So we got a few new anime of note today: sin Nanatsu no Taizai is okay and openly yuri, but is softcore porn and Sword Oratoria has something going on with Lefiya and Aiz. In less yuri news, SukaSuka is an all-around good fantasy show if you don't mind a melancholy tone (but het) and ID-0 is pretty fun, though 3DCG and lacking a strong hook (might turn out yuri?)

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So, did anyone watch Sin Nanatsu no Taizai and is it any good? I've heard tell that it's pretty much Valkyrie Drive: Demon Edition and I could barely make it through the first episode of VD, so I doubt that I'll like this demon thing, but... I mean, IT'S YURI FOR GOD'S SAKE. Soooo, is it worth watching if I detested VD? Honestly, I'd probably buy the game if I had a Vita since I'm more willing to overlook fanservice in a good game than in a good anime, but that's beside the point...

Also, did the Yumikuri stuff happen yet in AOT? I'm seriously considering watching just the Yumikuri episodes of Season 2 and skipping everything else just like I did with the Usotsuki Lily manga (and which I did not do with Kuzu no Honaki, oddly enough)... though if S2 is an improvement over S1, I might be willing to watch the whole thing.

Speaking of Kuzu no Honkai, well, I finally got around to watching it months after it first caught my eye. Finished Episode 9 last night, and I gotta wonder... (spoilers for everything up to Ep 9) when did Hanabi ever look at Ecchan with a lustful gaze or regard sex with her as being any better than sex with Mugi or that random douchebag dude? I mean, she even said she was a virgin even after the events that transpired in Episode 4, so... yeah... I never expected the show to end yuri, far from it, but I thought that Hanabi seriously considering Ecchan as an option would have been pretty neat... gotta say though, I did like how they handled Ecchan and all that. Even though it was very clear that Hanabi was as straight as a... line (?), it was also very clear that she took Ecchan's feelings seriously throughout the whole thing. Ecchan acted like a despicable asshat in Episode 6, that's for sure, but she got some nice closure in 9. It sure is nice to have an anime character who openly acknowledges that they're gay as opposed to "well, i'm usually not gay, BUT I'M GAY FOR YOU, YOU KNOW?" I can only hope that they don't fuck it all up at the end by pairing Ecchan with the cousin... but, I don't know, she seemed to regard him as more of an annoying friend than anything, so I have confidence in them. The whole point of the series is unrequited love, so... LET'S KEEP YOUR LOVE UNREQUITED, SLIGHTLY CREEPY COUSIN, ALRIGHT?

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So, did anyone watch Sin Nanatsu no Taizai and is it any good? I've heard tell that it's pretty much Valkyrie Drive: Demon Edition and I could barely make it through the first episode of VD, so I doubt that I'll like this demon thing, but... I mean, IT'S YURI FOR GOD'S SAKE. Soooo, is it worth watching if I detested VD? Honestly, I'd probably buy the game if I had a Vita since I'm more willing to overlook fanservice in a good game than in a good anime, but that's beside the point...

I suppose it depends on what you disliked about VD. This is more silly and has less sadomasochism but is also way lower on romance

really loving Bahamut S2.

The only show that I rlly enjoy so far this season, tbh. Wonder when Favaro's gonna appear. Would be interesting to see him and Nina interact.

So, did anyone watch Sin Nanatsu no Taizai and is it any good?

I did & managed to make it through the first episode. Lots of gropping & censoring, but nowhere as bad as VD in terms of porno level... yet. I find it more tolerable & interesting so far just cuz the MC here is gutsy & not a boring damsel in distress. Also helps that it doesn't take itself seriously like VD.

Edit: Oh & the yuri seems 2b just service, if you're ok with that.

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Lots of gropping & censoring, but nowhere as bad as VD in terms of porno level

There's an uncensored version out there. Which is about as porny as Valkyrie Drive

I suppose it depends on what you disliked about VD. This is more silly and has less sadomasochism but is also way lower on romance

It's just that the softcore porn scenes were way too much for me. When I first heard of "Soul Eater with lesbians by the creators of Sengoku Basura...? (Senran Kagura, I always confuse the two for some reason)," I was expecting SOME ecchi, but NOT FULL-ON FIVE MINUTE SEX SCENES. I did hear that it got rather serious later on, though I can't imagine that it stays serious for all that long with random sex scenes thrown everywhere. The sadomasochism though... well, I'll stay silent about that.

Lots of gropping & censoring, but nowhere as bad as VD in terms of porno level

There's an uncensored version out there. Which is about as porny as Valkyrie Drive

So, it's just as porny as VD but without actual yuri... hmmm... yeah, I guess I'll be skipping this then. You know what they say though, don't knock it 'til you try it... maybe I'll go ahead and give it a shot sometime. Maybe. Probably not... but maybe.

Lots of gropping & censoring, but nowhere as bad as VD in terms of porno level

There's an uncensored version out there. Which is about as porny as Valkyrie Drive

Aside from ep 1, I watched 3 other VD eps censored, & I still don't find Sin as bad as those. But yah, I can imagine it being way lewder w/o the censor.

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YT randomly suggested me this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YHzQlk01g Wasn't sure where to post it, since it is hilarious and people should see it.

That was so friggin' adorable that I died of diabetes.

So, it's just as porny as VD but without actual yuri...

Depends what you mean by "actual yuri", first episode already has one character announcing her love and loyalty to another complete with nipple sucking and a reach around. That's "actual yuri" in my book.

Watched Pascal-sensei because Pascal looks freaking cute & kinda like Doraemon, but uh... wtf is with this ending?

So, it's just as porny as VD but without actual yuri...

Depends what you mean by "actual yuri", first episode already has one character announcing her love and loyalty to another complete with nipple sucking and a reach around. That's "actual yuri" in my book.

+1
Levi, Mina and Asmo seem very much appreciative of the female body
It's totally fanservice, but you can't deny the homoerotic nature of the fanservice

Attack on Titan has had one YumiKuri scene so far. Don't know about episode 3 yet, gonna watch it now.

Personally, I'm watching the anime and I've read the manga up until the most recent chapter and I think it's worth watching, although I find it sad how some people ruined the hype for others by being overy annoying about the entire series.

Also: YumiKuri is going to have way way more scenes in this season than they had in season 1, promise.

Just watched Sword Oratoria ep1 and it's a yuri crush at best or just admiration between Lefiya and Aiz.

I'm trying to watch angel break but the opening alone is cringe, I don't mind the trap but then they introduce a character cosplaying a sheep who ends all phrases in "baa" ... I don't even know what kind of public they were trying to appeal with this.

I don't mind the trap but then they introduce a character cosplaying a sheep who ends all phrases in "baa" ...

Oh crap why didn't i hear about this earlier? This shit's definitively my alley!

I'm trying to watch angel break but the opening alone is cringe, I don't mind the trap but then they introduce a character cosplaying a sheep who ends all phrases in "baa" ... I don't even know what kind of public they were trying to appeal with this.

Apparently they are trying to appeal to me because I love when characters are insane unless it gets too annoying. It's a pretty vanilla magical girl show, it's nice to have ridiculous side characters.

I will probably drop the show if it takes the brother complex too far.

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I like the occultist girl but that sheep... no no no. I can't even tell if you guys are being sarcastic.
I like my girls crazy too... But like, Papika (flipflap) or Hikari (Amanchu)kind of crazy.

Well, I'm watching many shows this season, even more than what I had planned to watch so I'll just leave it there for you guys and pick Oratoria instead.
Also Boku no hero keeps my hyped! and I already read the manga.

Depends what you mean by "actual yuri", first episode already has one character announcing her love and loyalty to another complete with nipple sucking and a reach around. That's "actual yuri" in my book.

+1
Levi, Mina and Asmo seem very much appreciative of the female body
It's totally fanservice, but you can't deny the homoerotic nature of the fanservice

So, it's just fanservice-y actual yuri? Can't say I was expecting much more from this thing, but, well, who knows, maybe I'll like it if I actually watch it. I'm hardly going to die just 'cause of some overtly sexual things (if i never comment here again, i'm probably dead).

Attack on Titan has had one YumiKuri scene so far. Don't know about episode 3 yet, gonna watch it now.

Personally, I'm watching the anime and I've read the manga up until the most recent chapter and I think it's worth watching, although I find it sad how some people ruined the hype for others by being overy annoying about the entire series.

Also: YumiKuri is going to have way way more scenes in this season than they had in season 1, promise.

This may or may not be an unpopular opinion, but I didn't really like the first season of AOT. Well, I liked it at first, but as it went on... I felt that it became kind of stupid. I don't even remember what my qualms with it were, but I think it was something along the lines of: poorly developed characters, poorly developed characters dying by the handful and the show expecting some emotional response from us (Petra's death comes to mind), and WAY TOO MUCH POINTLESS SCREAMING. I liked some of the characters enough (namely Mikasa and Levi as well as Ymir and Krista solely 'cause of Yumikuri) that I didn't care about them being poorly developed, so it may be worth watching if all these characters get more focus later on.

Also, I just finished Kuzu no Honkai, so here are some of my thoughts on it... I doubt anyone will really care, but, yeah, still, I want to leave my thoughts on it somewhere... I thought that Akane's sudden transformation was waaaaaay too sudden... I felt that she really deserved some comeuppance for all the emotional pain she dealt to Hanabi and others, but, well, no one in this series really did receive a cruel fate or whatnot. I did not like that they spent two entire episodes devoted to Akane in which the main character showed up for less than a minute, but I did like her final resolution to stay away from Mugi. It would have been nicer if it hadn't been crammed into 22 minutes along with the resolution of all the other characters, but I still thought it was a fitting ending for her. As for the other characters... Mugi must've shown up for like 2 minutes in the finale so I don't really know where his story's going now. I didn't really hate him THAT much until after Episode 8 after he completely abandoned Hanabi and realized he had a savior complex, but now I do. He finally got over Akane, but it seems to me that his story ended a bit abruptly... but, in the end, who really cares about him. I do have to give KnH some credit for actually making me like the gothic lolita character. Moca annoyed me from the second I heard her freaking annoying voice, but she had the most well-adjusted ending out of all the scumbags in this show which I thought was fitting. Narumi... I don't even know how to feel about him since his motivations were barely revealed, but it appears that he has an Electra complex? More than a bit creepy, but, well, good thing he's happy, I guess. Definitely looks much sexier withut the glasses.

And now for the main reason I watched this anime in the first place... Ecchan! In the end, she didn't get the girl. I didn't really expect her to either so it didn't really faze me... where it does annoy me is when the writers tease yuri romance for the entire series and don't follow through it, but it was very clear from the start that their relationship was definitely not going to work out. I liked that she actually acknowledged that she was a lesbian as opposed to pretty much every other anime lesbian outside of yuri and even sometimes in yuri and I liked her distinctly non stereotypical characteristics. I think her only stereotypical trait was her distaste of men, but, really, I didn't really see that that much... though she did only interact with 2 men in the entire series, one of which (Mugi) anyone would be pissed at and the other of which is her incestuous cousin. Speaking of him, TV Tropes seems to indicate that the series hints that Ecchan might be considering dating him, but I didn't really see it. That scene at the end of 9 seemed more like confirmation that she would be leaning on him as a friend but certainly not as a romantic interest. Even that campfire scene in 12 was hardly an indication that she was starting to view him in that way and the hair flashback scene makes it clear that she still has lingering feelings for Hanabi even if she decided to give up on her. That hair scene was a nice touch, I thought. While she finally let go of Hanabi by getting rid of the hairstyle which Hanabi always liked, she is definitely still attached to her based on the fact that Hanabi also liked her new hairstyle. So, I have to give the show credit for NOT MAKING THE LESBIAN STRAIGHT IN THE END! WOW, WHAT A FUCKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEA.

So, in the end, I guess the main theme of the show was first love never works out and you shouldn't feel beholden to your first love... except when it does in the case of the teachers... yeah, I really did not like their arc, but I liked the rest of the series enough that their involvement in it hardly detracts from my love of the series. It felt like a more realistic, raw portrayal of romance than most anime would be willing to portray, although I admit that I would hardly know a thing about "realistic romance." I'm not really interested in romance, but if I ever do get involved in one, I sure as hell am not going to allow it to get this insane and disturbed. I guess that's a lesson I learned from KnH... though, yeah, nothing like this is ever going to happen in my life and, well, I'm completely fine with that.

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i can't wait for the existential crisis in Re Creators with the characters. kek. lol

WAY TOO MUCH POINTLESS SCREAMING.

But that's how they're supposed to communicate in that show.

i can't wait for the existential crisis in Re Creators with the characters. kek. lol

You might be waiting for a while. The show doesn't seem to be at all interested in that line of thought

Ah... #17... I missed that sweet voice...
...
...The power scaling in this show is crap!

The first Washio Sumi movie is out and it's really, really pretty. It gives a lot of insight on how the Hero system worked before it went through the changes that led to what we see in the TV series. Also noteworthy is that it had a bath scene that felt more unsettling than fanservicey (because of all the bruises and cuts on the girls' bodies), so good job on that. No yuri here (in my opinion), just friendship. And pain.

Sakura Quest had a great beginning. There's a scene in the second episode where the main characters discuss the wording on an advertisement that's comedy gold.

@ Minutoh

Speaking of him, TV Tropes seems to indicate that the series hints that Ecchan might be considering dating him, but I didn't really see it.

That's a relief. I didn't watch the show, but I checked out the TV Tropes page after it ended and it didn't look good. Glad to know it was probably just one troper's interpretation. Yay for lesbians staying lesbians! I'm often baffled by how thick some people's het shipping goggles can be, even when it comes to canonically gay characters.

Hinako Note: The girl jumping around in her bunny-pajamas was so darn cute!

Sakura Quest was really good this week (too). The chupacabra video was so funny with its amateur editing! :D

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Soooo, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to discuss anime from a loooong time ago in this thread, but I'll try it, I guess... if anyone has any problems with it, I'll stop immediately. Maybe it'll be more fitting in the Cafe thread? If so, I'll move it over there.

Finally got around to watching Strawberry Panic! I always avoided it 'cause I heard it was overly melodramatic, but I've learned something from watching and enjoying Kuzu no Honkai: I freaking love melodrama. Not really seeing any melodrama in the first two episodes, but I suppose it'll show up sooner or later... that or I just confused it with another yuri anime. Anyhow, it's not really blowing me away in the same way that the first two episodes of KnH did, but I suppose that's to be expected considering that this is far less serious and far more cliched. I'm definitely still interested enough to continue watching it. The animation and music isn't really up to par, but... this is from 2006, so it's certainly understandable. That ending song surprised me since it showed (what I presume to be) the actual MV as opposed to animated stuff like all the other anime I've watched. I guess that's just what they did back then?

I'm going off on a tangent here, but I really am super glad that I got to watch Your Name over spring break. After watching that, I decided to start watching some het romance, which is what compelled me to watch KnH. KnH got me to watch Strawberry Panic, and now I'm on a quest to watch all the yuri classics that I never got around to watching. KnM, Kashimashi, Simoun, Mai Hime, probably some others I forgot about, anything but Maria-sama, here I come!

One question though: is it better to watch the anime, read the LNs, or read the manga?