I thought of you when I saw this announcement and was curious what your thoughts were going to be based on what you have written in the episode threads. Out of curiosity, I checked out what reddit was saying and, to summarize, it’s not good.
Plenty of time to finish it before watching the remake! What better way to compare/contrast?
Seriously though, I expect it will be a while before this actually comes out. There had been some leaks that this was in the works for a little while. So, what I suspect happened is that they went ahead and announced this now to get ahead of things while continuing to prepare more for their planned announcement stream scheduled for the 17th.
I think they use some third party ad partner (maybe Google AdSense, idk), so I don’t know how much control they might have over that. I just loaded it up on my phone and it was ads for Alzheimer’s medicine (tell me you are from the US without saying so). For what its worth, I hadn’t really loaded up the page on mobile before, so I didn’t even realize there were ads (there aren’t any on desktop, even without an ad blocker).
I wonder if we were talking about the same thing
We were! I remember this interaction between Root and Sophia being kind of shocking when I read the WN because of how different he seems throughout the whole rest of the story up to this point. He is not the silly, flirty, carefree person that we normally see other times, but a cold, indifferent, ruthless immortal being that has determined she has outlived her usefulness.
Something that happened during that interaction that I didn’t remember was him noticing the katana. Is the implication that Lancer turned Root’s former husband (an isekai’d Japanese person, thus katana) into a sword and that is why it is so powerful?
what Mio did to make the demon general a smol lizard
I don’t remember this either. I did find the image of her munching on the spear really funny though.
I agree with your assessment that Makoto doesn’t really come off the best in how he continues to brush off Mio’s (and Tomoe’s) obvious affection. If they are family now, does he see them as sisters or as wives? He really needs to clarify things, with himself more than anything else. Also, does that make Shiki a brother, or a husband? If it’s the latter, Shiki better steer clear of Root, because the jealousy is likely to get him killed.
I haven’t watched it, but it looks like Girls Band Cry. The 13th episode and finale is airing in a couple days. Not sure what episode this is from.
I had read through part of the manga previously (just a little further than the anime adapted) instead of the LN. Looking up the LN synopses, it looks like they only adapted the first two volumes. I wouldn’t be too upset about it ending here as it wrapped up fairly nicely while still leaving the door open for the future.
With a second season already slated to come out in Fall, it won’t be too long before we get to see more Mireille. She is my favorite character of Ars’s gang. I haven’t checked out what the fall lineup looks like yet, but I might try to give season 2 a chance. I ended up dropping the manga not too far in the future from this point. However, the adaptation has overall been pretty good. In particular, I have been impressed by the OST. So, I might end up liking the anime more than I did the manga.
Well, the season came to an end and, despite the “hero’s” best efforts in the post-credits scene, no season 2 announcement yet. Overall, I think this is a fine place to end the show and it feels pretty satisfying. The best part of this episode (and this show generally), was the touching scene with just Rys and Flio in the moonlight. Rys was hands-down, the best part of this show. I wasn’t paying attention to the runtime while watching and half expected the show to simply fade to black and then end as it was just the two of them on the porch.
I do think it is fitting to acknowledge the fake hero in the post-credits scene because I think his VA absolutely killed it this season. He is a comic relief character, nothing more than that, and it is clear that he understood the assignment.
Thanks for the ride Level 2 Cheat! It was more fun than I had expected it to be.
Agreed. I am really surprised as well. I wouldn’t be too surprised if you told me that it was the studio director’s favorite series or something like that. Then again, maybe it is way more popular in Japan?
I can hardly believe that they announced a season 3 for this show already. This series has never felt like it is particularly popular. Certainly not like Slime or Overlord, but apparently it has done well enough to justify its continuing adaptation.
This episode is where we very quickly jump around and tie up a lot of loose ends. Well, one loose end is tied up by Root instead, while another was mostly eaten by Mio. The interaction between Root and Sophia is a good reminder that underneath the flirty, quirky exterior, he is not anybody’s friend. The whole guild system was set up to act as a way to get the strongest hyumans killed after all.
Looking forward to a season 3! As for this season, I think Mio said it best…
It is fairly young, but not unprecedented. There were a few married people in my high school while I was attending. Tonikawa is another example of a show where a high school aged character is married. Outside of fiction though, I would never suggest anybody entertain marriage until later. I dated my girlfriend (now wife) for 15 years before we married.
Really happy to see this. I really wasn’t sure if this was going to happen or not. I don’t have a good sense as to whether this series is popular or not. Apparently it has done well enough to continue the adaptation.
Whenever I made a thread about a new visual or PV for Senpai is an Otokonoko, I would think back to Misaki-kun. Such a perfect panel.
Weekly ranking roundup:
Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.
Mushoku Tensei making big gains this week as some dramatic things happen. One of the side effects of running the bot that creates all the episode discussions is that I see all the top level replies in the discussion threads. I need to monitor them to allow users to request screenshots to be the lead image for the thread. However, it means that when something really big happens in a show, it is essentially impossible for me to avoid spoilers. It doesn’t really bother me, but it is something that I hadn’t really thought about before doing this.
Personally, I have a number of series that I am looking forward to this summer season.
On a meta note, I continue to make updates on the bot. Most recently I added functionality so that you can see all the shows that the bot is currently tracking:
The development roadmap in the near future is full of things to make my life easier. The big goal with this work right now is to automate updating the wiki pages when episode threads are created.
In case you didn’t know, I have been maintaining an index of all the show discussion threads, organized by season. You can find the index page here and the current spring 2024 season page here.
So far, this has been an entirely manual process. Basically, once a day, I would go through all the posts made by the bot and add them to the wiki page. This is a lot of copy/pasting and it is quite difficult to do when I might be traveling, stuck on mobile, or otherwise disconnected. So, the goal with automating this is to enable it to keep up to date if I am otherwise indisposed for a period of time.
I have the basic functionality implemented, but I am still working on some edge cases, ease of use functions, and all the bash scripting around it to make the magic happen. I am hoping to get all that squared away over the next week and have the wiki pages fully automated for the summer season.
Agree about Spice and Wolf so far. I have kept watching based on the fantastic reputation the first show has (that I haven’t watched), but this season has so far not really connected with me. If it wasn’t “Spice and Wolf”, then I would have dropped it by now.
The one thing that any music anime has to do right in my opinion is the music. So, it is a shame to hear that Girls Band Cry doesn’t deliver on that front. I don’t typically watch music shows, but I was debating checking this one out since I heard good things about the CG. So, I might just check out Trigun Stampede or something else instead.
7th Prince was top tier trash. Glad it was renewed.
The adaptation completely blew away my expectations. Really glad that they are keeping it going.
I ended up dropping the manga back when I checked it out for the same reason. The author clearly came up with an interesting premise, but then couldn’t figure out how to keep it interesting as they kept writing.
Went through the list of shows I watched and wrote down a couple thoughts:
Based on what I have seen elsewhere, there are a couple shows that I think might be worth checking out sometime in the future when I get a chance. In no particular order:
Looking at the charts that zabadoh posts is a good idea. Here is the most recent post. The JP twitter list shows that Tsukimichi has about as many twitter followers in Japan as 7th Prince does, a show that just aired for its first season, compared to the second season/third cour of Tsukimichi.
Looking at the other chart (MAL + AniList) gives an idea of the following in the English-speaking world. On that chart, Tsukimichi has about as many followers as Wind Breaker, another show that just aired its first season.
So, overall, not a tremendous showing for Tsukimichi. Again, surprising that this gets an immediate season 3 announcement. Perhaps there is some merit to the “some rich person likes the series” theory you had.
I haven’t watched this show at all to be honest. Instead, I read the manga basically up to the content covered by this season (based on what I have seen of the discussion during the episode threads). I basically stopped reading at this point though, so I sympathize with having trouble finding the motivation to go on.
I think the season had some ups and downs. I personally really enjoyed the beginning of the season where we got the stories of the heroes that was cut out of season 1. However, I do sympathize with anime-onlies that were confused/frustrated that these characters aren’t why they watch Tsukimichi. Their stories kind of come out of nowhere if you aren’t familiar with the source.
After that bit of filling in the blanks left by season 1, moving to Rotsgard, the story really slowed down and I think it probably could have been done better. There were opportunities to make things a bit more exciting through here that were just passed up. Classes/fights with the mist lizards could have been more exciting. The tournament arc started ok, with the student fights being exciting, but then the fights against the monsters felt extremely boring. There were lots of politics happening during this sequence, so I understand they chose to focus on that, but I feel they could have helped balance it out a little bit by slimming down conversations and adding in a little more action. Also through here, they mostly cut the backstory of Ilumgand, which is a shame. Without his backstory, he is just an asshole rather than more of a victim of circumstance that was preyed upon.
Then, finally, the last section of the season where Makoto and Shiki are summoned by the Goddess to save Hibiki. From here on out it was fantastic, and was a great way to end the season. Just like the first season, the show runners really know how to end on a bang. I wish there was more of the Kaleneon, Left, or Lancer fight, but I think the show chose to focus more on Sophia/Makoto, which is probably the right call if you have to make a choice.