It’s a slow burn for sure.
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The track list made me chuckle. But the Walkman Fu was using was from 1979, so the production team get a bonk for not using songs from the right year. Or maybe it took 1-2 years for the songs to reach Japanse shores. In which case I haven't said anything.
if someone wants to guess the songs:
- Hotel San-Fran / Falcons = Hotel California / Eagles (1976)
- Hoe Deep is Your Sadness /BGs = How Deep is Your Love / Bee Gees (1977)
- Ma Taker / Boney N. = Ma Baker / Boney M. (1977)
- I Feel Crushed / Donna Spring = I Feel Love / Donna Summer (1977)
- West Coast / Feather = East Coast / The Rock (1978)
- Roger, We Can Boogie / Quattro = Yes Sir, I Can Boogie / Baccara (1977)
- You Light Up My Future / Debbie = You Light Up My Life / Debby Boone (1977)
- Don't Let Me Down / Santa Emerald = Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood / Santa Esmeralda (1977)
- We Are The No.1 / Princess = We Are The Champions / Queen (1977)
- I Just Wanna Be Your Something / Landy Gib = I Just Want to Be Your Everything / Andy Gibb (1977)
No, definitely wouldn't have made it better. But I still feel unsatisfied with such an important point just omitted. Aya died in her mid 60s so there could have been a lot of possible explanations given for her passing, but at the same time it's young enough that I am left wondering what the reason was.
They could have made it even worse. They didn't say why Aya passed away at such a young age. Let me spin you a story:
Since she obviously didn't make it big time and only played a single concert in a shady club in NY, she got disillusioned when hear dream didn't come true. She found solace in drugs and an abusive boyfriend who pimped her out. One of those customers beat her to death in a drug induced rage when she tried to steal some of his drugs for her own addiction. The club owner only has her guitar because she pawned it off early on. As to why it was special to him... he was the boyfriend how pimped her out and he's remorseful for indirectly causing her death. 3 days after Fu brought back those memories a he gets found by those band members we saw in the episode with an overdose and a suicide note saying just "sorry". And it could all have taken a different turn if only Fu had confided in Aya back then.
I loved the first episode. It felt so fresh for the isekai genre. But now by episode 3 I'm over the gimmick and bored. The introduction of those cliche villains at the end there wasn't helping either. The demon daughter (I assume) was the only thing I found interesting this episode.
I really like that Aqua got humanized. So far he only came across as this calculating revenge machine without any human emotion. To me he's always been an unlikeable character. But showing him now actually suffering from losing his mom, makes him more likable to me. It's not nice to say "hey, I like you better with PTSD" but it is what it is.
Akane seems like a genuinely good person to me and I hope her love will be returned at some point.
I will never understand how anyone can see that kind of CGi and then say “okay, let’s go with that”. I mean, it’s still too good for that trash of a series but damn it’s bad.
LN spoiler
Also see how everyone in this world is either a rapist, murderer, torturer, manipulative OR a good looking female with the purest of souls? Let’s just say this is a reccuring theme.
I had hoped that they would get rid of the vtuber model in real life thing they had going and would explore more about the world of vtubing with all the positives and negatives that entails. As it stands it’s just the setting as a background for cheap alcohol jokes and feels incredible disingenuous to the vtuber fandom. I actually feel kinda pissed off by it, so it’s a hard drop for me.
As a self entitles source reader snob I often shit about anime adaptations of titles that I love. This whole arc with Abiko is so relatable, especially her hate for deviations from the source. But I will try to be less harsh in the future now that I understand better how those changes come to be.
Hopefully we’ll get a taste in the next episode.
I suppose we have to wait for episode 4 for that. I like the slow pace though. As a source reader it’s nice to see an adaptation that isn’t rushed to hell and back for once.
Some unsorted notes:
- Penkin’s gonna Penkin
- I’m intriegued by the world building
- Daughter is in the living room on a discord call with her friends playing Elden Ring and I’ve passed throught he room on the way to the kitchen screaming “CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!” at the top of my lungs. Has absolutely nothign to do with the episode but I thought I was funny and wanted to tell someone.
- Was the teacher real? Why the memory erasure. I didn’t quite get the reason.
- What’s wrong with her pants? That’s bothering me more than it should.
- I like the visuals/art style.
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[NEWS] Cross Infinite World Licenses Let's Get to Villainessin', Soup Forest, 3 More Light Novels
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Cross Infinite World announced on Tuesday that it has licensed five new light novel series:
Title: By a Twist of Fate, I'm Attending the Royal Academy in Disguise
Creators: Ringo (story), Tsukasa Satsuki (art)
Release Date: May 31 (digital), physical version at later date
Synopsis: Cesia, a mere servant, is attending the Royal Academy in place of the lazy, pampered daughter of the viscount she works for, all for a massive monetary reward upon her successful graduation that would allow her to live the rest of her life without any worries. She spends her days avoiding the feeble bullying of the ladies of the Academy while being worked to the bone at the viscount's mansion—until just before graduation, when she gets tricked and her pay completely vanishes! Furious, she vows to get even, no matter what it takes, when out of nowhere, the second prince shows up and offers to help her? A spunky heroine with determined resistance as her motto and a mischievous prince who puts his life on the line for his country meet in this love story where anything could happen!
Title: Let's Get to Villainessin': Stratagems of a Former Commoner
Creators: Hiironoame (story), Misumi (art)
Release Date: July 31 (digital), physical version at later date
Synopsis: Would you become the villainess to save your beloved baby sister? That was the deal promised to Mio Satou by Shizuki Sakurazaka, heiress of the Sakurazaka Group, one of the most powerful conglomerates that dominate modern day Japan. The terms? Take her place in life. Survive three years at an elite academy where the progeny of tycoons and moguls roam, and in return, Shizuki will cure Mio's terminally ill sister. But in a revelation that turns Mio's world upside down, Shizuki reveals that their reality is based on an otome game from her previous life, with herself as the game's original antagonist—an antagonist whose downfall was essential in guiding the world to its happy ending. Now, as former “commoner” Mio steps into the labyrinth of high society, can she successfully navigate her way to her predetermined demise and her sister's rescue, or does more than just doom await her at the end of this journey?
Title: Soup Forest: The Story of the Woman Who Speaks with Animals and the Former Mercenary
Creators: Syuu (story), Muni (art)
Release Date: June 30 (digital), physical version at later date
Synopsis: Sometimes it's animals, sometimes it's humans, but, today too, the person coming to Olivia's restaurant holds painful memories in their heart.
Olivia, who runs a soup restaurant outside of town on the edge of the forest, has a secret she can't tell anyone. She can hear animals' and humans' inner voices. This ability left her alienated from her family to the point that they sent her away to a convent when she was only five years old. After escaping while en route, she was brought to the restaurant by the people who would become her adoptive grandparents. Twenty years later, Olivia continues to live with her heart closed off to other humans, until, one day, a former mercenary by the name of Arthur stops by on a rainy morning, dripping wet. And what are those feelings he starts to develop for her?
Soup Forest is a place of meetings and partings, a place filled with the forest's bounties, a place of gathering for both animals and humans. They come together, share a meal, go their separate ways, and continue on with their lives.
Title: The Former Assassin Who Got Reincarnated as a Noble Girl
Creators: Satsuki Otonashi (story), MiRea (art)
Release Date: July 31 (digital), physical version at later date
Synopsis: Enter Lady Selena, the former assassin who assumed it'd be easy to step into the role of pampered mademoiselle, but who finds herself aggravated by how differently she views things compared to her flower-brained mother and her scheming, deceitful (yet utterly ineffective) stepsister. She navigates tea parties filled with ladies attempting to assert their dominance, attends an academy thick with ulterior motives, and dodges harassment flung at her with an icy glare and fierce counters, but it's that stone-cold heart of hers that leaves her isolated and alone.
One day, she learns her stepsister has become engaged to the second prince, a fact that forces her to run away from home. She doesn't get far before bumping into someone, however, and that someone just happens to be the first prince. Come watch as the cold-blooded former assassin who's never known love dives fearlessly into noble society!
Title: Too Strong to Belong! Banished to Another World!
Creators: Kazuki Karasawa (story), Akane Rica (art)
Release Date: August 31 (digital), physical version at later date
Synopsis: Sakurako longs to fall in love. Unfortunately, her super-strength scares everybody off! If only she were normal… But then she would have died long ago. Her continued survival jeopardizes time and space, so God sends Sakurako and her lovelorn best friend Kazuya to another world.
Um, a place where she can be a delicate damsel and finally get a boyfriend? Yes, please!
Will Sakurako make it as a weakling in a world of magic and monsters? Can Kazuya compete with the handsome hero in their party of adventurers? And what's this about a Demon King who's due to show up to destroy the world any day now?
467 grams for everything ever written YOU DUSTY OLD FARTS!
This is basically an ad for a video game but it still comes in at a dainty 170 grams and 328 pages. Very carryable.
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There isn't a thread for Dahlia In Bloom so I'll post here how much I HATE the voice of Volfred. He's supposed to be the super strong and tough soldier that stands at the vanguard of a monster hunter division that laughs death in the face. And then they somehow decided to go with a breathy shota twink voice for him. I hope they haven't ruined the LN for me.