I am still waiting for a RPG game where there is a set magic script and you can create your own spells like programming.

That’s a cool idea. I like games that have mechanics that teach kids programming without them noticing. Stuff like FF XII, Unicorn Overlord, or Factorio. There are also some that are more “on the nose” like Human Resource Machine, but for my taste they are too far on the teaching side and not enough on the fun side.

As for magic script, the Ultima series had an actual magic script from which you assembled your spells. It’s not very complex and didn’t exactly reminds one of programming, but I wonder where it could have gone if the series didn’t die with such a framework.

That’s a good point. I think for light novels (where the plot more often than not isn’t entirely planned out in advance), there is a sweet spot somewhere where the author has some freedom, but it still has enough of a structure to not feel arbitrary. Slime Tensei did something in that sense where there is a framework of rules at play, but with a Deus Ex Machina in the form of Raphael, the author can just break free if needed. Sadly it feels a bit inconsistent in later volumes.

Personally, I greatly prefer the planned-out, rigid magic systems as long as the author has the skill to pull it off. Even if the constraints aren’t so well defined, it’s always a huge hype moment when a character can overcome those limitations (ie. Bookworm).

Usually, in most light novels, it’s only “Just imagine it and pour your mana in, and some nanobot or whatever will make it reality”. There are very few that have a clearly defined magic system with defined rules about what is possible and what isn’t. Or they have one, but it gets muddied or retconned once the author reaches a point where it gets inconvenient.

I’m reading one good example right now with Zilbagias the Demon Prince. The bloodline magic in this series has a clear ruleset, which is consistent and still in effect 6 volumes in.

Bookworm is the keyword here. I hate the WIT adaptation with every fiber of my body.

They have a spell drawn over them together, they’re thrown in a heap, Qifrey lifts one, then???

Brimmed Hat mage put a portal spell on the paved stones to lure and trap the girls in the maze/pocket universe. -> After they stumble into the trap, the mage destroys the paved stones to close the portal and keep anyone else from finding them /helping them. -> the girls break the magic seal on the inside that keeps the spell active -> with the spell broken the door back to reality opens and Qifrey can enter and save the girls.

Pssst. Don’t speak its name, or it comes! It brings with it all the cut pages of the Bookworm novel that scatter unused around it until you drown and suffocate in them.

Did you see the clip of the teacher doing a full arm rotation circle on a chalkboard?!

edit: found it

Coco didn’t tell about the encounter with the Brimmed Cap.

Are you talking about the encounter in this episode? Coco wasn’t conscious during it.

I don’t remember het leg getting broke or invisible blips. Must be after volume 4. But I don’t remember much anymore about the series so I might just as well have forgotten. I don’t think though that I would have had such a negative reaction if her damsel-ness could be explained with some broken bones.

I think I love this adaptation just as much as I hate the other one.

Also, when was the last time an anime did skip OP and ED to squeeze 3 more minutes out for the episode? From the shows that I watch it must have been Re:Zero.

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.