If my monsters are imagined, why do they trigger the motion sensor lights?
<The Saga of Tanya the Evil> - Volume 1 by Carlo Zen - ★☆☆☆☆, 270 MynePages™ - I love the anime and especially Tanya, but the LN is so boring to read that it’s hurtful. I was forcing myself to continue because of the anime, but I had to drop it at 75%. Just couldn’t do it. It would probably take me another week to finish the last 25%. It’s a shame, but I’m just going to enjoy the second season of the anime instead.
This gives me deja vu, but I’ve checked and I haven’t read the light novel. But I swear I’ve seen the character design of the lizard girl before and the patrol of rescue adventurers as well.
In the words of the late Sean Lock: “That’s a challenging wank”
Saw that coming, but MC is likable.
The exposition is a bit hamfisted and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story, but I feel like it could be a lot worse (Bookworm PTSD).
Another power fantasy. I give this first episode a 5 because it’s so generic but not bad either.
The opening sequence is also excellent. It’s packed with references to various cultural works (Spiderman, LotR, Nirvana, and a bunch of others), and I probably didn’t even catch half of them.
the ones I recognized:
Footlose
Leon The Professional
Dumb&Dumber
Trainspotting
Nirvana Nevermind Was wrong here. It was Trainspotting, which also fits better with the film setting.
The Usual Suspects
Breakfast Club
The Evil Dead (maybe, its a reach)
Lord of the Rings
Fight Club
Resident Evil Extinction
Spiderman 3
Pulp Fiction
Wednesday Adams
Saturday Night Feaver
Fallen Angels
A Better Tomorrow
Chinatown
Conclave
Project A
Ready of Not
Blade Runner
Coffeee and Cigarettes
Flashdance
Stand by Me
The King of Comedy
The Yellow Handkerchief
Pierrot le Fou
Night On Earth
Farewell Friend
Blue Spring
Either way, anime YouTuber will have a field day with this one. I can’t wait to see a side by side of the entire opening with the original shots.
edit: thanks to the internet sleuths I have some reference material as well and references that I missed.
Still so many scenes missing…
Can you imagine you are a light novel author and your editor tells you you finally get a anime adaptation. And then he tells you it will be handled by GoHands. That’s nightmare fuel.
That was great. The hook works and I want to know how this will turn out. The animation is also beautiful and the OP is a banger.
Okay, I have to ask: WTF?!
This is kinda bad with how power-fantasy-esque this is. But it’s the kind of bad that I find entertaining, so it stays in the list.
It sucks that they skipped all of Luciana’s hard work paying off and surprising her friends with this:
In the light novel there Luciana’s friends are stunned by the change since their last time replaying basically the same gag we’ve seen this episode 2 times already, but I think that tea party important to show the relationship those 3 girls have. The anime points out that the Rudelbergs are indebted to those two families who helped them out. But the LN goes out of its way to show that those two girls aren’t looking down on Luciana and are genuinely happy that her living circumstances has improved so much even though everyone else in noble society is looking down and shunning her. I feel that them being real friends is lost in the anime by skipping this scene.
Dude, don’t talk about pizza and loli in the same sentence. Just don’t.
I feel like I’ve seen that same show a million times already.
<History of the Kingdom of Orcsen: How the Barbarian Orcish Nation Came to Burn Down the Peaceful Elfland> by Kyoichiro Tarumi - ★☆☆☆☆, 166 MynePages™ - This reads like an officer’s manual on WW1 military logistics. The author is gushing for chapters on chapters about stuff like the size of warehouse bay matching the size and height of supply wagons. Or the procurement of produce to supply an army with MREs, complete with a detailed list of how much a soldier gets.
The Orcsen Army has determined that each soldier deployed in the field should be supplied with the following daily:
Rye Bread: 3.3 pounds, or hardtack: 2.4 pounds
Potatoes or vegetables: 3.3 pounds
Pork or processed pork: 3.2 ounces
Beef, processed beef, or other processed meat: 8.5 ounces
Beef tallow or dehydrated vegetables: 3.2 ounces
Sauce: 1 ounce
Marmalade or honey: 14 ounces
Beer: 0.2 L, or wine: 0. 2 L, or liquor: 0.05 L
Coffee: 0.5 ounces
The entire fantasy theme is just a very, very thin veneer. The author just took some WW1 military otaku fan-fic, replaced the word “German” with “Orcsen” and put some fantasy lines every couple of pages to say it’s a fantasy LN. I would say there is about 3-4% of fantasy novels, and the rest is a military logistics circle-jerk about wheel sizes of light supply wagons and ammunition caliber sizes.
Dropped at 68% since there was literally no story here after the first chapter.
<The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 14> by Fuurou- ★★★★☆, 140 MynePages™ - A twin heavy volume, so I wonder why they’re not on the cover.
<To Another World… with Land Mines!> - Volume 13 by Itsuki Mizuho - ★★★☆☆, 251 MynePages™ - Please J-Novel fire your editors and hire someone who actually proofreads your novels. I don’t even care about the occasional typo or a missing space here and there, but if I have to reread sections just to understand what was possibly the intended word, then I’m close to dropping a book. For example, they have a fantasy crop called “notato” (yes, really creative, I know), but in the volume, there are parts where “notato” was clearly auto-corrected to other words. When they suddenly start talking about “potatoes,” I can understand what they are actually talking about easily enough. I get annoyed, but it’s not too bad. But when they suddenly talk about “notation”, this fucks up my reading flow when sentences suddenly don’t make any sense anymore. Still no landmines by the way.
Seeing Hartmut acting normal gives e the icks.
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Hmm. No-pan Kimono Azusa. Great start to the season.