he ends up being a false lead for a romance that ends up going nowhere anyway.
>>291084114>Luca losthe probably fucked Lara
>>291083972Can't believe Lara is going to work in one of those Osaka micro-brothels, I hope the Mama isn't going to work her too hard.
>>291083931
>>291084117>Japanese cannot write endings at all.Watch more anime/manga/video games/literature/movies etc. Are you a zoomer? Genuinely are all people that repeat this zoomers? Also watch more media in general, there is plenty of worse shit than this show
>>291083816Lara's new legs are already beginning to rot by the end. She'll see hell soon enough.
What did the director mean by this?
>>291084041No matter how hard you cope Luca lost too.
>>291081678they did it, they made the first ever Yuri bait AND het bait anime.... amazing work!
Lara's prince is cute
>>291081990>expect a normal apology>btw we were hooking up on and off for monthsI'm shaking
>>291084117the west cant into endings either
The prettiest
>>291081678Sayonara yuri
Sometimes, /a/ still comes together to watch a trainwreck burn.
>>291083931She can't answer because it's not a rational choice, it's a whim.
>>291084114he actually dated Lara. . . Brom I'm a yurichad and actually rooting for Luca because the romance with Mari was SO terrible
I don't understand, is Kota supposed to be a female, because male anglerfish look like this
>Why are you leaving?>...This bitch.
Now we just need the mangaka who wrote the Cosmic Princess Kaguya manga to adapt this franchise!
>>291084193>watch moregive examples>other stuff is worsemoving the goal post
>>291084224Imagine the sex.That why she's travelling, she got bored and wants more dicks inside of her
Absolute shit ending. Everyone should have died
>>291084278She was forcing herself and clearly hated it.
>>291084160So, she feels inferior, and if she wants to be at the same level as Mari, she needs to level up by living alone?
>>291083976What a fucking waste.Not just the song but also literally everything else too.
>>291084237I'm glad to see that she made it out ok
>>291084264Trainwrecks are usually mecha shit that has plot twists every episode not an anime that has 5 minutes left with a meh ending, hell most well know trainreck, Code geass, had a greta ending
>>291084285Males are absorbed into females so they can self-fertilise, so Kota is probably some kind of hermaphrodite.
Here's what actual yuri looks like if anyone is interested:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9cBMraJZQ
>>291084296>Everyone should have diedMari morally and legally did nothing wrong.
>>291084297the yuri was so terrible that I'm actually rooting for het. . .
>>291084296Thousand-cock stare
>>291084225Yeah but these days the West can barely write a good show to begin with. I don't care when a shit show gets a shit ending. What's baffling about Japan is they have a penchant for making really good shows that shit the bed at the finish line.
>ending is shit and everybody lost >Yuri hater pretending he won LOL imagine if they make after story manga and she comes back to Mari.
>>291083777There was a bloodbath, most staff mentioned issues towards the end, and suits censored the VA talking about love and marriage.
>>291084224She starts acting like a shallow whore at the last second for no reason. It's like the writers did it out of spite.
So this is how Goodbye, Lara ends? With thundering indifference?
>>291084297she hated it so much that she returned to try and suck his cock countless times
>>291084292>give examplesAlready mentioned in the last thread, gunbuster and haibane renmei and literally most classic beloved anime from the 70s-early 10s, most classic jap cinema, most classic jap literature. Are you a zoomer?
Mari was too brown to win.
>>291081678Okay guys, after thinking it over I think I understand the ending and what “true love” was supposed to be all along. True Love is selfless sacrifice, Lara left and is pretending not to love Mari anymore for the sake of Mari’s life, this was always meant to have a tragic, sad ending like the original Little Mermaid where the Mermaid’s Love remains unfulfilled, except this time it’s in reverse and Lara is trying to throw her love away for the sake of Mari’s life so that she doesn’t disappear into sea foam.We were all wrong, true love was always selfless sacrifice and not expecting anything in return from the other person yet being strong enough to know when to leave for their own good.
This whole site really needs IDs and the IP counter back
So what’s the drama about kinematic citrus? Is it related to the Lara ending?
>>291084348>imagine if they make after story manga and she comes back to Mari.The schizo would cope about it being non-canon, even though he would do the opposite if it were with Luca.
>>291083890how many bread have you eaten in your life?
>>291084371>headcanon about sucking cockgayest post award
>>291084286Honestly... Why didn't she answer? It's so retarded.>Love is when you abandon those who care about you with no explanationBravo...
>>291084348She already said she was going to and also said she'd be back to talk to her family when they were feeling better.
>>291084383Wow that’s so deep… too bad they sacrificed the yuri for this
>>291084368Final episode was great until the last 6 minutes. Baffling decisions out of an alergy to have an umambiguous happy ending.
>it's not yuri if they don't kisslol.
>>291084340>>291084371All this shitposting and you are still too stupid to start with capital letters so at least it's less obvious it's all you.
>>291084368Change that to episodes 1-10, the leaks came out before episode 11 aired.
>Mari knows she marching towards certain death and continues on, gets stabbed through the heart by a evil fish dagger, and literally dies for Lara>Lara says: "lol btw I'm leaving"
>>291084383>she dated Luca countless times to make Mari happyWhat the fuck?
>>291084128Living on her ownGot no time for monkey business
>>291083972Well, obviously he wanted to get stronger and find a job so he wouldn't have to depend on Mari forever, and then come back for her.
>>291084296Mari dying to generate the light and coming to terms with that would have been a better ending than what we got.
>>2910844245. I prefer Japanese food.
>>291084385Shitposter is so obvious anyways.
>>291084427That's what women do to someone they date, yuricuck
>>291084449Take your meds schizo
>>291084456I cant believe I went out of my way to avoid the leaks for this
Lara left because all the SHITga peeps talk like dumb bumpkins.
>mfw I'm not a yurifag
FliFla did the premise better
ending suxLEO SEX NOW
>>291084512You are not fooling anyone
>>291083031Is Lara the shittiest anime character of the decade? It feels like she makes life worse for literally everyone around her.
>>291081678>12 episodes of nothinghow did they do it
>>291084128Lara chose the surface world and humans over being a mermaid. She wants to see more of it now that she’s a human permanently(seemingly).
>>291084458It gets worse the more I think about it.
>>291084447But then she left her...So much for wanting to be with her kek
>>291084447>it's yuri if the main character acts like a stacy slut and leaves her "true love" without any explanation
>>291084254How did Kaguya do it? Even if the director tried to backpedal afterwards, I cannot thank him enough for actually committing to what the average nip writer seems allergic to.
>>291084465>she dated Luca countless times to make Mari happyEither that was a mistranslation and was referring to her breaking up and trying again with him during the series itself rather than the timeskip or if they did mean during the timeskip she was just trying really hard to bury her love from Mari and move on for the sake of Mari’s life, not to make her happy but so that Mari can still be ALIVE.
>>291084449Calm, dude.
>>291084478And the most curious thing is that Mari actually would agree to be the sacrifice at Lara's hands.
>>291084546But couldn't she like do it together with Mari when she's on her school breaks or something?
>>291084535Who?
>>291084447He will never admit he lost. Half of the thread is one guy samefagging. Same shit as when Gwitch ended.
>>291084566Cope
it's like they wrote the ending first and then yolo'd the rest
>>291084128If >>291084383 is on to something, I think her goal is to find "a new light" so that her species can live without Mari dying.
>NTR endingFucking japs...
>>291084458I will forever remember Mari. She literally lost everything due to this whole debacle and is still somehow able to remain composed up until the end.
>>291083777Gwitch is so many miles ahead of this show for yuri it's pathetic lol. Imagine if Suletta left Miorine in the end and talked about dating Guel.
>>291084371Because she was forced to for the sake of trying to find true love. The "countless times" refers to their many dates before the time skip.
>>291084561Man the other guy was right. I'm going to go rewatch Kaguya.
When are the interviews coming up? How long does it take? I can't wait for the meltdown here when the director says "it was just a phase for Lara".
>>291084535You are still too stupid to end with period.
>>291084596I think he's talking about me
I'm the only one who liked the show.Just me.Bought the CD OST and the Blu-rays.
>>291084525I should make one of these with Mari asking for the sex and Lara saying no way fag.
>>291084523errm, then why are you posting a lesbian character from a yuri show...?
>>291082274We got the time skip, Lara's sisters did show up, and Mari's window was repaired.
>>291084449Luca dated Lara, Mari can watch from her chair, lara will ravel the world and settle with a guy , yuri lost, Class S won
>>291084561>>291084254those are sisters
>>291084456In a vacuum 11 was good >Grace backstory>Mari resolving to find and save Lara>Grace telling Mari with her final words to throw away conventions and seemingly pushing her and Lara to confess their love for one anotherThen they kind of piss it away with a “deep” I choose to be sad instead ending. Complete snoozefest of an ending after a whole season of build up
>>291084589Is that not what the seasonal audio drama’s were?
>>291084601It's more like they wrote the rest of the show and then tacked this garbage epilogue onto it.
>>291084637Magazines are monthly so if the fat fuck says anything it's sometime in October.
>>291084427>it's gay for a straight woman like Lara to like cockI guess
>>291084566>Mari, I need to slurp cum non-stop in Tokyo to make you feel alive. Please understand!
>>291084447>TO BE WITH YOU>doesn't actually stay with herggs
>>291084647We all liked it, that's precisely why we hate it. We hate that it refused to reach its full potential and become what it was meant to become.
>>291084383>Lara left and is pretending not to love Mari anymore for the sake of Mari’s lifeThis.Lara is basically immortal compared to humans. A long-term committed relationship would never work and she wants Mari to live a normal life instead.
>>291084658Holy cope
>>291084597He did obsessively try to insist that they weren't really married even before the interview thing and also kept spamming non-stop about Elan for months...
Hetbros defend this patriot!
>>291084647If I had ordered anything related to this show before the ending, I would have canceled it.
>>291084672But then why leave?
>>291084566Luca won, Lara left Mari, Luca fucked Lara and dumped her
>>291084447>she said this and leftwhat the fuck was her problem?
>>291084637He's already said that he wanted to make "yuri" and that one of the girls was going to make a love triangle (see >>291084213). If he doesn't give some vague, "it's up to your interpretation" line, it's probably going to err on the yuri side.
>>291084597Nobody won thoughever
>>291084658>dumped him twice>forgot he existed for half a yearlol
>>291084726It was just a phase.
>>291084647Not having Lara tell Mari why she wants to leave was a strange director choose but I thoroughly enjoyed this series and would like to get merch for it.
>>291084714>capitalizes yuriWhy do all thirdworld shitters do that? No seriously, it's waaay too common.
>Evangelion with Mermaids
>>291081678>Yuri wonThey say yuri won, but I don't know what they won. Mari is all alone and miserable and Lara left. It's a weird victory.
>>291084714The show agrees with him since there were no gay couples or gay kisses!
>>291084653You're right. I couldn't concentrate due to how baffled I was at the ending.
Reminder, Lara put her entire species into a dormant state for god knows how long so she can fuck around town.
>loses everything>gets nothing>doesn't even get a decent last conversation with Lara, she basically gets ignoredWhat the fuck were they smoking when they wrote this? The rest of the show was good too.
>>291084787NOBODY won... we all lost
>>291083031Lara simply learned from Mari's grandmother not to be a parasite, and that if you want something, you just go out and work for it.
>Rating went from 8.08 to 8.03Yurikeks....
Lara wanted to be Luca's cum dumpster so bad it's pitiful
>>291084701She has normal ears. There's no indication she has anything left over from being a mermaid anymore.
Let's start World War Yuri
>>291084714Lucky for him it turns out it wasn’t a romance anime at all
>>291084823Instead of something cliche they chose something deep and meaningful and real and shit.
>>291083036>It will never be true regardless of how many times you repeat it.Yes it is you faggot retard, faggots lost
>>291084561literally the only original anime thing that has moved me in recent memory. actually great.
>>291084810>abandons her family>abandons mari>abandons luca>shows no remorseWhat happened to her during the timeskip?
>>291081678garbage lol
>>291084823At least she has her box thing.
>>291084823she didn't even have a good relationship with Lara
>>291084810Mermaids as a species seem to be constantly teetering on a knife’s edge if their existence relies on the whims of a single royal bloodline.
>>291084534Breeding now!
>>291084832Yurichads are the ones hating this ending the most. Hetfags are just happy it's not yuri even if it had to be shit for that to happen. See this anon >>291084867 for instance. He's happier for a shitty ending than for a yuri ending.
>>291084839Bad girl was unironically better than this shite
>>291084865More like they didn't commit to anything and made Lara's "I want to be with you speech" that was powerful enough to bring Mari back to life literally meaningless
Bros what happened to the Christian values?>inb4 a christcuck says love was invented by Christianism
>>291084896You can't breed boys
you're the smartest guy i ever met but you're too stupid to see, it stopped being yuri the moment Luca showed up
>>291084901>it's shitty because it's not yuri
>>291084810Her magic light her choice.
>>291084611Mari was too good for Lara. It's for the best LAra leaves her. Now she can be with her boxing senpai forever.
>>291084904Bad girl is the superior yuri anime
>>291084915Try me!
>>291084823I hope when Lara comes back, Mari is already getting fisted daily by her boxing senpai.
>>291084865But it wasn't deep or meaningful...
>>291084787The ending is good because everybody is miserable.
>>291084714Yuritroons will defend the suppression of free thought by their ilk
>>291084810It's stated that they are going to emerge out of their shells so they'll be fineThey'll still seethe about humans though, unless someone introduces them to beer, pizza, and card games.
>yuri wonI'll take it.It definitely could've had some stronger threads wrapped up. But if they want to continue the story they could.
>>291082125Yeah it's just gay little mermaid with Kira Kira every episode. It's got good music at least though>>2910825657/10
>>291084904Of course, Bad Girl was great.
>>291084879True Christian values according to Japs.
>>291084836Wouldn't that mean her family is fucked since her light would only last an average human lifespan which is basically nothing to them?
Mari is the strongest...both in heart and body...
>>291084913Japan persecuted Christians and now must pay fot its' sins.
>>291084919I liked Luca more than Mari, the yuri was THAT terrible
what a shit ending
This is just a more realistic version of the fish out of water trope. Lara doesn't fall in love or become attached to the first people she meets and instead leaves them to go see what's out there and to find real actual love elsewhere.
>>291084617before and after the timeskip btw
>>291084929It's shitty because it doesn't line up with the rest of the series. It is a non-sequitur ending. Endings that do not follow from the rest of a piece of media are bad, yes. This ending would have been bad if Luca was the main love interest as well.
>mari proves she's the strongest by coming back to life>lara doesnt bake her a cakeUNFAITHFUL BITCH
>>291084823>>loses everything>>gets nothing>>doesn't even get a decent last conversation with Lara, she basically gets ignoredPeak yuri!
>>291082125If you want a retro-inspired looking anime you probably won't get anything like it.
>>291084823Taking everything way from Mari is criminal.
>>291084887I already said this back when the show started, a species that depends on the actions of a single individual deserves to go extinct.
>>291081985I thought this was from the first ep when she's being revived.
Mari is a good girl. Don't give up Mari!
>human earsruined
Luca is the most fuckable one and I'm not even gay
She walks normally in this parallel scene until her scene with Mari. Meaning she stumbles actually having to leave and say goodbye to Mari.
>>291084919When the first episode is the femc falling in love with a dude who looks exactly like that, I remained skeptical. It paid off.
why do the japanese love emotional constipation so much
>>291084938It's a show whose entire premise is based on NTR, author never had any intention of Yuu winning.
>>291085083Imagine having a threesome with Luca and Leo...
>>291083777>>291084353>There was a bloodbath, most staff mentioned issues towards the end, and suits censored the VA talking about love and marriage.Is this the reason why the promised “Double CEO” fujo Laugue ending also got scrapped and they made Lauda OOC and retconned him out of his brocon-ness by making him abandon Guel for Petra in the ending even though it went entirely against the culmination of their arc in the previous episode?
>>291083347There is no yuri in this shownonethis is a perfect het ending
>human feetsaved
>>291085083Lara...
>>291084823>>291085020the cake was a fucking lie
>>291085083>This man is fuckable>I'm not gay tholiterally everytime
>>291085083you're pretty gay, sorry
Mari is going to kill herself later that day.
>>291085098their culture causes them to think it's easier to learn esperanto than to speak plainly and honestly about your feelings
>>291084955It's a pyrrhic victory.
At least that other fairytale princess reimagined in present Japan is having a grand gay old time.
>>291083777This was already confirmed once. They had to backpedal on their follow-through merchandising.
>>291085144>mari's loses her precious family keepsake>lara gets to have hers backNot fucking fair
>>291085083Goodbye, Lara
>>291085144I can't wait for the sequel, Goodbye Mari
>>291085123It's not a good het ending. That's what I'm saying. "Not yuri" does not mean het. It's a shitty "friendship" (though the friendship angle isn't even done well) ending.
It's crazy they actually went with that ending, literally all they had to do was change the very last scene and the show would have ended on a satisfying note cementing itself as a modern classic.I'm not even against tragic endings but that was just extremely unsatisfying even though the rest of the episode was good, I would feel scammed if I paid for the early screening.
>>291083258>Ikuharaesque>but in the end modern anime just can't do it and produce classics anymore
>>291085101superior yuri NTR
FUCK NINGEN
>>291085141BUT IS HE WRONG??
>>291082565It's an 8. Maybe a 7
>>291081678>cop out endingno one won, we all lost
>>291085200Rowan...
>>291085177ending would have been saved if lara gave her ring to mari
>>291085141>>291085142let's be completely honest here, Luca alone is more feminine than Lara and Mari combined
Does Koide know the ending is shitty? He needs to know the ending is shitty and remembering for the rest of his life.
>>291085168And they managed with one of the largest corporations in Japan breathing down their necks. Lara didn't have even that and still couldn't deliver anywhere near close to WFM.Really the WFM staff must've had massive balls.
>>291085083>>291085203Luca feels more like a real life homo than a sexy anime trap. Not fuckable at all.
>>291085235.
>>291085161Director even said there was a lot of back and forth about the ending in the studio. They probably all disagreed and settled on something that satisfied none of them.
>>291085000It just as easily applies to their many dates beforehand. The painting one, the karaoke one, and the one with Leo.
>>291085217Lisa should've given Lara's ring to Mari when she saw her on that beach and Mari should've put it on Lara's finger. That would've paid off everything about it from Mari accidentally knocking it off at the start to Lisa acknowledging a human. I can't believe they were so retarded instead.
>>291085241This was his first directorial role, right? Maybe he can learn and grow from this failure.
>>291085241I bet he pat himself on the back all day when he envisioned the ending
>>291085241It’s deep and it’s all that matters
>>291085217Lara should have given Mari her cherry after Mari literally died for her.
Mari would go on to develop CTE from too many blows to the head in boxing
Sooo Mari fell, but Lara didn't? She just wanted to become a human
I don't know how I didn't notice the first time around that Lara had turned full human. Even her hair is a more normal color.
>>291085328Lara is into pretty boys
>>291085241Hopefully fans let him know his finale is horrible.
>>291085292I expected that to happen as well.
>>291083347buddy are you new to japan. they love endings where nothing really happens like this. even a lot of het couples don't get a kiss.
I think with new directors the effort to prove themselves is always what gets in their way. They want to do something no one has seen before but that doesn't mean its good. People need to realize that most of the time something simple when done exceptionally is exceptional rather than something done unique for the sake of being different ends up being unsatisfying.
So what's the moral of the story here?
>>291081678Just finished the episode. Did I enjoy it?
Cake status?
>>291085295This is not a simple failure of lack of experience. It's a fundamental, uncorrectable inability to write a story. You could have shown the first 11 episodes to an elementary school class and they likely would have come up with a better ending than this.
Hikari left....
>>291083711seafoam, no curse, no witch power - no body
>>291085410Don't fall in love with bisluts
>>291085389>. even a lot of het couples don't get a kiss.Most het ROMANCE manga do have kisses.
>>291085410Around mermaids, never be unfazed.
>>291084913There's a line about Jesus.And Chucks are Christian because their creator was Christian
>>291085406Funnily enough an unambiguous yuri ending with kiss and all in an anime original would've been a lot more unique than this nothingburger forced separation.
>>291085241https://x.com/koidetakushi/status/2101689580357570716
>>291085410Kill fishes. Behead fish. Roundhouse kick fishes into the stratosphere.
I like to think that the light was reworked into something more efficient and now the mermaids will probably come back and not risk dying so easily
>>291085406>something no one has seen beforeA miserable ending in which one character leaves to find themselves and the other loses everything has been done before.
>>291085361<schizo headcanon>
>>291085410Idk something about a gay Japanese girl saving the day and living for yourself?
>>291085406>. People need to realize that most of the time something simple when done exceptionallyExcept that is not easy either, you need years of refinement + you also have to keep in min what Miyazaki has said, which directors probably think about.
>>291085410Mari should've listened to Lisa and left Lara to kill herself.
>>291085121>Is this the reason why the promised “Double CEO” fujo Laugue ending also got scrapped most of the end part of the series got scrapped, it wasn't just that or SuleMio or even the closure with the rest of their class. The entire thing was "Rush job finish this and don't make it too weird you artsy retard liberals" and everything afterwards were people's interpretations of what it was supposed to be that we'll never see.
Even WEP was better than this garbage, lol
>>291085477
>>291085406They didnt do anything different. Same pretentious vague bullshit we usually get.
Snake status?
>>291085510>gaykek
>I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT YOU!>leaves her>Mari practically begging Lara to stay>"Nope.">"Lara, Mari, live for love and lot the laws.">they don'tImagine not fighting and changing fate for the sake of your love lmao
>>291085518What happens if Lara kill herself anyway? She dooms her entire species?
HetGODS? vindicatedyuritroons? dilating
>>291085418>You could have shown the first 11 episodesBut who wrote the 11 episodes?
>>291085406>People need to realize that most of the time something simple when done exceptionally is exceptional rather than something done unique for the sake of being different ends up being unsatisfying.All you're saying is that you just want safe bullshit
>>291085457this show was never advertised as a romance
>>291085406Ironic, considering that the story was extremely bland and unoriginal
>>291084823She just wanted her goldfish back..
>>291085480Time to let him know.
Do japs still like this type of ending? I thought that generation was starting to fade
KAGUYAKEKS FUCK OFF
>>291085544>feels nothing but lingering wariness and then low level friendship for a guy even when desperately forcing it>immediately feels everything for the first girl who is nice to her
>>291085585This ending was the definition of safe bullshit.
>>291085410Don't expect anything from a "bisexual"
KAGUYAGODS STAY HERE
Didn't they say this wasn't going to be yuri? Why are people acted like they got "queerbaited"?
>>291085083>Luca's brother is the most fuckable one and I'm not even gayFixed
>>291085526>artsy retard liberalsThose were the writers? Then maybe they were right. It wasn't a good gundam show
>>291085554And some anons will defend this shitty writing.
>>291085554Mari already fought and changed fate, the equivalent in Kaguya would've been if instead of that joke line by Kaguya at the end ("Maybe we'll fight and break up after this?") they'd shown her and Iroha actually fighting and breaking up.
>>291085410By me.
>>291085610But then she came back, fucked Luca on and off for 6 months, and then left her "true love" without even saying why.K E K
>>291085585popular media being all subversive shit from holier than thou artsy types is part of the reason why everyone is so miserable these daysyeah their threads are brown as fuck but MT was written before this time and look at how popular it is
>>291085563>>291085410It's actually that, it's a very Japanese "Don't get involved in other people's personal affairs because there's nothing left for you at the end" story. Mari got involved because she loved living with Lara. Lara got involved with Mari because she fell in love. Neither of their problems would have affected one another if Mari just left Lara on a bench and went home episode 1. She would be markedly happier because of it.
>>291085610She literally fell in love with a dude in the first episode Could have dated Mari yet never does, but dates a guy
>>291085615>safe bullshit>everyone is maldingHuh?
>>291085537Mari fucked this for 6 months and then just let her go...?
>>291085589I liked most of the story until the ending. And going too "original" usually ends up with stupid shit
>>291085615Nah it was the definition of shit
>>291081678There's no way yurifags are coping they won Anything but watch actual yuri shows i guess
I didn't realize Luca was Murase Ayumu. If you told me it was Shirou's VA I would've believed it.
>>291085410True love is being willing to selflessly sacrifice for the sake of your love’s well-being, even your very love for them.
I like to think that Lisa will open up to the rest of her co-workers and gets invited to the christmas party
>>291084733That's not in anyway what they said.
>>291085684Luca fucked thatMari got jackshit
>>291082565It's either a 8/10 or 7.5/10 if I make the ending a major factor here. I really did enjoy the ride the show was, the visuals and music are A+ I really don't need to say much on that. Story wise it's pretty alright nothing that reinventing the wheel but I wasn't really looking for that to begin with. I love the coziness in the first half and the plot with the merfolks and the light was getting interesting. But like a lot of other anons are saying the end just side steps all that and it feels kind of flat. The majority of the last episode is pretty great but that last bits just feel cold almost. I wasn't expecting full on yuri from the beginning of all this but like after all that and Lara just not saying ANYTHING to Mari feels real mean almost. I think one anon last thread nailed it on the head, it feels like the neutral ending to a VN. Maybe you could see it as Lara trying to keep herself distance so she has the strength to go on by herself without Mari but like some kind of mention keeping in touch would have been nice. Maybe the manga will learn from the response people are having to this or we get another season/movie/ova/whatever the hell to add a bit more to this but I have no idea the likelihood of any of that. I really think the show would have benefited by having more episodes to flesh out all this more. Nonetheless I still had a enjoyable time with it for the most part. But Lara better damn well keep that promise to make Mari that cake
>>291085688It still ended up with stupid shit...
>>291085657>but then she came back and forgot Luca existed for six monthslollmao even
>>291081990>womennot even once. disgraceful creatures
>>291085684Kek she wishes.Lara rides dicks
>>291085727Are you illiterate? I said until the ending. People also hated sonny boy and that was just random bullshit every episode as well
Why does yuri fans have to deal with yurihaters in these threads?Why won't you guys leave us alone :(
>>291085709I loved the scene where she finally joined in when her coworkers were having their weekly mahjong round.
Lara would rather keep trying to fuck Luca over and over again until one of them dies than to ever think of Mari as a romantic partner.
>>291085707>you don't understand I dated him on and off for 6 months and am leaving you because true love is real!hopefully Lara is nabbed by the Yakuza and turned into sashimi
>>291085734SEE>>291081990Anon kun, you're too high on copium, it's not healthy
>>291085764you're too obvious
>>291082273>>291082274>>291082861I WOULD GO THROUGH ALL THIS PAINTAKE A DAGGER STRAIGHT THROUGH MY CHESTYES I WOULD DIE FOR YOU BABYBUT YOU WON'T DO THE SAME
>you get 24 episodes>but it's mostly stills and slide shows with only the most important episodes having decent animation and backgroundsDo you accept it?
>>291085607Cope and seethe, 100k BDs sold and counting, yuri manga thriving, merch selling, all things Lara failed to do
>>291085762S..sooorruy...Still wasn't original
>>291085697Yurifagging is like ping-ponging between groveling acceptance and delusional gloatingJUST LIKE INDIANS!
>Gets her home trashed>money wasted>falters at her tournament due to the emotional burden>forced to watch>dead mother's icon destroyed>literally killed>abandoned after a six month situationship gets broken offDid she deserve it?
I liked it.
Who has a pic of iroha and kaguya with teen kid and baby self?
>>291085817>Still wasn't originalLara or sonny boy?
Mari lost her fish then her heirloom then her girlfriend.
>>291084383It’s this media illiteratefags.
The funniest thing about absolutely everyone hating the ending is imagining how hard Donut is seething right now since he said he'd be annoyed at a "certain subset" of people hating it.
epilogue bikefag?
>>291085822Koide just wanted to be Tarantino.
>>291085821This is an insult to indians.
>>291085845Lara.
>why are you leaving, Lara?>because we need a sayonara...>Lara?
Honestly, I would've liked the obvious "There's all kind of love out there" and "The true love was the friends we made along the way" more.
>>291085822God was testing her faith as he did with Job, she passed the test and will eventually be rewarded with a loving Christian husband.
>>291085847She'll find someone new. There are plenty of fish in the sea.
>>291085869And? Until the ending it executed itself pretty well, not everything needs to reinvent the wheel.
>>291085878BRAVO KOIDE KANTOKU!!
Literally no fanart over this, lol. absolute silence in japan, they clearly didn't give a single shit about this.
So this is what he meant the summary is bad. Well yeah the summary said she just apologized to Luca where she fucked around with him for 6 months
>>291085906Nothing, just that it was pretty average all things considered.
>>291085774>Wait, humans are actually pretty chill>what's this yellow drink you have there, is this the beer you humans talk about?>and this strange pie with a red sauce and cheese, is this pizza?
>Mari dies for cake>Lara doesn't give a shit about itEXPECTATIONS SUBVERTEDBRAVO KOIDE
>>291085929The fanfic is getting sad at this point...
What the fuck was this ending? They seriously couldn't come up with something better than that?
>>291085822Don't forget she lost her only other companion gon chan so now she is all alone in that broken room.
I got a better one(tot est the art style) fags>the show now has the A1 art style, looks like a sao/isekai clone>all the backgrounds are cgiBUT>you get the yuri ending with the kiss and everything, the rest of the episodes are the sameDO YOU ACCEPT IT?
>>291085915They could have made money with this franchise, but they decided to kill it with a shit ending.
>>291085915What a waste of money
>>291085880>Honestly, I would've liked the obvious "There's all kind of love out there" and "The true love was the friends we made along the way" more.It was really “true love is selfless sacrifice and not expecting anything in return” all along.
>>291085957That's actually a pretty great callback.
HetGOD status: LAUGHINGyurikek status: ROPING
Are the yurimonkeys harassing the anime staff again
>>291085880Same. I would have been upset about something like that, but if they leaned more explicitly into the "exploring all kinds of love" it would have felt less like a betrayal. The problem is episode 11 with Grace's dying message being "FUCK EACH OTHER" only to have Lara pussyfoot around that and say some vague shit about finding other light
I wish Lara's mentality at the end was made more explicit but it was nice seeing her realize she loves life and taking another step in her own rather than becoming emotionally dependent on someone else.Shame threads have been completely dogshit from day 1 or I would've enjoyed discussing with anons.
>>291085967>the rest of the episodes are the sameno, if you're gonna feed me slop at least make every episode a yuri fest
>>291085938I thought it was above the average, pretty nice drama and characters I was interesting learning about + a lot of character acting during the animation showed personality. I wish this was the average for animated series in general.
>>291085982Jesus would furious at Kinema for using his teachings to swindle people from their money
>>291085915how does this change my enjoyment of the anime?
>>291085982Then Lara should have sacrificed her freedom to be Mari's fish forever.
>>291085994I JUST LOVE SHIT ENDINGS AS LONG AS THEY MAKE YURIFAGS SEETHE
>>291085897Luca is single now after all. They both need a rebound
>>291086022This but unironically
>>291085915They hated this show since the beginning
noiseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL1qPZ1TAFk
>>291085915Isn't it beautiful how a bad ending can destroy a whole series no matter how good it was? I've seen it so many times and I still find it beautiful.
>Lara why do you want to leave?>BECAUSE SHIGA IS A SHITHOLE THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE I WANT TO GO TO TOKYO
>>291085994I'm a yuriGOD and I'm laughing pretty hard.
I hope this inspires more studios to make more anime in this style
>>291085967Fuck no, I wouldn't have made it three episodes like that. I'm upset about the ending but at least it was a beautiful ride
>>291086021>Then Lara should have sacrificed her freedom to be Mari's fish forever.She sacrificed her love instead.
>>291085915
>>291086040The show started airing six days ago?
>>291085480>all those disappointed chinese fucking kek!
>>291085971>his franchise,Anime originals don't turn into franchises anymore(look at odd taxi)
>>291085410Childhood love never works out.
What did they think of it
>>291086040>This kind of anime was often in the 90s and 00s. A masturbation work that mistakenly thinks that not explaining is nobleGod I hate le deep endings
>>291083890gangbanged, drenched in cum and lying in a puddle of cum, piss and banknotes in an alleyway by 6 fat bald alcoholic pachinko boomers 2 days after arriving in Tokyo and realizing how much money she'll need for lodging
>>291085982Doesn't really make sense when it's Mari that gets fucked over in the end
>>291086113They're gonna need more booze.
>>291085960You know what else is sad?
>>291082565One of the most gorgeous and well animated things I've seen recently yet satisfying isn't the word I'd use to describe it. Like a really exquisite and sophisticated wet fart.7/10 nah, 6/10
>>291086083>draws a better endingbased
>>291086055>I'm a yuriGODName your top 3 yuri anime then :)
>>291086086Futaba threads have been the same since ep 1
>>291086113>shit is so ass everyone is on their phone
>>291086113I like anything with enough strong zero
>>291086120>Doesn't really make sense when it's Mari that gets fucked over in the endIf Lara ended up fulfilling her love for Mari then Mari would’ve died.
If the major opinion of people right now is that the end bit was disappointing I wonder how the crew and director are feeling on that
>>291086113>On their phonesFFS
>>291085410Don't get too close to the person with a knife when you're repeatedly told not to come closer
>>291086113I wish I had friends to watch anime with. And no the anonymous image board people in my computer don't count.
Lara having sex with random men in kobe>Lara having sex with random men in kobeLara having sex with random men in kobe>Lara having sex with random men in kobe
>>291086056>more anime in this styleLOL LMAORead >>291086040
>>291085897When do the bears come and maul Lara to death for her sins?
Mono no aware in this economy? Come on we already own nothing and is unhappy
>>291084128woman moment
>>291086113>motherfucker looking at twitter
>>291086113>everyone is on their phonesKoidebros........................
>>291086160Lara's light doesn't work like that anymore, she physically and metaphorically breaks the dagger. In fact she should be able to love Mari freely by the end, that's what would've fulfilled Grace's dying message as opposed to the garbage they went with.
who's Koide?
So was this some feminist bullshit about true love = traveling the world riding the cock carousel? The haters were right?
>>291086207>was it not ambiguous enough?
>>291086168>>291086152Tbh they are probably zoomers
>>291086083What's she saying? "I think we should all go become loving Majiwives and kill a yurifaggot?"
>COUNTLESSLUCABROS WE WON
>>291086163Hopefully bad, terrible. They all should feel terrible and ashamed for making such a shitty ending.
Make up your own ending after ep11
>>291086175It's an invisible knife!
The hot hag witch died for nothing?
>>291086247>years later and still seething about his discount joker being irrelevant
>>291086203>>291086203>>291086203>>291086203
>>291086254Imagine the seggs and sloppy kisses
>>291086257My man, they probably don't give a fuck lol
@291086247>least obsessed brown
>>291086234Koide balls
>>291086184Now that's true love.
>>291086247>we'll see each other again soonmaybe learn japanese instead of spending all your free time seething about yuri in /a/.
>>291086235Pretty much.
So was the ending basically this?
>>291086274It has never been explained what exactly Grace was trying to do. She goes to the palace and then dies and accomplishes nothing. If she thought the jig was maybe up and fought with Kote it would be one thing. Her last and final dying gasp was just a "Fuck you" to her brother in law. Not even something important like going to Mari to explain what she has to do. >>291086098Japan is OBSESSED with the story of Kaguya, we should have expected this from the start
Come home, yuriGODs.
>>291086262The one everyone with a functioning brain predicted, Mari reaches Lara, they kiss and the light is restored without Mari having to die. The merfolk are saved, Lara stays with Mari as a human on the surface.
>>291086274This is the real tragedy. Mari's true wife died for nothing.
>teen lesbian fell in love with a hetero mermaid the anime
>>291086083>>291086136A scene like this as Lara gets on the train would have been perfect. I have no idea what they were going for with the direction, hiding her eyes the whole time just to show a normal face for a split second.
>>291086341Who are these ugly whores
>>291086312>>291086302>>291086281Kek Lycoris Recoil cucks still seething to this day will never not be absolutely comical. Majima won. His loving majiwives loved him so much that they didn't even arrest him. He cock-broke the yuri schizos.
Lara's only been on land for like a year but I guess Japan is so safe that you can send a person that knows nothing about the world off on her own into the unknown and she'll be completely fine.
>>291086367don't worry about it.
>true loveDON'T NEED IT>lightDIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER PRINCESSES>lucaCOUNTLESS TIMES>mari...
>>291086366Lara doesn't want to be with some clingy dyke. She has men to fuck.
>>291086262Same episode except the last minutes. Lara stays in Shiga with Mari and still works a baker apprentice. Everybody happy.
I think everyone lost in this animeCue "Everyone was harmed in the making of this anime" edits
>>291086351>>291086262No no, Mari HAS to die, the kiss brings her back to life. Cmooooon haven't you seen Snow White?
>>291086341The other one literally fucks BRC (Big Roman Cock)
>>291086383cute schizo babble after begging us to translate for you.
I want to fuck Lisa
>>291086397Too late, I'm worrying about it, speak NOW
>>291086466Made for human dick.
>>291086366>I have no idea what they were going for with the direction, hiding her eyes the whole time just to show a normal face for a split second.This fucked me up too. It could have been to hide her tears, or to signal that she was holding something back, before Mari reaches out and convinces her to stay or take her with. But the fact she just looks normal and then fucks off leaves the direction just implying that she was just embarrassed about how gay she was 6 months ago.
Grace was the anchor tying this show together. Things started going south after she was gone. Really the show was about her.
>>291086234Kaido's brother.
>>291086440Fine too though I would prefer if the kiss wasn't one-sided with one party being dead.
>>291086234director of goodbye lara
>>291086466Insane how she lived with them for centuries and never learned to appreciate the "few good ones."
How long until the threads completely die off?
>>291086538well he did a bad job
Nowhere is it stated mermaid light is able to bring people back from the dead or give themselves legs without the potion (or that the legs could become untimed). This ending is an asspull. It has nothing to do with the intelligence of the viewer, but rather proper foreshadowing is needed for unexplained changes in the world system that was established.
>>291086543>is only still alive because a human scientist made more potion for her>FUCK THEM ALL I HATE THEM
>>291086556I'll give it 48 hours.
>>291086566>>291085480
Lol. And they want to fund Made in Abyss with this shit ending?
>>2910865561 month, october will have some interviews and shit. How long did princess kaguya threads last?
>>291086404There was never anything romantic between them but there could have been a lot more to sell the moment platonically.
>>291086567You were told Lara's light is built different and that's enough, it's just magic shit that was not explained that much after all.
>>291086543Insane how she became a teacher and gave tours and didn't realize that humans aren't born with hatred or prejudice, they learn as they grow. It's like her character development just stopped from that circus she was in.
Yurifags cannot cope that Luca and Lara dated but not Mari and Lara KEK LUCA 1 MARI 0
>>291086556Couple days, I've been on this ride often.
>>2910865561 week
Like a bittersweet ending is fine and all thatBut this feels a tad more bitter then it is sweetShe could have just said keep in touch on phone or something man
Why do artsy series always tend to have unsatisfying endings? There are only around 2 I ever found with great endings.
In retrospect I guess her father and Lisa and her other sisters were right to be super racist towards n*ngens. Lara turned into a n*ngen and immediately began acting like a modern degenerate that can't see the light. On and off relationships. Fucking off and leaving everything behind. She would've been better off as a mermaid
>>291086502see catalog, there's literally a thread up right now
>>291086595MiA is already in production
>>291086642Man, I really should finish Lobcorp.
Can you recommend me a good blacked writer to comission?This was my idea:Lara ends up in OkinawaGets hit on by an American black chadGets adicted to BBC in a matter of secondsThen, in a similar vein to Metamorphosis she starts taking drugs and getting BBC tattoos to please her black masterShe gets pregnantThe chad dumps her and gets new girls (bonus points if it's one of her sisters "we get along with humans thanks to you")Lara is crying alone, saying "I miss Shiga"Ends up with Luca, not being satisfied again.Also Mari hangs herself as a stand in of yuricucks.It gets me hard but I don't want to do it with .AIslop
>>291086274She groomed mc into becoming a human to get back at the king.
>>291086653How do you make an artsy series that subverts expectations without making an ending that makes sense? You make a nonsense ending
>>291084156DELETE THIS
>>291086595It's the other way around, MiA funded Lara.
https://x.com/zhanzhangzlw/status/2089011526678274123?s=20This Chinese artist made a nothing burger ending art last week to prepare herself for the worst and it’s pretty much spot on lol
>>291086597Quite a while but Kaguya threads were sustained by the movie's huge popularity in Japan by posting fanart, discussing takes and theories for after the ending, the Ray epilogue video, big announcements like the theatrical run etc.
>>291086664Lara went and immediately boarded the cock carousel >>291086677check AO3, but grok is pretty good at cuck and NTR stories where yurifags get what they deserve
>yuri won>but it didn't win hard enough so it lost!
>>291086677>Can you recommend me a good blacked writer to comission?
>>291086610The rules were clearly stated, the legs were timed thing, and foaming was implied by Lara needing to drink the artificial potion. And the resurrection ability was not foreshadowed. The Mari scene was basically just done for shock value and then undone.
>>291086689Most sane yurisisters btw
>>291086732>yuri wonwhere
>>291086689lmao, get fucked
>>291086723>antiyuri schizos are also slop pajeetsCompletely unsurprising.
>>291086653Art is a struggle.
>>291086743he knew
>>291086742How did Lara resurect?
>>291086719that was a month ago
>>291086689Westshitters not being unhinged homosexual death cultist challenge: Impossible
>>291086689seethe
ITS ABOUT THE JOURNEY NOT THE DESTINATION YOU FAGGOTS!
>>291086723Thanks but I don't want AI slop in my blacked porn
>>291086556Shitposter will find other show to seethe about next season. Maybe MGRP.
>>291084723BRAT NEEDS RAPE CORRECTION!!!
>>291086653>There are only around 2 I ever found with great endings.Which ones?
>>291086685>Be Utena>Do it first try
>>291086466she's a monogamous person, you'll have better luck with her whore sister
Dude, this ending is the equivalent of Strong Independent Woman™ shit but japan. End of Evangelion/Adolescence of Utena this shit immediately
>>291086677Why are Indians like this
>>291086742The light materializes literally anything, breathes life into mermaids, and can completely alter their appearance. It's debatable whether Mari really died too since the audio shifts to her perspective after getting stabbed and we immediately get the fish teeth segment after.
I just hope the manga fills in some gaps and maybe decides to light up the ending here a bit
>>291086247LMAO your entire life is just seething about anime lesbians.
>>291086677>average "majiwives" poster
>>291082565Wasted production values / 10Show was completely non-committal until the end. I'd rather be mad at an ending than bored. Classic Japanese bullshit I guess fits with the retro theming.
The worst part about the ending is that it's bad but not bad enough to cause an outrageEveryone just scoffed and moved on with their lives
>>291086823I didn't like the ending to utena either ngl
>>291086852Mari later asks if she died and Lara confirms it in dialogue
not het = yuri wins
>>291086804Yuriniggers are the ones seething, though
I don't even know who is falseflagging whom anymore
>>291086858>the mangaI can't believe Saburouta will have an excuse to delay Citrus + even longer and it will be a massive waste of time. Worst timeline.
>>291086877I did, 10/10
These threads are hilarious
>>291086858The ending destroyed all the goodwill left to give the manga a chance.
>>291086877Same but at least Utena gives you the happier ending with the movie, doubt Sayonara Lara will get that chance.
>>291086871Just watch yuri shows, for comital. >with the retro theming.We have to learn from the masters.
>>291086874what gets me the most is that like 95% of the finale is beautiful but they just trip at that last tiny bit of all things
>>291086879She says so but it's never actually shown. That's why it's debatable.
>>291086918How do the Japanese feel?
I will read the ffm writer’s adaptation
Luca won
>>291086916For me it was a 6/10, i don't cut series slack just cause they are old.>>291086927> with the movieTrue
>Mari didn't win>Luca didn't win>merfolk are still in coma>they still hate humans>only Lara got what she wanted and wasn't even the thing she originally did
>>291082565The series was 8/10 for me up to Mari's boxing tournament. Each episode felt like Lara found a new way of expressing love towards humans, which culminated in Lara showing love towards Mari. But as the show was reaching its finale, it felt like it had more and more twists that made a cohesive ending look impossible. I guess Lara still loves Mari, but the light for her species comes from the love of humanity. And apparently you couldn't find it anymore in Shiga? There's no way the production team initially thought this would be a good conclusion for this series. The ending made me drop the series to 6/10. Art style was brilliant all the way through.I couldn't imagine it at the start of the season, but turns out that Grow-Up Show is the best anime original this season, at least for me
>>291086949The hole through Mari's chest with the dagger on the other side is clearly shown. This isn't Bleach. That is not survivable without magic.
The true victory today is Neko to Ryu is getting a second season.
Would you recommend this anime to other people?
>>291086955enjoy nepo baby's garbage
>>291086942You say that but there's a few of the Dezaki shoujo adaptations with all time endings. All timers. It can be done but those shows didn't really pussyfoot around in the mid game like Lara did. Lara's ending is really all that the body of the show up until now could support.
>>291086927>with the movieYuritranny...
>>291086972Anon, I watched it in 2002, it had only aired a few years ago.
>>291086990How is Mari still hearing anything despite being dead?
>>291086642The original Little Mermaid Hans Christen Andersen ending was straight up bitter and tragic and not sweet at all, Sayonara Lara is just being true to the original’s spirit.
>>291087003I would recommend this to the yurifags I don't like
>>291086894All I see is one yuri hater spamming off cooldown like a retard.
This ending will piss of literally everybody except for one very specific type of damaged bisexual female. It's almost impressive.
>>291087003I still would95% to 85% of it is quite enjoyable
Don't let the ending distract you from this
also I lmao when they literally did a six month timeskipit feels like the ending is just "We ran out of budget to finish this". Why were there helicopter sounds
>>291087046devilish
>>291087046Based
>>291087081>"We ran out of budget to finish this".truly, the Evangelion of our time
>>291087070what is BB20
>>291087049Buy glasses then
>>291084714What a homo
>>291087014Yes but dezaki also had shit shows in his later years and my point is that he probably didn't pull from those, like that nip said the 90s were full of such shows/ovas.(also some people consider oniisam yuribait)> Lara's ending is really all that the body of the show up until now could support.Nah, it could have had a great ending by changing 1 scene
>>291087070kekarooo
>>291087026Because the brain still maintains itself for a minute or so after the heart stops. This is why they can shock people's hearts back into pumping and they can not have total brain death. But no one can survive Mari's injury since it isn't just a stoppage of the heart, the knife went through
>>291087003I was waiting to recommend it to some friends but now I'll tell them to steer clear.
>>291087025My bad then, I just know that are retrofags that overrate some stuff, like akira. Utena's ending was just not for me.
>>291087003Ep1-11, sure. But they'd need to write their own ending though and toss 12
>>291087081>Why were there helicopter soundsIt was the last thing Mari heard before dying while flashing back to the tournament photo. They were important enough to be the first things seen and heard in episode 1 because uuuh...
>>291087148I'd just call it dying at that point rather than already being dead. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the light healing someone in the middle of fading out.
>ALL I WANT... IS TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITH YOU!>... AND LUCA>... FOR A FEW MONTHS!
>>291087108>>291086874Speaking of which, I watched another show this season with an equally bad timeskip instead of an ending that wasn't awful enough to cause outrage but wasnt' good enough to be remembered. It was Nanoha Gun Blaze Vengeance. It literally just jump-cuts during the last battle to the character sleeping in class and everything being OK. No answers for how anything in the finale wrapped up, just that they did and we shouldn't question it.Two shows in one season having the exact same kind of "We just didn't feel like finishing this" ending.
>>291087081That makes no sense since the anime was literally made with 12 episodes in mind. They had enough budget and the animation wasn't worse
>>291087184Understandable that the ending might not be for everyone. Ironically I don't like the Akira movie.
>>291087040So in the Lara version she instead got a human soul but the twist is that human souls are fallen and imperfect so it didn't satisfy her.
>>291087003Sure, why not. It's a good representation of modern anime.
>>291087257>It was Nanoha Gun Blaze Vengeance.I cant believe Nanoha came back from the grave for a nothingburger season
Lara will have sex with random men in Kobe kek
>>291087202The Tournament photo at least makes sense. It's something they shared together that you could argue what ignited their passion for being together. Where the fuck was there ever a helicopter? If Lara rode a helicopter with Mari at some point, that would at least be an explanation. It sounded like it was getting closer, so the expectation was that it was humans coming to find Mari. But there wasn't ever a helicopter.
>>291087264OkWhy does it feel like they ran out of budget then? Why does it suddenly jump-cut mid episode in a massive timeskip?Where was the fucking helicopter? What happened to Kota?
>>291087298I fucking wish all modern anime looked like this. Also most anime(and media in general) has always been shit.
>>291087145Nah the midgame was fumbled and everything good about the show is in the concept and the beginning before they had to start tying it down.Modern live action nip tv and anime both tend to do this these days. They want a wide open playing field when they sit down to write the concept of the show. So they come up with a cool concept with lots of possibility but when it comes to actually writing the show, they never want to narrow it down and start tying themselves down to an actual narrative/character structure. But good storytelling requires potential to be sacrificed for believable development, you get to a point with writing a character where if you're true to the character in a given situation they can only believably react one or two ways. But writers would rather hold onto the idea of potential.The back half of the show is bad.
>>291087281>the mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping princeweak cuсk
>>291087310There's a random helicopter flying over lake Shiga in the last three episodes.
>>291087340Maybe they ran out of time or poor planning but they had the budget
>>291087225I don't recall the light being able to heal a fatal injury previously though. The mermaids seem to languish and begin to die without it, with it being akin to something like nourishment. But I did not see it as an instant fix to all problems.
>>291087347all this show has really taught people is that most anime have the sin of being homogenized pastel palettes and there is no reason they couldn't use digital color to make vibrant looking shows. They just choose not to because of lack of skill or lack of planning.
>>291087385That was the news helicopter, wasn't it?
I still had hope we were going to have a decent ending, but as soon as all the things that were leaked started to happen one by one I lost it. It was the opposite of a dream, it was a nightmare coming true.
>>291086040Given what modern futaba watches I don't think they're the arbiters of good taste. If this was a based moefag shittalking the show 20 years ago then maybe I'd care but modern futaba's a bunch of shit eaters.
>Sayonara Lara 8.01>Chou Kaguya-hime! 8.45lol!
>>291087443Yeah, and that's the source of the helicopter noises. It didn't have any deep meaning.
>LARA I BEG YOU STAY WITH ME FOREVER>no way fagnice yuri anime
>>291087418This is the actual moral of the story, since they trashed everything else they were working on. Hope someone listens and makes an actually good story with some of these techniques.
>>291087361I don't fully disagree, I liked a lot of the episodes after episode 6 and it felt like it was building to something, it felt like the scenes had meaning, even luca felt he was used a prop for the themes rather than just adding a new character(i think it would have been better with double the episodes though)>Modern live action nip tv and animethe west has a problem with that as well, all modern media does.
>>291087480Director played too many RE games. He probably wants Lara to continue the Redfield bloodline.
How long until we have another anime "adaptation" of the little mermaid that doesn't shit the bed? 10 years? 20 years?
Yuri status? Dead.
>>291087466CAN WE GO LOWER?
>>291087472>It didn't have any deep meaning.Then why did it fucking suddenly start getting louder just as Mari was stabbed and then disappeared right after?It has a deep meaning, it's just 2deep4u and we don't get it. Maybe something about the human world getting too close to Lara until she pushes it away. We won't know until we're told. It's not going to be "It's just a random helicopter I like helicopters" it has a meaning to appear at this exact moment.
Chess player status? Dog status?
>>291087417It can make an entire palace and reconstitute foam into mermaids. The light is the "I ain't gotta explain shit" kind of magic.
>>291084823AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>291085279always this shittu again
>>291087487They won't since the show will probably fail lol.>>291087418Another thing that someone has mentioned is the very nice character animation, very few anime old or new put this much accent on it.
>>291087520KWABturn her into sushi then feed her to the dogs
>>291087281What exactly is the moral here, turn the other cheek? How can Lara's ending possibly reflect this?
>>291087520All her hope gone.
>>291087520Erased tier ending.
>>291087539You literally had one an year ago and why do you need more? It's an ok story but just read it and move on.
what a shame IP count is not a thing anymore...
>>291087487>>291087418What's the opposite example of a recent anime with good/interesting writing but meh direction/art style?
>>291087633>why do you want a story with an ending that doesn't shit the bed?
>>291087651It's just me and you here for 700 posts bro.
She never got her fucking goldfish back, all she wanted was gou-chan back
>Lara was in her lesbian phase
>>291087555I don't know why you're so obsessed with a piece of sound design. There was a helicopter established to be there. The staccato of helicopter blades is pretty universal way to signal a rising tension, especially with the way it gets louder to suddenly cut. It was probably just a decision to emphasize the mood and contrast with the following complete silence.
Man, modern love stories suck. If true love means sacrificing everything for a persona and then them leaving you to fuck other men after 6 months then I don't want anything to do with it.
>>291087418at this point I am sure that even if it had actually been fully cel animated people would have been disappointed with it.
>>291087003Only to the most dedicated artfags. It does pull that off right up until the end.
At least the OP and ED are good. Also the singer just dropped the new AMVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phupn0z3Xuw
>>291087694>she turned a friendless boxing otaku into a lesbian and caused her to lose everything but Lara and then abandoned her
>>291087720These stories are jaded by modern people's experiences
>>291082145I hate pseudo intellectual writerfaggots so tucking much. Goddamn these pretentious fucks.
>>291087668But why not a new story? Little mermaid has already been adapted again and again, only retards want more
>>291087651You can't even look at the public ban logs and see all the banned posts being anti-israel anymore...
Lara is a protagoCHAD warping the fabric of reality putting everyone around her into situationships.
>>291086247>Majiwiveswhat
>>291087720It's just a writer incapable of seeing their story from the perspective of both characters. It's a neat and all story for Lara that she's doing this SO she can later be with Mari, and maybe learn to be independent and all that, but the ending clearly doesn't care much about the perspective of Mari that went through all that and now just has to "wait" for her important friend to get their shit together eventually and then coming back. It's all one-sided, a lack of vision.
>>291086877Utena's ending is essentially perfect. Women are their own worst enemy.
>>291087491>>291087361Meant to write I don't fully agree but it's the same sentiment.
she didn't say itI applauded.
The series title implied it to be a sad ending but they found a very creative way to destroy the audience's hearts.
>>291087666I think Watatabe. It had a good premise with a lot of weight and actually managed to follow through on it, but the direction and artstyle were extremely bog standard.
>>291087720It's not a romance. The fact that the closest we got was autistic Luca tells you all you need to know.
>>291087824Nta but I vastly preferred the movie. Hell I even liked the ending to penguindrum more.
>>291087838>happy cuck
>>291087838It's an expression of pain
>yuri wo----ack...!
>>291087838>die for a girl>she leaves you
>>291087838>hurts just a little bit
>>291087003I would only recommend it to style over substance fags, the kind that enjoy Hyouka
>>291087838>>291087960>LIVE for love
>>291087996FUck you, I liked the mysteries in Hyouka
>>291087908Movie ending is stupid and not resultant from the characters as portrayed. It's a round hole square peg blatant retcon that lobotomizes the characters as Ikuhara saw fit without anyone else there to tell him "that's wrong". The perfect ending is when characters behave entirely in their established character.
>>291087838the face she makes when Lara brings back her boyfriend from kobe
>>291088068>The perfect ending is when characters behave entirely in their established character.Wrong. A story can have that and still have a garbage ending if it doesn't work with themes of the story.
>>291087908The movie ending was good, only the local Akiofag hates it even though I hated Utena and the movie in general. The ending was in character and cathartic.
Told you it was a friends we made along the way Anime. APOLOGIZE!!!
What do you think the studio's response to the ending reaction gonna be? Gonna keep their heads down or try damage control?
>>291088122What was the theme of this story? Love's a bitch?
>>291088142Lara is a shitty friend. How does this level of friendship create the light?
>>291088144We have no idea what the Japanese reaction is
>>291087996Cinema is moving picutres. The stuff on the screen is not without substance it's what makes anime anime in the first place. It's moving pictures.Without it you're listening to an audiodrama, or a play.It's completely dogwater to say the anime in anime is not substance.
>>291084193If you followed your advice you'd realise he was right.
I won
