Keep On Trying ~

I'll probably end up slapping my Gaming's artifact set on Arlecchino until I can get her bis set farmed (it's pretty good gladiator set atm on Gaming), but considering I also need to farm new world boss for Arly... man. I know my priority tomorrow is Arly SQ, then do test runs and figure out a good wishing spot for Arlecchino.... what would be a good one. Where she fought Crucabena? Wherever her quest ends? Near current House of the Hearth if we end up visiting it? Hmmmm.

I do know I'll probably try a team of Arly, Yelan, Xianyun and.... Layla? Or Zhongli (or Furina for giggles svshsj). 🤔 And then adjust from there. Part of me wants her weapon too but I only have enough for one guaranteed character pull, not enough for weapon as well. Soooooo.... blackcliff for f2p drip? :D

Arlecchino Arlecchino Arlecchino-

Ahem! I'm too hyped for tomorrow lol.

Not Genshin community somehow fooling my brain into thinking Sethos has an actual surname when people are actually meme'ing about his name sake Seth Kaiba in yu-gi-oh akfjsfkjhf.

I love that they decided to tackle this theme this way. Like the issue here is basically that Nyammy is not in the know of what garugaru are. While Wonderful and Friendy have been told all the necessary info to know how to deal with them. Nyammy is a lone Precure, trying to make sure no harm comes Mayu's way. Very protective cat.

On Wonderful's line, yes, I'd say it's a... not really a wrong translation but people feeling odd on it not realising that what Wonderful refered to was Nyammy almost attacking Friendy. Like, she jumped in to shield Friendy after she shielded Garugaru from Nyammy. That line refers to the three of them. It's only after that when Friendy asks about the wounds on Bear Garugaru that it actually becomes a discussion about hurting Garugaru. At least that's how I understood it. Komugi speaks in simple terms so it's not like, heavily specified because of the way Komugi speaks.

It is absolutely in no way condemning battling. They don't refer to the battles in precure as the word that Komugi used. I am fairly certain of this.

I lose internet for entire weekend and as compensation gw2's free chest key gives me the skiff skin ;A;

Man, thanks to pre-load Arlecchino's voice lines are now available in the files, but man, I don't think I want to listen to them til my own Alrecchino friendship level is high enough for them...

You know, the scene where Mayu gets attacked by Garugaru had veeeery horror-y vibes to it and I knew I felt familiarity with it. Then I kinda realised that feeling was from Ghost Game and what do you know, one animator from Digimon Ghost Game was indeed involved in the scene. At least the part where Nyammy saves Mayu.

That scene was so excellently done, definitely one of the best animated scenes in Precure, Digimon Ghost Game also had some of the absolute best animation I've seen myself.

Internet is back Arleking patch hype is back baby!!!

*checks 4.6 first phase banners*

Yaaaay full House of the Hearth and *checks* ofc fricking Xiangling is there too bah-

EDIT: Ooooh fuck Cyno's SQ2 is on latter half it's not mentioned for first half AAAAAAAAAAH-

Alright, my mobile data allowed me to watch WonderPre ep 12 from Crunchyroll without lagging, nice nice!

Couple thoughts on the ep. It seems my mobile data is bad with uploading images so, no images, despite me taking screencaps lol.

The way Satoru reacted to Iroha being happy to see him (because she knows Satoru knows about animals all alike so asking him about Yuki's odd disappearances is perfect!) was really, really cute, but also, the classmates clearly know Satoru has a crush on Iroha because they giggled with Satoru not understanding why lol.

Then, the way Mayu reacts to Iroha saying they're friends. Mayu clearly has some sort of background where either she's been unable to make friends with anyone before, or whenever she's made friends in the past they ended up backstabbing her or smth. I just know I kind of relate to her reaction here? She feels genuine happiness at Iroha being her friend. She even acknowledges her reaction to it is a bit odd and tries to act normal to Iroha.

Also, the episode really showcased cats well imo. They're elusive, able to do all kinds of tricks to get where they want (be it outside or hidden rooms or just out of a room lol), and well, can either be loving or very, well, "staring into your soul because not entirely happy". Yuki mostly seemed low-key pissed in today's ep lol.

Then the scene where Mayu rushed off after Iroha and Komugi because the girls really didn't realise they should have told Mayu to stay put and wait in peace because oh my god she got attacked by Garugaru and was shown to be in genuine horrified fear and my god the animators did an excellent job at that scene! Then Yuki- ahem, mystery Cure comes to save her and only utters same words as the blonde girl last ep did: You mustn't get involved. Yuki cares about Mayu so much fellas-.

Ahem. We also see that right now, Yuki is fighting Garugarus like a traditional Precure would. Physical fighting. It would seem she doesn't consider Garugaru to be corrupted beings, as well, no one has told her so. She thinks they need to be dealt with no matter what. It's only after Cure Friendy goes in front of the Garugaru that she stops attacking. Because Friendy knows it's a corrupted animal. That they don't deserve to be attacked for being corrupted, that deep down they're gentle animals deserving to be rescued. Nyammy's reaction to that says enough. She starts feeling conflicted about that, for sure. We'll see if she starts struggling next ep or whether she's not convinced about the change of battle style to chasing style yet. I guess she'd need to learn more from Friendy and Wonderful. Because those two have been told all the necessary info. While Nyammy is all alone, fighting Garugarus to make sure no harm can come Mayu's way. She's such a loving cat y'all-

So like, considering this ep pretty much aligns with my thoughts on the chasing scene decision and all, I'm quite curious of how things will develop. it is entirely possible the fighting scenes return later with a proper, perfectly reasonable way. Like the big bad wolf that's been teased couple times not being a corrupted being but actual, genuine bad fella who needs to be taught a lesson.

But yeh. For viewers it's clear who Nyammy is, but for the cast it's not yet. I am totally looking forward to seeing how Mayu's precure status comes to play, and how Nyammy ends up joining Wonderful and Friendy. Gosh this series has me hooked so well so far.