Fun fact: There's a yuri pairing for Artoria that involves Mordred being the kid in the family. It works because in this pairing the Artoria didn't stop from aging and actually looks her age this time (it's the lancer version of Artoria).
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Is that Florence Nightingale? Why?

Science demands records of Friends' mating behaviour

I legitimately laughed

any good animes on?

So far Sakura Quest and Kado have been pretty decent, and there's some sequels of note

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Winter season retrospective, now that it's actually over:

Gundam: Very... literary? High on moral ambiguity and character focus, low on plot twists. Ends up yuri, but that's not the reason to watch it

Kemono Friends: Terrible animation, good character designs, phenomenal plotting. Most compelling thing I've watched in... not quite 6 years. Yuri-wise, Beaver x Prairie dog is not quite canon, and Kaban x Serval, Fennec x Raccoon, and Lion x Moose are all pretty popular

Maid Dragon: Bit of a rough starts, but ends up being quite good after a few episodes. And I feel like the anime staff understands it better than Cool does

Urara Meirochou: Great visuals. Otherwise a fairly average CGDCT series that's a bit gayer than usual

Youjo Senki: Very good at what it does, but what it does changes most episodes. No real yuri, but it's possible to ship Viktoriya and Tanya if you really want to (some fanart exists)

Little Witch Academia: Sorta like an anti- KemoFre? Good animation but shit-tier plotting, and I ultimately ended up not caring enough to keep watching it. On the shipping front, the show seems to be setting up a het romance

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I liked this one way more than I expected to. Hope it continues to get translated

The (other) park mascot is a marill?

So, I guess I enjoyed that, but I feel like I didn't quite understand it

So, Gundam. Kudelia and Atra got married (they both love Mika, but he dies and it's clear they like each other too). Also, holy hell that last fight was badass

I can't believe their actually doing it https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-04-01/bkub-okawa-surreal-4-panel-manga-pop-team-epic-gets-anime-in-october/.114232

Be interesting to see how it works out, since the average storyline is four panels long. Even for shorts, that's going to be difficult

I'm hoping that for the second season they give some clue why the humans haven't back to Japari for at least a generation after the incident with the colossal cerulean (judging by the park's state of repair), despite Mirai saying they would.

I'd assume that the second season of Kemono Friends is going to include Friends, so I'd expect that the outside world is having Sandstar problems of it's own

I thought Kaban being a Friend was pretty obvious. The other possibilities as to where she's from stopped making sense around the time she didn't recognize what a bus was. But, yeah, there's still some questions as to how Friends relate to what they were born from, and I suspect that that'll be part of next season's focus

So, is it over? This feels like an ending

It's kind of interesting how the manga and anime use a lot of the same characters but give them completely different personalities

If anyone is wondering, the manga seems to be written as a sequel to the game, and the anime appears to be in a continuity of it's own

Nope, the anime is also a sequel to the game and this manga.

Unless the final episode includes some explanation for ceruleans being very, very different between the game and anime and you somehow know this despite it having yet to air, I don't think that's a reasonable position to take. The anime has something loosely based on the game as it's backstory, but there's some major differences

It's kind of interesting how the manga and anime use a lot of the same characters but give them completely different personalities

If anyone is wondering, the manga seems to be written as a sequel to the game, and the anime appears to be in a continuity of it's own

https://twitter.com/ehiko13/status/845450017246609408

Sigh. Called it. So much for FeMC.

Given how far off it is, I wouldn't take any promotional material as entirely factual, be it the poster or the PV. ...Though it's most likely that SHAFT was told to use the male PC by the production committee

kemono friends exist solely for the h doujin markets..

Are you trolling or do you just live in a world of your own?

Looks like there's going to be an anime

Suguri's ending was remarkably romantic. Especially since they'd known each other for like 5 minutes

They're from 100% Orange Juice, aren't they?

100% Orange Juice is a crossover between the developer's games. Hime and Suguri are originally from Suguri

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That was a proposal right?

Shouldn't this be spoiler tagged, too? Just saying.

I guess it's a spoiler for episode 5. What's the statute of limitations on spoilers around here?

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That was a proposal right?

Sorta? It seemed more like a suggestion that they could start a romantic relationship than anything

So, next season:

Attack on Titan: You know how Christa x Ymir was big when the first season was airing? This season is going to include the reason why

Frame Arms Girl: Probably going to be terrible, but with an all-female cast I wouldn't be surprised if there was some subtext

Hinako Note: Pretty certain that this'll at least have subtext, going by some of the promotional materials (and as a CGDCT show, that's expected, anyway). Issue here is that I honestly have no idea whether or not this is going to be shorts

ID-0: This seems to be at least partially about the relationship between two girls, with no (human) men in sight... Yuri-friendly staff, including one of the best directors in the industry. Could be very good!

DanMachi Sword Oratoria: Lefiya has a crush on Aiz. This is portrayed fairly positively. Also, what I read of the manga was pretty decent

Sakura Quest: Maybe? The main cast is composed of girls, and the writer is certainly familiar with homosexuality

sin Nanatsu no Taizai: Fanservice series that doesn't appear to have a male lead, so I'd expect some yuri, if only for titillation

The season has a wide variety of interesting shows, but these are the ones with clear yuri potential

Zounose at their best. Heavy canon-accuracy, interesting concepts, and reasonably dark

Okay, I definitely prefer the anime's art; all the shades of grey here make things hard to make out, and the characters aren't always quite on-model. Writing is a bit of a wash; the anime skipped some parts I'd have preferred they keep, but other bits are streamlined and the joke delivery is generally better

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I can't tell whether or not this is supposed to be a comedy

That was pretty decent. Very clearly written between ep 5 and 6, not just from the cast, but the twist at the end. And it's looking increasingly unlikely that Kaban was ever a normal girl

A spin-off series about the Friends in the real world would be terrific, but unlikely to ever happen.

The manga is set in something like the modern day, and the anime is apparently going to get a sequel set in the outer world...