Pretty good timing to start it. Assuming you don't binge S1 and the movie you'll be able to jump right into S2, although if you're like me and hate waiting weekly for a new episode (especially anime's with so much action) then I would just hold off a couple of months until more episodes of S2 comes out.
Yeah no way I can hold off that long lol. I’m watching a few episodes a night right now. By the time I’m done hopefully there’s a few episodes of season 2 and I’ll pry just start watching week to week.
What happened? I haven't read it in a few years now and don't intend on getting back into it so spoil away. I think the last chapter I read revealed that
Oh, I remember that character. She was pretty irredeemable as far as I remember. Yup, sounds like a plotline conceived by the marketing department.
Please check the chapters out(392 and 393 and maybe the spoilers for 394) as it's something you really need to see to grasp the level of clusterfuck here as well as wanting your thoughts on it as the designated "Wise Elder One".
Read those two chapters and thought it was...not good. The last page leans waaaaay to hard into yuri-bait. The rest of it was stereotypical "I'll talk them out of it! There's still a good person in there, I know it!" tropes. Just plain not well written.
Yeah not feeling this one either end not feeling motivated to pick it up to marathon. In other news, I don't recall if you ever gave me your thoughts on these
I've been seeing a lot of praise from some people in some of my haunts for these chapters and I'm just sort of "WTF?!" about it. Like, yeah I'm all about empathy, rehabilitation, and giving people second chances, but at some point the trope of Freudian Excuse is no Excuse has to kick in and it be acknowledged that Toga was a HORRIFIC person who did terrible things either directly or by association and her traumatic past is not an excuse. I've also seen it be brought up that some of her stuff was metaphors for being LGBT or something and part of her endured abuse being her trying to be to "conform" or "be normal" as part of her therapy or some shit(anyone who's read the series please chime in to correct if wrong).
Hmmmmm, that's an interesting take. I never picked up on that myself, but I'm also not part of the queer community so I don't have any of the experiences that might make me make that connection. I guess I can see it, but I think it might be a case of people projecting: Japan is an extremely conservative culture and they really aren't accepting of gay people. For the artist of one of the most popular series in one of their most popular magazines to intentionally write LGBTQ allegory just strikes me as very unlikely. I think it's much more likely that it's based on their culture's mandate to conform. Even non-gay people in Japan are well familiar with the principal that 'the nail that sticks up gets pounded down.'
I wanted to like Medalist, but after completing the first volume I put it down. The main character seemed to spend about 50% of her screen time crying and I just couldn't put up with it anymore. As for that second one, I'm pretty sure that's the first I've heard of it; I'll add it to the list to check out.
