So, season 3 starts in two days. As much as I'd like to be happy about it I'm mostly anxious.

In a way I liked Nachuyachumi for what it was and I thought of it as a nice break from the usual Yuru Yuri formula.
Unfortunately Nachuyachumi+ was just more of the same and since that's no longer anime original content I see every reason to get worried.

The single biggest problem I have with it so far is the OST. I think this is the #1 show where people will actually come to fully appreciate how much the soundtrack affects the series overall. Since the studios changed the old OST is completely gone. It got replaced with some very jazzy tracks instead and they're getting used very scarcely so far (which is probably more of an issue with poor directing but having a limited OST doesn't help). The tracks are pretty nice in their own right but they're a complete mismatch for Yuru Yuri. The overall image of the series took a pretty drastic turn from comedy and it feels much more iyashikei now.
This is reflected in pacing as well. Everything flows at a slow, cozy pace. Moreover the animation style changed, too, and while it seems to be a bit smoother it got a whole lot slower. The amount of frames per second didn't change, it's just that an action that would've been performed in ~12 frames in S1/S2 takes up ~36 frames now.
The new designs do look closer to Namori's artstyle but I think the old ones suited the anime better. In fact the softer looking designs are - regrettably - the icing on the iyashikei cake that S3 is shaping up to be.

It feels much less Yuru Yuri, much more Tamayura - that's what I thought to myself while watching Nachuyachumi+. The joke is I didn't look up the new studio until today and as it turns out TYO is indeed most well known for animating Tamayura.

Does anybody else who has seen Nachuyachumi+ feel this way or is it just me? It was obvious that the old Yuru Yuri is gone the second they changed the studios but I wanted to like the new take on it was well. I gave it a chance. It just doesn't work for me.

Is the new OP a bit muffled or is it just me? Sounds like they need to raise the voice channel higher above the music.

>>24094
Wow, I didn't even know they changed studios. I haven't felt an overall difference. Only that the Nachuyachumi+ OP was a bit too cheesy.

>>24101
seemed fine to me.

Honestly if no one said anything about there being a new studio I never would have guessed. It all looks and feels the same.

Background characters with non-natural hair color, really? How revolutionary!

>>24101
>>24102

For all it's worth most issues I mentioned weren't very apparent in ep 1. Aside from the OST, which stood out like a sore thumb. The new designs started to grow on me a little. The new OP/ED however are medicore and forgettable.
Kinda interesting they got Arai Satomi to voice a seemingly random home EC teacher. I wonder if that's all there is to it or...

What made me kinda scratch my head were the staff credits, scrolling from the bottom of the screen upwards, like in a movie. I... don't think that's how it normally works. This is the first time I noticed it period but maybe I'm just not paying attention normally (wanted to double check if it's really Arai Satomi and if it's Hidaka Rina who voices Hanako). I'm pretty confident this isn't how it's usually done, I just don't know how rare it is exactly.

Last but not least the ending was done absolutely awfully. Completely amateurish work, it's like they literally ran out of time for the ep and just cut it short in the middle of a scene. ... Or rather, that's what actually happened. And it was extremely easy to solve, too - just make Akari's and Hanako's meeting at Sakurako's place the punchline and cut it right there.
Seriously, what was up with that.

Cleaning up a spilt drink on a public bench. That is the kindness of the Japanese!

On the different studio:
feels a little different, not as much impact.

What a nice yandere.

>>24104
>>24094

After reading these, I've paid a bit more attention to the background music. And indeed, it is noticeably more er—boring than Yasuhiro Misawa's tracks.

>>24176

On second thought, maybe it's not that different. The music sounds fitting in the 2nd episode.

She's still the best!

Does this signify Akarin has a puffy... I mean fat... umm... you know?

>>24178

Out of 5 TYO eps it was the least notice in S3 ep 2. Seiyuu really carried the show this week.
This was the best TYO ep yet and ep 1 was pretty decent as well so either I'm getting used to TYO's pace or I was mistaken to think Nachuyachumi+ was representative.

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Cavalier" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier deserves much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine sword spider in Menzoberranzan for 4 platinum tricrowns (that's about 20 gold lions) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even climb vertical walls on the back of my sword spider.

Drow spider breeders spend years taking care of every single sword spider and feed them up to million rats to produce the finest mounts known in all of Faerûn.

Sword spiders can move thrice as fast as horses and can leap ten times as high for that matter too. Anything a horse can trample, a sword spider can trample better. I'm pretty sure a sword spider's sharp leg could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why humans never bothered conquering Menzoberranzan? That's right, they were too scared to fight Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier and her sword spider mount of destruction. Even during Siege of Menzoberranzan, Scoured Legion targeted the drows with sword spider mounts first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier is simply the best cavalier in the history of anime and manga, and thus, requires better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier:

Sword Spider Mount

Monstrous Hunting Spider
CE Huge magical beast (augmented vermin)
Init/Senses: +5/darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft. (unlimited in web); Listen +1, Spot +1
AC: 24, touch 13, flat-footed 19; uncanny dodge (–2 size, +5 Dex, +9 natural, +2 armor)
HP: 69 (10 HD)
Resist: evasion
Fort/Ref/Will: +11/+12/+3
Speed: 150 ft. (30 squares), climb 30 ft.; Fleet of Foot, Run
Melee: claw (piercing) +15 melee (4d6+8 plus poison) or
trample +15/+10/+5 melee (2d6+4)
Abilities: Str 23, Dex 20, Con 17, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 14
Feats: Fleet of Foot, Improved Natural Attack (claw), Run
Skills: Climb +23, Hide +8, Jump +25, Spot +16.

Akkarin

Female human
CE small humanoid
Feats: Protagonist
Skills: Hide +20, Move Silently +20

Now that seems a lot more representative of the destructive power of Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier in Yuru Yuri, don't you think?

tl;dr = Akkarin, the Spider Cavalier needs to be more powerful in d20, see my new stat block.

I liked how they were playing a very subtle variant of Eye Of The Tiger during this scene.

At first when I saw this I thought it meant akarin had a puffy you know what.

Took me a minute to realize it was just the hair bun.

wow, I don't remember her being nearly this cute before.

I really would have liked to see how Akarin would react to that thing...

I had meant to make the same post, but I had forgot to.

>>24215
which one?

>>24216

>>24203

I must've forgotten to quote that one in my last post. I'm sorry!

>>24214
>that thing
Rude. Respect dakis.

>>24104
>What made me kinda scratch my head were the staff credits, scrolling from the bottom of the screen upwards
Probably because of the bubbles.

God it's so glad to have the Yurus back. I almost forgot how great this series is.

God I'm so glad to have the Yurus back. I almost forgot how great this series is.

Is it just me, or does she look like a more moe version of Yuno?

DCC?

D'awww.

>>24094

Feels good to be proven wrong sometimes. The soundtrack is still crap but everything else improved noitceably compared to Nachuyachumi and Nachuyachumi+. Feels like the good old Yuru Yuri, really.

Now I wanna know the story of glasses girl in the back.

>>24335
I want t know the history of grey/green-haired girl in the front and her twin sister behind her. What kind of tragedy struck that family so hard to sunder the bond between two sisters, that which was once closer than the one between any other pair of sisters in this anime? They won't even accept looking at each other's faces now.

>>24341
Maybe they just figured that because they're twins it would be boring to draw eachother.

Does she keep large empty cardboard boxes around just for this sort of situation? Regardless I'm impressed she could whip that thing up so quick.

>>24345
Kyouko is a genius. I think it was showcased sometime before.

Toshinou Kyoukooooo... senpai!

>>24358
That whole thing was fucking adorable.

Nothing to see here, just keep moving along.

well played...

Good job!

I think it's a clear sign there's problems with a language when people of that age can't write the word for a simple color.

What a stupid ho...

Do the animators of TYO have a problem with side profiles or something? One out of three side profiles looks like a person with some developmental disease.

This has got to be the first time I've seen a parody of Coco's. Feels a bit uncreative. I wanna see more stuff like WcDonalds

>>24508
Wohno-chan

They went all out with Yuru Yuri references in Shomin Sample this week.

>>24533
>>24534

Wow, no censoring at all? Interesting. What is the conversation about in that scene by the way?

>>24550

Yuru Yuri, what else. The girls are wondering why all the manga tanks - desite their male target demographic - feature girls on the covers.

It's funny to imagine a scene like this has probably gotten some stupid Americans all sorts of butt-raged.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm27348798
Fucked the embedding up.

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I hope they have at least some Mirakurun show before the season ends. Though I'm guessing they probably haven't hired their seiyuus for the 3rd season.

Wouldn't the apples start turning all brown and nasty by then?

>>24631

That's the point of wrapping them. They turn brown by reacting with oxygen. I'm not sure how much the process would slow down seeing as there's still some oxygen under the wrapping but I think it wouldn't be as fast. ... M-maybe.

>>24631
A quick dunk in lemon juice will help that.

She should know better by now than to fall for that sort of thing.

What's the point of peeling an apple, anyway?

>>24646
Some people don't like the skin. It's like removing the crust from a samewitch.

Is it my imagination or does it seem like they're leaning much more towards yuri romance this season, rather than slice of life with yuri undertones?

>>24683
It seems that way to me as well

It was a lot more explicit in this more recent ep.

>>24619

I was thinking the same thing when this week's episode started and then bam! I'm still hoping for a legit, 24 minute Mirakurun OVA someday. A man can dream.
Looks like we're getting Kaede next week so I expect Mari as well. I was also thinking it's kinda stupid how they appear in the OP but not the show proper.
I hope we'll get at least one segment with Rize/Nishigaki, too.

>>24683
>>24685
>>24687

Yeah, it's hard to miss. Wasn't that obvious in the first ep but starting with the Kyouko x Ayano park date in the second ep it's been getting more and more blatant.
I don't mind dates but I feel TYO does a very poor job at managing the screentime for the characters because of that. The distribution seems really really uneven.

This week was also another case of the director having no idea whatsoever how to end an ep. Just like in the first ep he actually had the punchline (Kyouko's boke '6AM!' and Yui tsukkomi 'Go home.')... and did nothing with it. Just end the ep there, surely it's not that hard.

Who else would ring the door like that?

2D, 3D, and 4D? That's something I've got to see!

The yurus have some pretty nice legs.

What a disappointment. That would have been a perfect opportunity to show a rape-faced Chinatsu as a call back to the first season.

>>24724

Weren't the "just close your eyes, it'll be over soon"s enough of a callback?

>>24735
No!

I've read the manga chapter that the Rize opening segment is based on and as such it wasn't as impactful for me but it's nice to see it wasn't bothced and was adapted fairly well. My favorite chapter of Yuru Yuri so far.

That whole thing was just great.

Seriously?

>>24799
Yeah, I know. It looks just like the rootbeer cans we have here.

Funny enough, I used to drink those all the time as a kid and I actually still like drinking them.

>>24799
Masochist Cider isn't actually new, is it? I think it's been around for a while.

That silent film part was interesting.

Why can't more anime be in the first person view?

>>24835
Because then we'd have a dozen first-person harems with silent protagonists per season. Is that what you want?

>>24836
Actually yeah that might not be so bad. Already got tons of shitty harem anime every season anyway, might as well go full self insert.

>>24838
But no one translates those things!

>>24837
You aren't supposed to self-insert in harem anime.

>>24844
Then why are the protagonists bland generic guys with no personally of their own.

>>24851
I really have no idea what you're going on about.

This is what I live for.

>>24856
Sure thing bro!

I love how her first instinct was to flash them.

Man the Chizuru segment was so crappy and it felt so out of place in Yuru Yuri. Unfortunately the rest was only barely better. Worst ep of this season so far.

And trying to conceal your poor screentime distribution with Akkarin~ jokes doesn't really work.

>>24872
>Akkarin~ jokes doesn't really work.
Yeah Akarin stopped being sidelined for the most part by the end of season one.

>>24887

Oh, you misunderstood me. I don't really mind Akkarin~ jokes per se. I just didn't like that particular failed attempt since the logic behind it was basically 'if we'll lampshade how poor we are at distributing screentime surely we will manage to hide our incompetence, haha!'. Not really.

I live for this shit.

Bit heavy handed there... although the end result was surprisingly mild, and thankfully so. I'd hate to see the last few ep turn into melodrama like so many anime tend to do.

jeez, if this is how she gets when they even consider joining another club I wouldn't want to see what happens if they go to a different college.

>>24945
That seemed really out of character for Kyouko.

>>24950
It really did. It was kind of like a "oh shit she's serious" moment.

>>24950
>>24955

This entire season is out of character for Yuru Yuri. It's less Yuru, more Yuri.

Wish I could count how many times I've seen the old 'character's stats/skills improved while sick' routine.

Toshinou age 45.

My thoughts exactly.

very much so indeed.

Thanks indeed, YY.
See you.

It's at this point when they should really cut the shit and just tell her the truth already. She'll never improve if she doesn't know she's doing anything wrong. I know they don't want to hurt her feelings, but would it really be so bad to say something like "Your drawings are ugly as shit nightmare fuel and you ruin everything you touch." ?

what the fuck is a nose?

China(tsu) serving Korean tea in my Japanese anime.