The exposition is a bit hamfisted and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story, but I feel like it could be a lot worse (Bookworm PTSD).

Another power fantasy. I give this first episode a 5 because it’s so generic but not bad either.

The opening sequence is also excellent. It’s packed with references to various cultural works (Spiderman, LotR, Nirvana, and a bunch of others), and I probably didn’t even catch half of them.

the ones I recognized:

Footlose

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Leon The Professional

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Dumb&Dumber

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Trainspotting

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Nirvana Nevermind Was wrong here. It was Trainspotting, which also fits better with the film setting.

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The Usual Suspects

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Breakfast Club

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The Evil Dead (maybe, its a reach)

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Lord of the Rings

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Fight Club

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Resident Evil Extinction

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Spiderman 3

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Pulp Fiction

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Wednesday Adams

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Saturday Night Feaver

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Fallen Angels

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A Better Tomorrow

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Chinatown

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Conclave

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Project A

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Ready of Not

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Blade Runner

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Coffeee and Cigarettes

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Flashdance

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Stand by Me

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The King of Comedy

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The Yellow Handkerchief

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Pierrot le Fou

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Night On Earth

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Farewell Friend

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Blue Spring

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Either way, anime YouTuber will have a field day with this one. I can’t wait to see a side by side of the entire opening with the original shots.

edit: thanks to the internet sleuths I have some reference material as well and references that I missed.

Still so many scenes missing…

Can you imagine you are a light novel author and your editor tells you you finally get a anime adaptation. And then he tells you it will be handled by GoHands. That’s nightmare fuel.

That was great. The hook works and I want to know how this will turn out. The animation is also beautiful and the OP is a banger.

Okay, I have to ask: WTF?!

This is kinda bad with how power-fantasy-esque this is. But it’s the kind of bad that I find entertaining, so it stays in the list.

It sucks that they skipped all of Luciana’s hard work paying off and surprising her friends with this:

In the light novel there Luciana’s friends are stunned by the change since their last time replaying basically the same gag we’ve seen this episode 2 times already, but I think that tea party important to show the relationship those 3 girls have. The anime points out that the Rudelbergs are indebted to those two families who helped them out. But the LN goes out of its way to show that those two girls aren’t looking down on Luciana and are genuinely happy that her living circumstances has improved so much even though everyone else in noble society is looking down and shunning her. I feel that them being real friends is lost in the anime by skipping this scene.

Dude, don’t talk about pizza and loli in the same sentence. Just don’t.

I feel like I’ve seen that same show a million times already.

<History of the Kingdom of Orcsen: How the Barbarian Orcish Nation Came to Burn Down the Peaceful Elfland> by Kyoichiro Tarumi - ★☆☆☆☆, 166 MynePages™ - This reads like an officer’s manual on WW1 military logistics. The author is gushing for chapters on chapters about stuff like the size of warehouse bay matching the size and height of supply wagons. Or the procurement of produce to supply an army with MREs, complete with a detailed list of how much a soldier gets.

The Orcsen Army has determined that each soldier deployed in the field should be supplied with the following daily:

Rye Bread: 3.3 pounds, or hardtack: 2.4 pounds

Potatoes or vegetables: 3.3 pounds

Pork or processed pork: 3.2 ounces

Beef, processed beef, or other processed meat: 8.5 ounces

Beef tallow or dehydrated vegetables: 3.2 ounces

Sauce: 1 ounce

Marmalade or honey: 14 ounces

Beer: 0.2 L, or wine: 0. 2 L, or liquor: 0.05 L

Coffee: 0.5 ounces

The entire fantasy theme is just a very, very thin veneer. The author just took some WW1 military otaku fan-fic, replaced the word “German” with “Orcsen” and put some fantasy lines every couple of pages to say it’s a fantasy LN. I would say there is about 3-4% of fantasy novels, and the rest is a military logistics circle-jerk about wheel sizes of light supply wagons and ammunition caliber sizes.

Dropped at 68% since there was literally no story here after the first chapter.

<The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 14> by Fuurou- ★★★★☆, 140 MynePages™ - A twin heavy volume, so I wonder why they’re not on the cover.

<To Another World… with Land Mines!> - Volume 13 by Itsuki Mizuho - ★★★☆☆, 251 MynePages™ - Please J-Novel fire your editors and hire someone who actually proofreads your novels. I don’t even care about the occasional typo or a missing space here and there, but if I have to reread sections just to understand what was possibly the intended word, then I’m close to dropping a book. For example, they have a fantasy crop called “notato” (yes, really creative, I know), but in the volume, there are parts where “notato” was clearly auto-corrected to other words. When they suddenly start talking about “potatoes,” I can understand what they are actually talking about easily enough. I get annoyed, but it’s not too bad. But when they suddenly talk about “notation”, this fucks up my reading flow when sentences suddenly don’t make any sense anymore. Still no landmines by the way.

Seeing Hartmut acting normal gives e the icks.

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I don’t know how I feel about the art style. If it were anything else than Sekiro, I would be in love, but I don’t think it’s fitting into the game’s aesthetic.

Kimi to natsu no owari shourai no yume, oukina kibou wasurenai…

By the way, that song should have been in the list from this post today!

Nagi no Asu kara has that refreshing sea theme.

The pilot was a bit strange and out of order. They’re basically pulling a Bookworm where they show off something from later on to show off fan favorite Luciana early on instead of going in order, just like Bookworm did with Ferdinand. I wonder how this episode felt to anime-only watchers. But one thing is clear: Maid-Magic truly is the most powerful magic there is.

Sounds good. I hope it gets an official translation.

What’s really fascinating is that I read through the entire thing without dropping it. It was like watching a car crash in slow motion. You don’t want to see it, but you can’t look away either.

I’m late to the thread, and there are already some real highlights mentioned so I’ll just add some that are criminal ly missing:

• Mitsuboshi Colors
• Strawberry Marshmallow
• Sweetness & Lightning
• Minami-ke
• Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
• Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
• Interviews With Monster Girls
• Girls’ Last Tour