#1.6.24

[daily-erin]

This Erin is from 1.6.24!

[ryanguzmansource]

🎥 • ryanaguzman: posted to stories (1.6.24)

[pathtaker]

silly doodle if pathtaker lamb ever met the waterlogged duo

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This episode was, quite a lot, I think. In a way that'll be self-evident to anyone watching. I enjoyed it, I think? Although like, hmm.

The big thing is that Mahiru's gonna take on the sundolls gig, Kano is obviously upset, and there is a very dramatic argument wherein Kano says some shit she obviously doesn't mean, but Mahiru takes it to heart anyway because she's barely got any self-confidence as is, you know how it goes.

I will say Rie Takahashi's performance here is near-instantaneously legendary, I've seen quite a lot of her roles and I don't think I've ever heard her channel this much raw anger. It was fucking incredible. Kano's sounded pretty great the whole show anyway but that scene alone shoots her up to best performance of the year potentially.

But the scene - and by extension the episode up to this point - felt odd for me, because it's entirely contingent on having framed Yukine Hayakawa as something of a genius manipulator. Like she always knows exactly what the right thing to say is to get people to bend to her whims, to the point where Mahiru agreed to do the sundolls gig without even realising it - they literally skip past her saying "yes" directly to suggest that's how strongly she was coerced. And I think they just didn't go hard enough with this, really. She basically just gives fairly simple compliments to people and apparently that works. Mahiru's got mixed feelings anyway, I don't think it's unreasonable that she could be tempted over to this, but it's such a tame and unshowy execution of this plot idea that the incredibly dramatic fallout it results in feels a little mismatched. Doubly so because Mahiru's pretty insistent on talking to Kano about it first and then just doesn't - she was manipulated that hard. They should've just gone harder is my tl;dr.

I'm happy enough with the fallout itself though, and I am excited to see how it resolves - certainly this is the most hooked Jellyfish has had me for a while now. We shall see what happens.

And before I forget to mention it, they showed Kano punching the other sundolls girl, and it was based as hell. Epic!

[ryanguzmansource]

🚒📸 • appleofhisai: posted to stories (1.6.24)

[joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

it's probably unlikely but I wonder if Shadow Generations will have Super Shadow playable at all

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there was a very emotional moment in this episode wherein a brutally cathartic and painful letter is read and we briefly see it and crunchyroll used comic sans for the font and it just completely took me out of it

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I should try get June 23rd off for Sonic day