Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see a thread. I cried like a bitch this episode. This episode did it for me, this is AOTS.
Antarctica
Thomas Brown
Cooper Clark
Dylan Roberts
This series kinda reminds me of Hanasaku Iroha, though I still prefer YoriMoi by a wide margin overall.
Kevin Sullivan
Anime of the season for you.
Michael Martinez
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Hayamin is a Hinatafag. Why it doesn't surprise me.
Grayson Bailey
>To be honest, I didn’t even know how [Antarctica] was different from the Arctic.
>Also, the Arctic has more ice than the Antarctic, correct? Antarctica is a continent, but the Arctic is just ice.
Jesus Christ my brain hurts reading this.
Jacob Mitchell
>I cried like a bitch this episode
Really? I mean it was emotional but not that much.
Sebastian Hughes
I didn't really get this episode. The whole thing is about Hinata getting pissed off over some past conflict that is only half explained. Then Shirase still interferes after Hinata explains the situation. And the moral of the story is don't accept peoples' apologies. Did I miss something?
Owen Hill
It doesn't take much to make you cry like a bitch then I guess. Even a bit of forced surprise drama.
Elijah Barnes
>Did I miss something?
Apparently, considering most of what you complain about was addressed directly multiple times in the episode and in previous ones.
Jaxon Jones
>I didn't see a thread
This is your brain on generals.
Andrew Morales
wew lad, you might legitimately have autism
Samuel Cruz
Hanasaku Iroha got better as it went, though. I think this show lost most of it's punch when they actually achieved their goal of making it to Antarctica.
Nicholas Rogers
I don't even remember what happened last night let alone what happened last episode. Hell, tomorrow I probably won't even remember what I watched tonight.
Leo Perez
The climax of the episode was so awkward and heartfelt. I love that they didn't have the pussy kiss-and-make-up ending.
There isn't anything more to explain. It's not a moralistic message about not accepting apologies, it's about the way Hinata thinks, and why she's superficially genki and afraid of truly connecting with people because she got betrayed and hurt in the past. And then how good of a friend Shirase has become that she feels so concerned and indignant on her behalf.
It's about youth and friendship. Youth in being honest with your feelings and being able to tell people you don't like to fuck off. Friendship iin how Shirase can feel so wounded on her friend's behalf, and do nosy annoying things to get involved with her personal problems because they're that close.
Lincoln James
>I think this show lost most of it's punch when they actually achieved their goal of making it to Antarctica
How so? Its not like the Antarctica stuff was meant to be the be all end all. Its a catalyst to serve as character development and interaction, and that has always been apparent from episode 1.
Jaxson Price
I didn't really get it either.
Carson Evans
Well, sucks to be you I guess.
Nicholas Edwards
>Hayamin is a Hinatafag. Why it doesn't surprise me.
Because Hinata reminds her of her imouto, Aoi Yuuki.
Zachary Hill
I think this show's only gotten better. Although it's lost a little bit of its amazing production values from the first two episodes. It's still the best looking show of the season though.
Jonathan Ward
How can anyone be this wrong, Hanasaku Iroha's first two episodes were fantastic and the rest was mediocre.
Logan Edwards
>I cried like a bitch this episode.
Just watched the last two episodes. They were good, but not that emotional. Still, it's overall a pretty solid series so far. Also, is this anime getting just one cour or two?
Anthony Allen
I'm not saying Antarctica was the finish line. I'm saying the fight and drive to get there from the girls and how they grew closer and showed sides of themselves during that struggle were the best things about the show. But reaching their goal after all that work so early felt like the climax and everything that's come since then has been a sort of epilogue.
I can't disagree except I think VEG is best-looking but as far as substance, YoriMoi beats everything else easily.
>the festival wasn't the best episode and the ending wasn't one of the best in years
Imagine being this wrong.
Matthew Ortiz
best girls
Julian Adams
>I think this show's only gotten better.
Same. They are developing a lot the relationships between the characters.
Nathaniel Reyes
Fuck, no. I would never travel with these dumb bitches. They are way too troublesome. They increase the difficulty of an international trip tenfold.
Dominic Gonzalez
To add, this could just be me, but I feel massive pressure to put up with people I absolutely despise in my adult life because of work. So all of the stuff about Hinata's sour relationships really resonated, and Shirase telling them to fuck off was cathartic bliss. It's something I wish I could do, and I think you really only get away with that in your youth.
Asher Murphy
Antarctica itself wasn't meant to be the epilogue though. Its not like Shirase and the rest wanted to go just because it had pretty landscapes. They all have their own reasons that were fully realized during the course of the journey up to this point, and possibly still to come.
Jose Carter
I know it wasn't meant that way. They each have their reasons for being there as we've been seeing, but there's nothing that's happened in Antarctica that couldn't have happened prior to them actually going. I'm just saying their actual landing at their finish line felt like it shifted the climax and threw the pacing off.
Ethan Gomez
>Ultimate goals for each character, even if they aren't aware of them
Shirase = Get over her mother's death, show she is capable of adventure and prove others wrong.
Hinata = As recently revealed, cut ties with the past and achieve something outside of school to get over her trauma. Interact like a normal person for once.
Yuzuki = Have friends and live a meaningful experience with them, hopefully forming a bond it will last beyond the trip.
Mari = Do something new, get out of her comfort zone. Stop relying so much on others and plan something by herself.
Ethan Hill
>their finish line
Its not the finish line though. We haven't even gotten to the mother stuff thats being saved for the last two episodes. Having that whole subplot be stretched out to the entirety of when they were in Antarctica whilst putting all other character development aside would do more to mess up the pacing, since the show has always been about trying to balance between the characters and never focusing only on either the heavy drama, lighthearted fun, determination, or the other themes.
Julian Martin
>Interact like a normal person for once.
That was meant for Yuzuki, not Hinata, my bad.
Charles Martin
Well it became a lot more character focused and I think that's kind of the point. There's still cool Antarctica stuff they're showing off which all seems relatively authentic, but I think the idea is that you have this big exciting journey, but at the end you're stuck in a relatively tiny base in a wasteland of ice and penguins, and all you have are these characters so that's when they really open up to each other. The journey is really Kimari's thing, and then the second half is building up all of the other characters.
I don't mind because it still feels like an adventure, and there's still a clear throughline to the plot for Shirase to get some closure on her mom. I think that's the climax. All of the little plot threads they introduce are getting neatly tied up like Yuzuki having no friends and Hinata's track team thing which goes all the way back to Episode 2.
Also this looks way better than VEG. Direction alone props it up higher. VEG just looks so bland, where it's tediously on-model at all times and cut in the most obvious ways.
Nicholas Collins
I've been backstabbed like this before. I totally know that feel. Those weaklings are cowards with two faces and want to take advantage of anyone any chance they get.
Fuck them. At least I am more successful than they are right now.
Kevin Phillips
Minase: “Antarctica…where’s that?”. I’d heard of it before but as to its exact location and the size of the place, I had only vague ideas. ‘Perhaps it’s cold?’. The only thing I could do was to speculate. The non-presence of Antarctica in my own life meant that I had no clear vision of what it might be like.
Hanazawa: What came to mind was “So erm, what’s the difference between the Arctic and Antarctica again?”. I know about polar bears, so is the Antarctic all about penguins? That was the kind of fuzzy knowledge I possessed. It was only later on when I was doing the anime that I realized that you can’t even go to Antarctica unless you’re part of an expedition team.
Seems been ignorant about Antarctica isn't weird among the average Japanese.
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Isaiah Ward
This. Plus is makes sense that both Yuzuki would be thinking about what happens back home since the first half of the journey is already over, and Hinata being afraid to deal with her past since she came to Antarctica to escape all that only for it to confront her in the last place she wanted it too, which makes for an ironic twist.
Hunter Young
Must be the American influence rubbing off on them.
Henry Cooper
Geography is for faggots.
Jace Evans
Can you point to your country on a map user?
Tyler Myers
Mods are asleep post cute yoris
Kevin Gonzalez
Jordan Jones
It's intentional. She is learning from Kimari. That's the point of that shot.
Colton Mitchell
Why is Yuzuki hugging Shirase's wife?
Asher Brown
I know. It's cute.
Carter Bennett
why does there have to be a moral? I don't think this show works that way, the whole cast is selfish in ways
I bet you don't even watch it
damn dude, it just got powerful. We know all the characters now and they are actually in Antarctica
Bentley Flores
You mean Shirase's gf
Shirase's wife is pic related
Mason Rodriguez
Jaxson Cooper
That's Shirase's dad, Oedipus
Christian Hall
I've cried during every episode, no exaggeration
Jeremiah Miller
I wish Gin was my dad
Brandon Thomas
I bet the actual expedition team is a total sausagefest. Women will only go to remote and dangerous places once they have been tamed into user-friendly habitats, or if they're utterly optionless.
Jacob Stewart
...
Christian Hill
Im not ready to deal with this
Nathaniel Barnes
It's true though. It might have to do with natural selection favoring more prudent women.
Levi Evans
I don't know about nips, but everyone else send women to Antarctica just fine.
Eli Cook
>didn't get to see the bitches reactions to being told to fuck off
I imagine that it's not "the point" or whatever, but I want to see those chicks get btfo.
Austin Hill
I'm talking about the expeditions that actually built their bases and were among the first to venture into the continent, since everyone after them regardless of sex had a relatively easier time, but I'm pretty sure most expeditions are severly gender imbalanced even today too.
Jackson Rodriguez
Can any user confirm if life in The Antarctica is really like pic related? I'm starting to consider a visit of my own.
Daniel Jackson
>I'm talking about the expeditions that actually built their bases and were among the first to venture into the continent
That's pointless. It happened decades ago. Society in general is not what it used to be back then.
>I'm pretty sure most expeditions are severly gender imbalanced even today too
Not as much as you would think.
Joshua Baker
I completely disagree. Hanairo lost its way when it started to focus on romance drama. Yorimoi is much better.
Lucas Collins
Directly? I doubt it, but the anime definitely sugarcoats the amount of labor the crew members do during the day. On that note, how come we haven't seen the girls operating their base's flamethrowers?
Robert Ramirez
>Not as much as you would think.
I guess that really depends on the kind of research. I also imagine the people running this shit can't afford to be too choosey.
Aiden Myers
The one who is wrong is you. HanaIro is fantasic as whole. Antarctica is nowhere near.
Leo Campbell
My wife shirase is so pretty even when she's angry.
John Moore
worst opinion ITT
Andrew Fisher
I really don't get peoples excitement over the show. It is pretty usual Jukki Hanada tripe. I guess it does appeal to its target audience, adolescent teens, but it is in no way substational or even have a story per se. Okada > Hanada originals every time.
Adam Sullivan
It matters in the context of my point, since the first visitors of the continent were adventurers and gloryhounds that didn't know what they were getting into, as opposed to today's expeditions which have very concrete goals and are relatively safer. As for your second point, I'll look it up, but I'll drop this conversation since it's starting to get into derailing territory.
Luis Roberts
How can one Sup Forumsnon be so deluded?
Logan Green
>Okada>X
Opinion discarded. At least come up with more believable bait.
Luis Wilson
>he thinks adolescent teens are the target audience
>okada > anything
tell me this post was a joke
Ryan Hall
You tell me. It is truly disgusting seeing the people who are below being able to appreciate good things shit on them because they are unreachable to them.
Hunter Phillips
>first visitors of the continent were adventurers and gloryhounds
You're talking about a time when women were still put in all-girls schools to learn how to be good wives, user. You think you can expect female adventurers from that sort of social context? Your point is moot.
Ian Garcia
This thread has had some good discussion.
Easton Thompson
>Their antarctic base is better than the apartment building I live in
Henry Gray
>What gets Shirase over her stage fright isn't confidence, it isn't a pep talk, it's pure unbridled spite and wanting to tell someone who made her mad to fuck off.
I love this girl.
Brandon Bell
How about both of you go and find the list of members on the station right now?
Juan Torres
What about prioridad to that? You can point to any recorded moment of human history, regardless of cultural context, and the males are almost exclusively the ones taking risks while exploring the unknown and expanding frontiers. That's neither coincidence nor "socializing" influence.
Christopher Perez
*prior
Prioridad sounds like Spanish or Portuguese.
Angel Lee
Adam Bennett
>How about both of you go and find the list of members on the station right now?
Because user doesn't care about that. He's talking about the past when macho men with long bears roamed the seven seas.
Isaiah Bennett
>regardless of cultural context
No, it always has to do with the cultural context, you dingus.
Bentley Smith
We finally got an episode all about the objectively best girl
Chase Wood
>macho men with long bears
Jesus Christ
Alexander Turner
I'm suprised how well my wife Shirase managed to pronounce Rundvågshetta.
Usually they butcher foreign words.
Brody King
Shirase was on point today
Chase Allen
>this is AOTS
Are you the type to easily cry while witnessing a cheap melodrama scene? This anime is nothing but forced drama, only YouTubers consider it the AOTS.
Matthew Martinez
I find it interesting how the adults are totally cool with letting Shirase BTFO the cunts.
Nathaniel Sanchez
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Jason Fisher
Y-you're right. For the past 11 episodes I was convinced I was loving this show. But your concise and perceptive post has shown me that I was wrong, I haven't been enjoying it at all. I'll stop watching it now. Thanks for helping, and thanks for watching it all yourself, even though you don't like it, just so you could let us know about the mistake we've been making.
Adrian Ramirez
When are they going to kiss?
Ryan Morales
Carter Cox
It's the one that is free
Camden Green
Canada?
Andrew Adams
>Shirase will never Zama Miro your enemies to death in your stead
Ayden Campbell
Okay, first of all you're being incredibly racist towards folliculary-impared men, you bigot, and second, I've tried looking up the Japanese and American Anctartic expeditions team members and crews, but neither has them listed by name, ethnicity or sex (can you believe it). There's some videos of their activities and they do predictevily look like total sausagefests, but that's no confirmation of anything.
Daniel Diaz
>tfw the journey will be over in two weeks
A-anons, hold me.
Leo Reed
Is there anything decent to take it's place? Not that it ever could.
Brody Garcia
Do you think Shirase penetrates Hinata's inverted nipples every night?
Chase Jackson
I'm glad I will no longer have to force myself to watch it, just so I can criticise it on the internet.
Jose Parker
Next season looks really weak. Except from leftovers and sequels, there are pretty much nothing that seems interesting.