I think having Barou drag around 2 defenders was hilarious!

@rikka@ani.social

I wonder what his real-life soccer analog would be?

It's one thing to play hurt, it's another to be a moving hazard to your fellow drivers.

Kanata should have retired, but this is a manga story with our invincible hero, right?

@rikka@ani.social

Does anyone actually like SxF?

I thought it started out with a great premise with all 3 family members having secrets to hide from each other with good reasons, but as the show went on, it completely dropped the premise in favor of wholesome family sitcom with standard spy stuff.

And I didn't find the comedy that fun.

Doesn't this guy's expression resemble an oni or hannya demon mask?

This episode ends at the same point as the end of S2e181 in the manhwa.

Rak, the scene stealer as always...

@rikka@ani.social

So Reflejo reveals he was the final boss of this arc all along, but it all seems anticlimactic...

FSD is less reliable compared to say Google's Waymo. GM's Cruise gave up on autonomous driving

China's dubious state media, says their autonomous robotaxis are quite safe, and they're rolling out fleets of them in major cities already

But I'm sure that bits and bobs in Tesla's FSD systems have some value to someone.

Adaptations from properties that don't already come with good stories rarely turn out well.

Occasionally you get something brilliant like Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Arcane, and MLP: Friendship Is Magic.

Or even arguably Gold Lightan

But figurines, even nicely sculpted figures as a basis for a show... color me skeptical, but we'll have to see how it turns out.

The sad part is, that allowing Elon to export "Full Self Driving" or whatever other technology to China won't even help Tesla that much, and will even harm the company in the long term:

The Chinese will just copy/steal the technology, because all foreign investment is through joint ventures with local corporations, and give it to their domestic manufacturers, like they did and continue to do with all other offshored production that winds up in their hands.

As a recent spate of articles about GM, Honda and Nissan, tells us, the Chinese domestic manufacturers now own 60% market share.

Tesla's market share in China has dropped in nearly half over the last 3 months from 9/24 - 12/24, from 6.43% to 3.39%, and that was already down from 9% in 2023.

Shit, has it been 10 years already?

This empire that Haru's building is all feeling like a house of cards that can come crashing down at the moment when it meets any decent pushback.

Most critically, Haru and Trillion Game have absolutely no cash or other assets to back up the promises they have made to the God Production shareholders, no funds to finance any ongoing or future productions at GodPro or their game company.

@rikka@ani.social

The fraud will succeed until someone starts looking into things, like say journalists and/or the competition.

Okay, it didn't make sense for every single one of the characters to be getting along and having fun, and I was expecting a plot bomb to drop at any moment...

But maybe that's the point.

Maybe this world is one where weekly clashes between a villain and magical girl somehow generate profit, while "evil" is done, nobody's really harmed.

That's all fine, and enjoy the show everyone.

Maybe that's the whole thing and there doesn't need to be anything else.

Note: That touristy thing they were doing is the "Netsu No Yu" dance at the Kusatsu onsen/hot springs

@rikka@ani.social

Here's a travelogue about one tourist's experience https://www.sabrina-injapan.com/the-blog/5-day-road-trip-in-gunma-day-3-kusatsu-onsen

Here's a short video of the ritual dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y28SQh9vNus