灰原くんの強くて青春ニューゲーム

It's Natsuki's New Game+ high school life, and as such that means he needs to upgrade his wardrobe like he upgraded his body and social standing! Luckily Miori is willing to help him with his wardrobe so long as he helps her with Reita. It's like a wingman/wingwoman team-up! I feel like it's rare to have an opposite sex "childhood friend" pair who seem to be just pure wingman/wingwoman for each other with no romantic component (so far). Casual clothes fashion show! The friend group all look fantastic in their casual clothes and Natsuki (thankfully) doesn't look at all out of place! In fact he even gets to properly compliment Hikari's outfit! I didn't expect her to be into androgynous/men's clothing, but she wears it VERY well! Hikari comes off like your typical pure girly girl Heroine so knowing she prefers androgynous/men's clothing is unexpected. It's time for the ping pong tournament to rule them all! Too bad Hikari is kind of...adorably bad at all athletics, even ping pong. She seemed so confident too! But it was worth it for that Hikari pout. Reita seems like the type who is very emotionally intuitive, which is why he can tell that Natsuki gets at his most awkward around Tatsuya...because the trauma of his past life means he still remembers when Tatsuya gave up on him. But this is a new version of his life and a new chance for a second start with Tatsuya. What's Natsuki going to do with himself in this new timeline? Get a part-time job? Join a club? He can always work at the cafe where Yuino is working with, even if Hikari gets jealous that Yuino told some boy before she told her best friend...not that Yuino meant anything deeper behind it. You're not THAT popular with women yet, Natsuki. Turns out Uta and Tatsuya aren't the only basketball lovers, Natsuki was actually into it too. He was even on the same team as Tatsyua in his old life, even if he never got a chance to play because he was out of shape and no one on on the team but Tatsuya cared about him. But now he gets to show off all the basketball skills he honed over the course of his previous high school/college life. Natsuki vs Tatsuya, one-on-one! Natsuki kind of has an unfair advantage that he's watched Tatsuya's entire high school basketball career so he knows exactly how Tatsuya moves and behaves on the court, but it's still a close game. But Natsuki has Hikari watching him, so that gives him a power boost to win the game, impress everyone, AND solidify his friendship with Tatsuya! not bad! The ED is...kind of a complete tonal change. Now the gang are all delinquents, Hikari and Yuino are handcuffed together and doing something kinky in the nurse' office, and Natsuki is riding a motorbike down a freeway like he's too cool for school.

I'm torn on this show. I'm a massive sucker for the premise but it feels aimless so far. He's flirting with his crush but that hasn't gotten that much time yet. And there's a bit of work on sorting his issues with Tatsuya out but that feels like at best a secondary goal and really more tertiary. I hope next episode gives me more to work with, I want to like this show but I'm stuck in ambivalence mode when I watch it after these first 2 episodes.

Not sure about orange, i know it's time related but ye. After thinking about it, my only ick is his over focus on that specific high school girl... Like, brother, you were a productive and successful (?), albeit clearly depressed, member of society. Stop gushing after a high schooler who rejected you almost 10 years ago. Fucks sake man. Edit: Only way i will get satisfied with this is if he has his "begone thoth" phase and get with someone who truly deserves him.

This mf straight up cheating using everything in his power all to impress his girl lol. He only has one goal and completely dead set on fulfilling it. No wishy-washy anymore. Really like the way this turns out now. This is probably good for Tatsuya too since he can become stronger much faster than his other worldline after met his match this soon. Can't blame Natsuki for repeating same thing in his head. Every Hikari expressions, actions and reactions are unfairly cute . She needs to be eaten as dessert!! HUH?!

Haibara is kind of a moron to not notice Hikari is clearly interested in him, but that may be more of the lingering issues from the first time around. Either way she's right about pulling from the men's sections at times for her clothing choices. I wonder how much this is going to be a story of Haibara joining the basketball team and doing better this time around, or if that was just a one-off and next week it'll be some other thing he was bad at originally. What the hell is going on in the nurse's office in the ED?

Either way she's right about pulling from the men's sections at times for her clothing choices. Real beauties can look attractive even in opposite gender clothing. It seems like Yuino dresses similarly since she also went with pants. I wonder how much this is going to be a story of Haibara joining the basketball team and doing better this time around, or if that was just a one-off and next week it'll be some other thing he was bad at originally. It seems like they're building up to him joining a band, but they haven't introduced guitarist girl yet. What the hell is going on in the nurse's office in the ED? Just Hikari and Yuino being gals who are pals. And nothing says gal pals like handcuffs and sticking something down your gal pals' throat.

I don't know, but I feel like the MC only has regrets and just wants to fix the things that went wrong in high school. I still think he should have matured more, since he already graduated, lived his adult life, and had an ordinary job. It feels off when a 16-year-old like Reita can read him like an open book, he still reacts like a typical awkward teenager. Maybe it was a mistake watching this anime right after Bunny Girl Senpai—Sakuta feels so much more mature in comparison, even though he has a lot of trauma too.

No shade to anyone who likes this kind of thing, this sort of "loser to popular hero" genre can be really hit and miss for me in general so I'm not surprised to not vibe with it in general, but this really feels to me like one of the worst written anime I've perhaps ever watched. All of the characters are paper thin and none of them seem to behave or communicate in a way that is either remotely realistic, or remotely compelling. I'm struggling to remember anything that felt so by the numbers, flat, or joyless. At least a lot of the isekai slop I don't like tends to feel fully engaged in its self indulgent fantasies. This feels like it was made purely out of contractual obligation and no one was excited to do it.

I’m enjoying this more and more! Like in episode 1, the premise of the show is spectacular. I’m still waiting to see what exactly MC did wrong in his first life other than, I guess, being fat. Tatsuya was definitely shown in a different light though! We still don’t know what MC exactly did to deserve the “you piss me off” line in the first place, but at least he stood up for MC in his first life a bunch.

Yo that ED is fire Lowkey him being better at basketball than high school junior ace makes sense with him talking about practicing throughout college but before that he also impressed them in general with whatever other sport they did, I forget, badminton? Is he just storywise way way more fit than he looks in the anime? Or maybe the idea is just supposed to be that his footwork which they mentioned, and general athleticism carry over well enough that he'd still be impressive at the first sport he showed them when they hadn't realized he was a sporty person yet since he didn't join any sports clubs.

Uno reverse! turns out this isn't the only anime this season with secret crossing dressing 😆 Hikari turns out to be Trans in this new game+ and Haibara is gonna have to question his sexuality 😂 but I'm sure it's just more of a mundane preference lol. I think he's going to start noticing she isn't really the one he likes after being more experienced as an adult. I also can't shake the feeling Reita is secretly evil. Or is he the other person who is also back in time? I also do think there's a twist like everyone else said that everyone returned. Or at least motomiya. My conspiracist crackpot theory is Hoshimiya and Nanase are also reborn based on their drink colors of red and yellow. Because Natsuki's drink was the white drink. White lies lol. I think it's interesting Reita also choose white soda after taking to Haibara. Anyone else getting Yuri vibes with Nanase and Hikari lol? Do We think the pink colors on the ending have to do with types of lies? Some have it on their mouths. Some on their faces. Then there's the handcuffs. Also Dammit give us guitar girl already.

Lol I'm just making a joke because of another anime this season who has a character who also cross dresses being a big reveal. Because it would make this anime far more interesting if things dramatically changed for his 2nd time around. That anime immediately threw in much more unique character traits for all their characters that were not common for mainstream anime like that character who we all assumed was a girl.

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So, why her? Needs his help? Lmao Uniqlo clothes. Actually in Japan itself it would probably be Gu that's the "painfully generic" clothing brand. She sure seems rather enthusiastic. Does she have no depth perception? Seems the guys all won against the girls lol. And so that's what they're going to do next. She works? At a cafe? Uh... Why's he asking that? Felt different? Afraid? Ok... And so, he be ballin' That's true. Seems he knows exactly what that guy will do. Lol I figured he was doing this just to show off in front of her. And so he won.

Just watch the first 2 episodes and I must say I’m excited for this one looks really good. Seem like haibara confidences might become a persistent issue as well as shadows from his past But seem like he’s face him self And I think tatsuya gonna be the first one to either noticed or be confided in Which is ironic since reita said he not observant Also in the opening there a shot that makes me think hikari time travel as well Also also is this made by the same studio who’s releasing the angel next door spoils me rotten s2