Houseki no Kuni

a keen sense of loss

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There is only one person meant for Phos.

Once cairn gets GRINDED, then yeah sure.

Antarc wasn't depressed; Antarc was just sorta lonely because she was water for most of the year and couldn't join in the gem games and drive sensei's sleigh.

The one, the only.

Anyone know when the OST is going to drop?

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So is pho a male or female?

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The first half should be releasing this or next week. Full OST - January 17th.

Diamond best gem

It took 1 year, 3 months to go from storyboard to the Orange CG we see.

>Full OST - January 17th.
>an entire month of waiting
I know that that's usually the case, but still, fucking kuyashii as all hell

The more the merrier, user

phos
or some say fossu

kuyashi!

So what are your expectations of the anime original Cinnabar scene next episode?

They literally don't have any genitals, who honestly cares

That green gem looks familiar

I don't think it's anime original. It looks identical to the episode 1 fight, so it's more likely a flashback. The scenes of Phos fighting are from chapter 31.

Why the agitated mercury.

None
But I like to use 'she' as a catchall with the gems

Or, if you're taking about that other non-fighting scene, it could just be a teaser of chapter 36 at the very end.

I require red Alex going WRYYYYYYY in either static or animated formats

> We can't be together until you kill all your friends
> Sure thing you fucking creep

Suffer with me.

When is the official manga translation supposed to come out?

delete this immediately

After he saw how Zircon was getting along with Bort, Yellow told Holes-kun he'd talk with Sensei so Zircon would stay permanently as Bort's partner. I always assumed he did in the end.

Also
>that footnote

26th of this month. Merry Christmas.

Is having a gemfu the purest form of love?

Literally one day after chapter 63?

>official manga translation
I'd rather read scanlations

Houseki no Kuni
2D ver.

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tfw all the good scanlation hubs are dead

>animated trailer for volume1
That's kinda rare, isn't it?

Yes.
I'd say this too if the scanlations for this weren't what they are after the 4th volume.

God that color palette is fucking gorgeous

GRANT US GEMBUTTS
GRANT US GEMBUTTS

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OOOH, MAJESTIC!

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Only if it's a grade 10 gemfu

Very nice. I like the 3D version because it has so many great aesthetic moments. But I'd rewatch a 2D version of it too.

>sensei says phos is brittle, shatters easily due to her hardness being only 3.5, and that she is a mint green moon people like
>proceeds to call these 3 points "handicaps", including phos' color
>says that to overcome all 3 of these handicaps, she has to become stronger than sensei
>says this is the reason he wants phos to make an encyclopedia, preserving the present while preparing for the future
>says that it's a task requiring creativity and intelligence
>phos does everything sensei suggested her, tries to understand the present by looking for answers instead of settling for the non explanations they're given, prepares for the future, alters his whole body, even if unwillingly, so that his hardness and brittleness won't come in the way, while also conveniently hiding(removing) ALL of her visible mint green parts in the process, and gets even more intelligent and creative thanks to Laphis head
>throughout the series we're shown phos is not the only one who has doubts on sensei and what he told therm, yet everyone decides to roll with the "lies"
>after coming back from the moon, LaPhos is treated with less "love" from sesnei and becomes some sort of new leader for some of the gems
could it be that this is exactly what sensei wanted for phos?

>could it be that this is exactly what sensei wanted for phos?
No, sensei just thinks Phos is a human because of his eye, that's why he never calls him by his name after he returns from the moon.

I agree with most of your points except Phos being treated with less love when coming back from the moon. Isn't it the opposite? Phos complains about being smothered with love and she's very surprised Sensei doesn't hold any ill will towards her.

so tell me manga readers, do we ever get cute phos back?

ha ha good one

you tell me

we can fix her, we have the technology

that's not what i mean with that
i meant that all that phos is now, is in a way something sensei suggested her
sensei suggested her to make an encyclopedia, expanding her knowledge of the present and prepare for the future, and phos did so, even if not by doing the encyclopedia
sensei suggested her to overcome her 3 handicaps, being her britleness, weak hardness, and mint green color, and phos did so by literally replacing parts of her body with stronger parts, with the main defense/attack portions being a metal alloy she can manipulate, hence completely erasing the chances of it shattering
sensei suggested phos to become stronger than him, and in a way that's what LaPhos did/is doing by becoming a new leader for some of the gems
sensei wanted phos to expand her own knowledge of the world, to become stronger, to hide her color, and to be better than him, she did/is doing all of thatm which makes me wonder if, in a way, this result, for phos to find a new direction for all of them, was what sensei wanted for phos all along

i was referring more to the fact he doesn't call her by name, and responds to her with mostly indifference: "i dont care, you're back, that's good"

Hello user I hope your head is all calm and clear. If not, what's on your mind?

would this even work though? the show makes it seem like every bit of them houses their memories so even if they reassembled her into smol phos she'd be the same

Whether Sensei intended it or not, I can't help help but see that getting Phos to be a new leader of the Gems and the representative of 'humanity' is going to backfire horribly.

Sensei recommended Phos to become strong but he didn't recommend her to be less obedient. He most likely wanted her to be strong AND a kind child. I agree that Phos is becoming closer to the being that she thought she could never be at the start of the series but you're giving Sensei too much credit about encouraging this transformation. It's not because he wanted her to be generally more competent and useful that he secretly wanted her to investigate his background and fuck off to the moon. That's reaching a little bit. It is possible but I don't see solid evidence of it in the story.

Yep it wouldn't work. Her torso is the oldest part of her body so it houses the most memories tied to PTSD and suffering. It's just a funny picture because smol Phos.

>he didn't recommend her to be less obedient. He most likely wanted her to be strong AND a kind child
I'm not so sure, right after telling phos to overcome her 3 weaknesses and giving her the encyclopedia task, phos says that's lame, a gem points out she is the only one who can talk back to sensei like that, to which sensei says it's true, but also that her straight-forwardness will serves her well in the task, then a piece of paper flies on sensei's head, he grabs it and let go of it saying "i leave it to you".
to me, this is a huge foreshadowing, he literally tells her to become stronger and knowledgeable while also keep on being the straight-forward phos she is, so he can leave it to her.

To this, and to what said, i'm gonna add one of 2 theories i came up with(i posted them already but were almost ignored)
LaPhos is doing what she thinks it's the right thing to do, yet hiding the full truth of what she knows, while also being aware that she does not know everything. She's also "lying" to other gems to make them do what she thinks is the best, still leaving them the decision(sort of, is still a form of manipulation).
Isn't this exactly what Sensei has been doing for thousands of years? What if Sensei is nothing but a gem who ended up changing all of himself, just like Phos had been doing, in the attempt to be of use and change things for the better?
Not saying they went the same route, their approach and "solutions" would be obviously different, but I wonder if what LaPhos is doing is not actually a first, and if it will end up turning her into a new "Sensei", who will try and lead a new generation of gems with her teachings instead of Sensei's. I wonder if this is not just the disclosure(to the readers) of a cycle that has been going on for a very long time, rather than the usual trope of "the story of that guy who acted different than everyone else ending up solving the problems no one else could"

>I wonder if this is not just the disclosure

i meant I wonder if this IS* just the disclosure

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Phos is Satan's gem, don't let him tempt you.

Man, I'd hate to see Phos's character arc end like that. Having to see their sanity gradually slipping away with each new inclusion, only to have them helplessly continue the inherently flawed cycle they and all the other Gems are in would be sad as hell.

This scene means Shiro is sniffing Sensei's robe, right?

Doggos are love, doggos are life. Just when I thought nothing will crack me up more in this show, this happens ;_;7
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Literally improved the character by a factor of 1000

Bort is cute in all incarnations

Bort had some great reactions in this episode.

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I'm hoping the the party gets betrayed on the moon, Phos manages to beat a hasty retreat with the help of Cicada back to earth, suffering considerable losses for each gem but please PLEASE not killing them. Phos then flees to the ocean out of shame to become a better person with the help of the admirabilis.

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Heresy.

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Bort, I know Zircon isn't as cute as Dia but no bullying the youngest child after Phos

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This face like.

I mean this was a very good episode for face shots in general

Watch the BRs come out and the entire series is animated like that instead of 3D. How infuriating would that be?

>Shiro had 7 eyes
>When cut up into 100 dogs, each one had between one and four eyes
Fucking moon doggos

I do. I don't wanna acidentally become a homosexual

Is there somewhere where we can contact the official translator and tell him how much of a retard he is? I'm getting tired of him butchering the original work.

Be thankful you got literally any translations at all for such an obscure series prior to its anime airing.

Another group might pick it up at this point though, thankfully.
But sometimes you have to deal with the painful subs, and count your blessings user.

>subs
translations* but the point's the same

Jade and Rutile constantly missing the point of Phos' critical statements and questions gives me a brain aneurysm. I'm sure it's a conscious effort to downplay their importance since everybody suspects Sensei but has resolved to place their trust in him.

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What's wrong with the official translation? I haven't read the official manga releases myself.

Thing is, it is.
They see Phos is realizing what they all realized, and downplay her questions to try and distract her from thinking about it too much.
Or to say it better...since, like Cinnabar said, there is an unspoken agreement to trust Sensei, they never really heard anyone voice out loud their doubts and questions like Phos does, they're able to keep their own thought at bay by not outing them, silencing them in a "it's not real if i don't say it" way, so when someone says those thoughts out loud, they remain speechless for a second and try to "silence" her thoughts too by pretending to miss the point.

I remember a scene from a movie where a mother refused to admit to herself that her son was a drug addicted, and when he went out to buy a dose, someone pointed it out to her saying something along the lines of "you know he's going to his dealer again, don't you?" to which she just replied ".....i guess it'll be just you and I at dinner tonight uh?"

It's just a form of denial

>"""official""" translation
if you mean some blogs disastrously attempting to translate from a secondary language into english, then sure

>a summer uniform bort
>with useless cleavage
MUH

man it feels sad that we only have 2 more episodes left

I dont what what I will do after this finishes airing

>2 more episodes left
only one, ithas 12 eps and today's one was the 11th

Beautiful

There will surely be 2nd season, chin up.

No

Not with those mediocre sales

>mediocre sales
It's 2nd behind Love Live in pre-orders, friend.

The gap is massive so being 2nd means nothing

I wish I had good editing skills so I could edit the I WANT TO BELIEVE ancient meme image with a lunarian ship.

who is the 28th gem?

series with less pre-orders had other seasons made thanks to those pre-orders

>there are people who think newPhos isn't cute anymore
objectively wrong

>***,*11位/***,*11位 (*13,428 pt) [*,**8予約] 2017/12/22 ラブライブ! サンシャイン!! 2nd Season Blu-ray 1 (特装限定版)
>***,*33位/***,*33位 (**3,062 pt) [*,124予約] 2017/12/20 宝石の国 Vol.1 (初回生産限定版)(イベントチケット優先販売申し込み券付き) [Blu-ray]

The gap in pre-order sales may be "large" between Love Live and HnK, but so is it among everyone else.
The big takeaway is its rank.