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First nonbinary winner.

Notably, Israel newscasters were making fun of and misgendering them earlier today.

Fuck around and find out.

So yeah that Israel televote was definitely a problem, but it wasn't enough thankfully.

Holy shit Ukraine.

Live Poppin'Dream footage;

https://youtu.be/9GUETSn3iqU?si=7GPrXan9ui_AsdWH

I will check it out!

On to the movies.

Kasumi's passport application being rejected because she autographed the signature is her most gremlin move to date. Someone put this girl in a facility.

Man those Croatia odds sure shit the bed

That would be irrelevant.

https://twitter.com/esc_gabe/status/1789407656291012727?t=e2nfm05hcTsFm_J5J8j3Gg&s=19

https://twitter.com/VocaISuspension/status/1789300068140400889?t=UPsctu8DXvbRUOULHO13qA&s=19

LightningStrikes posted...

Apparently Israel only made the final because of the audience vote apparently. Which to me stinks of an organised campaign, but jury vote will probably sink them.

Supposedly Israeli Ambassadors have been calling citizens in their respective countries telling them to vote. This was deemed against the rules in years prior but no action appears to have been taken this time.

The Italian (I think) audience votes were also accidentally shown on screen earlier, and appear to be extremely sketchy.

Finished S3!

Definitely the best of this original set, for the first time I'm coming out of it thinking that was actually a great show rather than something that was pleasantly surprising for a series I'm originally only watching out of personal obligation. PPP is much more enjoyable as part of a group cast without the internal drama (the part in S2 when Tae is desperately writing in the sand, and then goes back to play was really great, though). RAS legit coming out as my favorite group despite Chu2. Masking is my favorite non-MyGO member in the series (though I know there's 2 Roselia movies and an OVA about a band I haven't even seen yet, so we'll see).

Apparently most broadcasters attempted to mute the crowd for the Israel performance, so here's the actual audience if yours did.

https://twitter.com/chrismegrath/status/1789379173217079443?t=q_hQddTUDKz88johRtfgig&s=19

https://twitter.com/EurovisionTom/status/1789380052603265156?t=ckyIBwjRIn_i6aWA9vaKpA&s=19

Best Halo game since Reach.

Legit though , absolutely floored this game was made by one person, and actually one person not "Well someone else did the music and I had help on the animations". Not that I'm downplaying other games just because they had a couple of helpers.

It's so unbelievably gorgeous.

LightningStrikes posted...

Ill be watching for Ireland but it sounds like an absolute mess and every time I look I find something new. Would be great to have a list of everything thats gone wrong!

Well one of those things that's gone wrong is that Ireland had considered dropping out!

I don't think they're actually doing so, though.

It's not just the Israel thing! They have been confiscating everyone's LGBT+ flags in the audience stating no politics allowed. Looks like Fandom runs Eurovision now too.

2 episodes left in Season 3.

Despite how much of a cop out it is, as soon as it happened I realized a tie for second place was the only way I was gonna be satisfied here.

I assumed nobody had made a Eurovision topic yet because, after the last 24 hours, there is absolutely no way it would survive without being deleted for politics.

This is one of the biggest shitshows I have ever seen.

https://twitter.com/VocaISuspension/status/1789340204093858164?t=PWNOgHHHHx0vEPjlZOY2lw&s=19

Also the person who is in charge of handing over the trophy to the winner has just straight up said that if Israel wins they just won't give them the trophy.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d95a1b96.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7ecc4bf4.jpg

MacArrowny posted...

https://twitter.com/aniplexusa/status/1789113325797716136

I saw this earlier, this is so effing funny. Also everyone is just going to say her Birthday is May 9th now anyways lol.

Most confusing thing is finding out that they don't have cannon birthdays in the first place, you'd assume with all the gachas it would have come up once.

WhiteLens posted...

I kid you not. Finding out that the voice of Tsubasa in Love Live also voiced Ako was literally how I found out about BanG Dream in the first place. And those two voices could not be more far apart.....until Ako starts singing, then you hear Tsubasa in her voice.

Wow, definitely would not have picked up on that at ALL.

I realized when comparing earlier that I haven't seen School Idol Festival in almost a decade now, I really wonder how it would actually compare back to back. Haven't seen Sunshine since it aired, either.

Never got too far into Nijigasaki.

Takedown incoming.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3c9b72a8.jpg

https://youtu.be/GtzPfRVcS1Q?si=JfTwVZcHVAkOC4z8

I refreshed myself on that one last week and actually remember thinking it was very good. Should get back to it someday.

Ehhhh I don't know if I really saw it that way. Layer wanted to play with her close childhood friend, and she took her at her word that she could do both for now. Yes, she clearly wanted Tae to come for good, but she didn't really have any reason to believe Tae was as close to Poppin as she was to her all those years ago.

When Tae quit the band, Layer didn't push back at all, just talked with her out by the pool, gave her that fistbump on stage. When Chuu2 and Not Ibuki Mioda went to try and pull Tae back in, Layer wasn't aware, and got mad at her for doing so.

Now, I do think Layer should have realized Tae had issues with the encore, but that really felt like a heat of the moment thing.

Wait, what's wrong with Layer! She's great.

If it's something that happens later don't tell me lol.

Rana I understand even if I strongly disagree.

I don't think I even know who Rui is yet. She LOOKS like a character I would like just from googling , but looks aren't everything.

Well they've certainly nabbed me into season 3 quick! Already addressing some issues. Only problem I have....well, it's not really a problem, but this time they seem to have gone with traditionally animating the side characters alongside the 3D animated main characters. It's usually fine due to the art style for the 3D, but it's noticable in some season. Overall it looks better than season 2.

Oh, also sucks that I actually really like all the members of RAS, except Chu2 who is the worst Bang Dream character.

Watched the new GBC as well, definitely doesn't seem like my worries about the group dynamic getting messed with the new girls is going to be a problem. Also a funny coincidence that I watched this and the first BDS3 episode back to back and both ended up having the same exact goal reveal of the Budokan. I suppose it must be common in shows like this.

Went to Amazon to try and find that MyGO Album Scep mentioned and oh NOOOOOOO

https://a.co/d/6e5RCZ0

HNNNNNG NO I CAN'T AHHHHHHHHH

I actually did like Pastel so I'll look into those. I liked the episode itself, too! Again it didn't surprise me they didn't go hard into it given what the season was about, but know there's way more going on other media for it makes sense.

I do REALLLLLY hate the outfits though, worst swag in all of Bang Dream so far lol.

By the way, the two that these 3 seasons and 4 movies have to beat here are Haruhikage for best song (frankly the show didn't do ENOUGH to hype it up) and Super Bond for best performance to watch (it's been less than a week and I've already rewatched that performance over a dozen times and haven't made it through without crying once).

These are....VERY steep mountains, it's going to take something REALLLLLY special.

When rewatching both versions of Haruhikage back to back, I realized that Saki runs out of the room in episode 7 at the exact same time the song ends in episode 3. OOOOOOF.

Season 2 finished.

Definitely better than the first. Didn't take long to start liking with the new animation outside of a few stuff scenes, even if it's not all the way there yet.

Had the opposite reaction to S1 where this season started meh but ended up getting better and better as it went.

Still vibe with Afterglow's look, but at least in this season Roselia stole the show. Fire Bird was the best song here.

Only took Popping Party 2 whole seasons to get a good song lol, but Returner is definitely solid.

The Pastel episode was super weird. I get that they only had a single episode to devote to them, but a lip synching incident for their debut seems like it should be.....a much bigger deal than it was? It was treated like "yikes, don't remind me!", when you could do an entire seasons of a show about recovering and coming back from such a thing.

Still barely see Rimi as a character, but I'm thinking I just don't have a lot of respect for this character archetype, so it's probably my fault. Hanayo and Ruby were faraway the worst, most whatever characters in their Love Live seasons, and I feel like she's another one of those.

Also, Rock spent a majority of the season being a straight up Poochie, god I hope they do something more meaningful with her in this last season.

https://youtu.be/bGpbTXCVkwQ?si=qV0-LkLacrC6OTuj

Even if they did not add the new campaign, this is looking like it would still be worth the full retail price just as a port. They fixed everything as far as I can tell, every little issue the game had. Stuff that you wouldn't have been even to name as an issue if pressed, they still fixed it.

And of course it DOES have an entirely new game worth of campaign content in it.....really just floored. Still hurts to have put 70 hours into what was essentially a beta on the Switch, but even in a year overflowing with jRPGs this still just seems insane.

I wanna punt Chuu2 like a football.

It's literally a bit you'd see in SNL.

Why did he just have this on him.

https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1788976528648220804?t=JqsQwgzefqsp80YyWJhWyg&s=19

Going to assume O-Tae dies at some point and that she becomes The Legendary Yamada Tae. Zombieland Saga was actually a sequel to this the whole time.

Preach

That's not what I meant, I mean are you sure you're actually done?

OK....what are we doing here in episode 4. It's not like I need to be completely grounded in reality but this is taking me all the way the fuck out lol. It's like a whole different show.

ALSO THAT'S NOT A BEAR IT'S A DOG

<_<;

One of my friends has E6S5 Robin, so I decided to test the DPS Robin theory out and did Harmony TB/Ruan Mei/Aventurine/Robin on the new boss.

Decimated him, lol.

Yeah literally the next scene I saw one of the girls was in a different uniform lol.

The wording in the subs made it sound like everyone else in Roselia was at the same school.

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1788728698184540355?t=A1-Mu0sIKvrVKa62tn8ONg&s=19

Maybe just don't do interviews right now when everyone hates you if you have absolutely nothing of value to say.

pyresword posted...

I really hope Acheron at least is going to be a recurring character.

Gotta get a Nihility Trailblazer one day.

Robin E1 is pretty nuts so at least it's a good one.

Why is there a marching band with a dog

Episode 1 of S2, yeah I'm feeling the vibes. That Poppin Party song had some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard (seen?), but it was still their best song so far lol (the other 3 in the episode were better though sorry).

SPOTTED THEM

Afterglow, that's who I was looking for earlier. I'm sure it said it somewhere in MyGO but I must have missed it. They seem important enough that I would hope they get some play.

This CG seems totally serviceable, but this aired in 2019 which was definitely still the timeframe where anime fans were being the most insufferable about CG even existing at all, so I'm sure it must have been put through the ringer. Still a few months to go before Beastars would air.

Kasumi's hair looks way less dumb in CG than it did in traditional.

WhiteLens posted...

It's the only season of BanG Dream to get a dub! Definitely a weird decision made.

This is like the 3rd of 4th weird fumble with this franchise I've seen so far, but somehow it sounds like it's still less of a fumble than whatever the hell they're doing with Idolmaster in the west.

WhiteLens posted...

Ya don't say....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpMeIVbTItQ

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4963fe6e.png

Mobilezoid posted...

I figured you'd like the end of BanG Dream S1 more than the beginning! You talked about enjoying how Kasumi wasn't instantly great at guitar, that whole final arc is her struggling with the fact that she's holding the others back.

There was only one way it was gonna go, though, so it really just didn't excite me much. I was never invested in the solution because you can already tell what it is before the conflict even starts to happen! MyGO kept me on my toes in a way this never could.

I did still appreciate that Kasumi was still bad, and that you could actually tell they weren't very good. Even the successful audition, it was obvious they weren't great.

Best episodes were definitely the Saaya ones, even if they dragged a little. Them cutting directly from Saaya running down the sidewalk in absolutte terror to the happy poppy opening theme was very funny, though.