So what did it mean?

>>291094307
That beastiality

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>>291094307
lion loins on my face lion loins on my face lion loins on my face lion loins on my face

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i want to participate in imari's magic ochinpo disappearing show

>>291094307
This show has gotten really bad, unfortunately. Dropped.

>>291095081
THICK AND WOOLY

>>291095081
You can see her lower vagina bones...

>>291095131
Yet you still watch every episode
Curious

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I still love this show
Don't care what DETRACTORS say

>>291096394
How much?

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>>291097962
I share a decent amount of sentiment with detractors but last episode did somewhat rehabilitate the show with the most circus animation we've seen yet and Mizuka's idea to gain the edge actually having some legs and not being a completely lame contrivance

>>291098180
First one is free
Lewder pics cost 250¥ per
I assure you you WANT the lewder pics...

>>291098241
She awakened every young boy in that audience...

>>291094307
I haven't watched since the episode that suddenly turned into melodrama with Maria dying. Is it worth picking back up? I just want to see cute girls do circus stuff

>>291099158
She will die next ep

>>291099158
The penultimate episode has very cute circus stuff but they ruined it with 'yeah, the clown's probably going to die next week'. And it might be the final performance but it's still mostly a slideshow.

>>291094307
I cannot believe she could fit the whole unicycle sit in her vagoo.

>>291094307
I want Maria do die at this point, very selfish risking her life while everyone is worried to death and wasting her sister money like that, is unforgivable.

>>291099158
>melodrama

>>291098241
>actual animation for the aerial silks
Never thought I'd see the day

>>291095081
Yamada, please calm down. You're supposed to be narrating the story.

>>291100916
She's just saying what we're all thinking

I still love Svetlana Yamada

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Maria has covid?

>>291103424
No, just really bad breath

>>291099196
>>291099388
>>291099527
Nope. Maria will live. I refuse to let that cute little woman die. She deserves better.

>>291104567
Maria herself wants to die.

so is maria already dead?

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always thinking of her crush... too bad mizuka is het!

>>291105205
She missed her flight on purpose, she's a goner.

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>>291098241
and we got more naked Mizuka again (bathing with naked Ouka no less)

>>291098241
The idea might be solid, but besides maybe Shizuku who is peak sex here I prefer their regular outfits and would've preferred the most animated circus segments being in them instead of the Oz costumes.

inb4 they win 2nd or 3rd place which gives them just enough to cover Maria's medical expenses

>>291098748
That's a steal!

>>291099158
There's been plenty of good SoL fun happening despite Maria's health issues. And the circus they just put on was great.

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Just imagine the plap...

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>>291108847
However much you're imagining, it simply is not enough

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>>291108958
the beach episode was truly the best one

>>291107250
Seeing the silk dancing in the regular outfits would've been much better, yeah.

hope maria dies the worst death possible

>pinklslut is dog
LOL

>>291110721
so wait did maria commit sudoku by missing the plane or was she just doomed to start with and she said 'fuck it, ill go enjoy some circus lmoa!'????????????????????????

>>291110881
They couldn't all go to the airport and hang around trying to see her when they had a show to do, and all the set-up and ticket sales and whatnot before it begins. But she can certainly stop by and see their show before she goes to the airport.

>>291110881
Hard to say. Rin has been hiding a lot from the performers. Maybe Maria chose not to go through with a potentially painful or low success rate procedure, preferring to watch her girls win instead of dying alone in America. Or the entire operation thing could have been made up from the start so the girls could focus on winning the tournament.

>>291112239
Then why is her sister paying for the treatment?

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Yes

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>>291107250
I'm okay with the actual animation using the Oz outfits given how clearly the production struggled to get any actual circus animation done, obviously I would have preferred to get a bunch more animation in their usual outfits but in that regard there's all sorts of coulda-woulda-shoulda with the anime's shortcomings on having circus animation

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THE. CLOWN. WILL. LIVE.

>>291114472
>Dork lacks a brain

The clown will live.

>>291114853
maria died... so luce could walk!

When the show started I really wasn't expecting them to put Maria's corpse in a wheelchair and parade her around.
I'm not sure I like it but I applaud their boldness.

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>>291118653
oh yeah well could a corpse do THIS?
>*COUGHCOUGHCOUGHHACKCOUGHWHEEEZECOUGHCOUGHOOOUUUWAAGGGHHHCOUGHCOUGH*

>>291098241
There were definitely some legs on display.

>>291118691
Maria would have been fine for a few more years at least if she didn't spend all those hours running through a cold rainy forest.
I hope Mizuka is happy.

>>291119065
Mizuka may have incited the incident somewhat, but it was Akane who ultimately caused Maria to kill herself in the mountains.

>>291112127
I hope that's what it is. I don't want the clown to die.

if clussy dies this show was an even bigger disappointment than Lala Land.
if clussy lives it's an 7.5/10, maybe 8 on a positive day

>>291121873
This show should've had Lara's budget.

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>>291095099
She already makes the cum disappear from my balls!

>>291095099
If my chinchin disappeared any more there would be nothing of it.

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>>291121917
>grabbing her twintails to pull down on your cock until she chokes
>holding her cheek gently and calling her a good girl
>swapping to paizuri for the coom while looking her in the eyes and gripping her by the shoulder and nape

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>>291122163
...!!!

>>291110881
They couldn't see her because she already went to America for the surgery and just got back. They just lied the whole time.

>>291109239
Which episode?

>>291094307
sex dog

>>291122163
Too rough for me. Twintails are for brushing and admiring.

>>291124708
This but afterwards tho

>>291094307
Dog anal

>>291094307
Thhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaah
Thhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaah
Thhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaaaaah

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>>291119494
If anything, Mizuka helped by finding Akane and keeping her safe until the rest of them arrived

this maria subplot is boring and tired drama
it just couldnt be about a girl's dream and the realization of the orphan's common dream!
NOOO
it has to be make-a-wish retardness level "uaaah, I have one last desire before I die!! SAD FAEC!!!!!!!"
boring
shitty
uninspired
writing
I hope francois sits on her wheelchair and splatters her fucking BITCH

>>291130601
>subplot
I wish it was and she died off-screen in america, it is main plot and sucks shit

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>>291128356
That was uncalled for

>>291131897
Yama.. Svetlana had more potential with them.

>>291131220
Ouka should have taken a peek.

>>291133139
She's already seen it.

>>291133268
She's seen more than that

>>291135301
Yes. They've bathed together and Ouka inspected her quite thoroughly.

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>>291131897
Mutsumi won't look so condescending when I prprprprprprprprprpr her abs

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>>291136535
She should've licked her too for a deeper inspection of her body

>>291130582
I wonder what else Mizuka would do for money.

>>291138404
The whole time Mizuka's head was under the water and she was drowning.

Imari's tricks make no sense and she might as well be doing actual magic.

>>291140694
She is
We've established this

This show will never ever escape the shadow of Kaleido Star having actual circus animation.

>>291140694
That's why I think Maria will be fine. It's a world of actual magic. Surely it is also a world of magical cures.

>>291140694
>>291140824
Why doesn't Imari just use magic to cure Maria. Is she stupid?

>>291140824
>>291142440
>magic for disappearing and reappearing
>Imari disappears Maria's sickness and can only reappear it in Nanami

>>291142544
Teleport Nanami's pituitary gland out of her and into Maria.

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So I've downloaded the 1939 wizard of oz movie. The 75th anniversary blueray. Idk if I should bother looking for like an an actual "original" screening or something. Idk if that even exists. I feel like this 1080p version is probably close to accurate of what was seened in theaters back then. As far as I'm aware this resolution nonsense only exists for tvs and stuff, things back then were shot on film and projected so the resolution isn't really how you talk about them. I'm gonna watch it soon. Maybe now, maybe tonight. If this thread is still up by tomorrow, I'm going to USURP it and talk about the movie and post every single collage for the show I've made. If not, I'll make a new thread during the week to do that as I obviously don't want to spamdoomp my trash collages in the finale thread. If anyone wants to watch the wizard of oz, too, to discuss it, feel free!

>>291143731
I don't think there's any different cuts of the film. If there's a special 75th edition it's probably just a new digital master or something but it's not like the director added in new footage or something.

>>291143825
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's the original cut definitely. It's just that I'd like to watch it in the original quality that I would have seen had I been sitting inbetween mizuka and ouka as they gave me a double blowjob in the theater

>>291143731
> The 75th anniversary blueray. Idk if I should bother looking for like an an actual "original" screening or something. Idk if that even exists. I feel like this 1080p version is probably close to accurate of what was seened in theaters back then. As far as I'm aware this resolution nonsense only exists for tvs and stuff, things back then were shot on film and projected so the resolution isn't really how you talk about them.

public copies of the movie were garbage which necessitated more than a couple eras of restoration. But if you want to experience it like the cavemen did feel free to get a VHS copy off of ebay. Otherwise the BD is more than fine. you're obsessing over stupid shit.

>>291144190
The only thing I'm obsessing over is sunflower girls creampies

>>291144509
they're contortionists

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>>291143976
>sitting inbetween mizuka and ouka as they gave me a double blowjob in the theater
*sigh* Another reason to question why I'm still alive

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>>291143731
technically speaking film doesn't have a "resolution" and detail level is limited by the film grain and camera lens used
for practical purposes, 35mm is ~5.6K
a much bigger deal is the audio mixing, old movies were recorded in mono, and tended to have heavy bass with lots of hiss/noise (which got worse as the film prints aged)
stereo and 5.1+ mixes for old films on bluray tend to have lots of digital noise reduction and panning effects which wouldn't have been present in the mono mix
in this case, early laserdisc versions had a fairly untouched copy of the mono mix, so you can find remuxes where people have meticulously retimed them to match newer digital releases
https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/search/label/Wizard%20of%20Oz%20%5BThe%5D%20%281939%29
you can try searching for The.Wizard.of.Oz.1939.2160p.UHD.Blu-ray.REMUX.DV.HDR.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-CiNEPHiLES.mkv - it has the good mono mix included

>>291143731
>>291144190
>But if you want to experience it like the cavemen did feel free to get a VHS copy off of ebay.
Considering that the girls in the show watched it in a theater I don't think a VHS version would accurately portray what they saw.
Restored versions would probably be more representative

>>291145423
They're meant to be.

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>>291144980
Thanks for the info. This sums up in detail what I thought was the case. I might snag that one you just posted instead of the basic blueray one I already got

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Im other news I just took a nap and had a weird time waking up. I kept waking up over and over again into a similar dream, but knew at times I was actually awake, then closed my eyes again and fell back into that same dream. In one of them, I made a shitpost thread meant for /v/ on /a/ which was a picture of gimli with the words "if elves are elves why arent dwarves delevs?"
Then, in my next layer of waking up/falling asleep, i was worried about getting a 3 day ban for offtopic shitposting on /a/ and not being able to post in important upcoming threads. This has nothing to do with grow up show, btw, I just felt like I needed to share this strange experience with some anons

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>>291146794
A couple years ago I had a terrible stomach virus, and kept waking up and falling asleep every 15 minutes at one point. Every time I would have a dream in the same setting, a sort of complex building where all operations were done to sustain my overall wellbeing and existence. Different rooms and sections were dedicated to different tasks, these of which would shift every few times I would wake. I would regularly interact with heads of departments to ensure everything was up and running, and would walk around the establishment from time to time. Some times nothing particular would be taking place, with the sleep interval only having me laying around in the dream. Other times would consist of much busy work discussing and maintaining the structure with the multitude of other hands among me. I had to have woken up and fallen back asleep over 20 times, and every dream was in that place. I felt a unique calm and tranquility every time I was there, even as the night progressed and my nausea settled down. Have truly never experienced anything quite like it and I reckon it helped get me through the night.

In other words, it's funny what our brain does with all of the thoughts and information its presented with, and I love clussy.

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>>291146794
>>291147052
Lately my neck's been kinda fucked up. I think I need a different pillow. Perhaps an aerial silk dancer's lap would provide the correct angle and support I need.

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>>291147126
Aerial silk dancer lap pillows come in different sizes, do you have a preference?

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>>291147052
That sounds really quite intresting. Hope you survived that stomach bug. Fever dreams are one thing but food poisoning dreams are where shit gets really fucked. Were all those people running you "you" or were there other people?
>>291147126
I prefer sleeping on magician breasts for my pillows

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>>291147273
Whatever's most comfy and makes my neck not hurt. I'm willing to try sleeping on any circus girls and any parts of their bodies that will work.

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>>291144980
Yeah, I found that one and its 48gigs lmao
I dont really care enough about this experience to wait that long for the torrent. My tv above my PC only goes up to 1080p anyways lol. Im just gonna watch the one I've got
But thank you, though, for the suggestion and for the slight bit of film autism knowledge you've shared

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Alright lets see what this fucking hype is about

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>>291147435
>Were all those people running you "you" or were there other people?
I don't remember that much, but I'd lean towards them being others. Perhaps some kind of abstractions in humanoid form.
>>291147466
Even the extra firm ones?

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>>291143423
Nanami will gladly agree to it because that's what siblings do.

>>291143731
>>291146695
I want to see how big her bush is...

Just finished the wizard of oz
Pretty good movie desu
I can understand why mizuka liked it so much. Alot of whimsy and fun

>>291143731
it's a book and mizuka uses it that way
the film has some changes

>>291149679
Now watch the sequel movie

>>291149810
No, I don't think I will

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Made a few things
May post my thoughts on the movie shortly lol

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A couple templates
Haven't done anything with them yet, but I have a couple in mind
Mizuka feeeet

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I hope I don't get BANNED for this that would be very silly. These are all on-topic.

>>291147767
Mommy Maria please hug me~

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This is literally the exact movie mizuka and ouka saw on their cute deito

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This was my favorite one and my favorite joke of the movie

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Who did it better, bros?

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All in all, it was a solid movie but I'm not sure I have all that much to say about it desu. It was fun and whimsical. Story was straightforward. There were some questionable things like the pacing towards the end and how the witch was killed just with water lol (my assumption is that anything doro would have done to her would have killeded her because of the slippers) but all in all it was fun. Some good comedy, fun effects and sets. The music was nice, though I felt they front-ended that alot with munchkin town and it went on too long. They just wanted to show off all the costumes and choreography, which was impressive and probably even moreso at the time. But all these various little faggots stepping forward to thank doro kinda started to drag on. My favorite song was the tin man's if I had a heart and my least favorite was the last one with the lion's king of the jungle. It just kinda felt out of place in the moment before meeting the wizard and it doesn't help that that was the last song of the movie. I like the scarecrow probably the most of the three companions. Just like his costume design alot. The movie as a whole was pretty beautiful all around, too. Nice cinematography and use of color
I genuinely feel like an anime adaption of this would be really fun

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I never realized just how many refrences to it are in pop culture. It makes sense, obviously, but I just never knew where they came from
>somewhere over the rainbow
>the lolipop guild
>a lion, a tiger, a bear, oh my!
>and your mangey little dog, too!
There are tons of these I recognize never having known they were from this movie

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As for how it relates to himawari circus, there are some direct comparisons you can make.
For example,
>imari needed the courage to face the crowd when performing magic
>ouka the dorka needs a brain
>mizuka needed to rediscover her love of the circus, meaning finding a heart. You can also say that she's dorothy looking for her home, of course, but that can be true of every himawari
>maria needs a new pineal gland :(
And all of these were kinda within them the whole time, which was the main theme of the movie. As for Maria's dream coming true, the reality is that it's already true as long as the sunflower troupe continue to love eachother as a family.
Beyond that, there isn't TOO much that can be directly compared. There is, of course, the color scheme with yellow being the primary color of the himawari circus as potentially a refrence to the yellow brick road, and mizuka's red dress being like dorothy's shoes, but at this point it's a huge stretch lol

>>291151366
>yfw the fake snow used in the movie was actually asbestos
You can pretty much guess what happened...

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Also this poor fucking horse lmao they really fucked him up lol
Anyways, I've said most of what I wanted to say and don't want to post too many more images. It's not an anime, but it is directly relevant to grow up show. Still, I don't want to catch the ire of a janny for some reason and get an off-topic just before I have to make this thursday's Yuru Camp rewatch thread. I also need to be able to post in the finale thread for this show on Saturday... but if anyone else would like to talk about the movie briefly, I am here

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>>291151482
Oh yeah, I'm aware of the le dark history of le wizard. Seen a couple of videos on it by youtubesloppers
>asbestoes snow
>judy garland forced to smoke and starve to remain thin
>make up on the witch and the tinman were literally poisioning them
>the lion and scarecrow costumes weren't much better
>tin man suit was boiling the actor alive
>pyrotechnic fuck up set the witch on fire and she was hospitalized
The entire thing was a fucking mess and none of the actors got away unscathed. The topic is quite reddit though
>DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A DARK HISTORY BEHIND THE WIZ-
shut the fuck up fag

>me and the bad bitch I pulled by being retarded

Which girl has the sweatiest leotard

>>291151591
Imari and it's not even close

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ANYWAYS
I am now going to urusp the thread and SPAM every single collage I've made. You have surely seen them in the threads. Perhaps you like them, perhaps you don't. I'm posting them now so they can act as a recap of everything we've seen so far. I don't want to post them in the finale thread, obviously
The first one I made when I realized how much I like this solid color background schtick

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Maria my beloved
I love this introduction for her so much man.
She is my sunflower. I fucking love her so much. In such a short amount of time she already earned her place in my heart. Maria is up there with Mugi, and Nadeshiko, and Kinme for me

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Mizuka is so fucking sexy it's unreal
That body is perfection. So flexible. Very imagine coded.

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Episode two we learned about ouka's dream and met her rival kasumi (? I don't recall her name)

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It really was an inspired idea to do these solid colors background shots. Obviously it's a budget saving method, but it easily doubles as an excellent stylistic choice

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Ouka's first real fly in her sexy circus outfit

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HHHHNNNNNGGGGGHHHHHHHHH YAMADA SEXO YAMADA SEX CUMMING INSIDE YAMADA SVIETLANA ROSEN

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You'll notice the color change. A little behind the scenes. I'm a FILTHY FUCKING PHONEPOSTER. Sad, but true. Most of these were made on my old phone, a galaxy s20. The gallery app on that one had a limit of 6 images per collage. For every collage with an image number abovr that, I used a separate app. On that app, I'm not able to actually have a white border (I should probably change to a different app desu. But I've been using it for a long time and I'm comfortable with it)

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Anyways, around ep 9 or so I got a new phone (s26) and the new gallery app hasba 14 image limit, meaning I can now make white border images with a larger picture count. I can also have alot of variety with the border color now. It's all around a great upgrade

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Imari's episode! The beach episode was so great. I know some of you say it was the peak of the show. It's hard to disagree even though I don't hate the current drama as much as it seems most of you do

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>great and subtle fanservice
>peak comedic timing
>maximum dorkness on ouka
>imari full sexo 10000000% of the time she was on screen
>actual magic being confrimed as real
It was truly special
>I forgot to select the image so I had to delete the post

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The twin's episode
This one was the peak for me personally. The only backstory one I liked more was Maria's
I love these twins. It immediately broke my heart to see how they were almost separated. Maria saved them and protected their smiles bro
It was also amazing direction to anime this in this colorless style, signaling that their world was about to fall apart and lose all meaning if they had lost eachother. Such a great contrast to the usual bright color palete. This, i think, is the best drama the show had and it should have stuck to these lower stake, smaller story backstories as drama rather than focus the entire second half on Maria's injury/illness.

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I love maria alot, but I will freely admit the story writing around her isn't good in execution. There are parts of it that are good, but as a whole it falters and brings the show down

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Love the times when they got creative with the colors, like dorka being pushed out of her own ENTER

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>PRRÖÖÖH :DD
i fucking love francois so much. It was a great move to combine his story with the aoi and akane. It really is a shame that he gets relegated to small appearances from here on out and never really gets a proper spotlight. But that's just another issue with the whole show just always cheaping out on animation man. The concept, the setting, and the girls are so fucking strong man, but the show just doesn't have enough to build on that foundation. It deserved more budget and more skilled animators. This show needed a kyoani, a madhouse, hell, I'd even take a PA works level of treatment

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Another ENTER
i like mitcher alot. He's a great character and was a ton of fun to watch

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Him showing the himawari's mizuka's hellish training was fantastic

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>>291151705
On one hand, I wish they'd perform in just their leotards. On the other, the skirt makes it more erotic when we get to see their assets.

>>291151611
But she doesn’t move as much as some of the other girls.

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I especially loved how much fun aoi was having!

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>>291152012
She sweats bullets because
>she's nervous
>casting spells is EXTREMELY physically intensive even if it doesn't look like it. All that mana being channeled through her body... imagine the smell..
>>291152007
>I'm so fucked up
They're too erotic... everything they wear is sexy

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This was ouka's first time flying with someone who actually gave a shit lol
I will also say that I think mizuka's backstory was mishandled.
>actually I always loved the circus!
Just felt like a bad retcon from the first thing we saw of her. Her saying
>I'd rather die!
Was the instant hook that got me to think this show was going to be truly special. And I do think that it is, but this change was something I was definitely not a fan of. I'm a bit more accepting of it now, but I do think it was a bad call

>>291152054
Svetlana is my favorite just because she performs in her underwear with no shame.

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I'm not going to go so far as to say that she turned into a completely different character, as other anons have, I don't think that's true, but I do think the show should have stuck to the whole
>child prodigy in her craft actually hates what she's good at but learns to love it because of her new found family
That is a bit tropey, but it works and it's a solid foundation for character work.

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>>291152112
Russian women are made to be exploited by cirucses

Before this episode, many anons were saying that mizuka was treating ouka badly because of her constant refusal to train her. Even the show called her out on it. At the time I speculated that her backstory was that
>she hates the circus and her father because her mother died and her father took her away from home afterwards. So she lost her mother and her home and mentally associates that with the circus and her PARAMECIUM
>thus, every time she sees ouka flying, she sees her past trauma and it's hard for her to even understand why she doesn't want to train ouka specifically despite being her friend outside of training
I thought that was intresting, but we know now that's not the case for her backstory

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>>291152181
This wouldn't be the first or even second or third time anime exposed how degenerative Russian women are...

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In general, I think the backstory we did get for her was serviceable, it makes sense that she "hates the circus" because her dad shut it down (I now speculate that he shut it down out of heartbreak from losing his wife, not because he felt he was past his prime (I am ready to be narratively dissapointed again, thoughever lmao)) and she felt like she was betraying her old family by loving her new one, but I think it was too cheap and too easy to have her suddenly love it again just by perfroming once because she never got to perform in the past. I think there were a whole lot of ways her backstory could have been improved, either with small changes or with broad strokes

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I so badly wish the writing in this show were better man. There is so much I love about it. I'm so sad it's just not put together very well. :(

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POE TAY TOES
I remember one anon saying that the reason she didn't want to perform in any other circus was because she wanted to perform specifically with her papa. That's probably as good as mizuka's backstory really gets as far as what actually happened. And that's kinda speculation because we don't actually know thats her definitive reason

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>>291152054
Even their old timey swimsuits make my penis throb.

>>291152253
I still love the anime but it really feels like there was a shift in writing at some point. I haven't been following the threads or anything so I don't know if anything happened behind the scenes but it definitely feels like a writer change or something happened.

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But atleast the colors are still nice. The art design and direction for the show are top notch

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>>291152275
Oh yeah, there was confirmed to be a writer switch about halfway through. Dunno who by name, but I'm pretty sure anons confirmed it. Looking back, it was definitely a misstep on their part

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OUKA THE DORK
this is one of my favorite collages. This entire sequence. This shot of her with the stars is just so fucking good. PEAK dorkness. If this had a darker edge to it, it would absolutely be chunni vibes

Need a compilation of every single leotard shot

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Nanami's character, I feel, is also kindof all over the place and that's mostly due to how she's handled in Maria's story
>she wants to buy the circus out so maria stops working
>actually they're not gonna agree to it
>but that doesn't matter because either way maria DID stop clowning around, so she got what she wanted
>but wait, theyre competing for the prize money to pay for maria's treatment
>why would nanami be mad because now they have TWO shots to win the prize money(don't they already have multiple because sumerargi runs mutliple circuses??)
>but she pays for maria anyways. She was always doing that and always going to because she loves her sister, obviously!
>the only thing that makes sense is she doesn't want the sunflowers to take away her opportunity for an international purse by winning nationally, but that's not explained clearly at all
>aside from all of this, she ALSO has personal ambitions to be an amazing performer
her character is a fucking mess and it's a shame because, again, there are ways to condense her down into something that's intresting and emotionally impactful. She's a girl who is on the verge of losing her sister for fuck's sake. There's something there!!

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Got ahead of myself there. Anyways
Here's mizuka and ouka having hot lesbian sex on the flying trapeze for the first real time. Clams will be slammed. Saliva will be trailed from lip to lip. A sparkling day. A sweaty day. Ere the yuri rises.

>>291152298
Honestly, for all of its flaws, it may be a 8/10 for me depending on how they stick the landing with the ending. This may be a low bar, but at least it's more competent than NareNare from a few years ago.

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I still love this show in spite of all these flaws. I can't stress that enough

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>>291152449
I pretty much agree. I think that of the clown dies it's going to severely harm my opinion overall, as it feels way too brutal for the show. It just feels tonedeaf if they do that. Thankfully we know she WILL live and that everything is going to be okay. But her whole story should have been handled better.

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To be clear, I think her backstory was great.
>her injury causing her to be growthstunted
>her being apart of the lotus troupe, thus having a connection to mizuka and mitcher
>the retroactive foreshadowing of her being short, out of breath, sleeping all the time, etc.
All that is great, imo. Where it falls apart is how they're handing the present day and everything surrounding her treatment

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>>291066243
>>291066458
>>291066703
>>291066911
>>291067031
Here is a huge wall o' text effortpost I made describing how I would have done it. I think it's quite good. But the only (You) I got on it was someone implying it was bad :(
Feel free to give it a read if you're interested. I know I've been yapping for fucking hours at this point
>talking about anime on /a/? Wtf???

Anyways
OUR HEROES

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Princess Mizuka is so pretty!

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I'm almost done with the collagedoomping
But you have to read all my posts
YOU HAVE TO

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AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I FUCKING LOVE HER
I LOVE HER SO MUCH BROS

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It was at this point that I went to the in irl life himwari field and took some lovely photo. I have a great appreciation for these flowers in real life now due to that trip out of town, and honestly, I would not have made that trip out of town this year if not for this show. My parents brought it up and while I do love traveling with them to places, I also love canceling plans and staying home and watching anime, which was about to happen that weekend because the weather was almost bad. But I forced the trip through because I knew that there may not have been another chance this season and thus this year. I needed to see these sunflowers because of this anime this year and I'm glad I did

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Another little detail I loved about the show was how often they stuck to the flower theme for the circus names
>sunflower troupe
>blue rose
>lotus troupe
>lavender something or other
It's a great naming scheme and I particularly love the sunflower being the central one

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I'm almost done, I plomise. This is by far the most collages I've ever made for a show

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Here is a white border example that was only possible due to me upgrading my phone around the time of this episode lol

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An OP collage. Love maria's pretty face and mizuka's energy here. It's definitely the OP of the season for me, potentially of the year. It has competition with
>frieren
>awajima hyakkei
>ikouku nikki
For that title though
Absolutely adore the marching band music box bit at the end. I like the ED, too, but not as much

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>>291152640
Same, anon, same.
Wanna say I've been really enjoying your collages these threads, clearly you have a lot of love for this show
>>291151653
feels like just yesterday all the shitposts were about Maria buying people instead of dying

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Quite enjoyed this black and white tv spot, too. Was neat and fun

>>291097962
Did not realize that I had actually posted this one already lol
SORRY it's out of order now!
>>291152765
Kek, I'm glad you like them and am glad you like them enough to deface them with that edit lmao
Great implied blowjob there, too, that's really funny. Also I'm not sure how I managed to grow 5 cocks for mizuka's panel, because those are, of course, all my personal cocks! Must have been imari's magic giving me four clone cocks temporarily..

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At last, this recent episode's performance
I really really liked their creativity here and thought them adapting the wizard of oz to bridge the gap between them and blue rose was a really inspired move, both in universe on mizuka's part, AND in a meta narrative writing sense. This is what I mean by there still being great things even in this second half of the show.

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It's genuinely a stroke of brilliance in both ways. I loved this episode alot and had a huge dumb smile on my face the entire time they were performing

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SHIZUKU SEXO HHNNNNGGGGGHHHHH LION SEXO YAMADA IS SO LUCKY

This show doesn’t really teach you anything about the circus and most of the performances are barely animated. They are just using stills for the most part. I’ve learned nothing about the circus from this anime it could the show could’ve been about literally anything. However, it has a lot of cute girls doing cute things so that alone makes it watchable.

>>291152872
>alot
>had a huge dumb smile on my face
I bet you did, buddy. I bet you did. After all, your momma always said you were a special little boy.

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If we're truly not going to get a properly animated performance, this was definitely the best possibl alternative or compromise available. In a perfect world
>the writing would have been better
>the performances would have been animated
>including full animation on the wizard of oz adaption
>more clown, more prööhing, more of everything
I love this show and am deeply dissapointed it became missed potential in so many ways
Regardless, there is one final episode. One last set of collages to make. And one clown to save.
Thank you for reading my whole wall of posts and for indulging my autism. The least I could hope for is that you were entertained, the most I could want is that I managed to change your mind atleast a little bit about your feelings of negativity towards the show and purseuaded you to be kinder to it and love it a little more.
I now see, with hindsight, that all of the complaints about the show's direction and quality over the threads, came from a place of pain. You, anon, wanted the show to be better than it was because of how much you loved it.
I know that feel bros. I know that feel so so much

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>>291152897
And she's right!
>>291152880
Yes, the girls are cute indeed

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POV: you are raping Mizuka.

Mizuka saw the Black Lotus in the audience. He brought the doctors to Japan to work on Maria. That’s why he has been absent and that’s why Maria didn’t go to America.

>>291152994
kek at seeing this immediately after an anon's 50 post long effortposting

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>My love, you've petals for your skin
>So soft and delicate it is
>It hides a fire that burns within
>No sign, but power is power
>I'll tend that garden on me knees
>Until the roots grow over me
>And I will fall fast asleep
>Beside my sunflower
>My my
>My my
>My my
>My sunflower
>My my
>My my
>My my
>My sunflower

>>291152935
>Regardless, there is one final episode. One last set of collages to make. And one clown to save.
Ending on this note after all the collages from episode 1 to now has me really damn hyped for the finale.
>>291152760
This was probably my fav of all of them

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>>291153082
That one is one of my favorites, too. It's hard to really narrow them down. Obviously I'm biased and love all my collages equally. I love the contrast between the solid color shot of maria and the virbant multi colors directly underneath. There's actually alot of thought that I try to put into collages and the composition is often hard to really get right. Some are going to end up being better than others inevitably. Not all of them will end up telling a story, but the way I see it is I try to capture the feeling of the episode or scene most of all

Bonus observation
Mizuka's apple theivery in the francois episode may have been a reference to this scene where dorothy almost stole apples from the trees that were alive lol

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>>291068315
Also should have (You)'d this post in the last thread but I missed it before it archived
Has anyone seened this anime and can comment on it? I'm probably not going to watch it anytime soon unless someone can confirm that it's actually good and worth watching. After grow up show, I'm probably gonna add the other circus show, kelido star, to the top of my list desu

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>>291149796
I have not read it. I assume one of the changes was the color of the slippers
Mizuka has them as silver, which I assume is what the book describes them as. I assume the movie made them ruby red because the wanted to take advantage of the color on screen and ruby is more striking and vibrant than silver. The contrast between them and the yellow brick road is also greater than it would have been had they been silver. Probably a good change
Does anyone want to spoil where the red brick road leads? I'm not, at this point, particularly itching to read the books of which there are apparently dozens. Nor will I watch any modern western slop adaptions of the story

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>>291150437
She's back!

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>>291150457
>>291150471

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>>291150492