@Jon-Mitchell said in "From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman" Anime Adaptation Announced:

former students apparently 'hot for teacher' If this is played light/humorous could be fun- if mishandled - could be squick

I've seen similar comments to this elsewhere. But I'm curious why 'hot for teacher' is so much a sticking point, especially since it seems like they haven't been his students in a decade.

I'd understand complaints over the significant age gap, but not so much the 'hot for teacher' since it so far seems more like an excuse (rather their only point of connection) than truth. Heck, with Allucia the power dynamic is now inverted from their former teacher/disciple relationship. She's captain and he's an instructor, essentially making her his boss.

My biggest issue with Allucia's crush is that it's basically out of nowhere, no foundations or justification for it is even given. It just seems to exist. If it was because he's the best teacher ever or something like that, then I could at least understand the 'hot for teacher' comments.

@Segoth said in Brilliant healer anime:

On top of that the episode was so dull.

This! so much this! I gave up after ten mins because we just saw the three gang leaders fighting over food that Lily made for too long. Well actually 3 demi-humans because those who are first seeing the anime dont know them... I got bored.
It didn't hook me. The LN did a good job at that.
If you had to choose any random scene to start with, why would you start with a boring domestic scene. It seems to give the impression that the anime is more about the harem than anything else.

I think I wasted enough time with Dahlia anime and I had to re-read the LNs to get the real thing back in my head and erase the abomination that the anime was. I don't think I will stick around for this.
The quality of the animation wasn't as bad though.

This makes me want to go back and reread the series. It’s been so long, but I remember enough that very little surprises me. I’m just enjoying the story on screen.

@karasutengu
It was just announced so I don't know if there has been any deterimnation made on that yet. If I had to guess, it would be CR.

We have a debut date!

My only concern about this is that a lot of the greatest, most over-the-top battles happen in the final volumes and I doubt they will be adapting that far.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-02-10/a-wild-last-boss-appeared-tv-anime-reveals-staff-cast-october-debut-in-video/.221046

@myskaros I gotta start reading ANN more. I keep missing all these important announcements. Thanks for the heads up.

@myskaros Rats it's on TBS. (sigh)

@Lily-Garden The manga is definitely easier to follow than the LN. I also enjoyed the anime (season 1), and I'm looking forward to season 2.

@Ingraman said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

TO Books announced on Thursday that the new anime from Wit Studio of Miya Kazuki's Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujō - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen) "biblia fantasy" light novel series, adapting Part 3: Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, will premiere in 2026. TO Books also revealed the new anime's television series format. Along with the announcement, the light novels' third volume of short story collection (featured in posted image below) will release on December 10.

Considering how many volumes part 3 has, hopefully the series format has a bunch more episodes. 8-)

Now Allen can grind even more.

@Jon-Mitchell Even more importantly, times change. Some of what worked in the 80s and 90s isn't really working with today's audiences. Public sentiment is ever evolving, and media needs to keep up with that evolution to remain relevant and profitable.

@HarmlessDave cool

Season 2 apparently started streaming on Crunchyroll last week though I didn't notice.

The first episode was a partial rehash of the last episode of Season 1, but from Miharu, Aki, and Masato's perspectives.

It's kind of interesting how they handled Miharu and the others while Celia was present... in a wedding dress. I assume that topic came up in one of the many skipped conversations, but it was otherwise not explained or acknowledged at all.

I imagine the conversation must've gone something like this:

"Celia is wearing a rely pretty outfit."
"It's my wedding dress."
"Right, I abducted Celia from her wedding and she hasn't been able to change her clothes yet."
"I see. That's understandable."
"Well, she didn't want to get married and wanted to run away so I helped."
Celia making eyes at Rio.
"I see. That's understandable."

As for episode two, it's got Hiroaki's introduction and, as titled, a combined shopping trip, with the mandatory fashion show montage, rather than having essentially two identical shopping trip sequences like the LN.

I wonder if they're planning on keeping the audible representation of the translation magic. It's quiet background track, but I'm finding it somewhat distracting. OTOH:

Random aside:

Hiroaki apparently had a poster with the Volume 1 cover of The Hero and the Sage, Reincarnated and Engaged in his room before getting transported. The poses the characters had looked familiar so I had to go and check. I was initially thinking it was just an inspiration, but was surprised that it was the same image. I guess it helps that they both have the same publisher.

Season 2 now green-lit. Teaser trailer here. Well, sort of, looks like that's almost all from S1.

Volume 9 essentially covers the festival. Just under half way through the 19 published volumes.

@NakamiJun That's people being people. If we're looking for a reason to see others as less than ourselves (jealousy or psychopathy or paranoia, etc) we'll find one. Whether that's streamers saying vtubers aren't real compared to them, or reality TV stars saying they're more real than streamers, or script actors>reality actors, stage>TV, on and on, until we get "Go two blocks over and those folks are strange!"

FWIW there's the Guy Debord idea that any media personality is a spectacle for real life. As soon as you make someone's image into a painting, or have them read the weather in front of the camera, or read about a fragment of their life in a tabloid, they're reduced to a representation of their self that is other/a smaller fragment than their material self.

You're right that "indie" is more free than "corporate," of course. You control more of the means of production, can decide to keep doing it if it's not profitable, etc. It's why indie art/entertainment generally takes more risks, and IMO is more interesting.

@Seandrake said in Anime: A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring:

It's so horribly generic even for a LN adaptation that the term generic does not do it justice.

Still a better love story than twilight isekai than Isekai Tensei :)

It is indeed 100% generic but I do think slime A and slime B and the other pets are cute.

Well, we have our first trailer for it: https://youtu.be/4apF6kwl4hk?si=kzYoluEsPlQD3swW

So far so good... comes out in 2025 it seems