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Anonymous09/30/26, 00:33No.4608839Goodbye/Sayonara Lara

Cute ship that got ruined by a horrid ending. Will the manga by Saburo Uta save it? Previous: >>4600547 [/u/thread/4600547#p4600547]

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Anon09/30/26, 00:34No.4608840

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Anon09/30/26, 01:45No.4608867

Anon09/30/26, 01:58No.4608868

Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

Anon10/01/26, 05:09No.4609245

Kisses, kisses, and more kisses.

Anon10/01/26, 05:10No.4609246

Anon10/01/26, 05:11No.4609248

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Anon10/01/26, 06:02No.4609267

[/u/thread/4600547#p4609225] It's not Lara's fault that the ending character-assassinated her due to being written apart.

Anon10/01/26, 06:49No.4609272

Is the bd selling well?

Anon10/01/26, 12:50No.4609289

Are the writer and director psychopaths?

Anon10/01/26, 13:05No.4609293

I think my lukewarmest take is that Mari just shouldn't have existed if this is the story they wanted to tell. Lara gets taken in by a boy who looks like the prince, their developing relationship as she comes to realize how different he really is from the real prince gets plenty of focus episodes instead of being split between that and an ultimately meaningless love triangle. With those episodes, you gradually introduce the idea that "true love" itself is causing problems, rather than the problem being that Lara is looking for true love in the wrong person for 90% of the runtime; have Luca lose focus on his passions or family for her, have Lara become overprotective or willing to give up her dreams of exploring the human world. Then in the ending, it makes perfect sense that giving up on "true love" and developing as your own person first is what has to happen, because you ACTUALLY FUCKING SET THAT UP.I'd be fascinated to learn just how Mari got her role in the show. She was a lot less prominent in the concept trailer, and it feels like her entire place is the story is to ask questions (nature of true love and who you should look for it in, etc) that simply are not what the writer was ever interested in in the first place.

Anon10/01/26, 13:12No.4609295

There's a new interview in a magazine that confirms something about Lara and Mari

Anon10/01/26, 15:49No.4609366

>it's a farewell Where's the anon who posted novels of his fanfic about how Lara was only leaving to become independent and was set to return to Mari as a true equal or whatever?

Anon10/01/26, 15:53No.4609371

Deserves to be posted again.

Anon10/02/26, 01:55No.4609505

https://note.com/joyous_beetle542/n/nbb1a38662e69 Review of this season's yuri anime, including Lara, by a Japanese essayist. Most of the comments I've seen from Japan have been tweets and short forum posts, so this was pretty interesting. It's pretty critical, and seems to suggest that in trying to avoid pinning down what "true love" actually meant, the work suffered. With so many definitions of true love, the audience is forced to view it as something mechanical: anything that makes mermaid magic work is true love, which is the same as it meaning nothing at all.

Anon10/02/26, 03:32No.4609521

The novel and the manga are probably only going to be about the old Lara before the dagger incident judging by the promo art, which I think is something people don't really want anymore.

Anon10/02/26, 03:45No.4609536

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Anon10/02/26, 10:39No.4609626

Well I, for one, was really tired of having to come up with interpretations to vague nonsense, so I'm glad I can finally voice the internal conflict that's afflicting Lara in the picture, so painful she couldn't even let out an answer for her True Love™ who's helplessly crying beside her: >I'm so sorry Mari, I wish I could stay, I really do, but it can't be helped, I'm just so damn curious...!

Anon10/03/26, 22:43No.4610023

Anon10/04/26, 19:37No.4610256

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Anon10/04/26, 22:44No.4610290

I for one am glad that Mari exists even if she is ultimately a pointless character that seems to just exist to be tortured by the writers.

Anon10/04/26, 23:11No.4610309

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Anon10/05/26, 04:10No.4610376

Was it ever revealed what the bonus illustration was for buying the BD?

Anon10/06/26, 03:25No.4610730

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Anon10/08/26, 07:13No.4611355

New official poster that will be coming out with the next PASH! issue. https://x.com/magazine_pash/status/2107040602290266211Also the LN released some sample chapters and it revealed that Mari went to look for Lara's ring in episode 2, which is how she witnessed her drowning in the water. Still don't recommend reading it. It has other characters POV focus like the prince.

Anon10/09/26, 03:08No.4611593

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Anon10/09/26, 10:16No.4611696

>Spending the Four Seasons with Lara and Mari Part 4: Winter Visual Revealed>A captured moment of Mari wrapping a muffler around Lara indoors is also depicted, conveying the gentle warmth of the two as their hearts race with anticipation for winter's arrival.>A single image depicting memories of the two joyfully enjoying a "busy winter"https://youtu.be/5jwk2bUJojA?is=f5liHbwGr-lLTSeu

Anon10/10/26, 08:03No.4611953

New book excerpt just dropped

Anon10/11/26, 04:43No.4612219

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Anon10/11/26, 04:48No.4612226

MariLara SEXO

Anon10/11/26, 04:48No.4612227

Finally.

Anon10/11/26, 21:21No.4612394

Was it true love but Lara was not looking for one?

Anon10/12/26, 14:46No.4612587

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Anon10/14/26, 05:31No.4613153

It's so funny that they created one of the most awesome yuri protagonists of all time seemingly by accident. Everyone who watched this anime became a Marifag except the ones making it.>devoted, kindhearted, stoic boxer who kicks ass and is handsome as fuck >takes in a sea witch and shows her unconditional love >cutely falls in love with the princess but is too selfless to act on these new gay feelings, also she thinks the princess is straight and it hurts her, but she's a boxer who already lost her mom so she can tank it, right? >when it comes down to her to save her, she never gives up >learns the truth about Grace Lara never even does, is told that her love is powerful and worth fighting for, so she does, even though she's told she'll die >LITERALLY DIES FOR LARA BECAUSE SHE LOVES HER THAT MUCH >gets revived and brushes off dying because she's that awesome (ironically confirms Christianity isn't real because she experienced no afterlife) >her reward for all of this is to watch the girl she fell in love with leave after killing her beloved pet and bankrupting her >fans suppose Lara leaves to flesh out her life before returning to Mari later when they're grown up to pursue the relationship >staff and director say their "true love" was that of college roomies and they'll never see each other again or experience anything meaningful because independent Lara is just so heckin basedThe main reason the ending sucks is because this badass, innocent gay girl lost everything falling for the protagonist all on her own volition. Mari has no ending, she's just an accessory to Lara's independence, despite, again, LITERALLY LOVING HER SO MUCH SHE DIED FOR HER. The staff would rather wank over how badly they want to wreck L*ca's boipussy than write or even elaborate Mari's future, and yet the Goodbye Lara fandom (or what remains of it) are mostly women who want Mari to plow them (and by Christ, can you blame them?), most of whom hate or are at least annoyed by Lara.

Anon10/15/26, 01:59No.4613351

>There has bloomed a "true love" between Lara and Mari, but that doesn't mean they have to be together. They can share a "true love" even when they are apart.Everything in 1-11 was really an accident or the animators locking in against the writers, huh.

Anon10/15/26, 04:48No.4613425

Anon10/15/26, 17:00No.4613601

Enough time has passed /u/, was it really that bad or should I stay away at all costs? I want to understand the fan art and feel like I would really like Mari.

Anon10/16/26, 00:26No.4613713

The Goodbye Lara manga will be in the Comic Yuri Hime. They just confirmed that it'll be full yuri

Anon10/16/26, 02:12No.4613733

30 years ago this would have been consider a yuri classic, but it's fucking 2026 and we have so many better options now. Unless you're someone who doesn't read manga, light novels, or visual novels and sticks entirely to anime, I think it's an easy skip.

Anon10/17/26, 03:15No.4614143

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Anon10/18/26, 15:06No.4614592

Sorry for the shitty AI slop, but i had to get this out of my system.

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Anon10/19/26, 09:43No.4614907

Has the novel been posted online yet? I want to read it, but I still need to wait a while for my physical copy to arrive.

Anon10/20/26, 01:52No.4615101

Still mourning the waste of Mari. Anon is right everyone turned into a marifag after. The yuri fanart we still get have a special preference for Mari, I can just tell. I think Grace is the second most loved character too. Let's kill this thread already.