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Posted 09 April 2016 - 03:26 PM

Well nothing too great, there are a couple that seem to be a decent pass time, Academia is probably the most interesting one here, but like with Haikyuu last season I'm not willing to pick up any new SWJ manga's so i'll avoid it. Sakamoto Desu ga could be interesting, it got allot of praise when it was published, but I didn't really get it, when I tried to read it, but it might make more sense in anime form, so i'll probably give that a go.

 

Flying Witch I might just watch because I never understood the premise of the manga, I'd read the first seven or eight chapters and never understood the witch premise of it, as it's largely a slice of life manga, and the witch part just appears to be a gimmick or random insertion, there is hardly any witchcraft involved, atleast in the manga i've read.

 

Netogame, I might watch just to see what tropes they abuse about NEETS and MMO Gamers for the sake of laughs. A few years ago I though LN's were the best things to happen to Anime in years, and now it just feels like they've become a trope of overusings tropes.so many LN's feel like the same story with a couple of changes.

 

I'll probably give Macross triangle a chance as well, I didn't mind Macross F too much, though the Male MC was lame. Will see how this fares.

 

It doesn't appear to be as bad as Winter season, that had to be the worst Anime season in years, it had one anime that sounded interesting and that was phantom world, and that ended up being pointless drivel, and maybe the worst anime from KyoAni to date.


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Posted 09 April 2016 - 06:36 PM

Just saying guys... If you want another Attack on Titan copy, watch Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Premise is nothing new (the similarities with AoT are so blatantly obvious), but the animation and overall entertainment value are good. Stay away though if you hate Zombies. I'll admit that I had to role my eyes at certain scenes, but yeah... Give it a try. If you like AoT, I don't think you'll regret it.


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Posted 09 April 2016 - 09:21 PM

I got Prime, so I'll check it out.

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Posted 10 April 2016 - 03:05 AM

I got Prime, so I'll check it out.

What are your thoughts on it?


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Posted 10 April 2016 - 03:45 AM

I'm planning on watching Joker Game, Bungou Stray Dogs, Mayoiga (I'm kind of ambivalent to this one right now, but I'll give it a few episodes), and maybe Flying Witch.

Flying Witch is surprisingly my personal favorite of this season so far. It is incredibly reminiscent of Kiki's Delivery Service. It also incorporated a funny scene from Harry Potter :D (You'll know what I'm referring to when you get to the scene).

Slice of Life anime with a tranquil and relaxed pace (for some the pacing might be too slow). But this show was so kawai without being moe by letting the characters react normally (no big eyes, no yelling, no hysteria). Imagine watching a regular Ghibli movie but in anime form, and you'll get Flying Witch.


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Posted 10 April 2016 - 03:48 AM

Well nothing too great, there are a couple that seem to be a decent pass time, Academia is probably the most interesting one here, but like with Haikyuu last season I'm not willing to pick up any new SWJ manga's so i'll avoid it. Sakamoto Desu ga could be interesting, it got allot of praise when it was published, but I didn't really get it, when I tried to read it, but it might make more sense in anime form, so i'll probably give that a go.

 

Flying Witch I might just watch because I never understood the premise of the manga, I'd read the first seven or eight chapters and never understood the witch premise of it, as it's largely a slice of life manga, and the witch part just appears to be a gimmick or random insertion, there is hardly any witchcraft involved, atleast in the manga i've read.

 

Netogame, I might watch just to see what tropes they abuse about NEETS and MMO Gamers for the sake of laughs. A few years ago I though LN's were the best things to happen to Anime in years, and now it just feels like they've become a trope of overusings tropes.so many LN's feel like the same story with a couple of changes.

 

I'll probably give Macross triangle a chance as well, I didn't mind Macross F too much, though the Male MC was lame. Will see how this fares.

 

It doesn't appear to be as bad as Winter season, that had to be the worst Anime season in years, it had one anime that sounded interesting and that was phantom world, and that ended up being pointless drivel, and maybe the worst anime from KyoAni to date.

Did you manage to finish it? I've heard awful things from the series and saw a few clips that directly: "Yeah, this show is kitten. KyoAni, I'm disappointed."


Edited by trang95, 10 April 2016 - 03:51 AM.

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Posted 11 April 2016 - 04:40 PM

Won't really be watching that much for this seasons (thanks to exams...). The anime I'm watching/planing to watch are:

Bungou Stray Dogs (I binge-read the manga and loved it! It's still missing some elements, but likable), I personally loved the animation for Bungou Stray Dogs! 

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Posted 11 April 2016 - 06:54 PM

I'm curious, what was bad about Phantom World? How bad was it? I thought about watching it at one point, but got sidetracked by a bunch of other stuff I'd missed instead.


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Posted 12 April 2016 - 12:18 AM

I'm curious, what was bad about Phantom World? How bad was it? I thought about watching it at one point, but got sidetracked by a bunch of other stuff I'd missed instead.

I haven't really watched it, but I just have an awful impression from it b/c of the clips I've seen and b/c of the weekly discussions and reviews I've followed.

I'll just copy a review I've read about it:
Over the past few years, I have been a witness to the slow death of KyoAni. First came Chuu2, a middling but otherwise inoffensive rom-com. Then came Kyoukai no Kanata, an absolute disaster of writing, and the creaking of KyoAni's creative efforts could start to be heard. And now, several more mediocre series later, we have Musaigen no Phantom World, a title so vapid and effortless that I believe KyoAni has finally reached the point of being irredeemable. KyoAni is dead. It is dead, and it's not coming back.

If not for the KyoAni name—now tarnished— nobody would have cared about what Phantom World has to offer. It is your typical, uninspired rom-com that we get in the dozens every single year. There is nothing you have not seen here before, and nothing to inspire a viewing aside from the fact that it 'looks and sounds nice'. They stayed KyoAni on the outside, but on the inside they are merely a shallow, rotting husk of what they used to be.

It is not even worth the time to discuss the art of Phantom World. Anyone who has seen even a single KyoAni anime knows exactly what they're getting here. Their art no longer impresses me. I am also getting tired of forgiving their shows' terrible plots and characters just because they happen to look pretty. If all they are now capable of is drawing cute characters and flashy OPs and EDs, then perhaps they should leave anime and go work on manga and TV commercials instead?

KyoAni seems to have forgotten what made previous titles like K-ON and Haruhi so successful: characters. There is not a character within the show who is developed in any meaningful way, and only one—Kurumi— is even worth a damn, and that's not just because I love twintails and wish to be surrounded by twintailed beauties for the rest of my days. Kurumi is the only one who actually feels like a person and not just an assortment of tropes slapped together ('cool', 'big boobs', 'tsundere'). She acts remarkably her age; her seiyuu even goes as far as to stutter and poorly enunciate her words, as a girl in primary school would. Minase? I had to look through the character listing to even remember her name.

Phantom World has another one of those 'dumb male friend' characters, similar to Ishiki from Chuu2, but manages to do so little with him that you forget he even exists. Not only is he a waste of space like just about every character in this show, but it is real tiring seeing all these pseudo-harem anime incapable of making a second male character who is actually a competent person and not just background fodder or some dumb, running gag.

Ruru, the show's mascot character, clearly exists only to sell merchandise and figures. Unlike, say, Tamako Market's Dera-chan, who was actually a unique and amusing character, the little fairy here is nothing but an annoyance. Her small size is quite fitting, being little more than a fly buzzing around in the protagonist's and the viewer's faces. It is also quite pathetic how the show attempts to make us care for her suddenly, the protagonist stretching his hand out towards the sky and screaming! Tears! Drama! Give me a break.

Phantom World regularly treats its audience like it is a mass of buffoons who have never been to school. It uses—you guessed it— Schrodinger's Cat in a vain attempt to seem more philosophical and meaningful than it actually is. Yes, we know what Schrodinger's Cat is. We are not idiots. It does not need to be explained to us for the umpteenth time in anime. The show even goes as far as to explain what a trojan horse is, as if we know absolutely nothing about the world and have been sitting on our mommy's lap sucking our thumb since the day we were born.

Not only does Phantom World pull the awful transfer student trope, but the character is literally accepted into the school within hours of attaining their 'human form', and they do so without any form of identification or previous educational experience that would, you know, be necessary in a school transfer? It is true that the series is not attempting to be perfectly realistic, but if it wants to use the high school setting then at the very least it should actually try to have its high school resemble a high school.

Nothing interesting is done with the premise, aside from, say, creating excuses for nonsense like all the characters suddenly turning into cats. I'm sorry, but giving the girls cat ears and tail and making them end all their sentences with "nyan" does not do anything to improve the quality of the show. I enjoy cuteness in anime quite a bit, but the least KyoAni could do is try to make it more natural and less artificial, less like they are writing and structuring the anime by checking off boxes for everything that has ever been considered 'cute'. I half-expected there to be an episode where everyone starts calling the protagonist "onii-chan".

There are regular doses of fanservice, in scenes such as the main heroine, Mai, doing the limbo dance, her boobs jiggling and bouncing all over the place for the viewer's apparent satisfaction. Fanservice as a whole really needs to go away from anime, at least as far as its sexual incarnation is concerned. There exist hentai, doujins, eroge and other forms of pornography for a reason. If I wanted to feel aroused, I would watch or read one of the above-mentioned media—they do it far better. I do not come to anime to see butts and panties and girls being licked by slimy monster tongues as if I am a child who does not know what porn or sex actually is. I love sexy things about as much as I love the story-driven stuff, but the two really need to not mix unless it is absolutely necessary. I can count on one hand the times an anime has been able to pull that off successfully.

At least Kyoukai no Kanata, as poorly-written as it was, could be given the slightest bit of credit for trying. Phantom World doesn't even do that much. It is as if KyoAni has accepted that their best days are forever behind them, and have now resigned themselves solely to producing lifeless, mediocre rubbish that will be forgotten after a month's time. Even producing something completely middling like Chuu2 now seems to be beyond their reach. Their in-house writers are so incompetent that they may as well just go back to adapting visual novels again; they've clearly demonstrated how incapable they are of doing anything themselves.

People will still watch Phantom World because it is made by KyoAni. There are many people who still hold fond memories of the anime KyoAni used to make, and there are those who have only just started watching their more successful titles and do not yet know what the KyoAni of today is like. These fans are being manipulated and lured into watching a bad anime, merely because it looks and sounds like a KyoAni title, and not because it is actually a worthwhile story on its own merits. And I find that really depressing.

But the anime industry is a big place, and it will live on regardless, even if one of its most influential studios has withered away. Anime doesn't need KyoAni anymore. It's time to move on. I already have.

 

I wouldn't say KyoAni is dead, but... their most recent works weren't good.


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Posted 12 April 2016 - 03:04 AM

I haven't really watched it, but I just have an awful impression from it b/c of the clips I've seen and b/c of the weekly discussions and reviews I've followed.
I'll just copy a review I've read about it:Over the past few years, I have been a witness to the slow death of KyoAni. First came Chuu2, a middling but otherwise inoffensive rom-com. Then came Kyoukai no Kanata, an absolute disaster of writing, and the creaking of KyoAni's creative efforts could start to be heard. And now, several more mediocre series later, we have Musaigen no Phantom World, a title so vapid and effortless that I believe KyoAni has finally reached the point of being irredeemable. KyoAni is dead. It is dead, and it's not coming back.
If not for the KyoAni name—now tarnished— nobody would have cared about what Phantom World has to offer. It is your typical, uninspired rom-com that we get in the dozens every single year. There is nothing you have not seen here before, and nothing to inspire a viewing aside from the fact that it 'looks and sounds nice'. They stayed KyoAni on the outside, but on the inside they are merely a shallow, rotting husk of what they used to be.
It is not even worth the time to discuss the art of Phantom World. Anyone who has seen even a single KyoAni anime knows exactly what they're getting here. Their art no longer impresses me. I am also getting tired of forgiving their shows' terrible plots and characters just because they happen to look pretty. If all they are now capable of is drawing cute characters and flashy OPs and EDs, then perhaps they should leave anime and go work on manga and TV commercials instead?
KyoAni seems to have forgotten what made previous titles like K-ON and Haruhi so successful: characters. There is not a character within the show who is developed in any meaningful way, and only one—Kurumi— is even worth a damn, and that's not just because I love twintails and wish to be surrounded by twintailed beauties for the rest of my days. Kurumi is the only one who actually feels like a person and not just an assortment of tropes slapped together ('cool', 'big boobs', 'tsundere'). She acts remarkably her age; her seiyuu even goes as far as to stutter and poorly enunciate her words, as a girl in primary school would. Minase? I had to look through the character listing to even remember her name.
Phantom World has another one of those 'dumb male friend' characters, similar to Ishiki from Chuu2, but manages to do so little with him that you forget he even exists. Not only is he a waste of space like just about every character in this show, but it is real tiring seeing all these pseudo-harem anime incapable of making a second male character who is actually a competent person and not just background fodder or some dumb, running gag.
Ruru, the show's mascot character, clearly exists only to sell merchandise and figures. Unlike, say, Tamako Market's Dera-chan, who was actually a unique and amusing character, the little fairy here is nothing but an annoyance. Her small size is quite fitting, being little more than a fly buzzing around in the protagonist's and the viewer's faces. It is also quite pathetic how the show attempts to make us care for her suddenly, the protagonist stretching his hand out towards the sky and screaming! Tears! Drama! Give me a break.
Phantom World regularly treats its audience like it is a mass of buffoons who have never been to school. It uses—you guessed it— Schrodinger's Cat in a vain attempt to seem more philosophical and meaningful than it actually is. Yes, we know what Schrodinger's Cat is. We are not idiots. It does not need to be explained to us for the umpteenth time in anime. The show even goes as far as to explain what a trojan horse is, as if we know absolutely nothing about the world and have been sitting on our mommy's lap sucking our thumb since the day we were born.
Not only does Phantom World pull the awful transfer student trope, but the character is literally accepted into the school within hours of attaining their 'human form', and they do so without any form of identification or previous educational experience that would, you know, be necessary in a school transfer? It is true that the series is not attempting to be perfectly realistic, but if it wants to use the high school setting then at the very least it should actually try to have its high school resemble a high school.
Nothing interesting is done with the premise, aside from, say, creating excuses for nonsense like all the characters suddenly turning into cats. I'm sorry, but giving the girls cat ears and tail and making them end all their sentences with "nyan" does not do anything to improve the quality of the show. I enjoy cuteness in anime quite a bit, but the least KyoAni could do is try to make it more natural and less artificial, less like they are writing and structuring the anime by checking off boxes for everything that has ever been considered 'cute'. I half-expected there to be an episode where everyone starts calling the protagonist "onii-chan".
There are regular doses of fanservice, in scenes such as the main heroine, Mai, doing the limbo dance, her boobs jiggling and bouncing all over the place for the viewer's apparent satisfaction. Fanservice as a whole really needs to go away from anime, at least as far as its sexual incarnation is concerned. There exist hentai, doujins, eroge and other forms of pornography for a reason. If I wanted to feel aroused, I would watch or read one of the above-mentioned media—they do it far better. I do not come to anime to see butts and panties and girls being licked by slimy monster tongues as if I am a child who does not know what porn or sex actually is. I love sexy things about as much as I love the story-driven stuff, but the two really need to not mix unless it is absolutely necessary. I can count on one hand the times an anime has been able to pull that off successfully.
At least Kyoukai no Kanata, as poorly-written as it was, could be given the slightest bit of credit for trying. Phantom World doesn't even do that much. It is as if KyoAni has accepted that their best days are forever behind them, and have now resigned themselves solely to producing lifeless, mediocre rubbish that will be forgotten after a month's time. Even producing something completely middling like Chuu2 now seems to be beyond their reach. Their in-house writers are so incompetent that they may as well just go back to adapting visual novels again; they've clearly demonstrated how incapable they are of doing anything themselves.
People will still watch Phantom World because it is made by KyoAni. There are many people who still hold fond memories of the anime KyoAni used to make, and there are those who have only just started watching their more successful titles and do not yet know what the KyoAni of today is like. These fans are being manipulated and lured into watching a bad anime, merely because it looks and sounds like a KyoAni title, and not because it is actually a worthwhile story on its own merits. And I find that really depressing.
But the anime industry is a big place, and it will live on regardless, even if one of its most influential studios has withered away. Anime doesn't need KyoAni anymore. It's time to move on. I already have.

 
I wouldn't say KyoAni is dead, but... their most recent works weren't good.

That limbo, boobs bouncing part made me realize that I've seen that before. It was on tumblr and I was like what the kitten XD

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Posted 12 April 2016 - 01:16 PM

That limbo, boobs bouncing part made me realize that I've seen that before. It was on tumblr and I was like what the kitten XD

When I saw that scene, I thought for a moment that not even Shokugeki no Soma could top this.


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Posted 12 April 2016 - 01:37 PM

When I saw that scene, I thought for a moment that not even Shokugeki no Soma could top this.

Lol. At least foodgasm in general is always established as what it is. Yeah, I actually found out later. Sheesh, Japan. Anywho, yeah, the funny part is back then, I forgot the name of that anime and I was describing that scene to my girlfriend and she knew what I was talking about. It felt awkward because I don't know how women feels about men fan service. Hell, she was the one that got me interested with Soma and I'm like "Um...what?"

Because I always remember my first chapter was the judges testing that Ring girl food and they all ended up like slavery but mostly that girl got the most detailed full front and center. So hearing that got me confused on why on earth she was interested in the series. It made it more awkward when we saw first episode inside my car and you know what happened. She turned the volume down. Lol. If I can make a face, it would be something like dark eyes with ~ for a mouth.

Anyway, that scene was just what to me. Same to her. My only statement was "Hey, you had Free! for too long, it's time for us guys for our repayment..." Granted I didn't ask for it but yeah...

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Posted 13 April 2016 - 11:18 AM

I haven't really watched it, but I just have an awful impression from it b/c of the clips I've seen and b/c of the weekly discussions and reviews I've followed.
I'll just copy a review I've read about it:
Over the past few years, I have been a witness to the slow death of KyoAni. First came Chuu2, a middling but otherwise inoffensive rom-com. Then came Kyoukai no Kanata, an absolute disaster of writing, and the creaking of KyoAni's creative efforts could start to be heard. And now, several more mediocre series later, we have Musaigen no Phantom World, a title so vapid and effortless that I believe KyoAni has finally reached the point of being irredeemable. KyoAni is dead. It is dead, and it's not coming back.

If not for the KyoAni namenow tarnished nobody would have cared about what Phantom World has to offer. It is your typical, uninspired rom-com that we get in the dozens every single year. There is nothing you have not seen here before, and nothing to inspire a viewing aside from the fact that it 'looks and sounds nice'. They stayed KyoAni on the outside, but on the inside they are merely a shallow, rotting husk of what they used to be.

It is not even worth the time to discuss the art of Phantom World. Anyone who has seen even a single KyoAni anime knows exactly what they're getting here. Their art no longer impresses me. I am also getting tired of forgiving their shows' terrible plots and characters just because they happen to look pretty. If all they are now capable of is drawing cute characters and flashy OPs and EDs, then perhaps they should leave anime and go work on manga and TV commercials instead?

KyoAni seems to have forgotten what made previous titles like K-ON and Haruhi so successful: characters. There is not a character within the show who is developed in any meaningful way, and only oneKurumi is even worth a damn, and that's not just because I love twintails and wish to be surrounded by twintailed beauties for the rest of my days. Kurumi is the only one who actually feels like a person and not just an assortment of tropes slapped together ('cool', 'big boobs', 'tsundere'). She acts remarkably her age; her seiyuu even goes as far as to stutter and poorly enunciate her words, as a girl in primary school would. Minase? I had to look through the character listing to even remember her name.

Phantom World has another one of those 'dumb male friend' characters, similar to Ishiki from Chuu2, but manages to do so little with him that you forget he even exists. Not only is he a waste of space like just about every character in this show, but it is real tiring seeing all these pseudo-harem anime incapable of making a second male character who is actually a competent person and not just background fodder or some dumb, running gag.

Ruru, the show's mascot character, clearly exists only to sell merchandise and figures. Unlike, say, Tamako Market's Dera-chan, who was actually a unique and amusing character, the little fairy here is nothing but an annoyance. Her small size is quite fitting, being little more than a fly buzzing around in the protagonist's and the viewer's faces. It is also quite pathetic how the show attempts to make us care for her suddenly, the protagonist stretching his hand out towards the sky and screaming! Tears! Drama! Give me a break.

Phantom World regularly treats its audience like it is a mass of buffoons who have never been to school. It usesyou guessed it Schrodinger's Cat in a vain attempt to seem more philosophical and meaningful than it actually is. Yes, we know what Schrodinger's Cat is. We are not idiots. It does not need to be explained to us for the umpteenth time in anime. The show even goes as far as to explain what a trojan horse is, as if we know absolutely nothing about the world and have been sitting on our mommy's lap sucking our thumb since the day we were born.

Not only does Phantom World pull the awful transfer student trope, but the character is literally accepted into the school within hours of attaining their 'human form', and they do so without any form of identification or previous educational experience that would, you know, be necessary in a school transfer? It is true that the series is not attempting to be perfectly realistic, but if it wants to use the high school setting then at the very least it should actually try to have its high school resemble a high school.

Nothing interesting is done with the premise, aside from, say, creating excuses for nonsense like all the characters suddenly turning into cats. I'm sorry, but giving the girls cat ears and tail and making them end all their sentences with "nyan" does not do anything to improve the quality of the show. I enjoy cuteness in anime quite a bit, but the least KyoAni could do is try to make it more natural and less artificial, less like they are writing and structuring the anime by checking off boxes for everything that has ever been considered 'cute'. I half-expected there to be an episode where everyone starts calling the protagonist "onii-chan".

There are regular doses of fanservice, in scenes such as the main heroine, Mai, doing the limbo dance, her boobs jiggling and bouncing all over the place for the viewer's apparent satisfaction. Fanservice as a whole really needs to go away from anime, at least as far as its sexual incarnation is concerned. There exist hentai, doujins, eroge and other forms of pornography for a reason. If I wanted to feel aroused, I would watch or read one of the above-mentioned mediathey do it far better. I do not come to anime to see butts and panties and girls being licked by slimy monster tongues as if I am a child who does not know what porn or sex actually is. I love sexy things about as much as I love the story-driven stuff, but the two really need to not mix unless it is absolutely necessary. I can count on one hand the times an anime has been able to pull that off successfully.

At least Kyoukai no Kanata, as poorly-written as it was, could be given the slightest bit of credit for trying. Phantom World doesn't even do that much. It is as if KyoAni has accepted that their best days are forever behind them, and have now resigned themselves solely to producing lifeless, mediocre rubbish that will be forgotten after a month's time. Even producing something completely middling like Chuu2 now seems to be beyond their reach. Their in-house writers are so incompetent that they may as well just go back to adapting visual novels again; they've clearly demonstrated how incapable they are of doing anything themselves.

People will still watch Phantom World because it is made by KyoAni. There are many people who still hold fond memories of the anime KyoAni used to make, and there are those who have only just started watching their more successful titles and do not yet know what the KyoAni of today is like. These fans are being manipulated and lured into watching a bad anime, merely because it looks and sounds like a KyoAni title, and not because it is actually a worthwhile story on its own merits. And I find that really depressing.

But the anime industry is a big place, and it will live on regardless, even if one of its most influential studios has withered away. Anime doesn't need KyoAni anymore. It's time to move on. I already have.

 
I wouldn't say KyoAni is dead, but... their most recent works weren't good.

I saw it and it wasn't that bad....the show did have boring episodes but some were sweet and nice plus barely any romance, so I don't really agree with this

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Joui Four

 






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