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basicallyyyy i'm aromantic and i approve of this show 👍

there's so much to like and i think i'll try expand on that based on these brief points i tried to come up with after i finished the anime: 1) rich characters with depth and how they MESH together is a highlight of this, 2) the drama tag is so so important and it definitely comes before romance, 3) as such all the platonic angles of the main four really HIT, and 4) . oh four is just "i'm aromantic and i approve of this show" again 😭👍👍

so for point 1. ya i mean this is kinda obvious right . idk i found myself really liking the character depth, i think especially because of how deeply koyuki and yota were able to bond after sharing their own family circumstances. which btw this is highkey my favorite angle of the main four they are Best friends and it hurts me so 🙏🙏🙏 anyway yeah and i think another thing that really drove this point home was the reveal that koyuki partly deliberately made atagawa look bad in front of igarashi. like fuckkk you think that everything that happened to koyuki in middle school is an injustice and then you find out that she did fight back and was actively HOSTILE during it....

idk it somewhat meshes together with point 2 really. let's say that point 1 is about how the main four can clash with each other sometimes because they all have different feelings towards everyone. i found myself quite fascinated with this. like, miki and koyuki are bonded for life. miki and both minato and yota also get along great. but minato returns miki's platonic feelings in a way that yota can't. and so on and so forth for literally everyone in the group their feelings towards everyone else are Complex and admittedly sometimes frustrating and hard to follow but idk. i get a feeling of how realistic we're trying to be with them

anyway point 2 . i feel like at times romantic drama can get kinda tired so i haven't really been drawn to momoka's character (i love a Good love triangle but i need a better read on her first to really conclude that), but the introduction of AKINE into the second half of this season really hit the nail on the head for me. she hasn't done much at all but idk just her presence in the story is fascinating. i'd love to see her be more than distant and abrasive especially towards Koyuki . i wanna see the fallout of that. really anything related to koyuki's middle school life coming back in the present is the stuff I Love To See. to go back to point 1 about how the main four clash. dude i Loved early koyuki and minato where they were just playing psychological mind games on each other because that's how much koyuki's middle school life affected how she regards other people, always assuming the worst intentions from them . like we can still see that in how she regards momoka but now she's aware of it and actively trying to block out those thoughts

idk we're not being coherent anyway so point 3 . the platonic angles of the main four . guys i love koyuki&yota like i knowww that koyuki and miki always match jewelry and they're childhood friends and they're bonded for life . it's ok i can love all friendships. maybe not equally but oh well . koyukiiii and yotaaaa broooo 😭😭😭 so cutiefuls. they were my cutiefuls. you can definitely see that the fondness that koyuki has towards yota is IMMENSE and vice versa for yota towards koyuki. genuinely my favorite dynamic we've seen so far. tho i also feel like this is the only angle i have Much to talk about. i of course loved koyuki and miki early on and especially when miki was starting to get really troubled about how she should present herself at school. minato and yota looking out for each other especially with yota taking over and just taking the damn picture of minato and koyuki lmfao . miki being so assured that minato sees her as a friend and nothing else . broooo my kidssss what the fuckkkkkk..... i kid you not i was always just going "OUGHHHHhh my baby 🤏🤏" while watching ahahah..

point 4 . yeah i'm aro i like this show 👍 i kinda always have but like ESPECIALLY now with the season 1 finale in mind. BRO. episode 13 i was genuinely thinking Before yota's feelings were out in the open "oh man miki's gonna be so upset when she finds out that yota likes her :-(" and then YES she was so so fucking upset all throughout the finale and especially in the last scene . and during that scene i was thinking "oh god is miki gonna try to say yes to his confession anyway...? fuckkk she's gonna get tortured for all eternity :-(" .... and then she REJECTS HIM ANYWAY like WOOOO!!!! FUCKKK!!! YESSS!!!!!! like. yota i love u. i support u and i hear you and such but god i do have to take miki's side here. mainly as an aromantic. also as someone who likes to see Interesting and Weird dynamics in romance works (<- uhh dude that's pretty much the same as "an aromantic"). i literally have a liveblog comment from like episode 5 that's like "i hope none of the main four ever end up together" and while that's not looking to be true for koyuki and minato, part of that comment also included "or if they do get together i hope they break up and come to an amicable end regardless 💟" and GUYSSSS..... i feel like whatever happens with miki and yota... I Will Like it.... idkkk the fact that the s1 ending went the way it did . i kinda trust this writing bro. yess take it away i wanna see what you have to say about them i'm so seated ✍️✍️

dude this was an Eventful session like literally

early on i got the sha-ming grovelling event 🙏

[Image description: Screenshot from the game Gnosia. Sha-Ming is shown bowed on the ground grovelling, yelling out, "I'm sorry!!!" End description]

insane to me that that requires level 35 stealth and isn't surefire to stop you from getting cold sleep anyway like dksjfjsh... idk to me it's like, there are a lot of skills that i feel like wouldn't suit me... like idk how i'd properly use them. some skills gw naksir bgt i REALLY want retaliate but stuff like definite human/enemy and say i'm human? not really my style . but idk maybe i'll learn how to use them eventually

NEXT loop (skipping loops where i got sent to cold sleep and whatnot) was the comet gnosia event 🥺🥺 idk i just found this one really cutieful all around comet's really likeable

[Image description: Two screenshots of a loop where Comet is Gnosia. The first shows her Gnosia form during warp, with her talking about becoming captain and letting the player be her henchman. The second screenshot is at the end of the loop, with Comet asking the player why they didn't ever vote her out. End description]

her gnosia design is GREAT i really didn't know this was a thing :0 and she did really well this loop!! to me it was obvious that she defended all the other gnosia but hey no one ever voted her out so good on that comet :-)

ok and when i mean eventful it really was eventful the next loop i loaded up was the one with yuriko's challenge!!

[Image description: Screenshot of a loop where Yuriko is Gnosia. She tells Setsu and the player, "If the two of you are able to destroy me... Then I shall give you the answers you seek." End description]

did take me like one or two loops to actually get it right but we got there eventually 👍 also funnily i let setsu take over the answer to "what do the gnosia want" and like dang i didn't know that from their perspective they're trying to save humanity . food for thought and anyway yuriko definitely had more to say so we're gonna be looking for another one of her events soon

also while i was doing the yuriko challenge i failed one because setsu got voted out but i DID get that one gina event . you know..... :')

[Image description: Screenshot showing Gina speaking over comms, with the background being a CG of her outside the ship. She says, "This area... Magnetic field-based anomalies occur often here." End description]

i liked the game's presentation of this . complete and utter silence because of course in space no one can hear you scream

and like in another loop where i won with gina as crew, she hoped that the gnosia can become human again... like idk it's really the anime characterisation still affecting me but dang bro. dang . when i'm playing discussions i really don't think about that but during events... man... gina... :-(

ok . and of course my highlighted event of this whole session . is the setsu movie hangout.....

BRO i didn't think that the "let's play" option at the beginning of the loop with us both as gnosia could lead to this 🥹🥹 i really just pressed that for shits and giggles and BOOM.... setsu event apparently unlocked....

[Image description: Screenshot of a loop where Setsu is Gnosia. The CG shows Setsu being dragged around the ship while holding the player's hand. Setsu is concerned that they're both about to miss the meeting. End description]

ohhh setsu oh setsu.... like they're really always depressed looking and serious so like wow this time they're happy for once, at peace and relaxed and all. i liked that even if shigemichi was awkwardly third wheeling us he had the heart to save the meeting's conclusion until the end of the movie hah... and like neither setsu nor the player minded being sent to cold sleep... bro... i see it... the soul bond we have with setsu... fuckkkkk

[Image description: The same picture twice; it's an edit of the pokemon Mawile placed on the disability pride flag. End description]