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NEWS: 'How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?' Anime Unveils More Cast, Song Info, July 3 Debut

HYPER-FOCUS: There's a guy in this show.

HYPER-FOCUS: There's a guy in this show.

ChrissyC wrote:

HYPER-FOCUS: There's a guy in this show.

And? You say that like it's a bad thing.

Silver Man Gym is presenting the project.

Aren't there other exercises much better for burning calories?

The running joke is how the male trainer goes incredible hulk mode in an instant bursting his clothes more times than you have fingers in your body, to show an specific muscle group; but one of the girls does it only once WITHOUT showing any mass or muscle at all, only the clothes burst and that scene might be even beyond the one cour scope of this adaption.

My bet is that we might see more abs than in the manga (since they have become fashionable as of late thanks to AoT), but once again we will see girls pumping more weight than their slim body mass would allow.

It's not exclusively about the girls. There's a dichotomy between the men and there girls where they have the girls enjoying learning about working out while it's clearly a competition for the men (although to be clear it's with each other; the girls are always portrayed as amateurs by comparison). Eventually they start forcing the girls into competitions too. It starts off pretty tame with a lot of explanations about dieting and working out then descends into madness.

It's about girls in varying stages of lifting with buff dudes as a backdrop rather than some sort of competition. The only real battle is between Hibiki and her waistline.

Psycho 101 wrote:

If there's anyone who's read the manga maybe you can answer this question. Does the series go more of the "tournament" route with the girls trying to win some sort of contest, or is it more just slice of life/club activity in nature?

Just slice of life at the gym. There are a couple of small competition type things as quick jokes.

VImistXI wrote:

So am i gonna be in for some sweaty fanservice squats or is this more wholesome with normal camera angles and reasonable amounts of sweat?

Kinda both. The manga gives you a detailed explanation of each work out before ending the demonstration with some message about working hard or something similar with the girl in a fanservice shot.

ChrissyC wrote:

HYPER-FOCUS: There's a guy in this show.

And? You say that like it's a bad thing.

I'm am curious if the premise of this show will be seen as problematic by the body positivity crowd.

Vaisaga wrote:

ChrissyC wrote: HYPER-FOCUS: There's a guy in this show. And? You say that like it's a bad thing.

You're watching too much crappy harem.

I'm am curious if the premise of this show will be seen as problematic by the body positivity crowd.

Your question will already get the answer above: Many people in the CGDCT fandom are panicked by male characters because they sincerely believe that girls become lesbians only if there are no men near them. So the presence of boys causes them to fear for their shiping.

Perhaps CGDCT will yet turn me into a proper self-hating misandrist.

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Silver Man Gym is presenting the project.

I guess we can expect some amount of product placement in this, then?

SilverTalon01 wrote:

Aren't there other exercises much better for burning calories?

There is. Reducing number of sets of the fabled "fork-to-mouth exercise" is by far the best for weight loss.

Vaisaga wrote:

I'm am curious if the premise of this show will be seen as problematic by the body positivity crowd.

If the last two seasons are any indications, accusations of the show being “problematic” will make it the most popular show of the summer.