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Jun 8, 2024 8:46 PM

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Just because you're at the top doesn't mean you need to push all your friends away. We thrive on social interactions and relationships, truly. I mean think about it, when you go out and do something with someone the experience is so much more fun than if you were to do it on your own. You don't share memories with anyone if you do things alone.
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans"


Jun 8, 2024 8:49 PM

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OK, It's already 10 episodes in, I like Wind Breaker, but probably the highest cringefest this season have. Mostly coming from dialogues, I mean most of their dialogues can be cut and still make the intent known tbf, Hell, if you want to include they can verbalize it as their internal thoughts. This probably make sense in manga medium but when translate into anime it feels jarring to outright cringe tbf. I always dreaded the anime part of when there's no fighting due to this issues which is weird since in most fighting battle shounen, this is the part where I look forward the most.
@niknasr if you wanna see real cringefest this season, go watch Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
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Jun 8, 2024 9:32 PM

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Slower ep but I like Umemiya's affirmation of characterization. I think maybe the conclusion was a little drawn out and they could have alluded more to the next arc. But I don't mind these kinds of wholesome character "talking" eps . Can never remember the long black hair Bofurin guy's name but he's so enjoyably awkward, fun to see his weird facial expressions.
Jun 8, 2024 9:41 PM

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@niknasr if you wanna see real cringefest this season, go watch Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
@cooldogmom I think the guy you replied to has a point about dialogue pacing, especially transferring from manga to anime, but yeah I don't think emotional dialogue makes a show "cringe" (or as some others have suggested, "gay"). I would much rather have imparted passions in a melodramatic high school fist-fighting anime, than vapid nonstop action from characters that don't have backstories or reasons. People raved about the fight episodes just a few weeks ago but have STRONG overreactions when the drama and story come out. But that's clearly how Wind Breaker is and will be. Yeah I think the talking can be paced slightly better, but the talking itself is not inherently a negative.
Jun 9, 2024 12:12 AM

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At least they won't fight anymore and the city is much more safer for now...
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Jun 9, 2024 2:23 AM

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This show is starting to get quite irritating with how often it beats you over the head with the same morals over and over again. The entire "I'm happy because I have my friends with me" thing is already something we've figured out last episode. I don't see why they felt the need to dedicate a full episode to repeating that message again.
@Artemis_Furrson Seriously, it's so overwrought. There was nothing to get out of this episode but sap, and it wasn't even really earned. The bad guy's turnaround is pretty ridiculous, so we're describing the emotions at length without making it anymore convincing. I'd probably drop here if it wasn't so close to the end.
Jun 9, 2024 2:25 AM
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Bio said:
@Artemis_Furrson Seriously, it's so overwrought. There was nothing to get out of this episode but sap, and it wasn't even really earned. The bad guy's turnaround is pretty ridiculous, so we're describing the emotions at length without making it anymore convincing. I'd probably drop here if it wasn't so close to the end.

Honestly it was quite nice at first. I was glad that the characters were getting along after the fight, but I was also ready for the show to move on instead of spending a whole ass 20 minutes dwelling on it.
Jun 9, 2024 7:56 AM
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Some people say it's too gay, don't listen to them
Jun 9, 2024 9:48 AM
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So, it's the aftermath of the fights we had, everything is returning to normal. Interested to see where the plot goes from here.
Jun 9, 2024 12:35 PM

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Hey the Tsundere MC is actually really fun and his antics were good this episode like this so far.
You know the British Empire was pretty cool, we definitely peaked with it.
Jun 9, 2024 11:23 PM

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Boring episode, they are pushing the friendship, can't be alone blah blah blah to the point where it's just overbearing.
Jun 10, 2024 2:37 AM
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Damn Umemiya charisma is unmatched.

What a development for Sakura.
Jun 10, 2024 2:12 PM

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Ume-chan advices can actually work in corpo life, or whatever you want to apply them to, I think xp
Jun 11, 2024 3:37 AM
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In short, Sakura has a long way to go to reach the top. haha
Jun 12, 2024 12:06 AM
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And to end ... a party boys!!!
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Jun 14, 2024 9:41 PM

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After such a long fight they called it a day Chouji and Togame had a meal with Sakura and his team. At this point it’s just a regular old civilized school anime, no delinquents here. Characters are still shallow in terms of depth.
Jun 14, 2024 11:38 PM

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A friendship meal after a fight, that's totally Umemiya's style.

Sakura finding Umemiya and Choji's fight baffling, and Togame offering his apologies alongside Choji, it's the return of tsundere Sakura to form. Choji asking about Umemiya's form of fun after reaching the top, he really isn't thinking about that, and just wants to hang out with people, something which Choji overlooked, and Umemiya glad that he could regain it before it's gone forever. That's Umemiya's reason for not losing sight of the top, being a people-person who understands the rationality of people enough to not forget about them. When all is said and done, both Choji and Togame have a lot of work to do reforming Shishitoren, now for the better.

With the guys back home, Sasaki's incident is cleared, and Umemiya has a discussion with Sakura about his conversation with Togame, though that pushes his tsundere buttons of fists being another way of communication. That said, Sakura still wants to get to the top, but he can't do it the same way Umemiya does, though he sees potential in Sakura to do the same.

Sakura, keep being a tsundere gangster.
Jun 16, 2024 5:34 PM

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Whole lot of yapping, whole lotta cheese, got me feeling lactose and queasy.
Jun 17, 2024 3:05 AM
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Tbh it was a decent ep but the school vs school fights were more interesting
Jun 17, 2024 12:54 PM
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The outcome of this fight was very anticlimactic. Umemiya could have changed Choji's mind without the motivational (sappy) speech. That part completely broke the flow of the fight. I think this anime has a good message, but it's delivered in the wrong way.
Jun 24, 2024 12:56 AM

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Umemiya's so easygoing he loves to just have fun spending time with his friends. And blushing Sakura's always a sight to behold lol
Jun 27, 2024 7:13 PM
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Well that wraps things up. As I discussed in the previous episode, I don’t believe they delivered the non verbal aspects of these fights quite well because I didn’t understand what was truly going on until it was EXPLICITLY EXPRESSED BY THE CHARACTERS INVOLVED. If Wind Breaker was two seasons and the first season established Hajime’s rise to the top and then we have this part that introduces Haruka, then I think that could have worked. Given that we don’t know much about these characters in nine episodes, I simply didn’t like the execution.

However in this episode it was more toned down and better expressed. Hajime didn’t make his way to the top on his own and Haruka is slowly understanding that strength alone won’t do it. He has to accept others for who they are.

The quest to the top is definitely taking inspiration from Naruto. Hajime’s conversation with Haruka is extremely reminiscent of Itachi’s conversation with Naruto. Itachi told Naruto that to become Hokage, he has to be acknowledged by others. Haruka has to be accepted by everyone else and to accept them to become the top of Bofurin.

We’ll see what comes up next…
Jun 27, 2024 10:23 PM

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Umemiya is a very motivational speaker and has great combat skills to back it up, but even he is weak to coffee in the face! All jokes aside, he's definitely a cool guy.
Jun 29, 2024 2:07 PM

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Umemiya wise as fuck man.. Wonder what he went through before for him to be able to learn so much.
Jul 2, 2024 11:53 AM
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Jun 2019
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Love how in depth with feelings this show is, very glad it's not just beatom up simulator.
Jul 14, 2024 6:04 PM

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Filler ahh episode + I’m getting more and more disappointed each episode.
They forgave shishitoren scums like they didn’t try to kill furin students for the past 7 episodes.
Also do y’all remember when Tokyo Revengers was releasing weekly, there were a loud community complaining about the lack of police and parents? Even though that show actually SHOWED police several times. Meanwhile this show doesn’t have a single adult in it let alone a police or teacher yet no one complains about it or is allowed to criticize it because according to redditors/twitter nerds this is the best delinquent(lol) anime created in the last decade.
Humans are gullible creatures they easily get deceived by flashy colors.
Therefore I take the “carried by animation” crown from demon slayer and give it to fart breaker.
Congratulations *insert evangelion gif*
@fragariamemories This show was pretty mid but TR is objectively worse and has one of the most braindead, insufferable MCs in history. I don't think I've seen a single character use their brain in that show.
Jul 27, 2024 12:45 AM

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Everybody happy, and the arc has come to and end.
I wonder what will happen in the next 3 episodes.
Aug 14, 2024 10:10 AM

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A chill little lunch break at the top of a roof and Shishitoren are friends. Also glad that Sakura is getting along with people a lil more (even though he acts kinda cringy but its whatever)
Aug 31, 2024 12:20 PM
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Nice conclusion for the Lion Head clan... now it was also nice to see how the main group is pushing Sakura to open himself and he's understanding that, Sugishita wanting to hit him at the end was funny though lol
Oct 30, 2024 7:48 AM
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Despite what it's become, it's still a sweet red bean bread
Nov 24, 2024 5:01 AM

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You know professional fighters can do what they did, eat and have fun together after fighting cause you know, they're professionals but these are kids hahaha, good on them I guess
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