Man... Just watched I Parry Everything episode 11... And... I think it's still just to absurd for me. The ending was heartwarming, but... The stupidity in the difference between Noor and literally everyone elses opinion of reality is downright painful to watch.

@Mitalma said in I Parry Everything, Dahlia in Bloom, & Vtuber Legend Anime:

You shouldn't need to blend the character and the actor together to acknowledge that there's still a real person behind it all.

While true that that's the way things should work... It's still a fact of life. The Japanese trend to play a character and the Japanese idol culture combine to make it harder. Even in the US or 'EN' market. One of the most successful EN vtubers of all time who breaks streaming records is Iron Mouse and even she gets asked things like 'are you a real person?' and she gives them a verbal smackdown. Mousie is a more typical EN example of a vtuber who is basically just themselves with 'lore' that we play on.

@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.

@Jon-Mitchell yeah anime is even hornier than manga. They have stretched out the ecchi scenes slightly and there’s less censoring of stuff like nipples.
It’s quite a different experience when all the Mmn~❤️ and ~Ahh❤️ are vocalized.
Still incredibly fun, just wear headphones while watching 😉

@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.

@arghc nah, the method of execution and the people trying to do it just changes again, and she gets a new method of foreseeing the future since the diary went away when the guillotine ending was averted.

Did Ange just get another shadow contaminated cut, this time on her face? Admittedly, an all out physical and magic attack might make you wobbly on your feet, but...?

The demon king still looks like a baby Ange and is now calling elf-uncle "grandpa"...

At least Byaku seems to be the only one who has not totally lost perspective on Big/Sister stuff with Ange and Char. One would think that Ange would hold a longer grudge against those who sent an army of undead after her dad.

@Paul-Nebeling said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):

@Kamijou-Touma said in In Another World with My Smartphone Anime adaptation (Crunchyroll & Funi):

This series is a lost cause as an anime.

I'm inclined to agree, but am curious as to why you think so.
I loved season 1

They skipped so much good stuff in the 2nd season to focus on the harem. Wasting time on the side stories. Why introduce Caroline Rilletes at all. Founding of Brunhild was mostly skipped. The book has good world building they skip most of it.

@Kamijou-Touma Same! x3

@norjack2 Recent JNC licenses seem to be ahead of the anime releases these days.

Several of the new animes debuting this month are based on actively translated titles.

This is good since it should help with the sales of the LNs with several volumes available from the start.

@Angelus I have read the 5th novel already. It was great.