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after episode 3 the relationship dynamic was pretty boring to watch and it just turned into an mc circlejerk. it became really repetitive.

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Holy Christ there's going to be a series of God Eater. I'm a huge fan of the game and a series incoming this July is shocking to me.

Thank you UFOtable. Thank you.

So what's the protagonist's name gonna be?

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Bleach returns on july...Can't wait.

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the earlier episodes while cheesy and sometimes a bit annoying to watch, actually has reasonable conflict and tension. and by reasonable i mean something i can actually care about. watching gouda's altruism for suna is nice, but not overkill. seeing a nice guy being hit to the curb for the effort is entertaining and not dragging it out and actually close it off with an amazing pay off is refreshing af.

yamato brings gouda food, gouda mentions its delicious, yamato blushes, gouda notices this and expresses his love for her, gouda circlejerk ensues, yamato mentions how much he loves gouda, goude mentions how much he loves yamato. rinse and repeat. i don't think this is how you make an interesting relationship.

well i guess that's fine if you like boring shows with stale boring characters with their typical boring ableist problems and their typical boring relationship with no depth because their so boring. also, you're boring too. checkmate.

nah, i really like episode 8, this show is fun again. thank god.

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I think that Gouda's altruism in the pre-relaionship part was towards Yamato, and that's what made the earlier parts boring for me. It was setting up to be another frustrated le gentleman anime, so watching that part with that in mind made it lame. I do agree though that him getting the grill is fresh, and that's actually the part where I said it picked up, on ep 3.

Although you're correct with the overall scheme of their relationship dynamic, you did leave out the part where the Gouda circlejerk is set off by certain things (i.e. Gouda saving from a fire someone who said shit about you, Gouda giving up his image of Yamato being a saint, Gouda and Yamato learning to deal with having to spend less time with each other) that actually contribute to the development of the relationship. I admit it is kind of a slow development, but idk I don't mind the pacing. Sure there's a lot of things that happen in between that are glaringly repetitive, but as their routine keeps up you can see the changes and how they were affected by the recent conflict. The routine shows us that they're not just the same old couple from episode 3, even though they do the same things they did.

I don't know what you mean by typical boring ablist problems though lol. You're saying that they discriminate against others for being disabled, and they encounter problems because of this? Or you're saying they're all disabled, and somehow their problem from the discrimination towards them is typical and boring? Again, I'd argue that their relationship do have depth in that they're both learning to love each other more each episode. It's not boring, it's supposed to be adorable, you sociopath.

Honestly though, if ep 8 was going to be another episode of "today Gouda/Yamato learns about ", I probably would have felt tired of it. It's good that best girl Suna gets a chance to go for Gouda's D.