I take AI subs over activists rewriting character any day of the week.

As I said, I like isekais, so I’m not trying to shit on the genre, but my working theory is that for a lot of authors, this is used as a narrative crutch. A helper setting that allows them to describe the world in contemporary terms. The dragons were “large as a school bus” instead of “one score feet long and as high as a korrexian wabbit can jump”. Coming up with a working magic system is hard, but saying it’s like video game skills is a lot easier. They might also find writing something that they know easier than tackling something unique for their first steps. And tracing back many animes to the source, it makes sense as well. Many shows start as web novels from hobbyist writers. It’s no wonder they take to the isekai setting. It’s popular, and it makes writing easier. It’s a win-win in that regard.

On the flip side, this also means that many isekais are written by first-time authors writing glorified fan fiction, and it shows in the quality of many shows. So the problem is not the setting but the quality benchmark Kadokawa has for what gets picked up.

Isekai is one of my favorite genres, but man, they really have a low standard of what they publish or adapt.

Finally Lessy. Doesn’t make the rest any better but I try to tune that out.

Where is the Inou Battle mention?

Don’t know about dubs.

If you like the manga then you will love the anime. It’s the best adaptation I’ve ever seen.

Po or angel girl. Forgot the first rule: never bet against an isekai protag.

Î am aware.

I don’t think I can look past the art style.

So people now just show up out of nowhere. And then they just come up with their designs out of nowhere. Same with the pictures and everything else. This WIT adaptation continues to take everything that is earned in the novels, cuts out all the effort and their motivations, and then just shows the results. You know, just like in Rocky where the movie starts with some posturing of Rocky and Creed and then there is a cut to them having bloodied faces in the ring. What that wasn’t how the movie played out? I guess it wasn’t done by this WIT team then. Lucky Rocky fans.

But I do have to say that in this episode, I think the after credits scene about the ordonnanz has a very weird spoiler.

Who cares at this point? The ordonnanzes are all wrong anyway.

Too bad Sayu didn’t get that picture at the end on the train.

Interesting choice to flip the mirror motif.

Also, this was too cute!

It has an interesting turn of events that differs from stories with similar premises.

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.