Currently airing Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord is a prime candidate for this. Not only is the animation bare bones, but they also change stuff around or give characters a different personality. For example, the female knight Panamera is in the light novels first extremely strict and overpowering for the MC. Only later did he find out that she is actually very caring and nice. The anime adaptation did a scene showing her caring personality before she meets MC, which completely contradicts her first impression.

The fiancée character is also something that leaves a different impression in the anime. She has low self-esteem because she was told that her skill is useless, similar to how MC was sent away because his skill was considered useless, but she was still raised as noble of a big house until her aptitude test. In the anime, she comes across as meek and incompetent. Just something to follow MC around like a puppy to glaze his ego. I mean, that’s also true to some degree in the LN, but at least there she has some own agency.

Unrelated: Demon Slayer is worth watching. The hype is irrelevant.

I see where he is coming from. It’s a battle shounen and if that’s not your cup of tea then they’re all equally worthless. It’s like discussing the differences of blended and single malt whisky with a non-alcoholic.

Sure, there aren’t that many shows that are just one thing (none come to mind at all). I just put what I considered the main genre. Though putting Strawberry Marchmallow into the iyashikei genre is a new one for me. I obviously get “CGDCT” and “comedy” but I would say it’s only iyashikei if one generally considers watching CGDCT as healing/comforting. Different strokes and all that.

Hey, if we’re shilling communities, come join [email protected] as well. Probably the least active community around a single medium.

I never succeed in getting anyone to watch it

On one hand, I’m always shilling it, on the other, I feel a bit gate-keepy about it and don’t want a flock of tourists shit all over it.

Your Name. in “mid” is a take you don’t see often.

If you take suggestions, put Haibane Renmei and Fune Wo Amu on your PTW list. And try out some of the highlights from other genres. For example, Non Non Biyori (iyashikei), Strawberry Marshmallow (CGDCT), Nana (josei) and Monster (suspense). Bonus: Sweetness & Lightning (cooking,iyashikei)

Sorry that I post again in this thread, but I just can’t scroll past this thread picture without stopping, expanding, and then chuckling. It’s just so perfect. It there was a frame of the year contest, it would be a seeded contender.

I see. Kinme follows the Frieren school of sleep.

hot take incoming

I see where you are coming from. But having gone through raising two daughters myself, I would come to the exact same decision as Makio, even knowing perfectly well what hardships raising kids entails. Having family fall into foster care is unthinkable, even if it means that there is some personal sacrifice. I also don’t see Makio ever interpreting her current hardship as an error.

No, I’m not going to translate it for you. That’s how I’m reading it. Learn Japanese or something, it’s very fun and rewarding.

High School DxD. Wasn’t so hard.

Wow, a new Tearmoon Empire. While I’m still depressed about the translator change, I’m still picking this one up day one. But I might actually read Zero Subject Frontier Lord first since it’s consistently good. It’s the age-old question about quality vs. rarity in light novel form. What to do, what to do.

<By the Grace of the Gods> Volume 17 - Volumes are starting and ending quite suddenly. They are also very short. Maybe it would be better to collect 2 or 3 of the current short volumes with strange and sudden cutoff points into larger volumes that have a cutoff point at more fitting places in the story. It feels like they just said something like “Yeah, I know I take too long to write new chapters, so just split what I have into several volumes wherever”.

Also, it definitely felt like they were planning to do a seamless ED transition.

So much so that the actual transition felt jarring.

This was my favorite episode yet. In a show that has almost no episodes that I didn’t like they still managed to raise the bar. I especially loved all the Frieren mannerisms they put in this episode.

Terrible adaptation. Not only was Panamera’s real personality spoiled in the last episode, in this one Arte’s is completely fucked up. She sounds and behaves more like a 4 year old orphan than a 10 year old raised to be a noble. As already stated in this episode, she is in the same situation as Van and while he acts older than his age (isekai yeeeeah) they are both raised as nobles with all the necessary decorum drilled into them since birth.

The personalities in the source are completely flipped, with Van being more silly and Arte being more noble-lady-like. She has low self esteem, yes, because her type of magic let her house to abandon her, but she shows her upbringing behind her timidness born from low self esteem. Without a better way to describe it: the vibes are completely different.

Also, maybe someone is ESL and runs his replies through a translator because they’re not confident enough in their English proficiency. Attacking someone because of that is just the same mindless and blind anti AI gatekeeping that’s the current group-think.

Another great episode.

Hope she gets some WX1000 for Christmas.

Clueless First Person Shooter

Interestingly, I don’t remember any FPS game-based novels. A million otome or RPG baased ones but the only thing remote FPS that comes to mind is that SAO spinoff anime with the pink girl (forgot the name).

<Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World> Volume 11 Canto I - Monkey Paw volume. I wished for a Margit heavy volume, and I got it in a form that makes me dislike her. Just great.