Mfw it’s the UK edition. For context, the series’ US edition sold out in literally under 30 seconds, and is somewhere between crazy expensive and impossible to acquire now.

Oh I fully agree.

There are very few shows that belong in the same universe as Cowboy Bebop, though.

Yeah this show is brutal. I think I picked it up on a whim just to have another show to watch, and somehow I’m still regretting that decision.

Agreed entirely. No notes.

Yeah simulcasting in the West is a clusterfuck

Before you declare your top 2, reminder that Lazarus’s finished version starts tomorrow (the American “simulcasters” somehow managed to screw it up and take unfinished versions of the episode)

You’ve nailed it. At worst, it’s a mild teasing, unlike Nagatoro, which is closer to straight up bullying.

As a member of the alphabet mafia

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I agree with your sentiments here in thinking that this might actually have the ingredients to be something well worth watching. I’ve been meaning to start the novels, but alas I’m constantly sidetracked to other series…

Yeah. A while back, I couldn’t even make it to page 15 in the light novel.

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Oh fuck that I don’t blame you at all. Thanks for the correction!

Doesn’t look like this one is up anywhere yet.

Good enough to get the three-episode test, but I don’t know that this is something toward which I’d naturally be attracted as a series. The animation definitely left things to be desired.

To what god must I offer a sacrifice to actually get these novels licenced? Seems like a decent opportunity for J-Novel Club Yen Press Kadokawa to bring these Stateside.

I’m sure this will at no point be a complete and total fucking nightmare.

Thank you, sir (or ma’am).

It’s on the 12th now.

How in the actual fuck did he not get a life sentence? I’ve got questions here, and I’m honestly not sure I want answers.

This article cites literally nothing in saying this.

Edit: I’ll add that it’s also AI-written clickbait.

Agreed, but this still seems wildly harsh.