No.132184
Stop trying to make me hate Kana. She supports Ruby and will graciously accept that Aqua is destined to be with her.
No.132185
>>132184>Stop trying to make me hate KanaEhh? But she's clearly the most fun and interesting character. She has flaws and character growth and all that other stuff that the others are lacking. If something interesting or entertaining happens in the story she's usually involved. She also clearly has the best faces, serious and silly.
I guess my paragraphs of text talking about Kana has probably fallen off /qa/ by now...
No.132189
>>132186>>132188Man, I don't know why exactly but I feel absolutely nothing for that girl. She was introduced as a huge fake, so it's sort of her defining characteristic to be mistrusted, but it's not like I hate her either. She's just... meh.
>>132187Perhaps Kana is being kept single to appease fans. She's pure and such.
No.132190
>>132186two tone hair is now gradient hair
No.132192
Everything is sloppy in this franchise. I wonder when the author decided that it wasn't supposed to be special and decided to go the love-triangle route
No.132193
>>132192The anime fell off when Ai died, hasn't recovered since. Kana is cute but there's not enough Kana there to make me watch the show just for her. Don't know how the source material plays out though.
No.132194
>>132193the problem is that it set up a great tragedy of a star snuffed out before she could reach her prime and then does fuckall to follow up on it just leaves it in the background so people can bring it up every so often as if it had a real impact on the story of some teens climbing their way through the entertainment industry
i will NEVER forget how hard i called it after ep 1 came out and it was brushed away because SURELY this plotline will be continued and it wasn't it wasn't at all
No.132195
>>132193Shut up and fuck your sister, Aqua.
No.132196
>>132192I kind of wish the original /qa/ thread was still around since I gave my opinion with a bunch of paragraphs there. But anyway, it's a show where the premise and story is just there in the background and mentioned occasionally. There has really been no benefit to the story in regards to the reincarnation thing. Of the 4 episodes I've seen of S2 what progress has been made in what is supposed to be the guy's vengeance? He uhh... umm... did some acting? What about Ruby? She was there in the background in a few shots, I guess. It introduced a bunch of new characters that are completely unrelated to any past life and has no relation to the great vengeance that is supposed to propel Aqua's entire reason for getting into entertainment.
I think it should have either just been a self-contained episode 1 OR it shouldn't have had the reincarnation and vengeance subplot since it doesn't matter to anyone. Just make it the Kana and Friends show because that's all it is.
No.132200
Just realized the OP image of Kana looks like she is checking dubs lol
It's really been so long I almost forgot all about that stuff.
No.132202
>>132201As expected of a talented career actor!
No.132222
>>132221the five hearts of the blade represent kana's infinite love for
1) acting
2) acclaim
3) aqua
4) humanity as a whole
5) piiman
No.132224
this series really has the best eyes
No.132228
i wonder how long this series can keep the "romance for the public appearance" thing going when their relationship is obviously one sided...
No.132229
>>132226definitely needed a reminder that ruby hangs out with male SLUTS
No.132231
there is nothing likable about this show, stop pushing it
No.132234
>>132229Ruby is just too pure for this world.
No.132235
tried to jump into the manga but it wasn't very catchy and the art was very sketchy. Barely any details went into anything. Fair enough to say that the adaptation caries the plot on visual style alone
No.132237
Oshiko has world class art direction. This week's episode probably one of the legendary moments of anime.
No.132239
if episodes were given a rating, this one would be a 10/10.
No.132241
>>132238Really was impressive how out of left field the visuals in this episode were. Had the same impact as episode 1 of the first season again, pouring emotion into a painting and conveying "Growth" (the episode's title and main theme) in a way that takes full advantage of the medium. I didn't expect for a character initially used for demeaning an industry flaw to have such a redemption arc.
I'd love to see who comes out as the key animator for that segment because it's probably the best piece of animation this year.
No.132242
>>132241probably Kanna since she basically was the reason the manga got adapted
https://kaaaaaappe.fanbox.cc/ No.132243
>>132242Seems it wasn't her, but from looking at her twitter found that she reposted the animator responsible.
https://x.com/amoji5721/status/1821207170077364465 No.132258
I hope some day my thread will accumulate enough posts to be allowed on /qa/.
No.132288
>>132285Kana looks so pretty here..... If only the show where Oshi no Kana instead...
No.132403
the story puts Kana in a really different place than the rest of the characters. She's the only one who has ever actually grown as a character aside from the purple boy from last episode.
Aqua, Ruby, Akane... others... none of them actually grow past their flaws and instead accept their place and personality, but Kana is the only one who actually has doubts and anxiety about her place and how she fell from being a child prodigy into a support character
No.132405
>>132403I understand a lot of Aqua's stuff comes later, after finding EL PADRE and trying to put things into motion, though from the looks of what the community, ahem,
discusses, it's also fairly slow and there's a good deal of indecision over it. But don't quote me on that.
No.132407
>>132406hey mom im on the telly i got the biggest reply in sight
No.132414
>>132407I WROTE MULTIPLE PARAGRAPHS! I can't remember everything I said, but it was mostly about how lame and uninteresting the twins were and how only Kana actually had any struggles or growth. As a result Kana was the person that I would obviously cheer for, and she's just generally fun with great faces and reactions, too. Oh, and the best outfits.
I don't know how you make two
magically reincarnated people so boring, but I guess a part of it is to completely ignore their previous lives and the entire premise of the story. I wonder if I should still use spoiler tags for this thing in the first episode of the first season, but I guess I'll play it safe.
No.132451
Someone somewhere compared her to Bojack. Kind of interesting comparison. Doesn't exactly fit, but feels like Bojack's story is a much more harsh telling of her childhood and career before the events of the series
No.132463
>>132406I was going to check if I had a copy, but the thread in your screenshot is still on the board.
No.132464
>>132463Wait, what... How? I looked a few times... someone bumped it at some point...
OK then! Let's see...
No.132465
>>132464Hooray! There's my post!
>>110430 Well, a bunch of the Kana posts were me.
No.132466
Yeap, I still stand by everything said in
>>108614.
No.132468
>>132467I just bit this pimant.
No.132471
>>132470Oh, the gimp pepper brush? Interesting
No.132505
Did not see the anime yet but when it comes to the manga I can agree with
>>132403, this is probably why I like Kana significantly more than Akane for example.
In my opinion the manga does a good job showing Kana's internal struggles and she herself does a good job instigating a kind of protective instinct in the reader.
I usually dislike any trace of brother-sister romance in media, but in context of
their reincarnation backstory, I find the attitudes of Aqua and Ruby towards each other pretty wholesome (so far).
The latest chapter also builds on that again a bit.My hope for the series is that Aqua will make much more use of his skills and knowledge
from having been a medical doctor in his previous life since he doesn't have to hide his competence in this regard anymore when attending medical school. I assume this aspect of him has been kept out of focus of the story to make use of it in coming plot.
No.132506
I just now realized that green is my pepper abbreviates to GIMP...
No.132569
>>132505mangabro do you know if anyone actually likes akane unironically because I never see any reasons being brought up
No.132570
>>132569From what I've seen people say, even here, people reading the manga (not me) seem more interested in shipping wars, which would imply a fanbase that's more heavily female. One of the creators is a woman known for making stuff with suffering involved and I guess she's using her talent for Kana. Do women like Kana? I don't know, but I don't see why they wouldn't. I'm sure the quasi-incest angle is more titillating, though.
I can without reservation declare that I wouldn't have been interested in this show long enough to see Kana if the visuals weren't spectacular, so maybe the anime fanbase has a more even split of genders? There's still moments that kind of put me to sleep, particularly in season 1 when Kana wasn't involved since no one else seemed like a real person.
No.132573
>>132569The description “shipping wars” that
>>132570 used sums it up pretty well.
I don't pay much attention about which characters are popular in comments as I'm more interested in subtle things other readers notice in the story. Especially in series where subtle behaviorisms in interpersonal relationships can easily fly over a guy's head, it is interesting to read comments female readers wrote about that.
No.132605
>>132570>people reading the manga (not me) seem more interested in shipping wars, which would imply a fanbase that's more heavily femaleIt's less "shipping wars" and more arguing over which girl is the best and therefore deserves to get the MC's dick.
No.132606
shab wars
No.132611
Another Kana episode, but the good times are coming to an end.It looks like it's all going to be Aqua now.
Her watercolor montage also looked blurred and low FPS but idk if it was the stream I was watching or what
No.132772
Who's that hag who keeps making her way into official artwork
No.132775
>>132771Beaten by someone who isn't even alive
No.132799
>>132798The second season has centered around Kana and yet you feel like it's wasted potential compared to the first? Maybe you're unconsciously noticing the lack of the real main heroine.
No.132800
>>132799>centered around KanaIs it? Wasn't it some dumb stage play? Don't remember seeing Kana for more than a single scene before I dropped it...
No.132801
>>132798HARD and i mean
HARD disagree
looking around the three highest rated arcs are the prologue, reality show, and tokyo blade, and the latter fucking dominates
it's got a good deal of characters trying to figure out how to best fit into a complex production by looking at themselves and the role they've been presented, how to adapt to them, with solid conflict and good payoffs
by comparison the showbiz arc is trivially simple (that's the one at the very bottom of the list with 0.56%), prologue fails to be seriously followed up on for a very long time, reality show i still dislike, and first concert i only vaguely recall a lot of explanations for varieté but not a lot of struggle with it
anyways i took a glance at 4/a/ earlier today and a leak came out, they're at each other's throats at a speed of ~3 posts per minute, and particularly shitting on aka
the term for
>>132799 is "inbred" by the way