Finished my first rewatch today and its still just as good. Boss was a bigger character than i remember

Finished my first rewatch today and its still just as good. Boss was a bigger character than i remember.
Also i found it interesting that kabans plan in the finale was the only one of hers that didnt go according to plan

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It was probably best for the narrative that it didn't go to plan I suppose. If they had just killed Big Dog easily it wouldn't have been half as satisfying. It wouldn't have felt anymore important than the occasional defeating of them or evasion we saw in the show from time to time.

oh for sure. it was the most intense part of the show and was fitting for a finale

I'm surprised that there's a very low cerulean body count in this show. There's three total, two in the first episode and then BigDog. Anything else the girls run away from. This was probably the best decision they could have made concerning the Ceruleans, as they gain a slight aura of actually being a threat even though their designs are so goofy. After all, if people not only met wild bears daily, but could kill them with ease, then even they would stop being threatening.

This is actually something that bugs me about a lot of anime with regular combat. The enemies are meant to be threatening on some level, but they're used and tossed away so often that it doesn't even register. The monsters have to do something completely outrageous and crazy to even stand out, and even then it's not guaranteed. BigDog is a silly looking monster, but the way it was treated by the staff will make it stand out in my mind way more than, say, the witches in Madoka that aren't named Charlotte.

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I still get goosebumps when I watch that entire scene. The way Kaban decided to put her life in danger and ultimately sacrifice herself for her friend without hesitation was beautiful.

The fact that the enemy is considered way too strong to normally face is actually really quite great and does a good job illustrating that the Friends are not really in control of things here. It also brings in about a feeling of their whole world not being as secure and happy as they normally treat it day-to-day. However as long as there's no Ceruleans, given that they have food simply supplied to them it's happy times.

This strikes me as trying to emulate how wildlife actually lives - besides the apex predator, they have to always be on the lookout for things that could kill them, and wildlife doesn't really know or understand what its predators are as entities, just that they exist and that they need to be run away from or dealt with if possible.

Another thing I actually really like is that Ceruleans, despite being apex predators on the island, are only threats on the island. They're not invincible ultra monsters that can never be destroyed and completely change the face of the planet. Like you've stated, they're just another animal, with their own specialties and weaknesses, it's just that their strengths make them the most dangerous to friends. They hit a sweet spot of being a threat, without being stupidly overpowered.

On the other hand, this also begs the question exactly why the park abandoned if loads of salt water is what was needed to deal with the common cerulean? Fighting them head on is an ordeal, sure, but they're weak to a common substance. It could just be that people didn't feel comfortable with the idea that they may occasionally be attacked by a blob monster while on safari, since Ceruleans seem to just pop up with little fanfare. The notes in the guidebook seem to imply that the park was overrun with them pre-filter, so it may have just been an issue of numbers. Giant Ceruleans are a rare case, but even with a common weakness, I can assume the visitors would be concerned with a building sized (or beyond) monster stomping around the park.

What is this expression trying to convey?

Margay is cute.

Single digit IQ.

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This is a great account.

I really like this one.

Is this a bot?
It seems to like the owls, regardless if they're squinting or not.

Good taste.

I assume someone went through the entire show collecting screencaps and now has a bot setup posting them regularly.

Friendly reminder, if anyone still cares around here, Blue Planet 2 premieres today.

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Yeah it is a bot.

Serval is drunk and angry.

That reminds me I forgot to go see Earth: One Amazing Day when it was in cinemas recently. It looked like it would be cool to see something like that in such high quality.

How the fuck did the single most hype scene of that season and the entire year belong to a fucking PBS aftershool cartoon?

youtube.com/watch?v=xBD6fnMwdKo&t=5m08s

>aftershool cartoon
But it aired 2am. I know nips stay a long time in school, but I don't think it's that long.

Its not what shes trying to convey.
Its what shes trying to hide.

That's the vibe they were going for, though.It's like if someone remade the Magic School Bus (Pretending that the cheap looking NetFlix one isn't a thing), and aimed it at nostalgia ridden adults while adding legitimately dramatic scenes. Yes, it's supposed to be aimed at adults, but it's a kid's show at heart.

It makes sense that there aren't too many Ceruleans. Kaban needed to be able to meet many Friends. But if she had to fight with Ceruleans frequently it would make you question why there are so many Friends and perhaps the threat from the Ceruleans isn't so bad. Instead we find that they're bad enough that Friends run away but they had been living in a relatively peaceful time (thanks to the filter) which allowed a lot of Friends to populate the park and only an occasional loss to a minor Cerulean. (Poor Aardwolf.)

In other words, Tatsuki knew what the power balance needed to be to make the Big Dog fight believable.

This is a gem.

This is a good find user.

Alpaca drank some special tea.

>Kemono Friends as name instead of subject
OTTER GET OFF THE PC

Happy Meal thread

> OP messes up by putting Kemono Friends in the name field rather than the topic.
> Thread looks like a normal Sup Forums thread and not a general, and thus not immediately attracting the butthurt.
> Thread opens with people actually talking about the topic OP poses, rather than meandering about and talking about which frend they wud fuk.
> Implying this isn't a good thing.

Reminder
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I've said this before but the best Kemono Friends threads nowadays are stealth ones.

Well if we go by the game what happened before wasn't just common Cerulean's. There was a Cerulean Queen and all sorts, flying Ceruleans shaped like Dinosaurs, and then going by the guidebook some invasion catastrophic enough to be considered a "disaster" prior to the anime. I don't think the salt water is a generalised weakness as much as the weakness of that one specific type of Big Dog Cerulean.

I want to hug Alpaca.
I want to be Alpaca.

Budget was not a problem I see.

I want to like tea so I don't make Alpaca sad if I ever visit Japari Park.

Now I'm tempted to watch it again

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Margay is a very special cat

I lost track of the debacle, is Tatsuki on board again yet, or still no news?

Easy choice

No news.
We're still in "negotiations".

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Thanks user. I hope this is to be taken as a good sign in that they are sitting together and are properly talking out their differences, to reestablish a proper work relationship.

>"We will show you the strength of our flock"
>Cheery OP kicks in as all those eyes light up
>That casual title drop
Yep, several seasons later and this is still my favorite thing this year.

She's very important to me.

I laughed way too much at this.

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She's gone though.

How can my Giant Onee-san be this cute?

Let her go.

fsugoii

Never.

Nobody was around to cry for help when she got attacked. Do you think she even made any friends at all before being eaten?

post the NTR one!

Why is she SO MAD

Savannah friends were rather mean. Someone this precious was unlikely to be popular.

No.

It was unironically amazing. It just goes to show what you can do when you've completely won over the audience with lovable characters and a tangible threat.

I was as enchanted with that scene as I've been with the best anime.

I was planning on doing that eventually.
Princess is the best mid-blinker.

Who is this friend and why do people bully her?

Just fucking look at this expression.

Best pengi.

Aardwolf, she gets unfriended by a Cerulean, and is the animal seen panting at the end of the series. Nobody came to save her

Serval and Kaban came to save her.

>Nobody came to save her
That is just sad,

They quickly forgot about her and just tried to save themselves.
They probably saw the stupid dog run off after they killed the cerulean, thinking she was just some dumb animal, rightfully so

If we're going by the game, the Friends that helped in the fights then probably kept fighting even after the humans left.
Their efforts probably paid off with a lot of ceruleans exterminated, but a lot of said Friends were lost as well.
This led to the time of relative peace in the anime where there was enough time for the Friend population to go back to what it was before.

Any updates?
How is Unityanon doing? Any of the RPGs get released?

Serval looked momentarily troubled afterwards. I assumed she didn't mention it because she didn't want to burden Kaban, knowing she didn't know what happened to Friends with Ceruleans.

Don't talk about her like that.

I thought she was a random Hyena at the end of the anime, as I had forgotten a friend got eaten in ep 1

Ok, I do need to rewatch the EP1

Serval seemed to show some distress after beating the cerulean. She knew what happened.

But is she more bullied than Serval?

Serval isn't bullied, she's rightly dumped upon. Aardwolf probably had a bunch of friends who miss her very much

Do friends like playing with Animals, or does it make them sad?

youtu.be/WnJ-2KbvyXk?t=1045

Watch that scene up until Serval says Sugoi, her body language and the amount of time she takes to react when she reaches Kaban. It is subtle and you might not notice it but she clearly isn't that happy right then for someone who just defeated a foe. Previously with the small Cerulean she was talking about how awesome her claws were.

>Watch that scene up until Serval says Sugoi, her body language and the amount of time she takes to react when she reaches Kaban.


Honestly, I think she had just shit herself. I guess this puts to rest how friends go to the bathroom; they just shit in their underwear.

Geez you're dumb. It was a comedic moment, the whole point of that scene was to build up some fake tension to create a contrasting moment of surprise when Serval expresses amazement at the paper airplanes. It's a pretty common trope, even dumb frogposters know this one.

You are not giving the scene the credit it deserves. Serval is clearly conflicted.

It's
a
joke.

>Aardwolfags need to make up dramatic moments to prove their waifu isn't a piece of shit who nobody cares about.

You know the scene was originally storyboarded with a dead friend on the floor right?

That was uncalled for.

>originally
>if something were completely different it would be different
Wow, say something even more meaningless.

source?

It is pretty obvious with that knowledge what is going on there.

There is a picture of it in the CG world interview and the irodori concept books.

Your fantasy imaginings of what the scene might be like if they had animated it completely different are irrelevant.

It was a JOKE scene. It is a common bit of visual humor and if you'd been watching animation for longer than a few weeks you might easily understand it.

I dont actually remember Aardwolf.

I guess people like yourself can never see past what is on the surface.

shoebill should be more popular

You're detached from reality. Your fancanon isn't real.

A friend just died in front of them.Serval mourning makes absolute sense in this context. Why would humour somehow negate this fact?

The only person detached from reality here is you getting your back up over nothing but your own ignorance.

She's like
The meme character. She's the only one normalfags know. She's pretty popular.
She probably didn't know a Friend died, considering there was no evidence of it. She probably assumed the source of the scream ran away.
Remember, she didn't fully understand the mechanics of ceruleans at this point.

Wait, I heard KDKW and YYZ met and killed Tatsuki all over again? Kemono Friends is dead for good?

Now you're just shitposting for contrarianism.

>"That scream... it might be eating someone..."
>"We have to rescue them!"
I'm pretty sure Serval understood what happened.

This didn't happen.
Tatsuki did make a new short, though.

Ah, good, I was worried. So everything is still all just up in the air? A new KF short or original?