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MFrontier
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The time jumps have bene kind of abrupt and it's really surreal that they're doing a new season of just adapting stuff they skipped over...but it's still fun seeing the gang again and to see the production is on the level of the first season.
I'm glad they were able to adapt Sports Day and now that's easily insertable into the first season. Man, the watch order for this show is going to be so weird. |
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TheSleepyMonkey
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Goes to show how awful Aniplex is at making proper production decisions. Take a popular series, greenlit an adaptation that skips huge chunks of material just to get some money off it, and then realize how much people care about it just to greenlit something else which makes for a very confusing watch due to the stories being adapted having such big jumps in the chronological order.
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smurky turkey
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Ew, so far it does not feel all that fragmented yet, they have managed to transition from one episode to the next pretty well. It would have been better if they had not gone this route, but at least most of the source material will get made into anime.
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Terraziel
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This is definitely one for people who have read the manga, and as one of said people I am enjoying it, even if mostly this just makes me wish they had done it properly the first time round.
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UpToFourPlayers
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Also this is going to potentially make bank because after selling Blu-Rays of Season 1, now they can sell Blu-Rays for Missing Pieces, and then a few months later, put out a combined & recut Complete series collection with everything actually in order.
It's too bad that streaming in order will be difficult since you'll have to pause and jump between seasons, but it's still nice to see these chapters animated in the end. |
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flamemasterelan
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Yeah, fortunately for my anime group, we only do one episode a day, so it's not much more of a hassle than just setting up. It'd be nice if CR added a "Season" which was just the two series combined in chronological order. But CR doesn't really like to do things in a way that's more user friendly, so...fat shot there. The best we can hope for is a Horimiya director's cut that does it for us. |
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Foranoda
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the problem is that both the original season and this one have big chapter-jumps in each episode, making it pretty much impossible to combine the episodes on their own as a chronological season without *actually* recutting the existing episodes. There's a guy on reddit who's putting a document together to show which chapter is used for which episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/Horimiya/comments/14o0rl4/everything_horimiya_document |
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MFrontier
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If there's one thing you can count on, it's Miyamura being treated as part of the Hori family (to the point where his own family is basically irrelevant), Hori treating her father with no respect, Hori being jealous of Miyamura with other guys, and the Sengoku's being bullied by the Hori's.
Glad we got another kiss though. |
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njprogfan
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What I enjoy about this episode and much of the series is the friendship/relationship between the guys. The language spoken between them flows naturally and is believable. I crack up every time there's any kind of misinterpreting, especially their feelings at that moment or if it's about a particular female character. If I was back in high school, I'd probably like this even more, but alas, it's been decades. This anime is a breath of refreshing cool air. Love it.
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MFrontier
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Honestly it's kind of surreal that this went from a romcom to a SoL show about the guys' antics. At this point it feels like the latter is 60-70% of the show and the guys get more screentime than the girls.
Not that I don't enjoy it, just kind of funny to think about and how the romance aspect is kind of secondary now. |
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Saeryen
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The teacher episode was a lot less cringe than I thought it would be. The creepy teacher jokes were a bit uncomfy but I loved the bit with the keys and the moments with the students together.
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flamemasterelan
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I think this is mostly noticeable because most of the major romance plotlines (Hori/Miyamura, Kono/Toru, Toru/Yuki, and Remi/Sengoku) were adapted in season 1. One of the things I really liked about the series was how the main couple got together very early on and the show shifted into a SoL series from the viewpoint of a committed couple. It was very unique, especially when we started touching on all the other characters' love lives. |
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MFrontier
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It's funny how Hori went from the exuberant popular girl who hides her maternal and domestic side to the quirky and irrational girl who is jealous of her boyfriends' closeness with other boys and wants to be the victim of domestic violence...I blame her parents.
All the same, she's a very weird and high-maintenance girlfriend, but she cherishes Miyamura and doesn't know what she'd do without him, and he still loves her to bits. |
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The Anime Binge-Watcher
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My Horimiya episode be so fine. Then boom! Romanticization of female-on-male abuse.
I swear, this season is actively trying to taint my good memories of season 1 at points. |
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MFrontier
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I want more Kyosuke and Yuriko flashbacks.
Hori going haughty evil captain complete with the ojou-sama laugh after "killing" Sota was hilarious. I guess making up for all the Hori family moments we haven't gotten much of this season. Poor Miyamura. |
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