Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!
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@HarmlessDave said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
S Rank is very good.
For me, Oversummoned started out very promising but fell to pieces at the end of volume one because of the mindset and behavior of the MC. Volume two did not get better.
Seriously, he is incredibly unlikable. The former Demon Lord in volume 2 was a much more interesting character than the MC.
I've been wanting to read through S-Rank for a while. I bought the first book a month or two back, and enjoyed it. So S-Rank being on catch-up is great.
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You are all making this so hard! I have been pushing my regular Fantasy & SciFi backlog lately (working on Valor from the Faithful & Fallen series by John Gwynne, and also finishing the last 4 books in the Cradle series by Will Wight).
But now I want to try to catchup on S Rank but there are Ten Volumes I would have to read. Last time I did a big push on a catchups was Altina the Sword Princess. I was thinking that I could watch the S Rank anime debuting this month instead but it probably will never carry that far into the full story.
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@geetop definitely check out S-ranked Daughter if you can; for a fantasy LN it is really well-written and the characters are great (and not cardboard cliches)
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Watches as a new outbreak of Miaitis is unleashed with new folks reading the Tearmoon manga
Fixes some popcorn to eat while watching folks fall under sway of the Great Sage
Offers some to Maomao
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@PuckGoodfellow00-0 said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
@HarmlessDave said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
S Rank is very good.
For me, Oversummoned started out very promising but fell to pieces at the end of volume one because of the mindset and behavior of the MC. Volume two did not get better.
Seriously, he is incredibly unlikable. The former Demon Lord in volume 2 was a much more interesting character than the MC.
He wasn't bad to start with, but got creepier as volume 1 progressed, and lost it completely at the end.
I've been wanting to read through S-Rank for a while. I bought the first book a month or two back, and enjoyed it. So S-Rank being on catch-up is great.
I didn't have the problem with volume 1 that many others did, but I love how it picks up in volume 2.
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@geetop - I doubt the anime will do S Rank justice. It will probably rush through the books, leaving out the inner thoughts and small moments that make it good. Although there is action and adventure, the books mix in a natural amount of slow life that will probably be hacked away for time making it more generic.
You don't have to read all 10, there are several good pause points though I forget in which volumes. Read the first few, stop at a good point. If you like it enough you can always buy more later when your budget allows. Or wait a year and it will be back on catch up for you to continue on.
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@xdrfiredogx said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
Offers some to Maomao
You need to be careful doing that - if you start feeding Maomao, you may never be able to get Chue to leave...
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@HarmlessDave said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
@geetop - I doubt the anime will do S Rank justice. It will probably rush through the books, leaving out the inner thoughts and small moments that make it good. Although there is action and adventure, the books mix in a natural amount of slow life that will probably be hacked away for time making it more generic.
Anime has failed magnificently to capture what is good about the novel, I dropped it after watching one or two episodes. I think my bad (and extremely misguided) initial impression of the book came from the anime.
You don't have to read all 10, there are several good pause points though I forget in which volumes. Read the first few, stop at a good point. If you like it enough you can always buy more later when your budget allows. Or wait a year and it will be back on catch up for you to continue on.
I only read the first three volumes because I found the book too good to rush through and I have too much of going on to dedicate myself to reading. It builds the world and colors the action through using simultaneously sound, smell, visual environment, temperature and more - savoring it all that makes me slow the pace. I'll be back one day
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@topgnu said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
Anime has failed magnificently to capture what is good about the novel, I dropped it after watching one or two episodes. I think my bad (and extremely misguided) initial impression of the book came from the anime.
I don't want to watch it myself, so... what's it like? How does it fail?
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@rkkn said in Get in the Spirit with Halloween Catchups!:
I don't want to watch it myself, so... what's it like? How does it fail?
I was frustrated because the first two episodes had appeared to be (remember - at that point I hadn't read any of the LN) no more than a slapstick comedy where a spoiled girl wanted to do on vacation but evil employers and the world at large were conspiring against her. The third episode then was even worse.
The commenters on Disqus forums were all over the place - a more or less representative selection: "Never heard of this, but ep1 showed me a whole bunch of nothing.", "It's watchable, can recommend", "Started not so good, got better by Ep.04 so I'll keep watching it (at least for now)", "I liked it very much so far.", "Things were looking grim in terms of my continuing, but this episode [episode 4] was a real cracker! Definitely seeing it through now", "Just barely passing for me.", "Almost lost me", "According to some anime news sites, S1 should cover Vol 1, maybe parts/all of Vol 2; the minor LN details are left out to keep the storyline going.", "This is really well done, that bagpipe OP is neat and the ED is comfy.", "The animation is literally what you have to expect these days mid as hell. What I have a problem with is that this seems to be another world in which everyone is an incompetent piece of trash.", "Despite the use of 3d on some scenes, the quality of animation and the story's pacing is well balanced. Really liking this so far, faithful to the manga I've read."
You can see how comments are really all over the place - so watch a bit (maybe sample episode 4?) and decide
