@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.

@Lily-Garden

The anime probably won't get that far though.

@karasutengu said in [COVER NOT FINAL] Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 12 Discussion!:

I heard that they are also working on season 4 of the anime. However, I don't know if it'll be airing on C-R or Hidive since both were involved in seasons 1-3. Last info I saw on ANN was that it was scheduled to be aired late 2024 or early 2025.

@elkensteyin said in [COVER NOT FINAL] Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 12 Discussion!:

MAL originally had it slated for next season (Fall 2024), but it looks like that may have been pulled back

To my knowledge we have never been given any official information at all on when Season 4 will air. So if you've seen people claiming otherwise that would be either speculation or misinformation.

@HarmlessDave well at the worst it will make a cracking drinking game, take a drink everytime he thinks he's to old or that he's weak and lacks talent.

If they don't fix it at least a little you would be hammered 5 minutes into every episode.

@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

This is one of my favorite shows this season. This is one of the rare times I do not mind Kugimiya Rie's voice. Which is strange because I loved Shakugan no Shana.

I am really enjoying Arai Satomi as Phufun

I am watching the 1st episode right now and I am enjoying it. I see Gremory already appears and talks.

@TheGrimLich which also means

@Segoth said in Villainess Level 99 - Anime Discussion:

@pcj I never read the WN, just the LN here. Even if the WN has a darker ending than the LN, the LN has a darker ending than the anime. Again I’m only referring to vol. 1 which is what the anime covered.

I've not read the Manga, but from everything posted, it is obvious that the animators mostly took their queues from that, and that it was already significantly different from the LN.

@TheWickerMan It looked like they adapted the LN more or less straight. The LN was actually pretty bad during the same period. The only "advantage" the LN has is that it wastes a few paragraphs on narration to setup each scene, which the anime/manga does with pictures.

@HarmlessDave Meh. Yes luckily they don't repeat the same inner monologues. But damn at episode 3 I thought the same thing I experienced at every end of a LN Volume. "Why does it need to end in a cliffhanger". This was why I never started Volume 4.