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Started Tonikawa and ten eps in I'm really enjoying it. I wasn't expecting to from the character designs or the concept but it's cute and wholesome.

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Watched some of Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement since the author of the story is also apparently the same one behind that potion anime I'm watching. I'm not sure what the point of this is. It's not really funny, it's not a slice of life, it doesn't have an overall plot, it doesn't have much in the way of any action or adventure, and it's also not visually or musically appealing. She supposedly has a goal in mind to save up all of this gold to retire and it doesn't make sense to me. Trying to figure out why, it occurs to me from reading other impressions on this show:

-Her powers are OP. She can teleport between worlds (anywhere she's seen), she heals from anything, and she can read/speak all languages.
-She's young. She's lost her family but it's not like they left her destitute. She has a house and money to the point that she can save fat stacks in her safe at home.
-She's not approaching the movement of Earth-goods to fantasy-land in a smart way. Which should get her burned at the stake, to be frank. For example, trying to sell an entire necklace of pearls beyond the quality the fantasy-land can possibly produce. Or bottles of soap.

Per the first two points above, it doesn't make sense that she'd be driven to retire. Yes, that money won't last forever and she could get stuck in the other world, so use those skills. The most obvious one being becoming a translator or some sort. The second most obvious is using her powers to acquire skills. Doesn't need a plane, a bus, or a car. She can look at a location and zap herself there. And she's so young that she faces few to any barriers. If this starred an 80-year old man or a 45-year old housewife or a burnt-out white collar worker in his 30's, those would be far more interesting approaches than a high school girl with her immediate needs taken care of and no responsibilities. It's not like she so much as has a pet to feed.

I realize her family's dead and that's sad. That she needs to deal with them being gone and that she recalls the advice of her dead brother (although her parents should get to chime in, too) is such a bittersweet moment from this show that actually carries the weight of human emotion. But this is also the only emotion in this show.

She should've had other struggles to really show her desperation at needing to save gold. Like her living situation drastically changing or the family leaving her with debt. Or her going to the other world being 100% random that it happens at any moment so she needs to be prepared with food and shelter. Why did she get healing powers? That had nothing to do with anything. And why wasn't her built-in Duolingo just exclusive to the fantasy world? She has too many advantages and is too well off (financially) that the premise feels super weak.

I heard the LN's better so I'm gonna assume it is and that the anime glossed over a lot of pertinent info.

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Pluto seems good. Acting, direction, setting, colors, animation... It's so well done from the first episode I saw. But it's hard to feel invested knowing what Pluto is and what the story turns out to be. Honestly, you only really need to Google what he looks like to be put off, assuming you've never seen him before. What... what the fuck is THAT? :lol:

This is probably another case of this being a "me" problem and everyone else will enjoy the shit outta this. But to me, the Blade Runner-esque investigation with Gesicht that this begins with is super fucking brilliant. Immersive. Interesting with the idea of a robot investigator who seems so human. But that's not really what the story is: it's not some singular detective story and I can't get on board with it. And while Atom is an excellent concept (scientist in his grief recreating dead son as a powerful robot), I find Atom himself incredibly weak as character for me. To see him at the end looking up into the sky and remembering the fallen... meh. Honestly, it was supposed to be a somber moment and I'm kinda cracking up at it because I'm thinking "look at all of the better characters that didn't get to survive this thing."

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I decided to try I Shall Survive Using Potions and watched the first three episodes. I was put off by the art but read a couple of opinions on it that liked it so I gave it a go. Overall, it's actually decent. The humor can be a tad cringey but the art is really the worst thing about it. At first it looks like it'll be chibi or something but, nah, it's mainly just this one chick who's been given the proportions of a child. And the weird thing is sometimes other characters will also have the wonky proportions, such as her two closest friends back on Earth. And then all of these other characters appear and some of them are a bit cartoony like she is while others are, just, uh, normal? Almost like a character designer missed a memo and was designing for a different show. If you can ignore the art, it's pretty okay. Although the comments from LN fans indicate it's left out some stuff.

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I like The Apothecary Diaries but the presentation is off. Not visually or music-wise, but with the way it's directed. The distribution of the stories among the episodes feels off and any sense of dramatic tension is sucked away from all the moments where they should be present.

Firstly, each episode ends with a lead into the story of the next episode. Miss me with that shit, that's so annoying. That's what the teaser for the next episode is for. We already have a teaser. It's so unnecessary. And what does this show do in the very next episode? RECAP what they showed us at the end of the previous episode. ARGH. 

Also, I don't know if the LN presentation was different so possibly the anime is more loyal than the manga. I can only go by the manga I read. But the manga I read had a much better first few chapters than this show had first episodes. In the manga, she's immediately kidnapped and put into the palace. I enjoyed how the manga throws you into her situation with no background info then proceeds along with the story in unfolding different aspects about Maomao: how she grew up in a brothel, how she's a crazy apothecary that experimented on herself, etc. We the reader learn little by little about her but don't get the full picture on her life there until she **not a spoiler, really** goes back home.  It all felt very organic.

This show instead blows its load in the beginning by showing various members of Maomao's family and Maomao's life before the palace, destroying that sense of curiosity and mystique about the main character that was a strong aspect of the manga as a non-LN reader. I get the distinct feeling but was done to use up running time as the first episode concludes around the end of the manga's first chapter, which indicates to me they didn't have enough material for the entire episode.

That said, it brings me back around to my first criticism: this damn show gets into the story beat of the next chapter ANYWAY. In other words, what's the point in trying to make sure one chapter/story uses up a full episode of running time if you're gonna overlap them anyway?  Cut out her damn family from the beginning of the first episode since WE MEET THEM LATER and continue with the story. They could've easily have ended the first episode with her meeting the other ladies in waiting, then ended the second episode in the latter part of the "sleepwalker" scenario, and the third episode could've ended when she's examining Lady Rifa and makes her realization about her condition. This would accomplish the same thing as inclusion of the next episode's material AND we get through the story at a much more tolerable pace. There's more than enough material so it's not like they have to pace themselves.

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I watched the S-rank adventurer one with girl and her dad. It's all right. If the whole show is this girl never seeing her father, it's gonna get super old super fast. By the end of episode one, the concept already felt stale.

Okay, I'm so glad to be wrong. Four episodes in and there's something somewhat resembling a plot. She even got to go home and see her dad. I was so worried this show was just gonna be eleven or whatever episodes of her not getting to see her dad. I'm relieved.

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I'm off work this Thursday...got an appointment with the local powet/internet company to run fiber into my house. My long-held, seeming pipe dream of gigabit innerwebs in Podunk Holler should become reality in a few short days! Hopefully I can spend the rest of the day catching up with some shows and a bit of yardwork now that the outdoor temps are finally sane.

Enjoy!

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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun...
I watched most of the first season, but I couldn't hang with it. Not that there was anything really bad about it.

That's very much this show.  There's nothing bad about it and it has some chuckle-worthy moments but there's also nothing stand-out. It's a kind, friendly shonen protagonist shonen-ing. It's a perfect "I'm on my cell phone but I want something decent in the background that doesn't make me angry" show.

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I thought you would love zombies. Anyway, they've already zombified the franchise. May as well stick actual zombies in it.

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Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun strikes me as something I would've really enjoyed thirty years ago. The character designs aren't amazing and the music's kinda annoying. If anything, it does make a good background show that I can have running while I'm browsing my phone or doing anything else. (I got through three eps this way.) I saw some manga art of this show and I liked the art but this show... it's so neon bright-looking at times that it's a turnoff color-wise. And not stylish-looking bright like Zom is but just annoyingly bright.

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Bibliophile Princess. I was skeptical of this one.  It looked bland as shit but so did Heretical Last Boss Queen and Sleepy Princess and I loves those two. Nah. This's bland as shit. Fourteen minutes in and nothing's fucking happening other than the princess got engaged and met Irene, who I am to understand is bad or some shit. I don't know because I wasn't interested enough to find out because this show's fuckin' boring. I get it. She loves books. That don't mean I wanna see her sit down and open and close books; pick books off of shelves; get books as gifts; etc. That's boring. Four years literally pass by and NOTHING happens. Jeez. Like someone watched Beauty and the Beast and thought people looooove bookish heroines. Okay, but do you understand that other things happened in that movie? We didn't just watch Belle silently grab books, sit with books, choose books, and get books without other stuff and characterization happening concurrently. Shiiiiiit... This show thinks I wanna sit here and watch some bright-ass anime with washed-out colors where a dull-ass chick sits and reads.

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I kinda watched Hulla Fulla Dance. The girls are cute but it's not very interesting. I just let it play in the background while I played Clash of Clans on my phone. Something happened in the film. It was dull.

I also tried a bit of Pompo: The Cinéphile. I started watching it dubbed and the singing at the beginning was soooo bad. :lol: Then there's this weird little girl who's, like, in charge or something talking about how another girl's gotta look sexy in the group's next film and we see that chick's bathing-suited tits and ass and I'm just... what the hell am I watching right now?  It seemed like it wanted to be funny and then there's this dude with bags under his eyes trying to pursue his film-making dreams but the little girl's in charge for some reason. It felt all over the place so I dumped it. Maybe I would've given it more of a chance if the singing in the beginning wasn't so bad. I suppose I could've switched to Japanese but I didn't care to. Nothing here pulled me in.

I also tried watching The Deer King because I've been curious about it but I stopped barely a minute in because it wasn't something I'm in the mood to watch. I'm looking for more light-hearted fare right now.

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I've tried your way but I find I'd rather skip parts entirely than watch a show or movie quickly. I call this the "nothing of value was lost" method. And if I'm lucky to find a synopsis, I can read through it quickly and move on not worrying that I missed anything. Alternatively, a synopsis may help pinpoint the best place to skip to in a program.

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I broke a couple of toes so I'm basically stuck being unable to do much of anything else other than sit in bed and watch YouTube and anime. I still work at home too although I have to go hybrid next year. So those circumstances and the Crunchyroll free trial that I deigned to actually keep for a little while are really the reasons why I'm consuming so much right now. I'm sort of catching up on stuff. Otherwise, I wouldn't be watching most of these shows. I will agree most of it is no good and you're not missing much. It's really hard to tell where age is a barrier and where the show is just bad, especially when so much material is about high schoolers and shows about high schoolers are so tired.


I watched Romantic Killer on Netflix. With more high schoolers in it. I liked it for the most part. But then an attempted r@pe and a psycho child-stalker make its way into this show in the last few episodes and it's, like, WHAT? I mean, all's well that end's well and it ends well, I suppose.  But, WHAT?  Those plot points were so out of place with the rest of the vibe of this show. It ruins any ability for this show to be comfy. And to add insult to injury, while the stalker was a plot point for a main character, the attempted r@pe was to a tertiary character who could've easily been removed entirely from this show and impact nothing. Look, sorry about your trauma but your story has no relevance to the plot. The r@pey guy shouldn't have even been here. It was so unnecessary.

I read some negative reviews because I was curious if anyone disliked these points and it's people complaining that the chick didn't end up with anyone, wanting the show to go in a different direction (like her getting isekai'd), or not liking most of the humor. And, it's like, okay, but what about the wannabe r@pist and the pedo-yandere? You were a-okay with them?  :blink:

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Finished Sleepy Princess and really liked it. I need more seasons of this. The dub was excellent, too.

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Watched a few things from previous seasons.

Tried Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle. It's cute and I chuckled a few times. I like it.

I also watched some of this Dead Detective thing with a girl named Siesta which was pretty bad. And something where some step siblings used to date. For that one, the overall show and premise didn't seem bad but the girl character was clearly looking to start conflict every single time and that was damn annoying so I dumped it.

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Looking though some stuff from prior seasons:

Handyman anime is okay.  It doesn't seem to have a plot from what I saw and that doesn't really interest me.  But it's not bad or anything.  Just not what I felt like watching.

I also watched Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway.  MEHHHHH. Wish this wasn't about a damaged teen runaway and adult man but whatever. It's not awful but not the type of story I care for.

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Watched the pig one and five minutes later dumped the pig one.

I'm watching the goofy boss one now and it's a nice palette cleanser show. Totally recommend it if you watched something stupid and/or gross and need a wholesome slice-of-life anime about white-collar Japanese men to wash the ol' brain.

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A Returner's Magic Should Be Special was boring. I've read some of the manhwa and was interested in this but that first episode was dull as fuck. How do you make fighting a dragon to the death and going back in time ten years earlier this boring? I might check in on later eps to see if this gets better.

Tearmoon meanwhile has a massive tone problem. Sometimes it's serious and then it's wacky. Hurr hurr. Did I really need to hear how the dumb chef makes his soup? Then we get a touching scene between Mia and Anne and her answer to rewarding three years of steadfast devotion from her servant is "ur muh handmaid nao." Yay. A promoted servant. Fabulous. ::) I get what it wanted to convey but doesn't accomplish the emotions it probably wanted in the least. Most Heretical Last Boss Queen did it better with three servants in its first episode than this show could do with one.

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Something compelled me to watch Baccano! It just never caught my interest before even though Merla's seen it back when it was on Netflix. I saw a clip on YouTube and decided to watch it. Anyway, I liked it. Didn't love it, but I liked it. Needed more Claire. Some of the other characters are annoying. Graham whoever was fucking obnoxious as shit. I was sad he didn't die. He was supposed to be another Ladd but came off as "Dollar Tree Ladd." The thieves sometimes wore out their welcome but they did make me chuckle at times. Jacuzzi was... Jacuzzi. But at least most of the annoying characters that were not Graham were given enough heart that I didn't loathe them like him. Oh, oh, and I skipped a whole-ass episode by accident. I got to the end of the specials and then they're talking about shit I never saw. Because the story's so non-linear, I didn't notice until five minutes or so before the end. And because it's so non-linear, I just went back and watched it. Then I watched the end. And the order didn't feel weird or anything. Odd that this show's not on any streaming service.

Oh and I actually watched it dubbed because the clip I saw was dubbed. English seemed to fit the setting better anyway.

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I couldn't sit through Kingdom of Ruin.

Our Dating Story was kind of dull. I like the girl's design.  She cute, damaged, discount-Marin. I'm okay with the general concept, too. But the sniveling guy and his two pathetica buddies are no bueno. Their voices probably make them worse that their designs and personalities. Jeez.

Speaking of voices, 16bit Sensation has one of the worst MC voices ever. I don't care what this is about.  Make it stop.

I keep meaning to see Under Ninja and forgetting.

Paradox Live the Animation. What the fuck is this? The they/them was kinda cute. But man, there were a lot of punchable faces in this one. Once we got to the annoying bat, I called it quits.

Oh, and I saw the Yuzuki family one. The one with the four orphan brothers. It's okay, I guess. The least offensive one out of this entire post. But I'm not really interested or invested in anything that's happening. This seems like the perfect anime to make things look cozy (as in the backgrounds and environments) and nothing is cozy-looking here. It's all sterile and empty. Too bad.

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A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life was entertaining enough. I'm interested in seeing where this goes.

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I didn't care for Deranged Detective. For me I want to solve the case with the detective. Either that or make the characters interesting enough that I don't give a shit about the case. This one does neither for me. The crime was stupid. Sure the kills were easy but what about moving the bodies? That couldn't have been easy. It's stupid. I don't care if these two guys are Guel from G-Witch and Arthur from Boss Queen. Love their voices but I could care less for their characters in this. The detective talking to the corpse was kinda fun tho'.

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I watched the Disgraced Noble Lady Getting a Crash Course in Naughtiness or whatever. It's not terrible and I guess the general concept is sweet in a way. But the execution is meh. It's paint by numbers with no sweetness, no spicyness, no laughs, no anger or sadness. This guy's mansion isn't scary or cozy. Nothing's cute nor sexy nor dynamic or bold. It's all just... there. I still gotta rate it higher than Helck because this show didn't manage to annoy me like that one did. Voice acting and design of the main guy is decent. But it's a very shrug-your-shoulders scroll-on-your-cellphone anime.

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I watched a bunch of new stuff. Nothing was an F but most of these may never be watched again:

The mother/daughter witch one was okay. Entertaining enough. Likely won't stick with it but it was relatively non-offensive.

Migi and Dali was like weird absurdist art. I don't know the point of it or how you'd successfully hide a whole- ass human being. I think the thing that really pulls me out of the story is how this rich couple is sooo enamoured with Hitori. How am I supposed to believe they wouldn't want two of them? They have the time, the money, the space... It makes no sense. Also, I can't help but get a bit of a creeper vibe here. Like someone's playing around with their fetishes. The Steve Jobs quip made me laugh though.

I watched the S-rank adventurer one with girl and her dad. It's all right. If the whole show is this girl never seeing her father, it's gonna get super old super fast. By the end of episode one, the concept already felt stale.

I'm in Love with the Villainess or whatever is fucking harassment. If the MC was a guy, it would have skeevy Nice Guy energy all over it. But it's a girl so it's "okay."  ::) I guess. The guys getting intrigued over the MC who has zero interest is kind of interesting. But the other characters come off super bland in appearance as well as in character. I saw the dub and one of the guys sounds miscasted entirely and it puts me off when he talks. I feel like the show wants it both ways: it wants a story where a femcel creeper "punishes" a bitchy bully with a secret heart of gold by being a masochist; and it also wants a light-hearted stakes-free teen romcom. I don't think it can have both. Maybe I'm wrong but it's not really working for me.

Started S2 of the Saint's Magic Power yada-yada. They have coffee in this world. At least the Saint didn't invent that, too. In watching this, I remembered that I binged S1. This is a binge anime for a lazy Saturday. Nothing really happens. The season opens up with a taste of a battle yet to come. But it's only there to convince the viewer to sit through the slow shit. I'll need to save this one for a binge.

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Are you an Initial D fan, or are you just watching for Ren? :-[

I forgot who Ren was and had to Google. :lol: I don't really have names down yet. I'm an Initial D fan. First season is best season though. And I couldn't bring myself to finish after Stage 4.

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I tried A Girl and her Groomer Guard Dog and could not sit through it. The relationship is gross and the eyes were also as awful as people said they were.

I watched MF Ghost and actually thought it was good. Good enough for me to chell out the next ep. Same for Shangri-la Frontier.

Re: Frieren, I could swear I read Heiter was only half-human and that's why he aged slower than Himmel. But it was the Mandela Effect apparently 'cause I can't find where I read that.

I also read people stating the horn made Himmel age worse. No idea if that's true or not.

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I hear the eyes are wonky-looking. Which they were in the trailer. But I haven't watched the show yet.

Saw one ep of Frieren. I liked it but I shouldn't have started the manga and just went in fresh. It would've kept my interest longer. I meant to marathon all four eps on CR and have a cozy Frieren night. Instead, I quit after one ep and will resume it later.

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I'm doing a Crunchyroll free trial just for the ease of trying some stuff although I don't like most of their offerings. It does let me watch the dubs of things I've already watched. A couple of shows really bothered me with how much 'yeah' is shoehorned in on the dub. I don't care if Marin from My Dress-Up Darling says 'yeah.' That's in her character. But then in that Saint show, when I checked out that dub, that late-twenties chick's saying 'yeah' all the time. I don't really seeing it being in character for an adult used to the strict standards of a Japanese office setting and now living in (and later near) a royal palace to say 'yeah' so much. It's nitpickery. There's worst offenders out there. But that's such an easy fix to have her say 'yes' instead.

I tried a bit of around four of so different shows I hadn't seen. Current shows. Like the vending machine one. I really didn't like any of them. That one reincarnation one where the dude's all "whoa" at his mother's own tits. EW. And there's some other one with this dude cleric that just looked MEH as shit.  I couldn't be bothered with the names of these.


For upcoming shit, this one caught my attention on YouTube. It's an adaptation of Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp.


I never heard of this before but binged most of the manwha version. It's decent. Nothing too exciting or spicy or anything. Very paint-by-numbers but the final painting is nice. I don't quite understand part of the concept. Like, this lady actually existed and then was reborn as someone else but then died and got thrown back to her past life. And there's some magic so how can this be the real world but yet it is in her next life? Kinda confusing. Not knowing these answers doesn't affect much storywise but it's one of those things that's bothersome the more you think about it.

Also, this kinda edges into the villainess-reincarnation trend because she was a bitch in her past life. However, it fails here like most of the other media I've watched with similar concepts in that it made her such a baaaaaad person but we the reader don't get to see enough of that side of the character (at least in the manwha version). I think only The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen is the only one I've seen so far that does a good job of setting up the MC's alternate self as a horrible person and a threat to society. Here, past Elise is burned at the stake but so far I have no idea how it even progressed to that. Like we're supposed to infer that she was awful but I need to see those things to feel it.

Also, it has the other issue this villainess stuff has in trying to balance the Mary Sue-ness of the main character. Here it's especially egregious. This woman gets titles and accolades left and right and literally has this fucking plaque under the painting of her and her husband at the end. Fuck off. :lol:

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My Happy Marriage ended. Don't know if we'll get more but I doubt I'll watch more. It nosedived imo. Nowhere near the nosedives of Ousama Ranking or I'm the Villainess so I'm Taming the Final Boss where those went from A to F-tier. But the cozy vibes were gone to have forced melodrama separating our couple and then Miyo, who never knew she even HAD powers, just decides she knows how to use her powers and saves Kiyoka. Kiyoka Kudo, who this story decided was so OP until he was suddenly fucking wasn't for some random fucking reason. It felt like bullshit.

I think the worst part was there were some easy fixes for the story.

-have Miyo's dreams still torment her but also have her slowly learn and come to terms with her powers in each subsequent dream to make the ending less of an ass-pull

-the Usubas should've been shown to be a craftier family. They couldn't even kidnap her properly and them pretending to bargain with Kiyoka was stupid. They should have lured her to their house and Miyo makes the choice to not stay with them and deal with her nightmares herself to be with Kiyoka. That way it's her direct choice. It's her progressing as a character and making clear decisions for herself. Then she could've used what she learned from her nightmares to push through and save Kiyoka when he needed her. The ending with her own cheer squad as she uses powers she never knew she had was stupid.

-the Usubas should've been the ones to directly attack and inflict Kiyoka with a dream-thing that Miyo needs to save him from. Even in retaliation for her choice.

I'd say this went from A to C or something.

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It's tough following up on light novel source material because as much as I'd like to read ahead, unofficial translations are usually kinda ass and the official translations are downright glacial. At least for stories I've been interested in.

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