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Oct 7, 2023 9:30 PM
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Wow, seeing the group of friends from alternative. They really focused on her reminiscing on the past. And seems like maybe she’s lost her sexual drive maybe?
And harumi is a terrorist for medical mechanical? And great we see harumi give us more service. Sad she was wasted by that bullet
Wow, the tower lookin like a brain. The sky looked nice with Kana in the helicopter.
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Oct 7, 2023 9:58 PM
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It's nice to see how the girls from Alternative grew up, although Kana's still hurting from Pets' departure. So much so that it messed up her NO and slowed down plans on whatever they were planning to do with her to start that tower. Wonder how this will wrap up next ep with all the alternate-reality ghosts...
Oct 8, 2023 1:35 AM
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A problem that all the other seasons seem to have is that they tried way too hard to be FLCL.. but Shoegaze is trying to be something entirely different, so that's neat.
Oct 8, 2023 5:10 PM
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The episode was great and we can see that Shoegaze is more different then your usual FLCL. Still love it
Tho my subtitles are desynced does anyone know a site that doesn't hate it?
Oct 8, 2023 6:30 PM
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Well this is matching the craziness of FLCL OG and Alternative. I'm really liking this show. That was some ending for episode 2. Let's see how they end this. I will lsay some of the panty shots is a bit much though. I do get the point at least.
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Oct 8, 2023 6:32 PM
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Reply to xspookydarknessx
A problem that all the other seasons seem to have is that they tried way too hard to be FLCL.. but Shoegaze is trying to be something entirely different, so that's neat.
@xspookydarknessx I don't think so as it has that energy and insanity that you look for in FLCL. Besides a lot of people that bash the sequels claim the people behind it didn't watch the OG. So it's bizarre figuring out this discourse.
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Oct 8, 2023 9:03 PM
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Main plot was a cluster fuck, but I loved the Kana lore.
Oct 9, 2023 12:32 PM
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I am absolutely loving this.

Loving all the call backs to Alternative. Hearing Mossan and Hijire again was a nice. Seeing Kana talk to Pets (to herself) and her seeing all these kids that mirror her and her friends, is very bittersweet. Though I am happy to see she still has Pets' hairpin, as shown on her coming of age kimono and in her car. Also a bit sad to see how the fallout from Pets leaving for Mars still affects Kana. Tho it seems like her unloading on Harumi, and Harumi's response made her realize something. It's a great scene but it's a shame that it ends with Harumi getting shot. Sooooo I can imagine Masaki losing it a little since he just came to the realization that he's fallen in love with her.

Honestly, I am loving Shoegaze so far. It's doing something similar yet different than the previous FLCLs which feels quite refreshing. Not to say that Grunge didn't either. But unlike Grunge, I'm more invested in what's going on here.

Excited to see how they wrap this up!
Oct 9, 2023 8:57 PM
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Still not enjoying this. I really dislike the Alternative characters. Makes me wish they would have gone with an entirely new crew and setting instead.
Oct 10, 2023 12:18 AM

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Thankfully AS/WB has killed this series off now for good.


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Oct 10, 2023 9:35 PM

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that was...awful. i mean it was sad, not that the show was bad.
Oct 11, 2023 2:17 AM
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This is actually better than Grunge and it hits closer to the OG and seeing Kana again was nice and seeing that she has issues and still missing pets after everything and this is actually what would have happened if Naota took Amarao's footsteps and there was some symbolism in this episode and also I think Alternative and Shoegaze deserve better than the score's that are given because they are still close to being like the OG and still provide something diffrent(I'm not saying that they're better than OG, they are are close to the OG than Progressive and Grunge, please MAL, UPDATE THEY'RE SCORES PLZ AND Masaki was cool too and that ending was surprising, heartbreaking and bittersweet (pun intended).
Oct 12, 2023 8:38 AM

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Look... I know this probablly isn't everyones favourite, but I really think this is adding a lot to the FLCL world...
Oct 12, 2023 9:17 AM

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I never particularly liked the original FLCL but this and Alternative have some unconventional charm to them. Too bad Shoegaze is so short and it looks like the coolest character is gone :( .
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Oct 13, 2023 8:55 AM
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It's just as bad as all the other non-og season
Oct 24, 2023 3:53 AM
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This is another level of whack.
Nov 1, 2023 5:47 AM
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He discovered taht love Harumi!!!
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Nov 4, 2023 8:12 AM

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Harumi is so sexually appealing. I'm amazed Masaki can control his lust instead of having his way with her and screwing her then and there cause if I were him, with the way Harumi gets physically close and shows her sexy parts, oh man, I would r*pe her!

I miss Hijiri! I wonder what she looks like now.
"Even though the world around us looks the same, we're getting older with each passing second." Damn, that is so relatable.

The scenes of Kana missing her younger years are so relatable. There was also a time when I thought I'd never reached adulthood, and here I am, still in denial that I'm already an adult. I really miss my college days and the 2000-2010. The best decade of my life!
Nov 14, 2023 4:29 AM

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The candy shower moment was nice to look at (visually) but otherwise it's kind of a nothingburger. Not that you can expect anything from an FLCL sequel.

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