anime

regardless of what they have done, the fact that this arc was entertaining is a feat

I would say that is just as much on the script writers, as it is the animators though

don't forget the voice director

They still have the director I really like

Who did the earlier seasons and princess connect

The guy I liked who did some script work on S1 sadly never returned

(creator of Kamikatsu)

Too busy working on season 2

Polu it would make my year if S2 of kamikatsu was announced

or S1 of the spinoff

They will announce it at the nintendo direct

I have faith

Oh yeah, I forgot the kamikatsu studio was working with Silver on S2 of this https://myanimelist.net/anime/49981/Kimi_to_Boku_no_Saigo_no_Senjou_Aruiwa_Sekai_ga_Hajimaru_Seisen_Season_II

I have to finish rewatching S1 of this

I did the first 3 episodes, then got busy with my thesis

oh yeah that series I recommended then didn't watch

lmao

I thought you did watch it, I always write this in my head as "the leg anime"

thats funny

I read it

I enjoyed S1

even with this good animation and production I still don't like this Konosuba arc

I flat-out, don't like Darkness as a character past vol 2 or 3, through the entire series and spin-offs

she's always been the worst character

you can write funny situations with her in them, she doesn't take away from other characters or good writing but I have zero investment in her and don't enjoy her stories

idk why

That said, I think this season is pretty good, though I don't like the studio as much as everyone else does

i like the free stye to the animation that goes off model for effect

also known as the obvious strategy

That is literally a scene out of liar liar's last arc

It is amazing how similar this show looks/ is in premise

https://vxtwitter.com/roshidere/status/1799003374148288911

anyone know if the titular fluent russian speaker is speaking with a believable accent?

My read is that she's choosing to speak slowly to simulate an accent, she's a good VA and did a good job here

I like Russian anime characters

Dungeon Meshi's last episode was good

the weird part will be, they only have 1 more cour left to adapt, so it's kind of strange how they aired a 24e S1

probably early-mid next year they'll air the last arc

the play is to not air a 2nd season at all and leave everyone in permanent suspense

Not surprising. Dungeon Meshi was doing very well and Trigger seems to like it

I think the second half has been way stronger than the first half

the adaptation is 66-75% complete depending on how you count chapters/story adaptation

so there's not much left to go, my guess is they got a headstart on production after S1 blew sales expectations out of the water

Yeah that is probably the case

so we'll probably see the conclusion early-mid next year

Oh, that’s convenient

oh no

It's the same people who made Promare. The visuals to that movie looked good, but I never saw it.

Trigger made Promare

Oh it's just the people who did the CG

Unrelated because you are mistaken, but I think trigger is a good studio for visuals

a certain type of show that needs to stretchy goofy animation, they nail

Can someone explain the motivations behind the evil faction in Slime Isekai?

which one

(I have not watched todays episode)

the vamp larpers

so, monster racism made sense Daemon Lord supremacy or influence jockying made sense

personal vendettas against the Storm Dragon or against human reincarnations makes sense sure

but it seems like the main evil faction now is opposed to "economic development"

and I feel like I have to be missing something

subtle political commentary

if it's that, I genuinely can't see the parallels is the thing you get mentions here or there about Eastern Merchants or w/e, but nothing that makes sense for the ultimate evil faction to oppose the MC and destabilize half the world to prevent international trade from occurring

I think the premise that they just hate Japanification, and need to prevent Slime from using his isekai autism to invent ramen shops

would be better writing than what we got

they should just really hate mayonaise

it's a merchant faction so... i guess they want to keep wealth centralized in their territory as opposed to shifting to Tempest. i think they're gonna get pushed aside by.... Yuuki's(if that was his name) faction, since it seems he's manipulating them in some way. actually grandmaster yuuki is the one i dont understand. idk if i'm forgetting something from previous seasons, but idk why he wants rimuru dead.

My guess is that Yuuki is opposed to Japan for w/e reason, and that ends up being the overall motivation, which I said was fine The merchant vamp faction though, I feel like I want the show to explain to me PRECISELY how economic development is bad, because they used that line in today's episode and it was laughable. If they decide to use some justification like: "we use monsters as slave labour, and Tempest prevents us from getting cheap slaves" that's at least something, even though it's ooc because Rimaru isn't anti-slavery. But you know as well as I do Dialga, that economics is not a zero sum game and increasing the overall production in the world is EXACTLY WHAT MERCHANTS WANT because they can trade more finished goods then. They did bring up the angels again, which are a funny mechanic, but are probably the only interesting aspect left to play with since the power scaling of the rest of the world is completely solved at this point

idk, I'm just annoyed that the merchant faction is opposed to merchanting

today's episode of meetings was much better paced than the other 10 meeting episodes though

so I'll give them credit for that

but spooky listen, what if they're bad merchants

who only know Eu4 trade mechanics

the guy at the end of the trade route is the winner, not the whole trade route

They spent all their bird mana re-rolling for admirals

" I feel like I want the show to explain to me PRECISELY how economic development is bad" Slime S3 is the inverse of spice and wolf

lol

Speaking of, I am an episode behind, but Passione is killing it with the remake

anyway spooky the idea i think is being run with