At the end of season 1 I felt the gimmick has been spread too thin and ran its course. Very funny in the first few episodes but grew stale fast. When I gave S02E01 a go I immediately got the same sense. Do they switch it up a bit in later episodes by adding a new gimmick/joke setup/etc. ?

If you are offended by this, you haven’t been paying attention.

I second this. It’s been my favorite of last season.

I love the comfy vibes of the show. I would have loved it even more if they had included a bit more about the feelings behind the Japanese Doll. I think they did a good enough job with the fisher’s flag without being too “on the nose” about it, but in this episode it felt like “yeah thanks, now go soak” when she gave the doll back. Just a line or two about the memories tied to the doll from the owner would have made the episode perfect.

Also, I had to check the QR code. It leads to the anime’s website. I ad hoped for some small easter egg or the like. Maybe something like a special end card illustration.

Long list. Looking forward to Mercedes and the Waning Moon and the Silent Witch Spin-off. Also, Heir to a Monstermancer was interesting.

Hi there. Just as a heads up, this is not a book community but a “Light Novel” (a specific type of Japanese novel) community. If you’re interested, we can give you some recommendations to get into that genre.

<To Another World… with Land Mines!> Volume 12 - The two separate plotlines (Meikyo Shisui and Jade Wings) finally converge in this volume, and their different personalities create some funny moments. The volume ends on a cliffhanger, so this is multi part arc.

<Witch and Mercenary> Vol. 5 - I like it when there is actually a Witch and a Mercenary in the volume. Especially when the Witch does #JustWitchThings (“Feeling grumpy, might destroy a religion”).

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.