The “engagement broken in a party” setup is ridiculously common in female-led fantasy or isekai. It’s the genre’s truck-kun.

I hope she still pulls the ‘one more thing’ after every episode and beats the hell out of someone anyway

I think this episode shows that the production team is lacking in budget, but also shows that they care about the source material and are trying to do their best within their limits - and decent direction and voice acting can go a long way towards it.

That Atou face was just perfect.

Finally started this season, only two shows so far.

• 7th Prince: The MC’s design will keep turning people away from this series, which is a shame because of how consistently fun it has been to watch. Production is also really good, the magic spell effects are beautiful.
• Mynoghra: Isekai+Nation Building+Strategy Games is a combo of my favorite genres, so it was impossible for me to resist this one. They definitely don’t have a great budget but have been doing a decent enough job, Atou+Takuto being dorks is really fun, and the small bits of horror have been quite interesting.

Unexpected, but I’m in for another season of Yuke x Rain flirting.

Arifureta S1.

I asked for recommendations on something trashy ,“so bad it’s good”, and ended up with this. And it worked perfectly - I was in just the right mood to laugh out lout at the horrible CG monsters and chuuni bullshit.

Some series not mentioned yet.

• Tonikaku Kawaii
• Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (more focused on comedy but has surprisingly good and wholesome romance parts)
• The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity (upcoming)

“wow anime is really popular right now”

CR’s success is pretty much that + not having any real competition.

I’ve been really impressed with this series so far.

The initial premise is fairly boring, but once they kicked off the secondary plot with Mia it instantly became of one of my favorites. There’s a really great dichotomy between the “healing” story from Philia’s side and the struggles Mia is facing, and the loving relationship between the sisters is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen in a long time.

This comparison with 0079 is really cool. https://bsky.app/profile/yuyucow.bsky.social/post/3lmv6zp2gc226

Though I suspect anyone new to Gundam will be feeling rather confused after this episode.

Also Cyberpunk.

The first half of this episode was amazing.

Ooh, nice, looks like they skipped ahead to get the second part of the plot started.

This is a great choice as that part of the story is IMO far more interesting, and I think they’re going do both in parallel which will provide an good balance.

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I came here to suggest that exact image. 😀

Shield Hero as well. And his music is definitely the highlight of that series.

I’ve read the manga adaptation.

The first arc is extremely formulaic and kinda boring, but the second arc is awesome. At the current pacing both should be covered with a 12 episode season.

Also found the official press release (in Japanese) here. https://mediado.jp/corporate/8360/

The madmen really did it, they really ended the season with that legendary panel from chapter 37, and they even included Mimimi and Meme. And according to comments from the VA on Twitter even though it’s sped up in the episode they did record the entire thing, and it’ll be included as a BD extra.

Also laughed really hard at several of the 4th wall breaking moments in this episode, in particular the one complaining about the production team rearranging chapter order. 😅

I’m dying for a new season. Bibury really did an amazing job with this adaptation.

I enjoyed the Zarnag battle way more in the manga adaptation, it felt like a high-stakes battle with some real close calls, so much that and end of it instead of celebrating they just huddle together to calm down. Definitely one of my favorite moments of the manga.

That being said, at this point in the story Yuke is way more likeable in the anime adaptation. Early on in the manga he’s very lacking in confidence so they keep using the “Yuke does something amazing, thinks it was nothing special, everyone goes crazy about it” setup way too often.

Another welcome change is the post-battle handling… in the manga there was a dumb plotline about Yuke risking punishment for using an unregistered spell that they skipped here. But I do wish they kept the explanation on what exactly Prismatic Missile does, since it was a very fitting “trumph card” for Yuke - it’s a massive pile of negative status effects.

This is awesome news.

If you want to know what the series is about (and why I’m hyped for it), you can check the first chapter for free here: https://www.alpha-manga.com/manga/665000279/201