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| I've got to agree with Yamabuki here, that machine has to be bugging rn because what do you mean that beautiful singing only got him 75 points? Who needs B-Komachi when we’ve got Y-buki right here. Anyways, yeah this episode was more about Inohana than anything, though it really just turned into a glorified date episode with the whole gang midway through lol. Kinda defeats the purpose of the four bonding together when they spent half the time separated... and the person we did this for was literally outside the mall xD Feels bad for Yamabuki here. Anytime he thought he figured out who Apollo was this episode, the other three negated his previous guess lol. |
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| Rikka’s weekly live performances at school continue to draw increasingly larger crowds. The original song she composed to win over an old friend is genuinely captivating; she clearly puts a lot of heart and effort into her singing. The relaxed moments Rikka and Arisu share at karaoke are incredibly sweet and I’m a huge fan of Rikka’s tights lol. In my opinion, Rikka is the girl who has grown closest to Arisu so far. Encouraged by Arisu to perform an idol song complete with choreography, Rikka really lets her competitive streak shine. Compared to the other three girls, Rikka shares a much more mature relationship with Arisu, and I really like that competitive.  |
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| Rikka and Yamabuki’s chemistry is so good I see why I lot of people like them. Trying to stay loyal to team Nene, but episodes like this make it hard. Arisu going out of his way to help make Rikka more comfortable performing the songs she really wants to was so sweet. It’s episodes like this where you realize why this dude is a harem protagonist. Seeing someone go to such lengths to help you become more confident in yourself and achieve your dreams would make anyone fall in love and he does it every single day with these girls. Really enjoyed their little karaoke date and the accidental confession from Rikka, but my fave part of the episode was the rooftop concert she gave the other girls. Arisu looking at them like a proud parent, not making the moment about him, but about them is so sweet. Shinobu date scene at the mall was also nice, but why did Iko run to Yamabuki for help with the vending machine when there’s literally staff at the arcade lol?? All the girls again dropping Apollo hints today is just more proof of my theory that it was probably all of them taking turns using a voice filter playing the role of Apollo. The animation and art were noticeably off at times today, I still don’t think it’s as bad as people make it out to be, but inconsistent character models are always a bit cringe to me. |
Marinate1016Feb 17, 11:59 AM
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| A Rikka-focused episode? Finally. All the girls need attention. I'm glad that all of them will probably get dedicated episodes like this. This episode was especially good because it was music-focused. Love it when seiyuus get insert songs. Even Yamabuki lol. But that Rikka singing and dancing scene was especially great. I love how bold she is. Feels different from most other characters. And I think they blew their budget with that scene which is unfortunate. The weird animation especially in the latter half of the episode was really taking me out. That's like the only flaw this anime has. I really hope the Blu-ray version will correct most of these problems. This was a great episode. It felt like Rikka revealed many clues about her being Apollo. But then all of the girls had something that connected them to Apollo, including the niche band lol. I still think it's Rikka. But now I'm wondering if all of the girls are Apollo. It'd pretty much confirm it if all of the girls are childhood friends. Maybe Rikka was the leader and the other girls would occasionally perform as Apollo to cover for her when she wasn't available. Doing a radio show alone would probably be a hassle so maybe she had help all along. That'd make sense. |
| Rikka and Yamabuki was so good this episode The chemistry between them was amazing. |
Another 10/10 sound production from INSPION Edge. Momoko Seto and Rikuya Yasuda nailed their performance really well, again!  W production from Naoto Kiyota, as well as the Zombieland Saga choreographer JUNJUN. Ofc Igarashi-sensei was credited as songwriter, too, since the lyrics were in the manga XD Can't wait to stream them on Spotify x |
dazedcowcow62Feb 17, 8:14 AM
| FAAAAAAAA we are going no where with this.... lmaoo at this point im thinking apollo was these 4 girls all along acting as an individual. or some alien shit happened and apollo split into 4 girls. lmaoo oh yeah noticed some weird animations on this ep. |
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this episode really had some great moments.....or at at least it should have  |
| Decent episode. At this point, it honestly feels like Apollo is just all four girls on the channel at once, taking turns speaking, given how similar they all are to her, haha. Nevertheless, I feel like we've been getting more focus on Rikka compared to the rest. Which ain't a bad thing at all. I ain't complaining, since I love Rikka. That said, it feels like all the other girls had their own dedicated episodes with Arisu, while Nene never really got one. I really hope she does eventually, because I love her too. She's an adorable tsundere. |
| Nice ref to AKB lol. Being able to cover existing songs is not really the same as singing ones that you created yourself. Rikka's seiyuu is a pretty good singer. The k machine's analysis sure was on point regarding Arisu's performance. Its nice to see the girls show their support for Rikka. Shinobu being embarrassed really was cute. Still its funny seeing Arisu be used as the go to rapid response asset. The hunt for the one voice still looks pretty tough huh. |
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| Ngl I actually kinda digged Arisu's singing voiced, this episode had some nice moments between them all but still no closer to finding Apollo since their all way too similar. Iko calling Arisu "Bucky" all the time is really cute though |
| Either all of them are Apollo or it's none of them at this point |
Poor Shinobu is finally paying for her "crimes" lol. If all of them really are Apollo (which gets seemingly more and more likely with every hit dropped), the girls sure are having fun coordinating to massively troll our dude with all those leads. ...Or they really coincidentally do have the same fractured interests. |
| Sound has not really been an issue with this anime but man, the visuals have been collapsing with each passing episode. This one had a lot of rough moments there. On paper and in the manga, the stuff happening in the episode was good and helped give Rikka some development and confidence to perform her own songs slowly but surely to others but the anime hasn't been able to translate that too much. Besides the part where Rikka was dancing in karaoke while singing to appease Arisu there, it wasn't a pretty looking experience. |
| Really good episode, its nice that they all support each other's dreams My gut is telling me Rikka is Apollo, but im sure its not that straightforward Just as Yamabuki thinks he has found a lead, all the girls share Apollo's traits which leads Yamabuki back to square one 😭  |
| Just as it appears that a specific girl is Apollo, they all give off hints that they could be the one. NGL, I thought at first it could be Shinobu but then I was thinking maybe it's Rikka. Now I don't know but they all seem to be teasing that they're the one. Beyond that I thought that this was a good episode with a focus on Rikka and Yamabuki helping her face her fear of judgmental eyes. |
The series makes it hard to guess who Apollo could be, but I think it's Inohana. In the end, it's everyone. |
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| Yeah, I'm starting to believe the "Apollo is the four of them" theory after this episode |
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| While the story itself is so interesting, the animation is so shit, it is kinda watchable though, but still. imo Rikka is the one that is more in love with Yamabuki, she said it herself and it is so obvious, Yamabuki is so dense. As for Apollo, it could be easily the four of them, I don’t think it was just one person. |
| I figured out where 90% of the budget went. It went into animating Rikka dancing and singing |
| Rikka did the ultimate no-no while doing a performance, if you flub a line or a note, you don’t stop, you just gotta keep playing, but then again, I guess this is an amateur performance at school anyway, she’s ain’t on the big stage yet lol. Anyway, this was a great one mostly focused on Rikka, Yamabuki had to work his magic on her like the other girls before, but he couldn’t do it without winning a karaoke competition. Now Rikka killed it of course, she had a redo but she nailed the song and dance, but I’m ngl Yamabuki wasn’t bad at all, I liked his voice a lot, but the rating he got at the end wasn’t too kind lol, but thankfully Rikka told Yamabuki why she quit singing her originals anyway. And this led to the personal concert among friends on the school roof, wish we coulda got the full performance with no talking over it but I’m glad Rikka was able to sing an original among the company of her fellow club members, I hope she actually manages to get everyone front row seats to one of her future concerts one day like she said, or better yet, on the rail in the pit, gotta beat those people that wait in line all day to get a front spot lol. And that little concert made Yamabuki realize that the friendship the girls have is very important as well, so that’s how we got to the mall where it ended up being Yamabuki hanging with each girl individually instead of with each other, I’m definitely not complaining tho since Yamabuki had some very nice moments with them, being clothes shopping with Shinobu, helping Iko out with the crane game, and having takoyaki with Nene. And although this was mostly a wholesome good time, there were actually traces of Apollo among all the girls as Yamabuki discovered, including that they all know that obscure band that broke up because someone brought the CD to the club, well this didn’t lead us any closer to Apollo then lol, oh well, lots of fun was still had tho. |
| Is it just me, or does this kinda look like Rikka has a really long pointy nose lol. I know it's just the strand of hair, but man does this look a bit awkward  |
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Is it just me or the quality of the animation is dropping. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
| @Flynn_bridge Oh thank god, the whole episode I was like something is off with their faces. |
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0451 said:
A Rikka-focused episode? Finally. All the girls need attention. I'm glad that all of them will probably get dedicated episodes like this.
This episode was especially good because it was music-focused. Love it when seiyuus get insert songs. Even Yamabuki lol. But that Rikka singing and dancing scene was especially great. I love how bold she is. Feels different from most other characters.
And I think they blew their budget with that scene which is unfortunate. The weird animation especially in the latter half of the episode was really taking me out. That's like the only flaw this anime has. I really hope the Blu-ray version will correct most of these problems.
This was a great episode. It felt like Rikka revealed many clues about her being Apollo. But then all of the girls had something that connected them to Apollo, including the niche band lol. I still think it's Rikka. But now I'm wondering if all of the girls are Apollo. It'd pretty much confirm it if all of the girls are childhood friends. Maybe Rikka was the leader and the other girls would occasionally perform as Apollo to cover for her when she wasn't available. Doing a radio show alone would probably be a hassle so maybe she had help all along. That'd make sense.
A Rikka-focused episode? Finally. All the girls need attention. I'm glad that all of them will probably get dedicated episodes like this.
This episode was especially good because it was music-focused. Love it when seiyuus get insert songs. Even Yamabuki lol. But that Rikka singing and dancing scene was especially great. I love how bold she is. Feels different from most other characters.
And I think they blew their budget with that scene which is unfortunate. The weird animation especially in the latter half of the episode was really taking me out. That's like the only flaw this anime has. I really hope the Blu-ray version will correct most of these problems.
This was a great episode. It felt like Rikka revealed many clues about her being Apollo. But then all of the girls had something that connected them to Apollo, including the niche band lol. I still think it's Rikka. But now I'm wondering if all of the girls are Apollo. It'd pretty much confirm it if all of the girls are childhood friends. Maybe Rikka was the leader and the other girls would occasionally perform as Apollo to cover for her when she wasn't available. Doing a radio show alone would probably be a hassle so maybe she had help all along. That'd make sense.
can you tell me where I can find these insert songs
| @ritwikprivvv They're in the episode. Idk if they were uploaded online anywhere. |
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0451 said:
A Rikka-focused episode? Finally. All the girls need attention. I'm glad that all of them will probably get dedicated episodes like this.
This episode was especially good because it was music-focused. Love it when seiyuus get insert songs. Even Yamabuki lol. But that Rikka singing and dancing scene was especially great. I love how bold she is. Feels different from most other characters.
And I think they blew their budget with that scene which is unfortunate. The weird animation especially in the latter half of the episode was really taking me out. That's like the only flaw this anime has. I really hope the Blu-ray version will correct most of these problems.
This was a great episode. It felt like Rikka revealed many clues about her being Apollo. But then all of the girls had something that connected them to Apollo, including the niche band lol. I still think it's Rikka. But now I'm wondering if all of the girls are Apollo. It'd pretty much confirm it if all of the girls are childhood friends. Maybe Rikka was the leader and the other girls would occasionally perform as Apollo to cover for her when she wasn't available. Doing a radio show alone would probably be a hassle so maybe she had help all along. That'd make sense.
A Rikka-focused episode? Finally. All the girls need attention. I'm glad that all of them will probably get dedicated episodes like this.
This episode was especially good because it was music-focused. Love it when seiyuus get insert songs. Even Yamabuki lol. But that Rikka singing and dancing scene was especially great. I love how bold she is. Feels different from most other characters.
And I think they blew their budget with that scene which is unfortunate. The weird animation especially in the latter half of the episode was really taking me out. That's like the only flaw this anime has. I really hope the Blu-ray version will correct most of these problems.
This was a great episode. It felt like Rikka revealed many clues about her being Apollo. But then all of the girls had something that connected them to Apollo, including the niche band lol. I still think it's Rikka. But now I'm wondering if all of the girls are Apollo. It'd pretty much confirm it if all of the girls are childhood friends. Maybe Rikka was the leader and the other girls would occasionally perform as Apollo to cover for her when she wasn't available. Doing a radio show alone would probably be a hassle so maybe she had help all along. That'd make sense.
can you tell me where I can find these insert songs
@ritwikprivvv  Probably during the release of the CD albums, which are March 18th (track #3 and #4 are that AKP48 cover) and May 20th (potentially the HUGG NOTES cover) I (or other user, i guess) will start a thread when they're finally out on streaming platforms. |
| Rikka focused episode for the most part, and honestly I can't overstate how much I enjoy Yamabuki. He is such a nice breath of fresh air from most harem protagonists. You know this anime might have lack luster animation and visuals, but damn if the voice acting is not really damn good. Okay, ngl, the end feels like a freaking cop-out bro, like they ALL just happened to LIKE the same band? Can they at least try to make me suspend my disbelief bro. I'm at the point now where I have my theory: I believe that there isn't a singular Apollo, all these girls where Apollo together and they took turns talking in it like some sort of radio show. Because it kinda doesn't make sense that they ALL share so many varied tastes and they are all so different from one another at the same time. |
| All these girls must have took turns being Apollo. There's no other way it can be a single person. |
| Feeling pretty bored at this point, and Yamabuki is still often obnoxious. Think I've gotten enough cute moments out of it to drop here. |
I'm very disappointed, they dishonored the manga |
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| Rikka acknowledges that Yamabuki is no mediocre, far from it. She's just not being honest about it yet. Quality is especially bad this episode and I'm not gonna hide it. Is this still funny guys?  |
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| The chemistry between Rikka and Yamabuki is satisfying to see. His way of doing things is amusing, but I do like how he goes the extra mile to help out the girls and it was no different here with Rikka when it came to the reason as to why she was hesitant to sing her own original songs in front of the crowd she usually plays to. The looks of the crowd can be somewhat intimidating if you're not used to the pressure of being on stage and looking at how the crowd judges you while you perform. So having her play in front of the other girls of the broadcasting club on the rooftop was a great idea. After that, we got to see Yamabuki spend time with the girls at the local mall. Seeing him with Shinobu as she tried on different outfits (The third outfit she tried was my favourite) was fun to see, as was him helping Iko with the crane game and having a bit of takoyaki with Nene. Production values were inconsistent visually at times, but the songs and music was done brilliantly. Overall, I had really good fun with this episode! |
| the later half of the episode felt a little forced by giving each of them their own little bit; and the ending was visible from a mile away, but i still liked it. did feel kinda contrived tho hope with the next few episodes we can get a few more individual-focused parts again, kinda like the first half of this episode with Rikka |
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| Am I the only one who thinks a lot of this anime was AI-animated? Some movements, like the blinking, are unusually smooth, and the background characters are rather clunky. It really puts me off. |
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| People told me the design work got better in episode 7...I can't see what they're talking about. It's really no better than Watari-kun's XXXXXX is going to Explode's abysmal PNG, half-baked look from the previous season. I mean, I can appreciate the thought put into the karaoke scene in the first half, but then it's all ruined by the epilepsy warning that was never given for the disco ball; my eyes were bleeding when I paused. A rather unfortunate visual mess, the episode really does look completed the day it aired, with some scenes having been worked on for weeks prior but clearly other segments didn't get such time to simmer. Arisu's hair style changes maybe 2-3 times and the timing between actions and lines are...rushed as usual. |
| considering the classical 'singer-songwriter' isn't as prevalent as it used to be... at least in my limited knowledge of pop music... i don't think she has that much to worry about. professional songwriters gotta pay their bills just like everybody else needs to, so paying em to write stuff for you isn't a bad thing. at least they get credit and suchforth unlike ghostwriters in book publishing. so did they get the dance right or was it way off? it looked like good work to me, but i don't know diddly bout J-pop girl idol supergroups and their choreography. even I HAVE HEARD of AKB48... buuut that's the limit of my knowledge, i know it's named after the Tokyo district and there are a constant flow of 48 some-odd girls in and out of the group as their stars rise n fall etc. plus, dude working on her trauma WITHOUT knowing the root of it? stuuuuupiiid! if she can't even externalize it to her best galpals and 'get it out there'... she's not ready for 'outside help' like him. get thee to a nunnery! or a shrink. whichever's closer. ;> |
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