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Apr 30, 2018 6:57 AM
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This was so strange. The way the show operates with these guys with the masks on their faces...

At this rate, it feels the comedy is pushing to get all the characters into the spotlight, not just the magical girls/guys. It was so strange seeing the two main leads taking a break/vacation. An episode about making anime lol
Stark700Apr 30, 2018 7:18 AM
Apr 30, 2018 8:04 AM
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at the beginning i thought i was watching osomatsu-san xD
"Gradually Watermelon"
Apr 30, 2018 8:06 AM
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They should fire anyone that still think the production joke is still work.
Apr 30, 2018 8:15 AM
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I can't believe this show has a filler episode like this.. disappointed.

Apr 30, 2018 8:46 AM
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This whole episode was one big WTF... ._.'
Apr 30, 2018 8:50 AM
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I'm... not sure what to think of this episode O-o That was weird and totally non-sequitur and felt like there were a lot of in-jokes that went over my head...
"EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!"

"PLUS ULTRA!"
Apr 30, 2018 9:46 AM
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Oh wow...an episode produced by the Fujimotos...that was COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED...

Totally filler episode...oh God, why???

Instead...the expository went towards the issues of the anime industry as a whole...can't even think...
KANLen09Apr 30, 2018 9:50 AM
Apr 30, 2018 9:51 AM
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i thought it was a pretty good filler
Apr 30, 2018 10:12 AM
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that was a waste of 25 minutes
Apr 30, 2018 10:15 AM

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I'm so confused.
What was this?
A strange filler episode???
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Apr 30, 2018 10:20 AM

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this show is a worthy successor of Pop Team Epic

I honestly don't know if this was the most brilliant or most retarded episode this season.

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


Apr 30, 2018 10:32 AM

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Anime was saved, gotta praise this thing.
No tomo malas decisiones, solo me gusta apoyar causas perdidas.
Disfruté Mayoiga, Ou-sama Game, Evil or Live, Mirai Nikki, Big Order, Arifureta, Ex-Arm, Tesla Note, Shuumatsu no Harem y Platinum End
nope les falle con esa, lo siento pero todos tenemos nuestros límites.
Así de jodido es mi gusto en anime, ¡Y estoy pinche orgulloso de ello!

Apr 30, 2018 10:42 AM

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is no one gonna mention how this is a parody of the Shin Godzilla movie?
Apr 30, 2018 10:43 AM

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I don't know what this anime wants to be or is trying to do any more. I don't think it knows either...

Oh well, that was pretty enjoyable even if it was kinda pointless to the main plot.
Apr 30, 2018 10:50 AM

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A very strange but very lame episode. Didn't even find it that funny this week.
Apr 30, 2018 11:00 AM

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I was so confused lol I don't even know what this episode was. It had its moments though.
Apr 30, 2018 11:12 AM

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that was shit, guess it's filler
Apr 30, 2018 11:16 AM

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So we can conclude this show saved anime, right?
Apr 30, 2018 12:23 PM

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I'm not surprised people here missed the point of this episode but this was a big fuck you to the entire anime industry and studio pierrot. I have many questions. How did this episode get aired on TV? The director even deleted his twitter account.
Apr 30, 2018 12:41 PM

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Lmao everyone's over here like "this sucked" "filler shit" etc etc and I'm over here like this was the best episode of this series so far. Love the ultra-meta take on it, and perfectly timed for Golden Week in Japan. I don't like this series much anyway, maybe a 6/10, but this episode actually made me like it more.


Apr 30, 2018 12:55 PM

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This was amazing oh my god
Apr 30, 2018 1:36 PM
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this was legitimately funny and i wish the rest of the series was like this
Apr 30, 2018 2:53 PM

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Wow over 20 minutes to set up an obvious joke at the end. It wasn't even a funny joke.
I could feel my brain melting as each boring minute passed.
Apr 30, 2018 2:54 PM

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This is how you do comedy, filler or not this episode is really enjoyable and it felt like watching Osomatsu-san
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Apr 30, 2018 3:09 PM

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J_LEE_C said:
Lmao everyone's over here like "this sucked" "filler shit" etc etc and I'm over here like this was the best episode of this series so far. Love the ultra-meta take on it, and perfectly timed for Golden Week in Japan. I don't like this series much anyway, maybe a 6/10, but this episode actually made me like it more.

Agreed. Comedy is hit or miss and this wasn't what people we're expecting so its understandable i guess. Thought it was hilarious though.
Apr 30, 2018 4:29 PM

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This show keeps getting weirder and weirder. How weird can this shit get?
Apr 30, 2018 4:53 PM

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I don't even know what to say. It was certainty meta af.
Apr 30, 2018 5:14 PM
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Osomatsu-san season 3 got leaked
Apr 30, 2018 5:52 PM

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I don't even know what to say...
It's not the Slates that is essential to people. What we need is...
Well...
A small table to share a meal... That's more than enough.

That's my conclusion. The answer I've reached as the Silver King.
Apr 30, 2018 6:11 PM

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I don't know which one is funnier: the content of this episode, or these people slanting a meta.
Apr 30, 2018 7:05 PM
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Haha, so funny, saki saki saki πŸ˜‚
Apr 30, 2018 7:42 PM

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feels like a parody of shin godzilla i notice
Apr 30, 2018 8:02 PM

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this was kinda funny in the beginning, but then i skipped. i'm here for cute girls turning into macho dudes, i don't care about these cyborg guys all looking the same.

plus, it's a filler, so i won't really be missing anything :P
    
Apr 30, 2018 8:57 PM
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When last week's next episode preview was just a bunch of processed filtered photos, I was already wondering what they were hiding, but I definitely didn't expect that an episode called "Magical Girl - On Vacation" was going to be something like T h i s,, You can't say they didn't warn us! hahahaha h a

well, i'm a fan of osomatsu-san style comedy, so i enjoyed this angle of genre hi-jacking. even though i might not have (had the time to) burst out laughing at any one joke, i know my jaw was just permanently dropped through the entire episode at how many jabs they were throwing at the whole anime industry, and i'm still shook.

there's probably more shows that have japanese crunch time rush too, but personally, i remember the end credits sections for the last few eps of yuri on ice that were painfully cramped with external key animators and other staff. watching this makes my heart go out to all the people who help make sure an episode gets out in time.

i do wish this episode came later in the season--perhaps as an epic tease of an entire filler episode smack dab in the middle of a tense cliffhanger. but hey, it's golden week, the fujimotos are still relevant at this point, and reducing how many characters have sparkle shoujo eyes they need to draw, animate, and color and replacing them with mob charas with scribble eyes probably saved a lot of time in production too.

this ep was so wild.
Apr 30, 2018 9:18 PM
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I get what this episode was trying to do and make fun of, but whilst some of the jokes were great, the execution on the whole was terrible. The tone of the episode was thoroughly blindsiding, which was only made worse after the previous episodes' pacing problems.

I'm liking the series okay so far and I will keep watching it (especially considering the preview we got for next week), but for this one... it has been a VERY long time since I considered dropping a series mid-episode. And I'm a completionist by nature.
Apr 30, 2018 9:59 PM
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This episode is disappointing
The top 1 comedy this season has been taken by Hinamatsuri since episode 2, and this show is crashing
Apr 30, 2018 10:42 PM
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This combined with the Shirobako announcement was just fantastic. It all clicked with "we're out of options!" :D
Apr 30, 2018 10:52 PM

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Magical Girl...on Vacation. I guess they timed this episode for Golden Week.

Self-awareness at its finest! They probably used this episode to save up for the next one. Well this isn't the first time an anime made fun of its own studio. Fushigi Yuugi back then also did the same thing calling Studio Pierrot "cheapskates". Not as satisfying as the previous episodes, but I'll take it. I just hope the anime industry isn't going have trouble this season like what this episode was showing.
May 1, 2018 2:36 AM

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this episode made me confused haha
I was looking forward to seeing Saki and Sakuyo transforming but instead I had to watch the cyborg siblings >__<
May 1, 2018 2:39 AM

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Never watch a meta parody of many things into one episode at 2 am in the morning. I bet this is a nod to the hard working animators on this series... And the girls are on a vacation.

A filler with a meta filler.

Also:

Ryuseishun said:
is no one gonna mention how this is a parody of the Shin Godzilla movie?


Oh gosh I wish I have known that but I’m not a Godzilla girl... But it’s worth sharing this experience to my fan friends!

"Everyone go love Cyan!"
May 1, 2018 3:13 AM

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Omg, I'll pretend I didn't see this.
May 1, 2018 3:29 AM

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HAHA! this episode is totally hilarous and out of the line!
This episode made a direct hard hit concerning production problems and obstacles and hindrances!
5/5!


May 1, 2018 5:48 AM
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hilarious episode and it was the exact thing I didn't know I needed.
May 1, 2018 5:53 AM

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Please, do not put those androids back again PLEASE

THEY ARE TOO BORED.
May 1, 2018 7:20 AM

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Diidn't understood half of the shit, but still better than the Mahou Shoujo adventures from the previous episode.
May 1, 2018 8:23 AM
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I liked how meta the episode was, but I wish it was done in a more humorous manner. That Shin Godzilla reference, lol.

But yeah, this episode was kinda stale, but still had its moments.

3/5
May 1, 2018 9:48 AM
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??? wat ??? that was an odd episode
May 1, 2018 11:07 AM

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Could somebody who understood the references and everything that was paraodied on this episode explain it briefly? I'm interested in hearing about it.
May 1, 2018 2:05 PM

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I want to know all the parodies too xD
I think this episode would be funny to people if they understood most of the reference; a lot of times I was going like huh? because I didn't know the people's names and how the anime production/process works xD but it was still enjoyable

References I found

I'll try to find more and add on C:
AritanMay 1, 2018 2:14 PM
May 1, 2018 5:50 PM

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Wowwww. Just wow. Probably the most meta and out-of-left field episode ever.

Started with a clever nod to Osomatsu-san. The blue lines thing made me laugh. Thought it was going to end after the OP but no... This episode took a completely different and bizarre direction. Basically made a dramatic story about tight outsourced anime productions, with metaphors and Cizilla. DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. The plot was just... no. But I really appreciated it! I feel like it might have been understandable if you pay really close attention, and actually this episode could be a very interesting commentary on stressful anime productions that hardcore anime fans should check out. I couldn't stop watching because of this, but sadly I was lost throughout, and the comedy was mostly very weak. And them some woman who I can only identify as Rebel Wilson shows up... like what xD

I'm simply fascinated by this episode, but I'm ready to get back to the actual Mahou Shoujo Ore plot. Looks like next episode is gonna have come close interactions with the 2 girls and a whole lot of manservice...
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