My anime-only spouse was pointing out how the current season of the anime is lacking the emotional resonance that the earlier seasons had. I pointed out that they are ripping through plot at warp speed such that it's a story told in bullet points unlike before. The episode to page count ratio is so much lower than would be preferable.

It's a fine adaptation, not great. But they did capture my favorite part of the series: Dias is the ultimate expression of positive masculinity; The Himbo! He's strong, he protecc, he dumb as hecc, and he doesn't let thinking overcomplicate what he knows is right.

@Coelodonta said in Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie! Manga Gets TV Anime in 2027:

"The manga's ninth and final volume will ship on September 16."

This seems like the most important bit of news. We get two more volumes.

In any case, I wonder how far the adaptation's going to get. It did only take 5 volumes for them to make it official.

@karasutengu totally fine, just pointing out saying "quick for a manga" isn't relevant here, since it isn't a manga original series.

@karasutengu said in Livid Lady's guide to getting even Anime:

Update:

The anime is scheduled to premier on Jul 6, 2026 on C-R (according to it's latest update)

Welp the anime started last week and is is spot on (as anime go) with the LN and manga. I specifically like the way they portrayed the MC's father as a cold, calculating SOB that puts the kingdom ahead of everything including his daughter. I hated him.

Hell Mode Season 2 Anime just premiered today (Jul 3, 2026) on Hidive via simulcast. It looked as good as season 1.

Yeah I heard about this on Reddit. Apparently it's premiering in Japan on Dec 11, 2026 in between cour 1 (Oct 2026) and cour 2 (Apr 2027) of the new season (3) of the anime.

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Sweet! Can't wait too see it.

That's going to be fun.

It’s to be expected since it’s anime, but wow is that art simplified.

I love the manga that JNC’s put out so far. I’ll likely give the anime a try.

Probably better as an anime than a LN at this point.

i was too in the manga, but i do wish they had held out until the day-of instead
though, i realize that early tease was to retain reader engagement -_-

manga-only still, but i'll probably try the anime eventually. just don't wanna mess up my perception of the characters by overriding it with the anime voices

I am really enjoying s2 so much. I love the chill story.

An original movie plot? Set (presumably) after book 6? Interesting...

CC season 2 of the animae has gone the path of rot. Most of each episode is now just characters squealing "Sugoy!" to each other as the camera pulls back and pivots to stretch out one animation cell for twelve.

The cooking "animation" is just a hands video of someone cooking a meal for two with an animation filter applied afterwards. Then it pulls back and magically the human sized portion is now 40 portions stacked in front of the characters.

And instead of the snap delivery of the light novel as it steps through the dialog of each of the quartet, it has to Full Stop. After. Each. Sentence.

Particularly grating is Sui. It already has a slow and halting delivery to indicate its a child, but then a repeating musical scale has to be inserted after each sentence delivery to indicate its a slime. And Dora-Chan has to have wing sounds inserted after each sentence to show he's a dragon.

What a decline.

I just saw the first episode of this anime. I think it did a pretty good job of following the LN. I thought Mei looked a bit like Hestia.