Agh, I’m so happy March and the rest of Kasamatsu cast still got a screen time during the post-credit scene and on the new OP! (though I don’t know what to feel about the short hair)

Despite having a bad mouth and attitude, I still like Black Ale because of her design (I’m a sucker for fierce woman). She looks to be a tough competition next episode. I don’t know about the history, but I don’t think Oguri will lose the race.

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Sad that this one didn’t get an auto post because it didn’t get enough traction 😥. Anyway, we got another lovely episode this week.

The club activity finally took a toll on Makocchi’s weight, so she decided to go on a diet. With the help of Nana and Tsutsuji, they also start going to a gym. Though the three of them were all on the weak side and the gym proved to be quite a challenge.

Makocchi seems to take her diet too seriously, they had quite a dilemma when Shinon wanted to take the club to a hamburger restaurant. Tsutsuji was kind enough to teach Makocchi about “cheat day” 😈.

That was a big hamburger. I never had a classic tall burger. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tall burger in my home country (or maybe I’m just too poor to find one)

Tsutsuji was right, Makocchi, you shouldn’t take the diet too hard. It’s all about balance. Tsutsuji was even kind enough to accompany her to the gym from then on, despite not being an athletic person. She also found a good place to eat after going to the gym.

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Thank god I just had curry for lunch before watching the episode, if not, I’d be in the same spot as Haruno. I can relate, Haruno. There is just something about curry that makes you crave it. There’s nothing that can beat the feeling of a warm and spiceful curry in your mouth 🤤

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This will be the last time we will see you March

I didn’t plan to watch Uma Musume at the start of the season. I only heard it’s airing from r/anime discussion. Considering that it was made by Cygames and the several praises for the movie, I gave it a try. This is the biggest surprise for me this season. It was beautifully animated with a lot of hype moments, especially her rivalry with March. March was voiced by Ise Mariya, so I kept hearing Killua when she talks.

I cried a little watching this week’s episode. Kitahara decided to sacrifice his dream for Oguri after putting her in a pinch last episode. I was rooting for March to win (I love her, she is so cool) because I didn’t want Oguri to move out to nationals. I want her to still be with Kitahara and compete with March in Toukai. At last, Kitahara showed some resolution after seeing how conflicted Oguri was during the race. He finally decided to push Oguri to the nationals with his speech.

I will miss March, I don’t think we will see her again after Oguri transferred to the nationals.

To think that I would be this invested in racing horse girls playing a historical reenactment of real life horse race 😭

I love this anime because it has many shots with a bird’s eye view. They also show their hand when holding the camera.

I’m not ready when Yachiyo will learn about humanity’s fate. They keep brewing just like this episode.

This week’s food didn’t look as appetizing as the last two weeks, so I won’t post it here. Instead, we had Shinon-chan being stupid and the group hiking Mt. Takao.

Thanks to our hopeless, dumb girl Shinon-chan, the group started by helping her find her money. She “cleverly” hid her money behind a treasure hunt to make sure she wouldn’t be able to spend it. Though, of course, because this is Shinon-chan, she forgot to hide her 5000 yen in the first place, which was in her wallet all along. Never change Shinon-chan.

The second half was spent on hiking Mt. Takao. There, they tried out the chairlift, eating dango, and eating out at the restaurant Mokotaro. Makocchi has also started to open out to the group and be more assertive about her foodie side.

Unfortunately, Shinon-chan, was swept by the enthusiasm, bought the walking stick, and had to be broke for the next two days.

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Yachiyo was really cute in this episode, from her little dance to her outbursts. As others have pointed out, there was some emotional gut punch brewing in the background, though it was a given for a left-out by humans kind of story. I hope Yachiyo (and me) could brace it

Now, if you allow me to request yachiyo burst as the post thumbnail

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Our weekly food for the week is Camembert Curry Pilaf. Never had one, but the look seems tasty.

Shinon-chan’s plan to make the club a fake club failed as the clerk had the responsibility to check on a newly formed club. Fortunately for Makocchi, this was the push for her to suggest cooking as the club activity. She now has a place to try out new things.

Shinon-chan is a goof, no thought, head empty, but sincere in solving the problem. Thankfully, Shinon-chan’s power of socialising secured the cooking appliances, leaving the cooking job to Kurea and Makocchi, while Tsutsuji got the job as the OST.

I can’t wait to see what the next food will be, now that the club has settled.

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Just found out the OP and ED were directed by Naoko Yamada, maybe I should give this one a watch

I’m glad, I hope it can pull more people to give hibimeshi a try

~shinon-chan best girl~

Watching this at night was a mistake, that Sauced Katsudon looked really tasty, now I’m craving it
I’m really tempted to use this as the post screenshot (and maybe also for future episodes if the format is a weekly food focus)

The art style is really nice, loving the water painting look for the background art. The characters also really expressive, especially ~~oshinko-~~Shinon-chan attempts at “bribing” the clerk. Shinon-chan repeating her welcome with a louder voice and raising two hands because the first one got no response is really funny.

This is definitely a low tension CGDCT, although they hint at some development for Makocchi. She tried to be more open to new things, and hoping the club will help on that if not for Shinon-chan quickly shooting down the idea since it was all just a farce.

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This was a great premiere. The animation was great, and the joke was stupid as the manga. Can’t wait to see all the shenanigans Nico will bring with her magic. The visual on the OP is amazing, it was filled with many references for future events with a really smooth and fast-paced animation. I don’t really vibe with the song, might need to listen to it a couple of times to vibe with it. The soundtrack during the anime was pretty rough, felt a little too generic. Overall, a great start for the anime.

Any anime with Kensuke Ushio as the composer, most notably Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird with prepared piano. He also composed the soundtrack for Dandadan and Devil May Cry

Fourth wall breaking and no mention of 100 gf? Not only they are self aware, they diss the author (nakamura-sensei) a lot and praised the artist (nozawa-sensei). In the adaptation the animator also didn’t get spared

Finally finished my Winter 2025 list

• Bang Dream! Ave Mujica: My biggest surprise this season. It was a bold move to incorporate psychological horror into a girl band anime, and they have done a great job. They do a great job with the composition, timing, and soundtrack to keep us on the edge each time the band clashes. You wouldn’t know where they will take you each episode. They were brave enough to write a broken band descent into madness and believe they could still garner fans for the real-life counterpart. There were some issues with the pacing, otherwise, it would easily have been a 9/10 for me. I won’t stop glazing it. 8/10
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2: They did a great job translating the joke to anime form, same with season 1. The overall animation is rather inconsistent, though, for some scenes they did an amazing job animating it (karaoke eps), others have awkward layouts and inconsistent form. They did a great job making sure the impactful moment still got a great animation. 7/10
• Blue Box: I don’t have much to say. Mostly only follow it because I read the manga. Same with 100 gf, it has the same issues with its animation. The last 3 episodes were amazing 7/10

No, Ave Mujica was great. You can criticize its direction, but please don’t call it AI works because there are real people involved behind it, who took a lot of care in composing, screen write, and animate it. They did a great job experimenting the format, incorporating horror element on a band girl anime. Especially, when there are worse anime out there made by people who know nothing about animation, e.g. Ex-arm.

The animation in half the scenes is like 12 FPS (because they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a full render)

That’s like the standard fps for an anime. Anime was animated in what they called on-2 (a picture holds for 2 frame in 24 fps), so any other anime also animated in 12 fps. They left it as stylistic choice, and I didn’t find the lower frame making the anime feels stiff or awkward

The characters lips move like goldfish eating flakes whenever they speak/sing.

That’s also the standard in anime, they only have mouth animated with 2-3 frame open and closing. Ave Mujica did a great job at making it emotive despite that limitations

They appear to have used stock mocap for the characters playing instruments and couldn’t be bothered to match up their movements to the music.

They actually took their VA performance’s motion capture with actual experience playing their instrument. Like any Bang Dream anime, Ave Mujica has a real band counterpart and you can see their live band performance on bandori channel. I think they did a great job to emote the performance and still keep it in sync.

So, please stop comparing it with AI

So excited for this one. Our journey with these girls isn’t done yet!

I highly recommend everyone to watch both Bang Dream! It’s MyGO!!! and Bang Dream! Ave Mujica, This is the right time to catch up before the sequel airs. It’s MyGO!!! was a soft reboot from the original series, so watching the main series is not needed. You can start right from It’s MyGO!!! then Ave Mujica.