No.839229
AOTS has arrived, no need to look any further.
No.839238
Now they only need to up their butt game this season. Their legs were also very thin.
But we have a lot of time to fix that
No.839296
>Meant to watch the previous seasons before this one but forgot
>"Oh, only three minutes? It'll be easy."
>second season is two cour of 15 minute episodes
Guess I'm not watching all of this season as it airs.
No.839373
Nice to have this show back. Hopefully they can pull some yurucamp fans given the timing of this season. Full length episode season 4 someday?
No.839398
>>839373
I would've been fine with the same setup as S2, it's a shame they cut this season to single cour. I guess they want to end with Fuji-san.
No.839493
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Won't the magic end with a third season?
No.839565
>>839296
I understand you pain, anon.
No.840229
Looks like it will follow the series tradition of being too lewd for the western world.
No.841307
Time to get that funding, better buy some hiking shoes, stupid ota fellow climbing enthusiasts.
No.841309
>>839493
The magic ends where the money begins.
No.841356
Can i watch this without seeing the first seasons ?
No.841512
>>841356
The first season is just a bunch of 3 minute shorts, nothing important in it. The second season is the same as this season, but more of it, two cours of 13 minutes. Might as well watch that first. Once in a while they reference earlier events.
No.841514
>>841512
Unless I'm forgetting about a lot of recaps in S2, I'd say S1 sets up the following seasons and is worth a watch anyways. But this is still cute and comfy enough without any context, so whatever.
No.843743
It felt weird without Hinata.
No.843788
>Tenkaku-san
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8867568,139.2490682,3a,60y,99.62h,83.07t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNmJFIjRZqmYEmW_yYQby3P7m-bC-Hfl-ZhUS26!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNmJFIjRZqmYEmW_yYQby3P7m-bC-Hfl-ZhUS26%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya188.81029-ro-0-fo100!7i8000!8i4000
<that view
Are you trying to trick me, Japan?
>Nenogongen Tenryu-Ji
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9071133,139.189295,3a,90y,317.22h,119.9t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMUxsiRHkhUOq1WbSKmStYJKaDjLgQbkbe6rC_i!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMUxsiRHkhUOq1WbSKmStYJKaDjLgQbkbe6rC_i%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya191.07013-ro0-fo100!7i5376!8i2688
>Higashi-Agano Eki
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.893114,139.2598929,2a,75y,167.91h,79.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUFuImR80G39h0Vj5dt12Gg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
No.843969
>>843960
Whoever draws this poor man's Yuru Camp is terrible a drawing smiles.
No.844006
>>843969
>Yuru Camp
Never has a series attracted such a cancerous fucking audience.
No.844010
>>844006
Maybe so, but I'm not one of them and it was certainly better than this.
No.844017
>>844010
>"but I'm not one of them"
>goes into a comfy SoL's thread only to shit on it and proclaims how much better Yuru Camp is for no particular reason in the same sentence
That's some wishful thinking. I think most people would agree that Yuru Camp is somewhat better than YnS, but most people would also agree that you are a huge faggot and should fuck off.
No.844025
>>844017
Chill. Yuru Camp is extremely relevant to the topic of discussion and it's obvious comparisons will be drawn between the two. I actually like Yama no Susume because I'm a sucker for anything about camping and I've been watching since season 1. However, there is no denying that this is significantly worse than Yuru Camp and that the smiles the artist drew are too toothy to be cute. They're unsettling because there's not a slight overbite. It's like they're gritting their teeth.
No.844041
>>844025
There I fixed one.
No.844042
Yuru Camp shouldn't be used as a standard of comparison to begin with. Sure, it was quality camping... but while you can max out sitting around being comfy as much as you like, I think an inherently better premise is cute girl fails at climbing Fuji-san but will keep trying until she can. The animation doesn't have to be perfect for it to be enjoyable.
No.844046
>>843969
>>844010
>Faggot shitting on mountain lolis
(You)
No.844048
It feels like drawing comparisons is becoming a thing for...flame wars/trolling? Or is it just uninformed opinions?
How long until Kemono Friends gets called a poor man's Winnie the Pooh, or Non Non Biyori as rural Azumanga Daioh?
No.844049
>>843969
I like the smiles, they're more lively/mischievous grins. I sometimes get really tired of ^_^
No.844051
>>844010
>Watched it.
>Says he isn't a part of its audience.
>Expects his opinions not to be retarded.
You're probably a complete fucking newfag as well, you come off like the fag in the Slow Start threads calling Kamuri a rip off of Kana from Maiddragon.
>>844025
You have shit taste on shows so it's no one you have absolutely shit taste on art as well. Yama no Susume has a wonderful art style, the characters faces are rich and expressive. Yuru Camp is one of the ugliest anime out there.
No.844060
>>844041
You're doing god's work, friend.
>>844042
Better premise, worse execution. Yuru Camp is more rewatchable than Encouragement of Climb because it nails that comfy factor better. And do you really need a strong premise for comfy SoL show in the first place?
>>844046
I'm not, just those uncanny smiles. I love mountain lolis more than I should. That's why poorly drawn smiles triggers my autism.
>>844048
That wasn't my intention. Regardless, I will continue to draw comparisons because it's extremely useful when reviewing and discussing anime.
>>844049
Well, lucky you, but they were drawn objectively poorly in those pics. I know the artist (and probably even the screencapper) regrets this.
>>844051
I guess there was a miscommunication. By "not being a part of the audience" I mean that I'm not part of the vocal fanbase. I didn't even know Yuru Camp had a fanbase problem til this thread. I just liked the comfy show.
It's weird how it's comfy to fight about cute girls on the internet.
No.844064
>>844060
>Encouragement of Climb
Big fucking surprise, you're a Crunchynigger, kill yourself streamer fag.
No.844067
>>844060
>Better premise, worse execution.
>And do you really need a strong premise for comfy SoL show in the first place?
Fair enough, it's just that I get an extra bit of moe enjoyment when the girl is crappy at something, but tries and tries to reach her goal with the help of her friends. And I might as well compare this with another recent show, Comic Girls, where Kaosu was super cute but her level of failure was a bit too much by the end of the series. It's more comfy when you know the goal isn't that far out of reach.
>>844064
I still think it's a funny translation, though.
No.844070
>>844051
>Yuru Camp is one of the ugliest anime out there.
Now you've gone over the line.
No.844186
>>844051
As much as I like Yama no Susume, that is bullshit.
And this season is yet to deliver on wonderful art too. And butts. It lacks butts.
No.844654
The best JC climber has arrived!
No.845727
Pretty bad episode, quite QUALITY as well.
No.845730
>>845727
So, like episode 2?
Such a shame though this series clearly has the worst quality of all the iterations.
Why do people come to the conclusion that production values don't matter for a SoL like this, when that's usually a deciding factor for success, and what made Yama no Susume stand out as a shorts.
No.845734
>>845730
It's not CGDCT when the girls aren't cute, ugly girls can't be cute, and poorly animated girls are ugly.
No.845761
>>845727
I thought it was alright. No mountains, but at least they weren't shopping for shoes for half the episode, and there was some smug Hinata and nekomimi Hinata. Hopefully these were the budget- and time-saving episodes and they'll put some effort into the mountain climbing.
No.845784
>Karaoke episode
Its nice to acknowledge non-mountain girl friends. It was a fun pure SoL episode. Its still incredible that they learn songs and sing them in karaoke. I can't think of a single song I know all the words of thats not the national anthem.
No.845874
>>845784
Yuri might be the second cutest girl in this series, after Kokona.
No.847526
>>841307
Going to various stores and buying shit has been a part of the series from the beginning, the author writes long autistic rants about various equipment in the manga, and writes slightly smaller bits of trivia and reviews of various places visited. It's literally called "Promotion of the mountains", you can't act outraged when the series contains advertisement. Furthermore, it's a good thing that the author puts in effort to educate the audience on the necessities of mountain climbing, far preferable to the Yuru Camp author, whose Yuru spics go on to pollute, injure themselves, annoy others, and even cause forest fires.
No.847682
>>847526
>It's literally called "Promotion of the mountains"
Wait, すすめ can mean encouragement or recommendation, so isn't it more like "Mountain's Encouragement," like in a figurative sense of being inspired? Seems like taking the title as promoting mountain climbing itself is too literal. No doubt you're right about the Yuru spics, though.
No.847692
>There was an explanation about how film and instant (polaroid) cameras work
>This is not common knowledge anymore
This hurts in a place I didn't know could be hurt. Kokona is so perfect its unfair shes not MC. This whole episode makes living in this world hurt.
No.847786
No.847819
I was chuckling to myself about Initial D references but I never thought they would make an actual Initial D reference.
No.847820
>This looks delicious
Sure.
No.848130
Really nice episode, more than makes up for the last one. I'd never heard of that castle before, seems like a weird place. I don't know exactly why, but the ED really reminds me of Kino no Tabis.
No.849056
The production value drop from S2 to S3 is really noticeable, and after this episode, it's been kind of hard to ignore it. The backgrounds for this episode looking like poorly filtered photographs was jarring, and made the episode hard to enjoy.
I'll probably watch to completion because I love Aoi, but we'll see. I still have hope that they can turn this around.
No.849121
>>847682
>すすめ
I just realised I've been reading it as Yama no Musume all these years and thought the English translation made no sense.
No.849127
>>849121
>Yama no musume
Sounds like a mobage about anthropomorphized mountains.
No.849311
>>849127
Flat Earth Theory: The Anime?
No.849363
>>849127
>Everest-chan and Keiichi-chan
>fucking huge girls with tibetan clothing and ride a yak to school
>They always wake up buried in oxygen tanks for some reason, all the big girls do
>Ayers-chan is a perfectly flat Australian Loli, bantz like crazy and is always rambling about fucking abbos
>Fuji-san is the mountain council president, very dignified and polite, very photogenic despite her being flustered about it; her being plastered in photos everywhere doesn't help
>Mitchell and Elbert-chan, foreign exchange students, one is a poorfag and the other is some gaudy rich bitch because tourists love visiting Aspen, her family's resort
>uncle Rushmore cares for them, and despite being wacky, he is a good fella, and looks overly familiar for some reason
No.849671
>trying to squeeze in some fanservice
>can't draw it properly
What's the point then, waiting for some drawfag to do the work for them?
No.849783
Goddammit, just add some creamer, Aoi!
No.851396
This has got to be the strangest cliffhanger I've ever seen.
No.851415
>399Y (plus tax)
I thought only burgers and wholesalers did this shit.
No.851594
Today we learned that taxes prevent lolis from buying cake for their mothers.
No.851628
>>851594
That's a surefire way to raise a very angry Andrew Jackson from his grave.
No.853072
This episode and the next are set for the
GUNMA
arc, that leaves 4 for a total of 13. Unless they do a massive timeskip, Fuji is probably not going to be happening in this season, which however means they might already have another season scheduled.
No.853101
>>853072
>another season scheduled.
I would be completely onboard for this. Its nice that eurobeat oniichan which r/a/dio DJ is he? showed up again.
No.855266
I think they forgot to put this picture through a filter
No.855498
>>849127
>>849311
>>849363
>this will never be a thing
No.855508
I don't get pigtails' malfunction at this point.
No.855509
The creature stares into your soul.
What action do you take?
No.855511
>>847822
I want to lick those armpits!
No.855512
>>855511
Would be a waste to lick them at that point and not when the the girls just came back from trip. Just imagine the stuffy warmness, the aroma.
No.855623
>>855508
She's slowly starting to realize Aoi can have fun without her.
No.855625
>>855623
She got to hog an actual Angel to herself, so she better not complain.
No.855666
>>855623
Will the BD show us Honoka's breasts?
No.858480
I hope they can wrap that misunderstanding up by next episode.
I'm getting tired of it
No.858502
>>858480
It's really overstaying its welcome. It would've been okay for 2 episodes, at most 3, but now it's gonna be what, 5, assuming it resolves next ep? Worst case they might drag it to 13, I sure hope they know better than to do that, I want to see that S4.
No.858535
The whole misunderstanding thing is particularly bad because we know (especially with the opening and ending) that they are going to make up and be best friends forever again. Despite this they expect us to like watching worst girl mope about for several episodes. It's hogging all the screen time from the other girls, too. The rude genki cunt is Aoi's worst friend. I would rather see her drop miss "I go into your room and break your stuff without even feeling sorry" and climb with the others.
No.858536
D-did she kill herself in the tub?
No.858643
>>858536
Yes, the rest of the season is about dealing with the death of a close friend.
No.858653
>>858535
>The rude genki cunt is Aoi's worst friend
Shes not a rude cunt, she just acts like an older sibling to Aoi. She is tied for worst girl though with Aoi and Kaede.
No.858737
>>858653
Good friends, or siblings, don't go into your room and fuck up the things you're working on out of pure egoism. She is consistently loud, obnoxious and selfish. Even her supposed helping of Aoi is out of her desire to convince herself that she is better than Aoi. Her hair is ugly, too. Too short for twintails. She actually looks better with her hair down, in addition to being almost unrecognisable.
There are much better girls to bring along on the climbing trips than her. Or boys, for that matter. Now I want to see tomboy's big brother join them on a trip.
No.860120
ANGEL ON THE MOUNTAIN
Seems like this Hinata Aoi arc is climbing to its climax. Hina's knee will probably swell overnight and she will play tough girl until she cannot move anymore near the peak of the next mountain. She will likely get into another shouting match with the girls who are supposed to carry her shit back down the mountain instead of leaving her to die. Really just leave her to die or write her out of the story until she gets over herself. If this season tanks its Hinas fault and it will be too late for Kokona to save us.
No.861315
>>860120
>If this season tanks its Hinas fault
It's the fault of whoever decided to have the entire fucking season about Hina's chronic butthurt. The season finale will be
>Hina finally gets over herself! Wow!
No.862078
Hina stopped being a fag in less than dramatic fashion thankfully. The mountain climbing was the only and most important victim of this bullshit. Putting any kind of conflict in this story was a mistake.
No.862180
>Kneepain
>Let's jump with a full backpack
At least the drama is over.
No.862726
>>862078
Too bad the entire episode was focused on her. The relatively low drama would have been nice, if it wasn't for the lack of the others telling her to stop being a bitch.
No.863785
It ended on a happy little note. Not as good as the previous seasons, mostly because of the drama.
No.863787
Let's hope next season is Fuji.
No.864070
I didn't even know that there was a 13th episode, but it was just about the cunt that ruined the season. The others barely got any screentime aside from Aoi, and all she did was think about her "friend". What a disappointing finale.
So, what were the secrets?
No.864594
Could've been 2nd AOTS if it wasn't for that shitty Hinata arc dragging it all down. At least it had ED of the season, though that's again arguable with Houkago Di(e)struction.
Hope there's gonna be a fourth season, this one might not sell so well, and they didn't really end on a specific announcement.
>>864070
>what were the secrets?
Hinata goes climbing nopan
Aoi goes everywhere nopan
No.865100
>>863785
The last bit of this season was so bad it kinda soured the entire thing for me.
No.865549