NineSwords

Conceptionally I'm all for it. There are even series that have LN, Manga and Anime, so we could do a 3 medium thingy in theory. It's just becoming a huge tie investment at that stage, so maybe keeping the scope small for the first time would be a good idea. Like looking at just a specific high-profile scene from anime, manga and LN.

No not even close. The first season adapted only 2 volumes of the light novel which has currently 15 volumes.

That's a whiplash.

I was so scared for how this would play out, but with the Bento-Buddy in the picture, I think I'll have a good idea of where the show is going. I mean there is still a chance they Oreimo me in the end but here's to hope.

It's the type of trash that I really like but the love interests thirsting for a kid half their age is off-putting. I hope this will be put more into the background.

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.

It’s a slow burn for sure.

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.

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.