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    It's unfortunate they they feel compelled to adapt all of the manga chapters. About 85% of it is banger, but the Gloom kid... just skip that one. The joke wore thin about 1/2 way in and the remainder of the build up was boring.

    Yor sidestory is always cute, but this episode dropped the baseline quality of the series a bit. Not a big deal, but when looking at this as something to share with other normies in my life, this episode sticks out like a sore thumb among the much better offerings.

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    E21

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    Yes, the character building was interesting.
    Yes, having Bond/Penguin jealousy to reflect both the "wives" and East/West was cool.

    But really, the preview was the most exciting - Tennis tournament!

    And you know who fucking kills at physical activity.









    (Tennis tournament aside, I liked Nightfall's introduction. She's a friendly sabotage, quite similar to Yuri, and her flashbacks serve to give Twilight backstory. Her talking about his/her emotions was well done as well. Her trying so hard to be a perfect machine only serves to highlight how the best spies are but imperfect humans.

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    I thought this was going to be a tennis match featuring Yor's superhuman feats, and I'm glad I was wrong. This turned out way more entertaining than I imagined. Nightfall benefits from being a fresh character, having arguably more entertaining monologues/motives, and she actually manages to work with Twilight thanks to their spy background.

    And all this just to be a pretend husband/wife pair in an underground tennis tournament.

    With a sniper?!

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    Except Nightfall will always have Anya actively working against her.

    Nightfall's goal is to finish Operation Strix as quickly as possible, not to save East-West relations, but so she can then focus on seducing Twilight.

    Direct opposition to Anya, who wants to keep her first actual family.

    It's fun to have an antagonist who is actually on the same side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryll
    It's fun to have an antagonist who is actually on the same side.
    I can't tell from your paragraph whether you're counting Nightfall as someone on the same side or not. It sounds like .. not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    I can't tell from your paragraph whether you're counting Nightfall as someone on the same side or not. It sounds like .. not?
    Nightfall also works for Westalis, therefore wanting to avoid a war, but she's an antagonist to Anya, who likes her specifically-created family and would have a much worse time if Nightfall was acting as her mother and not Yor.

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    Exceptional, ridiculous tennis. Delicious.

    While I suspected there to be a showdown between Nightfall and Yor at some stage, I didn't expect them to frame it in such a way to say that Yor actually levelled up Twilight. I thought that was cool and balances out the "Yor is kind of useless re: the mission" angle.

    slightly disheveled Yor = Hot Yor.

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    I wasn't expecting there to be such a huge gap between Yor and Nightfall. I thought they'd be more evenly matched.

    It just makes it all the more ridiculous that Loyd isn't suspicious of Yor yet. "Self-defense classes" does not fly as a cover story for her abilities at this point.

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    Quite the endearing episode. Loid was ballsy for bringing Yor into a bar.

    Very fitting that Anya didn't end up buying any clothes but charmed Damian anyway

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    Damian has been showing signs from almost the beggining.

    Loid is probably the only living thing on that planet who can survive as Yor's husband, haha.

    Some humor mixed with hubris and Loid getting some character development.

    All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David75 View Post
    Damian has been showing signs from almost the beggining.
    That is true, he's liked her since the beginning. What I mean is that she got "that look" again from him again without doing anything extra. Just being herself makes things sweeter.

    Loid is probably the only living thing on that planet who can survive as Yor's husband, haha.
    That was some impressive shit, taking that kick in the chin and still standing. Hilarious how he goes "Oh she's jealous. I got this"
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    "No, no I don't got this."

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    This episode does show that Anya's found family is as much of one, if not moreso, than the other characters her age.

    Damian's issues with his family have come up in earlier episodes, where his father doesn't care about him and his brother is the star of the family while he's the forgotten 2nd son.

    Becky is spoiled rotten and tries to act more mature than she is, but the inference that her maid Martha is more of a parental figure to her than anyone else was pretty obvious. Anya is also probably her first true friend who has never wanted anything from her but companionship.

    That and Twilight is fully aware of how awful Nightfall would be to Anya if she were in Yor's place.

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    Indeed.

    Anya's performance right at the end was great use of her telepathy. This episode was funny from start to finish.

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    But where did she get that outfit?!

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    At last, the "Yor Gets Shot in the Ass" segment. I was waiting all of last season for this one.

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    Episode 30

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    Technology-wise, I would have thought the listenning devices that small without external battery would have been too advanced for this setting.

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    The last two episodes were really fun, especially when Anya plays an active "mission" herself in episode 31. The story plays off Anya's reaction towards everything her parents do as being exciting, but when given serious thought - a child being okay with killing is disturbing.

    I'm curious to see what life outlook Yor comes to at the end of the arc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    The last two episodes were really fun
    That's because there's actual story going on here, and not just a handful of wacky one-offs.

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    I definitely noticed that they made Yor's boobs smaller for this episode's action sequences (or larger/prominent in episode 32 - I can't tell which is baseline).

    While it's sweet to see that Yor truly considers Loid and Anya to be family, her job is biased towards Ostania's interests - so that'll make it even harder on her when/if they find out the truth about each other.

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