TBH I started to care about raw denim a little.

That was a Terminator 2 thumbs up, definitely dead.

At the beginning of the the episode we’re back to “maybe everything will be fine if I pretend this isn’t happening”. The problem with Yoshiki’s thought experiment is that it isn’t actually a good analogy to the situation: Nonuki isn’t an exact copy of Hikaru, it has its own personality, values, and memories, it’s just pretending to be Hikaru. Which becomes clear by the end of the episode when Nonuki once again tries to murder someone.

There’s no explicit reason AFAIK but Nonuki said “impurities” try to latch on to a person out of loneliness and Yoshiki’s sister looked at the wig ghost which may have made it try to latch on to her the way the long-necked lady did when Yoshiki’s looked at her.

I’m here for the rock facts but some of these character designs are super cringe.

I assume the bigwigs wouldn’t let them make an anime about rocks unless it was also about boobs.

Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf was largely about food and cooking.

Cooking master boy is a great 90s anime about cooking battles similar to Yakitate! Japan which someone else already mentioned.

The Empress Dowager is certainly holding on to some extremely complicated feelings she can’t even tell anyone about. What a morally challenging character, I think I’m gonna have to chew on this one for a while.

Someone had to eventually to tell them they need to stop pretending they aren’t dating and “he’s a coward and you’re a child” was an amazingly blunt way to do it. What a good big sis.

Cha Hae-in’s deal continues to be mysterious considering how little she’s done with all the screentime she gets (besides provide cringy fanservice). I was initially thinking she might be another Player but her dislike of the smell of hunters raises the possibility that she’s either a magical beast herself (perhaps summoned by some hunter’s skill) or has some class that uses monster abilities like a blue mage or something.

It seemed to me that all the S-classes had the ability to sense magical power.

Are Anime Husbandos the secret to fixing male immortal loneliness?

I think I love this show.

Who smokes in room full of ancient scrolls and priceless artifacts?

It’s a good thing the mold they found in the tomb wasn’t harmful to people with a well functioning immune system or else spending hours studying samples there with no PPE would have been really stupid.

Ah I was hoping someone would have a better idea, thanks!

The point about the contents of the vault having mostly sentimental value may have gone over better if not for the pile of gold in there.

I love that she inadvertently fixed the sexist damsel in distress character just by pointing out that she could have agency (and giving her a role model).

I assume Serval Cat Mask was inspired by Kinnikuman as that’s the only pro-wrestling anime I know of and the moves looked pretty similar.

Not the most interesting episode but we learned a little more about the world:

• The Demon King’s country is poor and has a poor diet, perhaps that’s why he seems like such a good guy.
• Demons have “totally legitimate cultural reasons” for wearing skimpy outfits. While this is obviously an excuse for fan service, it does raise the question of whether the Demon King is actually a demon.

One thing I’m still not sure about is whether the izakaya Dennosuke visits is a real place in the world, a real place outside the world, or a construct of his mind.

Delicious in Dungeon is intended to be shortened to “D in D” which is meant to sound like D&D or Dungeons and Dragons.

It seems like the point of this show is to give MAPPA animators the opportunity to take their shot at a bunch of classic anime scenes. Episode 1 they did the giant warrior from Nausicaa and episode 2 is a Macross missile massacre.

The plot interesting enough so far, while this show did turn out to be an isekai, at least it’s an old-school “learn a lesson” isekai and not a pointless power fantasy in a video-gamey world like the recent inescapable trend.

I love the “We’ll need some time to consider your offer, thank you for meeting with us” response to the Ogre king being unreasonable. I knew Japanese businessmen have the most polite methods of telling you to fuck off so it was really interesting to have an explanation of the reasoning behind it.

I’m enjoying this series so far, here’s hoping it stays focused on effective business strategies and less on Harem nonsense. So far Dennosuke is staying professional and oblivious to Urmander’s obvious crush on him which is pretty funny so maybe that will be the running gag.