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Mar 13, 6:28 AM
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Science at full works here. They had to use it to get into Xeno's castle for the counterattack.

Luna shouldn't be surprised at herself for having feelings at Senku at this point. The signs were all over the place. Science is also a scary idea coming from Xeno's side too. They really are pushing the limits of science this season and it's exciting imo.
Mar 13, 7:13 AM
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I was about to say GET MY MAN BACK ON HIS FEET ALREADY but this is ri-goddamn-diculous. 😭 Luna, pls, you're the last person to even think you have any right to ask that. However superficial it may be. Yeeeesh. 😭

Was picking Carlos up really just Taiju's dumb-dumb and not part of any plan? Lmfao. And now a dogfight (I was waiting for that word) in what really ended up looking like Little Nellie on the Science Kingdom's side... pfft.
Mar 13, 7:20 AM
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Even without Senku at the forefront for once, things are still advancing fast, on both sides.

Another thing going fast is Senku snd Luna’s little… “relationship” LOL. Poor Luna, maybe in another life where she was reincarnated as science itself.

But yeah, time for the dogfight then.


Mar 13, 7:37 AM
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That fakeout at the beginning tho. Hyoga or any of the other guys turning at this point would just be disastrous for Senku's team.

Taiju actually went straight to the enemy lmfao. And those idiots actually let him go and do his thing.

Ain't no way. Luna actually confessed to Senku and he accepted! Of course, it's not his first time doing something like this. But I wonder if he'd actually go through with being a boyfriend at least for a little while. Personally, I'd love to see Senku with Kohaku although that probably would never happen.

Carlos turned on Dr. Xeno pretty fast. I guess not all his subjects are loyal to him. Senku really knows how to play his hands right.

I think Xeno is creating a missile. Man, things are getting intense. I can't wait for the finale.
Mar 13, 7:54 AM
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I love Luna so much. How’s she gone and become best girl in 3 episodes lmao?! Senku better stop playing around and give her a chance when he gets better 😂

Great episode. Taiju showed Xeno’s forces that he and the kingdom of science aren’t so bad and Luna showed everyone that Xeno’s people aren’t so bad either. It’s just a matter of who brought them back from petrification.
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Mar 13, 8:10 AM
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the science vs science dogfight begins

and sorry luna we know from observation that senku and kohaku is the end game
Mar 13, 8:29 AM
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Who can say no to Taiju's single minded and pure spirit, poor Luna got the worst lover she could ever have, how come this show can have like 10 or so best girls at the same time.
Mar 13, 8:59 AM
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At first that guy says he doesn't understand Japanese and Taiju doesn't understand English then how was he able to understand the decoded message and that Taiju asked him to draw a map, he even replied at first that he wouldn't do it since he's the enemy

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Mar 13, 9:02 AM
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Luna fell in love with the worst kind of person lol.
Good luck for I guess.
Mar 13, 9:15 AM

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Taiju was the only one genuinely happy for his friend who got a girlfriend, and everyone knew Senkuu's true intentions. Poor Luna—she fell in love with a scoundrel 😅.
Mar 13, 9:27 AM
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love me the roadmap montage and development sequence. this episode is more animated than usual, the car, the ship zoom, hopefully it continues the same next ep?

crazy that the guy with the gun has the least control of the situation. these guys are wack.

also its obvious what xeno is building but its funny to assume he's about to launch a fully fledged nuclear missile on senku. that's the ultimate science weapon right there.

Mar 13, 9:38 AM
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Well the episode, I wanted not to be so close to ending, the next bow is so good
Mar 13, 9:40 AM
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The last time I get emotional from the drill is when I watch Gurren Lagann.
Mar 13, 10:18 AM

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Fucking Senku has no chill, bro gets snipped and a day later he is in a dogfight lmao

That shit with Luna threw me off do hard, fuck her, if Senku really ends with her this might actually become one of the most dogshit anime ever just because of that lol
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

Mar 13, 10:28 AM

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Ultra fun episode yeaaaaa the ending got me waku waku jsjsjs
Mar 13, 10:48 AM

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great ep

girlfriend done

very beautiful the animation
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Mar 13, 10:50 AM
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legendary ep and senkyuu is finally back
Mar 13, 12:08 PM

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That fakeout at the beginning tho. Hyoga or any of the other guys turning at this point would just be disastrous for Senku's team.

Taiju actually went straight to the enemy lmfao. And those idiots actually let him go and do his thing.

Ain't no way. Luna actually confessed to Senku and he accepted! Of course, it's not his first time doing something like this. But I wonder if he'd actually go through with being a boyfriend at least for a little while. Personally, I'd love to see Senku with Kohaku although that probably would never happen.

Carlos turned on Dr. Xeno pretty fast. I guess not all his subjects are loyal to him. Senku really knows how to play his hands right.

I think Xeno is creating a missile. Man, things are getting intense. I can't wait for the finale.
@0451 I feel the same way, but lowkey Senku + Luna might be a pretty good pairing
Mar 13, 12:15 PM
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My favorite episode so far. I genuinely thought something crazy happened in the beginning. Really nice dialogues with Luna and Chrome. Love how he finally gets a chance to prove his worth. Also crazy that Luna's dating Senku. But with his previous relationships, I don't know how this one will end out... Really good episode though
Mar 13, 12:48 PM

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Great episode, but that cliffhanger ending tears me apart. I want to see this dogfight.
Mar 13, 12:51 PM

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@0451 I feel the same way, but lowkey Senku + Luna might be a pretty good pairing
@HajimeNozomiUwU I agree, he may have his own reasons for it, which isn't surprising but it could actually end up being a nice pair. She's neurotic and he's kind of one-track minded but i'd think it would be a good character development.
Mar 13, 1:06 PM

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I haven't finished the manga and I know spoilers, but everything went by very fast for me, also when I saw Senku with Ryusui I thought "What the hell are you doing there? Weren't you dying?" I know that Luna had told him that if he got better they would be a couple (poor of her) and she said that they already were... (can you blame her lol?)
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Mar 13, 1:10 PM

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It's fortunate Max and Carlos couldn't speak Japanese to hear Taiki's blabbermouth (this is where multilingual audio would make things more believable).
Carlos couldn't stand by and let Taiju kill them with his driving.
The drill is ready! Chrome successfully led a science project and the fact the ones out in the field are all youths moves Carlos. When Luna announced in an encrypted message that she's gotten Senku as a boyfriend, Carlos is too emotionally distraught and draws the castle's map. Gen is sent an encrypted message too, but at the same time Brody's invention is ready.
Ryuusui knows they need air, land and sea superiority. Thanks to Luna's determination as a former med student, Senku is fit to completr the airplane and runaway and he joins Ryuusui in a dogfight against Stanley's plane.

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Mar 13, 1:17 PM

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And the Battle Begins uh Next episode. It going be good I tell you.
Mar 13, 1:19 PM

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You can't help but like Taiju's simplicity of his mindset. Sure, he struggles to think before he acts, but taking Carlos with him (Who also drove for Taiju due to his lack of driving skills) to where Chrome's team was proved to be a good move.

As for Luna, asking Senku out caught me by surprise, even more so when she got the answer she wanted! Senku is probably the worst choice for boyfriend material, though, so I can see Luna having regrets about this, which did sort of happen a little while later. XD

It looks like Stanley is back in another plane, so it was good timing that the preparations for Senku's side to take to the skies with the plane that they captured previously. This is one dogfight that they need to win, so here's hoping that they can take down Stanley as soon as possible.
Mar 13, 1:20 PM

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love me the roadmap montage and development sequence. this episode is more animated than usual, the car, the ship zoom, hopefully it continues the same next ep?

crazy that the guy with the gun has the least control of the situation. these guys are wack.

also its obvious what xeno is building but its funny to assume he's about to launch a fully fledged nuclear missile on senku. that's the ultimate science weapon right there.

@Plopop It is elegant as Xeno would say.
Mar 13, 1:27 PM
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We're conquering america with airplanes!!!! Lets gooooo
Mar 13, 1:43 PM
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lol Luna quickly realising the kind of dude she fell for. I still ship Kohaku and Senku tho, if he ever gets to the point in his life where he's ready for that.

pretty hype point in the series, I'm excited to see how their heli/plane works out. crazy they got it to take off from a carrier already, that's no easy feat
Mar 13, 2:00 PM
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This episode is okay-ish in the first half despite weak storyline and outright bad in the second half except the hype at the end for the upcoming dogfight.

Taiju causally conversing with the enemy spies, one of whom goes hitchhiking with him, Chrome's team placing the enemy in such a way that he has a front seat to the show of all their secret work, Xeno's crew's loyalties to him being weaker than the gravity, the weakest force in the universe, and so on, are ominous signs for the anime. Almost all characters are acting as if it were all just a fun little game between two parties, but on the other hand, we have Xeno having Brody build what's probably nothing short of a ballistic missile. The same team that snipes Senku is having a friendly contact with Taiju the next day. Taiju who's all serious and resolute turns into a screaming moron as soon as he leaves the ship. The balance is ridiculously off. All this in the name of what? Yep, some lousy comedy, which isn't really even nearly so.

In the previous seasons, the righteous side had to pull all kinds of tricks to be able to convince an enemy over to their side, the most notable example of which is Nikki, for whom they had to fake a celebrity's voice and declare a U.S. restoration on radio. Now, they don't really have to do anything at all. They just ignore their enmity and let them stroll around, after which it takes next to no effort to recruit them. Luna changed sides because she found Senku hot due to her insecurities and, even worse, her simp abandoned Xeno because he heard her voice on the radio, yikes. I know Senku's an extremely charismatic guy but Xeno's just as charismatic if not more. Before nitrogen fixation and weapon production, Xeno would've done well to produce some backbones for his crew. With such companions as these, no need for enemies like Senku.

Luna lusting after Senku and forcing herself on the injured guy desperate for medical attention that unfortunately happens to be only available by this so-called "doctor", which again demonstrates that the scarcity of medical support is so severe that the standards for qualifying as a doctor are plummeting, was kind of gross. It just doesn't work out for Senku to have a love interest imo. His only interest lies in science and the overall betterment of the humanity. Hopefully her amorous period won't outlast her vicious cycle about being cool-headed and capable.

As for the good side of this episode, it's nearly all Chrome. The dude's busting his ass to dig to create the first metro system in the world in 3700 years and actually getting it done on his down in the absence of Senku. Pure source of inspiration. Also it felt like this episode's animation quality was slightly better than the others. The next episode with the air fight especially should be following this trend.
Mar 13, 2:07 PM

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No way they can climb before stanley gets the drop on them
Mar 13, 3:58 PM

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The language barrier issue is really funny to me. I am 1 billion percent excited for the next episode, but immediately went to despair knowing we only have a few episodes left.
Mar 13, 4:26 PM
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Things got moving pretty quickly this episode, not only did Chrome get his drill, but the ship was successfully converted into an aircraft carrier too, but it makes sense, we’re nearing the end of the season and we need to wrap this Xeno conflict up before it’s over, at least I think we’re going to lol.

But the drill and the aircraft carrier weren’t the only things of note this episode, there was also the bit where Carlos got captured, and although this was amusing, I can’t help but feel this was very avoidable had Stanley dragged Max and Carlos back with him instead of letting them hang around, but then again they did have a gun and decided not to use it lol, I guess they don’t really have any loyalty to Xeno, Luna is all that matters to them (which I kinda get, because DAYUM), it was pretty wholesome tho to see Carlos react to the tenacity of the Kingdom of Science, a lot of them are very young but extremely capable.

There was also the bit with Luna I really liked, she’s so damn sweet, it’s just unfortunate she fell in love with the man who’s already married to science lol, she has good taste but I’m not sure if it’ll work out, I already shipped Senku with Kohaku anyway, but this is still a good pairing that I’d like to see, it just depends if Luna’s cake is as great as science in Senku’s eyes lol. And at the end we got teased with a dogfight as the battle of science is reaching its climax, Ryusui and Senku piloting is gonna make it really hype, and now it’s starting to look like Xeno’s weapon is a missile, very insane that they were able to make that in the stone world if that’s what it is.
Mar 13, 4:35 PM

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YOUR DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS

Mar 13, 4:45 PM
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Chrome drill idea worked perfectly! That's exactly what they needed to get through all the dirt and bedrock. Carving a way right under Xeno base down in the valley. Taiju delivering the drill to Chrome was hilarious, him picking up that enemy guy Carlos made it even better. Taiju warm personality helped put the dude at ease and somehow got him to drive the mobile lab there. Although given that Taiju never got a license and Carlos is a professional hired driver it makes sense. They're lucky he helped draw that diagram of the base after learning Luna switched sides. Taiju leaving Senku care in capable hands with Luna there. She got pretty close to Senku pretty quickly. Luna had no idea what she was getting into asking to be Senku girlfriend. He will absolutely just use her to get ahead in his plan, not even maliciously just practically. Luna is who he needs to survive right now so of course he's going to agree with whatever she says. His reaction face to her asking had me laughing so much. Gen discovering the Super weapon Xeno has been working on and it's only two days away from launching. The ship has finally been converted into an aircraft carrier just as Stanley returns with another plane. Everything is coming to a head right as we near the end of this first cour!
Mar 13, 5:18 PM
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Great episode! Love this show 😭

Mar 13, 6:21 PM
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Just a couple of minutes more! Is that too much too ask? I want this damned dogfight so much now.
Mar 13, 8:34 PM

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PLS THAT CLIFFHANGER MAKES ME WANNA
Mar 13, 8:52 PM
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Really love this series. Hopefully they would go ahead and adapt the entire source material until its end.
Mar 13, 10:58 PM

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The dog fight in the next ep should be a fascinating watch. I wonder how they'll counter Stanley's machine gun. And what that big-ass thing they built is. A cruise missile or a heavier (bomber?) aircraft?

Luna is a true sapiosexual, so if anyone was ever get laid in anime Senku would see some joy in that department; but as we all know no one is ever get laid in non hentai anime and most ecchi anime. It appears Senku went along to motivate her to save his life and to have her groupies defect to their team.
Mar 14, 12:23 AM
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First, Luna really thinks Senku is interested, XD
Second, I am cheering for Ryusui and Senku against Stenley!
Mar 14, 12:47 AM

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Can't wait for Ryu & Stanley's Dogfight!!!
Mar 14, 2:31 AM

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Please let this be a long-lasting ship. They're actually a good match
Mar 14, 6:34 AM
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Let the dog fight begins!
Mar 14, 10:05 AM
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When it gets exciting, it just ends with a cliffhanger? Luna confessing her love to Senku is just unnecessary. I honestly just want that Senku and the others to build stuff. I don't care for the fights.
Mar 14, 11:21 AM

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Now that I think about it... shouldn't they be procreating to repopulate..

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Mar 14, 11:33 AM
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I CANT BELIEVE SENKU AND LUNA ARE DATING
Mar 14, 3:22 PM

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It's funny how Carlos somehow became the driver for Taiju.

So apparently Senku and Luna are now dating? At least for now, but I doubt it will last long. This is Senku after all.
Mar 14, 5:35 PM
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Taiju really is just winging it all the way through. Can he drive? No but he‘lol drive anyway. Does he know about the enemy? Yes but he’ll befriend them anyway.

Mar 15, 12:00 AM
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Senku and Luna? Ten billion percent this so called “ship” isn’t going to work out, we all see it a mile away. Senku has no need for such things as romance. 😅

(I’m biased tho - partially saying that because I’m partial to Kohaku, but really seriously - we all know who Senku is right? 😂)
Mar 15, 1:48 AM
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Senku has a new girlfriend, Luna!!!
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