I'm hoping after that the other members of the harem will get to kiss Katarina after this episode.

Also, in Kanojo mo kanojo once again has Saki calling Nagisa hot.

Lol. Now Magia Record adapts prologue of the game. In first episode of second season. Well it was technically changed, but it showed the most important part from prologue, that you were supposed to know watching entire season 1, so... gj? Also episode was mostly filler if you watched OG series, so I started skipping half-way through. I gave second season chance half, because it was so long since season 1, so I kinda got over my shock how bad this adaptation is and half from morbid curiosity to see how badly they'll fuck up rest of the story and what kind of changes they'll do in general. Hell, maybe it'll actually not be that bad! First episode didn't give great impression and almost made me feel like not bothering after all, but then I did really miss that story, so maybe I'll try and stuck with it...

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Stuff Nevri said

I feel like you've decided you hate the series and are working backwards from there? The episode was really good. Great cinematography! Solid animation! Good character writing! It's everything good about the series and little of what's bad

Hylarn posted:

The episode was really good. Great cinematography! Solid animation! Good character writing! It's everything good about the series and little of what's bad

No. I actually played the game and know how the story is supposed to go. Yes, episode would be good if not for the fact it's stuff we mostly saw in OG series, that doesn't really bring much to the story anime is telling about and that takes entire 1 episode from 13 episode run of series that already was rushed as hell in season 1 and they clearly have not enough time to tell rest of the story.

I feel like you've decided you hate the series and are working backwards from there?

Decided? I was defending season 1 for 12 weeks as it was airing, when most people were complaining about it. I played the devil's advocate, saying it's actually good. But when final episode aired, I was forced to admit, that adaptation is trash and it neither lived up to source material, nor managed to create something different that stands on its own. I made a entire wall of text explaining all my reasons for it, which clearly nobody read. I was so pissed at how they butcher my favorite arc of entire game and the reason I fallen in love with the story in the first place, I decided to not even watch season 2, so the fact I even given it a chance already show that I still have some soft spot for this story.

Aquatope progresses from matching keychains to uncensored handholding.

Bakarina: focus on the girls more this ep and Sophia telling a story where her and Catarina get married.

Aquatope: the girls getting closer and Kukuru asking Fuuka’s mother to let her stay (of course people have already interpreted the scene to be “I’ll take care of your daughter in marriage” and while it isn’t that, seeing posts like that brings me a smile and who knows. Maybe it will become that retroactively).

World Witches ep 2 (Dub): Waltrud Krupinski is still her prevy, lesbian self. Nice to see her again.

Kageki Shoujo: The guy Sarasa was texting was her boyfriend (rip yuri…? I wouldn’t call it yuri bait though since the series itself never really implied yuri. Again, look at Magical’s video to get an idea of the yuri to expect in this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7qO2tnOzI&t=861s). This does make Ai jealous though:

“I won’t let that frog [symbol of Sarasa’s boyfriend] outdo me. I wanna give Watanabe-san something she’ll love even more than those roses. After all, she’s the first friend I ever made.”

Hmm, wanting to have her love a gift from you more than her boyfriend’s. Interesting… though you could easily attribute it to her not having any friends before.

Dragon Maid: We got a kiss…in dragon form…while they were trying to kill each other (still counts).

Jahy-sama: Druj is Jahy’s loyal and loving masochist servant. So, there’s that.

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Idaten: ep 5 had a quick yuri moment.

Idaten: ep 5 had a quick yuri moment.

Way to rapey though.

Idaten: ep 5 had a quick yuri moment.

Way to rapey though.

True, just thought I would mention it since it was something like how I mentioned Redo of Healer having a lesbian (though I never brought up the moments with Flare and Setsuna or Blade's actual episode).

Would definitely prefer proper yuri service. Speaking of which, Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun
(Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory) did have a yuri fanservice moment (caused by a potion or something so its not like we would get actual yuri fanservice like Valkyrie Drive).

Blue Ray Reflection: Jealous Ruka and a "I'm your partner, aren't I?!" moment. This show keeps delivering.

Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure had an ep focusing on Asuka and Yuriko (the student council President). Not much yuri tension between them and we still don't have the backstory of what happened between them, but it is interesting to see the usually stoic Yuriko become energetic when competing with Asuka. Maybe they'll have a good yuri showing when the backstory ep happens.

Bakarina: Anne got more focus this episode so that's appreciated. Also, Mary and Maria got to participate in the world of desire this time (even if it was a different desire than the Book from last season)

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More moments in Aquatope. It makes me expect yuri more and more.

Megami ryou no Ryoubo-kun had some yuri via an elixir affecting a girls university. There is also Serene who formed "contracts" with the dorm girls by kissing them. The girls also seem to like Kiriya.

Autumn is already one month away, so all anime have pretty much been announced.

Yuuki Yuna S3 - S1/2 where already gay as hell

Yakunara Mug Cup Mo S1 - Heavy subtext but focus is on pottery

Hanyo no Yashahime S2 - morning show, S1 was rather boring but if you want an all-girl shounen, I suppose you keep up.

Mieruko-chan - All-girl horror SoL show

Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo - Looks like an all-girl post-Apocalypse show? Orginal show, so who knows.

Selection Project - the government-mandated idol show every season needs.

Puraore! Pride of Orange - All-girl Ice hockey team.

Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo - Looks like an all-girl post-Apocalypse show? Orginal show, so who knows.

This one has a male lead, the promotional material just kinda pushes him to the side

Yuuki Yuna S3 - S1/2 where already gay as hell

Yep, will be nice to get more of it (the shorts were nice too, I loved how they had Tougou have a yandere aura when Yuna was being close with Itsuki)

Mieruko-chan - All-girl horror SoL show

I remember hearing this one would have some yuri later on (whether as subtext or something a bit more, I don't remember).

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Bakarina: two members of the harem have kiss Katarina now. Both are the boy side but hopefully this means everyone in the harem will get a kiss.

Bakarina: two members of the harem have kiss Katarina now. Both are the boy side but hopefully this means everyone in the harem will get a kiss.

I get the feeling that this show doesn't take the girls' feelings so seriously. Maybe that's why I dropped S2.

Bakarina: two members of the harem have kiss Katarina now. Both are the boy side but hopefully this means everyone in the harem will get a kiss.

I get the feeling that this show doesn't take the girls' feelings so seriously. Maybe that's why I dropped S2.

I disagree since it does acknowledge each girl as a member of the harem and shows their desires for Katarina. Season 2 even had a scene of Mary and Allan talking about their feelings for Katarina. So, I do believe it is serious with the girls' feelings. Whether it goes in a direction that ends up favouring the boys over the girls is another question (which so far I don't agree with either but I do hope the next kiss Katarina gets comes from one of the girls to alleviate any worries).

Bakarina: two members of the harem have kiss Katarina now. Both are the boy side but hopefully this means everyone in the harem will get a kiss.

I get the feeling that this show doesn't take the girls' feelings so seriously. Maybe that's why I dropped S2.

Ditto. The blithely post-het feel of S1 was enough to offset the many shortcomings of the series for me but now, unless there's a twist, it's quite plain that the girls are second tier.

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We finally find out what caused the events of Higurashi Gou Rika and Satako are the most useless of lesbians

And Aquatope first half is over, it was really good and heartwarming... And here's the trailer for part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu8Y4F_4WE
Lots of annoying characters in the near future I think and Fuuka is nowhere to be seen, but you know who tagged along instead? yeah.

So if you want to abandon the ship now it's a good time haha, I feel like they already baited enough, I'm gonna have to spoil myself the ending later of course but that's way better than getting played like a damn fiddle!

And Aquatope first half is over, it was really good and heartwarming... And here's the trailer for part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu8Y4F_4WE
Lots of annoying characters in the near future I think and Fuuka is nowhere to be seen, but you know who tagged along instead? yeah.

So if you want to abandon the ship now it's a good time haha, I feel like they already baited enough, I'm gonna have to spoil myself the ending later of course but that's way better than getting played like a damn fiddle!

Hey now, i'm no one to judge so harshly based on a so short trailer and without watching any episode. And for god sake, it was never sell as a yuri or even subtext. I will be honest, you can easily argue they're just friends as much as they're something more than that.
But anyway, i don't think Fuuka taking so much place in the first season will be scrapped over like that. I mean, of course she is not here, she was just helping till end of summer break. Obviously by the end of it, she returned with her mom but i'm sure she will be here.

Ah but if you watch the first trailers you would believe in high subtext and that the series is about those two girls, now I understand the reasons why they're apart right now and they will most likely find each others again after Kukuru gets some character development. But there's this guy who's practically living for Kukuru, he has no personality whatsoever he's just nice and says yes whenever she needs helps no matter what, Kukuru only sees him as a friend, and if she's going to Tokyo to live her dream, he now decides that he wants to study the same thing and work in the same place, so basically he won't leave her alone until she love him back.

So I think they will play the "look at all the things he did for you!" card because they made him flawless... He's just waiting there

hmm, on one hand the studio has done anime with romance in them without having to pretend is something else, like Nagi-Asu and Iroduko (one about the sea and the other features sea life imaginery funny enough)

on the other, they also did another "working girls" slice of life before, Hanasaku Iroha, and that one got heavy on the romance later on...

meh, regarless o wheref Aquatope ends on the subtext scale, i don't think the crush the dude has on Kukuro will go beyond a confession that gets turned down.

Getsuyoubi no Tawawa 2 ep 1 had two little moments and more of the regular in Jahy-sama.

Hey! look what I found, an animated yuri series made in Korea, called Geu Yeoreum
In a small Korean town, two 18-year-old girls, Suyi and Yi-gyeong, fall in love, dreaming of moving to Seoul together after graduation.
Here's the trailer https://youtu.be/0D8UK0z42ig and a clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcRJWsj9GQ

But I have no way no watch the episodes! no fansub or stream service that works for me...