I would assume every time you hear complaints flare up again it’s because there has been a new case.

Where to start. They have so many issues that there is something in there for everyone:

• price hikes and end of the free tier
• declining quality of subs and the use of AI for subs
• activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate <— with the previous point, now both the pro-AI and anti-ai crowd are unhappy
• data breach (at least one, but I think they had two)
• Funimation customers got fucked since they lost access to purchased content after the merger with Crunchy
• monopolistic tendencies and general corporate greed and tactics
• comment sections got removed because people dared to be negative

And possibly a myriad others. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Crunchy mentioned in a positive way.

I take AI subs over activists rewriting character any day of the week.

As I said, I like isekais, so I’m not trying to shit on the genre, but my working theory is that for a lot of authors, this is used as a narrative crutch. A helper setting that allows them to describe the world in contemporary terms. The dragons were “large as a school bus” instead of “one score feet long and as high as a korrexian wabbit can jump”. Coming up with a working magic system is hard, but saying it’s like video game skills is a lot easier. They might also find writing something that they know easier than tackling something unique for their first steps. And tracing back many animes to the source, it makes sense as well. Many shows start as web novels from hobbyist writers. It’s no wonder they take to the isekai setting. It’s popular, and it makes writing easier. It’s a win-win in that regard.

On the flip side, this also means that many isekais are written by first-time authors writing glorified fan fiction, and it shows in the quality of many shows. So the problem is not the setting but the quality benchmark Kadokawa has for what gets picked up.

Isekai is one of my favorite genres, but man, they really have a low standard of what they publish or adapt.

Full marks. Who’s a very good little librarian? You are!

@Myne@ani.social , do you know by now who “Big Sister Hanelore” is in the novel “Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 2”? And why she was called a big sister specifically?

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Nope @Myne@ani.social , we’re talking about the book Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 2 here.

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Hey @Myne@ani.social, what is this “Big Sister Hannelore” he is speaking of?

Lots of stuff this week for me. I’m on vacation next week, so I hope I can lighten my backlog a bit. Especially happy to see a new Tearmoon, even if it’s just short stories. The release schedule of that series is depressingly slow.

<Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! Vol. 2> by Atekichi - ★★★☆☆, 166 MynePages™ - There are a few minor plot holes in this volume. Nothing too glaring, but they still stand out when reading the volumes back to back.

<Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! Vol. 3> by Atekichi - ★★★☆☆, 200 MynePages™ - This time they go on a summer vacation, and the plot gets a couple more threads up to the point where it’s starting to feel convoluted. I hope it gets reigned in a bit with the different directions the plot tries to go all at once.

<Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! Vol. 4> by Atekichi - ★★★☆☆, 182 MynePages™ - Young people beware - parenting anecdote incoming: You know how, when your kids do something genuinely funny, and you laugh, and they then repeat that same thing? While you laughed organically the first time you laugh out of obligation, the next couple times because you know that your kid is just trying to make you happy and it’s endearing, but after the 20th time, you are thinking that it wasn’t actually that funny in the first place, and you’re desperately looking for ways to distract your kid to make it stop? Yeah, that series is doing something similar with the deadpan narration. It was funny at first, and the author seems to have gotten the feedback. But now they’re trying to force it again and again because apparently people liked it. And by volume 4, it’s just hurting, and I’m wishing I could tell them that there is an ice cream seller near. Let’s get some ice cream, okay? You like ice cream, don’t you? Please?!

Finally Lessy. Doesn’t make the rest any better but I try to tune that out.

Where is the Inou Battle mention?

Don’t know about dubs.

If you like the manga then you will love the anime. It’s the best adaptation I’ve ever seen.

Po or angel girl. Forgot the first rule: never bet against an isekai protag.

Î am aware.

I don’t think I can look past the art style.

So many new series. From the synopsis, The Alchemist’s Fluffy Island Getaway and Return of the Corpse King could be something for me.