Some unsorted thoughts I had watching the first episode:
- I don't remember Aqua being so edge-lord-y. At least I wasn't annoyed by him in the first season but here I (slightly) am.
- How old is this Himekawa character? With the stubble, he looks like 30-somethings are often depicted in anime, and I'm uncomfortable with him trying to get close to Kana.
- I liked how they conveyed the impact the "good acting" had on others during the rehearsal. I thought that was a visually stunning and elegant way to bring that plot point across. Too bad that they had to go and have the characters talk about it extensively as well. It's show and tell. But I can excuse it somewhat as it is at least relevant to their motivations, but eh.. I just wish they would not spell everything out and trust in the viewer's emotional intelligence to pick up on it anyway.
- Not a fan of OP and ED songs. Both were absolute bangers in season 1, so I was hoping season 2 would deliver as well.
I liked the first half of the show a lot more than the latter. The direction it took towards the end took out all the originality of the early episodes and turned it into just generic idol drama.
That gives me hope. Honestly, if not for the OP I would have dropped it midway through.
I don't have any particular thoughts on her voice though. She sounded a bit "robotic" but it's about what I'd expect here. I guess her voice will shift slowly toward the more natural spectrum as she grows more human over time. The same for her expression. At least that's what I would do if I had a say in the production.
By the synopses it sounds like the MC is trying to carve her place in the world, without relying on the others.
It's more about her slowly learning to rely on others after being worked to death on Earth and getting burned by her fiancee in the isekai world. The not relying on others part is the status quo and the journey is opening up and starting to trust others to the point where she can comfortably start to rely on others. At least that's what I think the story is about, but over that is a layer of slow-burn romance, so the underlying plot might be missed by some.
On the other hand, the biggest localization scandal (for lack of a better word) didn’t happen at the translation, it happened when failed YA authors were allowed to rewrite the work, which will still probably be a problem. So it might not do very much good either.
I think this is an important point. If this can take the translator's ego out of the equation it would be a clear win. But then, they would probably insert it back again in the revision stage. My best case scenario would be that with the AI doing the heavy lifting there is enough human workforce going around so that those type of translators who rewrite the story find themself jobless.
Incredible last episode. The OST for the epic moment was the best I’ve heard this season and I give this episode a full 10/10. With the overall series getting a 9/10. I would have also loved to see a 14th episode with just comfy everything is alright vibes to cap it off.
Holy wow… MC is hard to watch. OP is by Tokino Sora so I want it to become a hit, but I don’t know if I can warm up to that type of MC.
In the context of my work, translations done by LLMs are working great so far and have no problem grasping context. And that is with general models and not specialized ones for the task which I assume this will be. So I will give it a chance instead of outright jumping on the AI hate train.
Google translation
Not the same thing. Not even close.
Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup
>Japanese publishers, including Shueisha and Shogakukan, have invested $4.9 million in Mantra, a startup leveraging AI to accelerate manga translation.
I don't read many mangas, so I don't know how good or bad the translations are, but I thought the news was interesting at least.
There absolutely had to be a naked kid for no plot reason at all other than to pacify the pedos. Two scenes later it's back to fox form as if nothing ever changed. I'm so sick of this shit in anime.
How many episodes in a row was that now with just people sitting around a table talking?
I interpreted that Mutsumi sees Jiro as something akin to a replacement for her missing Dad. But the wording of this episode about responding to her feelings gives me Usagi Drop PTSD. I really enjoy this series and don't want to live in constant fear that this turns into something like that.
I was under the impression that the yokais were only living in that village but this episode we see them everywhere. I'm not too fond of the man in black and a demon lord though. It takes away from the mystical yokai setting and brings the series into chuuni fantasy.
I found the "it got viral" shout endearing when there were barely any comments. It really shows that the girls are starting from scratch.
Okay, hear me out. I have a theory:
spoiler
Zooted Akira is just 7g transformed Gawr Gura.
I don’t know if I’m a genius or if I’m slowly going mad here.
The setting has so much potential to break out of the confines of “normal” storytelling, yet you could see the culprit coming from a mile away.
Also, does anyone understand why turning young doesn’t kill her anymore? Is it because the source is no different?
I disklike plots where everything could be resolved if one person would just say what they saw or heard. A simple “Yo, I just heard them talking about how they want to assimilate us into their weird mushroom tribe” would have solved everything.
I hate it when good but naive characters get preyed upon by cults and swindlers the same way someone might hate seeing a kitten getting beaten. It makes me angry and I stop enjoying whatever I'm watching or reading. Luckily it turned out okay in the end, but I can’t say I enjoyed this episode very much at all.
Yes, but in Goblin Slayer the human victims didn't fall in love with the goblins and had severe psychological trauma as a result of what happened to them.
Here the human girls are reduced to sex wish fulfillment for the reader: "wohoo you goblins killed my friends and abducted me, please let me ride this tasty MC dick in a orgy". I had more respect for the show in the first episode where the first group of girls rather took poison.
Hey there.
Post that are made to the lightnovels community (!lightnovels@ani.social) from the lemmy.world instance (for example this post https://lemmy.world/post/13768303) don’t show up here.
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included
It's official. You're not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don't let anyone tell you anything else!
The series has a very likable cast and mixes comfy reverse isekai moments with fantasy characters gushing over modern Earth food and entertainment and adventuring action episodes in the isekai world.
Marie is voiced by Kaede Hondo (Eiko Tsukimi from Ya Boy Kongming!, Sakura Minamoto from Zombie Land Saga, Hikari Takanashi from Interviews with Monster Girls and Best Barkeep from Hinamatsuri)
Kazuhiro is voiced by Yusuke Kobayashi (Natsuki, Subaru from Re:Zero, Sugawara, Senichi from Tsurune, Tachibana, Tomoki from Hand Shakers)
Also: Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret, Hell Is Dark with No Flowers light novels
! Title: Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret Creators: Soitiro Watase (story), Ginta (illustrations), Reki Kawahara (supervision) Summary: Sword Art Online, as reimagined by famed fantasy author Soitiro Watase! Asuka Empire. A Japanese-style VRMMO created by Akihiko Kayaba from a VR engine entitled “The Seed”—a game once played by Yuuki, Ran, and Merida of the Sleeping Knights that hides many stories. Two young women—warrior priestess Nayuta and ninja Koyomi, who became friends in-game—come across a mysterious priest named Yanagi. The elderly man tells them that he's looking for a detective to solve a riddle with a one-million-yen reward. The girls are shocked by the outlandish sum for this peculiar request, and then they meet an equally peculiar young man, who claims to be able to do this job as well as any other detective. With all his stat points invested in Luck, the man is useless in battle, but he does still seem to have some tricks up his sleeve, like that unbeatable drop rate for rare items... The mystery unfolds as two young girls and their dubious detective partner try to solve the case in this cutting-edge VRMMO world!
! Title: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers light novels Creator: Yoru Michio (story), Ruka Todo (art) Summary: Seiji Tohno sometimes sees the people around him as monsters. It is a curse that had driven him to a life of despair, living out of internet cafés with nowhere to call home...but all that changes one twilit evening when he stumbles across a huge European mansion. There, Seiji meets a bewitchingly beautiful boy dressed in a kimono with a white peony motif on the shoulder, who introduces himself as Shiroshi Saijou. This mysterious young man seems to know more about Seiji than he does himself, and before he knows it, Seiji has agreed to become Shiroshi's assistant in exchange for room and board. Little does he know, however, this “proxy service,”' as Shiroshi puts it, is none other than outsourced death! Sending monster-possessed sinners to Hell, will bring Seiji face-to-face with terrifying new creatures each and every day!
! Title: My First Love's Kiss light novels Creators: Hitoma Iruma (story), Fly (illustrations) Summary: Takasora Hoshi's life is upended when a girl from her class named Umi Mizuike and her mother temporarily move into her family's cramped apartment. From the outset of this arrangement, Takasora finds herself annoyed by Umi's behavior...and her good looks. And though the two girls initially agree to avoid interfering with each other's lives, Takasora can't help but start to wonder where Umi keeps wandering off to at night… From the author of Adachi and Shimamura comes the bittersweet tale of two high school girls whose lives are thrust together under the same roof.
Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realizing it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?
Genre: Comedy Romance School Life Slice of Life
Plain, boring, and friendless Nukumizu Kazuhiko has witnessed something completely baffling: popular girl Yanami Anna was friend-zoned by her childhood friend and crush! In fact, all the popular girls around him are getting similarly rejected by the boys they like. Without realizing it, Kazuhiko becomes entangled in the relationship drama where all the leading heroines are losing out on love! Can he keep their spirits up and help them find happiness?
Genre: Comedy Romance School Life Slice of Life
6 Volumes (Ongoing) in JP
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
I’ve not yet played it myself apart from he first 20 or so minutes, but I heard nothing but the best about the game.
Hello everyone, both old and new!
It has become very quickly clear to me that the ani.social instance is a better fit for this community. Comparing the engagement alone over at .ml after 8 months and here after only 3 days is hardly something to dispute. And that isn't even counting the support from mods of "adjacent" communities. Special thanks to @wjs018@ani.social!
So I decided, with both a heavy heart and anticipatory elation, to go along with the migration and make it permanent. I closed down the .ml community and going forward I'll post my weekly updates only here.
There is also good news (more good news?)! Honestly, it has been a struggle to keep it up over the last few months, and actually seeing some engagement here right off the bat did wonders for my (renewed) motivation. So yesterday I channeled my inner motivational demon lord and set up 3 things for the community:
- a Light Novel Wiki (reachable at https://lnwiki.bitkata.de/)
- a Discord Server (Invite Link: https://discord.gg/VJ7yrfq2ex)
- a clean Minecraft Server (add "yurgenschmidt.bitkata.de" to your server list)
Necessary (for currently 17 users)? No, but let's start the new home for the community with a bang ;)
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I hope the community will thrive here and we can enrich our reading hobby with additional discussions.
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|----------------------|-------------| | 2024-02-12 | The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-13 | The Dawn of the Witch | 5 | Kodansha | 🖥️📖 | | 2024-02-13 | The Death Mage | 4 | One Peace Books | 🖥️📖 | | 2024-02-14 | I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness | 3 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-15 | Magic Stone Gourmet: Eating Magical Power Made Me The Strongest | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-15 | My Pet is a Saintess | 1 | Hanashi Media | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-15 | Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling | 6 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-16 | BLADE & BASTARD: Return of The Hrathnir | 3 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
Hey everyone. What seems to have been established itself as the main anime related instance, ani.social, has been defederated from Lemmy.ml.
I am wondering if it would be better to move this community over here so I will copy my posts from lemmy.ml here in ani.social for a while as well and then see where more engagement is happening. Since I create the posts by hand (I can’t program a bot) I don’t want to have this a permanent solution, but I’ll give it at least a few months or until it’s clear where the greener pastures are.
So basically:
- There is a new LightNovel community on ani.social now
- You can all vote where the permanent home should be by using whichever you like better.
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|----------------------------|--------| | 2024-02-05 | The Invincible Little Lady | 5 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-06 | Berserk of Gluttony | 8 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | 2024-02-06 | Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō | 4 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | 2024-02-07 | RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin' | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-07 | Seventh | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-07 | The Exiled Noble Rises as the Holy King: Befriending Fluffy Beasts and a Holy Maiden with My Ultimate Cheat Skill! | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-08 | DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-08 | Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear | 17 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-08 | Loner Life in Another World | 8 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-08 | Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-09 | Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | 2024-02-09 | Sword Saint Adel's Second Chance | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
NineSwords @ani.social If my monsters are imagined, why do they trigger the motion sensor lights?