Bookworm is the keyword here. I hate the WIT adaptation with every fiber of my body.

They have a spell drawn over them together, they’re thrown in a heap, Qifrey lifts one, then???

Brimmed Hat mage put a portal spell on the paved stones to lure and trap the girls in the maze/pocket universe. -> After they stumble into the trap, the mage destroys the paved stones to close the portal and keep anyone else from finding them /helping them. -> the girls break the magic seal on the inside that keeps the spell active -> with the spell broken the door back to reality opens and Qifrey can enter and save the girls.

Pssst. Don’t speak its name, or it comes! It brings with it all the cut pages of the Bookworm novel that scatter unused around it until you drown and suffocate in them.

Did you see the clip of the teacher doing a full arm rotation circle on a chalkboard?!

edit: found it

Coco didn’t tell about the encounter with the Brimmed Cap.

Are you talking about the encounter in this episode? Coco wasn’t conscious during it.

I think I love this adaptation just as much as I hate the other one.

Also, when was the last time an anime did skip OP and ED to squeeze 3 more minutes out for the episode? From the shows that I watch it must have been Re:Zero.

My face when my comfy isekai farming anime has fully animated fight scenes with complex camera work.

The way I see it they are destroying everything that makes the series great and even anime onlies should see that something is missing. For example there is talk about how important the Starbinding is and that this could result in her real family getting killed. Then they cut to the Starbinding and everything just works out perfectly. They left out all the work she puts into this to reach that point. In the anime this is unearned. It has no worth. No meaning. If it’s like that it would be better if there wasn’t an adaptation at all.

Apparently it was on purpose, every episode is going to have a distinct artstyle.

Thanks for the heads up. I was coming here to rant about it.

I don’t know what other people think,

I hate it to an unreasonable degree. They skip everything.

Both are so likeable that the harem route is the only way where half of the viewers wouldn’t be pissed off, but it also means that it’s just a compromise for everyone.

They put the R (short for “Returns”) at the end of the title to indicate that is is the second season.

Personally, I prefer my anime without drugs. So I hope the current state doesn’t change.

Absolutely. The anime adaptation adds so many details. You can really see the passion the studio has for the series.

Just for reference, here’s the part from the manga:

Some positive news about last season’s Journal With Witch

‘Journal with Witch -Ikoku Nikki-’ has Officially won the Galaxy Award March 2026 in the television category! The last Anime to win the Monthly Galaxy Award before ‘Ikoku Nikki’ was ‘Ranking of Kings’ 4 years ago, March 2022

The Japanese Broadcast Critics Association honor is similar to the Emmy Awards, and given to outstanding television, radio programs, individuals, and organizations.

source

Well deserved. If it weren’t for Frieren it would have been my anime of the season.

Hoping for Kinako anime

That character reminds me of the vtuber MinikoMew.

I wish I had come up with that.

PEAK!

It continues to baffle me how bad this adaptation can be. How can they miss the target so completely. It’s like adapting The Lord of the Rings and then cutting all the travel parts between the big events. It just has no worth whatsoever when it isn’t shown how those “big events” are earned. Fuck whoever was in charge of this adaptation at WIT.