My face when my comfy isekai farming anime has fully animated fight scenes with complex camera work.

I checked and it was after finishing volume 4. I dropped it because her inner monologue made her look dumb/oblivious and because the characters were so inconsistent. Here’s a bit of what I wrote at the time:

Also, suddenly she is some damsel in distress who needs to be rescued from some princeling when in previous volumes she was a powerful last boss cheat monster that could annihilate a platoon of bandits that even endangered the army. But no, now some single little prince can manhandle her as he wants. Such fucking inconsistent writing.

And now that I’ve refreshed my memory I think I will stay away, even if there is country building.

Do you hear the anime voices in your head when reading the novel? Happens to me all the time when reading a novel after watching the anime. Strangely enough, this doesn’t work when I read the novel first and then watch the anime between volumes. For example, I don’t read Myne’s lines with her anime voice when reading Bookworm.

Just their country building love inttrests and slice of life stuff.

That sounds like something for me. Maybe I should pick it up again.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this is not a Light novel. I think this series came up before.

I liked the anime of A Journey Through Another World well enough, so I’ll check the LN out. Our Party Nearly Wiped sounds quite harem-y so it’s a “maybe” for me. If the tone is humorous, it could work.

<The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey> Vol. 6 - What a melancholic volume. The series has become so much better in making the reader feel what the author wants them to, compared to how it was in the first volume.

<Disowned but Not Disheartened! Life Is Good with Overpowered Magic> Volume 2+3 - This practically stays the way the first volume was. I really like this type of confident MC that gets thrown into the trope-y situations. It’s also refreshing to see an MC that isn’t an unsociable loner and has healthy support from friends and family. Really looking forward to the next volume.

<Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City> Vol. 7 - The war arc is over, and we finally go back to city building again. That’s when the series is best.

The way I see it they are destroying everything that makes the series great and even anime onlies should see that something is missing. For example there is talk about how important the Starbinding is and that this could result in her real family getting killed. Then they cut to the Starbinding and everything just works out perfectly. They left out all the work she puts into this to reach that point. In the anime this is unearned. It has no worth. No meaning. If it’s like that it would be better if there wasn’t an adaptation at all.

Apparently it was on purpose, every episode is going to have a distinct artstyle.

Thanks for the heads up. I was coming here to rant about it.

I don’t know what other people think,

I hate it to an unreasonable degree. They skip everything.

Both are so likeable that the harem route is the only way where half of the viewers wouldn’t be pissed off, but it also means that it’s just a compromise for everyone.

They put the R (short for “Returns”) at the end of the title to indicate that is is the second season.

Personally, I prefer my anime without drugs. So I hope the current state doesn’t change.

Absolutely. The anime adaptation adds so many details. You can really see the passion the studio has for the series.

Just for reference, here’s the part from the manga:

Some positive news about last season’s Journal With Witch

‘Journal with Witch -Ikoku Nikki-’ has Officially won the Galaxy Award March 2026 in the television category! The last Anime to win the Monthly Galaxy Award before ‘Ikoku Nikki’ was ‘Ranking of Kings’ 4 years ago, March 2022

The Japanese Broadcast Critics Association honor is similar to the Emmy Awards, and given to outstanding television, radio programs, individuals, and organizations.

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Well deserved. If it weren’t for Frieren it would have been my anime of the season.

Hoping for Kinako anime

That character reminds me of the vtuber MinikoMew.

I wish I had come up with that.

PEAK!