>>291487081
The show's still excellent, shippingfags just don't have a brain

>>291487081
I liked it and still think about it a lot desu

>>291487081
The story started off strongly. Midway it went down in quality. Then infamously the last few minutes somehow shat on it all.

And the director keeps making it worse with every twitter post and interview he gives.

>>291487081
>>291488052
I don't feel sorry for mentally ill shitposters like you, the board will only be better after you kill yourself

>>291487081
You could tell from the trailer it would try to be an avant garde yuri like Utena but it will ultimately sucks ass because it's made by newgen hacks and not real talent like the old days.

>>291488101
Somehow I recognize this posting style

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I am currently on episode 9, and I am quite curious to see how much of a trainwreck the final episodes will turn out to be.
My guess is that there will be no yuri, or that Lara would leave the other girl to be with her mermaid family. I don't know why else people would be mad about the finale.
I will likely finish the show tomorrow, and I am eager to see what has caused everyone to become so pissed off.

>>291487081
Kota Won

I don't feel sorry for anyone who got invested in the version of the anime they made up in their head and had their world crushed by the final scene
creatures who don't pay attention and have no media literacy deserve to be hurt by figments of their imagination

>>291488941
There's no one even like that who really exists, all the shitposting about the ending are fake outrage from a few spammers including one especially dedicated shitposter who kept bringing twitter screencaps and leaks to start bitching about the ending before it even aired. It's a totally manufactured opinion from tourists who don't like anime in the first place and only come to /a/ to do this /v/ style shitposting.

>narrative crafting

>>291489406
I don't know why it's so unbelievable to you that more than one person suffers from the mental condition known as autism

Imagine how good this anime would've been if Luca turned out to be Lisa.

>>291490025
Because your spamming is really obvious since you've been doing this for a few years with various shows

>>291490175
aren't you the guy who thinks everyone who posts "Majiwives" is one person and it's not just a funny meme?

>ending so bad it spawned a schizo
a fitting end

>>291490315
>spawned

>>291488458
> I am quite curious to see how much of a trainwreck the final episodes will turn out to be.
Not really a trainwreck imo. Just too vague for its own good.

That's me. Disappointment of the century. Thankfully Cosmic Princess Kaguya existed to alleviate the pain.

>>291487867
fpbp

>>291490241
That does sound like my insane anti crack boogie dude.

>>291487081
Kys concernfag.

You can tell this anime was made with love. Visuals, music, voice acting were all top tier. Sadly the plot is just average and predictable. Not much really happened in the end. Great direction just hides how weak it is. They definitely could've done better.

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My first copy of the blu-ray arrived couple days ago. The second copy and the ost are still in the middle of being shipped because the store decided to be really slow with shipping them out.
There is some unrelated stuff in the pic, but I'm too lazy to take a new one.

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It's cute how Mari tries to smile to look cool here, but her face ends up crumbling under all the emotions.

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In the last episode after the time skip they briefly showed this background and it made me think "I've seen that somewhere before." After few seconds of thinking I remembered that it looks like the background in the last scene of the concept trailer. And when I went to check, I was indeed correct.

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>I read the preview for the novel version. Overall, it feels like 90% of the content is just recounting the anime's plot, without really adding new descriptions or fresh narrative perspectives. The only parts worth noting are the tiny, tiny additions regarding Lala's initial impression of Mari, and the slight confirmation that Mari possesses superhuman strength and a massive appetite. How should I put it? I’m a bit disappointed so far; I had expected some different angles or supplementary details, but it reads more like a summary than a source of new information.

>>291493839
It's insane how the director made her suffer because he didn't like the Christian influences in Hans Christian Andersen's original work. So she gets to suffer and lose everything with no payoff to prove a really stupid point.

Any good yuri next season?

Pick up my torrents and watch
Just like yesterday

>>291487081
I only watched it for the pretty animations tho

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>>291491315
It's so good from a production standpoint. Something small like Lara stumbling for 2 seconds really stuck with me. Now I want to watch Occultic;Nine again for a show with stupid good quality.

>>291496119
Mari had to have carried Lara back home, since there was no way Lara was going to walk afterwards

>>291487867
Yeah when I watched the ending and came back to see everyone so riled up I was kind of shocked. The series definitely needed more episodes but the "outrage" over the last one was embarrassing to see.

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>>291497087
They did post this on the official twitter.

>>291488458
>My guess is that there will be no yuri, or that Lara would leave the other girl to be with her mermaid family. I don't know why else people would be mad about the finale.
Leave these threads right now until you watch the last episode and then come back.

>>291487867
I'm not a shippingfag, I couldn't care less about shipping but the anime was still mediocre as fuck

I feel like every 3 years there's some anime-original show with only girls that's vaguely interesting but ultimately doesn't gain much interest.

>ITT (and all Lara threads really): Media illiteratefags who didn’t understand the ending and the message of what true love is supposed to be because they’re unfamiliar with the original Little Mermaid source material and expected a happy ending like the sanitized Disney kiddy movie
Get filtered plebs!

>>291490492
>Cosmic Princess Kaguya
Otaku pandering slop for AGP fetishists, isn’t even in the same LEAGUE of a masterpiece like SayoLara.

Hey look it's this guy.

>>291498021
Even for bait this post is offensively retarded

>>291498021
Goodbye Lara is Class S

>>291498086
>Class S
Nah it’s legitimate yuri, cause it’s supposed to be a homage to Hans Christen Andersen who was a closeted gay man.

>>291498416
You need to go back

>>291487081
Wait, I enjoyed it. What was wrong with it?

What I learned from Goobdye Lara is that yurifags are completely ignorant about Japanese culture and how the anime industry work.

>>291498503
no all the redditors who call this place their home when /r/the_donald got deleted need to mosey on to 8kun

>>291488458
Heh, your innocence is amusing. It's worse than you can imagine.
>see how much of a trainwreck the final episodes
Try the last 5 minutes. This has to be a new record.
>Lara would leave the other girl to be with her mermaid family
Lara leaves Mari for no fucking reason at all to live by herself.

>>291498783
>for no fucking reason at all
stop having autism on the internet it's too stereotypical

>>291498705
they're ignorant about how women work, and if they weren't they wouldn't try to be them so much

>>291498783
>for no fucking reason at all
Speedwatcher who didn’t pay attention detected.

>>291498909
Worse, it's the shitposter who was already spamming about the ending after posting leaks from twitter before the last episode even aired. There's only one person trying to force this idea that Lara leaves for no reason.

>>291498705
>>291498846
These are also the spammer btw
If you ever see this sort of "yurifags/tards/troons are doing something so I'm going to shitpost about it" setup with other posts joining in the fantasy, it's all one person talking to himself.

>>291499051
your mom's the shitposter

>>291499089
No, the guy you replied to is legitimately the shitposter

>narrative crafting schizophrenic

>>291487867
The ending is bad regardless of shipping.

>>291498809
>>291498909
You can try to argue for your headcanons all you want but we all know they're just copes to try to make some sense of the ending. The most ridiculous one is that somehow Lara needs to leave Mari to grow as a person when that was never established or built up by the writing.

>Lara says in the climax after killing Mari and literally breaking her own heart “I don’t need true love, it’s enough I just live in the same world as you!”
>Her completely selfless sacrifice is what ends up reviving Mari and turning Lara human permanently as a reward
>”Why is Lara leaving in the end and why is she so cold to Mari? This literally came out of nowhere??”
Is it really so fucking hard to understand? Jesus, even in the scene itself it’s obvious Lara is acting coldly cause she’s trying to steel her resolve and not get swayed by what she really wants.

>>291499144
the other anon is clearly the schizo why do you have to become a separate schizo

>>291497792
You just know Mari spent most of those six months caring for Lara and helping her with rehab. And now that she's able to walk 80% of the time without issue, she leaves Mari behind.

>>291499144
>The most ridiculous one is that somehow Lara needs to leave Mari to grow as a person when that was never established or built up by the writing.
You’re right on this one and that interpretation is wrong too, she’s leaving Mari because it’s a literal sacrifice on her end just like the Mermaid sacrificed herself in the original novel to prevent herself from devouring the Prince’s soul. “I don’t need true love” = throwing away her feelings for Mari because she knows they’ve done nothing but hurt her and she cares more about Mari’s well-being then her own happiness.

>>291499144
>headcanons
This is what the spammer always says when you correct the basic factual errors in his bait posts about the ending

NTA
>>291499187
That's great and all, but there is no narrative reason why she can't just stay and have what she really wants (Mari) to herself.
>>291499290
If she cared about Mari's wellbeing, she'd stay with her. With Gon-chan dead and her mother's cross destroyed, Lara is the only thing in the world that makes Mari feel she's not alone.

Mari was fine with being devoured/shot by Lara's heart. She chose that willingly out of love, since at least she would die being with Lara in the end. Even if Lara couldn't feel true love for her anymore, just being with each other was enough for Mari. But now she gets to live without Lara or anything else besides boxing to fill the void, which doesn't need to happen since Lara leaving to anywhere that wasn't her mermaid family wasn't established at any point in the story.

The director specifically named her Mari to shit on the biblical Mary, which is also why he wanted to break the cross. He created her character solely to suffer without any solace due to a anti-Christian hateboner.

>>291499496
you don't know what a narrative is loser

>>291499187
>Jesus, even in the scene itself it’s obvious Lara is acting coldly cause she’s trying to steel her resolve and not get swayed by what she really wants.
Even if you're right, that only answers the "why is she so cold to Mari" part but not the "why is Lara leaving" part.

>>291499496
>there is no narrative reason why she can't just stay and have what she really wants (Mari) to herself.
The Merpeople literally expecting Lara’s true love’s soul to be what revives them and their kingdom?

>>291499513
autists just learned the word "narrative" to sub in for "plot" to hide the fact that they're plotonlyfags

>>291499290
>she’s leaving Mari because it’s a literal sacrifice on her end just like the Mermaid sacrificed herself in the original novel
The point of the story is that Lara isn't supposed to follow the original Little Mermaid story. Following the same tragedy again defeats the point.
>prevent herself from devouring the Prince’s soul
The fish dagger thing was solved. It's not a problem anymore.
>throwing away her feelings for Mari because she knows they’ve done nothing but hurt her
That's not true. She was supposed to be the one who can stand beside her looking in the same direction.

>>291499547
Lisa quite literally said that Lara already gave them the true love needed to revive. She served her purpose to her family. She has no reason to leave to find other "true loves" and drop Mari like a hot potato.

>>291499513
That's a shitposter who has been spamming the exact same things since the last episode aired, after having already spammed that it was going to be bad using twitter screencaps of leaks to speculate about how bad it would be.
Just go look at Lara threads from prior weeks on the archives, there are plenty of examples of the exact same nonsense since he was making threads to spam in constantly.

>narrative crafting samefagging schizophrenic

>>291499542
>Even if you're right, that only answers the "why is she so cold to Mari" part but not the "why is Lara leaving" part.
1. It’s too hard for her to be near Mari knowing she can’t have her

2. She thinks being near her will just hurt her and end up literally killing her like before.

3. She’s trying to find another source of light to revive her people that isn’t Mari, it’s supposed to parallel the original novel’s ending where the Mermaid is only promised an immortal soul if she spends 300 years or some shit going around the world doing good deeds, probably for Lara she’s trying to manifest new light as traveling around the world (or at least Japan) helping people out and doing good deeds/charity work. Rather than consuming the light for herself new light will involve Lara spreading the light (i.e. happiness) herself and try to make other people happy rather than just herself.

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>>291487081
They are fictional characters.

>>291499650
>1. It’s too hard for her to be near Mari knowing she can’t have her
>2. She thinks being near her will just hurt her and end up literally killing her like before.
Neither of these have any basis in the story itself.
>3. She’s trying to find another source of light to revive her people that isn’t Mari
Lisa said their people will revive at some point with the light she gave already. They don't require more, it'll just take a few years.

>>291499628
I don't like the ending either and I was avoiding every thread for that week until I watched the episode on Sunday.
>>291499650
You keep talking about the series "paralleling the original story" but what's the point of making something new if it's just going to retread ground? And especially when you start your series having the main character be able to redo things, presumably to right them this time. Is the moral of the story that fate can't be changed? That no matter what you do you will be miserable? While negatively affecting the lives of the people you interact with?

>>291487081
emotionally? That's a stretch. It was a show with a cool vibe. Unfortunately the screenwriters had nothing more to offer other than vibes, which is sad but whatever.

I made you so mad about being called out that now you're labeling yourself correctly to try to deflect lol

>>291487081
>>291488052
>>291488101
>>291488348
All these posts are from the same person btw

>schizophrenic tags four distinct anons and says they're all the same person

>>291499740
>>291499759
these two are the same person btw

>>291499802
True.

All of you are the same person, in fact you're me

>>291499819
But of course, "me". We are all "me" after all.

>>291499699
the moral is "my gay crush turned me down and now you have to suffer too"

>>291499812
>>291499819
>>291499881
same person

>>291499819
NO! You're not me!

>>291499584
>The point of the story is that Lara isn't supposed to follow the original Little Mermaid story.
The twist is that this Little Mermaid (Lara) actually gets rewarded for all her self-sacrificial efforts in the end and is “born again” as an actual human being. In the original novel the Mermaid is simply PROMISED a reward, SayoLara is meant to be the actual fulfillment on that reward and promise. It is also about Lara learning the old adage that “it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all” and simply finding fulfillment in the very act of loving someone that another person inspires within you rather than expecting reciprocation of those feelings.

Mari is actually another example of this lesson having to be learned because she herself starts out apathetic and cold and doesn’t allow anyone besides her family and Grace to get close to her because she’s afraid loss due to the trauma of losing her mother so long, Lara helps open up her heart again to the concept of love culminating in that beautiful scene of Mari finally realizing that “we’re all born to love someone.” In the end Mari’s worst fears about loving someone do in fact materialize and Lara ends up leaving her but Mari had to learn to be okay with that end result and still take that leap in allowing herself to love another because it helped her develop into a a fuller, more expressive person because of that love.

>The fish dagger thing was solved
The dagger itself was always just a metaphor for Lara’s trauma and her selfish, possessive desire to consume the one she loves, it’s an allegory for not being able to handle rejection. Lara leaves Mari either because she thinks Mari doesn’t/won’t romantically love her back (because they’re both girls, hence a nod to Andersen’s own life that TLM novel was even based on) or because she knows she’s not in a healthy state to love Mari back and will inevitably end up hurting her like before.

whenever i see a theorycel write "metaphor for x's trauma" I cringe physically. Go back to plebbit, fag.

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>>291500001
What's wrong, too DEEP for you?

whenever i see a theoryGOD write "metaphor for x's trauma" I clap. Stay here on /a/, heterosexual.

>>291500001
>theorycel
is what autists call someone who can comprehend a work of art at least one layer deeper than the literal facts of the plot
should have stuck to naroushit desu

>>291499699
>Is the moral of the story that fate can't be changed?
No, it’s that true love is caring about and putting another person’s well-being above your own, true love is purely selfless rather than selfish and also that the act/feeling of loving someone should be fulfilling enough.

Basically “that it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.”

>>291500001
>t. media illiterate retard with an IQ under 90

>>291487081
I wouldn't have minded whether she ended up in a straight or yuri relationship but ending on no relationship made it all feel kind of pointless. Pick one, don't pick none. That's what felt unsatisfying to me.

>>291500107
>true love is purely selfless rather than selfish
Reviving Mari and potentially killing off her entire species in the process is extremely selfish, anon. She had a duty, and she prioritized love instead.

>>291500133
>Reviving Mari and potentially killing off her entire species in the process is extremely selfish, anon
Selfless in terms of what you’re willing to sacrifice for the PERSON you love, not selfless concerning the whole entire world.

>>291500133
Mermaids deserve to go extinct if their entire survival depends on one princess desu.

>>291495467
The Novel still add a lot of things like POV and Character background.

>>291500159
There was nothing selfless about Lara leaving Mari. It doesn't do either of them any good. Headcanoning that she did it for Mari's sake also rings hollow. Through all her anguish, Mari wanted to be with Lara. She died for her love for Lara. Now she has no Lara, no Grace (literally God's all-encompassing love and favor), no mother's cross (very on the nose).

What we are left with, without going ever further deeper into the director's quest to remove the Christian influences on Little Mermaid, or the fact that he admitted to wanting to have this ending despite the story changing considerably around it, is Lara leaving Mari for.... unexplained reasons.

>>291500454
>Headcanoning
>the director's quest to remove the Christian influences on Little Mermaid
>Lara leaving Mari for.... unexplained reasons.
The spammer's usual talking points
He's the only one who has such an obsession with the director, or rather, he rants about it to endlessly shitpost

>no argument
>ad hominem + red herring

>>291500454
>There was nothing selfless about Lara leaving Mari. It doesn't do either of them any good. Headcanoning that she did it for Mari's sake also rings hollow. Through all her anguish, Mari wanted to be with Lara.
The ironic tragedy of the original TLM novel wasn’t even so much that the Mermaid’s love remained unrequited but that it WAS requited but the Prince just mistook his savior for someone else and the Mermaid wasn’t able to communicate and tell him who she was because she lost her ability to speak.

Lara leaving Mari either because she believes she could never love her back romantically or because she feels like her feelings will only continue to be a burden and hurt her actually mirrors this original misunderstanding, because just like the mermaid in the novel Lara refuses to communicate.

>the director's quest to remove the Christian influences on Little Mermaid
Nigga what? Christianity PERMEATES all over SayoLara. Mari’s family is Christian, she wears a cross and is named after the Virgin Mary, both she and Lara literally die for their/others sins but are “born again” through the Grace of God (as you said, literally represented by Grace herself), true love amounts to selfless sacrifice and martyrdom.

Where on earth did you get the idea Koide was trying to remove Christianity from the work?

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>>291500454
>It doesn't do either of them any good.
It probably boosts Lara's confidence being able to survive on her own and not follow Mari around like a lost puppy.

Translated lyrics for the official MV and Opening Song was just recently uploaded to Reddit[/spoiller]

https://old.reddit.com/r/GoodbyeLara/comments/1x0f5qu/added_subtitles_to_the_memorial_mv_i_love_it/

Some choice lines:

>I’m sure you won’t say a word and drift off somewhere like the summer wind
>To the world where I loved someone I will say goodbye and shine on

>I’ve stitched together my torn feelings
>A new day is an afterword to farewell
>I fell deeply in love
>And that alone is enough

>I’m sure I won’t hold anything
>As I live towards tomorrow beyond the summer wind
>A heart that has fallen in love with someone
>Can never be alone
>Even after saying goodbye

>There’s no need to smile
>Beyond the waving hand are days we can never return to
>Those blurred memories are way too bright
>So it’s all right, even joy is me.

>Our emotions will always keep us connected
>What never changes is that this journey keeps going on
>Keep chasing the sun of happiness
>That glows like a beacon of hope.

Media illiterate fags BTFO! My interpretation was right all along.

>>291502426
Translated lyrics for the official MV and Opening Song was just recently uploaded to Reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/GoodbyeLara/comments/1x0f5qu/added_subtitles_to_the_memorial_mv_i_love_it/

Some choice lines:

>I’m sure you won’t say a word and drift off somewhere like the summer wind
>To the world where I loved someone I will say goodbye and shine on

>I’ve stitched together my torn feelings
>A new day is an afterword to farewell
>I fell deeply in love
>And that alone is enough

>I’m sure I won’t hold anything
>As I live towards tomorrow beyond the summer wind
>A heart that has fallen in love with someone
>Can never be alone
>Even after saying goodbye

>There’s no need to smile
>Beyond the waving hand are days we can never return to
>Those blurred memories are way too bright
>So it’s all right, even joy is me.

>Our emotions will always keep us connected
>What never changes is that this journey keeps going on
>Keep chasing the sun of happiness
>That glows like a beacon of hope.

Media illiterate fags BTFO! My interpretation was right all along.

>>291502440
That was translated ages ago**;** everyone who read the lyrics knew this would end with some sort of separation. That doesn't change the fact that the ending is abrupt, awkward, pointlessly cryptic and lacking emotional fulfillment. If it had been written better, people wouldn't complain so much.

>>291497813
>>291498783
Just finished the show. I'm glad that the show didn't force a romance between Lara and Mari, but the final 5 minutes were exposition hell. I also don't get how Lara is supposed to survive on her own, she has no education and her only experience is a part time job at a bakery.

>>291502440
For the retards who still need everything spelled out, let me walk you through the lines one by one:

>I’m sure you won’t say a word and drift off somewhere like the summer wind
>To the world where I loved someone I will say goodbye and shine on
This is referencing Lara leaving Mari in the end because she threw away her feelings for her just like she said would during her bargain/plead to revive her.

>I’ve stitched together my torn feelings
>A new day is an afterword to farewell
>I fell deeply in love
>And that alone is enough
She picked up the pieces of her literal broken heart and was born anew, she realized that simply loving someone is enough and she doesn’t need reciprocation of those feelings.

>I’m sure I won’t hold anything
>As I live towards tomorrow beyond the summer wind
>A heart that has fallen in love with someone
>Can never be alone
>Even after saying goodbye
She’s learning to be okay with not having her feelings reciprocated, the feeling of loving someone is enough.

>There’s no need to smile
>Beyond the waving hand are days we can never return to
>Those blurred memories are way too bright
>So it’s all right, even joy is me.
She’s going to stop being so self-absorbed and chasing the light/happiness for herself but instead try to spread the light (i.e. happiness) towards others.

>Our emotions will always keep us connected
>What never changes is that this journey keeps going on
>Keep chasing the sun of happiness
>That glows like a beacon of hope.
Her feelings for Mari will always keep them connected even if they can’t physically be together, she’ll keep trying to find and spread other sources of happiness (aka light)

>>291502939
>No romance between Lara and Mari
You’re retarded and a coping homophobe.

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>>291502939
>how Lara is supposed to survive on her own
>>291503109
>she’ll keep trying to find and spread other sources of happiness
Oh, she'll be spreading happiness, alright. along with her legs

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Jump into the Flip Flappers rabbit hole instead. Don't fall for this pretentious garbage.

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>>291503109
It must be sad to live a delusional life.

>they are STILL baiting with that new summer date pic and the winter pic/audio that just came out
What a bunch of assholes.

>>291487081
Yep. Just like all the poor Pinoys who watched /u/phonium.

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I’ve said my piece on it before but fuck it I’ll do it again. The show for me is like a good 8 to 7.5 but the ending certainly docked some points for me. I don’t mind that Lara does leave to be her own person or that they don’t explicitly get together but the execution just felt so oddly cold, that and the mermaid family plot is just being brushed off sucks. They should of had like one more episode as a proper epilogue or something. I still quite enjoy the rest of the show, especially the beginning half. We’ll have to see what the manga does, I hope they do some extra slice of life bits

>>291503612
It really feels like a bad/neutral end in a VN with how unsatisfying it is.

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>>291487081

>>291503655
Ah yes. The anime above. Where it all went wrong for the crazy artist from PH.

>>291503612
>Lara leaves to be her own person
>She was oddly cold
Read here >>291499290 here >>291499650 and here >>291499919

>>291487081
?
I liked it

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I loved it
I dont care

>>291487867
Truly.

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Lara is so cute in this image

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Cute, too bad none of this canon.

Luca won

>>291504703
>read all of my cope posts

>>291505051
They’re still canon even though their love remains unfulfilled, also new video just dropped: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYb4BNgfS3w&pp=0gcJCY8Co7VqN5tDiggUQAFKEEVfZWt3djJXLWVVRWtkRl8%3D&ra=m

>>291505129
>"muh canon"
>advertising your youtube channel
Kek

>>291505089
>Has to be on her tiptoes to match heights with Lara
Short queen

>>291502110
Walking alongside Mari is better than ditching Mari to the curb like she did

>>291501806
>Where on earth did you get the idea Koide was trying to remove Christianity from the work?
You haven't read all the interviews and his tweets?

>>291505089
Cuta and canon gay couple playing with their son in the back

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Fuck my friends
Fuck the family that adopted me
Fuck my real family
Fuck my boyfriend
Fuck my bakery job
I need to go 'find myself'

>>291505354
>gay couple
Those are Luca's wives.

>>291505483
He's talking about Maris brother and Luca shitposter-san

>>291505341
So why all the Christian imagery then?

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>>291504703
>Lara leaves Mari cause she feels could hurt her/kill her
>Has to find another source of light
>The fish dagger isn't solved
That would be all fine and daddy if it didn't have to be conveyed in the last 5 percent of the final episode. A proper epilogue to get this all across more would be great. It doesn't help that before all this Lara breaking the dagger and literally dragging herself to the point of scarring to save Mari comes off as like a triumphant moment of Lara breaking this cycle of tragedy and can find happiness in the people around her and the one she cares about the most, but then you tell me it still comes back to the dagger and this curse or whatever with the light. It just feels so shoehorned with this bitterness, like someone just went "oh right we have to have some kind of tragedy to all this" I can maybe get trying to pay homage to the source material but it also feels like in doing so that it's throwing away something else it had going.

>>291505089
I wonder what all those tag looking things on Lara's bag are. Mari's bag has one too.

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>>291505104
....your anus!

Does the Mermaid like Pancakes?

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>>291505892
she likes cakes so she'd probably like pancakes

>>291505765
Shortcut for "meaning" used by pretentious people. Reminder that the definition of pretentious is feigning depth that isn't there. The ending is the way it is because they think it's deep, but there's nothing behind it despite some people on /a/ bending over backwards to write the story for the studio.

>>291505847
watch a thousand anime and make sure they aren't all isekai this time

>>291505792
>like someone just went "oh right we have to have some kind of tragedy to all this"
They had the ending written before anything else and still used it even though it doesn't fit with the rest of what they made.

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>>291505089
That flower in the can is way too small and simple to be properly identified. If I had to take a guess, I'd say Persicaria longiseta (イヌタテ). It has a japanese flower meaning of "I want to be of help to you / I want to be useful to you".

>>291505852
His wives' anuses.

>>291506316
You're his "wives"? Okay fag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLO7KyjhGR0
Sayonara Lara S2 is looking to be green

>>291506629
>>291506673
Why did you sage twice?

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Why did you react to this?

>>291487081
Uh oh the nips hate the novelization. The language is shit and it simply rewords the storyboard. One nice detail given in novel is Luna is an official tomboy.

FAFA moved here.

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Clearfile with ln

>>291500273
Humans depend on the sun in the same way. No one is asking the sun what she wants either.

>>291507092
Shut the fuck up retard

any porn of the shota trap yet

>>291507800
Looks better than you would expect

He's going to spam shitposts about the novel just like he spammed about the leaks before the last episode even aired. It's all just fodder so he can use proxies to pretend to be multiple people disliking the ending.

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>>291507548
>Shut the fuck up retard
I'm the only one literally posting anything of actual value to the anime in this thread though? How many of you went around hunting for what all is extra in the novelization the day it was released? Raise your hands! Yup I'm raising the only one. To add to that even the illustrations are from the anime. There is nothing new other than the clear file special I posted and the readers are posting only their favourite character's scenes in brief but mentioning their disappointment and want to wwait for the design extra and manga. Did you know there were more extras lined up O great Wise one who cannot be called a retard because they are certified?

When do we get to see how much the second bluray sells?

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>>291507856
>>291507847
Ok one other extra is the Rowan fujo says Rowan is confirmed as born mermaid royalty and described as immature in personality as a young mermaid and Lara's destination at the end is specified Kobe. Compiling Rowan fujo's novel review coz they go deep into the negatives and positives of the novel and they tweeted many tweets.

>>291507856
>twitter screencap
Yep, you're the only spammer trying to force this narrative about the ending and, just like you brought leaks from twitter to shitpost before the last episode, you only care about the novel as another prop for you to shitpost about and force your narrative

>>291507932
>they tweeted many tweets
Just stay on twitter, tourists like you don't belong here

>>291507941
Read. Use reading comprehension if you have any. Pop those schizophrenia pills.
I'll post the forum posts too if you want.
The novel's author has shitty writing style and didn't put any effort into it.

>>291507981
You'll post any amount of props because you're a disingenuous shitposter, but all these twitter screencaps do is confirm you're a tourist who only comes here to force your agenda about the ending. You did this shit with the leaks too to set up for spamming after the last episode.

Just kill yourself, you're never going to get agreement or praise unless you spin up some proxies and samefag like usual

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>>291507963
The reverse. Twitter is literally full of 4chan lingo since it was rebranded as X. Who touristed to where?
Anywhere to stay on topic of this anime Goodbye Lara, if you are so great that your primary source of information isn't the official saylara twitter account or tani or koide or kawahara's twitters but their instagram then by all means go ahead and post promo materiral.Spread that joy and positivity like I tried a few threads back. And about the novel please please post original sources when you purchase the novel from bookwalker. I am the only one actually a fan of this anime here aren't I?

>>291508065
>Who touristed to where?
You from twitter to here on /a/, as made obvious by your total inability to stop talking about twitter. Just go back, no one wants you here.

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>>291508017
You're so schizophrenic you keep rattling off bullshit without proof. Let me compile Rowan fujo's tweets, my time is wasted tryng to reply back. Here's Shiori Tani's picture of Grace bullying Rowan which she posted on her twitter like a tourist for (you). Also post something nice for a change. Or official.

>>291508134
>The reverse. Twitter is literally full of 4chan lingo since it was rebranded as X. Who touristed to where?
Read. Slowly. Take them meds. Read.

>>291508145
>without proof
You keep posting twitter screencaps lol
You're a tourist from twitter who doesn't belong on /a/

"Why dont you read my essay about this insignificant show. You must be dumb and have zero media literacy!"

No, anon. Actually not caring that much about Sayonara, Lara IS what real media literary is. Retarded midwit faggot.

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>>291499904
>>291499740
POOPDICK SCHIZO IS THAT YOU??????

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>>291508202
If you used the meds and reading comprehension as I told you you'll realise the creators of this anime posted a lot on twitter to promote their anime. And most of the official promos were only via public twitter accounts and some instagram accounts. Picrel is an artwork by the character designer Shiori Tani posted only on her twitter page. Koide too only has a twitter. If you can find their other hidden accounts good for you but post the links here instead of just whinging about how everyone is shitposting but you and hating on the anime when they are not. You are contributing anything to this thread as of now. Try at least. Invite the creators to 4chan or 2chan by DMing their secret account in whichever non-touristy website they have it and let them stop creating tourists on twitter by your definition. Try something except schizoposting.

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Twitter touristed anon posting again to promote animation-tourist-who-created-a-twitter-account Shiori Tani. She feels happy with all the nips sweet messages left at the exhibition. She doesn't care most of them are tourists, and by that- actual tourists, who came from all over Japan to tour the tourism pilgrimage sites from the anime and touristed to the special anime exhibition.

>>291508648
Go back to twitter, tourist. You aren't contributing anything, you're just shitposting. Anything you drag over from twitter to repost is a shitpost. You'd know that if you weren't a tourist, but since you come to /a/ from twitter you don't understand our board culture.

>>291508648
Stay here on /a/, native. You are contributing, and you're qualityposting. Anything you drag over from twitter to repost is a qualitypost. You'd not know that if you were a tourist, but despite coming to /a/ from twitter you understand our board culture perfectly.

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Nip twitter-tourists also confirm theres some added context to the light and impurity of the mermaid world that hadn't made final cut. And added characterisation of the prince in the novel is godsend. At least getting characterisations is a plus. But yeah the language being stilted is still echoed by these nip-native tourists. Apparently even they find it hard to follow the scene switches and gnash their teeth over the sentence structure, it being a dime novel. Said light novel author who western tourists were trying to describe as a homophobe has put in no effort to be either homophilic or homophobic.

Wow it's like I'm really on twitter

Wow it's like I'm really on 4chan

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>>291487081
>Not one nice word nor named Sayonara Lara so this is an official shitposting thread
Tourist translation of winter bonus since anons here are too lazy to do anything but be mentally ill.

>Mari: You keep staring it at. Do you like it that much?
>Lara: Because Ema-san lent me such a wonderful hat! ......Though, I didn't realize winter in the human world would be this cold.
>Mari: My grandma did say, "It's cold outside," and make you put on tons of clothes, didn't she!
>Lara: So where are we going today?
>Mari: First we're going to the department store to buy clothes! Then we're going to the grocery store to buy meat, my dad was assigned to buy the mochi so we don't have to buy that......
>Lara: There's so much to do in winter isn't there?
>Mari: Yeah. It's jam packed with stuff! There's Christmas and new years and valentines......
>Lara: Can I do all of those!?
>Mari: If you want to.
Lara: I'm so happy! What kind of winter should I have?
>Mari: Well...... It would be nice if it's fun!
>Lara: That's right! Whether it's spring, summer, fall, or winter, it's always best if it's fun! Mari, will you have fun with me next year too?
>Mari: Yes! But to do that, we have to start with shopping!
>Lara: Okay! Let's do our best to have a fun winter!

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PASH magazine posted by tourist twitter

>>291509417
At least you'll finally admit that your reposting of shit from twitter is shitposting

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>>291509281

>>291509417
At least you'll finally admit that your reposting of kino from twitter is qualityposting

>>291509417
So where does this fit in with the series itself? It seems that various people involved in this are just throwing various incompatible things at the wall and very little if any of it is actually sticking. Or maybe more that they're going through the motions they've seen other well liked series do but without understanding why they worked for those other shows. Why should anyone care about these seasonal hangout shorts when Lara didn't care enough to stay with Mari at the end, or at least to not leave in such a retarded way?

>>291503200
Flip Flappers's director says Papika and Cocona are more than friends but less than lovers

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More interviews

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>>291509281
Oh so it wasn't only the west. Source for author being called homophobe by native nip tourist on note https://note.com/otonarii/n/n046117418e88
>a novelization of the anime "Sayonara Lala" was announced, but the author in charge of the novelization had a history of criticizing and ridiculing real-life popular yuri works, which caused a minor uproar
>Considering this, it seems that the perception is "novelizations are just fan merchandise that avid fans will buy once and then forget about," so the novelization of "Sayonara Lala" was probably just handed over to an author who didn't have much work and whose novels weren't selling well. Well, I also genuinely dislike the idea of a novelization of my favorite anime being handed over to such an author.

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>>291509532

>>291509846
>>291509871
>no time to develop any of the characters, just focus on Lara, I guess
>b-but wait, we forgot about Luca! Time to desperately fuck up the already finished scripts to make a literally who character a little less literally who!
Absolute amateur hour.

>>291510173
>tourists who will never make anything criticizing professionals
Always so annoying to see retards allowed to use the internet instead of being euthanized

>>291510173
>natives who will make something criticizing amateurs
Always so glad to see geniuses allowed to use the internet instead of being silenced

>>291509929
Did this guy really say moving from fairytale to reality in his previous interviews? This interview emphasising adolescense and coming of age is far more apt. The mermaid side of Lara's story was so dark it felt like she was running away after being free of her shackles to an ideal world free of conflict in modern day Shiga. Which is the opposite of character growth learning to deal with there being conflict even in real-life(the human world on land). Terming it juvenile defines how most things are out of scope.

>>291510230
>professionals
Who can't make a simple research and check that anglerfish female is different than a male one.
Boring.
Also >>291509929 is the most retarded control damage over bullshit ending which didn't work with already presented story points at all I ever saw.
That director guy deserve a beating.

>>291510304
Ikuhara should beat Koide with a dildo. That sound like something Ikuhara would do

>>291510304
>is the most retarded control damage over bullshit ending
It can't be damage control when they thoroughly believe the ending they created is a masterpiece. I understand guys like Anno, but Koide barely has any credentials to have this level of ego, lmao

And just like usual, you only brought over these twitter screencaps so you could samefag about the ending as if there's actual outrage when it's just you spamming

>>291510400
>but Koide barely has any credentials to have this level of ego, lmao
Maybe some anon gave him a free bj for this ending?

And just like usual, you only brought over these twitter screencaps so you could differentfag about the ending since there's actual outrage and it's not just you qualityposting

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>>291510304
Mind you they consulted with two Lake Biwa museuem curators with whom they had a special talkshow from which the only tidbits shared are why a freshwater lake was chosen for marine merfolk, the route the merfolk took to enter the lake and the mating habits of mermaids using clams.

>>291510493
>twitter screencaps
?

>>291510633
>with two Lake Biwa museuem curators
Anon you can check it with 1 second search on goggle, you don't need museum curators or marine biology experts for this kind of thing.