It was THE show everybody talked about when it aired. It even leaked into non-anime discourse. Ichbiban no takaramono hit the heavy rotation on JP radio stations and sold like hotcakes. The show was everywhere at the time. It was story-complete, though, so that’s why there is no second season.

Ben-To is peak. The premise is too silly, though, to get normies into it. I tried. It’s like Keijo!!! in that regard and deserves more love.

Grimgar deserves to be forgotten. Ranta is unsufferable and Haruhiro is whiny and moping around for most of the anime adaptation. I’ve read the light novels further than what was adapted in the anime and by the point I dropped it I couldn’t stand a single character anymore. Even Yume-butt can’t save this. It was incredibly pretty, though. It’s a shame the background artists died.

<Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden> Volume 9 by Umikaze Minamino - ★★★★☆, 158 MynePages™ - Nia picks a fight with a country. Fun.

<Tearmoon Empire> Short Story Collection 1 by Nozomu Mochitsuki - ★★★★★, 184 MynePages™ - A assortment of short stories from all timelines, all nicely held together in a cozy frame story of Mia having a sleepover with her granddaughter and telling old stories. The outstanding illustrations are the cherry on top.

<Welcome to Olivia’s Magic Jewelers> Volume 3 by Rinrin Yuki - ★★★★☆, 124 MynePages™ - Good volume full of research, espionage, betrayal, and romance. It’s on the shorter side, but the pacing was perfect. I believe stretching it out to get the page count up would have hurt the volume more than helped.

I binged the light novels recently and I had a good time with the series. I am unsure though how well this translates to the anime format without the inner monologue that explain most of MC’s actions. Basically the humor lies not in what she does, but in why. Without her reasoning for doing something it would come across as just your basic overpowered-can-do-everything MC. On the other hand halting the action for long streaks just to her the MCs inner thoughts makes for really boring anime. I hope they find a way to make it work.

Let me know how Agents of the Four Seasons is when you’re finished. I’m interested but the first 2 anime episodes didn’t make me pick it up.

On one side of the adaptation spectrum, you have BUG FILMS working on Witch Hat Atelier, which actually tailors the girl’s clothes to get the animation putting them on right, and on the other side, you get WIT Studio on Bookworm, who can’t even be arsed to read the stuff they are adapting.

I just don’t get it. How can it be that one of the best-selling book series can’t get a good adaptation?!

Summer Wars

I agree. Not a fan of the cyberspace mumbo jumbo, but I really like the movie for everything else.

<In Another World with Household Spells>: Volume 5 by Rika - ★★★☆☆, 168 MynePages™ - First half of the summer vacation arc. Since Patience is spending more time with her brothers, her obsession with them is in full force again, though.

<Isekai Walking>: Volume 6 Eld Republic Arc by arukuhito - ★★★☆☆, 195 MynePages™ - It’s one of those where everything could be prevented if the guy with the all-powerful analyze/appraisal skill would use it once in a while.

<A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires> Volume 7 by Hagure Metabo - ★★★☆☆, 131 MynePages™ - A weaker volume in the series, but the afterword makes it sound as if this was intentional, and this volume served as the prologue for the next volume.

<The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage: Building a Mighty Empire of Monsters Within the Monsters’ Forest.> - Volume 04 by Miraizin A - ★★☆☆☆, 151 MynePages™ - MC goes on the offensive with a group of Beresdahl elites. Most of the volume is just one fighting scene after the other. Might be interesting if this gets an anime adaptation, but as a book it’s utterly boring to read.

<Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! Vol. 5> by Atekichi - ★★★☆☆, 182 MynePages™ - Magic Academy arc, and I’m happy that it’s just a single volume.

Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! Vol. 6 by Atekichi - ★★★☆☆, 151 MynePages™ - More maidly-shenanigans. The series is pretty consistent but I fear the author will really struggle to tie all the wild threads together.

No. Are you insane? Why would they spent time on anything? No rest for the wicked as they say. And there is nothing more wicked than the ones responsible for this adaptation.

I would assume every time you hear complaints flare up again it’s because there has been a new case.

Where to start. They have so many issues that there is something in there for everyone:

• price hikes and end of the free tier
• declining quality of subs and the use of AI for subs
• activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate <— with the previous point, now both the pro-AI and anti-ai crowd are unhappy
• data breach (at least one, but I think they had two)
• Funimation customers got fucked since they lost access to purchased content after the merger with Crunchy
• monopolistic tendencies and general corporate greed and tactics
• comment sections got removed because people dared to be negative

And possibly a myriad others. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Crunchy mentioned in a positive way.

I take AI subs over activists rewriting character any day of the week.

As I said, I like isekais, so I’m not trying to shit on the genre, but my working theory is that for a lot of authors, this is used as a narrative crutch. A helper setting that allows them to describe the world in contemporary terms. The dragons were “large as a school bus” instead of “one score feet long and as high as a korrexian wabbit can jump”. Coming up with a working magic system is hard, but saying it’s like video game skills is a lot easier. They might also find writing something that they know easier than tackling something unique for their first steps. And tracing back many animes to the source, it makes sense as well. Many shows start as web novels from hobbyist writers. It’s no wonder they take to the isekai setting. It’s popular, and it makes writing easier. It’s a win-win in that regard.

On the flip side, this also means that many isekais are written by first-time authors writing glorified fan fiction, and it shows in the quality of many shows. So the problem is not the setting but the quality benchmark Kadokawa has for what gets picked up.

Isekai is one of my favorite genres, but man, they really have a low standard of what they publish or adapt.

Full marks. Who’s a very good little librarian? You are!

@[email protected] , do you know by now who “Big Sister Hanelore” is in the novel “Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 2”? And why she was called a big sister specifically?

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Nope @[email protected] , we’re talking about the book Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 2 here.

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