Again, I love how much they added “between the pages”. All those little details elevate this adaptation so much from the source which was already a visual masterpiece. For example this entire scene with remembering herself growing up learning and the memory of her mother guiding her is added inbetween just these few frames:

And this one here made me laugh:

We also see why I am of the opinion that Agott is deeply and inherently evil and should not be allowed to exist as a witch.

Part of that might be because it kind of lends itself to visual gags, so that they translate better in manga form.

I can absolutely see that.

<The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living with the Village Building Cheat Skill> Volume 2 - Just some inoffensive city building power fantasy. Though there is a argument to be had that it’s offensive in how inoffensive it is.

<GATE - Thus the JSDF Fought There!> Volume 1 - Experienced the series in the wrong order (anime -> manga -> lightnovel). That’s also how I would order the adaptations, with the anime as the best version and the LN at the end.

<Looks like a Job for a Maid! The Tales of a Dismissed Supermaid> Volume 1 + 2 - This follows a simple formula: Maid comes someplace, a problem develops and gets solved by Maid because that’s just what Maids do. She then collects a dedicated follower and they then move to the next place like a locust swarm that feeds on problems. Sadly this changes in the second volume and she stops collecting followers. I had hoped she would continue to do so like a Maid version of Pikmin.

<The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary> Vol. 4 - I picked up this series again. Not sure why.

Has anyone read The Worlds Strongest Witch?

Yeah, I have. Here’s what I wrote about it back at the time:

One of those “somehow our entire fantasy society is based on skill ranks using earth terminology but everyone thinks ‘S Rank’ is the worst because it’s so far down the alphabet, so I get left to die by my parents because that’s totally normal parenting behaviour, but it turns out S-Rank actually means it’s good!” type of stories. I’m groaning so much reading this, my neighbors started cheering for my stamina. There is a certain charm to it, though. It reminds me of the good old days before I stopped reading web novels for the lack of quality. This book here is riddled with so many logical and temporal errors that it should never have reached the point where it got picked up for publication and stayed in WN territory. It’s ridiculous, really. Like the editor just threw in the towel and said “yeah, whatever…just release it”.

Oh wow. What a week. Bookworm, Setsuna, Frontier Lord and Zilbagias.

I don’t think so. At least not for me. Honestly I find most school-based anime off putting since I cannot really empathize with the teenage angst and anxieties anymore. I know that it’s normal but it is so far removed from myself that it’s just annoying to see. That’s why I enjoyed this series and disliked Heibara’s Teenage NG+ as an example.

It’s hard to describe. Both are some form of wish fulfillment plot, but one is going back to have a chance to overcome their anxieties and the other is going back having overcome them already. I think it’s a different target audience - tweens vs middle aged.

As someone in the age group as MC I find the idea of going back to middle schooler with all the insight and confidence of an adult quite compelling.

The ED is a banger. I heard it before ,though so it’s not something made for the anime.

Link to the outages per chance?

Kiryu-chan as the devil is pure genius.

I was shitting on the first adaptation because they skipped so much important world and character building to just get to the plot points faster, but in this season they just ignore everything. Whoever is in charge has absolutely zero idea of what makes the series great. Probably didn’t even read it in the first place. I had so much hope for an adaptation by a studio that can animate more than a powerpoint slideshow, but now I would gladly go back to the shitty first studio.

I hope the replacement scenes will fix the moon. That’s the only thing that’s offending e in the OP.

Looking at how successful anime boost the sales of associated industries (camping gear sales after Yuru Camp for example) it’s no wonder there are so many anime produces that promote alcohol.

I have a weakness for kindhearted Gal-Girls, so this is the romance show for me this season.

and the fascination with the magic system (B to A+, depending on how well it explains advanced magic).

It’s widely considered one of the best magic systems in all media on par or above with Sanderson’s Mistborn series.

After first ep.: Exceptional adaptation. They did the same thing that Frieren did, where they added so much “between the panels” to elevate the source.

edit after ep 2.: episode 2 was closer to the source since there was more material there that needed less anime original padding. They still managed to give the characters so much personality. I especially love how they managed to translate the manga’s insanely beautiful art panels into animation.

<The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods> Volume 3 - this time there is a plague, and Siasha is the first time confronted with something she can’t solve herself. Good volume that deals with her having to come to terms with not being able to save everyone.

<Witch and Mercenary> Vol. 6 Part 1 - Another volume of ‘Mercenary and Occasionally Mentioned Witch’. It has a nice and interesting cliffhanger for part 2 though.

<The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World: Pay Attention in Class!> Volume 2 - MC visits another country and continues to stunlock everyone with her OP-ness. I hope the next volume will introduce a new mechanic since this is starting to run a bit thin already.

<Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want!> Volume 12 - Another great volume and great conclusion to the arc that started in the last volume.

Interesting comment by the creator:

As a result of pouring absolutely everything from the thirty years I’ve been alive into this project, every last element, from self-harm to drugs, religion, and sex—got flagged during the review process. Each time it happened, the anime staff worked hard to keep the vision intact, insisting: “We absolutely don’t want to let fear of regulation ruin what makes this work compelling,” and they kept pushing. Thanks to that, the NEEDY anime has been coming together in an almost undiluted, straight-from-the-bottle form. Seeing the staff’s passion and depth of understanding, and how strongly they believed that “the concept of NEEDY GIRL has a reason to exist in this world,” and that “there are certain expressions only this work can depict," I’m now fully certain of this project’s value.

When the voice actors performed the scripts I’d written so nakedly and frankly, there were moments when someone, fully immersed, would start crying. In that instant, I realized it: what this work is depicting, in the end, is “human beings.” A lot of people have discussed NEEDY with “the internet” at the center of it all.

As for me, I’m proud to say I wrote out, in the original game, both the sweetness and the bitterness of the internet as I’ve seen it from childhood to the present. And because this is an anime born from that kind of work, of course we have to ask ourselves: “What was the internet, anyway?” Even the title of the new song I made with my friends this time is “INTERNET ANGEL”. After releasing the game, the huge reaction to it connected me, too, to an unspecified multitude across the world. And I was insulted at times, had admiration hurled at me at times, was loved at times, attacked at times. Who on earth are these faceless people? Trends, oshis, faith, sneering cynicism, call-outs and pile-ons, outrage fires, consumption, algorithms, SNS, love and hate, influencers, pop, culture, criticism, subculture, mainstream, illustration, animation.

My conclusion was: “human beings.”

The true nature of the internet is nothing special. It’s simply “a gathering of human beings.” It isn’t anonymity, and it isn’t AI.

Everything there is a collection of individuals: First there are people, and then there is the internet.

At the end of a long history, humanity finally took a small rectangle into its hands and connected, at light speed, with people all over the world. Faced with the first great transformation in human history, many people are tormented by both its merits and its harms. Now, people fear that excessive power so much that smartphones and SNS are being regulated around the world.

That overwhelming electromagnetic field, too, is “human beings.”

Picking at a single word to nail a celebrity to a cross and burn them for it, or elevating a nameless girl—wrapped in two-dimensional aesthetics as she broadcasts her feelings—into an idol to be worshiped… all of it is done by individual human beings, one by one.

The internet’s true nature was human beings.

And so, at the turning point of my mid-life, I had to depict across thirteen episodes everything I’ve experienced of “the truth, the goodness, and the beauty human beings possess,” and in doing so, sublimate that strange youth I spent together with an unspecified multitude across the world into the comprehensive art form called animation.

That comes with immense pain. It also means we can’t avoid including extreme, blunt expressions, and I’m sure countless opinions will fly back and forth. I think that, too, is proof that you are human. When the Taroman film ended on the caption “Taro

Okamoto: Human,” I was overwhelmed, thinking: yes. Exactly this.

Me, and you—we’re not anonymity. We’re not anime icons. We’re not creators, or lurkers, or streamers, or scalpers, or fans, or antis, or Toshiaki, or Nanashi-san.

We are human beings who feel pain.

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Another one with that old school aesthetic this season.

After the backlash of the last season I didn’t think they would have the balls to do another meeting episode. At some point you have to start respecting this complete disregard of the viewers feedback.

This was something. An anime even. Very creative cinematography but I have absolutely no idea where this is going. My daughter told me that this is probably more aimed at people that have played the game but I had problems following the disjointed episodes even with her telling me what what was and which character did what in the game. Seem to be also very dark since apparently most people get a suicide ending by default. I don’t think this is something for me.