Non Non Biyori Episode 9
GingaDiauchuu: Whoa, Pretty Cure really is almost ten years old. A lot of the things they were going through (that were generally a bit older than that) were definitely blasts from the past. I also remember that VHS was a thing.
And Hika-nee’s friend has Ren-chon hair. Good choice.
EmperorBrandon: I wonder if that friend will actually appear again. Probably should. She needs to surpass Suguru in screen time.
If there’s any game system that’s good to be behind the times with, the SNES is it. I think I actually was still using VHS tapes to record 10 years ago (maybe further back than that, it was at least in the earliest days of Toonami watching: I ended up collecting the DVD releases anyway with some of the series I did record so it was mostly pointless).
There was a good bit more of the supporting characters this episode with them trying to put on a pathetic school cultural festival for them. I particularly like more of Konomi and her social skills: fast-talking Hika-nee into coming, and later expertly diffusing a situation where Koshigaya sisters would have been harshly scolded by mom. Candy store lady is so easily guilted by Ren-chon, too. She talks about having to leave the store again (even though nobody comes by). I keep wondering if there should be a joke where a bus-full of hungry tourists or travelers happen to show up while she’s left the store behind.
Karma always seems to be at play with Natsumi. She laughs at Komari’s first grade essay, only to have one of her own childhood moments revealed to be much more embarrassing.
Sensuifu: hah, nostalgia 
Pretty hilarious and adorable stuff as always; pitiful school festival though, but it was cute the way it turned out.
Nork22: A school festival! A half baked attempt, but still a festival!
Hotaru with nekomimi! HOTARU WITH NEKOMIMI!
Natsumi and her messed up costume. And Komari was rather cute in the tanuki suit. Pity the belly slapping bit was both funny and sad.
And Natsumi has karma dealt to her after she picked on Komari again. Still it was adorably funny…
GingaDaiuchuu: Does every little girl in Japan with an older brother promise to marry him? I’m just glad this one isn’t actually a character at all, although they’re acknowledging his existence a bit more lately.
Sensuifu: like with that dog show bit? Didn’t even look like he was recognized..
bctaris: They’re getting downright artistic with the Suguru stuff. That was an ingenious one, seeing him very briefly building that doghouse in the yard earlier, which didn’t seem important at all, and then finally revealing his irrelevant presence precisely when I had forgotten all about him.
And gotta’ love that moron Natsumi.
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Nork22: Just an FYI, over at another forums, there is a link to the real life location of the school. Compare!
http://hauyashi.blog.jp/archives/7356583.html
bctaris: That makes it feel even more sad than I thought the show’s setting was in the beginning. 
Nork22: Yes it is rather melancholic seeing the school building closed like that. Maybe, just maybe, with this anime, it may reinvigorate the local area to have it open again. But that’s wishful thinking.
bctaris: Ha, maybe otaku should start a new economic trend. Instead of only visiting areas where anime are set, driving tourist dollars, they should just completely move there. The Great Urban Otaku Migration to the Countryside.
Momoka Kibi: That’s an interesting idea, but I just imagined a scenario where these Otaku just a few months later decide because of another anime that some other location would be a great place to live. Granted some locations are easier to get to than others. You try moving to the planet Neptune!
To Reply to sonic at the Log Horizon Episode 10 section:
I always just assumed that the characters are dealing with this situation in their own way; Naosugu being all “panties! PANTIES!!” I’m really finding it hard to believe that’s how he is outside of the game. Same for Maryele & Henrietta, how they act around Naosugu & Akatsuki just not something realistic outside the game.
As for Shiroe, let’s be honest here, for someone to be able to be consider legendary in a MMO one must have poured his / her life into the game, and in turn (in a nice way of speaking) probably not having all that great life outside of the game. Like Krusty of DDD, Issac of Black Sword and William of Siver Sword many of the more hardcore players including Shiroe & Akatsuki (more on her later) deep down, in a corner of their hearts probably are very excited about all of this. After the shock finally calm down & confirming that there’s respawn of course.
I know I would if this happened to me in my prime Ragnarok Online days.
Oh, and you know what’s funny? I’m pretty sure the novelist actually gets a lot of criticism of his characters not being fresh-out – which I do agree to some extend since I usually fill in the story holes in my own head.
—Mild spoilers incoming—
At least enough criticism so that starting on volume 5 the story does cover a lot of Akatsuki as a person post apocalypse & how that shape her as she is now. Then volume 6 is almost totally Akatsuki all the way & volume 7 surprisingly given almost half of it to William of Siver Sword to fresh out his character & only a bit for Shiroe.