#Ep 16 and 17

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Random opinion #7 :

I can explain.

Ngl, the match ended up being .... bizarre. Actually, i am living for how weird it ended up to be !

Ares itself is a season who is, more or less, a copycat of season 1 but with other protagonists (thanks god, the new kid aren't ersatz of Endou, Gouenji and Kidou, and it is more an aftertaste than a fact). It was a normal Football Frontier.

Spoiler alert : the new main team, Inakuni Raimon, wins the tournament, what a shocking plotwist...

My point is that Ares is predictable and not very original, and some of the most interesting ideas have been mishandled. It is the most normal IE can get. (Wtf, IE being "normal", the same IE where you sakka with dinosaurs against aliens and communists to save the Earth by time-travelling ?)

And then, comes the match against Hakuren.

Where to even begin ?

Both teams have similar situations : they are both participating for the first time, and very surprisigly got far (very powerful opponents from last year were also here), both are from the country, both are supposedly underdogs, both have a " unsufferable ace striker" and "sponsor" problem, both uses weird tactics, and in the 2 cases, only 1/3 of the team pull their weight. I can go on, but it will be long.

The development during the match : this match has its moments, its "plotwists". It begins with Hakuren having the upper hand, Atsuya dominating Inakuni physically and psychologically (he insults your dad). Then, Asuto makes Inakuni to gather their shit together in the 2nd half, but it actually makes Shirou and Atsuya playing even more serious. Someoka (hey he's here!) makes Nae the new recruit come on the field. Turns out she sucks at sakka. But also is supersonic. And she befriends with Norika the Inakuni goalie because why not. The hakuren coach makes his team to do weird tactics to accomodate Nae, communicating with weird hand sign with the public and the team, and it works, Inakuni is confused. Hattori, a Inakuni defender, is a ninja wannabe so he can understand weird hand sign, and makes Inakuni have the upper hand for once. But, after a father-daughter drama (Nae is the coach's daughter, who is also the sponsor), they stop using hand sign but the Hakuren tactic still works, so Hattori is confused but there is little time left. Shirou, Atsuya and Nae goes to execute Triple Blizzard but it is countered by Counter Drive, by Asuto and Kozomarou (it comes from nowhere), and they goal and win. This is so wtf, i love it. Literally what is going on in this match lmao

The element of surprise : refer to the previous point (and i haven't told everything). This match is the absolute chaos no one saw coming. Everything was unexpected. Even the fraud Counter Drive that comes from nowhere is actually brilliant : Hakuren dominated this match because their main assets were unpredicable (and powerful), but it backfired at them. I used to hate it, but now i know it is chief's kiss.

The team co-op : the actual theme of the episodes. When you think in outer code 1, it was established Hakuren had co-op problems because of Atsuya, and then the match comes and it's perfect, makes me think that we, the audience, has been gaslighted to think they was a problem lol. And let's enjoy the coordination between Shirou and Atsuya + at the end of the match, with all hakuren

Shirou and Atsuya, my babies, my blorbos, my fave. If they are in the episode, you know it will be a good time. It was more focused on Atsuya than Shirou, but i don't hate it since he was goated in this match.

I actually like Nae, their new recruit. Yes, she can be annoying but idk, she's funny. I like the sibling relationship she has with Atsuya and the friendship with Norika. Not the most meaningful things Ares had to offer, but it was nice ! :)

The fact that, upon witnessing this match, Haizaki "has seen the light" where he was at this worst. Like, his team is disqualified, he got beat up by thugs without reason, but then he sees Asuto playing in this match, and suddenly things seems to improve. Truly a Haizaki x Asuto moment. Asuto is Jesus to Haizaki lmao

The Atsuya meme : look at this beauty (unfortunatly, this is also here areorion goes downhill visually but fucking worth it)

Conclusion :

[hikaaa-bi]

what does this mean? i don’t know. but it is interesting.

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

✨ This scene ✨

[allbluegem]

Episodes 16 to 20 from The Magnus Protocol. Happy I managed to catch up in the break.

[spookyfluffy]

Adventuring Party just dropped news about the next Dimension 20 season, titled "Public Domain"!

Cast:

Ally Beardsley as Winnie the Pooh

Siobhan Thompson as Mr Darcy

Zac Oyama as Sherlock Holmes

Lou Wilson as God

Emily Axford as Jessica Rabbit, Jesus and Brennan Lee Mulligan

Brian Murphy as Gopher

And Brennan Lee Mulligan as the Dungeon Master!

[galaxygorl-does-stuff]

hey. stop

[dearmyloveleys]

@ episode 17: my favourite episode BY FAR! ying lei’s character growth is so beautifully captured despite being a relatively minor character 😭 i hope we see him again soon. I broke down when ying zhao told him that many demons only wanted these three words in their lives: have a choice. This is so apt given everything we’ve seen about the demons so far: from episode 1’s rabbit/liar demon, then ranyi, fei, (I have a feeling lilun too, once we see more of his story) and in episode 16 we finally truly see+understand that zhuyan never had a choice in the bloodshed he caused either. And that entire exchange between zhuyan and yichen?? “Do u think death will clean away everything that has been done?” The revealing of zhuyan’s scars?? Am in absolute shambles 😭 This was such an emotionally charged yet tastefully done episode

[orionshounds]

with the new episode right around the corner I want to throw my hat in the ring and say I think mephone does know he created the contestants....at least somewhat

I think he knows he made the main cast, but I’m not sure if he’s always known or if its something he figured out along the way. I dont know how aware he is of making the world around them however;

(here he barely bats an eye at generating an entire hedge maze...does he even realize he’s the one who made it?)

and I dont think he made everyone on purpose

Toilet (Im assuming he was made by mephone because he saw mephoneX and so far the only confirmed objects who can see him are generated) definitely wasnt on purpose....and with how many parallels there are between him and mephone/ mephone and cobs I think Toilet is an accidental reflection of how mephone sees himself. I also think Walkie was made accidentally; a part of him feared having to return to season 2 and....well, she appeared to keep iii going forever. While each object is capable of growing outside of what they were “made for”, I think a lot of them came from mephone’s subconscious desires or feelings

But the interesting thing is Im not sure how many of the other objects we see were created by him. I feel a lot of the unvitational crew could just be normal folks, but if he made the island then how did they get there? I definitively think springy is generated, but was he generated by mephone? they make a comment about “never being like this until they met him”....is this a case of him just assuming they had a life before (like silver in his exit interview) or did they really come from somewhere else?

and THEN theres the case of bow and dough. they just kinda showed up and mephone was pressured into letting them into the show. does cobs also somehow have a way of generating contestants (he did have that wire before toilet took it, and he’s tried killing mephone plenty...why would he do that if he needed mephones powers?) or did mephone just accidentally make them as well?

his reaction to Walkie’s monolouge is very telling. it might be a truth he’s repressing, but why would he react like that if he didnt know on some level? there are also a lot of little things he says makes me think he is Aware of the fact he made them

but my biggest take? If we assume he does know he made the cast, I dont think he realizes that none of them know

I can so easily picture him going “What do you mean none of you knew?!” when they resume that call. If cobs was right about one thing, it's that mephone's inexperienced. I mean, he was made for cobs' plan, what does it matter that the contestants were made for the show?? All of this is just Normal to him. I don't think it has ever occurred to him that he SHOULD tell them

but thats just my two cents on it, we wont really know until this saturday (oh god)

[bericas]

teen wolf scenes that make me remember they're teens: allisaac edition

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

[yagurlhere]

WARNING:SPOILERS!

"NOOOO! LIGHTBULB!!!!! 😭"

"LIGHTBULB ANGST!!!!! 😭"

"LIGHTBRUSH ANGST!!!!!! 😭"

"THIS HURTS SO MUCH!!!! 😭"

"I'M CRYING!!!!!! 😭"

"PAINTBRUSH CRYING!!!!! 😭"

"MY HEART!!!!! 😭"

Me: FINALLY.

[0ctopus-vase-phas3]

II 16 SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!!

don't get me wrong, I am so so so so SO excited for more lightbrush in ii17, along with the emotional damage that comes with the highly probable angst that we're all probably going to be beaten to death with BUT nothing compares to how excited I am for the marshbrush reunion!!! I think we as a fandom all collectively forgot and or glossed over the fact that those two are supposed to be FRIENDS!!! And I can just TELL (hope) that tensions are gonna be HIGH because like, marshmallow left them without a WORD not a goodbye, not a see you later, NOTHING, and that really upset them!!! they were HEARTBROKEN!!!(/exg(probably)) Nobody even knew where she or apple were, and nobody would've guessed the weird creepy manor they visited once for a challenge! I'm just so excited to see what ii has whipped up for us on that one!!! I've been waiting for SO LONG to get this reunion!!! (Fyi I'm gonna be so embarrassed if inanimate insanity forgot paintbrush and marshmallow had a whole unresolved arc too)

[fridaraph]

Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai

What the boy finds two hours into the tunnels a mound of bones and more of the monkey creatures only adds to the mystery.

Once more Yukiya shows his worth in a scrap, but he’s in serious trouble down there until unexpected help arrives. One can guess that

Nazukihiko knew of another way in, but how he came to be there in that moment is the key question. He’s obviously not about to let

[galacticrain]

Something that's been on my mind lately

[stefisdoingthings]

truly going feral over gungrave y’all trigun fans HAVE to watch it

[manic-pixie-dream-dude]

I've been watching/reading Death Note every once in a while for the last couple of months and this is the funniest most unserious serious anime ever.