No.889911
Anime starts on January 12th and is actually looking decent despite coming from the shitters at A1. What does /a/ think about this series? Anyone here hyped for the upcoming campfire chapter?
No.889914
It's a fun manga but adaptations are always a gamble. PVs can lie too: for example, the Disgaea anime PV looked a whole lot better than the anime itself did. So go with "cautiously optimistic" and give the first three episodes a watch next month.
No.889916
>>889914
That’s what I’m planning to do. I simply don’t trust A1 with doing a faithful adaption even if the director is solid (same guy who directed Rakugo for Deen). Also the main VA choices are stupid, especially for Kaguya given how popular the manga is that they let a total newbie voice her.
The manga is still fun for me so even if it sucks I won’t be totally dissatisfied unless Kaguya ends soon.
No.890011
I like Kaguya but that's precisely why I'm not going to get excited about something like this. I hope it will be good but I'm not exactly anticipating anything. The art style in the manga is very strong as well so I'm doubtful about how it can translate to anime.
As for manga there has been a shortage of good chapters recently, which is what usually happens when you avoid focusing on the main characters.
No.890032
>>889911
>triple dubs
Holy shit, checked
Even then, i'm hyped for the manga, but i just can't bring myself to be optimistic with the anime. Megalo Box, Tokyo Ghoul :re, Berserk....it has been one disaster after another.
For starters, they made Fujiwara with pink hair instead of blonde It even has more sense, being the daughter of a politician with international ties
No.890042
>>890032
>they made Fujiwara with pink hair instead of blonde
That always throws me off
>character in manga clearly has light/blonde hair
>anime releases
>the hair is bright pink/green/cyan
No.890045
From the trailer, one can deduce that the studio obviously is going to put in some effort into it. Look at those applications of color and unconventional camera angles. If anything, weird camera angles are a sign of greatness just like in Evangelion/Gridman.
No.890062
>>889911
They nailed Kguya`s look, red eyes were a nice touch, really sells her sinister look.
No.890074
>>890032
>>890042
What are you even talking about? Fujiwara always had pink hair.
No.890154
>>890074
Looking at those covers you can see it goes from pure silver to metallic silver-pink over time.
No.890168
>>890074
That's not the same colour.
No.890169
>>890074
>volume 8
I never noticed where Kaguya's hand was before. Makes for a different interpretation on Fujiwara's heart pupils.
No.890181
I just hope they don't go full cutesy vibe, and instead stay with the more analytical and introspective humor.
Except in the shoujo episode, let them go crazy there
No.890263
>>890181
I don’t think the shoujo episode will make it in unless they do a season 2 or 3 since that happens in chapter 74 which is after Iino joins the council and I highly doubt the first cour will go past the fireworks chapters.
No.891669
No.894796
No.894807
>>889911
>That Kaguya 'ara ara'.
No.894813
>>889916
There's nothing wrong with giving newcomers a chance, provided they are competent.
I don't trust adaptations so I won't get my hopes up, but I will give it a shot.
No.894819
>>889916
Nothing wrong with newbies.
No.897055
First episode is airing now.
Pretty good adaption so far, the movie tickets chapter and the fake confession letter are done pretty well.
No.897074
>>897055
I think they should have dialed the over-the-topness down a little bit, 'cause it almost got tiring at times. Yeah, sure, it's accurate to the manga but the anime has a faster pacing so everything feels like it has twice as much intensity.
No.897102
I liked it a lot. It was funny and sweet at the same time. The over the topness was a bit jarring but I quickly got used to it. The only bad thing about it is the OP.
No.897150
It was ok. Manga is better though, but it's been long since I read the early chapters so maybe I remember wrong.
No.897160
>>897074
I like the over-the-topness, it somehow reminds me of Tonegawa from the previous season.
No.897162
The narrator was talking too fast for his tone and enunciation. It worked during the actual "battles", but for example the description of the school felt very rushed and frantic, especially since the school it was describing was better suited to a more stately narration.
>Audio: Fujiwara
<Subs: Chika
>Audio: Kaichou
<Subs: Shirogane
>Audio: Shinomiya and Shirogane
<Subs: Shinomiya and Shirogane
Come on, at least be consistent.
No.897166
>>897162
I thought it worked with the fast cutting and the overall stylish (for lack of a better word) presentation.
I wouldn't expect much out of the subs. In fact, since I like this show so far, I might try doing something I've been meaning to do for a while and start editing CR scripts that are particularly bad and actually releasing them this time.
No.897171
>>897166
It ended up being better in the rest of the episode than my original impression, with only that one time at the beginning that felt off. The rest worked well.
No.897277
>>889916
I liked her in Two Car and Naria Girls. She didn't come off as amateurish at all.
No.897317
The OP is amazing, you just have shit taste.
No.897319
>>897317
It's good conceptually but technically it's not very well made.
No.897411
Her VA is fine, proving that giving newbies a chance isn't bad. She gets a bit too deep sometimes though, which doesn't fit considering her age and looks. The hyperactive narrator was somewhat bearable, which I didn't expect since excessive narration in anime is more annoying than in manga.
No.897485
>>897479
Narrator is indeed a bit of a mixed bag but
>First off, her deep voice was bad
>Kaguya is the single worst female character I've seen in a while. Dirty and rotten to the core
How can a person have such trash taste? This is not humanly possible.
No.897604
>>897496
It takes me around 2 hours and most of my willpower to unfuck the subs on about 25% of the episode, and that's without trying to do any fancy typesetting. I might upload the track somewhere if/when I finish it but I don't know if I can keep doing this for the whole show and if it'd even be worth it.
No.897615
>>897604
How? Correcting the errors should take you 30 minutes.
No.897617
>>897615
They talk fast and my Japanese isn't very good, all right?
No.897618
>>897411
>>897485
Her voice is way too deep for her loli ish looks. I expected it to switch in dere mode like it did in the manga, but it's the same deep voice except more squealish. It's probably a matter of getting used to it, but it doesn't feel like it fits her character fully.
No.897624
>>897617
Also take in consideration the wall text (although that's pretty much covered in the manga already)
No.897625
>>897624
Oh, you're doing the translation of the walls of text? Nice, that's actually very great. I retract my statement.
No.897627
>>897624
12 episodes, 2 hours spent correcting each, totaling 24 hours. You're going to lose one day out of your life doing this.
No.897628
>>897625
Oh no, i was just saying that is somewhat traduced already in the official scans, assuming they did a good work (which i do as i can't learn japanese, sorry )
No.897633
>>897618
>Kaguya-sama
>loli-ish
No.897650
>>897627
It's not a waste if he gets something out of it, and gives to the community of /a/nons to boot.
>>897633
She's clearly not a loli but I will agree that she looks fairly young for her age. If we were told that she was a few years younger it would be pretty easy to believe. For example, look at her in >>890074.
No.898645
Episode 2 previews are out, looks like they'll be adapting the first consultation chapter, the beach vs mountains trip chapter and the Prez gets a smartphone chapter.
Even though I despite Kashiwagi she's looking really cute, hopefully we get some Maki in better quality as well.
No.898690
So it's finally time. Next chapter something has to happen.
No.899323
>Alpha Centauri Bb (α Cen B b) was a proposed exoplanet orbiting the K-type main-sequence star Alpha Centauri B, located 4.37 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Centaurus, now shown not to exist.
Ouch.
No.899354
>that ED
>those Lee-Enfields
No.899357
>>899323
It was an odd choice anyway. α Cen is a southern-sky system; they're too far north to ever see it. If they wanted a naked-eye star with an exoplanet they should have gone with Pollux. Call it Beta Geminorum if you want something more "science-sounding".
No.899370
They're not going to reuse that intro for every episode, are they? Makes me think there isn't much of a budget.
No.899382
>>899354
An OP or ED shouldn't be both that interesting and that unrelated to its show at the same time.
No.899401
>Weak-sauce
How is it possible to be so bad at what you're doing?
Standards be damned.
No.899402
I have no idea how relevant this ED is suppose to be, but I like it.
No.899406
>>899401
That's some peak performance right there.
No.899457
>>899449
>she makes fun of him for not having a girlfriend
>he makes her into his girlfriend
Alpha!
No.899487
>>899449
>that falsetto part
God dammit that was a great detail
No.899511
>>899402
Since Kaguya-sama takes place in alternative world where Japan's zaibatsu-companies were never broken, its possible to assume that Japan still retains their Empire. Therefore the ED symbolizes the harsh military training Kaguya's upper class family requires President to undergo in order to become worthy match for her due to his commoner status.
No.899564
>>899511
Don't zaibatsu still exist, just not on paper?
No.899586
>>899564
Yes and no. Most of the big names like Mitsubishi do still exist and given the incestuous nature of Japanese business, bureaucracy and politics likely have more influence than average. However it is still a far cry from the level they used to be at before the zaibatsu's were officially broken during the US occupation even though they dismantlement was never quite final.
No.899658
>>899402
Pretty sure the ED just foreshadows the fireworks chapter
>Kaguya is trapped presumably by her parents with Hayasaka
>She thinks about the SC members
>She flees thanks to Hayasaka staying behind
>Falls until President grabs her hand
>They joins up with the other two afterwards
No.899666
No.899891
>>899658
Don't take this away from me or I'll hook you into gabber, common actions in uncommon setting is my fetish. Part of the Kaguya-sama's beauty is how its your routine love comedy but the setting its happening is different.
No.901296
Good show. Are the CR subs still awful? The GJM ones were alright and they did actual typesetting.
No.901300
>>901296
....except I just realised that they totally missed the kabe-DOWN joke. So now I don't know what to use.
No.901316
>>901300
You wait for the BDs and sane subs, like all superior stoic anons.
No.901319
>>901300
I missed that joke aswell even though I watched the erai-raws version. "Wall-down" sounds like some weird slang shit, they should've just written it as "kabe-down".
No.901324
>>901316
Anon I don't know if you heard, but fansubs are dead.
No.901329
>>901300
They didn't miss it, they just "adapted" it.
>壁ダァン is a play on 壁ドン
>壁ドン typically gets translated as "wall slam"
>wall "slam" becomes wall "slap", retaining the idea that they both sound similar but kaichou's version is slightly off
Really I can't choose a side here because it's a difficult joke to get across no matter what you do.
No.901367
>>901296
>comes from family of politicians
>likes German-style board games
It's official now, Kaguya-sama takes place in the universe where either WWII did not happen or Axis actually won it. I wonder if Fujiwara's family has photos featuring them with certain landscape artist.
No.901377
>>901367
If an anime doesn't have a clearly fictional setting, and there is nothing to indicate otherwise, then assume that they are living in a better world where the axis won.
No.901382
>>901324
There's still better than CR/Horrible/Commie. Doki is still pretty good, I think.
No.901573
IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW BROS
No.901705
>>901573
>on break next week
Aka is the king of hanging us by the balls
No.901720
>>901573
What I love the most about this manga is how autistic both Shirogane & Kaguya are about their mutual feelings. Most of its boiled down due to their personalities, but perhaps the alternate world they inhabit is more cut-throat in the way as well. Certainly the ruling class life can be quite shit as pre-student council Kaguya proves. At least her sociopathy is cute as well as useful. If she were to end up in NTR-doujin it would be as an employer of the fat old man to rape her rivals instead of victim.
No.901761
Did they overestimate the production costs and decided to put the extra money into the EDs? Because I might be mistaken, but it looked like the best CGI animation I've ever seen in an anime.
No.901763
>>901761
I can't even tell what part of it is CG. Is it just the planes?
Also noticed how horrible GJM's subs are for the song. Most of it is just completely made up, since they padded the lyrics with a lot of shit that isn't actually being said. It's like they were trying to write the lyrics for an English cover and more concerned with timing it to the music than translating what was being said accurately.
No.901764
>>901763
The new episode is already out, watch it.
No.901766
>>901761
Maybe it was rotoscoped?
No.901768
>>901761
That was a big claim and I was dubious, but after having seen it, it might just be.
No.901770
>>901768
>>901769
Can I ask for a webm of the previous ED?
No.901775
>>901768
How did they do it? She looks great.
No.901778
>>901775
Lots of experience with 3D animation, plus a lot of attention to detail. It's ever so slightly unrealistic, so I doubt they used mocap as a base.
No.901779
>>901768
>>901769
The movement looks rotoscoped to me. Either that or motion capture.
No.901784
>>901775
>>901778
>>901779
Maybe they motion captured the animation then rotoscoped the 3DCG? The cloth and hair animation is too smooth to be hand-drawn, but the whole thing looks so seamless that it's hard to tell if it's 2D or 3D.
I'd be fine with the actual show looking kind of cheap if all the EDs are going to be like this.
No.901787
>>901784
I think it's in 3D, the black outlines still kind of resemble the shaders they use to render them. But it's not so easy to tell if they drew over the 3D, can't really find any giveaways.
No.901826
>>901775
It looks 3DCG by people with a lot of time and money to put a ton of work in it. Maybe some techniques from Live2D and similar stuff was used here. If they want to make full episodes with this technique as a basis I'm all for it. Undoubtedly there will be far fewer frames per second in a full episode to keep the cost realistic. No matter how much fags scream, 3DCG will eventually mostly replace hand drawn animation. I hope this brings such a day closer
No.901837
>>901826
Too bad for your hopes, this was rotoscoping not 3D.
No.901946
>>901768
>*dabs*
I hate this world.
But indeed if CGI was always like this I wouldn't mind it.
No.901952
>>901946
She doesn't dab once
No.901954
>>901952
I think he means pic related? It's dab-esque, I guess.
No.901965
>>901954
That's not a dab, that pose existed way before dabbing became popular.
SSR had dabbing in the OP way before anyways.
No.902069
>>901965
It looks like a sentai pose.
No.902084
>>902082
Her face is not stuffed into her bent elbow, the pose is not a dab.
No.902085
No.902086
>>902085
Learning what it is will not make your life any better.
No.902098
>>902084
Did the Hulkamania run too wild on you, brother? No idea why you are (You)ing me.
No.902105
>>902098
Following the reply chain it reads as though you're trying to get that anon to admit it was a dab even though it clearly isn't.
What else was "Come on, anon." supposed to mean in the given context?
No.902125
>>902105
Its not the same as Hulk Hogan's pose either so no idea. I'm the one that anon was replying to.
No.902242
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IT FINALLY FUCKING HAPPENED HOLY SHIT
No.902249
>>902242
Best fucking timeline.
No.902253
>>902251
It's fucking real, dude. The chapter's been released in Korean.
No.902257
No.902260
So does this mean Kaguya won the war, since Shirogane confessed first? Are we now going to get a time-skip of several years to find him getting crushed under her heel as the loser, exactly the way they both expected at the start, and nobody lives happily ever after?
>>902242
>>902257
I'm not going to look through the non-English chapter, but if she doesn't make a "how cute" comment at some point in an ironic reversal of the early chapters, I'll be disappointed.
No.903383
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>ep3 ED
That's some pure solid quality right there; 1142 frames in total.
No.903404
>>903383
Blocked by jewtube so here's an mp4.
No.903408
>>903404
2D anatomy is weird
No.903426
>>903383
>>903404
So they keyframed all of it? No 3D, no rotoscoping?
No.903430
>>901761
>Did they overestimate the production costs
That makes some sense. Most of the story is internal monologue and there's relatively little real action or movement, so they shouldn't have much trouble keeping costs down. If they had a large budget to start off with, they could easily have a surplus to use for multiple, well animated EDs.
No.903436
>>903426
https://twitter.com/naota0048/status/1091261282617942016
>About the dance animation from this episode: a technique called rotoscoping was used. Simply put, it's a technique that involves tracing over pre-recorded live action footage.
No.903443
Why isn't rotoscoping used more? As long as you're operating with a decent budget, wouldn't that make it easier to do very high quality animation even from complicated camera angles and lower the artistic skill requirement?
No.903455
>>903443
Budget is probably the main issue. I think there's also a limited range of applications rotoscoping could be used for. For mundane SoL and more wordsy types of shows you don't need fancy animation in the first place, and for action shows often you're dealing with fantasy elements and stylized animation where trying to emulate real life actors' motions would be either inappropriate or just downright impossible.
No.903459
>>903443
Probably a lack of training in rotoscoping/ a lack of production materials too. It's harder than you'd think to take the life like motion while maintaining the animated character. Of course this varies depending on what you're trying to convey. As for the material side you need a space, props, actors, a live action director, a camera crew, and more depending on how complex the scene is. Typically more trouble than it is worth at this point.
No.903463
By the way, does anyone knows if the legend that says that Jin-Roh was rotoscoped is true? Because it sure is one of the best animation I've seen.
No.903492
>>903404
>Shit we got all this budget all of a sudden what do we do
>Just dump it on the ED
No.903617
>>903404
Man they went all-in at animating the skirt motions, no wonder it's so mesmerizing.
No.903687
>>903404
Take that CGI niggers. 2D forever!
No.903768
>>903492
>>903617
It was a smart move by the studio. Rotoscoping's always had some negative connotations attached to it, since it usually ends up producing strange results. This ED grabbed everyone's attention and has done more to change peoples' opinion of rotoscoping than any number of articles or demos could.
No.903769
>>903768
I don't know how much it changed opinions on rotoscoping because from the reactions I've seen most people these days don't even know what rotoscoping is.
I don't understand why it ever got a stigma in the first place though. It's not like tracing over live action makes it that much easier than animating by hand. You still have to draw a lot of frames and keep animation technique in mind when doing it.
No.903771
>>903769
The reason rotoscoping is a bad word is because of Aku no Hana.
No.903781
Great episode. I guess Chika is now officially the one with the biggest share of the animation.
Any frogs here who can tell us what the furansugo actually was?
No.903788
>>889911
I like how the author introduced two autists trying to one up each other in gerrymandering through a forced love confession, then just drops the whole concept because the girl became his Waifu. I'm completely serious this is actually a pretty good love story overall because of it. My only complaint is that he is trying to make Kaguya look too good with flashbacks even though she's supposed to be an absolute ice queen with a glare fetish.
No.903790
>>903788
>he is trying to make Kaguya look too good with flashbacks even though she's supposed to be an absolute ice queen with a glare fetish
Isn't that more of a case of public perception versus what she's like on the inside? I'm a filthy secondary but I got the impression that Kaguya was supposed to have the ice queen exterior but a mushy warm koisuru otome center all along.
No.903791
>>903790
>>903788
She just got defrosted by by the president.
No.903794
>>903790
It's laid out very clearly in the manga later on the "trial" she holds in her head that Kaguya is composed of two parts: perverted ice queen and brainless flower-on-head otome
No.903807
I've been catching up on the manga from where I left off since the anime started. Like >>903788 said I feel like the manga started with some big elaborate plans between two autists but then just devolved into a romcom later on in the manga. Still a really good read though. I just wish the author kept up with the premise more.
No.903921
>Fourth image
I understood that reference.
No.903925
French ain't so cocky after getting rammed by the power of the rising sun.
No.904037
>>903924
I'm not sure about the special effects for reaction images, the mango makes everything go black and silent giving it more menace.
No.904041
>>903925
Have any frogs written a transcript for what they said, assuming it's French instead of "French"?
No.904042
>>904041
I hope she told that bitch to go back to Kakegurui.
No.904051
>>903443
Because using rotoscoping for anime that are mostly talking heads is a waste and it would be too expensive and time consuming for complicated action sequences. It's best used sparingly for things like Chika's dance.
No.904053
>>904051
I'm all for a future where it's common for anime to have rotoscoped dance sequences.
No.904054
>>904053
I'd rather that than directly-imported MMD sequences, that's for sure.
No.904072
I feel like Hayasaka is much cuter in the manga, than she is in the anime. Maybe it's because there's a bit more of a focus on her in the manga than in the anime.
No.904088
>>904072
Haysaca got more development in the middle-to-later manga chapters so I expect her charm to show up as she continues to wrangle Kaguya.
No.904175
Real question is who is the best girl? I'm leaning towards Hayasaka, poor gal just can't catch a break with her idiot mistress. Kaguya while purest is strictly Shiroganesexual, and Fujiwara is too stupid to breed with.
No.904191
>>904041
I could translate if you posted a webm (I always wait for BDs).
No.904218
>>904199
>First
- Thanks a lot for today's invitation
- It is us who thank you for coming from this far
- We'll do everything in our power so that you can be left with unforgotteable memories of your stay amongst us
- Thank you
(Fujiwara) - Something about the domestic market in Japan (the accent is so thick I can't understand)
>2nd, 3rd and 4th
It's meaningless babble. If it follows the manga, that's expected.
The dialogues are copied verbatim from the manga, basically.
No.904269
>>904199
Worst part of this episode is skipping part of the scene where Shirogane seduces a french woman through pure guesswork.
No.904271
>>904269
They did? That's criminal, that "Bon voyage" is pure gold.
No.904292
>>904175
I feel like Hayaska would be best girl, mainly because she would make the best mom. Kaguya is too clumsy and sheltered and would probably mess up a lot. I feel as though Fujiwara would start going crazy with all the new information provided to her.
>>904218
I think Fujiwara was talking about how Japan doesn't have a good worldwide market, since it's focused more on the domestic market. That's going by what the manga said though.
No.904345
>>904292
To be fair, Kaguya would be the ultimate wife if you happened to be Miyuki as she was reading books on how to get twins after hearing that he wanted to have 9 children. That takes some hardcore devotion. Fujiwara can be surprisingly motherly as well, but like you said she has her crazier side and you can never trust a politician. Iino can be cute and is clearly sexually repressed, but despite her weakness to sweet talk dealing with her could be tiring as fuck. Hayasaka is clearly the best option, since she has delicious weak side starved for affection despite her numerous talents. She's also loaded as fuck personally, so provided you could waifu her no financial troubles.
No.904354
>>904292
>I feel like Hayaska would be best girl, mainly because she would make the best mom. Kaguya is too clumsy and sheltered and would probably mess up a lot
Yes, but then you'd have a prideful girl who constantly wants to one up you who's destined to mess up a lot.
No.904355
>>903921
Did anyone webm the scene with Dio answering the phone?
No.904538
>>904345
I'm already starting to imagine Kaguya being overly aggressive every time Miyuki comes from after work by grinding his crotch with her cute ass and fucking him anytime they have some free moments.
Poor Shirogane is gonna die in his 40s from overexertion.
No.904546
>>904538
Such inpure thoughts. You don't get this at all.
No.904925
>>901768
>>901769
You fuckers can't properly honor your waifu by leaving in black boxes.
proper version coming through
No.904994
God damn it Ishigami what the fuck are you doing.
No.904997
>>904994
As was stated in the beginning. Love is War, just because you confessed doesn't mean the battle is over.
No.905028
>>904994
>>904997
So now we've gone past super autism and have gone straight into MISUNDERSTANDINGS. Haysaca best girl, look at her blushing after she realized what the heart balloons mean.
No.905029
>>904994
Poor Ishigami, going from being accused of rape to being a harem protag.
No.905250
Is that a subliminal message on the second screencap?
No.905260
How did they fail to convey this moment so badly? It was much better in the manga.
No.905275
No.905338
Miko Ino is so uptight about the rules because she is secretly a rugmuncher and is trying to get Fujiwara in her bed.
No.905339
>>904538
Seeing as Kaguya has particular fetish for Miyuki's sleep depraved killer glare and latter is addicted to working it would not be too hard for person of Kaguya's caliber to goad him to daily marathon sex. However rather than Miyuki, it would more likely be Kaguya who would collapse first since she canonically has weak constitution. Not to mention she's so pure that the mere after-effect of being dere'd hard by Miyuki left her weak enough to require hypnotic triggers just to cope without fainting. She would get desensitized over time, but between marathon sex required to give birth to 9 kids and her adorable autism, Kaguya's future will be tough.
>>904546
Kaguya's immense purity has been shown to be conditional by the manga. In her own way Hayasaka is actually the purest among the female cast that actually matters.
>>905338
If she were into yuri, Iino would not fantasize about getting into masochistic relationship with guys or listen to ikemen sweet talk when studying. Besides only girl Fujiwara would be willing to shlick is Kaguya which is not going to happen unless she manages to turn that into a threesome with Miyuki. Even then its debatable whether Kaguya would go along with it instead of just getting rid of her.
No.905342
>>905339
>If she were into yuri, Iino would not fantasize about getting into masochistic relationship with guys or listen to ikemen sweet talk when studying
That's just her being bisexual. She's definitely into Fujiwara.
The problem with that relationship is that Fujiwara is also canonically an M, so they might not be very compatible.
No.905344
>>905339
>hayasaka is actually the purest among the female cast that actually matters
I think Hayasaka is more emotionally underdeveloped than she is pure, seeing how she reacted at the end of the chapter where she tries to get Miyuki to go out with her.
No.905454
>>905434
Came here to say we definitely needed a Chika noises compilation, especially flustered noises.
No.905463
>>905434
This looks and sounds, forgive the terminology, like Gudako.
No.905620
>>905434
>>905454
Hope they don't fuck it up as she gets progressively worse.
No.905927
>>905454
Not just noises. Images, videos, written works. What does Chika smell like? Taste like? Feel like? We need to be able to immerse ourselves in Chika! We must saturate our every sense with the stimuli of Chika!
No.905945
>>905927
Chika is a demon. What we need is a Miko feeding simulator where we feed her various types of food, ranging from pastries, to vegetables, to different types of meat.
No.905954
>>905434
Thank you girl scream anon, definitely thought about you when watching it.
No.906022
>>905954
Glad to be of service.
No.906681
Just re read and caught up on the entire manga. Good stuff. Kind changed pace for the worse there for a little while but picked back up, Ultimately I still feel like a school girl after that.
No.906721
Will we get to see Kei? And did they use rotoscope for the shots of the girls holding flowers?
No.906729
Poor Ishigami. Introduced and killed off in the same episode.
No.906737
>>906729
It's too bad. I was really enjoying him as a character.
No.906746
Well, that's my monthly dose of schadenfreude.
No.906755
>>906721
Didn't look rotoscope at all. If anything it looked like it was flash.
No.906758
>>906721
>>906755
It looked like Live2D.
No.906763
>>906721
It looked like they used tweening to animate them. Same with 3 IQ's face at one point. I don't understand why they would do this.
No.906772
The animation was a little sub par compared to the previous episodes. I hope they haven't already run out of money.
No.906774
>>906772
Maybe we will get a new ED in the next episode.
No.906776
>>906772
They most likely over estimated the budget and went all out but now they got a more accurate estimate, or hopefully they're saving it up for the last episodes.
No.906807
Do people typically answer those psychology questions with answers like the ones given? The narrator mentioned those questions at 99% garbage but it made me wonder what people think of such things.
No.906810
>>906807
Do you honestly believe that this a place where people know how would people typically answer those psychology questions?
No.906816
>>906807
I don't get what you mean. The answers to those questions are pretty typical except for maybe the last one about the flowers. I'm pretty sure psychological questions are meant to be short and uncomplicated to illicit a reflexive answer. Like a black ink test.
Whatever they connect the answer to is most likely garbage though. In the end i don't really know shit though.
No.906822
>>906807
I would be astonished if a significant number of people answer the "someone touches you from behind as you are walking along a dark path" question with something positive, and not the same way Ishigami interpreted it.
The kitten and flower question sound like quackery, but that's down to the interpretation. The dark path one didn't even make sense.
No.906828
>>906822
My first reaction was "a lover", but I hesitated (expecting some sort of trick twist) and decided on "acquaintance". I associated "dark path" with lowered inhibitions and privacy.
No.906829
>>906822
Maybe the dark path thing is affected by Japanese thought process somehow, that makes them more likely to think of a good person. Kitten one might have some kind of logical basis, but the flowers thing seems backwards. The qualities that would make you grab lots of flowers... selfishness, wastefulness, lack of consideration for others. Maybe it would make sense if it was about lust rather than love.
No.906833
>>906829
>The qualities that would make you grab lots of flowers... selfishness, wastefulness, lack of consideration for others. Maybe it would make sense if it was about lust rather than love.
If I saw a field of flowers, my reaction would be to appreciate it as a whole, and I'd reject the idea of picking more than one or two, if even that many, as destructive against the field as a whole. A bouquet or vase of plucked flowers is a different kind of beauty than a field of intact plants anyway.
I would have thought the culture that came up with the practice of hanami would feel the same way, instead of wanting to rip the flowers off the plants and take them home.
No.906844
>>906822
Kitten one might have some merit, note crazy cat ladies tend to be childless and single.
No.906875
>>906846
She asked for it.
No.906877
>>906440
Kashiwagi has been a slut from day 1.
No.906899
Is nobody going to comment on the fact that Shinomiya's ponytail is an ahoge?
>>906877
Haysaca on the other hand is just so pure.
No.907197
Has anybody counted the official tally of the wins and losses each character has so far?
No.907198
>>906810
To some extent yes. Answers I get here are more understandable than some normalfag's answer. I wound up spending a bunch of time reading about psychology tests and only reached a conclusion that psychology is complicated and somehow really important to getting a job in some fields.
No.908368
Christ the crunchyroll translations are fucking awful for this show
No.908370
>>908368
I think they got slightly better since the first episodes, but yeah they are. GJM's subs aren't much better. There's someone on nyaa.si who's editing those who seems to have improved them though.
No.908371
>>908370
I find it impossible to ever tell whether a given .ass file on that site is an actual improvement or a memesub track unless I download it, because there's so much cancer in the comments that they can't be relied on for anything.
No.908376
I gotta say I am fucking shocked that the entire wiener segment had a reference to meatspin in it. I spent half of that segment in a middle school flashback. 10/10 love this show.
No.908438
>>908376
I just watched it again and can't find it. Where's the meatspin reference?
No.908506
Legitimately laughed out loud a lot at this one, and I don't laugh a lot just watching anime by myself. I fucking hate the localization they did for the chinchin part though. Maybe if it was like a one-off gag I'd forgive changing the context just that one time, but when the entire skit relies on wordplay and you end up rewriting the entire scene you really should be ashamed of yourself as a translator. I miss TL notes.
>>908438
They play an instrumental ripoff of You Spin Me Round in the background. Aside from the chinchin connection I don't get why they would do it or if it really even is a meatspin reference but it was very overtly meant to sound like the song so I can't think of any other explanation.
No.908552
>>908506
I mean it has to be a meatspin reference, they are talking about dicks with a ripoff of You Spin Me Round in the background. Unless somehow the nips have a completely different association with that song. If that is the case it is still a funny coincidence.
No.908559
>>908506
>the localization
You know it's going to be awful when English honorifics show up.
No.908705
>>908506
How would you have done it with "chinchin" becoming "wiener"? Chinchin is a way to say "cheers" in some countries. Can you find a good translation for "chinchin" that encompasses the notions spoken by Fujiwara?
No.908711
>>908705
I wouldn't have made chinchin "weiner".
Leave it as chinchin in the subs, put a TN for what it means and for anything else that isn't obvious from context, like the fact that the dog trick is also called chinchin.
You aren't going to be able to translate wordplay from a different language no matter how hard you try, unless you're really incredibly lucky and the same connotations happen to exist in the target language. And if my goal is actually to translate, then I would sooner explain the joke than try to come up with my own joke, because I'm a translator, not a joke writer.
No.908719
>>903788
yea. I kind of hope he stops with that. Characters that aren't necessarily good or bad or more realistic. I really don't like the idea that kaguya is secretly a really really nice girl or vice versa. She's cute and nice to those she cares about. She doesn't need to be so nice as to sacrifice herself for strangers.
No.908910
>>908506
Official subs are just as bad as dubs, always will be.
No.908915
>>908910
Not always. Just this season the ones for WataTen have honorifics and the ones for Mob Psycho even started translating the OP and ED, and that's way above what I expect from official subs. I'd say a solid 70% of them are terrible though, and while we take the good ones for granted the bad ones stand out like a sore thumb. I'd say a similar sort of percentage can be found with fansubs too, but those tend to have nicer typesetting at least.
No.908921
>>908915
>translating mild engrish to engrish
How can I get paid for something like that?
No.908961
>>908915
From what I've seen HS always or at least often starts doing OP subtitles several episodes into the season. Ueno also got it an episode or two ago. Not that it makes their shit tier work any better.
No.909060
>>908711
>because I'm a translator
Please change jobs until you understand the definition of "localization".
No.909066
>>909060
I wouldn't treat localisation as a positive trend. It kills Japanese cultural traits contained in the anime and brings American cultural traits where they do not belong. I am sure that most of anime-watching people are the members of the elite and wouldn't wish to watch their anime changed by inferior minds and contaminated by the inferior culture.
No.909074
>>908961
HS doesn't do subs. All the subs there come from CR or Funi or whoever else licensed the show.
>>909060
I'm well aware what they're doing is localization and not translation. That doesn't make it okay.
No.909081
>>909066
>most of anime-watching people
Are streaming faggots and only watch what their annimay jewtuber of choice tells them to watch.
No.909083
>>909081
I believe that only people with the view count of at least 1000 anime are deserve to be considered anime-watching. The rest are just random dog and pigs.
No.909101
>>909066
In that case, the localization wasn't killing any "cultural trait" since it was done merely to be consistent with an already acceptable translation of "ochinchin" as "wiener" and it was done so that the screen wouldn't be loaded with TNs. I also complained at first, but when I saw the impracticality keeping the translation in line with the original, I decided that respecting that Fujiwara was talking about "how to say "cheers" in Italian" was of negligible cultural significance in this context.
No.909597
>>909595
At least I can see it making more sense than a Diamond Is Not Crash or Saiki Kusuo live action adaptation, but it's still going to be shit.
No.909598
>>909595
Actually, how are they going to find a 3DPD that looks like Kaguya? I can already see the fat womanlet and 30 year old man in horrible wigs they'll get for Fujiwara and kaichou, but I don't even want to imagine who they'd get to play Kaguya.
No.909601
>>909598
The cast has already been revealed for quite a while. Nips don't like it but it's still gonna be a thing.
No.909604
>>909599
>>909601
Could be worse, I guess.
No.909608
>>909604
The whole project is nothing but a cashgrab to keep the hype going and make a "bridge" from the moment the anime will end until the end of the manga (most likely at the end of the year)
No.909633
>>909608
Are 3D adaptations that lucrative or do they just gamble and blame the mangaka if future sales fail to meet projections?
No.909806
>>909633
I think it's probably more a case of making the adaptation on the cheap so even if it isn't very lucrative you still end up with a profit. I'm sure it's also for the sake of advertising and keeping the IP in the public eye.
No.909852
Pretty weak episode. At least there was plenty of memesubbing to enjoy.
>Kei says ううん
>they understood it as うんうん
Don't these people get actual written scripts to work from? How else do they sub those barely audible background lines?
No.909855
The brocon yuri is here, I can't remember if the hospital scene is before or after the fireworks. Haysaca being humiliated in front of a whole team of professionals.
No.909894
>>909852
I actually much preferred this episode to the last one. The sketches were tighter, Ishigami got some development beyond being the butt of the joke, and there was enough of a balance between jokes being played straight and them being flipped on their head to make both funny.
Best of all, Chika still acts as the agent of chaos, and I love her for it.
No.909917
No.909923
>>909855
>>909917
What do you call this sister archetype? The "oniisan kimoi" type? They're made for dicking into submission.
No.910016
The artstyle is a bit different this time especially during the Ishigami tutoring segment.
No.910153
>>910016
They're trying to keep it animated while working with a tighter budget. Blew their loads early on that filthy greedy cow Fujiwara of course.
No.910155
>>910153
Messed up the cropping on that first one.
No.910233
>>909852
>memesubbing
After what Crunchy did to the scene in >>908506 I've resolved to wait for GJM (who incidentally did it correctly).
No.911038
Stop localizing the subs. Thank you.
No.911065
It seems Kaguya's mindbreak is even more thorough than expected. Her multiple personality disorder has started acting up.
No.911183
>>911065
5 bucks she’s going to fucking straddle him until he takes the initiative
No.911287
>>911183
I'm imagining her dramatically revealing that she french kissed the president with an ice cold stare at Fujiwara. End it off with "how cute".
No.911334
Potato Kaguya was too cute. The seiyuu really sold it.
No.911352
>>911329
Kei and Yuu now have a moral obligation to simultaneously bully Chika the next time she cheats.
No.911372
Pudding-brained Kaguya is too much to handle for my poor, blackened heart.
No.911657
Ai desperately needs more scenes.
No.911691
>>911657
Next episode will be their little fight, if they keep full pace with the chapters then the last episode itself will be entirely about the fireworks.
No.912138
Literally how does she function?
No.913175
>>911691
>fireworks
They bled over into this week as well.
No.913181
If you look closely, you can see his despair.
No.913191
>>913181
Friendly fire at its finest.
No.913197
>>913181
Fujiwara just cucked both of them out of a resolution.