new Gate coming out,

The upcoming GATE season will follow a completely different set of characters, and the ones from season 1 only show up in cameo/guest roles. Its set a couple of years later (so, not a new timeline). Also, navy instead of army.

What has the world come to? Is nothing holy anymore?

Azure Lane is indeed a gacha game about waifu-ed Warships. I would place it behind all the other suggestions you got here. I just mentioned it because it came to mind with the military theme.

“Legend of the Galactic Heroes” for some space flavor. “Sound of the Sky” for some Slice of Life. Or get your Isekai fix with “GATE” or “Alderamin on the Sky”. There are also some Gundam shows that are more militaristic than others, but I’m not the right one to say which of them fall in which category, since I only watched them sporadically.

Then there are franchises like Azure Lane and Girls and Panzer to take it into the absurdist direction. Girls and Panzer is actually not bad once you come to terms with the general premise. Give it a chance.

Chihiro in the English dub of Spirited Away, for anyone else wondering.

Names are generally a problem in this series. Myne used to be Main (Ma-I-n, an analogue to the Japanese マイン), but I guess the English audiences were too confused with the word “main” so they had to change it. (No such consideration for the German audience in Frieren).

And then there is the whole Eustachius/Justus situation.

How could you ask that? Making me choose! It’s like asking Myne or Rozemyne?

Rozemyne. Easy.

1st - The Happy go lucky - Kumoko

See? The early volumes are clearly the best.

Let me ask this way: Who do you like better? Kumoko or White?

Spider was really great for my taste in the beginning, but then there was some sort of shift in the plot (just keeping it vague here, but you will know what I mean once you reach that point), after which I lost interest completely. But those initial Kumoko getting stronger volumes were 10/10.

I am aware.

I think that I will skip Agents of the Four Seasons for now. I liked Violet Evergarden well enough, but the Agents anime didn’t really click with me.

A lot of shows that are potentially interesting to me, but going by the last couple of seasons, I’m probably just going to finish a handful of them.

I’m especially happy to see Frontier Lord, which made it into my top 3 light novel series, and both of my favorite murder hobo protagonists this season. I just recently binge-read All-Works Maid, so this is going to be fresh in my memory when I watch the adaptation. I’m not sure if this will help or make me even more grumpy. And then there is finally more of Tanya. It’s been too long after that speech at the end of the first season.

• The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects
• Saga of Tanya the Evil II
• A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even
• Victoria of Many Faces
• Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3
• Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It!)
• Behind the Supermarket, Smoking with You.
• Chainsmoker Cat
• Skeleton Knight in Another World II
• The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power
• I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
• Clevatess Season 2
• The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World
• From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Season 2
• The Ghost in the Shell
• Sparks of Tomorrow
• The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
• Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games
• Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World Season 2
• Goodbye, Lara
• I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand.
• The Villager of Level 999
• Kaiju Girl Caramelise
• The Cat and the Dragon
• The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for The Throne
• The World’s Strongest Rearguard
• Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life
• Red River
• My Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law Who Don’t Bully Me.

New main line Dahlia. Nice.

<Proud to Be the Villainess> Volume > by Kuga Huna - ★☆☆☆☆, 144 MynePages™ - This was the most egregiously nonsensical novel I’ve ever read.

<Her Royal Highness Seems to Be Angry> Vol. 1: The Reincarnated Princess and an Ancient Power by Kou Yatsuhashi - ★★★☆☆, 133 MynePages™ - Likable MC that’s only really registers things that are of interest to her. Like “what, people trying to bully me? Who cares, look over there is something interesting”. The prose is very readable.

Her Royal Highness Seems to Be Angry Vol. 2: The Spirit King’s Visit by Kou Yatsuhashi - ★★★☆☆, 169 MynePages™ - They invented a new word here: “Knightlings” for children of knight families. That’s hilarious, and I don’t know why I haven’t heard that before.

Her Royal Highness seems to be angry Vol. 3 – The Spirit King´s Visit by Kou Yatsuhashi - ★★★☆☆, 153 MynePages™ - I wonder when the Royal Highness will finally get angry? I hope it will be epic. In this volume, there is one instance where she gets a bit annoyed, but no anger yet.

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?!