のんのんびよりりぴーと・Non Non Biyori Repeat - Anime Club Offshoot - Season 2

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Welcome to the season 2 offshoot of the Non Non Biyori Anime Club

We watched season 1 as part of the Beginner Anime club. Note that unlike season 1, this thread will cover all the episodes of season 2 rather than a new thread each week.

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Discussion guidelines

This thread is here to comment on your impressions of this week’s episodes and to ask any question you have regarding the vocabulary or the understanding of them :grin:

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  • Any potential spoiler for the current week’s watching need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  • Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
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Week 1 Starting December 7th
Episodes 1 & 2
Last Week S1 Week 6 (11 & 12)

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Just a note for people confused about the timeline - it’s worth pointing out the events of season 2 happen concurrently with season 1.

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I saw the thread title and my first thought was “you only just finished Non Non Biyori, you’re doing a repeat watch already?”

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Hah, no, that’s just the name of the season :slight_smile:

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Oh, I know. Though once you’ve finished the repeat watch, you’re gonna watch it non-stop afterwards? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Probably, though maybe we take a little vacation first.

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I am still sad the third season stopped. Where’s the next season?

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So I’m a little late but got around to watching this week’s episodes.

Episode 1

Despite having first come across ピカピカ a few months ago now at this stage, my brain still associates it with Pikachu, sorry.

Side note: It only clicked with me that 一年生 is actually the first year of school. So used to American media where kindergarten is first, or Ireland’s school system where first class is the 3rd or 4th year of school (depending on if you count preschool as school).

Anyway, first we have Renge practing her 通う to school. It’s funny seeing the extreme’s of Japanese levels of child independence and on the other hand hearing about Americans getting CPS called on them for letting a 14 year old baby sit a 10 year old. I think we end up somewhere in the middle. Given in this episode Hikage is accompanying her, this would probably be considered ok here too, but we know from last season eventually Renge does this on her own.

Wow that bus going around the corner is such obvious CG. It really sticks out with how good the background are on this show.

Sorry れんげ, you’re not going to be れんげ殿 again.

More bad CG, this time a car.

She’s totally going to forget Renge has that phone.

Yup.

オートクチュール? Well, at least I’m not the only one to not understand Renge here.

This panning shot is like a visual novel schene, lol.

And Renge gets her 縦笛. By the end of the year she’ll be playing sandstorm on it :stuck_out_tongue:

And we get the 転校生 teased. Would be more of a mystery if this wasn’t season 2 :stuck_out_tongue:

Episode 2

I guess this is our chronologically first ニャンパス,

The ruler game is supposed to cast them as easily amused country kids, I think, but we did similar in my school when we were bored. Though there rules got more elaborate, ours were mostly about pushing others off the table.

DRAMATIC RULER COMBAT MUSIC.

After that dramatic music, you need to play “We Won the Case” as victory music.

Wait, that was half an episode of ruler combat.

Every little helps at JESCO?

Yeah, I’d be clueless at constellations too.

Waiting for the bottle cap chekhov’s gun to go off now they’re lost.

And the Komari-obsession is beginning (again).

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Week 2 Starting December 14th
Episodes 3 & 4
Last Week 1 & 2

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And now at least I’m not late, here’s the post for week 2 :stuck_out_tongue:

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Haha that was nice to know, thank you. If not I probably would have been a little confused lol

Episode 1

I like the opening animation!! It’s cute, I like the part where they all walk in line together
Renge is so cute!! I liked again some of the more quiet moments focused on the beauty of the rural town hehe.
The “But nobodys ever fallen through the floor!!” line as they immediately after focus on the brother hahaha. I also loved the second long scene that shows the brother is the one who played the piano for the school song instead of singing, haha. It’s the little moments

Hey, Pikachu is ピカピカ with his electricity, so it still works! Maybe

HAHA THAT BIT WAS FUNNEE

Episode 2

Daang it was haha, but it was an inTENSE BATTLE
The music and dramatic poses were killing me :joy:

Haha! And it’s funny cause I was just thinking “Hmm, she hasn’t been senpai obssesed nearly as much, she didn’t even care that she was giving her a piggyback ride!!” And then cut to the plushie sketches :joy:

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Episode 3

I was never good at whistling either.

I never liked those questions on English tests either, so sympathising with Natsumi there. I remember one of the poets on our english curriculum also famously did not like literally analysis by schools of her work. I could make enough crap to do ok in the tests, but I never believed any of it.

I paused on the english textbook. “Has basketball been played?” + “Of course, it has been done” is super unnatural lol. Now is that the illustrator’s english knowledge or representative of an actual textbook?

The rapid fire questions were a bit too rapid fire for me to keep up.

For a sequence of Renge’s antics, I actually got on pretty well with the scene with 姉ちゃん

I swear Komari got shorter for this walk to Renge’s house

Episode 4

I enjoyed the whole tero tero bouzo incident. Real higurashi vibes for Komari there lol.

Hold on a moment, I recognize what Renge is playing. Going to annoy now until I figure out where from. I checked 翼をください but that’s not it.

RIP ひらたいらさん

Honestly a very dialogue light but feels heavy episode, so not much to say from a Japanese practice perspective.

Two hours for a convenience store, ouch. I felt bad when I lived in the country side and it was 30 minutes by bicycle.

Ok, now that scene of the rainy forested hill reminds me of Eva scenes lol