Miyata from Hajime no Ippo is the cool/quiet rival done perfectly. Most of the time they just come off too distant and unlikeable (like Sasuke).

Banger

Watching Kaguya-sama: Love is War - The First Kiss That Never Ends

Demon Slayer is hard wtf are u talking about

Next spotlight I’m going to be covering god-tier animator Yoh Yoshinari

and born the same day the first web-gen animator Ryo-Timo

This was in tandem with Gundam: The Origin iirc

I’m just looking forward to the anime about a wine distillery

Link?

My thoughts:

First of all I’m not sure if this is Kaguya-sama’s ending? I hope there’s more to it because it leaves a few questions unanswered. But I wouldn’t be too mad because it has a lot of closure for the characters.

I liked that they went the emotional and dramatic route and wished they doubled down on it more instead of coating it with comedy, but it was still amusing.

I definitely related to Shirogane much more, despite not being as competitive as him it’s relatable to think you’re not good enough for someone and like you can’t show vulnerability. I didn’t like Kaguya’s pissy behavior but I realized this was intentional and I see her point about Shirogane basically acting the same and overly working hard to impress her.

It makes me feel a different way about “ultra romantic”’s ending. I’m still happy he was able to kiss her but it should’ve been obvious they have a long way to go and it contrasting with the very real intimate moment they have in this special blows my mind. That being said if I was Shirogane I would’ve tapped out after her being mean like that. But context is important. Either way great character development for both of them, with Kaguya it took a while to see where they’re going but ultimately she matured in her own way. Finally she seems confident for real.

This special still leaves a few unanswered questions. Most interesting one is will Kaguya join Shirogane abroad, she needs to stand up to her father for that, so I’m interested to see that happen. I was pretty invested in the Ishigami arc last season so I guess the question is who will he end up with. I’ll confess I ship him with Maki. I at least hope these two develop a little even if they won’t end up dating, but enemies to lovers is peak so… and in a last note I want something good to happen to Hayasaka it seems like the last season was interested in developing her too.

This reminded me of the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya a little, I think if it was more movie-like like Haruhi, and doubled down on the romance and emotion it could’ve been even better, but even as a 4-episode mini season this was very enjoyable and ties the plot so far together.

9/10

damn you're on zeta already

top 2 gundam

The old crew is coming back together

It’s not even close to over

Manga readers say this is like the half way point and I hear the next season is going to expand more on the Ishigami stuff shown at the end

Skip and Loafer is pretty hard,,

Prospera is such a DEMON bro

So happy i got 2
Did you guys get 1? Think I posted the link back then.
@orangejuice2 @proper @Scooter @Tranquility forgot who else liked this show

im waitin for a kessoku band concert tour shirt

i can fix her

Need

Seeing snake on thorfinn’s level is crazy

naw that dress up darling eva will prolly be the only anime shirt i ever buy/own

i don’t even wear that s*** tbh lol just love the graphic

im this close to coppin a logo tee off redbubble or some s*** but their quality is garbage

me riding for Bocchi will forever be overlooked itt