Is Flip Flappers AOTS?
We need more intellectual anime like this.
It turned out to be not very intellectual.
Is there a Cocona version of this?
>>151649615
There's a CocoPapi too for the moment.
>>151645565
Cocona!
>>151649615
Working on it. I have over 2000 screenshots to choose from.
We need more BEST moms.
>>151652075
Godspeed anon.
>>151652075
Are you going to do the Yuyu one?
Why is Mimi so shit? She ruined the whole show.
>>151645763
>intellectual
STOP
T
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It's animators stretching their legs in fun, creative ways. It's excellent but it's not intellectual. It's a coming-of-age story with yuribait.
>>151652281
>yuribait
STOP
Don't add bait to everything you don't get.
>>151652260
Maybe if you mix her with the other irrelevant girls. She's not featured in enough scenes desu.
>>151652281
>yuribait
It's a bit more than bait though. Even the director's interview confirms.
>>151652199
I read your post has "We need moreNEET moms".
>>151652260
It'll be a small one compared to the others, but yeah. Iroha really wouldn't be worth it. She doesn't have that many different expressions and hardly even appeared.
>>151652526
Can Mimi even read? She never had a formal education at all.
She's probably as dumb as Papika behind that reserved and demure composure
Are you ready for the Yuasa x Oshiyama collaboration?
https://twitter.com/kyouray/status/815069124346966016
>>151652199
>worst mom
I Mimi hadn't let DarkMimi switch with her and go thermonuclear, the KKK would probably have been able to achieve world domination. Mimi did nothing wrong.
>>151652199
>>151652233
>>151652266
>>151652499
Nice.
>>151645763
I love love LOVE this show.
can anyone link the twitter sankyuu post?
>>151653525
Just check the directors twitter.
Mitsuo Iso said Flip Flappers was shit
https://twitter.com/siromitu/status/815059268290289666
>>151645763
Which Papika is Papika of the season?
>>151653570
Well, I say it's great. What now?
>>151653871
I second this. It's now 2 vs 1.
That faggot status: rekt
>>151653570
Fuck him.
This turned mostly into a fluff collage. Unfortunately most stitches are vertical while my script favors wide images over tall ones.
>>151654583
My wife Cocona is so cute.
>>151653570
He's a jobless hack.
>>151654583
Sankyuu!
Side story about PI turning Yayaka into a twin tailed cat Youkai when?
Even better, story about PI revealing that Yayaka was a twin tailed cat youkai all along.
>>151654645
>what is Children of Ether
>implying Iso isn't one of the greatest animators to ever live
>>151655055
That gap is unreal
>>151655101
>Children of Ether
eew
>>151654583
>This turned mostly into a fluff collage.
Nothing wrong with it.
Also that's easily twice as many pictures as Papika?
>>151655101
I looked it up.
>a sci-fi/fantasy mash-up starring black- and brown-skinned main characters
>>151645763
>AOTS
AOTY.
Just saw the card and director's response. Glad to be a part of it. It's been fun, FlipFlappers.
>>151652856
I watch everything Yuasa, this makes me very excited
>>151652856
Will it have yuri?
>>151655278
112 Coconas, 121 Papikas, 107 Yayakas and 77 CocoPapis. OP posted the old Papika one.
Also 47 Yuyus.
>>151653570
No, Mitsuo Iso said the producer is shit, who pushed Oshiyama too much that Oshiyama couldn't do what he wanted to.
Mitsuo Iso likes the FliFla ED, but the anime is a little too moeshit, due to the bad producer requests.
>>151649294
Yep.
It would be much better if they intentionally made all other plot lines secondary to Cocona-Papika relationship, and focused on that.
>>151654583
I love Cocona. Best girl of 2016.
>>151655964
Based producers
>>151655964
>a creative original by an up-and-coming director held back artistically by money-grubbing producers
Sounds par for the course, really. Hell, even the literary world is full of this shit.
>>151655964
>the anime is a little too moeshit
He needs to go back to /v/
>>151655964
If FliFla wasn't moe, it would've been an even bigger flop. Unless they made it yaoi or something.
>>151655964
Didn't Oshiyama say in that interview that the producers where the ones who wanted henshins?
So that's why the girls in Dennou Coil are ugly as sin
>>151655964
>blaming the producers
Yeah no. You should be thanking the producers for the fact that FLFL even exists. Sure they may have made requests but the were the reason this show had such a good budget and could afford so much manpower. It's either FLFL in its current state or nothing at all.
>>151656258
If it wasn't part of his original scenario plan, it definitely explains why Papika completely domineered henshin action focus through most of the series. There's a couple battles where you almost ask yourself why Cocona even bothered to transform since she just stands around and reacts to things instead of actually helping.
That dynamic actually makes a lot more sense if you consider it without factoring their henshin.
>>151656387
Yeah the way I see it they let Oshyiama do his anime with only giving some suggestions
>>151655964
>Mitsuo Iso likes the FliFla ED, but the anime is a little too moeshit
But the ED is moe as fuck.
>>151656258
Yes, henshin and big guns. Both are quite underused in the show, so them being an afterthought isn't unlikely.
>>151656394
Some scenes would be complete nonsense without the Henshin, though. You'd be left wondering how Cocona could perform feats of strength and acrobatics. The fact that she gains it through a kind of magical power causes you not to question it so much.
How could the whole "fight me in the memory dome" have even made sense without Henshin? Would it have just been a schoolyard fistfight or what?
>>151656474
>Would it have just been a schoolyard fistfight or what?
It basically was already. Cocona did nothing in that fight that couldn't have been done just with fists. She blocks a half dozen times, sweeps once and then gets punted through a field goal.
In fact, the only action sequences where her henshin actually mattered were 3's (which was obviously planned around henshin in mind) and ringing the bell at the end of 5. In 6 she's just a distraction while Papika does the heavy lifting, in 8 she actually just stands around and watches Papika fight and in 9 she just gets bullied by Yayaka.
Even in 3, most of what she did was punch and kick (which she could have done without henshin). The only distinctly henshin moments were pick related and the big laser at the end. Most of her contributions to henshin sequences have just been defending Papika, watching Papika or crying out to Papika.
>>151656462
The ED is too expressive to be moeshit.
Moeshit is what we refer to as bland facial expressions and generic overly cute templates. Maybe the sakuga patrol was right in criticizing the show's lack of expressive faces. Perhaps it was the producers' fault all along considering the caliber of the staff involved.
>>151656394
I wonder if all of Ep 3 was Oshiyama taking some rage out on the producers
>you want henshins and magic guns, fine, but they're fighting a naked dominatrix plant loli with a harem of sex slaves.
Shit story, great everything else. It was okay but not AOTS at all.
>>151656845
She also got to look cool in the OP.
>>151656210
Actually this comment is from a talking event Oshiyama also attended. He said those when the topic was complaining about producers only come up with projects that seem to sell well, which is harmful to creativity.
>・押山監督、上からの要望との板挟みで辛かった模様。
With a better second half it might have been my AOTS. Instead it comes second to Stella no Mahou, and about tied with Ping Pong Grils.
>>151656919
Shit post, not great at all. Probably a Driftshitter.
Henshins are obviously a core concept of the show. The whole butterflies symbolism is fucking everywhere. You have to be retarded to believe that producers told him to put it at the last moment.
>>151656848
>Moeshit is what we refer to as bland facial expressions and generic overly cute templates.
What? No.
Moeshit is a vacuous pejorative thrown around to express a generalized dislike of cute things, or cuteness as a form of appeal. It's not a serious term and carries no serious meaning. It's been used exclusively as a form of shitposting and "us vs them" trolling since it was coined almost a decade ago.
>>151657005
>Stella no Mahou
Dropped that garbage immediately after ep 1. Why would you even consider that insipid shit anything but a time waster is beyond me. It's not even good among similar shows.
At least you redeemed yourself with Musume but putting that garbage above says a lot about your shit taste.
>>151657153
Shh, don't burst his bubble. He was very confident about it.
>>151657210
There is no need to be upset, anon.
>>151657052
Drifters was even worse. Life isn't all moeshit and manime, anon. And before you go on to accuse me of being a fujoshi with Yuri on ice or some shit, I'll just tell you now that Fune wo Amu and Hibike tied for my AOTS.
Imagine if Papika wasn't absolutely adorable.
>>151657378
I can't.
>>151657378
>imagine if papika was yayaka
No thanks.
>>151657417
I'm still upset.
>>151657153
I talking about moe from an animation perspective. I think expert animators would find cute faces that are 100% on-model and stiff all the time to be boring and unattractive. I find expressive female character animation to be much more pleasing regardless of how kawaii it is (Asuka during her death scene in EoE). I've never seen an animator praise boring cute faces before.
>>151657005
I hope this doesn't become the next version of Matoi shitposting. I'm a big Kirarafag, but Stella no Mahou suffered greatly from its 100 yen budget. Silver Link can fuck off with their generic character design. But then again, maybe it will be profitable with its 200 sales unlike FliFla.
>>151657505
>>151657417
Is it wrong that I find adult Papika more adorable than her JC form?
>>151657641
L E G S
>>151657276
I would be upset if I actually finished Stella. I'm happy that I didn't bother with it and saddened because anyone is putting it above any title from this season. It's just a throwaway and lazy silver link show.
My headcanon is that cocona couldn't go to pure illusion anymore and committed sudoku in the pipe.
>>151657505
They had to do something about the hideous manga designs. You don't get any worse than that so any design change is an improvement.
Can we keep these threads going for ever anons. I haven't had this much fun for a long time
>>151657842
My headcanon is that Cocona can go to Pure Illusion whenever she wants, and regularly visits her mother there for comfy tea parties.
>>151657917
Everything must end, anon.
Better to die young than live long enough to become madoka general: homu did nothing wrong edition.
>>151657715
But you didn't finish it and therefore you have no opinion of it. I'm glad you liked Flip Flappers but don't compare it to things you haven't watched.
>>151658035
When Sayuri starts shaking, we'll know its time to shut it down.
>>151657502
I think expert animators would know the difference between stoic facial expressions and the subtle demeanor of "cute" faces, or any face for that matter, that don't warrant a lot of animation.
>>151645763
>AOTS?
Soushin Shoujo Matoi.
>>151658349
Matoi poster you are alive. Happy new year you massive faggot.
>>151657917
Tonight you will be visited by the ghost of threadmas future
>>>/vg/164206618
You can be spared from this horrible fate, but only if you learn to let go before it's too late.
I wonder if 3hz will get to do a Kirara adaptation someday, or they're gonna go for action manga adaptations like Dimension W. I feel like a light-hearted show with Sorameso-tier visuals would do very well.
>>151657149
And guess what butterflies are attracted by
>>151658426
Yeah, but if we get 3D printable Flip Flap figs, it might just be worth it to have 3000+ threads.
>>151658349
It's okay anon Matoi is a good anime we all love Matoi
I didn't understand the ending. What was the point of all this?
>>151656848
The show's lack of very expressive character animation is objective reality. Especially when you compare it with that Oshiyama-animated ED, which is absolutely wonderful.
I don't think he necessarily called it 'moeshit' though, he said that the final product was kind of moe anime-ish and that it doesn't display Oshiyama's strengths as a creator very well. I'd be inclined to agree considering the very idiosyncratic stuff he did in his Dandy episode. It had a pretty different aesthetic vision from Flifla's more mainstream friendly stuff.
>>151658465
>>151658520
Lesbians.
>>151658520
Love
>>151658518
If it was good why did no one watch it?
>>151658638
I mean, technically the same can be applied to flipflappers. No one really watched it
>>151658122
Even without watching it, I can assure you that Stella didn't match any of Takkyuu Musume's high points.
Besides, you don't need to finish every mediocre show to know it was shit. And in Stella's case there wasn't going to be a big deviation from what it was presented in its first episode. You can find a show like Stella in every season.
I'm glad that you loved it but it's forgettable as fuck.
AOTS was 3-gatsu or Fune wo Amu.
What did she meant by this?
>>151658674
You're retarded. Stop posting.
>>151658728
>What did X mean by this
She meant that you're a shitty poster and should just lurk if you can't contribute to a thread without relying on twitter-sized copypasta templates of stale memes.
>>151658460
stealing this
>>151658688
Sangatsu is far from its good episodes and Fune wo Amu was weak for Noitamina standards.
>>151658733
No u, brain dead Stelladrone.
>>151658465
Holy shit.
>>151658543
God, I want to punch every "sakugafag" wanting ridiculously overexaggerated expressions like in that one Shirobako scene with crying idol chick. webm related shows more emotion than the entirety of fucking Mob Psycho. Look how the tiniest movements in Flip Flappers episode 1 help to define the characters' personalities. The Japanese get it, see this blog for example:
http://wasasula.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/12/30/165910
Western "sakuga community" is fucking cancer.
>>151658866
I want to be teased by Mimi.
>>151658465
It took me a while to get it.
>>151645763
Nah, it doesn't stand a chance against Hibike.
Anyone else feels like the animation was rugged in the final episode? Especially the first half, before Cocona woke up at Sayuri's.
>>151659107
Fucking this.
Apparently if a something has no smears and pencil roughs it's shit for the west.
>>151659107
>wanting ridiculously overexaggerated expressions
That's a false dilemma though. And episode 1 does a good job of defining the characters visually, it just doesn't necessarily need expressive animation to do that. That blog's example of Cocona adjusting her skirt works very well in terms of directing and storytelling, but it's not really expressive character animation.
I already had this discussion before though and people who disagree will never change their mind about anything. So it's kind of pointless.
>>151658520
New movie called End of Pure Illusion
>>151659107
Western artistic sensibilities in general are very stuck on a "the world rolls to the beat of one drum" and think that there's only one way to see a given thing, and only one right way for it to be done, as well as an objective hierarchy of better to worse.
The priorities are mixed up and you see that in any western art critique. It's especially apparent here just because the opinions of sakugafags aligns so poorly with the reality of technical animation that their opinions seem almost absurd at times.
>>151645763
Easily.
Up there with AOTY as well.
>>151659215
A decent source plastered with your standard Kyoani style it's still just a decent show.
>>151659163
Don't we all?
>>151659215
Hibike rushed through the novel and dropped what made the first season great. It also fucked around with the romance and left a huge gaping hole where it used to be. One of my bigger disappointments of the season.
I felt the show used "moe" really well. Moe is only a problem when it gets in the way of the story or action or what the artist is trying to portray. Oshiyama used moe to his advantage and I think made the end result better.
I am not sure if I would have liked this show as much if the girls weren't cute. It also just fit really well with the fairy tale and surreal aesthetic.
To Be Hero is better. Mimi completely shit on this show.
>>151659107
>http://wasasula.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/12/30/165910
Maan, this show is so great from the visual standpoint.
I hope the guy gets to direct something of substance in the future.
>>151659107
Fucking this. The "if it's not over the top or pretentious artsy stuff then it's shit" mentality is pure cancer.
I fail to see how pic related is not expressive enough.
>>151659915
This. S2 was a huge letdown after S1, it felt like all of the charm had been lost.
I was never as in love with this show as a lot of you seem to be, but I'm genuinely happy that you all got so much out of it. It's a good, thoughtful show, the kind of work that you could show to an undergrad philosophy class and teach them more than their textbook did.
>>151660468
People should really stop with these MAL quotes.
What purpose did she serve?
>>151660596
She's Nyunyu
>>151660596
entertainment
>>151660578
>MAL quotes.
I almost went off on this post. I should've known better.
>>151660596
mocking lolifags.
>>151660596
Not even the writer knows.
>>151660596
Instead of wasting time with muh alzheimers and man papikas Nyu and the twins should have gotten more development/screentime/backstories. Fuck writer 1.
>>151660596
Producers insisted on loli.
>>151660734
I want Nyunyu to mock me for having a small penis that it's not capable of satisfying her.
>>151645763
it sold really badly, and no one watched it on crunchy roll. more like flop flappers
>>151660468
Thank you anon. I love love LOVE the show, but I myself have a lot of trouble pin pointing what specific elements of it make me love it so much. I think the love and passion put into the show is just rubbing off on me. Its something that can be felt, that resonates with some of us.
It is an anime that loves being an anime.
The visual story telling is top notch. Its fun and tries its best to inject fun into every moment it can. The characters are lovable and likable. Nothing about the show really feels cheap or forced, at worst it feels rushed and like they needed more time, but everything feels and develops really naturally. There is so much POTTERY (poetry/george lucas/it rhymes) going on in the series that its beautiful. So many little details that just add up, so many little moments that they add up into something really meaningful in a profound way. What it tries to tell us is really simple: But the way it tells us hits us hard, and touches with the core of what humans respond to. It also eschews the single biggest flaw with most anime- it focuses on show instead of tell, and it is ok with leaving mysteries as mysteries instead of trying to forcefully explain stuff or make a 2deep4u point with certain things. It simply feels magical. It feels like art. It is flawed, at times messy. It is in no way perfect. But something about it really shines above all of that and makes me love it another to consider it within my personal top 10 GOATs.
More than an anime, it actually reminds me of a game: Wonderful 101. Another project filled with so much love, passion, intensity, that its myriad flaws almost cease to matter. Unlike Wonderful 101 however, Flip Flappers has a ton of POTTERY and symbolism and metaphors that adds so much weight to its story, in addition to being far more serious overall.
Flip Flappers is special to me.
I wonder how many others feel this way.
>>151661095
i do
>>151661196
its good to know I am not alone, thank you anon.
>tfw you realize Papika is best everything >>151655919
Yayaka never stood a chance
>>151660596
Trickster
>>151660596
Cute Nyunyu.
>>151661428
b... but trickster is a male archetype
>>151661428
Poor Frued... has anyone ever been BTFO so hard?
>>151661453
Yuyu thinking about suffocating Nyunyu with her big butt for getting in the way of her and Toto,
I love the ending. While I wasn't a huge fan of the endgame developments, or rather how they went about it, I do love where the show ultimately ended up.
They could've just phoned it in and went with a generic bittersweet anime ending where one of the two leads dies/ascends to some abstract existence, or everything magical about the setting goes away forever, but they went ahead and did an outright fakeout.
The show got darker as it proceeded towards its climax, but it kept it human, revolving around a girl's relationship with the world and her mother, rather than revolving around something alien, or the characters being so autistically rigid about a nuanced issue that it becomes unintentionally funny. The magical girl genre of late has become prone to this.
But here the girls win, they'll never be broken apart, and they're going to keep going on adventures together for the rest of their lives. It's optimistic, in an almost defiant way.
Its happened. The warm feeling in my heart from the ending has finally left me. Instead its just an empty and cold pain in my heart. Post Series depression is kicking in hard now.
How are you guys handling it?
>>151661604developing fluffy headcanon
>>151661604
>How are you guys handling it?
Alcohol and masturbation usually does the trick for the first hour, anon.
>>151661453
Threesome /ss/ doujins when?
>>151661596
I love how the last 6 or so minutes of the finale is almost dedicated to BTFO of cliche Bittersweet and sad endings before giving us the happiest ending possible.
>>151661604
I'm writing a doujin gameExpect ti sometime around may 2020
>>151661604
Like every time a good show ends. Also this >>151661640
>>151661604
Think about what could've been if the anime industry wasn't as fucked as it is.
Fills me with anger and that motivates me to do shit for some reason.
>>151661666
I am already far past the first hour, but thanks for the advice satan-chan.
>>151661604
Trying to make FlipFlap Mii fighters in Smash Bros.
Also rewatching the early episodes. And fapping to futanon's stuff.
>>151661707
what do you mean?
>>151661604
Reading, I just reached the 3rd part of Man and His Symbols "The process of individuation." You have to fill the gap with something I figured I should learn a little more in the process.
You can also pick up Japanese, nothing better then studying your anki deck every day
>>151661738
where does futanon post his stuff?
>>151661784
I do need to improve my Japanese, but I have no idea where to go with it. I got Hiragana and Katakana down, and have been learning Kanji with vocab, but I feel like there is still some big element I am missing.
>>151661699
Is she drinking olive oil? That is disgusting
>>151661829
In the futa cave.
>>151661829
>his
>>151661887
Please do tell me where he posts his stuff i need lewd Cockona and Papicunt
>>151661782
What do you mean?
>>151661855
http://djt.neocities.org/
Look at their section on grammar and start reading stuff like yotsuba
>>151661604
It doesn't feel like the show ended to me.
Maybe because I couldn't understand whatever happened at the end, didn't feel any sense of closure, still don't know the relationship between the 2 main characters, what happens to Pure Illusion or what will the 2 even do from now on.
>>151661924
>implying girls exist on 4chan
>>151661940
madohomufisting on tumblr and bisexualrobot on twitter
>>151655638
Man, I love Yuyu. Talking trash to the characters and manipulating Cocona.
>>151661951
>Think about what could've been if the anime industry wasn't as fucked as it is.
What could it have been in your eyes? What about the anime industry fucked it and stopped it from being what it could have been?
>>151661980
every anon is a girl and every girl has a dick, you should know that by now
>>151661955
Thanks anon. I really appreciate this.
>>151662040
Even my mom?
>>151661679
I usually prefer bittersweet or even sad endings, but for some reason I really didn't want that for this show.
The few minutes in the "real world" PI baited me real hard and I was so fucking relived when Papika reappeared. That was just perfect.
>>151661095
Fuck I wasn't going to reply, but you nailed it with the Wonderful 101 comparison.
>>151661604
It wasn't that good
>>151662112
there is only one way to find out
>>151661559
B-but unbirthing
>>151662176
Motherfucker pls
>>151661604
I'm still drinking my cold coffee anon. I don't know what else to do.
>>151661095
kek
>>151662324
Thanks, I was waiting for someone to make this transparent
>>151662133
I am the same anon. I usually prefer bittersweet endings. But this shows ending was fantastic, I didn't want to see these two separated no matter what. The only thing that could have made the ending better would be a kiss.
>>151661604
Waiting for Futanon's doujin.
>>151661680
Post progress.
>>151662327
I remember you from the other thread. I hope we can warm up our coffees soon.
>>151656474
>>151656845
Maybe the saiyan mode in Ep 1 and 2 were originally meant to be their fighting forms.
Please cheer up, anons! Everything will be fine;_;
>>151661604
Wine, Listening to the ED, beer, trying to play it on the piano, sometimes not in that order.
>>151662831
The hibikek thread is that way, faggot.
>>151662149
It is the fairest comparison I think I could make. I don't usually like to compare cross mediums, especially with games since they are so fundamentally different from more passive entertainment mediums.
but I think in regards to the sort of feelings both give me, and the amount of love, passion, and little touches poured into each- combined with the fact that what each does so well makes the many flaws almost not even matter anymore: In this regard they are the same, to a degree that I cannot think of a more solid comparison.
>>151662906
I am listening to Find the Wind on repeat. I don't know what else to do on New Years.
>>151662858
Its ok, everything will be daijoubu. I am sad and feeling post ending depression big time, but its only because I loved the show so much. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The more you love something, the worse you feel when its gone. This pain and sadness may hurt, but it also serves as a constant reminder of how much joy the show brought me. It was worth it.
>>151663105
>I am listening to Find the Wind on repeat.
Is the full version out?
>>151662831
>director flat out confirms Cocona loves pussy
Try harder faggot.
>>151663140
>it sticked on /v/
wat
>>151663185
can you smell the pasta
>>151663140
>FliFla
>marketing
>>151662858
You're right, anon. It will all be fine tomorrow.
It will all be fine in Pure Illusion, visit me when you're ready.
I hate how Flip Flappers and Izetta both pussied out of a yuri kiss. I'm not even that huge of a yurifag, i just wish a show would fucking commit to it for once. Didn't gay skaters get a gay kiss?
>>151663247
I just want you to know that I'm laughing at every one of your posts, past and present. The director blew every one of your baits out of the water.
Happy New Year.
>>151663185
Sutema, guys, sutema, it’s everywhere, like those damn chemtrails.
>>151663251
>no Yuyu butt on the other side
I ain't getting there.
>>151663335
it was an implied kissu, it was obscured by their arms. technically flip flappers got the same thing
>>151663335
Fags on Ice got a cop out, too. They got a TLR-style "fall on their face" moment. Izetta's lip bite was more of a kiss.
>>151663421
They were making too much unmuffled noise to be lip-locked in that shot.
>>151645763
>intellectual anime
>FliFla
It had the potential to be, but it wasn't.
>>151663247
>blown the fuck out so hard he's denying reality
>>151663335
No, they pussied out too. Fujos just have such a huge draught of shows like that that they ate it up anyways. Basically the only reason Yuri on Ice is as big as it is, it’s the first show of its kind that didn’t suck.
>>151663421
If we post it enough it has to be true right?
>>151663515
But it did suck.
Almost every season anymore there's a big BL franchise that blows up and tops the sales charts. The only difference this season is that the show got much more promotion overseas and consequently much more attention from western fans.
>>151663493
He's really making my end of 2016 complete.
>>151663462
Another triggered retard bites. I hope you don't shitpost too much this time.
>>151661604
Perfectly ok at all knowing we'll have LWA in a few days.
Plus, I might be alone in this, but 9-12 were a disappointment. Not the worst, but I slowly began to like the series less, losing any hopes I might have had for it with each passing week. It made saying goodbye easier. PapiCoco are adorable as fuck, but I'm ok with the series being over and not returning forever.
>>151656387
Most tv anime have similar budgets, the fact that FLFL looked consistently good throughout is more a testament to good production management than money thrown at the project.
>>151663160
yes. Its the first song included in this release of the OP.
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=885008
The full version is glorious.
>>151663640
>Almost every season anymore there's a big BL franchise
No there’s not. There’s a big franchise that fujos buy like crazy and draw tons of doujinshi for, but nothing that’s explicitly homo baiting like that. Free is not a BL franchise and neither is UtaPri, tourabu, Kuroko or whatever. Yuri on Ice saw the market niche and was there to fill it, a niche that’s already plenty filled with Yuri shows that also bait like crazy and go above and beyond with "sub"text.
>>151663841
>9 was a disappointment
How?
>>151663955
>nothing that’s explicitly homo baiting like that.
Are you being serious right now? Watch more anime.
>>151663640
>But it did suck.
I appreciated mappa trying to animate something difficult as ice skating but it just ended up looking weird. And the entire tournament plot felt really cheap.
>>151663841
I disagree with you, 11 was the high point of the series, 12 was a bit of a disappointment outside of Yayaka henshin, and 13 salvaged 12 by having the great dual confession scene, "real" world PI, and pipe scene into ending Over the Rainbow sequence.
I am going to miss this series more than any other series in the past several years. It sucks in one sense, but its also exciting in another sense. It feels like the end of an era, and the start of something new. Looking forward to whatever Oshiyama does next. Hopes he thinks of Flip Flappers as fondly as we do and gives us some OVAs or something someday.
>>151663954
Thanks
>>151655638
>>151645565
I love love love this anon. Thank you.
>>151664155
It's really easy to call Japan's taste shit when a show you love isn't as popular as you'd like, but if enough people can come together and make something as wonderful as Flip Flappers, there's hope for them yet.
>>151664190
T-thanks
>>151664137
I watch loads of those shows, anon, because I actually enjoy them. There's actual BL that for the most part sucks (although I do wish more people would watch Love Stage, it’s pretty decent), and there’s vaguely subtextual sports shows with very little inbetween because the guys in sports shows rarely go around declaring their more-than-friends-less-than-lovers love for each other.
>>151664155
>>151663958
Opinions and all. 9 felt melodramatic as fuck, and I never really liked Yayaka, but her henshin scene and buildup made me like her more.
Again not saying these episodes didn't have their moments, my heart loved those daisuki's, and the director himself baited us repeatedly during episode 13 which made the ending much sweeter, I just think it was a bit of a mess.
It saddens me because this show could've been perfect, or close to perfect if they had more time/experience. It felt like something special and got more generic and boring towards the end.
>>151664445
>Opinions and all.
I know. You shared yours so I decided to share mine.
>It saddens me because this show could've been perfect, or close to perfect if they had more time/experience.
There is no such thing as a perfect show, because of Opinions and all.
I didn't find the ending to be generic or boring at all, just felt it had some wonky pacing and a couple missed opportunities.
>>151664564
>had some wonky pacing and a couple missed opportunities.
So you agree with me.
So how does this show holistically compare to other heavyweights this year such as Mob Psycho or Rakugo?
>>151664761
It was better
>>151664761
Rakugo is AOTY. Mob Psycho is a contender too and has more consistency.
Flip Flappers is still top 5 though.
>>151664292
I know what you mean anon. It gives me hope for the future. Its what I mean when I said it feels like the start of something new. I am sad to see Flip Flappers end, but Flip Flappers also gave me hope for Anime, before Flip Flappers happened, I was almost considering dropping anime for good. It had all gotten so stale, uninspired, and boring.
Flip Flappers, for better or worse, brought me back in, and reminded me of why I fell in love with anime in the first place.
>>151664712
The general idea, but not your specific complaints or areas. I dont think it got more generic or boring, and I liked Yayaka. I do think there were some missed opportunities and some wonky pacing, especially in 12. But I also think 11 is one of the best episodes in the series.
I also think that overall, the show is a masterpiece, despite its flaws.
So we do agree on some points, not 100%
>>151664761
It's great!
>>151664761
Better but those two shows are 6/10 at best.
PLATONIC
FRIENDS
HELPING
EACH OTHER
>>151664909
Why do japs suck the finger, why does Cocona let Papika do this after the first day
>>151664909
me on the right
>>151665037
Why have you not kissed her yet Cocona?
>>151664761
Mob was obviously a better showcase of technical animation, but it was strongly lacking in many areas related to narrative and presentation.
Rakugo was one of the strongest dramas in terms of its characters and narrative, but its presentation was straightforward tv drama fare. Not that its approach to visuals was a detriment to the end result, but it's simply not notable for it.
In other words, neither excelled in the things that Flip Flappers excelled in. I'd argue its excellence was exceptional in that very few shows ever do excel in the same areas or achieve the same things, and I think that contributes greatly to its value holistically.
Before someone cries "muh last 4 episodes," all of those shows, as well as every other highly valued show that aired this season had a multitude of flaws that harmed their overall quality when viewed holistically. Flip Flappers actually self-compromised less than Mob Psycho did despite being significantly more ambitious and tackling more challenging subject matter from the outset, which definitely factors into the overall product. I'd put Flip Flappers above both of them because its highs were higher and the ways in which it excelled were more important for an anime to excel in
>>151664761
Its sort of like FLCL but more serious, with less humor, and Yuri instead of teenage boy hormones. It also has a lot of "poetry" moments where events from earlier mirror or parallel with events later on. It rhymes. It also has consistently great animation until episode 10. Episodes 10 and 11 both have animation more consistent with your average anime, and episodes 12 and 13 have some 'quality' moments mixed with a few Sakuga scenes. The main story is pretty simple and straight forward, but there is a lot more going on underneath the hood for those who love to analyze stuff and get a kick out of symbolism. The show also does a great job of showing instead of telling- but this is a double edged sword, since it caused some people to get lost in what is otherwise a very simple plot.
Its not perfect, but there are also not many shows like it, despite it heavily referencing and pulling inspiration from some classics. People who really dig what it is doing will likely label it AOTY or GOAT, as some people in these threads. Everyone else that is reasonable and has good taste will still likely include it somewhere on their top 10 shows of the year and appreciate what it does and how it succeeds overall as a show despite its flaws.
>>151665000
You wouldn't suck Cocona's finger?
>>151665303
>The show also does a great job of showing instead of telling- but this is a double edged sword, since it caused some people to get lost in what is otherwise a very simple plot.
Also because it induces whiplash on those occasions where it resorts to telling to try and avoid leaving many viewers behind.
>>151665000
Yayaka said that the world makes people "hot and bothered," which is probably why they went through the loop a few times, and why Papika was putting a bit more into it each time. You can see her putting tongue into it during the final loop.
>>151665000
Saliva has a natural painkiller in it, hence the phrase "licking your wounds."
To that end, it's a kind of eroticism/intimacy they can sneak in without crossing particular thresholds.
>>151665462
>Saliva has a natural painkiller
>up to six times more powerful than morphine
Cool.
>>151665552
Then why do we even need morphine?
>flip fappers
>intellectual anime
k op
>>151665619
I wouldn't want a doctor to suck on my broken bone.
>>151665619
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiorphin
>Therapeutic application of opiorphin in humans would require modifying the molecule to avoid its rapid degradation in the intestine and its poor penetration of the blood–brain barrier.
>>151665688
Not even Dr. Salt?
>>151665619
Because this thing was only discovered in 2006, your spit only has very small amounts of it, and injecting spit directly in to your body is a very bad idea.
>>151665782
>discovered
publicised I should say.
>>151665778
Dude's not even an MD.
>>151665778
Old, youngor shotaSalt?
>>151665848
All 3?
>>151665619
Because we don't have Coconas or Papikas that will spit in our mouths.
>>151665462
The phrase licking your wounds comes from describing the behaviour of dogs who compulsively like injuries both because they enjoy the taste of fresh blood and because it's a compulsive action to cope with pain and irritation since the animal can't tell the difference between an external source of harm stimulus and aching pain from an injury.
There's no active painkiller in human saliva
>>151665552
This research refers to a newfound method of synthesizing a painkiller that uses a compound found in human saliva as an active ingredient. It has no meaningful effect on its own and doesn't influence the practice or etymology of the phrase (the two of which are unrelated).
People suck their own finger after an injury because blood leaking from the opposable digits you use to manipulate objects in your environment causes a mess and blood stains like hell. With nowhere else to put the mess-making injury, they stuff it in their mouth so the blood doesn't get anywhere else. Typically, superficial hand injuries bleed easily but stop just as quickly, so you only actually need to keep your finger in your mouth for a few moments to solve the issue. It's actually a bad practice in terms of health concerns because the human mouth tends to play host to more infectious bacteria than a used toiletbowl and that's not something you want to envelop an open wound with.
Sucking someone else's finger isn't a real thing. It appears in media simply because finger-sucking is a lurid act of phallic submission and typically associated both with male oral sex and with lesbian intercourse. It's just an excuse to shoehorn sexually suggestive imagery and tension into a scene. There's no real-world basis for it beyond that.
>>151666247
So Papika just enjoys the taste of fresh blood?
>>151666247
Can't you suck germs and bacteria out of the wound?
>>151666399
Dogs also lick others to show affection.
But yeah, Papika has an established disposition to enjoy Cocona's iron-enriched discharge
>>151666247
Crushing hopes and dreams anon.
>>151666451
That's not how hygiene works. Bath towels don't become cleaner by contacting your freshly washed body either.
>>151666780
But that's how people do with snake bites, maybe the spit can even act as anti-bacterial?
>>151666620
Stop.
>>151666399
>Papika never dressed up like this ever again
she looked so adorable in that dress ;__;
>>151666911
>what is fetish cosplay
Cocona will dress her in that and many other dresses.
>>151666911
I feel like over half of my PPKs are of her in that outfit. It's easy to forget she only wore it for one episode
>>151666911
>would rather be naked than wear sayuri's cute hand me downs
I think I found a flaw.
>>151666911
Yayaka will be dressed up in way cuter outfits in the future.
>>151666869
That's trying to suck the venom out. Which doesn't work since it spreads too fast.
You can't suck out bacteria reliably. Washing with distilled water and using a disinfectant is the recommended method of preventing infection.
>>151666911
I thought she looked stupid, but that only made her more endearing.
We've seen from early episodes that whenever Cocona and Papika went inside Pure Illusion, they were around a Thomasson in the real world.
It follows that, since no Thomassons were spotted in the last 4 episodes, that NyuNyu was a biological Thomasson, created to fulfill this function.
In those last 4 eps, characters other than Mimi were able to go to Pure Illusion at will (incuding PapiCoco) because NyuNyu was around them.
And thus, by becoming, a living, breathing Thomasson, NyuNyu gains a purpose and is no longer a Thomasson.
>>151667109
I want to see Sayuri dressed like >>151667052
while straddling Salt's lap and riding his shaker
>>151667109
Hopefully Sayuri does something with that hair too.
I'm probaby jinxing it, but I'm impressed that Amazon ranking for regular, and occasionally Amazon edition has stayed consistently in the 300s since the finale aired. At least it can't be explained by someanithing buying 10 copies of each volume anymore.
>>151667196
But that's the point. It's like dressing your 4 year old daughter as a princess for her birthday.
>>151667198
I feel like there might be some holes in this theory but it amuses me so I don't care.
>>151667153
It also doesn't work because most venom's are potent enough that only a tiny amount needs to enter the bloodstream in order to be effective, while a single bite/sting injects several hundred or thousands of times that amount.
>>151667317
But you'd naturally think that more venom would speed up the process or make it harder to fight off.
>>151667297
>I feel like there might be some holes in this theory
I can think of a few
>>151667289
>all those posts in week 2 about Cocona bringing her lesbian girlfriend to school for the day
Things were so simple back then.
>>151667475
Episode 2 remains one of my absolute favourite episodes.
>>151666869
Saliva's primary purpose is to lubricate your mouth. Secondarily, it introduces chemicals that will assist digestion in your stomach. Those chemicals are specifically meant to react with the chemicals in your stomach, so outside of your body they're useless.
>>151667616
So Papika was lubing up Cocona's finger?
>>151664761
I'd say Rakugo is better, but Mob is not, but the comparison is pretty difficult. Rakugo is better because it may be literally "perfect", it has no major flaws that I can see, but it's a completely different type of show. Mob is closer, but man if you want to complain about the Flip Flappers story at the end, I'll just reply that Mob's story was worse than that from the start and only got worse. "comedy" is not an excuse for that shit. Mob inarguably has better animation than Flip Flappers, but Mob Psycho inarguably has better animation than pretty much anything on TV.
>>151667759
But she doesn't find the nail clippers until 2 episodes later.
>>151667833
Lack of ambition is definitely a flaw. Rakugo failed to really utilize the potential of the fact that it was adapted into a predominantly visual medium whose presentation is done entirely through abstraction and constant conjunction.
If it had been a live action drama, it would have probably been above average if not excellent. It gained nothing by being an anime instead and I'd say it lost something in that choice since it certainly didn't take advantage of its medium of choice.
It had strong characters and strong narrative but the presentation was 'just there'. In animation that might as well be a crime.
Promise me these threads'll die when the fumes run dry.
It only takes an overzealous fanbase to ruin everything. My Jojo, Madoka and KLK-related reaction folders are all fucking radioactive, and the Papis are too good.
Don't forget to view the card.
https://twitter.com/binobinobi/status/815037323200999425
>>151667885
It occurs to me that the nailclippers scene was basically the spooky Papika challenging if Cocona is ready to be a lesbian
>>151668039
the fumes are already dying down. This thread has been significantly slower than any of the previous ones.
We may get some threads popping up around BD releases, but its pretty easy to tell that the cancer wont grow as strong or fast as Madoka, nor was it as strong from the start as with Jojo and KLK.
>>151668039
>Jojo, Madoka and KLK
Only your self to blame there.
>>151668039
Oh god, this.
Jojo was a goldmine of great faces but they might as well be fucking AIDS for their inextricable association with that awful fanbase.
Don't do this to my Papikas and my Coconas.
>>151668039
Right from the start Flipflappers threads were more restrained then Madoka's. Prime example being the resistance to making charts of all the references and observations, even though those first episodes really needed them.
>>151668236
nigga do you know what day it is
>>151668030
Do you have a short explanation, or better yet a link to a long explanation, for what you mean by constant conjunction in this context?
>>151668445
Nigga do you know where you are? I am here because I am a lonely motherfucker who has no better place to be today.
I am sure it is the same with most anons.
>>151668440
One anon wrote a book on the first episode. People made fun of him and he stopped. Probably, he wrote the analysis ironically
>>151668485
He means the interplay of the script, animation and camerawork to create meaning in any given moment.I made this shit up on the spot
>>151668030
You're entitled to your opinion, but "it's not what I watch anime for" is not a flaw.
>>151668485
I was referencing Hume there but to keep it brief and as un-pretentious as possible:
Animation isn't movement, it's the illusion of movement. We see a series of still frames in sequence and intuitively infer action from it. The fact that people knowingly and willingly do this without even thinking about it is huge potential for what you can actually show your audience, because it's an affordance given exclusively to animated media. The artistic freedom of visual presentation is much greater because the audience is already inherently receptive to making links and associations between images in order to make an idea presented visually work. It's why you can see frames like pic related and appreciate that it's a person moving impossibly, inhumanly fast and not just a literal series of coloured lines.
>>151668675
>Probably
Confirmed by the author later. Good times.
I remember months ago when I watched the first episode because I barely picked up anything this season and I figured what the hell do I have to lose on giving an original a half hour of my time, I'll probably drop it by episode two or three.
Boy am I ever so glad to pleasantly surprised.
>>151669014
>>151669014
>>151669122
Holy fuck how can you write so much about one episode
>>151669042
I wish I could drop you.
>>151669367
I could easily do so, but I prefer to contain my autism.
>>151668101
It was probably still related to how Cocona was feeling bad for the whole Iro-senpai ordeal.
>>151669367
The imagery in this show was unbelievably dense, anon. Doubly so now that it's been actually confirmed that it was using a Jungian underpinning as the basis for its extended visual metaphors. It probably deserves page after page after page for each and every episode if you were to explore them exhaustively. I wish I were a brave enough man to make Flip Flappers my doctoral thesis.
This show has become an unexpected classic. I only hope that Japan recognizes it as soon such.
> we all know it won't happen, Japan doesn't appreciate creativity.
>>151669792
If your Japanese is good enough (it doesn't need to be very good at all) to justify focusing on a Japanese work, I'd say full speed ahead. "Analytical psychology as a basis for effective storytelling in animation, as evidenced by a Japanese cartoon about pubescent lesbians " is a pretty damn good dissertation.
>Finish finale
>let it sink in over the past couple of days
>rewatch episode 1
>This scene
>pic related happens
>flashback to their first meeting in dick tree limbo
>feels commence
She really was waiting a long time to meet Cocona again. She confirmed it was her via smell.
>>151669792
You would rightfully embarrass yourself.
But on the other hand, you would be a professional Flip Flapper if you can get away with it.
>>151670198
Creative it was. But a classic? It's more like an example of what not to do in your last arc.
At least it delivered on the yuri I guess.
>>151670505
>. "Analytical psychology as a basis for effective storytelling in animation, as evidenced by a Japanese cartoon about pubescent lesbians " is a pretty damn good dissertation.
Oh to be back in college once more. I would write that up in a heartbeat. Although I don't think i could keep myself from blushing during the defense
>>151670198
It was shit. The first half was good and then the second half turned into generic garbage.
>>151670932
Your opinion is gneric garbage.
>>151670505
I can't even imagine what field I would have to be in for that to be taken seriously.
I suppose psychoanalysis would be the obvious one, particularly if I was a Jungian scholar.
Still, defending a paper like that would be nigh impossible unless you have a young or extremely post-structural leaning panel.
>>151670932
even Jacob Chapman, the guy who made this show popular in the first place and then subsequently started the shit storm about episodes 8-12 being bad, says that the finale was amazing and saved Flip Flappers. He ultimately gave the series only one small notch below a perfect score.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/flip-flappers/episode-13/.110521
>>151671520
We could always just do one for fun because why the fuck not. But I am too lazy for that.
>>151671615
>animenewsnetwork.com
>>151670932
I see you really felt the writer change.
>>151671615
I don't know who the fuck that is nor do I care.
>>151671973
Yurifags have a weird tendency to care about the opinion of ANN.
It was just the same when Pandora in the Crimson Shell aired. They always complained about that girl who bashed kPandora for being low-quality.
>>151671682
Part of me finds it tragically funny that /a/ has so many scholars and former academics content to post ephemeral insight 20 words at a time on 4chan while idiots like this >>151671615
are at large.
>>151669367
I kind of did.
>>151669500
>I prefer to contain my autism
But that's no fun.
All worthy achievements came about through the power of autism.
>>151670932
Please explain further why you think it was "generic" and "garbage".
>>151671520
>I can't even imagine what field I would have to be in for that to be taken seriously.
It would fit into an art degree, you may be able to finagle it into a social science with some heavy modification, but i doubt it
>>151672158
That's not "yurifags". That's just regular faggots.
>>151672158
>one faggot always brings up some external critique that nobody gives a shit
>suddenly an entire group is involved with that shit
You couldn't be more retarded if you tried, anon. The fact that you went straight for this cheap yurifag bait is proof that you have no idea what the fuck you're saying. Sadly, there's always that one faggot that does this. No show is safe nowadays.
>>151670650
>She confirmed it was her via smell.
And there's the whole thing about the sense of smell being processed in the limbic system.
>a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain, involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned with instinct and mood. It controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring).
>>151672271
Art might be pushing it.
Actual arts don't take animation seriously unless your school has a faculty for it specifically (which is practically none). The first thing the panel will ask you is why you thought animation had any academic value worthy of analyzing and publishing to the academic community.
In Liberal Arts would be even worse. Don't even bother unless you know for certain the panel will have a prominent scholar of psychoanalisys.
>>151659107
You mean this blog?
wavemotioncannon.com/2016/12/20/how-flip-flappers-gets-expressions-wrong/
This show and Princess Tutu are the same to me. They both tell a relatively simple story about self-discovery and love in unusual, creative ways. Tutu is hailed as a classic but the first half of the second season seems like something that most would criticize heavily if it aired now with how different it was from season 1. I think Flip Flappers' latter episodes are like this as well. However, both were not complete without them and both had spectacular finales that wrapped everything up nicely.
Both are some of my favorite shows now.
>>151672169
anon.........
The second post was a joke using the meme about the ANN reviewer that was pretty popular in our threads for a few weeks.
>>151672187
I think the whole "go back in time to change things" idea is dumb and not at all what happened.
But its neat to see that my head canon was cross board posted.
can we all just agree on the fact that the ED was god tier
>>151672617
Christ even the title is clickbait.
I can't imagine these people have any confidence in their actual writing or arguments when they rely on the same tactics as tabloids to draw in readers
>>151672558
Hitting a nerve, I see.
>>151672681
I feel exactly the same way, and I bet the Strawpoll poster did too, considering in the final poll, one of the options directly said "like Princess Tutu".
>>151672617
wavemotioncannon is like a discount sakugablog, and sakugablog is pretty sketchy most of the time to begin with.
>>151672833
Overrated shit, Serendipity and Find the wind are miles better
>>151672817
I was referring specifically to the article linked in that post, I just couldn't be arsed to copy-paste the link. I figured it'd be obvious what I was referring to.
>>151672833
>>151672955
All the songs were god tier, but Find the Wind is the best.
>>151672978
I am a little drunk, New Years and all that. Forgive me if I miss some obvious stuff.
>>151645763
Flip Flappers is AOTY but being "intellectual" has nothing to do with that.
Critique of Pure Reason is insanely intellectual but not entertaining in the least
>>151673195
>Critique of Pure Reason is insanely intellectual but not entertaining in the least
I Kant be arsed to even finish the darn thing, desu
FlipFlap episodes rank
Amazing
1, 3
Good
2, 4, 6, 9
Okay
5, 7, 8, 13
Shit
10, 11, 12
>>151672817
>go back in time to change things
It does nicely explain why Evil Mimi gave the baby to Papika then exploded and was a thing that Mimi specifically said she wanted to do.
Although that line being there merely as one of the fakeout endings is also a fun idea.
>>151673321
No
>>151673195
intellectual is the wrong word. FliFla treats its audience like an adult. it tells a story that is engaging on multiple levels. For the person who just wants cute girls and adventure it works, for the person who wants to dig deeper the author left plenty for you to find.
it was also refreshing with happy ending that gave a middle finger to every depressing bittersweet trope that is currently overused
>>151673321
>t. episodicfag
You are the reason flip flap flopped
>>151673477
So after the director confirmed that the PIs corresponded to specific characters, we can be reasonably certain that episode 7's PI was either Cocona's or Papika's
The question is which one of them it was.
>>151673551
He didn't confirm that every PI was specific to one character, just that there's a reason for every one of them even if it's not apparent.
>>151673321
5 is the best episode though.
5 > 1 > 3 > 4 > 6 > 2 > 7 > 8 > (huge gap) > the rest
>>151673658
He literally said that the PIs represented members of the cast and said he'd leave it to the fans to figure out which corresponded to whom.
>>151673551
PIs can also be about relationships, like Hidaka and Bu-chan in ep 8. The world in ep 7 was a representation of how Cocona felt about her relationship with Papika when she was questioning the reasons she went to PI for and if Papika is worth the dangers it entails.
>>151673508
>FliFla treats its audience like an adult.
This is what I want from anything, whether it's fluffy yuri stories, Hollywood movies, politics or whatever. If you always treat people like idiots then they never have a reason to stop being idiots.
>>151672933
Well of course, any reasonable anon would be annoyed by the sheer stupidity of a post like yours because of how transparent your baiting was. At least the others wait one post after the number of their IP is no longer visible to stir up shit.
I guess you're still haunted by that boogeyman.
>>151671520
Extremely off-the-wall theses with a lot of pages can slide through pretty easily in any soft science, particularly if you find a way to demonstrate that there exists a tenured professor who has studied the topic.
>>151673852
>This is what I want from anything
You are in the minority. It appears most people want easy to digest garbage they can watch while sitting on the shitter and posting on twitter.
>>151673879
You take it way too personal.
I hope the new Oshiyama/Yuasa thing will feature adults as main characters considering how sexual it's said to be. Hopefully lesbian too. We don't really have an equivalent to Yuri on Ice
>>151673933
That's the thing though, Flip Flappers is still an easy watch even if you don't pay attention.
>>151674055
True, but I would argue your level of enjoyment drops significantly. The best part of the series may have been the discussion surrounding the series. Once you find all the little symbolic bits you rematch and its a different experience.
>>151672574
why is his sweat brown
>>151674039
My bad, anon. We still tomodachis, right?
>>151673933
Well that stuff has a place too. Sometimes your brain needs a rest.
Just put some interesting stuff in there as well. Non-non Biyori is an example of something which I think gets this right. It can be brainless and relaxing but there's hidden depths if you want to spend time thinking about it.
>>151673749
I’d rate 6, 2 and 7 a lot higher, but yeah, basically.
>>151673376
No, I think you misunderstood. It was about "switching". Like with Iro, "going back" to when her aunt forgot her name was the catalyst that changed her personality. For Salt, such a catalyst would be his personal mistakes and decisions, and for Mimi, the catalyst is the Birth of Cocona. Its not about actually changing the past, but changing your mindset and how you react and felt towards that past that has the butterfly effect on who you are.
>>151674291
Everything has hidden depths and symbolism.
>>151674291
Don't get me wrong. I love brainless entertainment. FliFla just hit me at the right time when I felt like something a bit more and it delivered
>>151670569
hngggg
>>151674040
I think writing adult lesbians might be way harder than writing teenage ones, also Yuasa isn't really the yuri type of guy
>>151673508
This anon gets it.
Also, I too greatly enjoyed the segment where it decided to BTFO bittersweet ends- when Salt literally shot one of the bittersweet ends with his gun I almost jumped for joy.
>>151674512
Time for mastermind Oshiyama to inaugurate him.
These are the >OFFICIAL< ratings of each Flip Flappers episodes.
>>151674040
Yuasa would be senior on that project right?
The only maybe lesbian thing I can see on his credits is an episode and the ed of Michiko to Hatchin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ps5TVTyFg
Looking grim I'd say.
>>151658465
DEEPEST
>>151673551
My theory is that the empty town in Ep1 and 7 are both Cocona PIs.
>>151674190
I think for people who dont pay attention, Flip Flappers is just a fun but randumn anime. For those that pay attention though, its almost poetry.
>>151660596
NyuNyu was Literally (literally) (*LITERALLY*) JUST an extended Chekhov's Gun joke
THAT'S IT
>>151645763
It flipped, then flapped and finally flopped.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
>>151673799
It's pretty funny how different communities can come to completely different consensus interpretations of this stuff. The SA paywall went up so I took a look at ADTRW's FlipFlap thread, and those guys were 100% convinced that episode 5 is Yayaka's mind - an interpretation I haven't seen being taken seriously anywhere else.
>>151674291
I think this is actually a really important tension to identify.
Episodes like 3 are masturful because, while they contain lots of symbolic meaning and signification which is important in the narrative as a whole, all of it fits so perfectly into the aesthetic of the imagery that it still constructs a complete experience of viewing enjoyment even if you find those symbols completely meaningless.
Is it super interesting that Welwitschia has orange and blue-haired bondage slaves moaning erotically in an open bath orgy? You bet your ass.
Do you need to even ask that question to feel like that scene had a place in the episode? Not really, moaning bondage bath orgies fits in pretty much perfectly with all of the crazy mad max imagery that built up the episode's aesthetic. Even completely meaningless, it still had a place in the bigger picture. You didn't have to think to enjoy it or feel like it worked as part of the episode, but you could if you wanted to.
Most of the visual metaphor in the series worked that way. There were very few points where you had to ask questions to reconcile something.
In fact, those were most notably episode 7 and the finale 4 episodes. The former because it was so caught up in building representing the relationship between Cocona and Papika through its presentation that there wasn't really much to be entertained by unless you were actively interpreting the meaning behind things presented in the episode. The latter 4 because they brought the deeper meanings of those symbols throughout the show to a head, they were the climax of the underlying meanings and the narrative undercurrent that had been backgrounding the entire series IF you had bothered to be actively interpreting it.
Regardless of how well those 4 episodes did of capitulating the narrative, I think one of the biggest issues people have with them is simply that they didn't have much interest in secondary or underpinning meanings and questions in those symbols.
>>151674982
I would argue an anonymous place like 4chan is going to generate the best discussion because the only strength you have is the argument at the time, everyone is equal and the best rise to the top.
a place with names has reputation and people will value some posters above others because of who they are, not always what they say.
>>151674904
I really don't want to defend stuff like this all the time with "well it had to be intentional", but it can't be denied that Flip Flappers is filled to the brim with allusions to "useless" things - Thomassons are only the tip of it. Remember Cocona's glasses in episode 1?
Just gonna leave this here.http://jisatsuteatime.tumblr.com/post/155218215708
>>151675143
Except on 4chan one idiot with an agenda and a lot of time on their hands can also easily shill their point of view until people start believing it's consensus. It's not that simple.
>>151675054
I ran out of space because I'm drunkposting but lemme tl;dr
I think one of the strengths of Flip Flappers was that it was highly enjoyable at face value. I think a lot of people enjoyed it for that strength.
I think the negative reaction to the last arc is largely fueled by the fact that it chose to bring those non surface-level issues to the forefront, so the expectations of people who enjoyed the surface were left unfulfilled.
>>151674982
I can't even imagine which cast member would fit for that kind of world. I doubt it's a boy and Iroha already has episode 6's. Maybe the nurse?
>>151675159
Flip Flappers references way too much stuff to it not be intentional
>>151661604
Waiting for all my Preordered BD's to arrive, also waiting on OST and more info about the Papika figure, hope thoughout i'll get hooked into another show.
>>151675278
Consensus is meaningless in an anonymous discussion, anon.
The fact that you care about that means you're still not quite there yet.
I wonder what my Pure Illusion looks like.
>>151675159
I agree. I was really looking forward to an anime building a world out of narrative techniques and obscure art references instead of powers and abilities. I enjoyed the show but it could have been so much more.
>>151675278
fair point, i personally have never understood that behavior but it happens. Its a completely different mindset
>>151675284
The world in episode 5 fell apart when the gem was taken.
5 wasn't a single PI, it was an entire series of PIs held together by an incredibly powerful and oversized defense trap. It was a PI nexus caught in an amorphous spiderweb.
It was likely the PI of the entire student body of the school, with the gokingynoids each representing a different mind and incumbent PI enthralled by the trap.
After all, the nature of the structure of a school system is to bring many disparate people together and subject them to a system of standardized expectations, routine and evaluation. In a way, a rigid school is a structural collapse of umwelt into uniformity.
>>151675054
For me it’s almost the opposite. The upper layer is not working well in those last episodes. Where the bondage slaves made perfect sense and the whole episode had a well built up climax, the superficial storytelling in the last episodes was rather shoddy and messy. It didn’t work as a standalone narrative without having to look for deeper meanings. Or rather it did, it just wasn’t particularly good.
Flip Flappers was a masterpiece because of how it managed to marry the face value meaning with hidden symbolism, and that’s what broke down in the last episodes. The symbolism wasn’t exactly hidden any more and the superficial story sucked. (At least its execution did)
>>151675433
That's right. The only consensus here is that anyone who doesn't share my opinion has shit taste.
>>151675279
>>151675054
This is actually a really on point observation. It helps me better understand what the big dividing difference between those who liked the finale episodes and those who did not.
I am one of those who really likes the whole series, finale included. My only real issues with the series is that I feel that the pacing is a bit wonky sometimes in episode 12 and 13, and also that the animation has some more "quality" in those two episodes specifically.
But the animation will be fixed for sure in the BDs, and the pacing issues aren't massive gamechangers- and could theoretically be fixed pretty easy with "directors cut" versions of those same episodes that have an extra 3-6 minutes each.
So I have been confused about why some really dislike the finale episodes, and I think you hit the nail on the head here- some people just didn't look past the surface of the show, so when the show peeled back to reveal its layers, they were upset because they never saw or cared for anything beyond the surface layers.
>>151665218
Can i call for a 3p AOTY then?
>>151675740
>some people just didn't look past the surface of the show, so when the show peeled back to reveal its layers, they were upset because
Or maybe they just thought all the stuff involving Mimi wasn't as interesting?
Your argument here is literally, "everyone who disagrees with me just didn't pay attention". Fuck off faggot.
>>151676134
Im a bit drunk right now, so maybe I am not explaining myself real well. Sorry. Thats not what I meant.
What I am saying boils down to "Flip Flappers had many things. At some point, it decided to focus on being only a few of those things. Therefore, the people who were watching for the things that lost focus are understandably upset."
>>151675716
That was kind of my point.
The upper layers of the final episodes were the under-layers of the rest of the series brought to the forefront. If you had been enjoying the show for its main strengths, then it would feel like something else had just suddenly kicked all the good stuff to the curb and taken over.
And in reality, that is exactly what happened.
I feel like a pre-requisite for liking the final episodes is liking the stuff under the surface.
I hate using the "surface" and "under the surface" phrasing because it implies a hierarchy that I don't mean to imply. I think the surface-layer was the strength of Flip Flappers, and the fact that layers beneath it NEVER intruded was what made the first two-thirds a masterpiece. It was there, but it was never there at the expense of anything else.
Then the finale comes along and suddenly those lower layers are right in your face at the expense of everything else. It was a radical shift in the approach and I feel like a lot of people were rightly upset that the lesser part of the show's appeal became the climax while their visceral enjoyment of its quality presentation, aesthetics and storytelling went unrewarded as it took a back seat to Jung.
>>151675740
more like there never really was something to care about salt and mimi in the last arc, and those two were already hinted on the surface level on the earlier episodes that their reveal just felt like a limp dick in the end. Imo it was all about the execution. They were able to make a very emotional arc out of Iroha, then why it is something they werent able to do with Mimi and Salt? And it goes without saying that the last 4 episodes sucks quality wise, so it wont be too far off to say that they had issues with the schedule and whatnot
>>151675668
That actually makes sense to me. The time loop, creepy girls who try to rope you into everyday school life and the dokidoki should all be part of the defense trap and prevent you from wanting to find the amorphous.
Also thinking about the Mad Max PI again, it seems to me that Sayuri may have been in focus there and the world shaped in the way that she feels about the Flip Flap vs. Asclepius conflict. Even with Welwitschia's kinks and kinda similar hair style, the desert planet had low resources, not many inhabitants and had to make due with what they found while the raiders just did whatever they wanted and took what they needed and if they felt like it took it from the desert people. In the preview before ep 3 Sayuri even complains to Hidaka that the electricity bill is too high.
>>151676636
I really liked the mimi and salt stuff. Episode 11 is my favorite episode. The only thing I dont like about Mimi and Salt is that it took focus away from Cocona and Papika.
>>151676579
Except it’s like I said the opposite. I think the below surface stuff got utterly annihilated by being brought into a spotlight it never should have been in. This was never the lesser part, this was my main enjoyment, but it managed to hold that spot precisely because it stayed in the background.
Symbolism loses most of its meaning when you explicitly spell out what the Penguindrum is.
>>151676636
>And it goes without saying that the last 4 episodes sucks quality wise
you have a very weird definition of "sucks" for someone who watches TV anime.
>>151676652
Bear in mind that the defense traps are a foreign and invasive element to PI, not part of the native landscape. The Plant Loli's design really has no bearing on the character the PI is associated with.
>>151676842
The Japanese seem to do this a lot don't they? Almost every anime and game they do that features lots of symbolism, they seem compelled to explain it in the final act. At least in Flip Flappers case, it did not explain EVERYTHING and it still left some stuff up for interpretation.
>>151676636
>they were able to make a very emotional arc out of Iroha,
>unironically caring for literally who iroha or the random obasan
pfftt hahahahahahaha, that episode was the definition of forced drama
>>151676636
>>151676994
The worst parts of Flip Flappers is still far above average for TV Anime.
>>151676804
Yeah, it's not that I hated Mimi and salt, they're pretty okay, but like you mentioned (and what I wanted to imply) it could've been better
>>151676994
>>151677150
compared to its first 8? it does
>>151677032
I know. It's possible that the shard corrupted a creature that was already living in that PI. There are just too many parallels between Sayuri and that world for me.
>>151677075
It's a tempting thing to do as a writer. Why not throw back the curtain and blow the audience's mind? That pipe was not a pipe all along, the penis was your mother's, the end was the beginning was the end. What a master stroke, aren't you surprised? I really had you going.
Part of it, of course, is that an audience that leaves with unanswered questions is very often an unsatisfied one. Even after having so much of the subtlety of Flip Flappers explained away, people were still whining about little details they didn't fully understand and upset the ending didn't clarify for them. Audiences, and thus creators, have come to expect the ending to leave them with all the answers.
>>151677032
>The Plant Loli's design really has no bearing on the character the PI is associated with.
A Welwitschia is a desert plant. The nature of the defense traps is definitely at least based on the appearance of the PI.
>>151677155
Everything could be better in anything. Nothing is perfect. As far as Anime goes, this is one of the best, especially so if we are talking about anything recent from the past 5 years or so. Considering that, I will happily take Flip Flappers, flaws and all.
>>151677337
Disregarding the reference for a moment, what bearing did the burd and giant not-EVA have to Pop's technoworld?
>>151677150
Pretty much this.
However, I still maintain my opinion that the last episodes were good even by FliFla standards.
>>151677328
If thats the case, can you really blame them? If anything, I think they deserve kudos. They managed to make an ending that is satisfying and gives enough answers, while still keeping enough a mystery or left to interpretation.
>>151677430
It was a world based on mecha and super sentai themes. There is no disregarding the reference.
>>151677478
I really like the ending, I have no complaints.
I just think it's interesting to try and understand perspectives different from my own.
>>151677447
I have said it earlier bro, 11 is my favorite episode. 12 was a bit of a let down (mostly because of pacing of the last 3-4 minutes) and 13 was great, but I just wish there was more.
Actually, I think episode 2 is the absolute weakest episode overall, but even then, I still adore the episode and things its great and fun.
>>151676636
This problem is something that’s very common with young webgen folks, unfortunately. They think explosions are awesome and that that’s what makes a good fight scene. Those fuckers should watch more sports anime. Saki can have ten times the tension without showing much of anything going on solely through structure and proper suspense buildup. It’s my go to example for this kind of stuff because it manages to make Mahjong interesting even if you know absolutely nothing about it. This is what any show with a fight scene should aspire to be, it should already be interesting if you switch the fight scene for a scene with someone flipping Mahjong stones or a fucking dictionary. All too often fights feel like "oh well here we go again, here’s the obligatory fight" while the fight itself should only happen once proper tension has been built up.
>>151677601
How does a desert plant relate to Mad Max or Hokuto no Ken?
What does the 12th ring of a clocktower bell have to do with Marimite?
"It's a reference" isn't good enough here, anon.
>>151677730
>How does a desert plant relate to Mad Max or Hokuto no Ken?
are you seriously asking this question
>>151677328
They still gave the wrong answers and kept the wrong things under wraps. The bust from the beginning is a superficial story element that should have been mentioned. Cocona’s mother and growing up problems are beneath the surface level and shouldn’t have been slapped into the viewer’s face quite as explicitly.
>>151673319
>>151673195
Critique of Pure Reason treats me too much like an adult.
>>151677661
This is actually why I think Episode 9 Cocona vs Yayaka is the best fight in the series, despite its choreography being weak and the "Fight" is just Cocona blocking some kicks until she gets hit.
Honestly the first 9 episodes weren't really that amazing either. The only episode that really wowed me was the spooky episode.
I'm not even into spooky stuff.
I'm someone who is really into character interactions and chemistry and I just didn't feel it for Papika and Cocona. Yayaka on the other hand was great.
Didn't even bother watching the last 4 episodes. I'm just not interested enough to finish it.
>>151677649
Episode 2 had the menstruation blood bottle, nothing is ever going to beat that.
>>151677808
Funny, everything that leads up to the ep 9 fight was set up inside that one episode. The Mimi fights were set up at least an episode in advance.
>>151676842
>being brought into a spotlight it never should have been in
I think they needed to end it in one way or another because how else are you going to compensate from the change in writer and with Studio Pablo's absence?
>>151677339
You missed my point. I'm not comparing Flip Flappers to any other anime, and I still hold the show in high regard, and it's exactly because its first 8 episodes were so spectacular the the last 4 'could have been better'
>>151663174
>>151652499
Can I have the interview with the director addressing their sexuality?
>>151673514
Anime is too inconsistent nowadays to evaluate a whole show rather than the single episodes.
>>151677847
Two is my favourite by far.
It was like a pastiche of female puberty from beginning to end. I can't tell if I like the Magic Schoolbus trip through Cocona's ovaries or the run through the school trying to hide the embarrassing contents of her backpack from her peers while being assailed by aunt flo more but both the A and B part of that episode were just gold. You can tell Yuniko had a tonne of influence over that episode because there's just no way a male director got it that spot on by himself.
>>151677903
I dont think the length of time between the set up and the pay off is what really matters here. Also, I think scenes from as early as episode 4+ where Yayaka was asking Cocona if she was really prepared to accept responsibility for her choice to oppose them, and the constant 'muh mindset' was all build up for the yayaka confrontation.
>>151677649
Thing is, episode 2 was the most abstract and dreamlike episode, just like 3 was balls-out action and 6 was legit drama. Flip Flappers doesn't half-ass its theme segments, it always goes all in. This is why I can't even be mad at it for its story arc ending - sure, they could have been like "ha ha, we were pretending to have a story arc for an episode, isn't that funny", but they at least tried to do that properly as well.
>>151677843
>I'm someone who is really into character interactions and chemistry and I just didn't feel it for Papika and Cocona. Yayaka on the other hand was great.
Are you talking abut liking these characters in particular or how their interactions were handled? because Papika and Cocona had amazing buildup and it's part of why the early episodes are highly-regarded. I don't think Yayaka got anything similiar to what they had prior to episode 9, and even that episode wasn't that great for her because it didn't have enough build up to carry the tension they wanted to deliver.
>>151677903
>Funny, everything that leads up to the ep 9 fight was set up inside that one episode.
They had actually been building up the showdown since episode 5.
I think that's part of what made the fight in episode 9 so good. Episode 8 was, for all intents and purposes, a standalone episode. Despite that, you couldn't help but be aware at the end of 8 that there would be blood and that 9 would necessarily be a reckoning between Cocona and Yayaka.
The scenario built to that point throughout multiple episodes so absolutely perfectly. I only wish the conflict with Mimi had been set up even half as well.
>>151658465
>>151678178
I just don't feel like Papika and Cocona had good chemistry. It never felt like they were best friends to me. Yayaka, on the other hand, felt like she had better chemistry with Cocona. I can't pinpoint exactly why, but if I had to guess, its because I felt like Papika's characterization was pretty weak, and Cocona's reaction to Papika's overbearance and learning to go along with it was a little forced. While Yayaka had multiple motives and conflicting feelings and her feelings for Cocona won over her dedication to the KKK faction, and I thought that was pretty interesting.
>>151678198
The conflict with Mimi was set up plenty. In episode 4 Cocona wishes she had a family (plus she had been looking for guidance all along), and then she gets confronted with all sorts of positive and negative aspects of parents - the distant father, the principled father, the controlling mother, the encouraging mother.
I agree that it's not as well built up as the Yayaka stuff, but people who say it came out of nowhere and means nothing to Cocona's character are completely off the rocker.
>>151678823
The problem is that Mimi herself is not well set up as a character. Of course, she can’t be because the whole point is that she’s not there, but then you shouldn’t try to make the viewer care about her fate either. Also, Salt had no such excuse.
I love Cocona.
>>151678776
I feel like a lot of that is the point. Yayaka feels like she "deserves" Cocona because there are so many arguments to be made, but Cocona and Papika just belong together for no particular reason - because that's how love works.
>>151678823
The problem is that we don't get a good feeling of Mimi's personal stake in the conflict
Instead, it's explained to us through hastily inserted flashbacks.
Compare episode 10 and 11 setting up Mimi's character as an antagonist to the way that the entire series leading up to episode 9 set up Yayaka as a character and then as an antagonist.
Mimi was barely a character, and what we got of her was just thrown in our faces in a couple quick montages of the past. Her motivation was so simple, do distant and so far removed from the main cast themselves that it didn't really have the same kind of interpersonal tension to the conflict that Cocona and Yayaka had. Mimi felt more like a thing than a person. She was just the ancient evil that awakened.
>>151678776
Good chemistry isn't what I would use to define Cocona and Yayaka's relationship.
I would agree their relationship was better established, and that Yayaka was developed as a character a lot better than Papika (and anyone else, actually).
However, chemistry would imply their interactions have interesting dynamics or that they click well together, which isn't actually a defining feature in Cocona and Yayaka's friendship.
Cocona and Papika actually had a lot of chemistry, but the problem with them is that Papika was hardly a developed character, so as a result their relationship doesn't feel as developed as you might expect, considering most of the exploration on the girls feelings are made on Cocona, whereas on Papika's said they're just stated as a fact, rather than being something that got elaborated on throughout the show.
>>151678902
I love Cocona's butt.
>>151679196
It loves you, too
>>151678902
Did you... write a song for her?
>>151679167
Papika actually changes a lot throughout the show. It's just never as obvious because we spend every moment in Cocona's headspace. I actually rather liked the subtle way Papika's character was handled because it made her really easy to like after the first two episodes made her seem kinda pushy and annoying (albeit in a cute way)
>>151678882
>>151679073
I can agree with most of that, I just don't agree with that Mimi was supposed to be more than a plot device and that being more than that was necessary - it's all about what she means to Cocona, not who she is. Mimi is a flat character, and for that characterisation-by-backstory works just fine. And the few character-building scenes she does have work really well (like her little conversation with Salt). Not bad for a side character.
>>151679372
I'm not saying Papika is devoid of change, just that there's no exploration on those changes, due to a lack of introspection on her side.
>>151679037
Not saying it wasn't the point, but to me it was just uninteresting. Its hard to get invested into the main cast if I don't feel like they work together very well.
>>151679167
I was speculating that it was because Papika felt like a weak character, but I feel like its more because of Papika's characterization rather than her lack of overt development. To me, she felt like she always had one setting, and that is her airheaded, energetic setting. Despite the somewhat episodic nature of the series, we never really saw many sides to Papika, where as Cocona was very new to PI.
In consequence, it never felt like Cocona and Papika really shared anything such as emotions or ideas.
>>151679487
I think seeing the inside of Papika's mind would've been a bad move. The whole drama from episode 7-10 about Papika slowly regaining her memories and Cocona losing her trust in Papika would've broken down totally if we actually had the ability to see from Papika's perspective. The mystery and uncertainty about Papika's character and her thought process works well because the audience is asked to see Papika as Cocona sees Papika, and trust, doubt or love her with all the same information that Cocona has.
I think that's part of the reason so many of us could become so totally invested in the couple. That experience of not-knowing was kind of essential to understanding how they can love each other
>>151679452
>like her little conversation with Salt
where's the "papika sounds" compilation
>>151679452
>Mimi is a flat character
And this harmed her status as a villain and the emotional impact of the conflict she precipitated.
The finale was salvaged by the fact that so much of it was Cocona and Papika being in lesbians with each other. Things like Yayaka's henshin scene and the like strengthened the finally because they distracted from the actual conflict, which was the weakest part of the whole thing. Even if it was just a framework for those things to take place in, it was a weak framework. The weakness was the fact that Mimi's characterization made her a villain that didn't evoke emotion or engagement from the audience. In the end the only thing I felt about Mimi id that she's hot, I want her to dominate me, and I think she probably likes it in the butt. It's just to easy to see her as a thing or an object because the story did such a poor job of making her feel like an actual human being. You can't really feel things for a brick, no matter how dangerous it is.
>>151679818
Mimi a cute
I wish she had more than 4 episodes to exist
This might be the most legitimately scary thing I've ever seen in an anime.
>>151680565
someone shoop these two together
I really appreciate how cute the characters are in this. I never noticed it but Mimi and papika are on a whole other lever of cute solely based on design than characters in most shows
will Yayaka ever be happy?
>>151681103
Yes.
>>151679679
If a second season ever happens though, I do want to see more stuff from Papika's perspective, because now the reason to avoid being in her perspective is no longer needed.
>>151681103
She gets rammed by Uexkull every night
>>151645763
Yeah. Greatest love story ever told.
>>151676636
>their reveal just felt like a limp dick in the end
You just don't get it. To enjoy those moments in flip flappers you are meant to be like this guy.
>>151681103
it's a shame we onyl got winter uniforms for a few minutes
>>151681103
after i become her wife, yes
>>151681103
Only if she's willing to play a game of pretend.
>>151681305
He's probably been castrated so he's ramming nobody.
>>151681652
Castration doesn't take your johnny, man
>>151681652
>actual retard
>>151681558
Then I'll be her lesbian affair.
>>151681154
If this show gets a second seasonI know, its never happening, but lets dreamwhat would you want it to be?
I would want whatever Government Organization that funded the KKK to send assassins and cyborgs to 'eliminate loose ends' now that their secret project is a failure.
Cocona and Papika retreat into pure illusion, hopping from world to world, trying to escape pursuing cyborg assassins based on the amorphous children research. Meanwhile Salt and Flip Flap start running spec ops shit with Yayaka and the Three Amorphous Children to figure shit out, destabilize the enemy, and help keep Papika and Cocona safe while they are on the run in PI.
>>151682214
>trying to dyke a straight girl that's already been burned by lesbos before
Good luck with that. You down for 3-ways?
>>151682300
>lesbian is straight
Sounds like something /u/ would say
>>151676842
I like getting some canon resolution to the speculation. If the creator never actually tells you their intent then all the speculation on that intent is just fun but pointless. Whereas if you can check your theories against the original intent it gives you some feedback you can use to improve your analysis of future works For example by showing you if you have a tendency to read too much or too little in to a scene.
>>151682767
Which is why the canon resolution and confirmed interviews made me feel really good- my speculation was almost 100% correct.
>>151680728
Here's a transparency if no one's done it yet.
>>151682909
Same here.
I got a couple things wrong, like I expected them to cop out and give us a bittersweet end, but it's nice to know that most of the interpretation of imagery and whatnot was on the right track.
This degree is finally worth the paper it's printed on.
>>151682958
>PROMOTIONS!
>>151682958
>CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING!
>>151683310
I am just a business major, but I took a couple classes in literature and psychology. I almost instinctively acknowledged the jungian stuff and the types of allusions being made. It was nice and made me feel smart. I love this show.
>>151682958
Nice.
>>151683872
Amazing
Also we've hit the bump limit on the final thread. It's been a pleasure flapping with you, anons.
>>151683872
Are they Stands?
>>151683872
Heh
>>151684000
Wouldn't Papika and Cocona be the stands
>>151683963
The feeling is mutual, I am going to miss these threads. It was a good time.
>>151681103
She won all these lolis, it's gotta be something.
>>151683963
i love, love, LOVE you anons! hope we cross threads sometime soon!
>>151684338
The sad part is, even if we do, we wont know or recognize each other. In that sense, tonight is essentially goodbye.
>>151684427
>>151684338
>>151684178
You people are so gay
>>151684338
>>151684427
Then make a discord or something, jeez.
>>151684539
>>151684562
Nah, its not needed. That would just become a dumb circle jerk. I will see you all again when season 2 is announced!or maybe the BD release threads.
>>151684539
what you mean is
>l-love you too, faggots
>>151684539
I just want you to know that I've become you
See you next season, faggot.
>>151683963
Likewise. I love you all, these threads really were something special.
>>151678047
>>151637313
>I'm not sure if I have a commitment to yuri but I felt like I broke Yuniko's rule of "not overdoing it" in ep 7 when I demanded Kojima not to draw Papito and Papiya as boys because I didn't like het pairings with Cocona.
That is apparently a bad translation though
>Oshiyama knew nothing about yuri at first, Yuniko gave him a lesson about it and what is ok and what should NOT be done.
>But Oshiyama broke Yuniko's rule a little in ep7, where he decided Papito and Papiya to be girl(or, tomboy), but Kojima kind of drew them like boy.
Is probably more accurate.
Either way, his intent was obviously to put proper yuri in the series and for Cocona to be attracted to ladyPapika.
So this is the part where we all finally say goodbye huh?
Goodbye wonderful anons.
I love love LOVE you all.
I'll see you guys in like a week when the first BD gets released.
>>151684855
What are the chances the BDs will actually get proper encodes and subs?
I feel like most of the groups doing BDs have up and skedaddled over the past few years
>>151684819
In retrospective it'd be kinda cute if some of them were male since Cocona would love Papika for herself regardless of gender
>>151679679
>I think seeing the inside of Papika's mind would've been a bad move. The whole drama from episode 7-10 about Papika slowly regaining her memories and Cocona losing her trust in Papika would've broken down totally if we actually had the ability to see from Papika's perspective.
I don't agree.
For me, the drama in those episodes had a bigger effect, because we knew Papika's feelings for Cocona were true. I don't think any viewer doubted Papika's feelings for a second - except maybe those people who always fail at understanding characters, or maybe those who hoped her feelings weren't real.
Cocona's reasons for doubting everyone were also understandable, for a variety of reasons that were actually well developed throughout the story.
For me, had Papika's inner world been developed - i.e. her feelings and perspectives of the things around her, not her Papikana memories - the sadness as a result of their falling-out would have been even more painful, because as we knew Papika better due to having explored her character too, it would have been even more frustrating seeing them being apart.
>>151684819
>Cocona to be attracted to ladyPapika.
This kills the futanon.
>>151685007
>had Papika's inner world been developed - i.e. her feelings and perspectives of the things around her
Literally episode 7
>>151684707
That's too shameful but I guess that's okay
Stop getting personal, you faggots.
>>151664761
I liked Mob Psycho more, despite not having cute girls to distract me.
FF is still a 7/10 though
>>151684855
Don't kid yourself, by Monday there will be at least one, "now that the dust has settled we can all agree Flip Flap was 2016 AOTY", and who knows how many Cockona threads.
>>151684739
Cheeky fucker
>>151685049
Those were just different sides of her behaviour, though.
Her thoughts and motivations weren't explored in that episode, and the only new thing we learned is the possibility of her wanting to do "fun" things with Cocona.
>>151684987
That's fucking gay, mate.
>>151684334
TOTO IS NOT A FUCKING LOLI. TOTO IS A BOY!
>>151685314
Aren't they Mimi Clones and twins also? High chance he is female
>>151685314
True, but he is a totol bottom, so he counts as a girl for sex purposes.
So does the Japanese language actually leave their relationship status ambiguous? Someone told me she was saying "Daisuke," which implies love between F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Expect me to tonguepost in future anime as well, see you next adventure.
>>151685204
I really like Ep 7, and there's some interesting stuff in it, but at its heart its just a goofy date episode.
>>151685371
Daisuki can be used for romantic love too
>>151684987
Meh, I actually liked it they addressed a character's sexual orientation for once, rather than just leaving it up in the air.
Also, Cocona does love Papika for who she is, considering she's the only person/girl she ever fell in love with, and she made it clear in ep13 there's simply no one else for her.
>>151682241
Anon should be a scriptwriter.
Id pay 70USD a disk for that.
>>151685398
Don't get me wrong, ep7 was one of my favourite episodes.
All I'm saying is that it wasn't about giving introspection to Papika's character, but about showing different sides of her behaviour, and showing that the one Cocona wants is the full person, and not just one side of her.
>>151685487
if it ever does happen, remember me, and know that one anon went on to do something great.
>>151685353
He wasn't showing a bump when he was in the swimsuit.
>>151685371
Nope, Suki and Daisuki can be used in a romantic context as well, and those are the terms that are used the most in anime/manga for confessions.
Aishiteru isn't used too much, even though it has a stronger meaning, but that's likely because it's generally used between people who already have a established/developed relationship (people who have been lovers for a while, spouses and family).
>>151685761
>Aishiteru
also used by rampant shitposters (pic related)
>>151685371
"suki" is literally "like"
"Daisuki" is basically like + intensifier. It's a 1:1 equivalent with the english word love. Like the english word, you can use it to refer to "omg I LOVE this movie" or "I love this restaurant, they have my favourite food" or "I love dick" or "I love my family, they're the best" or "I love my best friend, they're practically family" or "I love you with every fibre of my being, my dearest wife. You mean the world to me"
Westerners get confused because anime and manga very often throw around "daisuki" in a romantic context but then pretend it was a platonic or friendly kind of love as a cheap bait. Instead of accepting that their simple-minded enjoyment is cheaply teasing them with romance it never intends to make good on, they jump through mental gymnastics to rationalize it as a cultural difference or something simply "lost in translation"
In reality, japanese english basically don't differ at all with respect to how they use their equivalent words for love.
The confusion also stems from the fact that japanese has "ai" which is another form of the word love. It's typically used in an elevated way to address the concept of love itself, and the verb form "aishiteru" is used almost exclusively in poetic or aristocratic contexts. Westerners with no understanding of the language or culture insist that "aishiteru" is authentic romantic love and "daisuki' in all its forms are just an inauthentic or platonic love, which is patently untrue.
Daisuki can mean you love that you just stubbed your fucking toe on the leg of a table, or that you love your soulmate with your heart, your soul and your everything. It's up to you to figure out the context.
>>151685840
Yes, it can also be used jokingly.
See you in the next thread, faggots.It was fun.
>>151684987
Yeah I thought that was at first. That she rejects both male and female Papikas because they're not her Papika.
>>151685371
You're putting too much stock in the words. Papika first says daidaidai suki, and from there it becomes a sort of inside joke between the two of them. You usually see daisuki as more a friendship thing, but we have to excuse Papika here because her speech is just going to be super expressive. In the big confession Cocona brings it back and states more plainly "Papika ga suki".
Its not really worth quibbling over when you can how close the two from a physical stand point. They're practically on top of each other half the time.
Farewell.
>all these people thinking flifla threads will end and that's that
The generals will keep coming until they die out and stop getting maxed out as you all lose interest and leave. Not with a bang but a whimper, etc.
See you anons around
>>151685873
The main difference is that westerners will easily say "I love Star Wars", but won't nearly as easily say "I love you, bro" to a friend, while in Japanese both is super common (or at least it is in anime).
Goodbye Anons, and have a happy new year!
I love love LOVE you all!
>>151685986
Don't worry. If Flip-Flapper-fans tend to become annoyingly cancerous in making threads despite everything having been talked about, there will be enough anons to troll-shitpost and chase them off to /u/.
>>151685913
To this you have to add the one time in ep9 when Papika explained her feelings for Cocona to Yayaka.
There was no much room for interpretation after that.
A big problem here is that Westerners are too used for something to seal the deal in relationships - a kiss and/or sex.
That, and probably getting spoiled by modern harem stories, in which the girls pretty much try to fuck the MC from the get go.
You'll notice that in Asian works, there isn't always a kiss or sex to show a romantic relationship has been established between two characters, and the audience just know they are due to how things have been developed and a bunch of subtleties.