>watched the first couple of episodes when it first aired
>thought it was mediocre and didn't bother to continue watching
>decided to finally watch it since I didn't have anything better to do
>it's actually damn awesome and instantly became one of my favourite shows
What is it about shinto-themed all-girls action anime that makes them so good?
Any supplementary material worth cheking out? I can read Japanese.
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I also watched like 5 episodes and dropped it due to being completely bland and shitty action scenes.
What exactly did you like about the show?
Watch Mini Toji
YUMEEEEEEEEEEESSSS
Watch Mini Toji. There's also a mobage that covers the same events from a different perspective, if you're into that.
>completely bland and shitty action scenes
This is actually what had me hooked from the first episode. The swordfighting is about as realistic as you can get it in an anime about teenage girls with superpowers. It's low budget, but the attention to detail in the combat kept it engaging.
Play Mihono's game.
You missed some of the best threads on Yea Forums in a while.
> as you can get it in an anime about teenage girls with superpowers
This isn't saying much.
Yomi ;_;
I want to believe she'll be saved in the game.
Honestly my favorite show of last year
It's still my favorite show from recent years. A mobage ad with such a silly concept and such a low budget had no right to be this good. I still can't believe it. They just poured their heart into it.
>Any supplementary material worth cheking out?
Shoujo kageki Starlight
I don't know much of japanese swordfighting, but this series supposedly had a consultant that choreographed each fight and anons in threads posted some chinese infographics with fight analyses denoting styles and techniques used in fights. If you compare it to something like Bleach (another series about supernatural swordfighting), this one is never about powerlevels, but about matching and adjusting to opponent, teamwork and dirty tricks.
I'm sure some anons would be happy to post webms
Szk anime when?
Szkzkz is too weird to get an anime.
It'd be too weird
And Mihomo was too dumb, but that didn't stop her. Give Szk a chance!
I remember these threads too but I mean come on. I'm not a fencing otaku, 'oh look that was totally legit popular sword move!' moments does not excite me at all. Some girls were kinda cute I guess but plot and mc were stupid as hell.
>plot and mc were stupid as hell.
No accounting for taste.
>I'm not a fencing otaku
Neither am I, but they managed to make fights interesting to look at while also using them as character development/expansion, and they didn't succumb to Special Technique wank/Power Level wank. For series that has a swordfight or two almost every episode that's a big plus.
You're stupid.
When was Kanami ever stupid
>No accounting for taste.
It was cliched as fuck.
Y-you too.
>three socks
One is her cumsock.
Same. I dropped it after episode 1 and marathoned everything right after it's ended because I had nothing better to do and I didn't regret it. the 2nd season was shit and pointless though, should've ended it after Yukari battle with the god-tier insert song.
That checks out.
Dropped after episode 1 due shit animation
Kanami's chubby half erection sliding up and down Hiyori's back as she cleans her
Not big enough.
Would you get married to Hiyoyon if it means you have to eat this shit every day?
The first half is an introduction to the setting and conflict, while the second half brings it all together. It's just a lot more complicated and not presented as clearly as the simple story of the first half. But it gave most characters so much depth that I don't know how you could call it pointless. Personally, the second half is what turned it from a fun anime to one of my all time favorites.
>marrying a flatty with shit taste in ice cream
I think only weird people would do that
I even went to an anime/gaming con recently, and all I wanted was a Nene plushie. There were none. I think it might be possible this show was not as successful as much as we loved it.
Should've bought it when it was available. All smart anons did.
Skzszk
Szkzkzk
Weird, but perfect. Szk.
Maki
Hiyori is weak too. I mean physically. She gets exhausted easily.
And she gets mad on the smallest of things.
She doesn't let touching the pantyhose.
She can't judge situations at all, and just stands there dumbstruck when shocked.
Not much muscle either, she must be very light.
She can't follow the mood and cringes silently in the corner. S
he gets butthurt when you insult chocomint.
She is very slow to trust people. And when she relies on someone, she just gets all embarrassed around them.
She gets distracted when she's supposed to eb treating wounds.
She doesn't even let people properly try to save her. And she goes on to higher dimensions without waiting for others.
She gets suspicious when people act friendly with her.
Let's not even mention the aradama business. No pets allowed.
Nene is my girlfriend.
You're awfully attentive for someone who dislikes her
Hiyoyon tops
This is what a top looks like
>Yukari's wild ride
>Pointless
Pick one
Maybe if she had a purpose. It was not necessary to bring her back
>Help brings closure to Yoyo's revenge arc
>Seal of the gates of hell
>A not small amount of exposition and guidance
>Is awesome
it was completely necessary and you should try paying attention to what you watch
I don't think it's very popular at all outside of Yea Forums
If anything this show needed more Yukari
More Yukina.
Her character had hardly been established beforehand. And really, failing at everything is her purpose, including failing to die. She's consumed by survivor's guilt and a desire to break this cycle of suffering that her family and friends got wrapped up in. She's vital to Hiyori's character arc, and also some of Tagitsuhime's development. And she's key to the overarching theme of succession. She bridges the gap between the old and new generation.
It's popular enough to get it's own event.
Why the fuck are BDs so expensive anyway? 13k for four episodes is way too much.
>He didn't watch TnM with Yea Forums
Plenty of articles on that if you look around. Anime is niche. It is essentially supported by fan donation in the form of expensive BDs. People buy them more like support the makers rather than to watch the thing. And even if they dropped the price, sales would not increase significantly. Only about 3500 guys need to buy the BDs for a show to break even. Toji sold around 1000 btw.
>enjoyed the show the most during the first half because of Yume and her semi-edgy BATORU TANOSHII attitude
>second half turned me into a Kaoru fan and a man of the proletariat
I badly need Kaoru images that can spark a revolution.
Imagine being stuck in 17 year old body as a 40's something woman.
You could literally pass as the daughter of one of your former classmates
I know how it works, user, I sometimes buy BDs myself. But 13k is much more expensive than your average BD.
Yukari looks 29 though.
>No yumeposting
>No edited subtitles
>Not sexually destroying the yoyo
>Not putting the aradama outside
>No guessing when the budget might run out
>No swordfight advisor
>Not bullying the bird
Must be terrifying.
>No yumeposting
That's a good thing.
I'm glad I at least made it in time for Starlight.
>No Mai breast feeding memes
>tfw I missed starlight.
It ia going to be a long time before the while gang get together again
Not sure how much overlap there is but at least there's another Symphogear season soon.
I'll be here for every all-girl action show.
>Toji sold around 1000 btw.
From what I've heard, it seems to have done better on streaming services. Still a shame how unnoticed it was, though it picked up attention at the end. And of course Mihono's game brought in money. The new model of releasing a mobage alongside an anime original show for financial security has brought some good stuff.
I still need to catch up on Symphogear before this summer.
She was the one pulling the more weight in the final fight, she had no utsushi to protect her from Noro.
It's a fucking rollercoaster no matter how you look at it, do your best to catch up. It's always enjoyable to watch it as it is airing. Pretty much every season is retarded/bad in some way but there's always something that is fun about it as well.
Just remember the Bikki dikki.
It was a shame I only skimmed TnM threads as the show aired but riding the Bananaboat from the start was a rewarding experience when her episodes came.
delet this
>Toji no Miko
O TWAIN
Why didn't you fucks watch Akanesasu Shoujo?
Asuka's show was very fun.
Twain?
>was here for yucky tuna S2, todgers first half, todgers second half, starlight, asuka's show and the other asuka's show
Can't believe this season broke my all-girls battle anime streak.
Assuka's show was cool but too short
Did anyone watch Circlet Princess?
I did.
It sucks.
Granbelm soon!
Help, anons. I'm trying to find a picture of Szk wearing a maid outfit. It was on yande.re but it's gone now for some reason.
This is what an oppressed prole looks like.
This one?
Nah, it was one where she was serving tea or something, or placing something on a desk. She was turning back to the camera.
>What is it about shinto-themed all-girls action anime that makes them so good?
Gokumi is mastering the formula. And I love it.
The first 10 minutes of Granblem are out as a preview I think.
This one, I guess? I only have it in card form. Ask /tnm/, maybe they have the full-sized image.
Yes! That's the one. Although the one I saw was the full size image.
And I might as well post the collection of card art.
drive.google.com
That is an extremely cute szk.
Up to episode 8, then subs quit coming. Haven't checked to see if it got finished.
>Yuuna S2
I just remembered I haven't watched that yet. I should get to it already.
>all these high quality Tojis
Many thanks, user.
MAI RIBS!
Good taste
I like Gokumi.
Horizon are starting the revolution.
Summer is just around the corner once more. I can't wait.
It's gonna be glorious
Post the feet image.
I wish Yui would give me the licky licky.
She only does that to cute girls and tojis.
I can't believe people wanted Hiyori's stinky feet over Kanami's.
Kanami doesn't have stinky feet though.
That's why it's a wish.
When you polish your sword with your socks, they're bound to be smelly.
Who the hell wears crusty socks?
The show was good specifically because the fights werent retarded flashy sakugafests that are so beloved by narutards and big three faggots who just want to see a lot of effects, but they actually had proper weight in them and felt believable.
It had the best portrayal of dual wielding sword fighting in recent memory.
>we will never see it animated
;_;
Yeah, it'd be no fun to see a crubstomp.
I'm not sure about that. There needs to be far more Kanami dropping the jobber act.
Big baby Sayaka
Sayaka is small.
それはどうかな
SusanoYori versus Kanamiterasu?
remember when Kanami ruined everything and everyone hated her for like a whole week
No.
>hated
PsychoKanami posting was the apex of todger threads.
>ruined
That never happened.
I'm disappointed Kanami turned out not to be a complete sociopath.
Her plan had significant flaws
>implying bluffs work more than once
>want a challenging fight
>get it
I dunno, seems like it worked flawlessly.
Does this look like a psycho to you?
It looks like a weirdo.
a possessive wife
Who there buddy, be careful with that word or you'll devalue it. This show already has two designated weird characters, they can't all be weird.
A freak, then.
Small for an adult,big for a baby
Ellen is tall
Well, does this look like one?
>does nothing
Why did they make supai dess more irrelevant than Ayumu?
I bet you whine about jobbing too.
That thing is completely bananas.
You have to be some kind of deranged to go around with your hair looking like bananas all the time.
Saya, what are you doing. Everyone's mourning, Saya. Show a little respect, would you?
You are incorrect about that. I just wanted her and Mai to not have demoted presence.
She's probably not even gay.
Sayaka is autistic, she does not understand.
Kill yourself.
Pictured: Kanami, in tears from the disappointment that was the last fight, now begs her loser girlfriend to release a stronger foe for her to fight.
Why does Nene look so traumatized?
Kanami has a really interesting way of coping with death
Chocomint cookies reminded it of the flat thing.
Smile status: Protected!
Smiling Hiyori kind of weird me out. She should be scowling.
her mom is better
I actually cried.
Hiyori is so cute.
Which no. is this pose again?
Very last ep.
Number 3, just after the miko embrace and the Utena one.
#5.
Hiyori's foot lettuce
S1 was okay, as far as kawaii genki schoolgirls wading into a generations old demonic war go.
S2 was all over the place and didn't have the same impact. But the swordplay was generally awesome when the animators cared.
I'd like an S3 just for more Devil May Cry swordplay.
Yeah, one for her left foot, one for her right foot, and one for her third leg.
Somebody pissed off a mod.
Goddess Hiyori should have been the final boss.
Smiling Hiyori is the most beautiful thing ever.
But she's so flat.
Yes, and?
I read that as "Smelling Hiyori is the most beautiful thing ever".
>watched the first couple of episodes when it first aired
>thought it was mediocre and didn't bother to continue watching
How does a sudden assassination attempt on the middle of what seemed to be a tournament arc seemed mediocre to you?
Honda Kaede NO
Based mod.
What went so wrong?
Hiyori's smell is an acquired taste
Mods banning people for silly reasons while ignoring the real problems is sadly all too common.
Yume!
This semen demon can come back from the dead.
Cute gay dorks: the studio.
I love the air intakes.
She's a ghost, all of her is air intake.
They sure love that expression.
>Hiyoyon's sword is so small it doesn't even cause a bulge in her towel
And she blows her load incredibly quick.
Yeah, that's almost as bad as marrying someone who loses to flatties that enjoy eating toothpaste after they bribe you with cookies.
I thought it sold around 5000-6000 in total accounting for all six BDs? So around 1000 per BD.
I stopped after the first cour. Does it get better? Those three princesses look dumb and somehow the MC got secret powerlevels?
>Those three princesses look dumb
You look dumb and nobody has secret power levels.
Smartest aradama.
Yukina has such atrocious taste. You can really see the magnanimity of a goddess from how Tagitsu put up with that shit for so long.
I want a S2 of nothing but Yukari bullying Fang
Wait was Toji a flop? It sold 1056 BDs on average according to someanithing but that's accounting for 6 BDs
Toji uniforms look retarded in real life.
Look at this retarded failure of a goddess standing all by herself with no friends. Look at her and laugh.
user, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but anime uniforms typically look dumb in real life.
Overly bright, too colorful and functionally stupid. Just like 90% of cosplays
I think it did pretty well on streaming, and the mobage also made money.
Stop that. Tagitsu is a good girl.
Didn't really like the MCs. One was a mary sue and the other was a toothpaste eating retard. The side couples were better.
She tried to kill billions.
>mfw people hate on Toji no Miko
>. One was a mary sue
No Kotobukis?
I didn't know we were talking about Hikaren.
>secret powerlevels
She's just a sociopath that's quite good at figuring out how to beat people. No powerlevels, she's just competent and smart. You would've seen that in episode 12 when she figured out that she can beat Tagitsu if the latter is forced to attack her first and later provokes Tagitsu by pretending to be possessed by her mother, had you been paying attention.
>shes just really good and perfect and never loses a fight, that's all!
And that's a good thing! And here's why!
>never loses a fight
She had to retreat from several fights. It's just that she managed to outskill a couple of specific strong opponents, but that alone doesn't make her a mary sue or unbeatable, especially since it wasn't just a powerlevel wank.
>>shes just really good and perfect and never loses a fight, that's all!
>speedwatching a kusoge advertisement
Yes, but it's billions of people you probably don't like anyway.
While the protagonists were indeed too sanitized for my taste, Kanami's too much of a jobber to be a mary sue. She almost destroyed the world by being sidetracked into jobbing to Yume.
s2 fucking when
This, really. Japan's fondness for bland retards as MC is kind of grating when everyone else is more fun.
To be fair that's arguably the best fight scene in the entire series and to make up for it there's lots of awful fights like Yomi's.
my favorite scene was the first fight with yukari where she BTFO's like 6 people at once with her extra arms
Hiyoyon is sex
The animators were bullying Yomi but at least she's a good character.
I dunno why she bothers summoning that shit. She'd be better off just using her sword.
>Low budget mobage commersial.webm
heh
have you got the one where she curbstomps everyone ?
Is it bulling when she enjoys it?
Congratulations OP, you're a yuricuck with shit taste
This post killed Yume.
Post that episode 21 summary image. I lost it
I only remember watching the first episode but then picked it up around episode 14, was not disappointed. Had to keep watching though because a couple of my favorite VAs were in the cast. Also, Mini Toji and its threads were nice but I want a proper spinoff based on the gacha game events.
I took so many screenshots of her too, she's gorgeous.
It's technically detailed certainly, although I'm not a fan of the big group vs boss battles. They're chaotic because there are so many characters fighting onscreen at once and it doesn't really have the same grounded feeling or coherent story as the katana duels.
Yomi's fights being so bad was a big directorial fuckup and one of the things that brought the series down as a whole. Her fights have no detail and crap scripting, so as a result she seems weak and her attacks ineffective, which is the exact opposite of what should have been intended as she's by far the most accomplished and ideologically-threatening member of the elite guards. She is the second longest-running antagonist (arguably the first if you don't consider cour 1 and 2's tagitsu to be the same character) and probably the hands-down most developed antagonist overall. Overall they just took this extremely critical character to the story and decided for whatever reason to put no effort at all into her scenes.
It kind of make sense.
The anime was made by group of sword autists.
And how do you expect them to create a good fight scene of sword vs. swarm of insects?
>Why are you all so bad at this.
>For fuck's sake Im not even powered up.
>There's like 12 of you.
>GOD YOU ALL SUCK!
With swirls of active insects instead of one bland cloud, or psychological tricks, or Yomi using them as an assist to her own attacks. Lack of creativity isn't a good excuse.
Nvm, found it in archives
whilst her shitting on jobbers is also fun
i meant the one where she faces the MC's and starts growing extra arms and uses the 4 sword style, if you can call it that
They're mooks, not jobbers.
is this the worlds smuggest lesbo
I got this one
i thought the power armor and stuff was supposed to make them super soldiers
super soldiers (and like 12 of them), all losing at once? seems like jobbing to me
yukari-sama is so cool when shes impaling teenagers
This was craziest deconstruction to this date.
Super soldier mooks are still mooks. To be a jobber you need a name.
>i thought the power armor and stuff was supposed to make them super soldiers
They give them super strength, speed and endurance.
But the show constantly reinforces that those are useless in face of real skill.
ah, fair enough
Not only were the insects probably hard to implement on a technical level, Yomi's own style is a weird one they probably didn't know what to do about. Hers is described as "fighting to kill without any regard for one's life whatsoever", but most traditional martial arts which have a heavy emphasis on personal safety doubtfully have an analogue to such a style. Especially since she does a lot of her fighting without Utsushi. Maybe they should have gotten a norse autist seeing as she's very similar in concept to a berserker.
It goes past lack of creativity, episode 6 was straight up unfinished. There's sound effects going on after she injects herself with all the vials while nothing is happening onscreen and shitty placeholder animation everywhere. Having such awful quality so early in the season, and at the antagonistic group's introduction, is disastrous and probably resulted in most of the lost potential for sales the series had.
Sayaka-chan needs to stop eating cookies all the time or she'll get fat and no one likes fat girls!
Jobbing would require the jobbee to be initally weaker than the jobber. We already know prior that Yukari how strong is Yukariand her generation are compared to the current generation.
>prior that how strong Yukari and her generation
fixed
That was an awful post, user. Just terrible.
Stormtroopers are all technically supposed to be elite supersoldiers yet they're still shit. Jobbing is when Kanami loses to Ayumu.
I love this miko's legs!
Jobbing is Maki's sole reason in life.
S2 when sis?
She shouldn't have removed the hood. It allowed her to slash Tagitsu when the only other toji who has done that are Kanami, Yukari, and Hiyoyon.
Would Kanami win against Momo?
Did someone say swords?
I HEARD SWORDS!
I want a crossover sol series featuring shirou, betsu ten gai and kanami being sword autists together
But Kanami is battle autist, not sword autist.
The hairy yeti will take her place.
Why did they take her from us
Have they revived Yume yet?
>and didn't have the same impact
>Hiyori realizing all her years of anger were pointless and she had nowhere to vent it after becoming what she hated
>the 4D chess that was Kanami beating lightning Hiyori, and admitting how much she cares for her before being powerless to save her
>Kanami showing Tagitsu the techniques of every single person she fought across the show
>Kagari telling Hiyori she never actually regretted anything so long as her daughter could be happy
>Kanami finally accepting her mother's death upon realizing this is the last time she'll see her, and crying when she didn't even cry at her funeral
>Minato inviting Tagitsu to be with them in their final moments after Tagitsu felt too ashamed to come near them
>Yukina being given Yomi's sword after coming to understand how she always felt and what she'd lost
And that's mostly the surprisingly great finale. The second half was way more impactful, with crazy shit happening nearly every week, though some of it is lost in retrospect when you have things like Hiyori being brought back the very next episode. They really upped the intrigue too. It might have been all over the place, but you're supposed to spend the first 6 or so episodes guessing at what's going on. Kanami is unsure whether she did the right thing and the messy state of the conflict reflects that.
Yes.
>Hiyori's sword.
I still don't understand why so many people call cours seasons.
Fucking baffling how a show that looked like a low budget ps3 game half the time was my anime of the season. I kind of blame the Yea Forums threads, as autistic and they were they were very fun.
Then you're a moron.
A season implies it's complete on its own. These were two halves of one story that aired back to back. Thinking about them separately is dumb when nothing was resolved in the first half and they were always intended to be watched as a whole.
>Mai gets cucked
>Only gets a consolation loli
>Mahiru gets cucked
>Gets three (3) girlfriends
It's not fair!
Sayaka is the cutest, worth more than those 3 combined
>A season implies it's complete on its own.
No it doesn't. It means it fits a broadcast season. Holy shit you are a moron.
Oh, so that is where that Kanami came from. I thought it was the Yuusha one at first.
Is there anything else?
So then how do you explain an anime season that's more than 12 episodes and fits into multiple broadcast seasons? What if it's an odd number like 16 episodes and ends very briefly into the second broadcast season? Are those last 4 episodes a second season? Would you advise people to stop watching the show at episode 12 because that was a complete season? What if a show has its last two episodes delayed and they air multiple seasons later? Are those 2 episodes now the second season? Words can have multiple meanings, but for clarity's sake this is why the word cour exists. Because 1 season of an anime is considered complete.
Aside from Mini Toji and the game, there's a light novel coming soon set in Okinawa 1 year before the anime.
>there's a light novel coming soon set in Okinawa 1 year before the anime.
Ah yes, the NoWaYu of TnM.
>light novel coming soon set in Okinawa
>Okinawa
We kaoru time
Sayaka is not a loli.
Have there been any story updates since Yui became a norodrone?
Rude
Does that mean we have to respond to any questions with "read the Okinawa novel"?
>One was a mary sue
You didn't watch too many shouten fightan animes, do you?
Dumb lovable commie that became my favorite character.
Yui and Hana along with other teams are collecting noro from all over the country to feed Cutehime. Takirihime was absorbed and Yume is out of the hospital but still can't fight for longer than a few minutes.
>Yume is out of the hospital but still can't fight for longer than a few minutes.
Did they get her out of the grave and into a hospital? That's pretty damn morbid.
I don't feel like it has that potential, since it doesn't seem like it'll focus on the major events of the story. It's only one year prior to the anime.
This season is terrible. I desperately need my fix of all-girl battle team shows. I've already watched all of them.
All Asukas are best girls.
Fuck, when will Takirihime-sama get justice?
Maki and Szk dragged her soul out of the Netherlands a while back.
Is this what an evil noro drone looks like?
Who else here also watched Ange Vierge?
Even if they dragged her soul back wasn't her body supposed to be dead and rotting?
I wanted to get into it but it's full of Yukarin worship, and it rubbed me the wrong way. I don't hate Yukarin, I just can't stand her character being shilled every episode.
They need to get her married off somehow, or she's going to be single into her 40's.
Damn, the mobage really go full Chinese pandering. Literally only the Chinese like Yume.
Yes.
Most ambitious crossover soon.
She ranked number one in the popularity poll
It's like looking at an alternate dimension version of yourself.
My wife, Saya, is very cute, and her show was very fun to watch with Yea Forums.
Mobage!Suzuka is actually competent, presumably.
The last episode's payoff for Yukarin is great, though. There was a reason we were legitimately worried about her after the last episode.
You are incorrect. Yume is popular everywhere.
But who will dress up as the giraffe?
Right down to the roommate.
It's already happening.
Please tell me that Tendie Maya is the Revue equivalent of Shidou Maki.
>"What if I picked acting school over studying the blade?"
About that
To this day I'm still bitter that Yucky Tuna is a thoroughly mismanaged franchise.
The prophecies were true.
Too bad there's no Revue version of Sayaka.
I tried to warn you fools
Snk is a dumb autist.
Cat kanami.
Did you also watch Princess Principal?
Finally, justice for szk.
My bro. AV was great
Maya actually beat the MC and is aware of her rival's obsession with her, so they're not really equal.
>Maya actually beat the MC
Funny, that's not how I remember it.
Suzuka should try harder to be Maki's rival, she feels like she has given up on ever beating her and just acts like a lovestruck dork
Seems like you skipped one of the best episodes then.
Catnami?
Suzuka should stop being so indirect and just seduce Maki with her weird womanly wiles already.
Kanyami
Maki is way too dense, seduction techniques won't work, I think the only option is saying it loud and clear, make sure that there are no trains or traffic around, also no door in which she can leave.
kanami is for impregnation
Failing that, I'm sure Suzuka can trick Maki into signing the marriage certificate. It'll probably take a few years before she realises her family name has changed, and by then she might just accept it.
Damn, Hiyori really went hard on the chocomint
Kuro tops
That's a way of going about things
>implying she'll ever notice
They'll have their littles IPS babies running around and Konohana Maki will be on their shared bed looking at the marriage picture and think ''Isn't this a little weird''
ELLEN BEST GIRL
That is all.
Battleship Ellen and Carrier Szk are better
It's not that she's given up, it's that she's accepted that she actually likes Maki. She moved past the tsundere phase that Claudine is still in.
Does this go into my Toji or Starlight folder?
>that pottery in the pic
It gets tagged with both because file tagging is a much better way to organize images.
Bote kanami is also cute
>Maki's sword is closely associated with Suzuka's style
>Suzuka, being a pampered ojou-sama, claims she'll beat Maki in the tournament and demands it as a prize
>gets demolished by Maki and spends a year hating her
>Maki loses her unit to aradama and her density is amplified by trauma and self-loathing
>Suzuka challenges Maki at the next tournament and is beaten again
>Maki joins the elite guard and Suzuka chases after because she won't admit defeat, but soon realizes her hate turned to love
And that's the mostly untold story of these two. I think it was seeing Maki's weakness that really changed things for Suzuka. She started supporting her instead of antagonizing her. If they were to be compared to Maya and Claudine, it would be in those years before the story started. In the Starlight event, Suzuka actually realizes Claudine reminds her of her old self, and offers her some encouragement.
>yuri
It's not yuri if every girl has a sword.
Man, I wish we got a story about those altercations, maybe if the Okinawa novel is successful we can see that unfold, though I think as a rival Claudine is better than Suzuka, but I guess that's the endgame of rivalries, isn't Maki's style of swordfighting really blunt? Is that why she thought Maki shouldn't stay with her sword?
Cold steel can't defeat flat chest.
But Maya's only flaw is that she became gay for loli Claudine.
>flaw
>isn't Maki's style of swordfighting really blunt? Is that why she thought Maki shouldn't stay with her sword?
>Suzuka's sword style is Kurama-ryu which was the style that Minamoto Yoshitsune used. Maki's sword, Usumidori or Hoemaru, was the sword that Yoshitsune used throughout his career. Suzuka thought as a practitioner of Kurama-ryu, she is more worthy of that sword than Maki.
Basically just a petty reason. It'd be like if Yume bullied Mihono to get her sword.
Fuck Hiyori
yes
Damn Suzuka, just going over to a girl and saying you want her sword and that you can handle it better than her, that's bold
I need a TnM Sekiro mod!
Ojii-san's logic is impeccable!
Do the swords have some signifance to each character, I know that Kanami and Hiyori's swords are related and have that cut the lightning thing, also Nenekimaru being tied to Nene in Kaoru's case, what about the others?
Doesn't Sayaka have a cursed sword is that ever relevant?
Sayaka has Yukina's sword.
>In the Starlight event, Suzuka actually realizes Claudine reminds her of her old self, and offers her some encouragement
Aw, that's sweet.
the 8th most popular toji, I'm sure of it
I wish I had Yukina-sama's sword, if you get my meaning.
That's Maki
Yomi?
Rude.
Mihomo needs her 2nd season.
Who?
It's a crime!
Mihomo should let other tojis szk have a go.
Mihono uses Okita Souji's sword, Kashuu Kiyomitsu, which famously had the tip broken off. In universe, okatana aren't supposed to be able to break, but Mihono's is still broken and plot relevant because of it. There's a legend about Yui's sword, Hotarumaru, that it's able to heal its owner. It's not a specific sword, but the game plot incorporates the Akabane swords, many thousands of swords taken by American occupying forces after WW2 and stored in the Akabane district of Tokyo. There's probably a lot more real sword trivia in here that's just too deep for me.
>mc were stupid
Sasuga 5 episodes watcher
You mean half of episode 1 watcher.
Japan wanted a tournament arc.
s2 with the game cast
I want to sniff Mihono's pantyless crotch
As a sequel or Toji no Miko Repeat?
S2 never.
Reimu's AU sister.
Yui would only appear in the second cour
Tendou Mai
Maya and Mai should get together and invent time travel so they can rape baby Claudine.
Ellen fell for Yoyo's bait, but was actually quite the good fighter
Ellen also couldn't punch or kick as her usual style in an official tournament.
Yoyo is a sword master who knows the shit.
Mai was just being a cunt as usual.
It's like they do the "come hit me bro" stance and the attacker falls for it every time.
Hiyoyon also reached the finals of the tournament again, in the last scene of the anime, so it's not like she got a lucky seed.
>Ellen failed the Ichimonji
>Hiyori used the Skallgrim bait stance
The fights in TnM were deep as hell.
Those legs are way too small for the rest of her body
She also likely improved a lot over the year, since she was training with Kanami often on the side.
>tfw Maki uses the Black Blade moveset from DS3.
>Yui's sword, Hotarumaru, that it's able to heal its owner.
That explains why she has life steal. After upgrades at least.
>S2 never.
Doubt.
Toji no Miko is the Aliexpress rip-off of Walmart Madoka.
I like this image, it really shows how much Kanami cares for Hiyoiyon
It's so nice that Kanami will polish her sword even if it's small and unleashes its load as fast as lightning
Why did they wear the swords like this instead of using a normal sheath? I believe there is a reason it was used for millennia without retarded hip hinges.
So that their swords won't swing around smacking people.
Because it's easier to get around in crowds and tight places with it aligned vertically on your back. The mechanism swings it forward and allows you to draw it like a sheath when you need to. Just imagine them on busy trains without it.
I recall reading somewhere that they also have to follow some ordinance regarding weapons and the swords have to be in that upright position
>mfw workers are exploited
They can't just fast draw it with no forewarning, so it's symbolic of their monster-fighting function.
It has official explanation you know.
Basically, it's because japan Sword Ordinance Laws is still in effect in toji no miko world.
Civilian may not carry Katana in public, however a Toji need to be able to respond to danger at any moment, those student are civilian when their okatana is mounted, and a toji when their okatana is drawn.
Are you me? Except I'm an EOP.
This. One of Yukari's special privileges is the right to still use an old-fashioned side sheath.
Milkies
Sounds like one of those stupid PC stuff you hear about in the western world.
Wouldn't that mean she's always on duty? Poor hag should take a day off every now and then.
Yukari is too busy betraying humanity to take a break.
But Akane manages both just fine.
Kanami has no idea when she needs a hug or when she needs spanking.
i wish there would be alot more doujins of this show. it has so many great girls
There are a lot, they're just not scanned.
Kanami always needs a spanking.
I want to spank Kanami
Go hug your mom.
My mama's so fat my arms can't reach around.
No.
I want Kanami to beat me in a toji duel!
Spyce is one of the series I think has a good chance of being the next collab.
I hope not, Spyce failed as a successor in the line of Toji and Revue.
It was much better than Revue though.
Stop shitposting, Takahiro.
Not even spycefriends believe this
I don't even like Spyce that much, but Revue was simply bad.
It was fun and gay, but lacking in other departments.
>Kanami can kick thunder god Hiyori's ass without trying
>bottom
What did they mean by this
Their expressions in that image people keep posting tells you everything. Hiyori looks like she has no idea what she's doing while Kanami is encouraging her.
I hope it's FFXV
I hope it's Dragon Quest.
There's guaranteed to be a Raildex one by the end of the year.
>tfw all your friends are hags
Kanami always wanted a strong toji to overpower and have their way with her, but she got too strong herself.
>mad now
Now where have I heard this before?
Well well, look how the tables have turned.
This show had the best sword fights in the history of anime.
I like Spyce. Yeah, Toji and Revue were better, but Spyce was still really entertaining, even if simpler. I can't hate the show
It was mediocre as hell. I was really hyped before it was released then didn't even finish it. It was so bland and boring.
I wish it had showed Kurara more.
Or gone full edge at the end.
As it was, it was pretty much just a by-the-book show.
>full edge
Hell no. Would've been ruined.
The show wanted to be by-the-book harmless fun. And it succeeded for me. Suddenly going edgy is shit
If it doesn't start with any hint of edge, don't add it later.
You want edge by Takahiro? Go watch and read Akame ga Kill
Sounds like all 3.
I'm pretty sure you can make this loop perfectly.
>Karen kicked Kanami's ass in the collab
I guess Karen is the top after all.
>Kanami lost to THIS
She's unpredictable!
What the fuck Kaoru, Yume didn't even touch you.
I'm sure Kanami just couldn't get it up when faced with such a disappointing opponent. That must be the reason why.
Did other people fight each otjer, too?
>too young for her former friends
>too old to relate to the modern tojis
She gets along fine with the just as dorky Hiyori.
Nobody fights in the event story, but it seems like the 4*s fight whoever they're paired with in their side episodes. So Kanami fights Hikari, Szk fights Claudine, Mirja fights Junjun, Mai fights Mahiru, and Hiyori fights Karen. I don't know how any of those turn out, but I know Mahiru considers herself weaker than Mai and Karen is impressed by Hiyori's technique. I don't think Kanami ever actually fights Karen.
Shinto nationalist sci fi with lesbians is in fact the best anime genre.
>Karen is impressed by Hiyori's technique.
Hiyoyon will be the TOP STAR soon.
The game story needs to hurry up so we can get more tsundere Hiyori antics with her long lost cousin.
Szk top stars
Only thing Sukasuka tops is the weirdness charts.
That's still the birb
Yomi isn't weird, she's just disgusting.
>How do you fellow tojis?
Hiyori is a bit special, also she tried to kill her.
Yeah, and Yukari almost got the world killed, so they're at least even on that front.
...
Yomi is weird herself, so her opinions are weird too.
The two of them are quite similar in a way — they both failed. Yukari wanted to save Kagari and Minato, but in the end her deal with Tagitsu not only took away most of their lives, it kept a huge danger in the world. Likewise, Hiyori wanted to destroy the great aradama and kill Yukari, but in the end not only was her hatred misguided, she also actually released Tagitsu back into the world.
>she also actually released Tagitsu back into the world.
That's Kanami's fault for stopping the ritual.
Hiyori shouldn't have tempted Kanami with her delicious flat.
Stop victim blaming. She wasn't asking for Kanami's fat thighs just because she dressed like that.
Nothing wrong with weird, but she's a freak.
The weak should fear the strong, and Kanami is the strongest.
And ultimately it didn't really matter since the great aradama is unkillable. It just comes back in a new form few decades. Everyone is born into this centuries old conflict with no end, including Tagitsu. Yukari knew this, but she wanted some small victory. Hiyori wasn't really motivated by saving the world, but avenging her mother, until the end of the first half when her lines in the song talk about how peaceful she feels realizing Kanami will be left behind. And of course, Kanami's lines are about how she'd throw away everything for Hiyori, keeping up the trend of sacrifice that only brings more suffering.
Well, they're going to try worshipping the noro next so maybe that will help.
But that's what they did in the past, and it didn't really seem to help. Maybe it lowered the spawn rate of generic aradama, but the great aradama still showed up. The most effective method is what happened with Nene, but that took 300 years of a family line taming just one aradama. Or they could try befriending a great aradama again and getting her to keep some under control. It doesn't solve the issue of impurity though. Humanity really fucked itself messing around with magic swords that are needed to subdue the demons that are created by making magic swords.
Well yeah, Karen is the strongest butai shoujo.
That's simply not true.
>jobnana
>what is plot armor
Banana jobbed to no one.
Prove it.
jobbed to 2 actually
They should just let America bring Freedom and Democracy to the Netherworlds.
Why do you like bullying her so much?
Drill baby drill. That infinite netherworld energy isn't going to mine itself.
There will be no more aradama once we burn them off in our cars. There will be micro-aradamas instead.
It really surprised me that Kaoru wasn't allowed to strike. Very barbaric.
It's understandable.
>watched the first couple of episodes when it first aired
>thought it was mediocre and didn't bother to continue watching
this also happened to me
I didn't go back to it however
Give it 3 episodes user don't be like that
>Karen is the top
God I want to see that
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Toji, is in fact, Miko/Toji, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Toji no Miko. Toji is not an an occupation unto itself, but rather another skill set of a fully qualified Miko made useful by the utsushi, jin'i and vital okatana components comprising a full proficiency as defined by the Five Schools.
Many sword users use a modified version of the Miko system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Miko which is widely used today is often called “Toji”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Miko system, developed by the ancient Miko. There really is a Toji, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the abilities they use.
Toji is the proficiency: the training in the system that hones the abilities of the okatana user. The proficiency is an essential part of the occupation but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a fully qualified shrine maiden. Toji is normally used in combination with the Miko occupation: the whole system is basically Miko with Toji added, or Miko/Toji. All the so-called “Toji” girls are really girls who are Miko/Toji.
Do Toji respect my freedom?
Based pasta poster.
I love Hiyori so much.
>stockings + flat chest
Is there a better combination?
Freedom zero is the freedom to use kenjutsu however you wish.
Freedom one is the freedom to study how kenjutsu works, and change it so you can battle as you wish.
Freedom two is the freedom to instruct kenjutsu to others as you wish.
Freedom three is the freedom to instruct your modified version of kenjutsu as you wish.
>pantyhose + flat chest + mizugi
Yes.
+todger
pantyhose + flat chest + long black hair
I love her expression here.
I wonder, did anyone create that sword-holder belt thing IRL?
I know this is pasta but is the user memeing or is this historically accurate.
Maybe some cosplayer?
Excuse me.
>STILL no edit where the pantyhose is over the swimsuit
>so embarrassed of her own body she can't do it with the lights on
She'll grow into a fine woman.
What about an edit with no pantyhose?
That's just the original.
That bed has enough space for me.
Not that I know.
I still it will happen dammit, second season or ova it's going to be animated.
Those are some meaty hips.
Indeed, perfectly flat.
I can only tolerate flat if they got a big ass.
A stick is fine too.
A stick in her ass.
That's not where swords go, Kanami!
See you when the mini toji bd comes out, tojifriends.
Says you.
It's where mine goes.
This isn't the sword duel I signed up for!
Yet their best show is Tsureruze Children.
It was deserved.
Elaborate?