Not an isekai, though, or is that something coming up later?

Update: Everything arrived. I had to use Bebop for the maiden run - Jazz and vinyl go hand in hand in my mind.

Next step, put the PC speakers back on the PC and get a proper amp with passive speakers.

You’re right. I forgotten that one already since I dropped that one after the first episode.

This is fun. You can trust P.A. Works to deliver quality.

I’m not happy. The intro scene (under the red moon) made it look like it was Nia who died and got reincarnated as Nia again. Then the pacing is similar to how Bookworm got rushed and is skipping over all the build up. I wish anime directors would learn that hype scenes have to be earned. Just skipping forward to them don’t work. This first episode is basically two thirds of the first volume.

Lastly I have some minor gripe about the naming and wish they would use the naming conventions from the official source translation in the subs. Lynokis = Rinokis.

This is the same author as the isekai minecraft one… which I’m surprised wasn’t animated first I feel like that one is more popular?

That one turns into outright non-stop porn orgies, so this doesn’t exactly lend itself to mainstream anime.

However, I completely understand their need to move the story along and not end on a huge cliffhanger.

Ending on her entering the jureve would have been the perfect stopping point. they could have let 2 real world years pass by before continuing in the story with her waking up 2 in-universe years later.

This follows Suikoden 2 and the main selling point is how the story puts pressure on the protagonists. I’m curious to see how well they will pull this off in the anime, but so far I’m not convinced that they will do a good job of this. the main feature of the game are the side characters, and I fear they will just throw in as many cameo appearances as they can, whether it makes sense or not (like the mini carnival troupe). I will also say that the villain Luca wroked in the game (for that area) but in the anime he just looks like a caricature. After the pilot I would say you’re better off playing the game (there’s a remaster) than watching the show, but I hope the next episodes will be better.

That was great. Makes me kinda want to install a old space sim again.

Love the characters apart from the moody one.

Reverse harem would be my best guess. But at least it has a high production value and the FMC seems likable.

That “they are starting out to pixelate my nipple” joke would have been so fucking great if they didn’t spell it out.

Also, I don’t think I understand why the evil noble has to sneak out to give Myne a poison and give the kidnapper instructions himself. Is it a needless event to implicate the evil noble and Georgine or perhaps there’s a good explanation?

edit Looked it up:

Joisontak wanted to kidnap Charlotte or Wilfried and then heroically save them himself to get brownie points with Rozemyne. He was an idiot. Gerlach gave him the Ahrensbach soldiers he still had tucked away from the Noble that tried to get Myne in Part 2. That’s how he knew of the kidnapping plot and took the opportunity to kidnap Rozeyne herself. To Gerlach, Charlotte was just the bait and distraction he needed to get Rozemyne for Georgine.

I think I’ve never hated a anime season more than this one. There were absolutely worse shows, sure, but you just drop and forget them. But this did destroy something that I loved. It was so bad that it taints the source in my memory. Similar to how the Star Wars prequels taints the original trilogy. I would like to have the people responsible removed from the industry.

I’m mostly afraid of the vinyl getting damaged during long international shipping and then returns being a hassle or straight out not available.

I’m not a fan of the Evangelion OST, other than the OP I don’t think I like any track from the original OST. But I will look up if they have a Halo CE ost vinyl. The OG Halo score was transformative.

I can’t shake the feeling that they just want to get the “FX trading can be really bad, m’kay?” out of the way, so they can say that they warned about the dangers, just before going into full-on FX-trading promotion mode.

My prediction would be that they’re all really rich and happy in the end, and that this is not like Chainsmoker Cat where it’s an anti-smoking ad beginning to end. I hope I’m wrong here, but I just get promotion material vibes from this one.

Thank you. Do you have experience ordering from CDjapan?

If someone is wondering what the difference between this and Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! is: This one is more like a collection of short and heartwarming story vignettes with some occasional overarching plot development connecting them. Think of how Violet Evergarden was structured.

edit.: Strike all that. It’s too early, and my reading comprehension wasn’t turned on yet. Explains at least why all the recommendations were especially shit.

I consider Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day the perfect beginner anime for a couple of reasons:

• short - with only 11 episodes it’s not a huge time investment (compared to multi-cour shows or mammoths with hundreds or thousands of episodes)
• universal - the concepts of the show are universal to every gender and culture. And you don’t need to know or learn any Japan-specific terminology to immediately understand the plot (ie. chuunibyou, shinigami, yokai, etc.).
• everyday people - the show has normal people who are thrown into an uncommon situation, which makes it easy to empathize with the characters.
• likeable characters - self-explanatory.
• believable - the show is juuust outside the norm. Enough to be interesting but not so far-fetched that every little thing is a new concept watchers have to wrap their heads around.
• instant hook - the show’s hook is near-instant. No “it gets good after 10 episodes” or “once the X arc starts in episode 180 it’s really great”.