The long-awaited anime is finally here.
>>4576339
Why doesn't Mimi just punch Sheena in the tummy and takes her very far away?
>>4576393That's the endgame, trust the plan.
going by the authors past works and how this manga has been establishing hopeful themes, can we expect a postive outcome for sheena and mimi?
>>4576407Bittersweet, take it or leave it.
I like these two way more than the main couple but it's obvious given the tone of the show that either one or both are going to die horribly
>>4576339Is Sheena a bloodfag?
>>4576589Well...
>>4577387Yes but only when it's that time of the month
I'm glad they finally adapted a peak yuri manga instead of gooner trash. But this just rekindles my depression after finishing KimiShinu.
>>4578041
It's too beautiful.
They did not skimp out on that action scene
>>4578601True.
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>>4578624
OmaeGoki should had be good looking like thissad for flum and milkitBut does Frank kiss girl too?
>>4578041Are you from the future?
>>4578624>>4578625>>4578626Was it rape?
>>4578627Isn't Fran a tranny?
>>4578638Don't reply to Mugino.
>>4576589I need an extended version of this scene. For lewd reasons.
I like how in the OP Mimi is shining in the sky like a symbol of hope. Kinda makes me wanna know more about the war.
>>4579282In Esta's dreams maybe. The real Heather would never.
>>4579370Esta could have seduced her with if she had more time. I believe in her
I've been trying to figure out why I don't like this anime and I think it's because of the pairing. In most yuri series you have a cool senpai x cute underclassmen, but in this case both of them are the cute underclassmen. they're too similar theme-wirse. There's nothing for them to play off of. This moeblob x girlfailure isn't doing it for me
>>4579758>they're too similar theme-wirse. There's nothing for them to play off ofHow much of the manga have you read?
>>4579874none
>>4580146Time traveler from last decade?
Episode 2 looked really goodCan this keep this up?!
>>4580664Yes.
Only here smocking will be the last dangerous thing they do
>>4581054Most erotic handholding I've ever seen
Did Mimi run into the guy from Fist of the North Star, and that's why she is already dead?
>>4581406Mimi can solo anyone but maybe Madoka or Jean Grey.
>Episode 3What a twistDid not see this coming
Imagine the post-battle sex.
I think Seiran's death hit harder in the manga (I still cried), I don't think she needed to be told by 2 people to come back alive. Although I do like the added characterization for Fran.Also not sure why they gave Ari a brothel related backstory, even if it was as a maid. Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth, like it entertains the possibility she also had other duties.
>>4591372Don't worry, only Asumi-chan procured her services.
>>4591372 (me)Also, probably the best part of Seiran's death is the aftermath: the funeral, Ari finally crying, Mimi's little outburst, and of course the flashback in chapter 14.5.Really hope they absolutely nail those scenes.
>>4591372>Ari backstoryI didn't remember that so I checked the manga and the whole scene of the teachers talking was not there. Did they make it up or did they adapt it from an extra chapter or something? If they did make it up why the fuck would they come up with that? Yeah, they specified 小間使い but the idea that she grew up in such an environment is revolting and doesn't fit the story at all.
>>4591408>Did they make it up or did they adapt it from an extra chapter or something?It's an anime original scene, like a lot of the scenes between the teachers. Most of those are a nice addition in my opinion, but I definitely wasn't a fan of this one.
>>4591409>wasn't a fan of this oneWho would? Out of all the settings they could come up with they decided to go with a brothel in a yuri manga.Everything was fine and they were doing a great job but fuck them with that shit.
Didn't expect it to hit me this hard again. And damn, it ain't over yet. >>4591409>>4591410Chill. Aesthetically kimishinu night be western fantasy but the cultural baggage is japanese. Think of those brothels that had a staff, underage helpers (Ari was like 12), the actual hookers, a madam and the elusive jester..Kids end up in those shitty places during war but no way Ari was rented. An actual hooker has an entire different set of traumas and behavior.If anything she picked up some mannerisms she later used to hit on Seiran, and that's me being paranoid.
>>4591423>culturalYeah, Japan with its Yoshiwara culture, brainwashing women into believing prostitution is a remarkable job they should be proud of.Regardless, it shouldn't be part of this story and of yuri in general.
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1785890519&p=Good but aive seiyuu interview
>>4591758The cynic in me assumes it's probably all PR stuff (though it can still be honest), but their comments on episode 8, specifically "the visuals and the music", somewhat reassure me those scenes will be handled well.
Oh my god fuck the last episode. Just fuck right off, gah. I'm actually upset, fuck. What the hell is Ari going to do now? I had a lump in my stomach the whole episode, I'd been quietly worrying about what was going to happen all week since last episode. I thought Mimi was going to accidentally kill Seiran, then I saw the fucking youtube promo earlier and my stomach dropped. Watched the episode, saw Mimi pull out the spiky magic, false alarm she stopped. Then Seiran gets called onto the battlefield, but she makes it back okay. Then she gets called out again, and fuck she actually gets mortally wounded... but she got medical attention and she's walking home so she's okay...They were such a cute couple. At least they got one good night together before the end. Seiran was the most outspoken of the four girls, so her absence is going to be felt going forward, I think.>>4579758Also this. It feels less like a romantic pairing and more Sheena doting on her little sister. Mimi doesn't seem lucid enough for romance.
Also, could Mimi have saved her with a healing kiss?
>>4591840No, she was a walking corpse by that point.
>>4591850>No, she was a walking corpse by that point.What about breathing in her particles?
We forgot that Sheena will grow up naturally while Mimi stay forever as kidIt will turn into a age gap visually
>>4591808Anon, when you see two kittens wrestling you think it is wrong? Sheena is saving a nation by grooming Mimi. Give her some credit.
I figured something like this was going to happen but it still hurt. Is there any point in continuing to watch the rest of the season if Seiran was my favorite character?
What's with all these people not reading yuri manga on /u/?
>>4591918Those are for Ari only.
>>4591935They never learned to read.
>>4591808>Also this. It feels less like a romantic pairing and more Sheena doting on her little sister. Mimi doesn't seem lucid enough for romance.I thought the same thing when reading the manga but this ended up being a huge part of Mimi and Sheena's arc. Seiran's death was big catalyst for Mimi to start growing and maturing
>>4591934The aftermath of her death is one of the best written parts of the manga
>>4591934Seiran lives in spirit, it's not just one or two episodes arc.>We still talk about you.png
>>4591934Well, _____No_______
>>4592017>Sorry, Esther, it's not the same
I feel really bad for Ari. How is she going to handle losing half of herself like that?I don't know how I got invested so quickly. At first the anime seemed okayish, I wasn't really feeling the first few episodes, but it really crept up on me. Ari and Seiran were just minor characters at first, but they kept showing up in scenes, always together, always a constant thing, offering help and advice etc. They were two sides of the same coin, had a really strong bond, and now it's just gone. You could tell how worried Ari was over the last two episodes, but she's been bottling it up so much that she didn't even tell Seiran to stay.When's the next episode out? Fuck I don't want to wait.
>>4591808>but she got medical attentionThe /a/ thread speculated that she actually didn't get medical attention, she got up purely on willpower to see Ari again, and by the time she managed to make it to the area where the others were, they were already all out of medicine, and it seemed she never told anyone she was actually badly injured.
>>4592122>/a/ threadStay there.
>>4592122Don't need an /a/ thread to tell you that, it's exactly what happened. Willpower and determination to see her wife again.
I was looking through mangadex a few days ago and found this, caught up, looked up the series and learned it had an anime and I'm in the process of watching it nowI can't wait to have my heart broken again!Looking through the thread it seems like it just got to itAlso Fran and Omi need to make out crazy style
>>4591374>nail those scenesYou cheeky fuck
>>4591408They took this part where Ari and Seiran are talking before the duel in chapter 12 and gave it to the teachers and added the Ari bits.>the idea that she grew up in such an environment is revoltingShe's being trained to be a living weapon. The story is a tragedy, it's meant to be revolting. Everything happening to these kids is awful and the brief fleeting joy they feel as students before they get shipped off to die in war is what this whole thing is about.
>>4592144That page says nothing about Ari.Before of anything, this is a yuri manga and that shit has no place here.It's also extremely retarded to expect fiction to faithfully reproduce reality. In reality little girls are not sent to fight, they are kidnapped, raped and killed, but that must be left out in the same way a slice of life won't show characters taking a dump.
>>4592150>That page says nothing about Ari.Yeah, that's what I said you silly billy, they seem to have added the Ari bits.Adding a very minor bit of backstory to a character that didn't have any seems to have caused you to have a shitfit and you really need to calm down.>Before of anything, this is a yuri manga and that shit has no place here.This isn't a cute little romcom where nothing bad happens, characters are dying. Loved ones are lost with no body to bury.Do you really thing the orphans of this world are living fantastic lives? Both the manga and the anime show Seiran living an awful life already and that was fine, but Ari having a shit one is too far?
>>4592150>tragic backstory has no place in yuriis this your first yuri?
>>4592160A brothel is not a "very minor bit", it's het, something the other elemets you're talking about are not, that's what make it inacceptable in a yuri series and that's the part you and your friend seem to miss.
>>4592164Did you miss the part where she was only a maid in it or are you wilfully ignoring that?You are making up hetshit in your own head and projecting it on the series.
>>4592165Did you read what you're replying to or are you here just to try to start shit?>>4591408
>>4592164Calm your tits, aspie.
>>4592168I am arguing that a horrible backstory does fit the story as the whole thing is a tragedy.You even acknowledge that it just says maid, so what actually is the problem?
>>4592172What about you read what you reply to so we don't have to waste dozens of posts to say what's already been said?>the idea that she grew up in such an environment is revolting>it's het, that's what make it inacceptable"Tragedy" is not an excuse to add het elements in a yuri story. Seiran's backstory was "tragic" without involving any het, if they absolutely wanted to add a "backstory" for Ari, they could've come up with somthing like that, that's what we're saying since the very first post.I hope you'll finally get it and this will end this retarded discussion.
>>4592177It's not het you double retard. She worked as a maid, she wasn't a prostitute.
>>4592150>>4592164>>4592177Stop taking jap cartoons so seriously. You talk about yuri like it's some kinda dogmatic religion. Have some self-awareness for once in your life.
>>4592177I have been asking shat makes it het when there's not even any implied hetshit but you keep dodging that saying "it's het it's het" over and over
>>4592185What*
>>4592181Read what you're replying to, you fucking retard. Nobody said she was a prostitute.>>4592185It's a brothel in a "tragic" story, it isn't Asumi-chan.>>4592184You don't belong here. Fuck off to /a/.
>>4592188>Nobody said she was a prostituteThen why do you keep calling it hetshit that she worked as a maid?>>4592188>It's a brothel in a "tragic" story, it isn't Asumi-chan.Still no explanation as to what actually makes it het even in your opinionCan you at least try here?
>>4592193At this point you're just a troll like the retard above.If you don't see a problem with women prostituting themselves you don't belong here.Unless you're seriously implying it's lesbian prostitution in this war setting.
>>4592194Thank you for finally answering instead of avoiding it again.Of course I have problems with women prostituting themselves, I also have problems with child soldiers but here we are.I just don't see a single reference to a brothel existing completely off screen as making the series het in any way in the same way having boys at the school doesn't make it het.
>>4592196I had already asnwered before, do you even read?Obviously no, because nobody said "the series is het".
https://x.com/kohanyan_03/status/2090269897213477008Ugly cosplayer
>>4592197>I had already asnwered beforeLol, lmao even.
>>4592198I have seen worsehttps://x.com/yuriko___Lily/status/2089876575370272900/photo/2
>>4592197>>4592196>>4592194>>4592188>>4592185>>4592165>>4592164>A few days ago, make the observation that some people here throw around "het" like a slur>This exchange happensFucking hell LMAO
>>4592177Yuri stories are under no obligation not to include stuff that triggers your retarded ass. Stay in your discord if you want a safe space.
>>4592202Yeah that's been a thing here for years anon.
Oh, it's the usual troll that never misses a chance to defend het in yuri series.
>>4592206It's not het you absolute mongHow has it set you off this badly
Good god https://x.com/kirakiradashi_/status/2089160303254868098?s=20
>>4592144Going from eating cats to eating pussy.
>>4592207He's just some faggot looking for attention.
Now that you girls have let off steam. Is Esther a tactless woman who is hitting on a widow?
>>4592293No, but Rika is. She's the one hitting on Esta.
>>4592293I think she knows what Ari is going through and isn't intentionally trying to hit on her>>4592295Which one is Rika again?
>>4592296She's not really hitting on her, but I do think Rika is somewhat romantically interested in Esta. As opposed to Esta and Ari, which I also see as more of a "they got close because of similar circumstances", and not romantic in nature.
At least this episode gave people some shit to discuss. Much better than the previous weeks which were dead as fuck and the thread was an imagedump
>>4592127>Also Fran and Omi need to make out crazy styleThe anime added a lot of scenes for the teachers. Hopefully it inspires some more fanart for them
>>4592307The smoking scene in the anthology really did it for me.I do hope we get more, as you say.
>>4592293Just realized that despite being the older one, Esther is the one who doesn't have any experienceNow I need a doujin of them having sad weepy sex where Ari teaches Esther how to please a woman
>>4592307There's also a chapter in the side stories volume that focuses on them, and it contains a kabedon and some blushing. Definitely feels like they're both into each other, but Omi probably finds it inappropriate.
Ari should make Esther dye her hair black and put it in a ponytail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OANr12jHY1ITADAIMA!
>>4592639>It's the 14.5 episodeI'm not ready
>going to the battlefield instead of fugging your brown gfWhy is seiran like this?
>>4592783Jap mentality of putting responsability over your own happiness.
>>4592639> EVEN MORE feet contentWhich showrunner loves feet, it was quite evident when I was binging itI know this scene is in the mango but the random feet scenes have been odd
>>4592783Takina brain
>>4592917Takina is not that big of a loser as Seiran.
>>4594401Such a downgrade from the scene in the first PV, which I guess we're not going to get in the tv series?
>>4594440Pre animated stuff never makes it into the final product
>>4594452It's dumb not to use something already made with an outstanding quality and waste time and money to remake the same scene but a lot worse.
That was really well done. Looking forward to Mimi's little outburst next episode.A little thing I really liked here (and in the manga as well): Mimi gently placing the flower at the end. It's a nice contrast to Laura's death, when she just threw it in.
>>4594565The best scene of the anime isn't even in the anime.
