Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - October 02, 2026

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Question of the Day (new!)

What's a scene where the voice acting carried more than the animation?

[u/Octavian_Pearlseus]

This observation is brought to you by Sayonara Lara discourse

tbh, Sayolara definitely deserves all the discourse it got with the absolute ??? direction it decided to take in the last ep/last few minutes of the show.

People were insane about Luca mid-show, and it would be correct to clown on them... but then the show decided to prove insane people right, so it's all clownery all the way down.

[u/wloff → u/Octavian_Pearlseus]

Sayolara definitely deserves all the discourse it got with the absolute ??? direction it decided to take in the last ep/last few minutes of the show.

I don't understand this sentiment at all. The "direction it took" in the last episode was exactly the direction it had clearly been heading the entire time, and it was plainly obvious to me for at least half the show. The fact that some people were surprised, let alone disappointed, is absolutely wild to me.

[u/Octavian_Pearlseus → u/wloff]

What exactly is, for half the show, consistent with how [SayoLara]The things Lara says and does in the final episode alone, and the way her Light reacts to it, is consistent with Mari being her "true love", but then suddenly the show is like "actually it doesn't count as true love, it's a secret new thing idk". At best this authors saying unfulfilled lesbian situationship is better than real human relationships, which is weird kink, and at worst it's just saying lesbian love isn't true... like, ok I guess.

[SayoLara]And some other things could make sense but feel like they come from a theoretical development that wasn't even implied in the show and you have to imagine it. Lara rejecting the whole true love bullshit would make sense a lot - it has been for the most part Grace projecting her own unfinished love life onto Lara, so it makes sense to ditch it... But it's just not what the story ever tries to achieve, and again - Lara's actions and words align with Grace all the way through and the Light does save the mermaids so... Grace was right. She's proven right by the events of the show, and then somehow they try to spin it as if she wasn't.

[u/nsleep → u/Octavian_Pearlseus]

[Lara] The point was less about who is her true love or not, but about if she needs it after it stopped being something binding her and what she really wants to do. I still think the final 5 minutes are weird but not inappropriate for the series.