One of those extra slow characters.

she could also just derail everything by just saying something after being rescued:

“Oh hey, by the way, that fugly bitch over there? Yeah, she wants to kill me and my lifeblood to curse some princes or whatnot that are in the line to the throne before her little bastard son. Would be swell if y’all could stop her. thankies.”

But, noooo. Better stay silent and be upset that the guy who rescued her spoke a lie about her virginity.

Also, get a better executioner for Christ’s sake. What type of axe can be knocked of course so much by a stupid goblet?

Yep. I hate this exactly as much as I expected I would hate it. Maybe a little bit more.

SEIZON SENRYAKU!

This is burned into my brain like Chitanda Eru’s “Watashi kininarimasu!”. I mean it’s been 15 years and the first thing my mind does when reading “mawaru penguindrum” is screaming the catchphrase.

Good first episode. Seems quite faithful so far.

Don’t worry. It’s very different apart from that tropey setup.

Hmm. No-pan Kimono Azusa. Great start to the season.

This gives me deja vu, but I’ve checked and I haven’t read the light novel. But I swear I’ve seen the character design of the lizard girl before and the patrol of rescue adventurers as well.

Someone made a video with all the references side by side

In the words of the late Sean Lock: “That’s a challenging wank”

The source is a manga

Saw that coming, but MC is likable.

The exposition is a bit hamfisted and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story, but I feel like it could be a lot worse (Bookworm PTSD).

Another power fantasy. I give this first episode a 5 because it’s so generic but not bad either.

The opening sequence is also excellent. It’s packed with references to various cultural works (Spiderman, LotR, Nirvana, and a bunch of others), and I probably didn’t even catch half of them.

the ones I recognized:

Footlose

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Leon The Professional

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Dumb&Dumber

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Trainspotting

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Nirvana Nevermind Was wrong here. It was Trainspotting, which also fits better with the film setting.

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The Usual Suspects

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Breakfast Club

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The Evil Dead (maybe, its a reach)

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Lord of the Rings

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Fight Club

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Resident Evil Extinction

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Spiderman 3

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Pulp Fiction

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Wednesday Adams

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Saturday Night Feaver

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Fallen Angels

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A Better Tomorrow

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Chinatown

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Conclave

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Project A

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Ready of Not

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Blade Runner

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Coffeee and Cigarettes

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Flashdance

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Stand by Me

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The King of Comedy

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The Yellow Handkerchief

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Pierrot le Fou

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Night On Earth

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Farewell Friend

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Blue Spring

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Either way, anime YouTuber will have a field day with this one. I can’t wait to see a side by side of the entire opening with the original shots.

edit: thanks to the internet sleuths I have some reference material as well and references that I missed.

Still so many scenes missing…

Can you imagine you are a light novel author and your editor tells you you finally get a anime adaptation. And then he tells you it will be handled by GoHands. That’s nightmare fuel.

That was great. The hook works and I want to know how this will turn out. The animation is also beautiful and the OP is a banger.

Okay, I have to ask: WTF?!

This is kinda bad with how power-fantasy-esque this is. But it’s the kind of bad that I find entertaining, so it stays in the list.

It sucks that they skipped all of Luciana’s hard work paying off and surprising her friends with this:

In the light novel there Luciana’s friends are stunned by the change since their last time replaying basically the same gag we’ve seen this episode 2 times already, but I think that tea party important to show the relationship those 3 girls have. The anime points out that the Rudelbergs are indebted to those two families who helped them out. But the LN goes out of its way to show that those two girls aren’t looking down on Luciana and are genuinely happy that her living circumstances has improved so much even though everyone else in noble society is looking down and shunning her. I feel that them being real friends is lost in the anime by skipping this scene.

Dude, don’t talk about pizza and loli in the same sentence. Just don’t.