This is what immediately came to mind for me.

Just be glad it gets a second season at all. The number of anime that are dead on the vine for no apparent reason is crazy.

Is that name missing a T?

Ngl that’s a pretty tame “twist” when we have literal adventuring vending machines.

NGL this is an incredibly unhelpful, though humorous, comment…

I get kinda tired of “final season” seasons that are broken up into multiple season length cours. It goes from “oh man this is the last?” to “I was prepared for this to be over years ago” after a while.

I haven’t watched the next episode but they really didn’t address that at all? Seems like the perfect time to showcase the scheming being done.

No

They were likely given a hard limit on remaining number of episodes.

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Ah okay, so the stories aren’t related to each other, just the same author?

Context?

They’re likely thinking that the special episode was part of S2. I thought the same until I dug a tiny bit.

So many of these are solved with piracy.

I stopped watching that soon after she came about, did things get awkward?

When it comes to anything coming out of Japan, you can usually just add 10 years to their age and both the visuals and themes make more sense. You often see characters and you’re like “well that’s obviously a 20 year old” and then the character introduces themselves as an 8 year old.

All good points! Honestly this is likely why kid shows have changed into “let’s go explore” and such instead of “people are gonna die!”

Eh, I suppose that’s something to keep in mind. I didn’t think that was any worse than old school Batman where someone is threatening to blow up Gotham and such. But obviously I grew up in a different time. ;D

Ascendance of a Bookworm is likely good, though things are about to get a little confusing in the next season.

Might be a little confusing for a young kid.

Wasn’t that relationship mostly nixed in the anime in general? I realize the manga heavily implied a relationship (well, implied a physical relationship, the emotional “relationship” was obvious pretty early on) but I thought they mostly just implied an awkward crush in the anime?