Okay, a 9 episode season. And even though they had 9 episodes for a single LN volume they still stripped away a lot of what makes Nonna, Nonna. They focussed entirely on the romance between Victoria and Jeff and let all other characters fall flat. It’s okay if they want to go with this, I guess, but the second volume was one of my absolute favorites (not just int eh series but in light novel in general) and I would LOVE to see it animated. The problem is though that the second volume would heavily lean on Nonna and the anime did not set her up to be who she needs to be. Anime Nonna is completely different from book Nonna both from her personality as well as from her skillset.

We can serve this was well.

https://discord.gg/VJ7yrfq2ex

I had to check since I was certain I would recognize her. So PSA: this is only for the EN Dub.

I hope they invited her to her birthday party at the end.

I am strictly against remakes because in general they just shit on the original and kill the IP for me. But assuming we could guarantee that it’s a good remake then I would like to see:

• Captain Future
• Slayers
• Record of Lodoss War
• Patlabor
• Planetes

That is what was said in the episode. Question is were those books “Rules of the empire” or “Black Magic for Dummies”. Both could have a warning about magic being forbidden.

Yuuki is the worst addition to the story that I had to drop the light novel at some point. I just couldn’t take this guy any longer. The only real question for me is which character kills a franchise more. Yuuki or Fuga from Realist Hero.

It’s one of those 3:

• Heidi, Girl of the Alps
• Maya the Bee
• Captain Future

I don’t remember which one of those was actually the first (most likely Heidi or Maya, just going by the kid-friendliness), but all three are in my earliest core childhood memories.

I’m not overly concerned if the anime simply diverges from the LN a bit, but it at least needs to make sense by itself.

The problem is that you need intimate knowledge and deep understanding of the source material to make an adaptation into a different media. Whoever was in charge for this adaptation had neither. I would be surprised if they did more than quickly skimming the pages at best. They skimmed the scene in the replenishment hall and the word feystone might have stood out so they put it in, without understanding why the feystone would have been used there.

The story is a bit one-sided but should be entertaining enough for a anime season.

I hope that with the servant now in her court, this will change up the formula from “non-stop-malice towards MC/MC just happily tanking everything” to something else.

I can add to that. The composer, Christian Bruhn, has become the head of the organisation that fucks you over if you dare to use a snippet of music from one of their members. I had to deal with them over the years a couple of times. I’ve grown up with German Captain Future. The title score is still a core memory of mine. I’m not sure if it was the first anime I’ve ever seen, but it’s in the first 3. And then the composer heads a litigious shithole of a government organisation. Speak about going from hero to villain.

It adds an ironic aspect that was not at all present in this episode, and I think the book’s style was simply superior.

What’s angering me there is how this change makes the whole scene more sinister. In the source this was an important moment of calm that broke up all the looming dread and malice around Rozemyne. In the anime we see them being abducted and separated from the others which negates the intended “here, let’s have a relaxing and magical moment for MC mental wellbeing”. It’s just another instance of fucking WIT studio not understanding the source material.

I might post a bit more on the last episode’s thread, just in case they move some bits around in the anime and show them later, but the anime seems so far sanitized to move the needle further to the comfy/wholesome side.

Apparently a tiny bit of the darker parts of the story are sneaking into the adaptation.

Lovely Elisabeth doing what Eli does best.

Yeah, let’s have a nice little relaxed chat and do nothing while one girl is fighting for the life of the sacrifice. They could just as well grab the sacrifice while the enemies are distracted by their frontliner, but that wouldn’t give MC the chance to be the hero that saves the day, so naturally we can’t have that now, can we? God, I hate those types of trash isekai harem shows so much, I have no idea why I can’t stop hate watching them.

Let’s add it to the list…

The LN is good. I’m happy that it gets an adaptation.

Clannad. Easy.