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.

Airing Winter/January 2026

I am very delighted to see that the animation quality seemingly has improved significantly!

I just watched the second episode.

As someone who read the LNs, I can tell you:

But I am enjoying the hell out of it. It's a good adaptation. I do think it would have been really well-served with a 75 minute first episode though. The first part is important for world building, but it's a little slow to draw people in.

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.

@NAme Just pointing out that you're replying to a post from 2019... They were talking previous seasons.

Willing to bet the series will be on catch-up by tomorrow night.

@Coelodonta said in Apothecary Diaries anime - airing 2023:

NHK World

The Apothecary Diaries Special

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2099022/

Watchable and with English subtitles! Thx for the tip!!

@Ekun thanks for the update. Maybe I will give this anime another try.

@endoftheline
perhaps it is a personal "ick" for me. One that I find more often than I like in LNs. Young girl has a crush on caretaker, teacher, older brother and doesn't grow out of it - used as fetish fuel. I have not seen this to be the case in this series (as far as I have read) And I remind myself that IRL (especially in the scenario we encounter in this series) a decade of separation changes a person - they grow up - who you knew when they were 15 is not the same person when they are 25 (and conversely the instructor someone was crushing on a decade ago isn't entirely the same guy 10 years later)

Informed consent between adults w/o a power differential is fine.

Raising your mate? squick

@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.

@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.

@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