This reminds me of that feature in the first Civilization game where the portraits of your advisors change, depending on what type of government you have: Democracy, Republic, Communism, etc.

Under Anarchy, your foreign minister was Madonna, your military advisor was a banana republic general, science advisor a drug dealer, etc. https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Advisor_(Civ1)?file=Advisors_(Civ1).png

This is like that.

I don’t remember seeing Yoshino having girl talks with alleged BFF Tsubaki, so it’s good to see that here.

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And once again we the audience see that Kirishima has multiple girlfriends on the side going waaaaay back, even though Yoshino suspects doesn’t really know that for sure.

So that casts into doubt what exactly he wants from Yoshino.

Is he being honest with her about his feelings for her, while he’s definitely committing the sin of omission about the rest of his social and sex life.

The OP “Under and Over” by The Oral Cigarettes is growing on me…

It’s a subtle detail:

It would have been clearer to show the twirly toy in its intact form, and place this scene closer to episode 4 so that viewers’ memories are fresh, but I appreciate the writing not shoving the links to every little detail in my face.

If that kind of thing isn’t your bag, then that’s fine.

We’ll be lucky if term 2 is just like term 1. That would mean the ACA would survive, no detention camps would be built, and they don’t find a way to deploy the US military to go grab the immigrants and any effective political opposition put them into camps.

Fixed that for you.

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In case you were wondering, like I was…

This was the twirly copter toy/bamboo dragonfly that Noel taught the mayor’s daughter to make, as explained back in episode 4

Can’t wait to see Bilac’s face when he shows up with the Gold Crystal Scorpion parts!

It does make me wonder. Usually in a game like this, loot shows up as small items with neat labels saying it’s loot, but we’ll have to stay tuned to find out if the game can actually do any crafting with random monster parts…

Yet again, the pacing was terrible, and the story was confusing.

Far too long on the uninteresting, poorly animated, and worst of all, ultimately meaningless Anaak/Khun Ran fight that immediately abandons all the rules about not falling off the platform and dropping their boffers, not to mention the goal of planting their boffers in the 3 sockets in the middle of the platforms.

They’re fighting for some kind of tickets?

So 25th Bam/Yoru/Jue Voile Grace is a Living Weapon now?

Unexplained FUG Slayer candidate was bad enough.

I preferred weird undefined Irregular with an unknown potential high ceiling better.

And why is Sword/Pipe Telekinesis Guy wandering around the Archimedes?

And Lero Ro, administrator guy for the 2nd level exam shows up?

Endorsi is in full glamor mode one moment, then being incognito the next?

Forget this Jue Voile Grace guy. Even he can’t knock out both a Jahad and a Khun with one attack!

I mean sure “show instead of tell” is better, but tell us a little to help us understand what’s going on…

I think I’ll have to catch up in the manhwa to figure things out.

Awrighty, the game is underway at last!

Here are the sides, with the U-20s fielding a 4-3-3 formation, and Blue Lock in a defensive 4-5-1

They answered the question of the Blue Lock substitutes, so here is BL’s bench, from which they can use 3 subs.

WTF is this mascot supposed to be? @rikka@ani.social

I hope he dances better than he looks…

Here’s a list of the U-20 lineup. We have no idea what their individual soccer super powers are

I love it! It’s romcom, through the woman’s POV, but warped through the lens of yakuza subculture.

The female romance protagonist’s constantly changing facial expressions, at the awkward and strange situations she finds herself in, are the key feature in the show for me.

Another fun feature is the visual dissonance of sparkly-eyed bishonen and bishojou characters engaging in shady yakuza crime and politics.

The race director can thank his lucky stars that nobody died or was injured in both fog and slippery conditions, and Kanata is also very lucky that he didn’t rear end somebody who was driving at a more responsible speed.

But I’d be surprised if the director can get insurance for next year’s race without some changes.

Re: Angels. This show definitely fails the Bechdel Test

Veltol ranting about heroes not appreciating how much work it takes to make a dungeon was funny!

I think it establishes Koga as an honest man who follows the rules in a world that doesn’t reward that kind of behavior.

He has some interesting skills too.

The mayor getting his arm cut off was cool indeed.

Also, Noel wasn’t rewarded for letting the halfling go, instead of killing him and taking Koga for himself.

Once again demonstrating that the rules of this world don’t seem to reward good social tendencies like mercy.

It does make sort of make sense to get the best out of your employees’ strengths…

But this guy is following Theranos’ path to madness.

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But come to think of it, this is more or less exactly how many dotcoms worked back in the day.

I worked in a startup that was supposed to automate restaurant orders with food and other suppliers over the web to create a b2b market.

The software behind the market website was supposed to entirely automated, but it was just startup employees looking at incoming restaurant orders, and manually matching them to suppliers.

Needless to say, this startup folded quickly, because neither the restaurants or suppliers were willing to pay the startup a cut for the “convenience”.

That was the usual strangeness, but it doesn’t make Mashirou look very good…

While it’s a trope in hero shows like Kamen Rider that the protagonist gets their powers from the Evil Organization, I can’t think of any examples that being the case in magical girl shows.

Except for Puella Magi Madoka,

Chrome does act more like a hero than an Evil Mastermind, and doesn’t even need Fossa Magna to do what he does…

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Acting like a married couple already…

And we get introduced to Tsubaki, Yoshino’s cousin, BFF, and shady medical resource, who’s in the OP so we know she’s an important character.

And what a character she is!

So many good moments in this one…

Where to put yourself in a room for optimal safety in case of attack…

What a perfect specimen of a pretty “princess” type that Tsubaki is…

Tsubaki’s type is Boss Somei, Yoshino’s father

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Swapping candid and embarassing snapshots with Kirishima…

The rocks will look different when their chemistry will change when exposed to a warmer climate, different climate migrating species grow on them, and they’re covered in micro plastics, and worn down by more acidic rains.

And possibly become radioactive if things don’t go right.

Unless the R’s hold their constitutional convention and crown Trump Emperor

The honeybees might have come back a lot faster if the US had not turned to chemical miticides and selected for varroa mite resistance instead.

Instead, the vast majority of commercial beekeepers are producing chemical-dependent bees, which is not good in the long term. But chemical miticide producers are happy to make profits.

Because of the ways that honeybees mate, i.e. the virgin queen mates with several drones randomly on her mating flight, the mass of chemical-dependent genetics waters down any progress made in spreading varroa resistant genetic lines.

Modern beekeeping is a lot more complicated with beekeepers having to keep to a strict timetable of varroa treatment to keep their colonies alive.

Do kids still play marbles these days?

Well of course Isagi was going to make the final team…

But aren’t they going to need some substitutes?

Okay, the extra bit was funny…

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