Ah right, personal preference is fair.

I do think that explosive/hype music would’ve been out of place though, looking at the more introspective and mysterious themes of the show.

Hmm, but one of the biggest reasons for its success is the art. You’d need to replicate that somehow in live action, otherwise it’s just pointless tbh

IMO it’s rather lackluster in the music department though. I barely noticed any soundtrack, and when I do, they don’t seem to fit the scene.

What makes you find it lackluster or not fitting?

I think Apothecary Diaries does a stellar job

Nice, I’ll give it a read then.

Sounds interesting. Is it painful or depressing to read the entire way through or is there space to breathe as well? I’d like to give it a read, but I don’t deal well with fiction that is depressing all the time.

Leon is partly to blame for running away and then acting as a distraction

Yeah, I thought they were going to do this and that probably is what actually happened, but instead they chose for Leon to believe something a bit more unlikely.

If they can’t figure out where to go, I hope they do. Would be a waste to turn something good into something bad just to keep it going, but that is unfortunately how things tend to go.

Yeah, same. I don’t think the mangaka knows either. Hopefully they settle soon or simply end it

Hmm, yeah. Better than the usual 6 or more months though

Wasn’t the recent Demon Slayer movie a simul-release (or close to)?

Why do people so often blame and shame the actual people that worked on this? It’s so dumb. You think the director and animators wanted to deliver bad animation?

I do hope the movie will be released worldwide at the same time

That’s rough. It feels really unfinished, but I guess it got the axe

It’s almost always the production committee. At the same time, J.C. Staff leadership is not blameless. The studio doesn’t have a particularly good track record. They keep taking on projects that result in lackluster to poor animation. Often many at the same time too (and I’m guessing for bottom prices).

Of course, blaming the actual animators is dumb and stupid.

Frieren has gone through so many hiatuses at this point. I’m assuming this won’t be too long either, like the previous ones

I fear for the use of AI translation. That’s how they’re doing the one-shots.

No, I don’t think there was

I personally think the current ones are fine as they are, though I do like your suggestion “Recommendation” instead of “RT/WT”. Maybe shorten it to “Rec” though, so it doesn’t take up so much space. “DISC” covers most use cases pretty well. By specifying it to “Episode”/“Chapter”, you exclude things like films, one-shots and specials. I suppose you could fine-grain it more, but I don’t really see the point tbh, unless we know it’s confusing people.

Finally!