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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- More of another built up episode I guess. I still have a lot of confidence in Eiirchirou's abilities. I think Eiirchirou needs to focus on his ability to fight against forehand and speed. Anyways, his next opponent should be interesting. What I get from the episode is that he will likely face quite the trouble soon. Sasaki's reactions were a bit priceless this episode imo. |
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| Wow, I didn't expect Ei-chan to win again! :D His chibi form was really adorable! I wonder what he meant by drawing a picture.... |
| My least favorite tennis match is coming hate this drawing guy. |
| "Even villains have standards" -Accelerator-  |
| Looks like Eiichirou is going to have a hard time in his next match. I assume even more so now that he can't read his opponent's eyes clearly because Iwase wears dark sunglasses. |
| Good episode....the next game is my least favourite but it is still enjoyable. Ei-chan and Natsu has great chemistry together as usual and lol at their reaction by Mike comment his mind focusing on romance. See you all next week. |
| People talks about Ei-chan now! Mike seemed really friendly, just a little weird though. Ei-chan is that influenced just by thinking about Natsu ^^ Sharp memories and learning that tennis is also a mental battle. Raising from nothing to something sounds really motivating! Can't believe the sixth seed match ending so quickly and in such a margin. Just with a little momentum and Ei-chan can do that much already. That talent is unstoppable! To the third seed! |
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| Oh yeah Eiichirou won another match. He just keeps on improving. Can't wait for his next match. |
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| It was really awesome seeing (well we didn't see anything though :P) Maruo crush the 16th XD Nice :D Mike's training method was quite interesting and unique ^^ Lol'd at how he teased MaruoxNatsu :3 Iwasa doesn't even care about Maruo lol...I feel like Maruo is gonna lose this one. |
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| Eiichirou managed to win the fourth round rather easily, but it seems his next match, against the third seed, will be a really tough one. |
| Little bit of Natsu x Eichiro moment XD They are so adorable together, shame the romance is really slow. Megane girl has no chance with Eichiro and she doesn't even know it. Man, Eichiro demolished his opponents.. I love the coach's reaction! That demolition against the 16th seed! It's like watching Netherlands - Spain |
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MoeGod said: Little bit of Natsu x Eichiro moment XD They are so adorable together, shame the romance is really slow. Megane girl has no chance with Eichiro and she doesn't even know it. Man, Eichiro demolished his opponents.. I love the coach's reaction! That demolition against the 16th seed! It's like watching Germany - Portugal Corrected. |
| "Even villains have standards" -Accelerator- |
| Wow, Ei-chan won again!!! And Mike's psyche training is interesting. Good thing Ei-chan has a sharp mind which helped him. But I am kind of worried with his next opponent. He is kinda weird. |
4kicks said: Looks like Eiichirou is going to have a hard time in his next match. I assume even more so now that he can't read his opponent's eyes clearly because Iwase wears dark sunglasses. Basically this worries me so much for Ei-chan's next match But idk man, I probably have a soft spot for Iwasa just bc he's a megane and the artistic type lol Had a good chuckles on how Ei-chan's imagined the kiddy drawing about Iwasa and his "I see a picture of the match" (or sth like that) hahaha |
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| Eiichirou is making lots of good progress. That mike guy seems like an interesting character, wonder if Eiichirou will contact him. The next person he is facing seems interesting as well, I have a feeling that Eiichirou is going to find the match tough. |
| I liked how they showed the difference in personal space tolerance between Mike and the two players, Mike is clearly more of a touchy feely type of guy and would like to be just about 30 cm closer than Ei-chan and Natsu are comfortable with. |
Please don't feed the trolls! In my next life I want to collide at the corner with the cute transfer student carrying a piece of toast in her mouth...rodac |
| Good episode, but I wish we could've gotten to see even a little bit of Eiichiro's match with the blond guy. |
| Pure domination by Ei-chan in the 4th round. The next game looks to be a tough one. Isawa...it should be interesting to see what type of tennis he plays. |
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| Really good episode, loving how the anime's flowing really well :) His relationship with Natsu is portrayed perfectly, they are so cute together. I loved the coach and "anikis" face after the victory, i'm feeling like he got really strong. He must be able to enter battle mode all the time now. Its following the manga so well.. Ei-Chan is portrayed perfectly also... i'm hopping this will get renewed for a season 2 :x |
StormBoiJun 22, 2014 4:00 PM
| Damn he rekt that kid. |
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| Great job Ei-chan! And I'm liking Iwase already. I wonder how far Ei-chan will get in the tournament. Will he be able to beat the 3rd seed? I feel it's unlikely, but that Ei-chan will have a close game or give Iwase a good scare. I would love to see a second season of this. I want to see Ei-chan become stronger still. |
| Baby Steps is good as usual. :3 Expect next opponent will be two to three episodes long. Wonder how they'll adapt it~ Oh! One thing I wanted to remark on is the Eichiro and Natsu angle. They actually, you know, spend a lot of time together talking through stuff. That's rare in both western and eastern depictions of romantic relationships. |
currycurryJun 22, 2014 4:54 PM
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| Ei-chan's beat that guy like nothing. Iwase might be a tough opponent |
| I wish we could've seen some clips of Ei-chan vs that blonde guy, but at least Wimbledon is starting in the wake of a build up to another interesting-looking tennis match for him. These next few weeks I'm not gonna be able to breath for tennis lol. |
| Natsu-Mike face was funny. Almost spit out my tea lol. I wish they showed us how Ei-chan crushed Terashima :( |
"May those who accept their fate be granted happiness." "May those who defy their fate be granted glory." |
| Ei-chan learned something very useful from Mike! Although he beat Terashima without much difficulty, Iwasa will prove to be another challenge...especially with his special way of playing tennis! |
| Wait what, did they just fooled us? I thought they would have shown the match with the blond guy, he seemed much a relevant character from its design but I guess I was wrong. Anyway, the next opponent looks pretty interesting. Looking forward to see the match. |
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| Good episode as always. Like how all of Eiichirou's improvement is shown and explained thoroughly. |
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| Lol, he should have went all out from the start and the face he was making XD. Hahaha, luck counts as talent. So two days until his next game huh... Mike's voice sounds like that of someone who's rather old lol. LOL, this coach is really to funny, combat mode, facing-a-woman mode and romance mode XD. Ei-chan vs Terashima! LOL, he beat the crap out of Terashima and we didn't get to see anything T.T So Ei-chan vs Iwasa is going to be next! |
| "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." |
| We should have more Mike. he's great. |
| Im not sure who I like better for Ei-chan, Sasaki or Nat-chan. Nat-chan doesnt seem to be the typical tsun tsun I thought she was going to be so thats a plus. But Sasaki's my favourite type of girl. I liked the image training this ep. I think I'd be good at that. Wish we got to see the match with the sixteenth seed tho. |
| I finally picked up something that my tennis coaches haven't taught me. Mental training. Wow I'll try that memory thing tomorrow haha |
| Aww Ei-chan and Natsu relationship in the anime is even more sweeter, both are so adorable. Also great to see Mike and I like his voice here. |
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| That Mike reminded me of master Roshi and that grand Kai He did gave some incredible good teachings in one day, teasing Natsu as a bonus For Ei-chan to advance to the top eight right after was impressive, the match wasn't even presented with Sasaki and his friend arriving late His next oponent seems to be a robot |
| Go Go Ei-chan!!! Didn't expect him to win again but I'm happy that he did :) His next match should be interesting! |
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| Unfortunately we weren't able to watch his fourth game, just to get to see the score and the sweat. |
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| Good episode, nothing spectacular though, still pretty nice to see Eiichiro making progress. Disappointed that we didn't even get a glimpse of Eiichiro's match against the blonde guy. |
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AcceleratorAngel said: MoeGod said: Little bit of Natsu x Eichiro moment XD They are so adorable together, shame the romance is really slow. Megane girl has no chance with Eichiro and she doesn't even know it. Man, Eichiro demolished his opponents.. I love the coach's reaction! That demolition against the 16th seed! It's like watching Germany - Brazil Corrected. That's more like it. It would have been nice to see Maruo destroy the 16th seed. |
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| Ahh.. the next opponent is cool. Hahaha the game ended when she came.. tough luck. |
| does one day with mental training really make that huge of a difference? plus isn't it even more work now for the match if he has to focus on memories and such? one thing i like about this anime is that the matches aren't too dragged out and only highlight the important moments, rather than dragging out one match into several episodes as shounen usually do. BUT i do wish we at least saw SOME of the match with the banana boy |
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| I find it odd that we saw Maruo learn the crucial skill of visualization... but it didn't expand on it. And in fact we didn't even see a glimpse of how it helped him in the last match that it skipped past, all we heard was how it helped him. I wish we saw that a bit more before going into the Iwasa match. "A competitor should never doubt his victory. He was responsible for his own luck", is a beautiful and helpful line. I also really appreciated Mike's line "Alike technique, one needs to train their mind through practice". I happen to hold a lot of this wisdom already, but the way Baby Steps expresses it is fantastic. I would show anyone in any competitive game this anime to help them improve, especially someone just starting out. |
| Mike made me feel uncomfortable this episode, I couldn't take his Japanese accent seriously whatsoever here. I've heard my fair share of anime foreigners speaking in Japanese but this was weird to hear lol. Other than that, pretty slow but solid buildup episode. Maruo crushed the 16th seed, not shocking given how he did play really competitively against an opponent much better than the 16th seed and he even got training from Mike to help him get on a groove a lot easier. Iwasa's the next opponent for Maruo so hopefully Maruo can put on a show and try and progress even further past the quarterfinals but we'll have to see. The Eiichiro-Natsu moments were nice as usual. Pretty cute whenever it happens from time to time. Sasaki freaking out too when meeting Maruo post-game was nice too with her tsundere antics. |
| Eiirchirou's ability could use a bigger ups :P |
| 6/2 over the 16th seed? Generally, there's a bit of letdown after a big upset, so for him to back it up like this is pretty good. I don't really buy it, but that's neither here, nor there tbh. I'm just along for the ride at this point. I still find it weird that they're only playing a single set of tennis. Even first to nine games would be more believable. Best of three with a final set TB would have been the way to go IMO. Plus that's a massive draw as well lol |
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