>>285723904
Happy birthday Hikaru!

>>285723904
She's not beating the doping allegations.

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Will she also be the first to lose her virginity?

>>285724594
She already lost it with me

>you get points for being cute
How is this fair?

I like how in sports manga they use their japanese spices to show us that their commitment is a battle against fate

The OP sounds like a song from a Disney channel original movie.

>>285723904
Why do all the skaters throw gang signs when they are skating?

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Genuinely happy for her that Medalist reignited her passion for figure skating.

Not even Yuri on Ice compares to Medalist

>>285725572
Literally who?
But I agree that if an anime brings you back to a sport or hobby that is a wonderful thing.

>>285725572
>Yuri on Ice
It does not? I would have thought that Yaoi on ice at least does the ice skating thing well.

>>285725837
You should watch Heated Rivalry, it's not anime but it's really good.

>>285724830
It imitates real life.

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This ikemen is giving flowers to little girls and calling them princess while they swoon over him. Jealous?

>>285725572
>When she isn’t talking about Medalist she’s obsessing over Demon Slayer
Not quite the intersection I was expecting.

>>285726083
Yes actually

>>285726085
The intersection is "manga written and read by fujos who also like little girls" which is a pretty regular demographic

The new OP is slowly growing on me. It's nowhere near as good as the first, but I might even end up liking it.

>>285726550
With enough lolis any OP becomes good.

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>>285723904
I liked the eps so far but.. is Inori still are protag? Haven't really seen her skate or do much.. Is picrel the new main character? seemed like she had the most intense program

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I'm a cynical disenchanted emotionally dead oji-san but seeing little girls cry makes me sad

>>285723904
stupid sexy wolf

>>285726083
GIWTWM

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>>285723904
i noticed yesterday you guys are the horniest bunch of all /a/, lol

>>285727062
give it a bit

>>285727062
Yes, you get to see her rival's performances as well. The All-Japan's qualifiers (and the training afterwards) are pretty much just warm-up for the real competition.

only did skating like 2 times when i was like 13-14

Now that I think about it, if All-Japan's is going to be a movie, the stopping point for S2 will be weird. Are they going to stop right after Hikaru's pledge?

>>285728444
are those supposed to look like closed eyes

>>285728461
i don't think so

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in a few days!!

>>285728510
We know the twink has Men's Singles in the bag, who is gonna dominate on the Women's side?

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>>285723590
Her? No. But Miihi, her friend and former clubmate actually made it in All-Japans.
I'm glad I'll be able to see her again.

wait, this season only has 9 eps??

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>>285728667
half the series I'm watching this season don't even get one proper cour

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>>285728576
I'm glad that they'll be animating this scene in the movie.

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cute

>>285728851
She's such a cute little shit when she's suffering.

>>285728730
>movie
Really?

>>285728891
The movie is about All Japan right?

>>285728870
Shit, anon.
Now you've reminded me again of that traitorous cat. Time to reread and fap.

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poor girl

>>285728934
please share

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>>285728946
>>285728963
if there ever was a time for a headpat it was right there
stupid trainer-san

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>>285728952
I think it's this

Why isn't there more porn of this?

>>285725572
Actually learning Japanese. ls married. Competitive figure skater. She's better than most of us

As someone who watches actual Novice B competitions, this episode was super unrealistic. Falls don't happen that often.

>>285729333
counterpoint: 3dpd woman

>>285729392
I don't know shit about figure skating but I'm sure like every sport it differs a lot from country to country. Maybe Japan has a high points high stakes mentality where all the combos and jumps are hard ones so they fall more often

i wonder if the magnificent grand scene will ever get an anime like this
when i read the manga it was so good seeing the girls progress

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>>285728963
Cirno needed a better trainer.

Does anyone know the songs they played? Or were they made for the show? I'm curious about Rinna's fucking JRPG final boss sound track

Manaka's performance was always cool in the manga but I was really impressed at the expansion to Rinna's skate which didn't really get depicted. Matches up with the expectations you'd have from the story and you can tell it's Sonidori's "majestic program"

>>285726083
This is grooming

Is this anime for epstein folk?

>>285723904
Sex with Hikaru

Are there any differences between the TV and the BD version for S1?
Did they improve something?

>>285730673
nah but its diddy blud coded

>>285730779
so for mushoku tensei fans?

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Nobody here actually cares about the story

>>285729392
This is Novice A.
2024's Chubu block had 6 falls across 13 skaters.
https://www.jsfresults.com/National/2024-2025/fs_j/block4/FSKWSINGLES-NOVICA--01FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf
There's also a lot of underrotations and downgrades

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>>285731027
I can confirm I only ever click these threads to save pictures of the girls and I have never watched an episode or read a chapter

>>285730886
gay

>>285728335
What was it like to skate, as a male

>>285731412
Same

>thread filled with pedosecondaries and schizos
>'cord filled with yurifaggots and literal troons
I can't talk about Medalist anywhere in good company. Life is suffering.

>>285730752
What the fuck is her endgame

>>285731555
NTA, but you know skating is not just dancing on ice, right?

>>285729392
There are so many falls because Hikaru isn't there. Everyone now actually has a chance to win, so they're going for risky stuff to get the gold.

>>285724594
>implying she still has it

depressing, all these lolis trying their hardest but they will never be the protagonist. ice skating is brutal huh

>>285730690
Flat.

>>285725572
Only reactor I watch for the show, it's nice having an insider perspective and actually boosts the credibility to many parts of the series. She's probably gonna cringe though once the olympic level routines become commonplace and it becomes a little difficult to suspend disbelief.

>>285732241
just like real life

>>285732558
It's actually not that weird, especially if there's a prodigy that's driving the field forward. Take a look at the scores during Mao Shimada's last year as a novice:
https://www.jsfresults.com/National/2021-2022/fs_j/nationalnovice/data0205.pdf
Aside from Mao herself, who had a Hikaru tier performance, the rest of the top 5 also had international level performances, with all triples aside from their Axels. What separates "Olympic level" and "Japanese National Champion level" are the GOE's and it's hard to portray GOEs without being extremely technical.

The new episode was amazing. Really intense and beautiful to watch.

>>285732698
I'd say quads in novice are a little out there

>>285732950
You'll find those in Mao's program. Having two Maos in a generation would be... improbable, but that allows us to have a story. If anything is unbelievable it's the sheer number of Triple Axels

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>>285728987
More like stupid director-san
Imagine taking a character who has extremely little screentime and giving them even less. The mangaka loves all her babies but the anime just focuses on the protags.

>>285731618
Are you me? I feel the exact same way.

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>>285733442
Birds of a feather perhaps

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>>285730814
can confirm
i LOVE both

>>285731618
This is a pedotroon show.

>>285726083
Yes actually, I also want to pamper them for doing a good job.

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>>285730886
Same energy

>>285733515
Inori is getting too tall, bros...

>>285731618
Real, I just talk with my family about it.

>>285733938
It wouldve been better if they were highschool girls. Easy. Instead of child abuse and sexualization

>>285734253
I tried getting my mom into it. She read volume 1 at least but nothing more beyond that.

>>285734299
She finished at the very least, that's good.

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>>285734294

>>285734294
reddit is that way

>>285733394
It's one of the problems with anime, that it often suffers from tunnel vision. Sure you have to be clear who the story is about, but adding a headpat had been night and day.

>>285725572
The difference is Yuri on ice was just drama on ice skates while medalist is a legit sports anime

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>>285734165
She looks really tall in that one frame for some reason. This is her later in that performance. Taller than she was at the start of the series, but still quite small.

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Is shoving your crotch into the judges' faces really a legit skating move?

>>285735073
GOE +5,000,000!!!!

>>285735073
Mating ritual.

>>285735073
why do you have that on your pc?

>>285735073
Do you have the full video?

>>285735578
I made it right now to show you.
>>285735611
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oKPtuA4_w

>>285735698
Why does no one in Medalist do that leg bendy thing during their spins? The spins in Medalist are so boring

>>285735698
Anyone watching this is a creep, unless youre literally a parent of those kids

>>285736075
I respect people more than have figurines of Illya/Kuro than something like this.

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TWO coaches?
What a skank.

>>285736288
I respect people who aren't unlikable assholes with retarded opinions.

>>285736454
Inori has two coaches too.

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>>285730283
All the songs are credited in the ED.
Yes, they're made for the show.
Only Inori and Hikaru's first performances were to real classical music.

>>285736288
It's a handmade garage kit.
I respect the people who make stuff like that far more than those who buy an ebin cunny prillya figure just for that ironic lolicon internet cred

>>285736689
illya is actually designed to be sexy, but medalist characters are pedobait.

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>>285735073
ERAI!

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>>285735877
>Anyone watching this is a creep

>>285736900
Im charitable, i dont think all lolicons are creeps. If you are looking up videos of real kids then youre just a pedo, creep is an understatement.

>>285735877
>american opinion

>>285737006
what does it have to do with America?

>>285737118
With how their society works. Kids are only supposed to get into contact with their close family, other kids, or teachers. Anything else is regarded dangerous, creepy, even pedophilia.

>>285731903
Same as the rest of us, loli figure skater wife.

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>>285736962

>>285728730
I just want to see the scene where she gets her quad. There's a vivid picture of exactly how that should look in my head and I want to see if they can live up to it.

>>285735698
What's even the point of putting pants on the girls in the anime when irl they use regular leotards and no one complains about it?

>>285728730
imagine waiting 2 more years for 3 episodes of content. and several more years for S3 (if it even happens)

>>285738213
the manga is phenomenal. no reason to watch the anime anyway

>>285728730
I imagine this will be the final scene of the season, but maybe they'll repeat it in the movie

>>285728730
I really enjoyed the brief period of emo inori who wanted to crush her enemies

>>285738343
I see it as a Kare Kano situation where both manga and anime are good, but the anime tones down all the drama and women moments which is good for people without vaginas.

>>285734294
The manga heavily relies on, and deals with, the whole concept of figure skating, which you have to start very young in order to even be the least bit competitive. The heroine is worried she started too late and she's fucking eleven.

The series doesn't just have young kids as the MCs, it directly explores what this means for such a physically intensive sport. The coaches commiserate on how dangerous it is, and her coach has to learn how to properly get across certain issues to a literal child in ways you don't often see, with stories usually more content to let characters only be children when its funny or adorable, and then immediately grasp more serious topics. The fact that their physical growth impacts their performance is also important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52p8L8TXmuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHOfgYQPn3M
Why aren't these available in 5 dubs and 23 subs?

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>>285737963
Because of feminists.
You can't attack the actual athletes and their costume designers, they have backing from people of high social standing and even the government.
But anime creators and fans are a far easier target to bully.

Basically the new ep was amazing. Lots of tension, lots of beautiful skating. The season has started out really strong and I'm glad it did because the first one was a great watch through and through. Between this, Frieren and Kaya chan this anime season is looking great to me.

>>285740717
Clown world

>>285740507
Salchow, do your thing!

THEY THINK I'M A FOOL!
THEYTHINKI'MAFOOL!!!

>>285740717
You fail to understand the intention of the feminist mind. It has nothing to do with having easy targets, but everything to do with making men as miserable as possible.

>>285741023
How does covering up little girls make men miserable?

>>285740994
I DON'T CARE
I DON'T CARE

I
DON'T

CARE

So uh.. is Inori just going to swoop in and defeat everyone like a final boss or something? The season hasn't given any focus on her

>>285741455
Yeah she's just gonna jump in, do an octuple axel, say nothing personnel kids with a smug face and walk out with the gold medal

>>285740507
Westoids are not the target audience.

>>285741455
Inori IS the final boss

>>285741593
>>285741656
I see, so it's like saki then

>>285735073
>/sp/edo arrived

>starts late
>speedruns and becomes an olympian anyway
Inori is the villain

>>285741059
Feminists are just women, and women hate it when other things (hobbies, science, hunting, sport, whatever) takes attention away from them. Other women especially. So when a feminist sees competition for male attention and resources they want to eliminate it. In other words feminists don't find "sexualized little girls" an issue from a moral standpoint but because they are competition.

Beauty uplifts the soul and that's why fanservice is so beautiful. Eroticism is life itself, and fake morality needs to be obliterated regardless if it's from the side of feminism or religion. We need more porn, more sex, more fanservice, more loli, more pantsu.

>>285741455
After this competition Inori goes from a nobody to being a considered one of the most formidable skaters of her generation. It's literally her greatest moment in the series so far.

>>285741741
What kinds of stories have you been reading/watching up until now to give you that idea?
The hero is usually a young underdog, and the villain is usually a confident elite.

I feel like they can easily make a game out of what the show has. The models already look like idolmaster models. not saying it's bad, it just feels like it will lend well on mobile devices for instance.

>>285742054
They don't want your dirty oji-san money

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>>285741455
Did you skip the previous episode?
She drew the penultimate skating order. Wait for her turn.
By the way, when rewatching I noticed an error here: They swapped Waka and Manaka's actual skating order in this episode of the anime, but in this scene in the previous episode where they preview the skating order when it's decided, it's show in the original manga order. Sloppy.

>>285742054
I would pay for a medalist princess maker game.

>>285742030
Yukari started from a young age, traning more than anyone else. Inori just appeared and crushed everyone. Don't let her attitude fool you, she will eat you

>>285742204
no I mean in s1 they gave much more time into inori preparing, like in back stage and stuff. I suppose we're 'over' most of the psychological or environmental obstacle now so there's not much point in just putting a camera on her all the time. Just felt kind of odd 2 ep in that's all

>>285728851
made me wonder if there's a larger point deduction for smashing face first into the wall compared to a normal fall penalty

>>285742608
This is Inori's initiation into the sorority of skater girls so it's important to show them all off as some of them become recurring characters.

>>285742366
*Hikaru
Fuck, I got my Garupan cables crossed

>>285742477
Is he sinking in quicksand?

>>285742204
honestly, anime is impressive
each character has its own individuality, like look at their hair
so colorful and pretty

>>285742608
She'll get a few flashbacks when her turn comes up, probably. Just enjoy the jobbers for now.

>>285742804
But I don't want tons of randoms sluts.
I want worm girl and wolf girl.

>>285743081
Hikaru isn't really gonna appear much at all this season. Gotta wait until the movie for that.

>>285743081
I'll take the tons of random sluts

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>>285742804
>each character has its own individuality, like look at their hair
and eyes

>>285743493
Get behind me, Satan

>>285743493
I still don't get how that eye works. are they open or is she one of those 'closed but scary when open' character

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>>285742804
The manga is the impressive one, the anime is just playing "paint by numbers"

>>285743756
You're not supposed to know.

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>>285743829

puppets next week, this is our time yunachads

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>>285743081
>Me, lying down
>Hikaru squatfucking my dick with her hands on my belly angry because I didn't fuck her first
>Inori french-kissing me besides me as I play with her cunny
>Miketa sucking my balls and anything that oozes from Hikaru
>Ema sucking on one of my nipples and playing with the other as she masturbates
>Mīhi kissing my neck and saying dirty things
>Kanna grinding against one of my toes
>Manaka grinding against the same leg
>Kobuta getting finger-fucked by me
>Rinna panting and having spasms besides us (I fucked her first)
>Yō letting me use her thighs as pillows and enveloping my head in her floral-scented hair and saying lovely things
>The rest of the girls kissing and touching each-other around me
>Suzu in the cuck chair

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!

>>285728554
swiggity swooty

Is today new episode day or is that tomorrow?

>>285744745
it was yesterday

>>285728554
Spinzaku much?

>>285744206
haha
stupid sexy idiot

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FLAT

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>>285745529
C U R V E

>>285745705
I'm not a lolicon, her proportions are mathematically proven to be aesthetically pleasing. Now it all makes sense!

>>285743795
>Hikaru sitting amongst the thrones in the background
Art.

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>>285746203
>her proportions are mathematically proven to be aesthetically pleasing
True
>I'm not a lolicon
Less true

>>285737190
Its true in the west in general. Japan is not that different, there are simply more creeps that are open about being creeps

>>285746995
Not really.

>>285745529
JCs aren't this flat....

>>285723904
Will Salchow make subs this season also or do I just bite the bullet and go or the dubtitles?

>it directly explores what this means for such a physically intensive sport.
so every sports anime ever
>The fact that their physical growth impacts their performance is also important.
obsessing over physical development of children is creepy

>>285723904
Why are her hips so wide

I wonder if we'll see Main perform. It's weird what a nothing character she actually is with how much screen time she got around her introduction. I'm not sure we've seen a single panel of her in competition

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Happy (belated) birthday, Hikaru!

>>285747551
>no argument, just asserting that a completely normal thing is "creepy"
yeah you're just a mentally ill freak, fuck off

I might judge people for lusting over most of the girls but I would never judge anyone for lusting over Rinna

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>>285737963
Even the manga is using censorpantsleotards now

>>285747783
she will rape me

I'm unreasonably disappointed that the end of Manaka's song doesn't have an audible synced up gun bang sound. I always imagined one every time I read the chapter in the manga.

>>285747741
fanartists struggle being placed between the need to draw a child (from canon) and the desire to draw something sexy (from their biology)
and so you get children with wide hips

>>285747914
I thought Manaka skated to a kpop song

>>285725572
Didn't a couple pair skate to the actual Yuri on Ice song the Olympics after it aired

>>285739570
>a Kare Kano situation where both manga and anime are good
And both go downhill at the end for different reasons?

>>285741802
Is she though? Especially given the complete and total collapse near immediately afterwards that makes it hard to buy into that she'll have a clean win on anyone important in the story or the narrative.

>>285749615
>Is she though?
Yes. She was handpicked to represent Japan in international tournaments. And she even won one of them. Having one bad result doesn't mean everything is over.

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I want to kiss those pudgy sheep cheeks so bad

>>285749816
The problem is that the narrative itself doesn't show or treat any of that as actually important. Her winning that competition was IRL important and meaningful, but from a narrative PoV, it only mattered in that she qualifies in the finals to vs Iruka and compete in the All-Japans. Outside of that, it's just her winning another smaller competition of little narrative importance. The series just isn't giving any of the sports parts the actual weight and significance they need and derserve to feel meaningful imo.

>>285750233
Literally every time we see her skate, we see people around her be amazed how good she is. She has real achievements, beside just winning tournaments, like being chosen to represent Japan and qualifying for the Grand Prix Final. I don't know how "the narrative" could possibly be any clearer about Inori being one of the formidable skaters in her generation without making her into a second Hikaru who just wins everything by default.

>>285750233
Retard, no one agrees with your schizo shit, stop bringing it up.

The weird part of how the story is structured is everyone - characters, narrative, readers, etc - act as if inori is under urgent time pressure to catch up to hikaru. but the olympics are like 8 years away. the way it's structured basically forces it to be repetitive and frustrating unless there's a big swerve coming

>>285750911
Then why is your dumb fucking ass commenting like retard who thinks he had a thought?

>>285750634
By having her actually WIN sometimes. Her last on-screen win was literally two years ago and the other was relegated to background event that the narrative just treated as a qualifier for the actually narrative important ones.

>>285751067
Pretty much this. And with Hikaru pretty much having near infinite resources at her disposal, it's pretty much non-existent that she'll ever catch up.

>>285751328
and yet catch up she must, by metanarrative necessity. the only questions are when and how, and can it be written in a satisfying way

>>285751709
It's that metanarrative necessity that makes it a problem. Hikaru is so obscenely talented as is and now has as much training time as she needs, an Olympic Gold medalist coach, international condecorated choreographer, full medical and physical therapy staff, it's just too much. I just can't see a convincing way to do it.

>>285727968
It's the paternal instinct you never got to use.

>>285752097
A man from turkey showed up to the summer olympics and out shot everyone with both eyes open and no gear. It's time to get your head out of your ass or continue so far up it you see the light again.

>>285728314
That's nothing compared to the other reccuring threads about anime with young girls as a theme.

>>285752097
prediction: something happens to hikaru, inori (after moping over not getting a chance to defeat her on the ice) takes hikaru's place as the genius of her generation, and we get a big timeskip where the roles are reversed and hikaru has to make a comeback to catch up to inori.

>>285752411
The fact that you equate Yusuf Dikeç's accomplishments with this series and Inori vs Hikaru just marks you as a know nothing functional retard. He was already a multiple European and World champ before he won at the Olympics you fucking dumbass.

>>285729313
Why do you want porn about little girls in their sweaty leotard? You're weird, anon.

>>285752636
Cry about it

>>285752500
I...dunno how to feel about this one at all and feels kind of unsatisfying. Like Inori's only REAL chance is for any of her serious rivals to get injured.

Inori has more talent though
Hikaru will plateau no matter how much she trains but Inori will go past that because she simply has more potential

>>285752097
Hikaru had most of that at the start of the series, and Inori still managed to catch up and surpass her in some elements anyway. Rioh had everything he ever needed from the start, and he was left behind by a girl he literally taught himself. Even Hikaru recognizes that no one (except Jun) is as obsessive about figure skating as Inori. And anyway, Inori probably has access to better resources than Hikaru does right now anyway, since she's one of the Japanese Figure Skating Association's chosen skaters.

Demon Lord Inori

>>285752924
>And anyway, Inori probably has access to better resources than Hikaru does right now anyway, since she's one of the Japanese Figure Skating Association's chosen skaters.

Disagree for the above stated reasons. The rest has too much variance. Like Hikaru surpassing Rioh just highlights her talent if anything and being obsessive can only take you so far vs talent.

>>285752702
Not sure I'm seeing that at all. Obsessive hard work yes, but raw talent, Hikaru just beats Inori hard. Potential is up in the and the series NEEDS to start showing instead of telling.

>>285728554
>KEEP ON TRUCKING!

>>285742637
Fall is -5 GoE no matter how you fall

dunno what you guys are talking about. Inori is a pathetic loser. Absolutely pathetic, jobbing one competition after another after her initial young peak.

>>285752636
I sure love it when retards derive their entire world view from hearsay and memes, like using that shooter as proof without knowing anything.

>two combo jumps
>four jumps
>three spins
>"a program that combines ten techniques into a single step sequence"
Fucking retards at Hulu can't count to ten and thought the single step sequence referred to the performance as a whole instead of being one of the ten techniques

>>285753365
I can tell you've never done a sport let along work for anything

>>285753365
Obsession is all that matters.
The people who do the best on top of being absolute freaks of nature, are also obsessive to the point of destroying themselves

>>285726085
Only girls like Demon Slayer.

>>285729392
I tried to watch the actual sport and it's so boring. Love the anime (at least S1) though.

>>285729392
Has anyone done a fall compilation?

>>285751067
Figure skating is really fucking expensive.
You think she could continue skating for 8 years if she didn't get government support as a potential future olympian very early on? Not a fucking chance.

>>285754818
For the element score, sure, but what about the presentation score?

>>285756088
You also get -1 overall score and the element is counted as performed.
Falling isn't penalized that harshly otherwise people wouldn't go for high value jumps and combinations.

>>285743756
She just has hairy eyeballs

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Next week

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I started watching S1.
Are the TV and the BD version the same or did they change or improve stuff?

>>285757814
why is this predator so nice

>>285757814
BD is exactly the same with larger filesize

>>285757402
ever since I watched episode 15 two days ago and made the mistake of revisiting the manga to remind myself what comes next, I've been rereading Yuuna's and Inori's performances every day and crying each time, send help please

>>285755518
Please understand, the way that the Japanese use commas and の for lists of components that make up one big thing is really confusing for people who've only studied for the JLPT N2 and never read a Japanese book in their life.

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I swear I'm not a lolicon but if someone doesn't hold me back...
>>285756217
Falls also penalize your maximum component scores, but if you're Jumpmaxxing anyways you weren't getting anywhere near the maximum anyways

>>285729313
It's not a gacha game nor a shounen

>>285757402
>>285758377
Yuuna and Iruka deserves their own spinoff.

>>285757820
She enjoys playing with her food.

>>285757820
She's the opposite of a predator. She's just looking for someone who can give her a worthy fight.

is Hikaru like Hisoka?

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>>285757820
don't be fooled, get away from her Inori

>>285723904
Happy birthday, Hikaru

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>>285757820
She can seamlessly jump between daddy's girl and a succubus

>>285724594
I want to ruin her career with back to back pregnancies

>>285761875
Hikaru is such a qt3.14 when she isn't in wolf devourer mode.

>>285757402
Anon I...

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Did you know, the song Manaka skates to here, "Straight to the Top", was sung by her English VA? That's really cool

>>285765466
English VAs singing is inherently uncool.

>>285765607
I liked the song

>>285765466
>english VA
Don't care, if I did I'd say kill it with fire.

Why was Jun going to obscure locations looking for exceptional lolis?

>>285765634
I get it but that shit just reminds me of the early 00s and I get a bad case of the cringe.

>>285765699
When you're number one, you can do whatever the hell you want.

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>>285758795
>She enjoys playing with her food.
Exactly

>>285765699
Why aren't you?

>>285766511
I need 200 pages of Hikaru dominating Inori, Jun, the cat, and whoever else. Those eyes tell me she's in charge and she won't stop until you satisfy her or die trying.

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>>285766607
>>285765699
That reminds me of that h-doujin about a Jap tourist going to shithole countries to fuck brown lolis

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>>285767407
Sorry. I was meant to use this pic.

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>>285723904
I waited a year for this... ToT

>>285765466
I was really surprised when I saw her name in the credits. I remember seeing her in a japanese tv program about go (the boardgame) like 10 years ago. I guess she's still living in Japan producing music. Good for her.

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the fact that this is an official video

>>285768145
Whoever is running the YouTube channel is good at keeping the content up

>>285768145
I miss the cat. Where is she? Is she ok?

>>285769098
She's in my basement and she's fine, don't call the authorities or come looking for her.

Anyone else surprised the Russian guy spoke Japanese? I though in the manga he and Hikaru were talking in English or something. I thought in the manga he couldn't even speak Japanese.

>>285769392
In the manga, they spoke in "horizontal Japanese", which indicates that it's supposed to be *some* western language in-universe.
In the anime they'd have to decide whether it was Russian or English, then force Hikaru's VA to butcher it in awful pronunciation no matter which they chose, and for what? No one cares.

>>285769659
I think accommodations should be made for viewers suffering from autism

>>285765466
>dub VA and a random youtuber with 142 subscribers
lmao
did they use their entire budget for the gookshit OP?

>>285771764
I don't know what they're gonna do in the future when some of the songs they skate to are actually kind of important to the performance and their motivations during the plot.

>>285734163
in other news: The first Saki chapter was published 20 years ago.

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I would the wolf

>>285769098
She won't be appearing for next season or the movie.

could hikaru still skate perfect while pregnant?

>s1 final few episodes
>holy shit everyone is so good I wonder what the ranks above are like
>s2 first few episodes
>holy shit everyone is so bad and keeps falling over I'm sure the rank below was better
Just me or am I imagining things?

>>285776454
thats because the low rank are main characters

>>285776454
The skaters are doing more difficult programs.

is it my eyes or did they hand animate the 4 npc girls skating? really? in this day and age? where did the monies come from

>>285776607
rotoscoping isnt really animation

>>285776607
If you have a unique design but you don't get to appear much, it's actually cheaper to hand animate than to make a model. Manaka and Riina appear in the OP and had longer screen time so it's worth making a model for them that can be reused.

>>285777407
Cute boys, in my ice-skating anime?

>>285777886
I think Rioh is cuter than half of the girls

>>285777886
that's a girl

Cute homewrecker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUilXtc8NL4

Which of the girls actually want to fuck their coach?

>>285778353
Inori

>>285775316
and that's why I dropped this shit. Cat should have been the mc.

>>285776347
She’s like 10 bro.

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>>285777900
I wonder what would be the blue bird boy's reaction to the red bird boy trying to charm Inori.

>>285767548
The singular /a/ true medalist fan...

>>285776454
>holy shit everyone is so bad and keeps falling over I'm sure the rank below was better

Meanwhile, Yuzuru Hanyu won his first Olympic gold in 2014 despite falling twice in his program. When you aim high, it's easier to fall.

Salchow subs released for S2E1
https://nyaa.si/view/2072282

>>285779955
Are they good?

>>285776454
please understand, the mangaka decided to expositiondump the fall mechanic in this arc

>>285780160
>are fansubs better than dubtitles and daisytitles
who knows retard

>>285780332
Fansubs can be pretty garbage, especially when they're outright trollsubs, retard.

>>285780373
yeah like we never heard of salchow subs before doubleretard

>>285780397
Last season everyone was complaining that they were shit.

>>285780440
who's we outside of a few dipshits? they were good and the definitive way of watching season 1 outside of it being raw.

>>285780451
Sorry to offend you, Salchow PR representative.

>>285780525
i represent my own experience and you're retarded considering no better option exists

>>285780569
You just assume they're better, but you don't actually know.

>>285780787
I do because I watched it. Why would you make an easily debunkable statement like that, retard?

>>285781006
How would you know just because you watched it? You would have to watch the official subs too and you would be able to understand Japanese well enough to make a reasonable judgment. I bet you can't even provider any cherry picked examples to demonstrate which subs are better, but even if you did, it would mean nothing. Definitely you can't answer a simple question calmly, without going into rage like a mad retard.
Anyway, you sound like an absolute faggot, the type who isn't liked even on a shithole like 4chan. You only have yourself to blame for having a confrontational, abrasive, unlikable personality. It will do you no good.

>>285781263
>this fagassed autist having a melty this bad
holy shit lol
lmao even
rofl also
stay mad forever retard

>>285781354
You're the mad retard who can't answer a simple question, gets obviously mad, and whose only triumph in life is when he thinks he got someone else mad.
Now you even post like 15 yo retard zoomer who forgot that he isn't on discord.
What's next, posting a s*yjak?