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I’ll update this post with the log after the chat.
Episode 1
<Froborr> That is an exceedingly dragony dragon.
<Froborr> Nictating membrane, nice touch.
<Froborr> *sigh* I feel like anime should have a time-to-gainaxing rule like games have time-to-crate.
<Froborr> If so, we’re in trouble…
<Whammy_> -having watched the whole series, yeaaaaaah
<Arrlaari> I think I didn’t recieve a message
<Froborr> Yet you’re willingly watching it again?
<Whammy_> They’re not bad about it.
<Froborr> Paused at end of op.
<Whammy_> -and bored
<Froborr> What’s that Arr?
<Whammy_> -paused at 4:05
<Arrlaari> “If so, we’re in trouble..” appears after “time-to-gainaxing” which doesn’t look like sensible context
<Whammy_> Implication is if we get gainaxing within like the first minute, probably gonna be some trouble in terms of quality
<Froborr> Also paused at 4:05. Arr, any ads yet?
<Whammy_> …-has a Crunchyroll account so no ads
<Arrlaari> Crunchyroll gives premium experience on all first episodes
<Froborr> Oh!
<Arrlaari> So no ads until ep 2
<Froborr> Well then, if everyone’s at 4:05?
<Arrlaari> More or less
<Froborr> Okay…
<Froborr> click
<Froborr> This music sounds too Neverending Story-y to be a coincidence.
<Froborr> Okay, that got a laugh out of me.
<Whammy_> And this is the scene that made me almost drop the series in total
<Whammy_> -just really bored and others I knew said it got better so…
<Froborr> Yeah. That was… not good.
<Froborr> Ew.
<Froborr> Again: Ew.
<Froborr> So.
<Froborr> That was, um, an episode of a show.
<Froborr> Any comments from anyone?
<Whammy_> Nope, made about my big comment
<Froborr> Whammy, does it actually get better as your friends said?
<Whammy_> It’s alright.
<Whammy_> No other jokes involving stripping anyone at least.
<Froborr> That’s something, I guess?
<Whammy_> Something I watch for killing time really
<Froborr> Sylo just commented on my blog, he isn’t going to make it.
<Froborr> Arr, any thoughts, or shall we continue on to episode 2 and see if it’s any more interesting?
<Arrlaari> I’ve seen further ahead, and there’s exactly one repetition of the Kobayashi-as-abusive-drunk played for laughs. It’s given less time of that episode than in this one. There’s one other Bad Joke that I can think of, which unfortunately seems to be more persistent.
<Whammy_> Which joke is that?
<Arrlaari> The only joke Shouta ever gets to be a part of, as far as I can tell
<Whammy_> -tells you how memorable I find these characters I had to look up which one that is XD
<Whammy_> Oh, yeah, the little boy who gets stuck with the gainaxing dragon and every jokes is about her boobs.
<Froborr> Shall we continue..?
<Arrlaari> I’m paused after preroll ads
<Froborr> Okay…
<Whammy_> Sure. The character introduced in this episode I actually somewhat like in the later episodes.
Episode 2
<Arrlaari> post-credit ads
<Froborr> Paused at 2:05.
<Whammy_> -paused at 2:10
<Froborr> Let us know when you’re caught up Arr.
<Whammy_> -now at 2:05
<Arrlaari> Paused after ads
<Froborr> Okay…
<Froborr> Click
<Froborr> Okay, that was actually… kinda cute?
<Froborr> I’ve never really thought about it, but I guess being made to stand outside is the Japanese equivalent of “go to your room”
<Arrlaari> ad
<Arrlaari> (on the subtitle “Am I domesticating her with food?”)
<Whammy_> -paused after that at 11:40
<Froborr> Paused at 11:36.
<Froborr> OK, 11:40
<Froborr> brb
<Froborr> back
<Arrlaari> paused after ad
<Froborr> Okay…
<Froborr> click
<Arrlaari> ad
<Froborr> Paused at 21:32.
<Arrlaari> Ad starts a little bit later than that
<Arrlaari> It might have been placed on the beginning of the ED
<Whammy_> There’s a small scene right before the ED
<Whammy_> Just them playing on the see-saw
<Froborr> Paused at 21:35 then.
<Froborr> Long ad?
<Arrlaari> yeah
<Arrlaari> purple matress
<Froborr> Not skippable?
<Arrlaari> paused after ad, but the first frame after it is the first frame of the ED
<Froborr> Oh. Well then.
<Whammy_> There’s supposed to be a scene at about 21:35 of them on the see-saw
<Froborr> Continuing on I guess? Click if you were paused.
<Arrlaari> yeah, the ad was on the end of that
<Whammy_> Oh
<Whammy_> Well, yeah, then all that’s left is ED
<Froborr> ED isn’t subtitled, weird.
<Froborr> Okay, so… that was significantly better than the first episode.
<Froborr> Still froth, but entertaining froth at least.
<Froborr> Any comments from you guys before I post up the chat?
<Whammy_> Not really.
<Arrlaari> Froth is what you signed up for
<Froborr> This is true. DEFINITELY less challenging than Psycho-Pass.
<Froborr> Challenging? Not sure what the word is.
<Froborr> Draining?
<Whammy_> Yeah, it’s a cute series meant to be cute; not really grappling with anything big.
<Froborr> A little too obviously under the shadow of the dark spectre of moe, but the lesbianism helps counterbalance the manic pixie dream girl aspect?
<Arrlaari> At least not aware of grappling with anything big
<Whammy_> As I said, I take a liking to Kanna episodes a bit more, particularly later on when she starts going to school.
<Froborr> And I really enjoyed how the “two cute girls playing” scene turned into a battle out of a 90s fantasy anime like Slayers or such.
<Whammy_> But I’m also a sucker for cute kids being cute so XD
<Arrlaari> I started watching this show because tumblr clipped the play-fight scene
<Froborr> Yeah, I’d also seen the Tumblr gifs.
<Whammy_> But can definitely say that they keep adding more and more characters that makes me think they kind of ran out of ideas pretty quickly.
<Froborr> Well, you know. Time-to-gainaxing suggests they ran out of ideas shortly before the opening credits of the first episode.
<Whammy_> Then you’ll probably not like anything involving Quetzalcoatl as “she gainaxes” is basically her entire character
<Froborr> Murgh.
<Whammy_> If you wanna cute show that’s a little less reliant on that, I might recommend Interviews With Monster Girls
<Froborr> Hmm. Will see how we feel after we finish this one?
<Whammy_> I guess. Just saying that in terms of liveblogging it’s not gonna get that much better. “Oh, that was cute” was my predominant reaction for most of this series if I had one
<Froborr> *nods* I don’t want to make a decision about possibly switching when so many aren’t here, though.
Hey… sorry I blew it. Mom and I on a trip out west to Tacoma, and we were running around doing errands for a thing today, and it took way longer than I thought. And dad e-mailed me to say he had to leave earlier than he thought he would for a festival in Racine. If you went ahead without us, that’s fine, we’ll catch up during the week, if not, we’ll try again in a week.
No problem. We went ahead and watched. See you next weekend!