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Nov 26, 2025 8:11 AM
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I think both Marshall and Sam are growing more as characters. Marshall also got to experience a game and showing his social skills.

Sam's confidence needs improvement though. It's been there since day one and one of her character flaws. Interesting to also see Angela try to improve herself. This episode felt like character development for different people at the same time.
Nov 26, 2025 10:10 AM
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The subtitles get worse every week
Nov 26, 2025 10:29 AM
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I think it's wrong to play games out of a sense of obligation.
Nov 26, 2025 10:32 AM
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I liked the conversation between Link and Angela. She managed to motivate him again to try getting closer to Sam, while also giving off a few signs that she likes him. Marshal finally decided to replay Ruminate, and the NPCs are total trolls lol. There was also a nice moment between Sam and Monica, she’s totally into Marshal even though she’s the ‘third wheel’. Come on, Marshal, give the woman some attention and make that relationship public already. Charles is always working on Sam’s trust issues. I like how he sees Sam as his equal; even if his treatment seems a bit insensitive at times, he has his reasons, and it actually contributes to her growth. He even decided to start playing Ruminate too. One subtle detail in the opening is that when the title and hearts appear, the HP bar keeps increasing as the episodes go on, kind of symbolizing that ‘things are getting better
Nov 26, 2025 11:00 AM
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The red hood girl and the wolf are basically Olivia Sweet and her butler Edgar. Not sure about that cat.... Dallas Hudson?
Nov 26, 2025 11:24 AM
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The red hood girl and the wolf are basically Olivia Sweet and her butler Edgar. Not sure about that cat.... Dallas Hudson?
@phantomfandom I dunno, but I loved how EVERYONE in Red's party except for Marshall was an actual Werewolf. ROFLMAO
Nov 26, 2025 12:38 PM
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Allblackj52 said:
The subtitles get worse every week

Just today I was watching something on CR and the preview you get when you look at tbe progress bar was of another series. They really can't get the simple things right lol
https://www.honeyfeed.fm/u/34774/novels

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Nov 26, 2025 3:05 PM
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The red hood girl and the wolf are basically Olivia Sweet and her butler Edgar. Not sure about that cat.... Dallas Hudson?
@phantomfandom Nah, just a random NPC. Although he had a cute nickname of "Kitters" in the webcomic that they decided to cut for some reason. The ghost is also Sam, if that wasn't already clear from the short image shown.
Nov 26, 2025 3:47 PM
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I think it's wrong to play games out of a sense of obligation.
@Blazesword I think it's fine to replay Sam's game after the bad online reception from trolls. To be fair to Marshall though Sam's game looks boring as hell lol.
Nov 26, 2025 4:34 PM

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I like how they're further developing the relationship between Sam and Monica. It's a nice addition to the anime.

Unless I missed it, another poor cutting decision impacted the end of this episode. In the webcomic Charles talks about himself with Sam while driving her home, including telling her he does escape rooms as a hobby because he enjoys puzzles, and even got so good at it that he get's hired as a consultant for them around the city. Why is this relevant? Ruminate is a PUZZLE game, hence his interest in playing it.

Without that detail he's just randomly playing her game... because he's interested in her maybe? There's nothing else for the audience to go off with that detail removed. It's frustrating to see this happen so often in this anime thus far. It's like the director didn't bother to think through these decisions properly when deciding what to cut or not. It's not like this was some super long conversation either. You just needed a few seconds to drop it in to existing dialogue if you don't want to use the full scene itself.
Nov 26, 2025 9:50 PM
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I suppose it is because this anime is based on a story by an American. The interactions between characters often hits home. They speak like people I know. People living in my culture.
Its not going in top tier by any means. But I won't be forgetting it immediately either.
RUMINATE: To go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly.
… ruminating the contents of that last batch of letters … Aldous Huxley
Nov 26, 2025 10:35 PM
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Allblackj52 said:
The subtitles get worse every week

Just today I was watching something on CR and the preview you get when you look at tbe progress bar was of another series. They really can't get the simple things right lol
@uselessDM Such a mess atm hope they reverse whatever recent changes they made but it's not looking good
Nov 27, 2025 2:14 AM

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Loved the episode. It took me nine whole episodes to pick a team, but I think I'm Team Charles now, especially after this episode. Ben and Monica are already a couple, so Ben’s crossed out. And honestly, I think Link has much better chemistry with Angela than with Samara.
Nov 27, 2025 5:35 AM

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At least He really does replay :)
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Nov 27, 2025 8:44 PM
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idk what to say abt this ep tbh

like it was ok in the conv between link and Angela, seeing Angela worried abt her friend relationship wasn't bad, and we see that link isn't 100% sure that he is in love with Sam

there's marshal replaying ruminate and icl the game looks very bad and pretty boring fs, like everytime i see the game scene i feel do bored that i want to skip it

3 / 5 it was mid af, like really mid, the most 5/10 thing i have ever seen
Nov 28, 2025 1:28 PM

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I think i like this show the most when its being serious ngl. Cause sometimes it can be overly corny and its just sucks me out.

Also I gotta say this, idk if this is also in the webcomic, but im not the biggest fan of those like bobble headed dudes with words like "Anger" and "Fear". The reason is cause I prefer subtlety, so it kinda makes it seem like its trying to spell out the situation to me when I could very well grasp it with no issue. Idk might be a me problem lol.
Nov 29, 2025 6:12 AM
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Idk how to feel about this anime anymore, the direction it's heading in is so weird. It's making Link and Sam's relationship dubious af when it was really progressive in the webtoon. While I do like the additional Monica scenes, the rest, especially the cuts/additions, are just odd and bad.
Dec 3, 2025 10:29 AM

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Sam's ultimate objective for Marshall to re-review Ruminate, he's certainly having the "joy" of his life, though that can't be said for the young woman herself with her sense of fashion, plus her being featured in Monica's stream, with Charles taking every chance to improve her posture as her own company's CEO, which is for the better.

Back to Ruminate, Marshall continues having fun being conned, but Angela still having to conquer her fear since that day, with Link supporting her in the local gym, they're gymmates at best, but not romantic ones as the former feels like he is AND is not the partner for her, even as his young times worshipping her for being his saviour. For the hectic schedule though, I have to say that Monica sure keeps her time free for anyone, as is making time for Sam with their post-beauty stream, and not wanting to chase for his love for being second and/or third in his life.

It seems that even Charles is trying out Sam's game, and where will that led the businessman and gamer down her path?
Dec 3, 2025 10:41 AM

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"Undertale" influence.... Or is that "Disco Elysium"? But definitely not as fun, not even in the form of anime... sigh... this is so lacking... the anime tried to be sooo many things yet none has done its homework to be called "detailed"... half baked half hearted work so far... hoping it will get better but it just didn't and getting worse over the episodes...
Dec 4, 2025 8:54 AM

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Monica and Sam started to have a good friendship relationship! Link and Angela seem to be a good part for each other!
Dec 19, 2025 1:56 AM
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This was all over the place.

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