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Yanami Anna is basically a wine aunt in the body of a 15 year old girl

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John Makeine

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One thing that really should bear mentioning is the fact that Hibike! Euphonium is as much KyoAni's story as it is Takeda Ayano's.

Kyoto Animation is headquartered in Uji. It's a story about their city; about kids that could have just as easily been them. Even if you say that maybe the staff aren't from Uji, them working there, being headquartered there, living in its environs allowed them to take ownership of their version of the story in a way that not many creators get a chance to. Add to that all the foundational work that's been done in the previous seasons, as well as them rising back from the incident and the years since.

While I don't doubt that Kyoani is gonna make more great works.

It'll be a while before they produce something as special as Season 3.

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Got to thinking lately about how absolutely dark YuYuYu's setting is.

Madoka Magica gets a lot of the discourse on how some of the early 2010s magical girl anime explore darker themes. While this is absolutely warranted for Madoka, there's something equally if not more horrifying about how YuYuYu is set in a society whose leadership has become so complacent and so protective of the status quo that they've willingly fashioned generations of young girls into child soldiers and have twisted the act of doing this into some bizarre militaristic act of nobility and sacrifice.

I should rewatch the series one of these days.

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Absolute sweetheart

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cat

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One thing I really like about SHY is just how genuinely wholesome and hopeful the tone of the series is. It just fills me with the fuzzies like a nice wholesome Saturday morning cartoon does.

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Whoever made the casting choice to have Hayamin voice Nanakura Rin better have gotten a big fat bonus.

Kitahama is basically every single Hayami Saori fan right now.

I am truly blessed to have been born in this era.

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I feel like Kirika was made in the wrong era, in the early 2000s she would have been the face of emo weeb girls. They'd all be making their pfps her without knowing who she is like it's so sad she couldn't be appreciated to her full potential smh

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Durandal was stolen. The year is 2024. We are well on our way to the Symphogear worldline.

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Team Oumae translated some of the side stories from the new Hibike book and I just wanna show this excerpt:

Remember that by this point in the novels Kumiko and Shuu are dating again. For it to straight up go "oh yeah Kumiko loves Reina as much as she loves Shuu" is .

Bi poly queen????? Hello????????

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Hibike! Euphonium is not a romantic drama.

It's a character drama with romantic elements.

There's a difference and this should inform you on how you're supposed to read relationships between characters.

Also, stop turning into fucking 10-year-olds when romance is involved. Eupho is so richly filled with complex characters and emotions that complaining about a pin without even trying to engage with it beyond it being some "they are/they are not together" signal is doing the series a fucking disservice.

Do. Better. Eupho deserves it.

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Hazuki

HAZUKI

SHE WORKED SO HARD. I'M SO PROUD OF HER!

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Jukki Hanada's tweet from after the finale aired is so funny

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For people who can't seem to understand.

Just. because. they. don't. kiss. doesn't. make. it. automatically. bait.

Like Christ alive, do people perpetually have the romantic sense of a middle schooler?

Having three very gay series this past season and having at least *two* of those series have people doing the whole with 'bait' discourse is incredibly frustrating.

KumiRei are so fucking devoted to each other that they literally ugly cried over each other and yet people will still decry it for being bait.

The same goes for Mahiru and Kano. Both of them have found or regained the love for their craft through each other and have both come out of it being better people. Not to mention that Mahiru made good on her promise to make Shibuya a massive aquarium full of jellyfish in a grand display.

These are literally fucking plotlines that wouldn't be out of place in a fucking romance movie.