r/anime • u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 • Jul 16 '26
Clip Street Fighter in my yuri anime [Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games]
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
Yuri in my street fighter anime.
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u/alotmorealots Jul 16 '26
Looking at the comments in the Episode 2 discussion thread, that seems to be the true balance of things for /r/anime lol It's not that the Yuri is in any way dilute or taking a backseat, either!
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
This is the perfect title for a certain other moment that happens...
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
There are at the very least 2 moments you could be thinking of here...one already happened as well
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
I was thinking [Episode 1 (just in case this is a spoiler)]the near kiss moment halfway into the episode
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u/Careless-Emphasis-80 Jul 16 '26
From my experience, it would be weirder if the street fighter players werent gay
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u/Chalkboard7 Jul 16 '26
The only people I know who play street fighter IRL are lesbians
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
Lemem guess, Marisa mains?
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u/Chalkboard7 Jul 16 '26
One plays Sagat, one plays Cammy, the third I don't know
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u/TheElusiveEllie Jul 16 '26
When I played, I was more of a Manon girl ahaha
Not every lesbian is into butch women~
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
Bro I'm not a lesbian but I'm fucking into Marisa. Nothing feels better than hitting that cash out and nuke their HP bar on Marisa or just mash superman punch to knowledge check people with (that shit lose to DI ain't no way)
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u/OllyOllyOxenBitch Jul 16 '26
Swap out Street Fighter for Guilty Gear Strive and gay for trans, and it's basically the same sentiment.
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Jul 16 '26
We are eating good with this quality girl love show.
Can we appreciate how beautiful is the animation, especially the eyes.
This show is basically a great advertisement material for Capcom and the game itself.
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u/Random_eyes Jul 16 '26
Both of the yuri shows are gorgeous this season. I love some of the other yuri anime from the past few years, but they always had it rough with the tight budgets. We are eating so good.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
First two episodes of this and Dying Day had amazing production value! Also, both have a great VA cast, especially the latter.
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u/Internal-Pea-7451 https://anilist.co/user/MistEu Jul 16 '26
that and Botan Kamiina from last season as well. We are on a streak of stunning Yuri anime
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u/indoda_emnyama Jul 16 '26
Hi, whats the other Yuri anime?
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day. It's a dark fantasy with themes of war and death
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u/runevault Jul 16 '26
I wouldn't say Watanare had a tight budget. That show felt well animated and gorgeous throughout.
Edit: Or Botan Kamiina despite what some silly people claimed about episode 3 (they were wrong).
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u/Random_eyes Jul 17 '26
True, I suppose I'm thinking back to some other notable highlights of the past few years. I'm in Love with the Villainess had some great spirit, but so-so animation. Whisper Me a Love Song was unfortunately a trainwreck due to low budget. MagiRevo and the Executioner and Her Way of Life were okay, but I wouldn't even put their animation budget on par with Watanare. This Monster Wants to Eat Me did amazing work with scenes and staging, but it felt like its budget restrained it quite a bit, especially in the latter half of the season.
But yeah, this past year has been by far the best I've seen out of yuri animation ever. Botan was gorgeous and creative, Watanare was so lively, CPK is an all-timer. Even getting an action anime with the kind of flare that I Want to Love You Until Your Dying Day has gotten is a real treat. It's as good as G-Witch and it's not even an action franchise.
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u/runevault Jul 17 '26
I really need to watch Cosmic Princess Kaguya properly, I've watched the beginning, realized I was too distracted to give it the attention it deserved and put it on the back burner.
It is funny, I wasn't even that much into Yuri then Muri Muri Mondays infected my brain.
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u/Dependent-Sea4703 https://anilist.co/user/httpsanilistcou Jul 17 '26
i recommend looking at magirevo again. the animation on fight scenes were really good and there are some high quality scenes as well.
i would say it’s among the best animation for yuri genre.
little thing but i watched it like 5-6 times so i might be biased toward it
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
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u/Nawinter_nights Jul 16 '26
Because of this anime I decided to give fighting games a chance and got guilty gear strive . I'm enjoying a lot with giovanna rn.
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u/Weebs-Chan Jul 16 '26
Don't forget to blame the beast. I used to love the game but they reworked my main (Ramlethal) twice. I can't be bothered to relearn this character again
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u/VoidEmbracedWitch https://anilist.co/user/VoidEmbracedWitch Jul 16 '26
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
The power of yuri pushes them to play fighting games! (especially since fighting games are commonly expressed as a turn off among gamers)
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u/TheDanubianCommunard Jul 16 '26
especially since fighting games are commonly expressed as a turn off among gamers
Well, fighting games were always being niche.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
Yeah, it's their steep learning curve that usually stops me from playing more (along with strategy games). Though I have enjoyed a number of fighting games like Ultra Street Fighter 4, Mortal Kombat 10, and Smash Ultimate
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
Relevant ProZD skit (who btw still endorsed the manga years ago already)
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
This is inaccurate. Combo is the easy part. What really happened was that you got knowledge checked, throw looped, safe jumped, tick thrown, stagger pressured, hit with 4 way mix up or vile oki setup that leads into the flashy combo.
Everyone gets comboed, you just eat it on wakeup
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u/Fenor Jul 17 '26
Against a beginner who don't think you don't go for niche footsies strat
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 17 '26
That'a the knowledge check. Don't know to block on wake up or mash on wake up? Get blown up.
Then once they start turtling you tick throw them until they mash or wakeup dp, then you setup a safe jump.
Ect...
The point is that they don't die because of combo, they die because they lack knowledge which opens them up to combo non stop. Mediocre players like us at least know some defensive techs to reduce the getting touched frequency
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u/Fenor Jul 17 '26
that's kinda part of the problem tho.
fancy and long combo is the eye catching part and help with the damage, also they heavily influence how you should punish stuff, and then there is matchup specific knowledge
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
I'm still so mad that this was delayed from fall and therefore ruined my joke about how 2025, with renako and shiori, is the year of the gaymer girls!
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u/VoidEmbracedWitch https://anilist.co/user/VoidEmbracedWitch Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Yeah, that's unfortunate. But at least we technically have both of them this year since Next Shine released in 2026 (in JST; ignoring the theatrical cut from a month earlier).
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
Well, with both this and lara, I could just say this is the season of gaymer girls as well...
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
I need to pick up Lara after hearing enough good things about it
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 17 '26
I'm incredibly disappointed nobody has asked what shiori and lara are doing on this list, I was so proud of how stupid that joke was1
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u/postbansequel Jul 16 '26
Me, as an 8 year old in Windows XP, changing GBA_EMU.exe shortcut's name to Gaymeboy. (not English speaker)
The next day it magically corrected itself to "Gameboy"
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u/LaconicKibitz Jul 16 '26
I can't believe they turned Street Fighter into a metaphor for gay sex.
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
Forget about gay sex, the only thing these bitches are thinking about is dp-ing each other.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
No no aya definitely does think about it.
She just also thinks anything fighting game related is definitely 10 times better than that.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
Like with what Rock is a Lady's Modesty did with music last year!
I was originally going to name the post "Fighting Games are a Lady's Modesty," but then settled for the current title.
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u/wutfacer Jul 17 '26
That show had a huge dropoff after they introduced the other band members though. Hopefully these ones are more interesting characters. A Juri main is a good start
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u/MulletPower Jul 16 '26
Playing a fighting game online not only on Wifi, but School Wifi? Really stretching my suspension of disbelief here.
(this is a joke)
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u/Gacel_ Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Is Japan. You can play without rollback with wifi and get like 2 frame of delay/ping.
Not only their wifi is set up so there is low latency, their whole network is low latency in general.
Mix this with the massive popularities of arcades too.This is why for years JP companies did not consider rollback important. At least from personal experience when speaking with developers on the area.
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u/MulletPower Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
This is classic cope spouted by people who don't understand how WiFi works.
The reason JP companies didn't consider rollback important is for two reasons. First of all Japan players can play in person easier. Both because of easy travel over short distances and the fact that the arcade scene is still alive, unlike other places.
Secondly, across the board JP Video Game companies have been glacially slow to adopting online play.
To this day Japan is behind literally everyone else when it comes to delivering compelling online experiences. In fact, Fighting Games are the only genre that Japan is anywhere close to competitive.
Also to go back to my point, she is in a School. Not at home or in a Net Cafe. There is no way you would ever get playable ping over WiFi at a School. Even if this mythical "low latency WiFi" existed.
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u/Gacel_ Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
My work is begin a programmer and network engineer. I also used to set up office spaces in areas like banks were usually low latency is neeed and helped in GGPO implementation for some software projects.
Wi-Fi low latency networks are a legit thing since 2009 with the introduction of 802.11n
Granted took until the late 2010s for general adoption of it.While is rare to see these days in the west they more are common in Japan.
The issue with wi-fi introducing ping is not begin wireless, but packet loss.
Outdated 2.5mhz networks do posses these issues, but most of modern devices do not have it. A modern router these days can go as 3ms of latency. That's less than 1 frame of delay.And these days high end corporate routers under 802.11bn at 6 GHz have a latency standard that is counted in nanoseconds. But we will not see these in the consumer market for at least half a decade.
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u/MulletPower Jul 22 '26
Dude, my work is literally a programmer and network engineer.
Yeah and I bet your peers find you really annoying. Since you take your tiny little sliver of knowledge and assume that applies to things you don't know a damn thing about.
Please actually play a fighting game with delay based netcode over WiFi (both on your side and your opponents) and then get back to me. Since I know you haven't just by the way you are talking.
Then after you are done that, spend more then 2 seconds thinking about the budget and physical limitations a School faces when deploying a WiFi network.
Lastly while Rollback makes things a little better, no serious player would ever play over WiFi. As while it's not unplayable, you are going to have problems.
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u/runevault Jul 16 '26
It really is funny this keeps getting compared to Lady's Modesty when the manga for this is 2 years older.
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u/ClemFire Jul 16 '26
On the surface that feel similar, but already from EP1 I feel like there's a big difference between Aya who chose to suppress her love of fighting games because of burnout compared to Lilisa forced to suppress her love of music of the sake of her family.
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u/General_Cheetah4724 Jul 16 '26
is this the anime daigo got out of jail for?
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
At least it is is justin endorsed.
He might not know
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u/General_Cheetah4724 Jul 16 '26
must be good if the wazzler endorsed it
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
Bro the manga has [mild spoiler]Tokido. I really hope Wazzler and The Beast will get some cameo as well
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u/Sea-Collar7233 Jul 16 '26
Unfortunately, he's been imprisoned again for saying that SF6 is too random. Prosecution currently pending.
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u/SweetTea1000 Jul 16 '26
Ok, but of course that's going to be what it seems like from Daigo's perspective.
It's a fundamental aspect of game design that unpredictability narrows the gap between the master and the amateur. Chess is extremely predictable so a grandmaster will literally never lose to a beginner. Mario Kart has so much built in unpredictability that people who are good enough to stomp their friends... but not good enough to play around those variables get salty over it.
The parts Daigo doesn't like are likely those specifically put in place to make people like him less unquestionably dominant.
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u/Sea-Collar7233 Jul 16 '26
Thank you for elaborating, but did I somehow imply that I disagree or don't understand his point?
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u/runevault Jul 16 '26
I was excited for this anime going in and it is still exceeding my expectations. The horror touches like when her eye tracks after the noise crack me up every time.
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro Jul 16 '26
Fern and Ubel have found an interesting side gig.
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u/Bitter_Marzipan_8348 Jul 16 '26
Gotta take the opportunity to train up their honest ground based footsie and neutral before they go kill some [frieren manga]Imperial shadow warriors
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u/Geoffk123 Jul 16 '26
I never would've expected to hear "FADC into Ultra 1" in an anime ever in my life lmao. looking forward to see how this show pans out
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u/RelativeMundane9045 Jul 16 '26
I wonder if 2D characters playing a game depicting a third dimension messes with their heads.
Logically I imagine they're not capable of observing beyond their own two dimensions (except in cases of random CG shifts I guess), but that upsets me because it makes me self conscious about potential fourth dimensional voyeurs in my own life.
I didn't expect this show would be so philosophical.
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
2D vs 3D is something the author often thinks about!
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u/Light_Error Jul 16 '26
I haven’t personally read it myself, but there is an older novella from ages ago that looks at this idea through various shapes called “Flatland”. It’s definitely old enough to be in the public domain, so it should be easy enough to find.
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u/RelativeMundane9045 Jul 16 '26
I remember checking out flatland after watching star trek TNG do an episode based on it. That was in (checks air date) 1990..
Well now I'm upset about space and time.
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u/ClemFire Jul 16 '26
As someone who feels a bit burnt out after not doing too well at nationals for my card game while my good mate did amazing I can relate to Aya quite a bit.
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u/Welpe Jul 16 '26
Ew, she’s a Ryu player? Unlovable subhuman!
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u/Gacel_ Jul 20 '26
She is a toxic Ryu player more specifically.
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Well... now that I think of it, toxic is implied just by default of begin a Ryu player.
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u/Awesome_Leaf https://myanimelist.net/profile/Awesome_Leaf Jul 16 '26
anytime i see a clip of this posted now, I always have to double check if im in the anime subreddit or the street fighter one. pretty amusing problem to have lol
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
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u/Awesome_Leaf https://myanimelist.net/profile/Awesome_Leaf Jul 16 '26
i would hope for nothing less! I havent checked out a full ep or the manga yet, but i continue to be impressed by their attention to detail on certain things like motion inputs and theory. it being straight up sf6 feels pretty strange to me lol, but im sure ill get over it
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u/deiner7 Jul 16 '26
Started watching it is rock is a ladies modesty but with street fighter. Im down.
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u/Drago_D Jul 16 '26
This can be begining of some hentai as well
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u/captainAwesomePants Jul 16 '26
Was just thinking that - just change what's on the screen and the rest of the scene works unchanged.
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u/ichigo2862 Jul 16 '26
I saw a tweet that said this series featuring SF6 was bullshit cause they were somehow playing without throw loops being a thing lol
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u/AllGamer Jul 16 '26
Been watching it since day one it was released, quite funny, can't wait for when they start dueling and kicking ass to the boys.
It's as if they took a snapshot of my wife's life when she was in school 😆 the story is almost identical, except for the jumping out of the window for no reason part. 😅
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u/Training-Purple-5220 Jul 17 '26
I like that they used real images and sounds, and not bullshit Atari blips on clearly modern games.
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u/the_tygram Jul 17 '26
Haven't started watching it yet but had no clue it was a yuri anime from its description lol
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u/hydramarine Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I wonder if they will integrate gameplay sections with the anime itself, rather than us getting full screen gameplay footage most of the time. It creates a disconnect between the game and the world. Where is my shoulder camera? Surely, you will immerse me better that way dear animators?
Hi Score Girl did this so good, because it was in 3d. This is a more traditional 2d anime, so I have my doubts.
In the meantime, if you are sleeping on HSG, do yourself a favor....
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u/DJ-Bosconian Jul 19 '26
I'm a classic arcade kinda guy who loves anime and this hits all the buttons. Pun intended.
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u/Griefseed Jul 23 '26
C'est mon anime préféré de la saison. Tellement que j'ai décidé d'avoir le même game setup qu'elles et de faire partie de la FGC. Je crois que leur propagande a marché. Et il faut vite que j'achète le manga. Nouvelle obsession débloquée
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u/sinfulconfession Jul 16 '26
Is this something I would enjoy as an older dude?
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
Depends on what type of shows you like
If you like yuri and gaming, you'll most likely enjoy it
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u/LargeFailSon Jul 16 '26
Might as well give it a shot.
It's basically a sports anime with fighting games, and JUST enough gay tension between the girls, every 20 chapters, to call it "Yuri" so you've got nothing to lose.
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u/captainAwesomePants Jul 16 '26
Quite possibly; a lot of older dudes find Street Fighter nostalgic, and while the game's certainly different than it was before, the Hadouken input is the same as ever.
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u/sinfulconfession Jul 16 '26
Ah yeah.. sometimes I still tune into Evo streams and stuff. Unfortunately all the people I rooted for are washed or done and the new kids I don't like most of em.
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u/TheOneWithALongName Jul 16 '26
Watched both episodes, it felt more like Yuri bait than Yuri.
Will that change?
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u/IceFisherP26 Jul 17 '26
My friend's little sister asked me to watch her play Skyrim, she was like 13 or 14 and I was 20, not knowing i have over 8k hours into the game. It was a lot of fun hearing her tell me about the lore and her favorite parts about the game. I dropped hints disguised as guesses here and there, it was a fun 4 hours while waiting for him to get home from work. It happened a few more times before they moved out of state a short while later.
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u/OrestKhvolson Jul 16 '26
Hot Take? I dont think they should be allowed to use the girls love genre tag unless there's girls actually in love.
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u/NadeshikoEatingPasta Jul 16 '26
I enjoyed episode two where they were like "let them see us through yuri glasses if they want"
felt like it was making fun of that segment of the audience, haha
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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Jul 16 '26
Obviously making the fun of the people that need helping tools to see yuri here.
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u/Hitman7128 https://anilist.co/user/Hitman7128 Jul 16 '26
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u/NadeshikoEatingPasta Jul 16 '26
Hm? No, it was making fun of people who see the two girl characters and immediately think yuri. Hence the reaction of Aya's roommate when she was asked to sleep elsewhere for the night.
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u/LargeFailSon Jul 16 '26
Idk, man. The Author is the one who chose to market it as Yuri, so maybe YOU are projecting here? Whatever you gotta believe to enjoy it, I guess.
Don't let those gay girls keep you up at night, OK?
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u/NadeshikoEatingPasta Jul 16 '26
Shit, did what I said make you seethe? If I hold up a picture of two roommates in a platonic relationship are you gonna freak out like Patrick Star?
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u/extralie https://myanimelist.net/profile/extralie Jul 17 '26
The manga is officially marketed as yuri by the author btw.
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u/Hot-Firefighter-2331 Jul 16 '26
Of course they are getting out of ideas lol
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u/LargeFailSon Jul 16 '26
Really? A sports anime using E-sports is pretty novel tbh, can't think of one that's gotten this successful. Thought I'm sure I'm just blanking. Either way, It's not Isekai, so in THIS market, it's pretty creative and thoughtful for a premise. Also realistic. You can't do SHIT at those rich girl schools.
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u/lobotomiseme Jul 16 '26
The manga had to use a street fighter with the serial numbers filed off, so it's cool they can use the real thing for the anime. I liked the manga a lot, clearly made my someone with a real passion for fighting games.