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Feb 5, 2023 9:59 AM
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Heh. So much English in this episode. Saori sounded really cute. ^^ I just felt a little sad to see her so discouraged.

Fortunately, everything went great after all. Good job, Saori! I loved the performance.

Those foods looked delicious.

Lol at that ending.

SerafosFeb 5, 2023 1:33 PM
Feb 5, 2023 10:06 AM
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Nice work!! Saori!!!
Laura's seiyuu is Uchida Shu who grew up in Sydney, no wonder why she can speak English for the entire episode. yes! yes! That's her Shu-chan.
AkeZZZFeb 5, 2023 10:27 AM
何それ?意味分かんない
Feb 5, 2023 10:07 AM
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Rika bike scene made me want another season of Bakuon for some reason.

This episode made me feel second hand anxiety, with Saori trying to speak with Laura.
Is good that everything ended well, but I feel was a kinda dick move from Rika, even not on purpose, to not help with the meeting.

Feb 5, 2023 1:06 PM
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BlichoBoy said:
Rika bike scene made me want another season of Bakuon for some reason.

This episode made me feel second hand anxiety, with Saori trying to speak with Laura.
Is good that everything ended well, but I feel was a kinda dick move from Rika, even not on purpose, to not help with the meeting.

Eh. Rika suggested joining the meeting but Saori said it will be even harder to concentrate if she will be there. Also, funny how they incorporate seiyuu RL quirks into the character again considering Rikas VA has a YT channel about biking.
Nachtwandler_21Feb 7, 2023 12:43 AM
Feb 5, 2023 5:58 PM
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AkeZZZ said:
Nice work!! Saori!!!
Laura's seiyuu is Uchida Shu who grew up in Sydney, no wonder why she can speak English for the entire episode. yes! yes! That's her Shu-chan.

I remember watching the Trash Taste episode with her. She’s very talented and funny!
Feb 5, 2023 7:37 PM
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This is absolute garbage.

I feel like I'm watching nothing, staring at a wall.

The 1st season is a masterpiece, absolute 10/10 for me, this is a stiking pile of shit, not worth watching.
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

Feb 5, 2023 7:46 PM
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Ay an episode centred around merm4id!

A whole lotta english this episode with Merm4id collabing with a very famous producer Laura Bradley and with the obvious language barrier it was hard for Saori at first to communicate with her but in the end she pulled through and they made a pretty good song D.M.F !!



Feb 6, 2023 1:01 PM
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What happened this season? I loved the first season's way of introducing the characters, but it feels like I'm just watching a bunch of random promo episodes for each of the bands, and it doesn't even go into each member's personalities. 
Feb 6, 2023 10:01 PM
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SHU UCHIDAAA

Maho English? (teaser) This is the most hype I've been for this all season.

...Which is not much, I'm with some of the others here and on Reddit that are feeling very mild about this show. But I'll trudge through to the end for this one. I liked the song, that effect on Marika and Rika's solo lines was really magical. I might go back and give some more Merm4id songs a listen.
Feb 6, 2023 11:26 PM
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Nachtwandler_21 said:
BlichoBoy said:
Rika bike scene made me want another season of Bakuon for some reason.

This episode made me feel second hand anxiety, with Saori trying to speak with Laura.
Is good that everything ended well, but I feel was a kinda dick move from Rika, even not on purpose, to not help with the meeting.

Eh. Rika suggested joining the meeting but Saori said it will be even harder to concentrate if she will be there. Also, funny how thei incorporate seiyuu RL quirks intp the character again considering Rikas VA has a YT channel about biking.
Yes! My wish to see Rika riding a bike scene referring to her seiyuu Hirajima Natsumi (Nacchan) is now became true! I'm pretty sure that Nacchan would be very delighted to see her D4DJ character riding a bike.

Rika bike is based on Suzuki Katana GSX-S1000S maybe? (CMIIW)
MetalicZicFeb 6, 2023 11:35 PM
Feb 7, 2023 1:25 PM
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Extremely lackluster and disappointing featured song that does not suit Merm4id at all, as well as a story leading up to it that makes no sense. The worst episode by far. The first four episodes made sense and were enjoyable but this was like watching paint dry while flies tried to ruin it. Boring and painful
Feb 7, 2023 5:00 PM
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Great ep, the collaboration with that american producer girl was a good idea :)
Feb 7, 2023 6:38 PM
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Appeal to English speaking countries is apparent.
Next week, we e get to hear Kaorin speak English without waiting for the English dub...how cool is this???!!!

Dont forget Photon Maiden's songs have plenty of English too, so after HappyAra's focussed episode I'm hoping PM will hint about it.

CGI seems a bit underdone I think. Compared to the very well done 2D-ness of Lyrical Lily's performance, for Merm4id, you still see, especially during the panning shots, the over fluidity, and increased FPS of the 3D CGI. You dont see this in the Lyrical Lily performances. Did they missed those, or they didnt have time to 2D-nize those bits.

And why does the song sounds like its being piped through low quality speakers? Sounds shallow and hollow with alot of treble, like listening through thsoe small and crap 90s PC speakers. Doesnt sound like they mixed the recording properly. Dont mind the vocoder enhanced vocals (hevily implying that the seiyus' cant sing properly), argh, but the high hats and bass drums sounds atrocious, like they used a very cheap drum machine.
thehornedratFeb 7, 2023 6:47 PM
Feb 10, 2023 1:49 PM

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Episode was really fun and cute, but the song was dogshit and not very Merm4id-like. Loved the interactions, as a Merm4id fan, but in music terms, I am very disappointed.
Feb 10, 2023 6:04 PM

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I must say that Shu Uchida did a heck of a job voicing Laura there seeing that she grew up in Australia.  And of course, Karin Kagami did the preview in English seeing that she is the English voice of Maho having grown up in LA.
Feb 11, 2023 10:29 AM

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Saori trying really hard to overcome the language barrier and burying herself with books. English is actually a pretty difficult language to learn. It's not something that you can learn in a day or two (that goes for virtually any language), so it's no surprise that she wasn't very successful. She tries to memorize and use set phrases she learned from books when talking to Laura, but of course repeating the phrases verbatim can and often sound awkward in a real conversation. By contrast, Rika is able to easily connect with Laura - her charisma and body language was able to overcome the language barrier.

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Mar 26, 2023 3:54 PM
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Idc if I’m the only one but that song was trash. Way to much auto tune. I feel like I’m listening to mumble rap and every auto tune singer after tpain
Apr 29, 2023 2:23 AM
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I not feel this season is as exciting as the s1, it's feel to plain for me, kinda dragging to continue watching this after watching 5 episode but still trying to continue it until decided to drop it if the story just stuck like this, ahh so a draw back after the s1 is so enjoyable but the s2 so a let down
Dec 17, 2023 7:23 AM
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It was so great!! saori ga totemo kawaii desu!!

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