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Oh and one last thing I wanted to say was that it was fun discussing these episodes with you and the others that chimed in. I think based on your post in summer season preview you won’t be watching Tower of God so WE’LL NEVER SPEAK AGAIN 😆 but maybe I’ll give something new a chance or if not, we can pick it back up in season 3
This series has never felt like it is particularly popular
I never even saw it on the popularity charts you posted but maybe that was because it was a 2 cour anime so not technically a spring one? Although maybe those charts are for outside Japan.
Certainly not like Slime or Overlord
I don’t know how everyone else feels but I haven’t watched the last like four episodes of slime. I probably shouldn’t give up on it but boy does it seem like it’s just time I won’t get back… I could see people liking Tsukimichi at least more this season rather than overall.
Do you have any closing thoughts on the season overall? Especially with the heroes in the first part, and the students later on? Should they have cut more, less, or was pacing the main issue? I feel like I’m coming out of it with a positive opinion but thinking about it, that might be because everything good was stacked right on the last few episodes, where it took ~23 other episodes to get here
I thought they would actually go back to the fight in Kaleneon this episode but, nope, fast forwarded through it. I still really don’t understand what Mio did to make the demon general a smol lizard… I assume it has to do with his reflection skill but… I didn’t remember or expect Mio to have won the fight by eating.
Mondo and Lime best bro duo this season.
They kind of glossed over it but the prince(ss) was expecting Makoto to be normal and like… blackmail her. That and Makoto turning down a full time teaching position shows it really does help to have a pocket dimension where all your needs are met.
What I was wondering if would get adapted last episode was (I wonder if we were talking about the same thing, wjs018), and Sofia is shown to be still alive! Oop, nevermind. Hard to not feel bad for her, Root definitely comes off as the villain here with his blasé attitude towards life, but perhaps that comes with living a very long time and losing everyone you get close to by being functionally immortal.
I had a moment during the party where I was thinking “Wait, is this the scene with… Right Mio won the contest… so will they adapt…” And yep, I feel like that’s kind of a bad scene to end on, as Makoto brushes her affection aside, comes off as prime dense protag to me, but at least they all get a last name so they’re like family, right?
I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the entire season, but doubt I’ll have enough time to go through it all to collect my thoughts. Overall I didn’t find the adaptation disappointing, but that might be because I have a lot of context with the WN, manga, and soon LN to fill in the gaps. I do wonder if things would be better if they went even more cut-heavy. Like people complain the students aren’t fleshed out in the anime, but are in the manga (so go check it out if you want to see more), but I wonder what if the anime just completely cut them out? Nah, that’s impossible, but what if… I’m not sure I’ve seen anything make that amount of drastic cuts though.
It was a fun ride, surprised it got a 2 cour episode season, and even more surprised it’s getting a season 3. I think over time this became my favorite isekai, though it’s very slow going there’s so much character and relationship development, as well as crafty antagonists and allies, that I couldn’t think of anything I’d place higher, so even though the anime adapation itself has been a bit iffy, another season is still something I look forward to
This is as surprising to me as it getting a season 2 was. And I’m sure it’s a completely normal, company purchasing rights to adapt and expecting returns… but part of me is like… what if it’s just one really rich dude that wants to see it animated? 😆
What a coincidence, I just mentioned recently over on !lightnovels@ani.social that I was reading the first volume. Has a fairly unique setting so could be interesting, especially for those that like Overlord
I don’t know if the reverse is a new thing or if it’s always been like that.
Here’s a comment in a lemmy issue describing mastodon images not appearing in lemmy from last year. Since the issue was closed three days after 0.19.3 released I had expected it to work in the next version 0.19.4, but it appears that was not the case.
Edit: While I’m here, I noticed piefed also doesn’t support it, so was considering opening an issue to support attachments, but I imagine there wouldn’t be much desire to do so until mastodon integration is more of a real thing? though I think other software does it, like Plemora/Akkoma/Iceshrimp, I didn’t check but did see the code for it being discussed for plemora at least
I played some Tiny Life recently. I liked it, but it is a bit simple, and the bigger issue I had with it is just that there isn’t much to it, especially to build. There’s like two counters, two fridges, one shower… from my perspective it really needs an artist to just go ham and make tons of options so there’s stuff to actually decorate with, even if stats are the same.
Off with a (bomb) bang. Animation looked pretty good, especially the wave controller scenes. I hardly remember any of this story at all so don’t think I can give as indepth comments as I did with tsukimichi. It feels a bit risky to introduce a pretty much entirely new cast after only one season. There was a lot of story for each characters, that I remember at least, back in season 1 but it feels like we kind of lost all of that if they’re going with a new crew, which I’m not sure whether will hold the interest the same way the originals did