I was expecting something slightly lewder, considering the source (Methonium's manga series). Or longer, the episode has effectively, like, 10min?

I'm probably dropping this series midway, but for now it's interesting enough to keep going on.

I didn't read the source for this one, so the story is 100% new for me. It seems fun.

...okay, got to admit that, when I see people "reinventing" stuff from Earth, it makes me wonder why the locals never thought about it. If you have machines that can output wind/water/fire/earth, in controlled amounts, a hair drier is kind of obvious, isn't it? (At least it wasn't mayo or soy sauce.)

Rimuru is killing a few birds with a single stone: Veldora now can release his aura, Ramiris got a new home, Rimuru himself got some tasty source of profit for the city.

Okay... I'm rather pleased with this first episode. Yes, it is edgy. Yes, it makes you feel like singing "CRAAAAWLING IN MY SKIIIIN...". But you know what? It's fun.

The higher the number of people summoned from Earth, the higher the chances that the summoner is scum, and someone is trashed away. (Relevant detail: I can't help but associate the goddess' name "Vicius" with "vice".)

She doesn't get Touka's ability right, does she? She was talking about low accuracy, but apparently at least Paralyse hits true all/most of the time.

I've added Dahlia in Bloom to the list, thanks! It sounds like a fun series, I'll check it out too. By the synopses it sounds like the MC is trying to carve her place in the world, without relying on the others.

About QA in Another World: the story boils down to a bunch of debuggers trapped in the world of the game that they're debugging, and either accepting their fate or trying to go back to Earth. The main character (Haga) is one of those debuggers, but unlike the others he keeps diligently debugging the thing.

And as he's debugging a village scripted to burn down to a dragon attack, he meets a weird NPC, called Nikola; due to some bug Nikola doesn't die with the other villagers, and now she follows him as he's debugging everything.

So it's way less serious than the PVs make it look like, and considerably less serious than, let's say, Log Horizon (another "multiple people trapped inside a game world" story).

I recommend to give the first chapter of the manga a try. I personally find it fun, and I'm planning to follow the anime series.

I said metaphorically. But... well :D

Fuck. This season ending was well made. It's clear that they tried their hardest to make it bittersweet, and they got it.

Rudeus lost a father, but got a daughter; he lost an arm, but he has Roxy to support him. Norn might have bawled and created drama, but she's learning how to defend herself. Zenith is disabled, but she has Lilia to back her up. There's a "but" for every down that they got.

That scene with the grave was specially beautiful IMO. I feel like drinking booze with your parents is special, for both sides - they're acknowledging that you're an adult without losing that parent-child link. (Fuck, now I feel the urge to buy a bottle of liqueur and drink with my mum.)

I feel like this is something that Mushoku Tensei does amazingly well, in comparison with a lot of series made for masculine demographics: the main character is powerful, but not invincible. He has to sacrifice things to get other things. And it plays really well with the theme, that it's worth to go further and chase what you want, that you won't get things without effort.

I'll provide some LN spoilers simply because I can't help but talk about this. I'm excited for season three, after all.

Her cats are more well-behaved than mine, who sleeps on my belly. As if it was a mix of pillow, vertical rocking chair (it goes up... down... slowly... on itself!), and heating stone. Specially now in winter.

This pic is a great mix of cute and sexy by the way.

Urrrrgh, the urge to talk about it! I can't though - as I'm re-reading the LN right now. At least, until the next episode.

It was an OK episode, I guess. A bit unfulfilling as a season ending episode, but I'm glad to see Mireille joining the ranks after showing her value, without lowering the value of the other vassals.

The whole thing feels so awkward, but I'm glad that it does. It would feel really off if either knew exactly what to say, and how to say it.

This has been a long year. And I'm glad to be here.

Good girl gone bad bird!

Keep in mind that the series are only similar when it comes to the protag hating the goddess, but past that they're really different. Like, Makoto is by no means as sly and deceitful as Touka, while Seras (the deuteragonist elf in the PV) is there for the drama (unlike Tomoe and Mio).

Still, I think that it's worth checking out.

It was overall a good episode. A nice mix of action, romance, and the marriage to kick in. I guess that the next episode will be their early life as a married couple?

I wasn't expecting Lavinia to show up though. My sides went into orbit!

Aah, I really need to read this LN...

Exactly my thought!

It was a decent ride, I guess. Not overly exciting; but I like how ending the season with Gobjii's death gives it a "book endings" feel, at the start we see a bunch of goblins being born and then one dying, while the others move on with their lives.

And goddammit Aporou, let a dying person talk.

Depending on how they do it, the animation might be really fun. The story has the same "driving force" as Tsukimichi, of a character wanting revenge on the goddess that dumped him in a world; but it's far more serious, the overpowered skills aren't as flashy, there's no "city building" aspect but a lot of "my strategy beats yours".

And it's overall a good method. Language learning combos really well with fiction media, there's lots of room to create simple sentences that still make sense within that work (like they're doing with the "recipes"), and the series is popular so it's overall more enjoyable. (A good chunk of language learning is to keep yourself motivated.)

For reference: I've learned the basics of Latin through a similar method, but instead of Dungeon Meshi it was Aulularia (a Roman slapstick comedy). More than a decade later and I still have simple sentences from the method stuck in my head.

Pfffffft. Furio and Lys can't get some privacy, can they? GODDAMMIT AND OF COURSE THE MAOU WOULD FUCK THINGS UP.

(I really liked this episode.)