So glad Spellblades is getting the recognition it deserves now that the plot really kicked off.

Very promising first episode. A fantasy story without isekai, no overpowered MC so far, feels more like Harry Potter than anime.

There's a cool idea in the Nasuverse called "Conceptual Weapons" - magical weapons that, rather than dealing direct damage, apply certain concepts to people to make them dead. For instance you have the Gae Bolg, a spear that "reverses cause and effect, determining that it has pierced through the heart and warping reality to fit that outcome". So how do you avoid it? Since there's no way to avoid your heart being pierced, you try to ensure that your heart being hit doesn't kill you, one way or another. Or there's the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which allow you to see lines on people that you can trace to "apply the concept of death" to them, metaphorically taking their inevitable death in the future and bringing it into the present. A consequence of this is that it doesn't work on immortal beings, since they have no death in the future. (it's actually much more complicated than that, and too convoluted to explain here)

These are kind of OP examples but you get the point - this allows you to approach combat as a puzzle for the players to solve rather than a numbers game.

I only read the 1st book so can't speak to the rest of them, but imo absolutely not. The TV show's finale was garbage. That said Episode 6, which deviated quite a lot from the book, I actually preferred to the part in the book that's supposed to correspond to it.

Was reading Release That Witch but dropped it pretty fast. Other than that, catching up on the latest volume of Ascendance of a Bookworm, patiently waiting for Re:Zero vol 22 and slowly making my way through the Spice & Wolf audiobooks

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness.

Also I'm an anime girl now, deal with it. I let Design browse the internet unsupervised ONE TIME and now she won't stop making me look like her waifu of the week.

Alright alright jokes aside I'm not gonna make this into a gimmick account lol

Does it, though? An instance could theoretically become so big it overshadows all others, then defederate from everyone.

<j> ikr, those people are actual zombies. </j> i kinda like the one liner contests. seeing my favorite niche (or not so niche) subreddits pop up in unrelated places is one of the main appeals of reddit to me.