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Apr 9, 2022 1:59 AM
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To be part of the Yokohama Minato badminton team is never the easiest thing, especially in front of the team's ace Kenta Yuso.

The middle schoolers get a thorough introductory practice grueling by Coach Jin and the stinky attitude of ace Kenta, and they're definitely not kidding around with absolute precision with knocking down badminton tubes within 2 mins. Koki, the Higashiyama twins Taichi and Yuji, Shohei and Ryo all gave it a go to mixed results, and most particularly for Ryo trying to match what Kenta did to get a tube down. It's intense training for high school badminton teams, and the 5 middle schoolers definitely wasn't expecting to be that intense from the get-go.

Hah, Shohei's cheezy "confession" to Ryo about his badminton and desire to play doubles with him, it was all fun. And therein comes the graduation of Ryo and his 2 friends from middle school Shizuo and Hirohito as they bid farewell towards each other, and are beginning to chase their own dreams.

Certainly a lot better than the premiere episode.
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Apr 9, 2022 3:38 AM
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Some good character building there and making bittersweet memories. And promises. Nicely done so far.
Apr 9, 2022 3:39 AM
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Another good episode. So far, I have liked this more than Ryman's Club.

I love that cat. :3

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Apr 9, 2022 4:58 AM
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This show is setting itself up for something notable but as it stands it's lacking a lot, and the directing is poor
Apr 9, 2022 5:42 AM
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See? He'll be fine! Not the best form, yet, still, its a fun practice. Looks like even the prince of badminton already set an eye to our mc boy. So that quite guy was from Shanghai? Not surprising with his skill like that. Really looking forward to see more of him. Ah his sister was so wholesome, keep me awake through the end. The last sequence feels like a dejavu. Or am i trippin hard there? Focus!

Very weird episode, but i take all of that.
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Apr 9, 2022 6:23 AM
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Already better than fricking Rymans Club, really enjoyed the first half of the episode especially, with the accuracy drill. I've never done it in badminton, but have done so many times on a tennis court, practicing serves.
Apr 9, 2022 7:45 AM
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Some nice group work, and a confession lmao

The after graduation scene could've had more prominence, it wasn't executed as well as it could've been
Apr 9, 2022 8:28 AM
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Much better than first episode,it still feel very very classic,the mc does a good job at being your regular joe,even if i don't really like his simping

Soundtrack is pretty nice,it sounds like something from Yuki Hayashi,might be my favourite part of the anime from now

Still not like a lot of people here i find Ryman's Club far superior in a lot of aspect.
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Apr 9, 2022 10:15 AM
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Ok better than the first ep. They are out of middle school now.
Apr 9, 2022 10:49 AM
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Yes, the confession! Very amazing episode, I could almost smell the aroma of adolescent life.

I actually find Yusa to be a good senpai because he provide the right amount of challenge to his kouhai.
Apr 9, 2022 4:00 PM

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this anime has soul, my favorite anime of the season
Apr 9, 2022 6:21 PM

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Pretty decent but i guess this is it for me.


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Apr 9, 2022 8:10 PM

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Looking really, really promising actually! The plot is honestly quite lackluster, but there's plenty here on offer to make up for that. Of particular note is how naturally this anime establishes friendships between characters. The conversations characters have are quite convincing in a way that's hard to explain; it's just so natural and genuinely makes me care for the characters. It's rare to get dialogue so natural, which helps put this a level above the crowd IMO.
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Apr 9, 2022 9:37 PM
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The clip on tv Ryou Mizushima was watching with his sister on tv is from a show called the detective is way ahead..
@Crow_Black this is how much i love mystery that i can pick out which mystery show in a 1 sec clip..
 

Apr 10, 2022 1:25 AM

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I'm loving this show more!!

Sakaki-kun really is a funny guy. The meat head type of character you see in every anime. The teasing is really funny.

Mizushima-kun, Shizuo-kun and Hiroto-kun just graduated!! It's the last day of their of middle school.

I miss my highschool days too. Being with my close friends, graduating and separating.

Ughh I love life.

FOCUS!!!

They'll see each other again as opponents.

BTW I really loved the ED song.
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Apr 10, 2022 3:58 PM
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How are people already saying this is better than Rymans club
Apr 11, 2022 2:50 AM
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nath260504 said:
How are people already saying this is better than Rymans club


Rymans club uses unrealistic shounen tropes while this one is actually realistic. But still giving a 6/10
Apr 11, 2022 7:16 PM
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ropiel said:
Much better than first episode,it still feel very very classic,the mc does a good job at being your regular joe,even if i don't really like his simping

Soundtrack is pretty nice,it sounds like something from Yuki Hayashi,might be my favourite part of the anime from now

Still not like a lot of people here i find Ryman's Club far superior in a lot of aspect.
Because it is Yuki Hayashi...
Apr 12, 2022 3:47 AM

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that was reaaally nice. love how they're already so close with each other, and i like how shanghai guy isnt that "closed off but is super good so it comes off as cocky" character type. yeah he's not as friendly as the others but he responds normally and isn't afraid of being direct, cool stuff

im not gonna get my hopes up since this is still the 2nd ep but that was pretty good?? :o
Apr 13, 2022 8:30 PM

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I liked this more than the first episode.

The animation is better than I gave it credit for and there were some parts that felt inspired like when the 3 friends were staring at the bridge in silence before going their separate ways.

My worry still remains that it will end up being a casualty of a packed anime season. I’ll keep watching for now, but may need to improve sooner rather than later to keep me interested.
Apr 15, 2022 11:29 AM
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the episode was great the music was good too cant understand how is this a 6.67 rating on mal
Apr 19, 2022 3:22 AM
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wtf xD what is this garbage you talking about sir??????????
May 12, 2022 10:42 AM

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I'm tired of seeing that one unrealistically rude character. And this one just went bitch mode in front of the coach and the coach didn't say shit but instead he smiled...or am I mistaken, is that a thing in Japan for teammates to be this rude to other juniors in front of the coach? In my country, the coach would give them a warning like if they did it again they would get kicked out from the team.
Jul 23, 2022 9:49 AM

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This is quite interesting in the story aspect and the animation iitself is not bad.
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