^I think I've mostly covered why I'm okay with the ending, something I can add though I hope if we get a season 2 that they have new villains and a different focus from the guns. Like the guns are no longer the problem of our café crew, and Majima or he's just a side character that pops up like Gojo Majima from Yakuza haha. I'd also be fine with the whole of season 2 taking place entirely in Hawaii and them helping people there. Also if season 2 adds some extra context to events from the ending of season 1 that'd be good, and that possibility it's probably part of why I'm not really worried about them wrapping up this season on a fun, light hearted, vacation note.

I definitely didn't think Frye was going to be the top from the trailers but after finally finishing the campaign I'm 100% on board.

Sacrilicious

My favorite shows ever of all time were these obscure, campy action shows like Human Target, Person of Interest, and The Finder. I never got to grow up with The A-Team, but I'm assuming they were emulating the same type of feeling.

I'm excited that season 2, if there is one, may be going in that direction. Episodic adventures where they help out their clients who are in over their heads type of deal.

I think the only problem I had with the ending was the same thing that everyone else had, they tried the whole "talk about x character in vague terms to make the audience think they died but are really just hiding and/or talking about someone else" trope but half-assed it so much it had no impact.

I think the trope itself is perfectly fine but it's execution here is lacking. I also totally expected them to do that and them only half committing to the bit was supposed to be some sort of subversion but it ended up falling flat. It really is an all or nothing thing if you try to go that route.

Like, for example, they didn't leave us with any tension on whether Chisato would still fall after Takina caught her. If it cut away while Chisato was still falling, or had just a couple extra frames of Takina struggling or about to lose grip then maybe it would have sold that trick. As it stood the last scene we see is Chisato caught and the music is even triumphant so the audience is still being told this is a safe moment.

Then, in the scenes at the cafe, everyone seems too happy, too vague, and the scene itself is too short to really understand what we are supposed to worrying about. If it had even a more slightly somber tone then maybe they could have kept the illusion here too.

And lastly there was the suspense over who Takina's target is. I would have absolutely loved if they pulled a double subversion at this point and it turned out Takina's target really was just a random ass goon, then afterwards she just happens to run into Chisato by some other strange "coincidence." Again, in the moment we had no reason to believe it was anyone other than Chisato.

This isn't me saying the ending was bad, however, I just think there were a couple missed opportunities. I got a sense that they did do exactly what they wanted to do, they just didn't have enough time to do all of it sufficiently.

God I love this show, even if it did make me stress for like 3 weeks.

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^Stress for 3 weeks? I think that's at least somewhat lucky haha, I was honestly stressing since day 1 with the first episode, so all 3 months. I had a feeling of ominous tension since the start, and anime has a habit of breaking my heart.

It does my heathen heart good to see such sweet sacrilege.

^ Honestly, same. But then I realized it was bad for my health, decided to wait for all the episodes to come out so I could binge it, failed that and broke almost immediately, and caught up to wait for 3 most stressful episodes. The last ones.

Had like 2 weeks were I successfully fooled myself into thinking I didn't care. I think that counts.

It helped I had Payday 2 to help me cope with my Chisato cosplay loadout.

^That's probably smart honestly, giving your sanity and heart a break for a bit.

Apparently one of the locker decoration items you can get in Splatoon 3 is a yuri manga, dammnit now I'm going to have to buy a million of those whenever they become avaliable.

Kiss

Must not be apple flavored

They glisten

Chillin like a villain

the number of images I mistakenly thought we already had here before only to realize they're newly uploaded has recently been above average. IDK why.

Cute.

Never exercise while thirsty.

Cute.

Lovely.

--> We'll Be Right Back

Very nice. ^_^

Nice.

Amen.

This needs the wholesome tag

Raiden 'Bros before hoes' Ei

i can be your angle or yuor devil