At this point we have some things established:

• MC is very much a Ciaphas Cain/Lightspeed Masayuki style character, does not want absolutely anything with the hero thing but is pushed to it by external circumstances AND must act like it because the consequences of the whole thing ending would be BAD, i utterly love this
• Narrative Causality itself is having an absolute blast making everything the MC does look like he’s a super-competent hero, when in reality he’s just messing around and trying to NOT be a hero
• There’s too much fanservice around Tino, and doesn’t look like it’s gonna stop
• The abusive relationship between Tino and her sensei Liz seems to be played for laughs but is rather offputing

Both very good and very bad things about this series, i think the good are worth remaining but that might change

Actually felt bad about that poor robot, no one deserves being the target of these jerks 😂

He’s the duct tape that keeps the story together, without him there would be no story, and if he were to disappear it would dissipate into nothing, plus he serves as our audience proxy. Also i just cannot get enough of him and Licia interacting, they’re too damn adorable!

Watched it too, don’t feel it’s going specially slow as the characters focus has been strong. Saw the peeps on the opening and i too hope they have time to showcase them.

Also i must say, the Ars and Licia couple is so goddamned adorable! Love seeing those two together! 😄

About Appraisal Isekai Season 2, been following the manga, and we’re about to enter the actual succession war, so here’s where both most characters will shine, and where it will go most Suikoden with the recruiting people thing, high hopes here

This episode was very touching!

Noted, thanks!

Wait, Bofuri S2 was inferior to the novels? Oh man, then the novels must be freaking awesome! Gotta get to that! Any details of from where to where is adapted from the novels to the anime?

This series continues being adorable

It keeps surprising me how the people managing all these streaming services fail to understand the basic fact that their business model is “Be slightly better than piracy”

Mandatory now classic Cat Valente essay

Noted! Have been following the manga but i guess the novels will be further ahead, thanks for the heads up!

The blond-haired hero duo has fully at this point morphed into Team Rocket 😂

Yeah, hope for more seasons

Second season! Yay!

I have to be the one to come defend Rimuru as somebody who’s catching up to the novels (I’m like 3-4 books behind the official translations). Oh yeah, several “Meeting Episode” in a row will disappoint people, but just hang on, now we’re in the Rozzos story arc which while by itself is not the most exciting (they’re financial enemies, by nature the fights are not gonna be too flashy), it does bring fun stuff thanks to the festival, both interesting new characters and fun events, and i do believe it’s at this point that we get some fun demon action. Then there’s one interesting story arc i cannot even name as it’s in itself a spoiler, AND THEN it’s multiple novel volumes of just war and more war, which should completely satiate all the battle nuts. Not sure how far we will go this season but i anticipate the rest of it should be more fun than just people sitting in meetings (which i nevertheless defend because those explain all the stuff that’s happening).

If i recall from the manga Makoto mentions he CAN’T see those two in that way no matter how hot they look because he cannot forget their true forms, which honestly is something i can understand

Isn’t that USUALLY the theme with isekai stories? Either the crappy super-generic edgy ones represented by SAO (“I’m the very special boy who’s super duper OP and will conquer the world and somehow have a harem of girls trying to woo me despite having no personality”), or the dramatically better ones represented by Rimuru and others of “started in the shittiest spot and eventually became world-class with hard work”? Because that’s EXACTLY what i sign on when starting one of these series, i know the basic tropes and wanna see how they develop whatever the latest one being discussed does, the fact that they follow familiar beats is not necessarily a bad thing as much as HOW they do it, i haven’t heard of this one yet so cannot comment on it, but seen a few that were enjoyable despite following some predictable beats, and yeah, many crappy ones we can forget, i just wanna know where this one falls

And TWICE even! 😂

The by now usual mix of heartwarming and crushing your heart like a grape, and out of nowhere comes A CLIFFHANGER!

And Mireille finally appears! Too bad the most fun with her should be next season