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Aug 9, 2021 8:28 AM
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Some of the guys feels like jobbers compared to the ones Akira's team faced in recent episodes.

Still, this episode felt like an info dump and buildup. Yuuri seems fired up and ready to take on anything in her way. Oh and Akira made a bold move himself even knowing the potential consequences. The cliffhanger...a brave but also perhaps foolish move.
Aug 9, 2021 10:53 AM
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Looks like teams are looking for new members for recruitment and those red dragon guys were creepy ones. Luckily, Akira managed to escape with Katsuya and Yuuri. The red team looks strong and the green team on the other hand is actually looking for someone like them who is strong. They seem like nice people.

Interesting episode. Some new things we got to learn and it looks like some much more interesting is waiting for them. Better episode imo. The Green leader looks strong, he wasn't even phased with Akira's powers. Hmm?
Aug 9, 2021 10:55 AM
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The 5 vs. 5 individual battle within teams, and the 3rd Program's objective: start off with 100 points, and accumulate to 1000 by eliminating people....though to get that number is ambiguous at best.

That is, to survive this program, alliances shall be built to prolong this battle between factions. This Green group guy, Saitou Katsuya, ability: Hunter, who found Akira and Yuuri running away from the Red Idiot Dragons group sure feels quite the cinch for recruitment though, with Matsushita being able to use Akira's cannon ability as well. Whatever it is, to be recruited in the right team is a matter of discernment, and both sided with Team Green.

Between Team Red and Green, it's night and day, other than learning more about their abilities. The Green faction Head Shiasagi seems like a good leader, but their astonishment to hear abilities like Akira's and Yuuri's are one-in-a-million for them, like they've earned some big fish.

A fair bit of infodump for the 3rd Program, and it's like something out of a standard RPG. The basis is this: between Red and Green, it's the weak vs. the strong, and Blue is neutral ground. Hajime Oogani is Team Red's leader, Masaya Kuroiwa is its sub-leader...and Rin's become their right-hand man? Yuuri's choice is obvious, but Akira's is complicated, a testing of choices before he makes his final decision. Not surprised since the Sophist has to have a clear head.

This 3rd Program will make or break everyone involved.
Aug 9, 2021 11:03 AM
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Ok so this new program they’re in is really interesting. Almost like a character test of sorts. I’m really interested in learning more about red team’s leaders and the origins of the programs. The old man seems like he knows a lot more than he’s letting on. He definitely has some sort of idea about Akira’s ability.
Aug 9, 2021 11:09 AM
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This is completely different from previous episodes. It ought to be a very long arc.

Akira's hunch is right. Green team is indeed very strong, but he let the fragile image of Green's leader fool him.

Red team is an all-star villain team. There's no question about it.

Blue team is still mysterious. I think it's the team that Madoka (the stick-sword guy) and Shin (the wrestler guy) join.
Aug 9, 2021 11:17 AM
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How far does the manga go, I’m worried most of the season will be this arc, it’s not bad or anything but the vibe of the show kind of changed.
Aug 9, 2021 11:53 AM
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This cliffhanger haha.. Decent episode, i am hyped for next week. I hope they will show some good fights.
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Aug 9, 2021 11:58 AM
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That group of "Dragons" really annoyed me from the first moment they got on screen.


So wait, the mother of that baby was 3 months pregnant on arrival, so that means they have been there for over half a year, this is one massive program if so. Was nice to see Yuuri enjoy holding that baby though, that was really precious in otherwise a dark and events.

Ah, we got the bruised this time without a censor on Yuuri's new sister.

I wonder if the Green Team truly is as weak as they say they are. The old geezer didn't flinch when Akira pointed his hand towards him. Could it be that he already suspected to be more behind Akira's ability? It's all quite mysterious still.
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Aug 9, 2021 12:09 PM
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WTF, did Akira just shot the Green team leader, or was he testing the Green Leader's ability???
Aug 9, 2021 12:14 PM
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Horn_dawg_2019 said:
WTF, did Akira just shot the Green team leader, or was he testing the Green Leader's ability???


Yea he shot him , he is dead
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Aug 9, 2021 12:22 PM

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What the hell is this ajsdfk


Hmm, meh, nothing really relevant happened apart from the cliffhanger at the end

Good guys vs bad guys, let's see what we see in this stage 0.0
Aug 9, 2021 12:46 PM

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This low-key turned into The Walking Dead. But that loser quartet from Red was more like Jiggle Butt Gang xD

Green gotta have their strenghts and I wonder what Blue is like. Guess Kirisaki and Kumagiri could be with them. Looking forward to this arc.

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Aug 9, 2021 12:47 PM
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Ngl when Akira fired that canon at the end that was lowkey hot
Aug 9, 2021 1:07 PM
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Wow, I was stoked that he found a group of good people to work together and help keep everyone safe, and then this F'n stupid MC does something that was a total shitty thing for the protagonist to do. Let's point a Gun at the Good gun who wants to fight the bad guy. A few weeks ago he's a loser nerd, but now all the sudden he's willing to try to kill an innocent old guy? Didn't make sense for the character, didn't make sense for a supposedly good protagonist and I just hated it.
Aug 9, 2021 1:25 PM

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This episode felt meh to me, due to because Mion didn't get any screentime at all, so this episodes universe and scenario felt small to me without having her take on perspective.

I assumed by the end the cannon activated by Yuuri.
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Aug 9, 2021 1:28 PM
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The comedy quartet was mostly the 3 Stooges + Banana Head. Once again everyone talks for 30 seconds between attacks and no one dies. The most so far was a beer bottle upside a head. Slut Puppy is comfortable in her new nest and our hero MC decides to test out the leader's ability. Info dump indeed!
Aug 9, 2021 1:39 PM

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I’m guessing that guy made himself believe that Akira’s power is cannon to test his power and it worked, the other glasses guy is aware of Akira too. We’ll see where it goes from here
Aug 9, 2021 3:11 PM
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It was not as good like the past episodes! Its kind of dissapointing...
Aug 9, 2021 3:12 PM
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That old guy definitely knows what Akira's ability was, im kinda hype for the next episode cause of the cliffhanger

Aug 9, 2021 3:34 PM
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Hmm so now there is a totally different program with three teams, seems like they'll join the green team but it's weird how Akira acted toward their leader at the end, and I guess he knows about his real power... The red team will be very annoying for sure.
Aug 9, 2021 5:11 PM
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Akira in the situation of those at the end of the episode was even afraid of the green team discovering his real ability, the red team seems to be the villain in the battle, the most optimal episode with the actions of the red team.
Aug 9, 2021 5:51 PM
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Oh wow, the third program really turned out into the real generic survival game at its best.

The objective is very simple, 1000 points. Akira already had 100 points. One person knocked down, 10 points earned, which is need at least an exact 90 people to complete the program. There's a lot of interesting ideas that can fasten up this so-called program, one example comes up from my dumb mind:
Imagine if Akira can convince people (no, just one, i believe) to believing his ability into the area of effect one. The program will be an easy peasy for him. Since the green, or said its the red team, already create such a community under a one place. You just put some few bombs, or something similar, i dunno, whatever you want your ability is. Then, bam, you completed the program.

The problem is ofc the story will never be as simple as like that, since there's still a lot of things unknown, especially to the other ability, how they chain reaction against the others. More importantly, i know that how this Akira dude really can't let it easy to clear. So, yeah, they use the difficult route, and ofc its cost up, maybe, until the end of these season, which most likely to be the truth.

Okay then, a very well done setting up if i can be honest here. But nothing really stand out because this is just a mere build-up. So, lets see next...
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Aug 9, 2021 6:34 PM

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ngl, this show has grown on me a bit. It went from something I was thinking about dropping to being one of the shows I'm kind of looking forward to during the week.




Aug 9, 2021 7:03 PM

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I'll start by saying that I do not dislike this show.

However, it's starting to be quite obvious that this show is a blatant Darwin's Game/HxH rip off. I just don't see how this arc will get interesting from here on out.

But I'll continue watching for now.
Aug 9, 2021 7:24 PM

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Seems like the bitch is on Red Team and Red Team is trash...I think we will see some more Heads roll.

Yuuri holding a condom in next weeks episode...oh boy lol
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Aug 9, 2021 9:35 PM
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Btooom! vibe...aye.
Aug 9, 2021 10:15 PM

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Oh wow, another guy with the ability to turn sticks into stuff. Oh wow, another guy with the ability to turn their own hands into cannons.

The new program thing is very interesting but the unoriginality of the abilities of some characters disappointed me. Still looking forward to the next episode though, this little disappointment won't stop me from watching this.
Aug 10, 2021 3:38 AM

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Pretty good episode! But why we gotta have a banana shaped dude in here lmao. Makes sense that people will have similar abilities, but I wonder if there are other people with Akira's ability, I feel like sophist is tailor made for him. Though the green faction leader questioning his cannon ability might disregard that theory, but it's possible the leader was just making sure he wasn't lying about the cannon.

I have a feeling that the leader of the reds that has the braids ability is the same as Yuuri, with the way the greens leader hyped it up. It's definitely useful for Akira to have a companion, Yuuri became hostile to him when he was threatening the leader of the greens which allowed him to activate his cannon. Judging from the preview the leader is definitely not dead, either he has the ability to nullify his cannon or the ending scene baited us lmao. Looking forward to the next episode.
Aug 10, 2021 3:53 AM
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I really love battle strategy, and this show pretty much lacks in every other aspect. Not enough fighting this episode for me. It also looks like the big arc it's setting up isn't going to be all that good. There isn't enough motivation for killing to force the stakes to the level they've been at so far. The battle royale elements were toned down a little too far for my liking.

as for the ending, it's kind of dumb. Anyone with a brain knows Akira isn't going to kill him because A: this is a generic show and they wouldn't be that ambitious. And B: Akira has no motivation to kill the old guy. In fact it's within his best interest to stick around and figure out why the old guy's managed to be such a big shot. If team green sucks this bad, then he's gotta be one helluva leader (and a tactician) to be able to hold out this long, and even have the confidence to consider open conflict.

Also Akira's power is so interesting, but they've done nothing with it aside from the cannon, which was interesting to begin with but is starting to become stale.
Aug 10, 2021 11:10 AM
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Yuuri was kind of cute this episode ngl.

I can see the red team being the main antagonists for this whole district plot point especially with how rin joined

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Aug 10, 2021 4:12 PM

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Wait, how the heck do they have all this crap built when the programs have only been going for at most a few days. Unless the group of victims Akira came in with wasn't the first batch kidnapped for these experiments and the anime just did a really poor job of conveying that.
Aug 10, 2021 4:35 PM

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Red_Ranger_Wien said:
Wait, how the heck do they have all this crap built when the programs have only been going for at most a few days. Unless the group of victims Akira came in with wasn't the first batch kidnapped for these experiments and the anime just did a really poor job of conveying that.

I think they said the baby's mother was brought in when she was 3 months pregnant or something so they have been there for a bit at least. Show is kind of a mess though.
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Aug 10, 2021 4:40 PM

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Majikkusesu said:
Red_Ranger_Wien said:
Wait, how the heck do they have all this crap built when the programs have only been going for at most a few days. Unless the group of victims Akira came in with wasn't the first batch kidnapped for these experiments and the anime just did a really poor job of conveying that.

I think they said the baby's mother was brought in when she was 3 months pregnant or something so they have been there for a bit at least. Show is kind of a mess though.

Yeah that line threw me off. I figured MC would've at least commented on it since it would be new info to him.
Aug 10, 2021 4:45 PM
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At this point some people are trying really hard to not admit this show is actually pretty interesting and levels above what anyone expected, at least the score going up is reflecting it, seriously, best episode of the series, i totally not expected to be a actual "society" inside one of the programs with actual conflict and different interests, really interesting.
Aug 11, 2021 6:50 AM

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w0w! Looks like each Leader of every Faction is extremely capable and not to be taken easily! this show is getting wild!!!
5/5.


Aug 12, 2021 8:39 PM
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Actually the program3 longed 45+chapters
And the anime will cover 1-3rd program.
They didn't also explain on how strong those 4 wierdos from red team and many things its just the anime is pretty bullshit compared to manga but even so this anime score would go up and you'll see what i mean on the rest of episodes.
Aug 13, 2021 5:00 AM

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Awww Akira and Yuri's awkward moment was so good LOL

I've always been a big fan of this anime ever since episode 1 and it keeps growing on me with each episode.

Akira is pretty much better than 99.99% of other protagonists.


I also really love the performance of the seiyuu Murase, he has been phenomonal.
Aug 13, 2021 11:44 AM
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Your as have readed the manga will this anime have reaöl romance or only love intress?


BTW: This ep was overall good but the end was best. But why didnt Akria know the team things?

7/10
Aug 15, 2021 12:58 PM
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The new program is definitely interesting. If there will be a faction war, that will be very interesting. Also introducing all of the characters from each faction will be quite difficult in the span of this show if it is going to be 12-13 episodes, so I am interested in how they will progress without overloading the episode.

Excellent op and ed, and I can't wait for next week.
Aug 15, 2021 9:05 PM

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Can't help but feel proud of those team names. Far too creative for the likes of someone like me.

This 3rd program feels stupid to me, but hey, the show up to this point has been terribly dull anyway, even when they attempted to do something exciting. Nothing new there then, lol.

Aug 18, 2021 11:25 AM

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So now its extended faction warfare? Let the games begin.
Aug 24, 2021 3:54 AM

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Uhh, feels like a completely different show.
Aug 24, 2021 8:16 AM

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If Akira's ability is like an illusion, then how did it block the Red's cannon? It should still hit them, right?

How Akira's cannon took some time to appear when targeting the leader of green, that was intriguing. I hope they give a proper explanation about that later.
Oct 5, 2021 2:03 AM

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Truly strange how nobody, not even Yuuri who was chased by him, made a comment on banana-shaped head there. I can see why Shirasaki is green's leader with him being unphased by Akira's cannon there.

Nov 10, 2021 2:33 PM
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When you meet the green team leader, obvious questions:

-Where ARE we?
-Have you seen the end of this forest? Is something keeping us inside?
-How long have you people been here, when you even have newborns?
-How can you feed people with just some small fields of crops?
-How do you protect a fixed position surrounded by a wooden palissade against enemies with highly destructive weapons?
-Do you know more about the people who kidnapped us and where the magic powers come from?
-Have you talked to them? What did they say?
-Do you have a plan for getting out of here?
-Why are you called the green team and the neutrals blue, when red vs blue is the usual color scheme with green as neutrals, and especially if there is a forest?
-Why does that red guy have a crescent-shaped head and why does the woman with the round head lack a nose?

Instead:

I'm gonna shoot the guy to see if he can survive it. He says he can, and I don't care if he's wrong. No doubt they'll let me stay anyway. Probably the office and those inside it will be fine if he has a way of diverting the blast.
Nov 27, 2021 5:46 PM

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Yuuri and that little girl look very cute carring the baby, and by that I mean, they look submissive and breedable.

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