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yes, but your perception totally changes after that, and some things I'll mention, won't make the same impact.

wait for ep 6 until late next week, then maybe I'll be in time to finish writing my comment.

I've read plenty of nice comments on reddit. I sent you one of those. Some nice comments on mal, but overall many stupid ones. Makes me realize how simplistic some people are, or at least that's what they make themselves out to be. Not sure if you've read comments after yours.
It was also nice that some thanked me for my post, saying they started reading the novel because of me. Or asking me if I was gonna update with ep 12 or not. As I was 3 hours into writing it lol. It was so long, and I had to check the novel again, and I was very exhausted, but I wanted to do it asap, and when you are low on energy, things take much longer. I finished the post in the end, and I think I even replied to your post on the same day, crazy.
There's even one guy on reddit, that still asking me questions in DMs. While I was happy answering some of the confusing questions. Some of the questions feel stupid, like how do brackets work. Who faces who. It's literally connected by lines .................................... Also he said he already read Toroa vs Psianop fight, and fuck me that made me depressed. Already? that fight took me several days lol. And I think it's something I learned while reading, that the experience from anime is totally different. It took me several days, so that fight lingered in my mind for several days. As you could've guessed, that was a lot of thinking... Not to mention that the last 10 pages took me even longer, the final part of the fight. I really thought it through and through, doing my daily things and thinking about it. Anime will never replace it, as I'll probably watch it in 20 minutes. But since it's Toroa, I'll probably take like 40, because seeing him punched is painful...
Anyway, I'm jealous that some read so fast, or more like I'm jealous that I can't progress faster. Anyway, I asked him, didn't you read the part where Jelki discusses Rosclay's matchup, if he were to win there, he proceeds to fight Soujirou, and it's not about Soujirou, it's about his sponsor Hardy. Hardy faction vs Rosclay faction, two of the biggest factions. Big hype. Or, I guess he doesn't understand who the winner of that fights next. But, again it looked obvious with connected lines. And why does it even matter at this point, the novel hasn't even finished the 2nd round.

Anyway, your post was good and all, but then, out of curiousity, I checked some of the other final posts of yours, or I think it was just for honey lemon soda, and it was too nice :v I thought, hmm, maybe Ishura isn't all special to him, and he just writes the same comment to every anime, you cheater >_>

"but I'm glad you beat IzanaSolos for top post" I was 10 minutes late to the episode, I dont know how noone else posted first. And yeah, seeing that, I posted before I watched the episode lol. I watched the final part first, to see the brackets, but was still pleasantly surprised.Though, novel had something similar, but seeing small scenes with characters was better.
I don't understand his complaint, he said he didn't like the season and wanted the tournament instead, tournament with what? 4 characters from season1? Then he says that he is upset that s1 characters were killed, but even then it wouldn't get to 16 characters. Did he want a tournament without characters? Then he would complain that unlike Alus, Soujirou, characters like Mele, Psianop, etc didn't get an introduction, so he can't care for them... No winning with him.

" I agree, it especially hurts for me when I come off an episode thinking it was great, only to find a thread of people that hated it lol, basically my experience as a RaG enjoyer that posts on MAL" That too, but with Ishura, not many hated it, but not many appreciated it enough, but then maybe I'd be the same if I was anime only. It's really really hard for me to imagine being anime-only, after seeing what I've seen. I only needed 2 episodes to realize it's insane and has too many interesting ideas. Lana with Shalk and Higuare, explaining the difference between Self-proclaimed and True demon king. Alus and many items of his.
I feel like they'll ruin Skeleton knight 2. While it will be enjoyable, just like with s1, they are gonna cut and change a lot of things. I'll be depressed, a part of me doesn't even wanna watch it, so I don't get depressed.

That guy said that he didn't like watching Ishura because it wasn't goal oriented. I couldn't believe my ears... And bnha with its "one day I'll be the best hero" is a great goal-oriented, which btw never happens, since manga ends after covering 1 year of their lives. At least present a good reason, like "I don't like the tournament, cause fighting means loses, means deaths which I don't wanna experience"
But it wasn't that. I was upset not many commented on character interactions which was a highlight for me. I think even you didn't comment on it, you said on Tu's episode, "I doubt we'll see Tu again" yet we saw her again, yet you didn't mention it lol. Or Alus Psianop scene, which was my favorite.

'It's funny isn't it, how everyone clammers for something unique, but the moment they get it they spit in its face." lol, that's actually true.

Ah, that's sad you operate like that lol. In a way it's difficult for me to understand you.

I haven't watched Death note yet, only like 6 eps many years ago.

Hayate no gotoku is in both my animes and mangas favorites! Hata is one of the funniest authors. He made Tonikaku Kawaii later, and I can't help but feel like the main heroine is very similar to Hina https://myanimelist.net/character/2270/Hinagiku_Katsura in appearance. As if it's to apologize for her fans for making her lose. Hina was probably the most popular girl and the one that made the most sense for him to end up with. But it's whatever, the biggest part of Hayate no Gotoku is because it's so unbelievably funny, and sometimes the jokes are so stupid and unusual, you can't help it. Romance and harem was also secondary. Oh, also the action was fun and story as well.
Oh, there is also this manga https://myanimelist.net/manga/92627/Ad_Astra_Per_Aspera Initially I heard that he made the girl here based on Hina, to apologize to her fans, but not sure, never seen that manga before, even though I used to frequently update my manga site and see all the latest updates.
There are some funny Hayate no gotoku references in Tonikaku Kawaii's manga, very early on. One was about Hina too...
There, I found it, have a laugh.

Also, there's been no new anime for like 10 years

Lol, I think Kanojo Okarashimasu is more than a SOL at this point, even a SOL isn't as slow as it. It has its own charm for sure, I haven't seen anything this slow in a while. I see why people say nothing is happening. The only thing that comes to mind is that author is deliberately prolonging it. But seeing how much he loves the main heroine, it feels more like his fantasy. Like in every panel MC calls her cute in his thoughts lol. It made me think, that if I were to make my own manga and I'd think of a waifu to make for myself, I know really well who I'm gonna make from my favorite list. And for sure I wouldn't want to say goodbye to it. While it's in your imagination, it kinda exists, get it? I'm just saying I understand the author.
"RaG is a bit too crazy to be like real life tho lol, pacing wise maybe but Kazuya gets himself in insane situations" I'm already past the harem point, where I only see one girl. It's only 2 of them for the last 50 chapters, dunno what you are used to, but it definitely changed.
Just today I've read 6 latest chapters since I was behind.

Domestic Kanojo anime was.... weird... they skipped too much and just focused on the romance, though the first episodes were adapted well. Like I said, manga has a lot of life lessons imo, so it's not just your usual romance or drama.
For Cuckoos... you think it's fun? Like there is anything you don't consider fun >_> Now this one actually feels like it's just prolonging its life. I think the confession happened like 150 chapters ago, where both confessed, but then they either never dated or gave up on each other really quick. didn't check those chapters, but read it somewhere. I also read someone saying that at that point the manga could be finished, but then author realized it, and felt he can't end it too soon. And now it feels weird, I don't know what's the goal is and it became quite boring... And the worst part is that we are now in the sister love arc... Guess who her love interest is. Just feels so weird, MC will never end up with her, so as a viewer you'll just be left off with a bitter feeling. I wish author never went that direction. But if they do end up together, which is... no way... then wtf. What's this fated encounter, red string of fate with Erika was all about. Also if he ends up with his sister, it would make no sense, he never showed any love interest to her. So basically, we all know he won't end up with his sister. Sister loving his brother romantically, even if not blood-related, they grew up together, so it feels very off and makes you uncomfortable. And to top it of, the sister is gonna be sad/crying/etc... So why even do it? I'm trying to step into author's shoes, but I just can't see it
Cuckoo rumbling -- finished.

A little cringe? I probably have never felt this much second-hand embarassment in my life. And characters behave... weirdly, feels unrealistic, which adds to cringe. Especially her bullies, my god... Especially when they came to apologize to her father. Who does this... And the way characters speak too. I dunno if that's how highschool students speak in Japan, or whether author imagined them to speak like that? Anyway, whatever, the anime is over, and so is my suffering. Should've dropped yeah, but I was still curious what's gonna happen next.

You can't check out bang dream, without starting the game as well lol.

"I also feel sequel seasons get less attention unless it's a stupidly popular series." I doubt people watched first OP because it was first season.

Considering that's the first 6/10 I'm seeing from you, that's very rare. It's really hard to tell what you actually like a lot or like a little, or don't like at all. Because from talking to you, it feels like you like everything equally. Not sure if you agree with that, but that's my opinion that formed. Like with me, I know that it's very clear to tell what I like, like a little and don't like at all. Like honey lemon soda, i don't like at all, hope it was clear. Kanojo okarashimasu I like a little, probably also was clear, and stuff like ishura I like a lot.
"To me it is, a 7 is a "good" show, it's not great but it's three points down from a 10," I've yet to find a person who holds a different opinion lol.
"I usually score things so the future me knows how much I liked something" well, that's how I can distinguish you liking something as well. Since 6 is quite low compared to your other scores that I've seen, "oh, I guess he didn't like it that much"

Oh, liked the newest Himari video then? It was funny right? with the whole social media thing, right?
Here is another one, very funny as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Obra3jQ00

Apart from tournament scenes, there are also many action scenes with many fights happening outside the tournament and also it's probably the best content, so animation needs to be on top. I doubt passione would pick it up just to do a bad job, I could feel they had the passion for the project. As far as the tournament goes, I can't imagine them adapting more than 6 tournament fights, so unfinished first round... wait I just realized I already spoke about it last time... quite a detailed post as well.

Yeah, One piece does it best with writing off characters without needing to kill them. Ishura goes for impactful deaths, unexpected deaths. Still, from now on, I wish there would be no more deaths, I'm very attached to everyone right now. Except Psianop, author go ahead, you have my permission. But everyone else... I'd feel too damn sad. That being said, I already know who's gonna die, cause this dumbass spoiled it for himself by going to reddit and reading a spoiled comment(don't do that)... It makes me hesitant to continue not gonna lie. Makes me wonder if everyone but one hero is gonna die, that'd be so disappointing if that were to happen.... Yeah, deaths is one thing that stopping me, that and also me getting into spellblades again, thanks to someone...
Well, don't blame yourself, I wanted to go back to it myself, it's been 6 months.

"lmao you really hate Psianop huh, I have no reason to hate him but I think your hate for him is funny." ofc, he was more tolerable in the anime cause his intro scene was the most rushed in the anime. And his second scene with Alus was my favorite. Though, I doubt you'd dislike him even if you read the novel, I doubt you'd dislike anyone."I can't help with what I like" right?

"Ah I see, but really what I mean is that since she's a gun user, she could have picked everyone off at long distance by sniping them, I'm not sure if Shalk would have won if she was that far away" yes and no. She fought off against everyone at that range, so she is clearly confident fighting within that range. And also if she was much farther from him, I don't think she hits anyone, bullet needs more distance to travel. But then I remember Alus's bullets, and he shoots those mandrake-poison bullets from 10 miles away... Though, now that I remember, she shot the ogres travelling in the carriage from very far away........... Still, I think there is no way a bullet hits Shalk from that far away, if it's closer, there's a chance.
Anyway she had no chance against him whatsoever. Her main strength is following the bullet's speed and manipulating its movement, yet Shalk is so fast she can't even see him. Unlucky matchup. Though, there are many shuras she can't do anything to. But against Soujirou or Rosclay... it'd be fun and more competitive. Or Ozonezma too actually, Zigita Zogi and Zefirja as well. Everyone else? no way.

"" If it was known that Demon King was a visitor, it'd spell doom for them" I didn't pick up on that, that's really cool." really? damn anime >_> If you didn't understand, so many more didn't as well

"I certainly wouldn't have that same dedication" obviously goes to show I have nothing better to do with my life -_- I was considering taking a break from the internet... but I don't know if my productivity increases... In any case, ishura is over, so I'll try to relax-- NOT, now there is spellblades and preparing notes about the episode to you, so you'd understand the amazingness of spellblades more.
"Thank you for all the details on anime and LN comparisons that you've done over the course of the season." you are talking like I make a lot of contribution to the betterment of the humankind... I just provided additional info for one author's work. For one novel, out of thousands that already exist out there.

Speaking of which, here is more.
The part that many didn't understand, because anime messed it up. Shalk saying he is scared, and many assumed it was because he is still affected by the fear of the Demon King. But it's not that, he was afraid to learn more about himself. Was he a Hero, was he a demon king? what was his fate?
Morio mentioning that he can kill him as well, was to point out that if he does that, he can earn favors with Auretia, and it wasn't killing, he said "taking him to Auretia", to which Shalk responded that he isn't really on anyone's side. He just wants to learn about himself.
Another part missed is Shalk's logic is that the reason why a hero doesn't come out, is because they don't remember that. That really makes you think, that the reason why a hero hasn't come out, there's gotta be a reason...

Yuno, Kia, Mele's part was overall great. Yuno amazed that Mele would actually be joining the games. Mele working with other gigants, transporting heavy stuff like fallen trees. Thinking that apart from Mele, someone like Alus or Rosclay will be able to kill Soujirou. Mele then saved Yuno's life because a fallen tree could've killed her. Imagine being killed by a fallen tree. Then Kia coming, the only part they skipped there is her complaining about gigants."Seriously those gigants are so careless and annoying. Seriously I hate gigants". My assumption is that elfs don't like gigants, or maybe it's just Kia.

I'll add more later...

Your bracket predictions were enjoyable to read. I see your logic clearly. Any other theories/predictions you might have?
Alus vs Lucunoca is one of my favorite fights, it was so fucking insane. The first time I read it, I had a nightmare and couldn't stop thinking about what happened.
Zejirga is actually someone you should've seen in the very first episode with young Ani. She was there, waving. But in the novel she had a 3 page part there. I liked her there already, even though she and Linaris left the girl die to infect the Particle Storm, which is something I'll never forgive them for.
Damn you are really underestimating Zigita Zogi huh...
It's hard to predict on Ozonezma since you don't know what he can do. Nor does anyone else, he has a trump card as he calls it, and no matter how Hardy, Soujirou's sponsor wanted to provoke him into preemptively showing his trump card by sneak attacking him with his troops the night prior. Ozonezma didn't show any of his cards, he even purposefully pretented like he is a range fighter and prefers to stay within range, just so that Soujirou will learn that information and would jump in melee, given he is a swordsman. Ozonezma ain't bad.

"Sorry about that lol, I was ready to give it a shot, you don't gotta reread it but I'll keep you posted on my progress." how can I do that? the moment you told me you are watching it, I couldn't leave it alone... It takes some time, especially these days. I forgot how much there is to mention in the episode 1. I'll post everything I wanted to mention, then you can comment to all points. I wish you won't jump too far ahead. Why would you wanna listen to vol1 stuff, when you are already on vol3. Or once you finish it, why would you wanna hear all the details and the worldbuilding. Season 2 might never happen, so there would literally be no point after you finish it. It's JC Staff, hoping for s2 is simply hoping.

"I'll say I do really like how reminiscent of Harry Potter it is, like incredibly so, there are no Samurais in Harry Potter tho and I think that's a really cool and unique aspect of Spellblades." I'll mention this one thing though.
Did you get the locations? They are in Yelgland, a butchered England. Then there is Farnland or something similar where Katie is from. It was in the anime right? that Katie isn't from Yelgland. Oliver mentioned that her pronunciation of a and o aren't like a native Yelglandian. Farnalnd, I assume is France. Did you also get that Katie, like Nanao were scouted. But it's natural to scout someone from another country. It's different when it's from a different continent like Azia.
Then there is Nanao, she is from a whole different continent. From Azia, that's how it's pronounced. Then there are Indus, Chena, Yamatsu which are part of Azia, but author described that to Oliver it's all the same. Makes sense, in those times and even now. When we think of a faraway place, different countries are all the same to you. That's how I imagined people of that time to think of those places. Whatever to the east of me, it's all the same. Or whatever to the west to me is all the same. At least Oliver knows the name of those countries, impressive already.

Now, Harry Potter was taking place in England if I remember correctly, and there was no mention of Asia there. So it's not just Nanao being a samurai, it's a totally different culture.

"there being no guards at the parade" noooooo. No guards at school, only teachers. The entrance cerenomy is done by 7 year students. Not sure why they weren't there. But there awere no teachers at the entrance cerenomy, that was normal. Btw, just ask me questions like that, I'd hate the most for you to misunderstand.

I'll mention Katie later, that'd be a long long post >_>

Already? jeez, I thought I'd have a bit of a break, but it's right on the same day.
Your forum post was good, but it's generalized, I want more detailed what you liked/disliked.
Or maybe I'll ask some questions later once I reread that part

That's his comment https://myanimelist.net/profile/SaroArsten. He left a post on reddit, that as a light novel reader, it's the best anime he's watched since 2020. And then I checked his list out and he had below 4 average and gave re:zero lower score than ishura, and ishura in both manga and anime favorites. When he doesn't have many... I mean it just proves that he is hard to please, and Ishura being as rare and unusual as it is, ticked the boxes for him. I told you there are people who Ishura is for lol. But ngl that made me feel so much better. Your comment in ep discussions also improved my mood. The "I don't have a favorite. All characters are amazing" or "an acquintance of mine said it was a good adaptation" Otherwise mal comments were kinda sad. Like I expected people to say more. Interactions were my favorite part of that volume, and people barely mentioned them, I dunno.... or is Kia meeting up with Yuno is just taken as a given. Or Tu drinking from 2 cups is a given? or Mele saving Yuno... Reddit comments also hardly mentioned these things, but they were much better and some were lenghtier. Reddit left me more satisfied.
But ngl it's kinda stressful, being worried about people liking/not liking stuff I've liked. To me, it's a sense of acknowledgement. If I feel like I'm the only one who noticed/liked something, I'd feel weird and insecure... I know I shouldn't think about it, but I can't. Overall reading the comments and replying to some was satisfying, especially on reddit, and I'm kinda glad I did it, but the stress that comes from it, kinda negates the positive. Once Skeleton knight 2 comes out, I'm not reading shit :v Especially if it's a bad adaptation. S1 skipped a lot, and changed a lot, so I don't have high hopes.
Also I think Ishura author is a genius and has done so many things correctly, so many great ideas. I think if I were an author, can I ever do something like this? Even smaller ideas that seem unimportant is what makes up a good story. Seeing people not understand it/or at least comment on it, makes me close to being depressed. I'm not even upset at people not watching it, cause they just don't know about its existence

Yeah. Tog's author is like that.
Yeah, I've seen spider on your list a few weeks ago. I was surprised how you didn't have the urge to read the novel after that ending. It didn't leave my mind for a whole year, then I couldn't bear with it any longer and started reading. If you wanna start reading, I'd say spider is one of the easiest to pick up. Incredibly easy to read. It's more like watching an anime, since there is a low amount of descriptions and it's mostly dialogues. Yeah, reading dialogues is like watching an anime with subtitles.
You start reading the scene, it describes they are in a room, you imagine a room, then the dialogues start. Easy.

"but imo an ending isn't properly experienced if you don't get all the points of the story leading up to it, that could ruin a story or your opinion on the ending" Sure, but still I expect something after watching, even the first episode, he talks about becoming the best hero. "This is a story of how I became the best hero" But then the manga only covers the first year in school or something. I think your friend who spoiled himself a Fruit basket ending would've still disliked the ending even if he watched it normally. But the difference is the process not the ending. Like be happy with the road not the destination. Also my favorite anime hayate no gotoku had a shit ending in the manga that I checked, I was very depressed and all, but that didn't make me hate the manga. It could've killed every character, and I would've still given it the same score.
But given that I was done with bnha regardless, I might as well check the ED, since I was invested at some point. Also gonna confess, but I've read every Kia part in Ishura, even back when I was on vol 1. Surprisingly there wasn't that many spoilers about the story. And I was happy to read her part, it was very entertaining. After I found about Toroa, I also read some of his parts, but not much. I read some Tu parts as well.

"but off the top of my head one that comes to mind is "Shiki"" lol that made me chuckle, thanks.
"and I think it's because I watch so much shows that I never feel like I need to jump on a manga right away" you are different from me here. When I get into something, I just wanna consume that thing. I can't be like you, having many things to do, and equally dedicating my time to all of these things... it's fine when it comes to anime or novels, but I wish I didn't have it spread with other areas in my life.
Still though, I find it weird that you can be like "what a great episode, what a cliffhanger, well time for another anime" I really can't understand you. It's similar to how a horse can't understand a cow. or how an allien won't understand a human.
You read Komi huh... never touched it, but I was always curious, why the heck is it supernatural lol. Just because she can't communicate? Lol she is just like Uhak, just realized.

Yeah, anime was... enjoyable... I gave it a 7, even the translator who translated it gave it a 7, said it was fine. I kinda disagree, too much has been changed. If Ishura skipped parts here and there, it at least didn't change the content... Once I start rereading I'll get reminded of exact things it skipped. Vol 4 was kinda average but important to the story. But vol 5 and 6 were insane. It probably gonna end on 6. I hate 3 volumes per 12 episodes so fucking much, but it is what it is. Also, it'll probably fall on deaf ears, but I suggest reading it. There is another one that's good, that was in the same season, Mobseka, also a great thing to read, but the anime was way better than skeleton knight's anime. Both easy to read.
Oh, you like DIALOGUE huh, sounds familiar. I remember loving the OP, but ED? not so much. Speaking of which, you sure mentioned songs a lot in Ishura post. You forgot to mention the banger and timed background music. One thing I wish they did, is make different soundtracks for different characters, but that'd be asking for too much.
The reason why I like sleton knight, well first it's very fun and enjoyable to read. Then, it appears simple, but has depth to it. Isekai part makes sense, the main antagonsit makes sense and overall a good antagonist. Things connect. Protagonist is simply my type. Ariane is one of my favorite heroines. Then there is one princess which I like. The world and locations were pretty easy to understand and there are maps which were very helpful.

"I even like Rent a Girlfriend which is largely despised by the anime community but I just think it's such a fun series" I actually wanted to mention it, when I started mentioning checking out things that happen at the end. I haven't even watched first episodes, yet I'm reading most recent chapters lol. It's actually pretty enjoyable. I skip a lot though, and just check out the fun things. For the last 20 chapters or so I've only seen 2 characters lol. MC and the main the heroine, so it doesn't even feel like harem anymore. But goddamn the pacing is slow and almost nothing happens in a chapter. But there's a certain charm to it, I've been to watch something real-life like, where events happen way too slowly. If you think about it, our lives are pretty boring, same mundane things, and then there are exceptions which you show in the story. Not sure if you agree. I also did the same for Cuckoo couple one... I've checked out first 10 chapters and kinda disliked it, no character hit for me, it felt like something is out of place... it didn't stand with me, I don't know why. First chapter was great and I had hope, and Erika(I think her name) was great, but then I realized I don't like her personality in later chapters and she feels empty. Then as I read, I realized there are ~220 chapters, and instantly went, "wait... that means that they are still not together" and reading the same shit over and over again with no progression for 220 chapters... didn't stand with me, considering I only read it for romance and didn't find it funny, and there was nothing else to it. Unlike Domestic Kanojo which was much more than romance, like inspirational, about life.
Anyway, I only selectively read Erika's parts in latest chapters.

"I am not someone who can't dislike anything, to twist a Hanekawa from Monogatari quote to fit this, "I don't like everything, I just like what I like."" very very good way to throw in a quote, I'm proud of you.

Yes, psychological is surprisingly unpopular genre for anime, the last I remember is Tomodachi Game xD ..... I just looked throught filters, and there was also Classroom of the elite, but it's very mild psychological, definitely not the main genre.
You should read Pyramad game for sure. Also A sense of Amusement, my recent favorite, I haven't read anything more entertaining period, not a single bad point in the manhwa, insane... Also Watashi no Arika (the one that's better Oshi no Ko). There are a lot more, if there's anything I'm proficient in, is psychological... but I'm ashamed I haven't checked out some of the more popular ones like Kaiji or Kakegerui(funny thing I forgot the name, then I googled "similar to Kaiji" and it was the first result lol)

"I didn't hate ToG Season 2, but it was not even close to Season 1's level of good" I see, I can see why you'd say that, but while I love s1, the workshop arc is better, except for Rachel's betrayal, that part can't be topped by anything. I think you would've liked the manhwa better, they cut and changed a lot of stuff.
Unlike you, I really don't want any more adaptations, unless its a different studio who gives it a good treatment... Same with Skeleton Knight kinda, while I'm excited, a part of me doesn't want to see an adaptation, I don't want to get disappointed and potentially lose interest in the light novel as well, even though I'm mostly caught up on SK. Hell, same with the season 3 of ishura, I'm very afraid... given how they already showed in s2 that they change up the fight way too much, Tu's fight was entirely different. And it's literally my favorite fight in the novel, after the tournament ones and Toroa Mestelexil one.

"freaking Honey Lemon Soda got tears out of me a few episodes ago lol." Yes yes yes, but only ep 1, that made me really really emotional, cried as well, and then every other episode I found cringe af. Don't remember the last time I've seen an anime do such a 180 on me in terms of enjoyment and my attitude on it.
"But I love it man, no other medium can make me feel feelings the way anime does" i'm exactly the same... Btw, I can't believe how much I cried in Bang dream MyGo. Bang dream usually has such a shit story, but great characters, but holy shit they overdid themselves with MyGo, would be my favorite anime for ages.

"I also include off seasonals in my notes, I like to know all of what I watched in a year every year, I love looking back on them and think "man that was such a good anime season" and whatnot." ah, that's nice...

Yeah and then OP 2 of Ishura which is arguably better, only has like 200k views... I don't understand how youtube works.

"so many interesting one but most of the focus is on Class A" yes yes.
"And I know how you feel about something becoming mainstream, like you wish more people liked the thing you liked, but then it wouldn't be as special anymore." you totally get me!
"And see, that 6/10 shows that I can dislike something lol, the 6/10 is still above average for me but there had to be quite a few things in the show I didn't like to get that score from me." damn that's true... it's kidna weird you disliked charlotte out of all animes I've seen you watch this season. But not judging, not like 7/10 is any better.
"Slime 300 aired in Spring 2021 actually, no I didn't look it up lol, I have a really good memory of when shows came out if I watched them during the season they aired" that's actually insane, I'm actually proud of you here, It's something I do sometimes. So I understand that on a personal level. Sometimes I only remember the season, not the year.

"it'll be recharged by then" the battery will be recharged then, yes!

"I don't think I could go that slow lol, I could update you every three episodes or something but one at a time would be too slow for me" I'm mostly interested in first 6 eps. Especially 4 and 6, so definitely wait for me there. And 1 as well, since it's an introduction episode.

There you go, another Himari video... i haven't checked it out until now myself, damn it was fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhz03a1ba4

"I'm not sure exactly how to help you see the CAPSLOCK thing, for Ozonezma I think it's because of the effect on his voice that it fits, and Krafnir because of how arrogant he is, to me at least I think it fits them." Sure, but still don't see it >_>

"Also the MAL user I was talking about is IzanaSolos" lol
"Marinate I used to feel was my brother from another mother with his opinions being so close to mine for so long but over time he has lost me more and more, it's fine tho, everyone has their different opinions" wow it was going so well and then... So basically he started disliking more things as he watched more of them, yet you didn't change. But what a story lol.
"the problem with IzanaSolos is that I don't think this guy even likes half the anime he watches lol, he just tops most threads and spouts stuff that I tent to disagree with, I also find his writing style obnoxious. And for the record, I'd never make enemies out of them in a thread, I don't like being mean online, no matter how mad I can get from reading other opinions lol" I see... I don't usually read his comments cause they are on top, except now, because... this time I was on top...
"I'm just telling you my true thoughts because I feel you're trustworthy." lol, what am I gonna do? report it to him? lol. But yeah, bickering with random people is dumb.

I'm not as confident in s3 anymore, someone on ishura subreddit mentioned, that animating fights costs a lot of money... And then I remember how Ishura tournament fights are...
You should definitely read it though, but if you are not much of a reader, it might be a bit hard to read, or maybe not. Still, I do wish you'd read it. You'd be missing out.

"As for rewatching that Yuno scene from Season 1, you were right, that was really cool to see after meeting those characters in Season 2" yaaaay! finally!
"although I'm not sure if Yuno is right that they can beat Soujirou, we will have to wait and see" You won't see it. He won't fight every single fighter, it's all about luck who he'll face. Like I said, flying characters will destroy him. Then Shalk will most certainly win since he has no flesh. Kia if she attacks first. Kuze also, don't see him losing to him. Uhak, Psianop, no idea, Rosclay, no idea, Tu, Mestelexil no idea, on one hand they are invincible, and then author gives Soujirou insane plot armor and h e finds their weak spots magically.
Kazuki, Krafnir are indeed someone he will beat.

"funny that he gives Tu the ticket into the tournament tho because he realized it's a trap lol" Yeah, and then they skipped it in the anime.
"I did pick up she was pretty much invincible from what was shown in the episode, I mean she took that massive attack from Krafnir like it was nothing lol." that's good, unfortunately not everyone did, and I'm not sure if I did myself, if it wasn't for the novel.

" maybe that is the author's intention, to make you think she won't and yet it happens, you never know tho, her chances are good like I said." now that I know more about who she is later in the novel, there might be a way she dies, but it's unknown to me, but it can happen. But you said it well, but he treats girls well, we already don't have many of them.

"Well I don't necessarily want that to happen to her lol, but if it was done well then I would be into it" nooooooo, how could you :(

"I've never watched it but it does suck when your favorite character dies" not the favorite favorite, but one of. I just don't like when a character is mistreated especially his final moments.
"a bad moment is usually a place I'd never quit at anyway." you are literally opposite to my friend I told you about before, can't count how much he dropped just because someone he liked died. Like I'd hate a bad death, but I don't think I'd drop it, unless it's a really bad death, like I mentioned Kia. It's not like I wanted to drop HxH, I just couldn't continue for psychological reasons, but then life happened and then I lost connection. Now to start it over, I'd have to rewatch it, meaning I'll have to see this death again. I also spoiled myself on deaths of more characters that I like... goddamit... stop killing characters!!!! I literally hate it, maybe because I was raised on One piece and it's known for having no deaths, except few... very powerful ones, but they made sense. Oda doesn't like killing off characters, so a cast is huge, if he feels like characters can no longer be used, he finds a way to send them away. Like there was this powerful prison warden who turns himself to poison, poisoning the area... It was impossible to fight against him, and in the end no one beat him. Sure there are stronger characters than him, but not at that location. I don't know what's in Oda's head, but I assume he sent him away, because keeping him in the story means fighting and beating him eventually, and he either couldn't think of a way characters can do that. Or felt he was too powerful to keep around. And by sending off I mean a story point where something happens to a character that doesn't involve death. A good example would be in a school setting, a character is transfered away to study overseas.
Ishura author straight up kills the characters, I'm like... goddamit if you don't them anymore, can't you send them away? But Ishura works aroud a shock factor and depression. That's why he kills them off. So far, I'll only be happy for one death... Kill the fucking ooze

" it actually reminds me a lot of a character in Part 4 of Jojo, his stand is stupidly strong but the guy using the stand is such a dumbass that it balances out lol." oooooh... sounds interesting, like Kia indeed.

"had she taken on Shalk from a distance things may have ended differently for her" distance wasn't clear in the novel btw, so I always assumed he closed the range and pierced her. But in the anime she felt like she was closer and like he threw a spear, but he actually moved... I guess that's a normal talking distance as she approached the gate.
"you could be right but I also don't think Soujirou loses to him with certainty" there are no guarantees in Ishura, just an assumpton. Some results of the tournament will shock you.

"Yeah I'm with you on Kazuki's reasoning for attacking Okafu, yeah that's how you get an audience with Morio, kill all his mercenaries lol." Actually it was revealed in Morio talk with Hiroto, but I forgot.
It's to get some answers for why every recent visitor is from Japan. Morio made an assumption that there must have been a reason for why every recent visitor has been japanese. Kazuki, Yukiharu and Morio all came in these past twenty years. (not at the same time). While Hiroto has been there for far far longer, but doesn't look like it, because visitors don't age.
The reason why Hiroto got out of his way to get the evidence about Demon King, was to persuade Morio to get on his side. But then he burned it because having it, might be the evidence that could be used against visitors. Visitors are already feared as is, becaus of how influential they are. Half of the self proclaimed demon kings are visitors. If it was known that Demon King was a visitor, it'd spell doom for them. That's why Morio was blocking investigation teams from reaching the place.
Another obvious assumption that Shiki arrived in the world around 3 years ago, spreading madness right away. Soujirou who arrived after, knew of her. While Morio, Kazuki, Yukiharu, Hiroto didn't as they arrived before.

I see. Since it was named after Kazuki, Shalk would die to show how greater Kazuk is, given how strong Shalk is, a formula that is being used frequently over ishura. But then it was a reverse. And then some dare to say that it's all the same.

"Oh cool to see the name change in the novel, it was definitely cooler in the anime imo but I really respect the effort to make something like that happen in a book" I kinda like the book version better, but I expect it'd be the same if I've seen the anime version first. I've discussed it with you before, you like whatever you see first more.

" good thing I have you to tell me all this to further improve my view on the episode lol." I don't actually remember all I mentioned, only Rique, cause that was the most shocking to skip. I'll do it for this final episode, because they adapted the most and skipped the most as well... Very disappointed in general, like Demon King, the part they were hyping up, was the same time as a fucking bard part that was 10 pages in the novel vs 30 pages of the timeskip. I wished they would've expanded like with shalk and just did the whole episode of just that. And Morio with Hiroto scene, since it connects. But then it only took 8 minutes. I understand why they did that, they were behind, and wanted to show all characters one last time. But then they did such a poor job on it, like skipping the most important parts. Like it pissed me off that Psianop Alus was so well adapted, except for one important part... As for what it is... I'll mention it in future posts, bit by bit. So we'd have something to talk about and it wouldn't be so overwhelming at the same time... I've been writing that mal post about ep 12, for 3 hours lol. Had to reread the LN parts. I always thought Izick was dead, but upon rereading I found that he wasn't dead in the final scene, saying "I'll make a perfect creation to defeat you"

"Tu herself is like a light in Ishura's world" yeah, exactly.
"I wonder how she would have reacted to the massacre from Season 1 episode 1 tho..." would be left depressed, kinda how Harghent was depressed after Curte's death, because he was unable to save a little girl. That was mentioned several times in the novel, during his meeting with Lucunoca and during Lucunoca's fight. It still affects him

"Not sure if I'll read her part from the novel tho, words on a page just aren't as exciting to me as the animated events onscreen" that part is so fun tho :( and you don't have to imagine much, since you've seen an adaptation.
"and think back to my younger self about how dumb he was for missing out on this stuff lol" yeah, but then I'd most likely won't be there to witness it lol. So to me it like it never happened.

"completely agree regarding the first party, they are an interesting bunch and it's a cool way to tell their story, through pretty much word of mouth by everyone else, but that is a really good way to show how important they are, if all of these characters know of them then they must have been amazing right?"
yeah, it is. Hope you liked them in ep 12. Not sure if you expected to see them, with how much I was building up to it. Pretty sure you knew Demon King was this episode.
Oh, it's funny how some commenters mentioned Shiki being Ai... Ai from Jigoku Shoujo, that we coincidentally discussed recently... Or was it a coincidence?

Wait, you wanna do Spellblades already? I'm still kinda not ready to reread it lol. maybe in a month.

There you go, a bracket

That's insane....

Fairy tail author I think confessed to not planning, Bnha autor said that he had an idea that he couldn't bring to life. If I understand correctly, bnha is still in the first year of the school... And yet, Ishura is the one who gets nowhere. If you wanna know author's thoughts, nothing is close to Tower of God. The author writes his comments and more information, a short blog post after every chapter. He sometimes even comments on some major events, like some kind of accident that happened in Korea back in 2014 or something. And he also frequently comments on "I wanted to make this part longer" or "this is what I meant by this". It's a whole different experience. After that, only spider comes to mind, with the web novel. But he stopped commenting after he got popular first 20 chapters or so. He also made a post about all monsters that were in the dungeon. Very early on, when the power levels were very low.
It's not really my opinion on bnha. It's just what I gathered by reading comments of others. Well, there is also my eyes and seeing it myself. But, if everyone was happy with it, I'd not say anything, since I only checked out last chapter. I still think I can judge the ending, given that I watched quite a bit of anime. Not the final arc though, but still there's something every bnha reader/viewer probably wants to see, and it didn't happen, thus disappointing.
How many revenges stories have you watched? I swear there are a lot better ones than Oshi no Ko, if you watched more of those, you'd see what I mean. Best moments of Oshi no Ko for me has nothing to do with the revenge. The first season basically. Obviously the first episode was pretty amazing, masterpiece even. After that, the identity of the murderer and mystery behind it was pretty interesting.... hmm, but like with Fairy tail, i'll call it a Fairy Tail curse, some authors don't know how to execute their idea well.
Entertaiment-industry stuff is indeed interesting, but because you can see author knows a lot about it. He also wrote Kaguya, so obviously his strongest point is his characters who are great. Authors are also humans, they have strong sides and weak sides. Keep in mind, I was a big big fan of Oshi no Ko the first 70 chapters or so. That's why it's even more painful to criticize it and be disappointed. I didn't watch the anime after ep 1, because I got too excited after ep1, and couldn't wait anymore and read a lot of manga. And just how it usually happens with me, I can't pick up anime after... So, me watching ishura is actually a rare occurence. Now, I hope I'll watch skeleton knight, because unlike Ishura, it's a pretty bad adaptation and it's adapting my favorite chapters. Sometimes you don't wanna check the anime, not to ruin your experience and overall image + impression that you got from reading the original. Also with Ishura, there's a lot of things I thought I misunderstood, some parts were confusing, so I wanted to check the anime out to see how they adapt these things. That's why I pointed out so many smaller things.

"wouldn't be the first time I've liked an ending that's largely hated by the community." You do give me an impression of someone who just can't dislike anything.

You absolutely have to try some psychological mangas, those that are pretty short. Or about bullying, very interesting. I don't like a guy being bullied, because its usually always the same boring story. He eventually gets stronger and beats bullies. But if it's a girl getting bullied, it's way more interesting.

" or just lose you over time as you get older and gain new interests" yes, but also the author himself loses motivation, grip on the story. People sometimes forget it, author on day 1 or day 30 of the story, is not the same as an author on day 3000 of the story.
You didn't like s2 of TOG? I still think it's better than most other animes, even if it's significantly worse than manhwa. It's actually crazy that Ishura has a better adaptation and less stuff skipped, than TOG, while novel, especially ishura is significantly harder to adapt. Than a manhwa, especially a colored one.
I liked Workshop arc in the manhwa a lot, not my favorite arc, but one of. Hell Train is also good, but Workshop is better imo. Except the last 10 chapters or so where Hell Train shits on many other arcs, it even made me really emotional. But the arcs after Hell Train are also great. Actually all season2 arcs of the manhwa are great.

At least you see the plot armor problems... You should've probably checked Fairy tail out way back when you started watching. If you like Fire Force fanservice, you'll probably like Fairy tail too... I hate it, most people complain about it too. Even the latest video I've watched on a video saying "fairy tail isn't that bad" literally uploaded a week ago lol. People still talk about fairy tail huh... And commenters were there complaining about fanservice. I definitely hate it, especially since it destroys the seriousness of the moment. It's fine to do it in a fun episode that fairy tail has many of. But yeah, it definitely isn't just because it's fanservice, it's because it was out of place and destroyed the moment. But that being said Fairy tail is really fun and what surprised me the most... it's really emotional. Especially if you are in friendship stories, that make me teary eyed or legit crying. And I love crying, anime is the only place where I can cry and I feel such strong emotions, making me feel alive... Not many animes are emotional unfortunately, but fairy tail is one of them for me... It was on a level of Angel Beats and some other terjerkers.... It's been a while though, I wanna rewatch it kinda. Too bad I can't find the time.

Ah, I see, you are writing down on your phone's notes huh. I used to watch it on my PC, but it's been 3 years since I last did that. I'd write down what I watched during a season, including off seasonals.

We are opposite in that regard. I wanna consume as less as possible, to focus more on my favorites, getting into the source. Or sometimes I just don't read anything, like this past week. You got into Ishura after seeing the OP? Kadokawa's youtube advertising program worked I guess. That OP had around 2m watches back when it was airing, I remember having that video recommended to me as well, I guess it went somewhat viral for youtube's algorythm. But sick... I got into some of my favorite anime through an OP as well.

I see, you agree about Yukarin not being used well. Reminds me of Tower of God, so many great characters, just abandoned, never to be seen again lol, but unlike in One Piece, their story arcs is nowhere near over. Tomori Nao was definitely the higlight, and one thing I still remember, but very poorly... Also I see her on the internet from time to time, a popular character. Dude, it'd probably be my dream if someone was this head over heels over someone from Ishura... though, I don't like mainstream, and once my favorite becomes mainstream, I might suddenly lose interest. Doesn't happen all the time. Well, I don't want nor do I expect a popularity on the level of Code Geass or something, but at least like Gate. I don't know why I mentioned it all of a sudden. Maybe cause Rori, one of the characters also appear frequently on the internet.
Yeah, Charlotte ending was something else, like multiple episodes all into one. Oh, I remember. Charlotte has one of the best ED's ever. The OP was also good, but damn the ED is something else. 6/10 is quite disappointing, considering even I have a better score, and I rate things quite lowly, but that was back in 2015... omg 10 years already... what am I doing with my life...

300 slime, just that. No need for anything extra. Just like spider is just a spider. Skeleton knight is just skeleton knight. I remember trying to watch 300 slime all the way back when it aired, 2020 I think. I was in a pretty bad state of life and didn't feel like watching anything, I already started the episode, but stopped after 10 seconds, couldn't bring myself to it. Happens a lot.
I don't mind you, the message is huge, it's hard to motivate yourself. So basically you are saying you aren't that self-disciplined. It's like a millionaire saying, I'm not thaaat rich. Or a river saying, I don't have thaaaat much water. Or spellblades author saying, Im not thaaat good of an author :p
"I also completely understand it being tough to start something, and like you said, it's easy once you start, but it is absolutely that first step that's the toughest. I always keep in mind tho that once I start it'll become fun, so usually that doesn't stop me for long." yeah yeah yeah... I guess its universal, everyone gets that, so I wasn't really discovering America with that statement.

"I mean just look at these massive walls of text we send each other that isn't even all Ishura focused lol." that's because you still haven't heard my thoughts on many series. I've exhausted everything I could've said about Ishura, my Ishura batter is almost dead. I still haven't talked about spider, I literally couldn't shut up about it for the past 2 years, right now my spider battery is also law, but that's mostly because it's already been 2 years.... you don't expect me to still constantly think about it don't you? It already occupied too much of my mind for too long. I was like, "how long will this go on". But overall, I'm currently feeling a bit burned out, mostly because of ishura. You also haven't heard me talk about skeleton knight, which is actually my favorite novel, or at least used to be. It's been 2 years since I've read it, and after that I read ishura and spellblades. And I forgot some details, I'm planning on rereading it again. It feels sooooo good to read, that's mostly why I love it. Or maybe it was thanks to the translator. I disliked the anime though, except for the opening. Basically I need to either 1) reread something, to refresh my memory 2) or to have something trigger my memory. Like how I'd bring up fairy tail and some other animes here and there. Overall I remember things very very well, but like with everything, you can't just pull everything out of the top of your dome, something needs to trigger for memories to emerge.
If you are interested, I'd like to reread first 3 spellblades volumes, but it's not the main priority right now. If you are gonna watch it, you can watch one episode at a time, and wait for me to reply back, or how the ishura was like basically, that way you can also read my thoughts about the episode and what anime skipped.
Tbf, it would also be easier to just write a wiki and just link you it.

Oh yeah, I saw your name mentione in Linaris's episode, you replied back too. I checked it out a week ago or so.

Right, Urusei Yatsura was episodic, I didn't mean it as a bad thing, I just characterized it.

Here is another one. Daily Himari video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp62UBAwnH0

" And yeah I think his voice fit pretty well, I can definitely see why he speaks in CAPSLOCK in the LN." you really think that? Help me see it. Do you also see Krafnir like that?

"yes I saw that too, and I saw another user defending said person that was complaining" oh really? It's a bit different on reddit, they are getting downvoted, but there are usually 1-2 people who complain. Btw I learned a way to reply in a way that won't get my comment nuked. If you say "it was like this in light novel" or "as a light novel reader, this is true" your comment gets taken down. You can't say compare anime to light novel. Insane... So nowadays I just reply to questions like. "from what I understood it's like this" Gotta adapt, like in the forest surrounded by animals and wild life xD But I enjoy reading comments there more than on mal. For Ishura only though, haven't been checking other animes.
"because he is one of those that tops every thread and shits all over" I only thought of marianatte. but he likes ishura. I also see his post on reddit, different account, but he posts an identical message lol.
Yeah, just read novel lol. Even if s3 is announced, there is nothing like the novel fights. Unless you are a person who would stop hunderds of time during the fight, analyzing it in your head, what will Alus do next? What sword will Toroa use? How will he get out of this situation.

"Uhhh regarding that PV for Tu's episode, I think it was definitely wrong because the video is private now lol, funny stuff." oh, it's privated huh. I checked out the correct version for Tu's episode.

"Lol I gotta finish this reply first but I will go back and rewatch that bit from Season1" how did it go?
" And I liked Krafnir a lot too" yeaaaah, lets goooo. I obviously liked him because I reread that chapter like 5 times and remember it by heart at this point, but also there were more scenes of him and Tu. That was supposed to happen after ep 12, but basically he will give Tu away his participation ticket. I mean it's no surprise that Tu will be in a tournament, and Krafnir is already sponsored, and we already have 15 participants.... so it's kinda clear how she gets in if you think about it. As for the reason, it's his inner thought, so I don't know if it's gonna get adapted, "Unlike Tu, I'm not invincible, and so many strong participants in one place? I wonder what Aureatia is up to" Krafnir is one of the few characters who was smart enough to deduce that tournament is to eliminate shuras. My boy Krafnir doesn't wanna die so he is like "here you go Tu" Btw, I've seen many not understand it properly, that Tu is invincible and nothing worked on her. Nothing Rique and Krafnir could do worked on her. Krafnir actually mentioned that to his sponsor. "She is stronger than me and Rique combined. Nothing we did worked on her"
Needless to say Tu is one character I never worry about, I know she won't die.
Btw Tu and Shalk have a unique similarity to them:
1)they both took someone's spot
2)over a legendary figure
3) mentioned by Yuno
But in Tu's case she didn't have to kill the said legend. And while Shalk's confrontation with his enemies usually end in death, Tu's confrontation with her enemies, end up with her knocking them over, like she did as an alleged Demon King Bastard to anyone who came in the Land of the End.
I wonder if author thought of that. Naturally Tu and Shalk would have interactions in vol3.

"another one I'd say CAPSLOCK fits for" oh, is that so. Again I don't see it.
"I won't judge you for liking Krafnir because I also like him" nice, truly nice. Did not expect it
"but not as ugly as Goblin Slayer goblins, he seemed like a civil version of one of those." really? interesting...

"we got a taste of that with her underboob in the episode but that doe" back when I wrote that comment, it's because she lost her clothes in that explosion and then hugged Rique like that. Funny, that my friend even commented on it. "so realistic, clothes being fine after the explosion". But I didn't really care about it. I understand why they did it. Usually hair covers the nipples, but in her case she has a single braid that doesn't cover anything. I'm sure that's why they didn't do it.
" but I do like her a lot from her introduction" I had no doubt in my mind whatsoever, not even for a second. Tu had so many comments on reddit/mal, compared to Hiroto, at leat 100 more. I've read some comments saying, "I finally regained hope about humanity" or something.
And even my favorite EcchiLordMamter showed up lol. His last comment was about Nihilo's death back in s1, I thought he dropped lol, I was actually thinking of him, wondering if he was still watching lol
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2205573&id=72469210

"I can see why you like her despite her being a character you're not typically into" she is nice and kind, in this world of ishura, of course I like her. There was a reddit post about "who do you think is the most hero-like character" and I voted for her. She had 23% of the votes or something... And Mele won with 35 or something. Someone commented that Tu is the most hero-like because she wants to save everyone, while everyone else just saves those they care about. I actually didn't see Mele, otherwise I probably would've voted for him. But imagine, Tu saved a young girl Sephite, from that misery and despair and snapped her back from that state. I'm actually mad they didn't adapt the scene well enough, but oh well.... Could've been so much better and livelier. Shalk's episode gets all the glory and effort. But you still get the point that Sephite was saved there. And Tu feels like a character that always comes in to save you, and you look at her and feel reassured.

"And interesting to hear you're not very into Hiroto" :<

I don't know about that, you say you like brutality and gore. But if someone like small Kia was torn piece by piece, dying a slow and painful death, would you still like it? I used Kia as an example cause she is a child lol. But I guess I can use any favorite character of yours. Basically if they die, at least make it a good death, don't tarnish them. Oh, I remembered one really brutal death in Hunter x Hunter, it was one of my favorite characters, while being an antagonist, he was one of the coolest. He died in such a horrific death, I was sooooooooooooo sad, hell, I'm still sad. Like despair level sad. I didn't change my opinion on the story, but I couldn't continue watching afterwards. I couldn't binge after that episode, and then it's been couple of days, and I don't remember, but either something else came up in life or whatnot, and you know how hard it is to start something. Especially mentally, you have to motivate yourself to start watching something, after that horrific event. Had I continued, I am sure I'd be fine. Basically, don't end on a bad moment lol.
That 12 episode is gonna be hard to watch, because I like those characters and wanted to see more of them.

"Yeah I'd say Kuze has among the best of reasons for entering the tournament, but unfortunately that doesn't mean he will win" true.
" I feel like finding a way around his guardian angel will be a whole arc on its own or something" that's an interesting theory, but so far no one knows exactly why everyone dies trying to attack Kuze. I really wanna spoil one little thing. His opponent. He got the worst opponent for himself in the first match. But then again, I have no idea how someone like Uhak, Soujirou, Psianop match up against him, or anyone for that matter. Lucunoca too actually, can angel reach her? But I guess Lucunoca stands no chance, she has no idea what Kuze could do, so she'd treat him lightly, and then instantly fall dead.
Btw if bracket isn't shown next episode, i'll show it myself. Fuck it, that's literally the very next thing that happens after Demon King reveal. Oh how much I wished Kuze would fight Psianop round 1 and murder his slimy ass :v Gosh, I'm such a Psianop hater lol.

"And yeah Ukah does seem especially busted" I said it in my recent post on mal. To those saying he counters Kia, I said not necessarily. Kia can summon thunderbolt, that instantly and out of nowhere kills him. He can cause earthquake that can destroy the whole city and Uhak along with him. IF there's literally nothing she can't do. Then she won't lose, but of course just like with Shalk, if they get close to her and know about her ability, she might not react in time. But Kia is balanced because she is a child and isn't violent, sucks at her ability usage. But that's what makes her so likable, she is so innocent.
Some said that Soujirou will kill Uhak because he is pure skill, but who knows. They actually had a very short clash, very short, and Soujirou commented that he doesn't seem anything special, but something about him is weird...

" really tho she was very strong, she was just dumb in getting close enough for Shalk to cut her down, she was overconfidence personified." Kazuki was insanely strong, taking down the whole enemy base by herself. While she was confident, I wouldn't say overconfident. She just didn't expect he'd react faster than she'd be able to see. You have to keep in mind, she can FOLLOW bullet's movement, of course she's able to follow movement of someone else attacking her. But Shalk is so fast it was impossible to see for her. Like others mentioned "Just how strong Soujirou must have been". No idea, it does feel like either Shalk wasn't very motivated back then, or author didn't want Shalk using what he's capable of. But Shalk undoubtedly destroys Soujirou, to begin with he has no flesh, so normal attacks won't work. And for everything else he is too fast, so I doubt he'd be defeated by him. By Psianop, maybe, that I can see. I'm kinda upset about one thing, there really isn't much that can be done about it, but the matchups.... like seeing your favorite getting an unlucky matchup. But like I said, tournament is whatever, who cares about the winner, as long as your favorites don't die.

" if we're just talking his name, I pretty much figured he'd be a big gentle giant, but what we got was quite different" ah, I see, makes sense, thanks for replying to that, I was curious.

"he could have left the villagers but chose violence, it really does make you wonder how he ticks." ...yeaaaah. Apart from that very short soujirou scene, I haven't seen any Uhak, He doesn't appear in volume 4 either, but many characters aren't gonna appear, even Kuuro. If season 3 does come out, we'd probably won't get to Uhak, since his match is at the end of Volume 5. And we still have half of 3rd volume to adapt. And that's 2 matches + interactions, so 3 episodes 100%. Then 3 battles in volume 4, so at least 3 episodes. And apart from battles, there's a lot of other stuff... ishura stuff. Volume 4 should at least be 6 episodes. So we are left with 3 episodes, we can only cover 1 battle or something... I wonder why can't it get 16 episodes like Spellblades. I still think season 3 is gonna happen, otherwise they'd rushed more and covered the whole volume 3. With how much care they are adapting, I'm sure of season 3. and they have to cover the end of volume 5, cause it's pretty insane. And given how we've just concluded that it's not possible to adapt this much in 12 episodes, they should do 16 eps.

"Yes I remember the Old Kingdom Loyalists, but I didn't realize the Land of the End used to be as big as Auretia" you've seen Sephite being a kingdom, it used to be a central kingdom. There were 2 other kingdoms. Actually it's called Kuta silver city I think, Land of the end used to be called. Now, it's univable there, and Auretia doesn't wanna deal with that place.

" I did kinda lol, you did a good job there" nice nice
"I thought she was gonna be this badass babe that goes around getting stuff done" lol. Tbf I didn't like her, back when I read it. Btw, remember me mentioning her motivation for taking down the city? To meet up with Morio, but killing his own people for that? causing civil unrest. I never understood it in the novel, and it was even more confusing in the anime. The episode overall was pretty disappointing, I really hoped they'd expand more, just how they did with Uhak. Plus dialogues didn't hit as hard, maybe due to mistranslation. Still a fine episode that at least didn't skip anything major, and given that it's a novel, given how Skeleton Knight was, I should be happy.
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't spoiler you Shalk lol. That he'd be in this episode, you might've caught on it.
Oh, did you had a feeling Shalk might die?
"she kinda made me not like her much with her singing" HAHAHA, is that so? Glad I wasn't the only one. In the novel she is just "lalala", meanwhile the anime.... Most annoying ever. But Shalk saying "you have a beautiful voice, you should be a singer" was so spot on, even more in the anime, because of how annoying it sounded lol. I don't think they were going for it btw, for it to be annoying. Shalk is a troll. Also the "I'm already dead, I won't die"
"This also made me like Shalk even more, we didn't really get a lot on him in Season 1 but this new stuff characterizes him more," that's good to hear! I thought Shalk was ridicilously strong, Soujirou fight, plus Elea being afraid to tell Kia anything, worried that he will kill them before she can say anything.
He is also the only charcter who reappeared like that and had a proper introduction 2 volumes later lol. I reallyl ike how author does something different for every character.
"but this pleasantly surprised me, thanks for trying to shape Kazuki up like she was more lol." Novel baited even more, putting Kazuki on the front. There are only 2 front images, Kazuki and the second match, not Shalk, Tu, Psianop, nope. Kazuki!!! Volume 1 and Volume 2 had every important character appear on the front pages.
That's how that popular part looked in the novel


" I didn't realize that the people could be saved after going mad by the Demon King" yeah, was indeed surprising.
I really liked Tu'd episode, was super enjoyable, but then they also skipped a ton of things and overall didn't do a good job on many parts. Like clearly stating how unstoppable Tu is, considering how many people commented where they were like "so what's special about her? just moving and punching really fast?" totally missing the invincibility part... Then they also skipped the part with Rique wondering if she even gets echausted. She's been running for a while, but shows no sign of exhaustion. He wondered if he would have to keep dodging for the rest of his life.
Then the anime didn't state what Rique mentioned several times. One attack from Tu and he is dead, he had to be completely focused on him, and couldn't waste his time worrying about Krafnir. Then the biggest part that they skipped is Rique's ability. Red premonition, he can see warning of danger, colored in red. That's how he was able to survive up until now, that's how he was able to dodge Tu, who charged in like a lightning bolt. Some novel readers were disappointed that they didn't give justice to how fast Tu was actually. And in general the fight was from Rique's perspective.

Then another part they skipped is Rique mentioning that he isn't strong enough to battle Kazuki the Black Tone, that's why he wasn't in Okafu.
Overall, I highly highly suggest reading Tu's part. Just 30 pages, you can do 10 pages a day. It was truly the greatest. My favorite part and the fight, I can reread again and again. Tournament fights are better of course, but the writing hit so hard in that Tu's fight.
Still given that anime was dynamic and I got to see my 3 favorite characters all at the same time, was truly a bliss. That truly recovered my bad mood at the time. As a character, Tu is even better in the anime, but that's because her voice fits 100000000% perfectly, unlike Hiroto whose voice I detest to my very core. Tu's design also looked a lot better than I expected. Rique also looked great, Krafnir too. His voice, not what I expected, but very welcome. Then Tu's moving, jumping, the energy that she's radiating. So much fun.

You didn't mention about the bard. Totally unexpected how long and how much they dedicated to it. That part was 10 pages, and it felt longer than Tu's part which is 30 pages. I wish Tu's part got more time from this stupid Yukiharu lol. They made bard's part 10000x times better for sure, Uhak's treatment. That's gonna be my new term. Uhak's treatment lol. When an adaptation is better than original. A rare treatment.

Speaking of Yukiharu, his part in Hiroto was even worse... Kinda why I hated him. I guess I'd do the same if I was infected with Demon King's terror, anyone would be, there is no save from it. Overall Yukiharu's parts were adapted really well. One thing that they skipped, on ep 10, among the Okafu's merchants, there was an old man who spoke about Alena of the First Party and singing praises of him. Apparently he was one of the fellow students with Alena. I'm glad Hiroto mentioned Neft and the elf girl... when talking about discrimination even among the members of the first party. Like why be a hero if you are treated like this, just because of your race, why affiliate yourself with Auretia. But then they missed Alena. Uhak's episode also missed Fralik. But Krafnir at least mentioned Izick, how "I'VE FINALLY SURPRASSED IZICK THE CHROMATIC".
Kazuki mentioned Yugo the decapatation blade. Romzo you know already. So basically every member of the first party was mentioned one way or the other, by different characters. They are still in memories of many people. Very very cool story telling, I just realized that all members of the first party were mentioned in the 3rd volume. Which is why it pisses me off that anime adapted some, but didn't adapt Alena and Fralik.

"And sorry if I didn't give you as much details as you wanted for my reactions to the Ishura episodes, having to talk about 3 episodes made it kinda tough" not gonna lie,I expected more, this way it feels even less than what you wrote on mal, but beggars can't be choosers, I will take any food I get.

" I always type my replies in a separate app so I don't lose it like that" wow, that's smart....
"I'm sorry that happened to you," It's alright.

Ah, that was such a fun and enjoyable episode, even if they changed a lot of things. My mood improved tenfold. I don't usually type after the episode, but couldn't help myself.

"it's not about journey, it's about a destination" True, but harem endings sting even harder. But, I agree, kinda like with the game you spent a lot of money into. Once it ends you are upset, but then you remember all the fun time you've had up until now. Also, I've remembered some good manga endings, they are pretty short ones though. Like Pyramad game, I still have no idea whether that was Japanese or Korean one lol. But for the longer running ones... I actually have a hard time remembering... especially if it's action. Like with bnha, the author commented on it I think, that he couldn't realize everything he envisioned, I assume it's like that with many others. Also bnha is a weekly manga with great quality art, which is insane. To make such quality when you only have a week, many people appreciated that... Btw, I've dropped bnha long ago, but I was curious what the ending was like, even I though it was bad and unsatisfying, basically the question was "is that it?" It was like it was cancelled, but it wasn't, no idea what happened there. Oshi no Ko is different, at one point it turned to shit, like author went a wrong way. Oshi no Ko was complete at least, but the ending was shit, because the author went down the wrong path. Oshi no Ko was such a weak revenge story, if I'll be honest. I've seen some good revenge stories. Actually, Watashi no Arika was much better, but it's a manga. It's really similar to Oshi no Ko, but with girls, also an idol story. Actually the same author did another revenge story before that and that was also amazing and actually had a great satisfiyng ending. https://myanimelist.net/manga/105870/Mitarai-ke_Enjou_suru
It's only a manga, I wish anime would come out... but there is a live action adaptation. In general I wish more psychological/josei/deeper stories would get adaptations. I've read so many of those for the past 2 years.
You are following both Bnha and Oshi no Ko, huh. I remember when I used to liking both. I'm kinda a bnha hater. Not for Oshi no Ko, I just feel like it doesn't deserve it's popularity and is not good. I used to like it too, but at around 100 chapters, I kinda stopped, not that anything bad happened, I just suddenly lost interest.
Anyway, back to the journey... Pretty Ishura is gonna have a shitty ending, and I think I'm gonna start disliking it once we get deeper into the tournament. Well, obviously, if the author starts killing off characters. But already, even if I stop, Ishura was insane, I'll pretty much will never stop loving it, even if I drop it later. To me, even One Piece dropped in quality, not sure if many agree with me since it's still number 1 for many, but personally to me, what made One Piece fan was kinda gone, but I still gave it a 10, because of what has happened before. Same with Tower of God, season 3 went in a direction I didn't like, actually saw a Korean video about it lol, "why is Tower Of God getting worse or something". There he mentioned how it used to be really really popular, and he remembers looking forward to every Monday, there he detaily explains the problems, including s3 going into a wrong direction, at least something that makes it less fun. But I still love it for s1, s2, not One Piece or Black Clover level, but I really liked it anyway.... too bad s2 anime is trash. Oh, another anime I wanted to mention is Fairy Tail, it literally goes for your "journey is more important". I swear, pretty much every arc was INCREDIBLE.... in the beginning and somewhere in the middle ........... but then it goes to shit, the end arc, fighting with final boss ESPECIALLY. Why? because the conflict, the tension, the drama, the stakes are pretty high level and it was very enjoyable as a result, but then once main characters start fighting the antagonists, always some bullshit happens during a fight... I mean, Fairy Tail kinda invented friendship magic. It is really known for it. Once one of the main characters get low enough and is on the brink of losing, something happens, he remembers friends, gets a stupidest powerup and turns the tides around. That's called a plot armor! But the big thing about Fairy Tail was characters, there are a lot of likable ones, and overall it has a lot of fun moments. But the fights... my god. Another problem about Fairy tail is excessive fanservice. It was good in the beginning, then it got a new version and fanservice got too strong, like it became hard to take serious....
I remembered about Fairy tail, since I was listening to it's OP right now. Another good thing about it, is there is not a single bad OP or ED lol. It's filled with great songs.

Cataloging how? on mal? I started forgetting when I watched what after like 2020, I only remember light novels. I like light novels more as they adapt the full story, and anime doesn't, unless the story was short to begin with. Many stories that I would never see end, because anime will never release another season. That's one reason, also anime skips too much that takes away from the experience... Ishura is one of the best adaptations, but it still skips stuff, I wish it didn't skip. Usually details, politics, worldbuilding, most light novels are also rushed. Then there is also an issue with translations, I started noticing, especially with Ishura, that translations are just shit... Some of the quotes I was looking for, the dialogues are totally gonna be misinterprted and aren't as impactful as they should be, simply because of the bad translation. Like Shalk Kazuki dialogue, felt kinda bad, still converys the point, but could've been so much better. Another thing is that light novel would always be better in your mind than an anime, as long as you understand a scene well and can imagine it in your mind, that image that you created would be superior. Unless it's an action that is hard for you to imagine, but I did relatively well on imaging Toroa vs Mestelexil fight, so I was disappointed in the anime, I still think it could've been better adapted, but it was quite good, but it won't match your imagination... Btw when I dream, some dreams are so freaking amazing, better than any anime, I wonder why. So basically I only watch anime to find a good light novel... Btw, I was really close on missing out on Ishura a year ago, I kinda accidentally picked it up, accident or was it fate? Spellblades was recommened to me by a friend.

"it’s got an interesting plot and fun characters" that's a very ambigious lol. That's something I would hear when they don't like something, or if there is not much to say lol.
"it’s reminding me a lot of “Beyond the Boundary”" It's actually a common formula called Kishōtenketsu.

But it's pretty good, doesn't work all the time though. Also I don't like using it in Charlotte, since Charlotte feels unfinished. Say it was a novel that was longer. It could've been around 6 volumes. If that Ten (twist) happens at around volume 1, then it feels too early fo that. Then what, you can't have twists for the next 5 volumes. Then if it's Ketsu(conclusion). conclusion means final chapter? Unless you do Kishōtenketsu every volume. But even Ishura doesn't repeat it's formula, sure character introductions persist, but if you noticed first volume they fight each other and die!!! Second volume, they fight a common enemy, noone important dies. third volume is demon king stuff.

"for this reason I kinda saw the twist coming but I think it was well done" you already got to sister at ep 7? or were you at ep 9 back when you left this message? anw, that was probably the only good interesting part. The fun stuff in the first episodes were better than the action afterwards. Oh, I just remembered that final epsiode feels like watching 3 or 4 episodes lol. The idol girl was pretty badly used too, remembered just now. Feels unsatisfying. Only Tomori and MC (forgot his name) were good.

"And I’ll definitely tell you when I start Spellblades" ok, i'll be looking forward to it, especially ep 1-6. I think ep 1 and 6 should have the most to say. Like I mentioned previously, interesting ideas, overall story, characters, what's unusual, what you didn't expect, what you liked... stuff like that.

" but I’m also rewatching Fire Force before its new season" definitely don't wanna get behind on that, see that you started already. I sometimes put these limiters on me, "have to rewatch previous season before the start of this new season" and since I'm such a perfectionist, if I don't rewatch, I end up not watching the new season, like Bungou stray dogs. I needed to rewatch 2 seasons, but felt lazy and because I was so disconnected from it, it was hard... I mean I'm lazy to even watch or read something I like, something I dislike myself for. Usually once you start something, after some time, you get into it and it's easy, but getting started is hard. It's good thart you are so self-disciplined, I wish I was as self-disciplined like you. Yeah after Ishura ends, there would be something else to discuss... Next season, I'll only be watching Wind Breaker 2, Bye bye earth 2, and Shoushimin Series. But the problem is, I don't really love any of these animes, they are just fine. And I don't like discussing new animes, since my opinion usually changes and I start disliking it later. If ther is some banger light novel that I still like after ep 5, then sure.

"MAL is a Time Machine like that" yeah, that's actually really nice indeed. I also like noticing some familiar names, but I don't check comments that much anymore, only for mangas, when I wanna know other opinions... tbf I'd do the same for anime, but I don't watch much older stuff anymore.
I don't think you should worry about your comment not being read, after all, you don't even know if it's being read when you write during a season. Just imagine someone reading it lol.
"you’re giving me a lot to watch lol" to be fair, I'm just discussing some things that fit the conversation lol. But I'm glad find them appetizing enough to watch. Jigoku Shoujo is pretty entertaining. It's episodic, so not every episode is great and it's a pretty old anime so it has an old style.
There is this classic she says every episode
https://tenor.com/view/funny-hell-girl-emma-ai-would-you-like-to-try-dying-once-gif-15697336


Ajin was also good, especially the first 6 episodes. Second season goes a bit of a different direction, towards fighting terrorists, which is boring in my opinion.

True, danmachi does have a similar plot point in season 3. Going against everyone. Bell standing against Ainz in the opening was my favorite part.
Yeah, Yamada was great, especially Akane, she reminds me of Himari who I love dearly, speaking of which I never linked you any video, so here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzNoBzW7fb4&ab_channel=Adune

" Frieren had a very similar thing with the demons in the show" interesting...

Glad to hear you are interested in Yukiharu
"Yeah Toroa kinda missed out by skipping out with the Gray Haired Child but i get why he did, it’s his character" you get it right!
"and having that kind of info at his disposal would make him even more broken, so i can see why it was written that way" broken? not sure, but would have helped him. But they are polar opposites, gray-haired child wants war, Toroa doesn't.
I've seen the preview for the next episode, Ozonezma coming next episode!!!! and it looks like they are adapting the part about the visitor who tried to defeat the demon king with a song, because Ozonezma is there. You really won't see him much though. Btw it's funny how he is the only one who self-introduces himself. I'm Ozonezma. I'm chimera.... You should mention it on mal. Also I've heard his voice.... it does sound like multiple people speaking, or something like that. If you remember I mentioned that whenever he speaks it's always in CAPSLOCK
" his name sounds like a prescription medication tho" it's funny that you mentioned it, considering he uses medical instruments for attacking. But you do have a point, and now I won't be able to unsee it. " feels like I’d see an ad for it listing all of the side effects."

It's kinda funny that people are waiting for the tournament and I don't even like it yeah... I like how one guy harshly answered on mal to someone complaining about no story and only character introductions. "if you think there was no story up until now, drop it, it's not for you" lol. It's true though, there was a lot of story, some don't see it for some reason. Ever since Psianop especially, it was all a story about Demon King, Psianop's Uhak's stories were connected to it. Even Shalk (now I can say Shalk instead of Kazuki) looking for a True Hero or True Demon King. Then next part, Tu's part is also about it. Hiroto's part is also about it... We slowly learn more about the horrors of the True Demon King, so the reveal at the end is gonna be so much better. Imagine if we had no buildup and went straight to--so yeah, that's a true demon king, finish.
Btw if season 3 does come, I have no idea how we are gonna discuss the episodes.... I'm not kidding, because there's just so much to discuss, literally every minute has something worth talking about. Or how about matches, there's just so many things happening in a match. Like I wanna discuss "oh Toroa, dodged this attack, but didn't dodge this one, used this sword here and that sword here". There's just so much hapepening. But overall most people are gonna mention "wow this character is strong to beat this character" that's pretty much is gonna be the summary, I don't like it. I wish you'd read it, and discuss one page at a time haha, I'd like that, but that'd be unrealistic

" kinda like reading all of Moby Dick which pretty much is all about whaling for the entirety of the book up until the very end" oh, didn't know that.
Yeah season 3 is gonna be great, I still thinks these particular battles should be read, at least battles. Because there's so much detail that you get to appreciate, that in the anime you might glance over and not notice. Or maybe it's just me not noticing stuff during the fights. Also, you know I'm biased towards novel lol.

"so she really is truly a legendary Pokémon lol" that's how you can view it yeah.
It's very good that the anime was adapting 1 character per episode for the last 2 episodes, but it seems like we are back to 2 characters next episodes... based on the preview. Unless they released a wrong preview? How insane would that be? The episode is called Tu the Magic and the thumbnail is her, but for some reason the preview only shows what should be Hiroto's episode. Then the episode should've been Tu The Magic and Hiroto the Parodox. also the preview never showed Tu except for the thumbnail.... That sounds like an epic fail if they uploaded a wrong preview, would be hillarious. Oh yeah, even comments say that, lol kinda funny.
Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-TbSFPoD0&ab_channel=KADOKAWAanime

Nevermind, it's definitely still 1 character card per episode. That'd be insane otherwise, there is so much information.... So much would've been skipped, just don't adapt at this point and skip in its entirety.... But that still means I don't get to see Tu's preview :(
Technically there is more than 1 character in Tu. Since we also get to see Zigita Zogi the Thousand and Krafnir The Hatch of Truth. The legendary, the man himself... If you don't know what I'm talking about. Yuno mentioned him all the way back in the first episode, as someone who can beat Soujirou... And now that I mentioned, drop everything you are doing right now and rewatch that part again. You'll discover so many things for yourself, just like I did, they already had designs ready for all upcoming characters lol. Even Krafnir, considering he wasn't shown in the novel.
Anyway Krafnir is legendary, legendary enough for even Yuno to hear about him. He discovered a new type of Word Arts. It's different from Lucunoca and her ice, that's unique to her. Krafnir discovering it, means that it can be learned by others (at least that's how I see it).
Btw Krafnir also speaks in CAPSLOCK. It's funny that both him and Ozonezma do that. But I have no idea how Krafnir would sound, if with Ozonezma it was mentioned that it was like "multiple people speaking"
There is also Rique the Misfortune which I'm also hyped about, a character I like a lot. So Tu the Magic episode is more like introduction to 4 important characters. Obviously at the end of the day, the only important characters are the participants and their sponsors. But Kuuro isn't a participant but pretty important and appears a lot. Same with Yuno... Well Krafnir isn't as important as them, he appears a lot less. And not that important to the story now that I think about it... But... I still like him, stop judging me >< He is pretty cool and feels a bit like a tsundere.
Btw finally saw Zigita Zogi in the anime, and holy shit he is ugly. I know he is a goblin and goblins are ugly, but damn that's on another level. He is so well drawnthat he that he looks ugly.
I'm really excited about that episode in general, that's my favorite part of Volume 3, and one of my favorite character cards and one of my favorite character, Tu the Magic. She is an airhead and a dum-dum, I don't really like these types of characters. But she is so pure and so strong that i can't help but like it.... She is also the most fanservice, even more than Nihilo. There was one funny scene with Kuze asking about Tu from one of the boys at the church, and he was like "she is super nice and got huge boobs" I was like, ok little man :> that was unironically funny. And since she is an airhead and unfamiliar with normality she doesn't have shame when she is naked, you'll see that in the episode.
After Tu's episode though, I'm not that interested in the rest. They are the types of episodes you'd wanna see only once. I don't like Hiroto, but I root for him in the games, because I don't want other factions to win even more. That being said, I don't really know what Hiroto would do if he wins and how he'd affect the world... I think Hiroto is a fine character, but his episode wasn't my favorite, but it's a very improtant episode ofc. Not spoiling on who Hiroto the Paradox is. You'll see next week.
Final episode is gonna be a banger, I'm sure, maybe many people will like the anime more as a result. But I had enough seeing it once :< Also I don't wanna see those horrors animated. I had enough reading and imagining it, yikes. That would probably be the most gore we've seen, even more than Yuno's episode, enough for you to wish you closed your eyes. Or maybe it was just me, because I was quite attached to those characters, cause they seemed cool, especially Alena and the elf girl whose name I forgot.

Glad you liked Uhak's episode. Kuze's part was important, glad they adapted showing his connection to Cunodeigh and him being late again. That's a recurring thing about him, and what makes him a tragic hero. He is always late to save people he cares about, he can't save anyone but himself, because Nastique only is around him. My heart kinda aches when I think about him. I'm rooting for him in the tournament, because he actually has a reason to win. Meanwhile Alus is there only to fight Harghent. Shalk is there to find about a hero. Mele, Soujirou, Kiyazuna are there for fun. Even though Mele said he would use money for the village, I guess a noble cause. Toroa is there for Alus. Lucunoca is there for Alus. Psianop is there to prove to himself that he is strong. Linaris is there to make more war and chaos.
I will spoil what Kuze is there for, cause it's supposed to be revealed next season in the first episode anyway. The Order's dying and its influence is waning. There are many poorhouses that houses orhapns, kids who got nowhere to go, if Order were to be disolved, those kids would have nowhere to go... I wonder if he can kill Uhak, because Nastique is invisible for Uhak to see, how can he cancel something he doesn't see. I hate Uhak, he is unfun, counters everything. Back when I read his part, I thought he only cancels out Word Arts, that was a cool ability, especially considering he has to pay for it, by having this disability of his. But as I watched his episode, and read some comment, I realized he cancels out everything he perceives as weird. Since he never spoke a word and never heard one, he perceives hearing those as weird too. So a gigant like Belka is weird to him, so she collapsed and was self-destructing.... You know who is a gigant? lol. That's not good......... Fuck, now that I think about it, if Soujirou meets Uhak in the final, Soujirou won't lose, cause he is pure skill, losing his ability to see vulnerabilities won't matter. Also needless to say, the battle is gonna be to the death...
I don't want to see Toroa going far, cause he would need to kill and he doesn't like it.
Ok, forget about all that, it's just me dreaming and speculating. We'll talk about it later, if they release a bracket.

"I love that. Yeah Belka was really cool for her short time, I got that she was really strong which makes it even wilder that Uhak subdued her, I think that was one of the best showing of a character’s strength" You still think that after seeing Kazuki? :P But you are right Belka was strong.

Btw forgot to ask, what did you think of when you first seen Uhak's name, the Silent part especially. Definitely didn't expect what we got.

Yeah Alimo Row sounds cool. That Taren thing is gonna happen next episode since we are in the Land of the End now. And seeing Shalk's episode, you already know about his goal. So it connected.
Forgot to mention something about the Land of the End, and I'm only mentioning it in case I forget about it, and since I'm late with my reply, you are probably gonna be replying it after seeing Tu's episode... But Land of the End used to be a prosperous metrapolis with lots of tourism, like Auretia, and used to be the kingdom of ... Central Kingdom, I think. You remember there being 3 kingdoms before right? And Old Kingdom loyalists wanting to restore it.

Anime discussiong on reddit are still fun, at least about Ishura, I liked reading their reactions to Kazuki and Shalk lol. I'm glad you didn't see that spoiler, that'd be annoying to know...

True, I also thought that, Uhak doesn't speak, so it's impossible to know what he is thinking about and he is really scary because you don't know what he'll do. Btw, one thing I didn't like about his story, is that he murked everyone. I wish he was more peaceful... but that also begs the question whether he learned it from that pup being killed or was he always this violent. And don't tell me that they provoked him, he could've ignored them. There was a similar part with Toroa, where he was bothered by Sun Cofiner's thugs and one even shot him with his bow, but Toroa didn't get provoked, only using the sword to protect him, not attacking anyone.

Well now you have to reply about Kazuki Shalks episode. Speaking of which, did you think I've baited you into thinking she is gonna be permanent? I tried. I even tried really hard not to give away stuff about Shalk and that we'll see him again.
good thing I made it ambigious here: "I'm actually curious about your opinion on next episode the most, it's what I was looking forward to, ever since we started talking and you said you like .... yes... him lol, in case you read it before the episode, not to spoil you"
You would've never imagined right?

Might as well do the same for Tu's episode. like with ep 9 "Was it crazy? unexpected? what were you feeling?"

If you like ramen, you gotta watch Koizumi san likes ramen lol, the wildest anime hahaha.

I actually had most of the reply ready 4 days ago, but since I took so long and took breaks, my page crashed saying there's not enough memory. That was annoying, never happened, out of panic, now I was frequently saving it in the notepad. It's hard to rewrite your thoughts exactly the way you did it the first time.

I see about romance and harem. I've never seen a good harem ending, not even once. In general romance endings are bad... well to be fair most endings are shit. I'm not saying because I'm hating on it... It's just that I disliked the ending, and then I check the comments and they also disliked the ending... I don't even mention the endings that are a total disaster like Oshi no ko or fairy tail or boku no hero academy, that make you regret watching them. But the reason why harems have bad endings is because the characters that lost... the characters that you love, that you've been through many years, by following their stories - were treated like complete garbage, and some were not even given any screentime in the final chapter... Actually... Masamune had a pretty good Ending, even if also was a harem, it somehow felt better, even though the manga was short. But the first chapters, the beginning is usually the Tip Top enjoyment, the harems I mean, many harems that I enjoyed... in the middle they get repetitive/dumb/uninteresting. and the ending it completely goes to shit.
Interesting... you started even before me lol. You have quite a history... I used to rewatch a lot more, but mostly an episode or a few, to completely rewatch you need to start from ep1... Also for rewatchable animes, I usually make videos to rewatch specific parts instead. I didn't make any Ishura ones though, no need, I already remember them by heart from the novel lol... Nowadays rather than the anime, I reread novel volumes, like ishura... cause I can't understand most action during the first read.

Unfortunately no more Kuuro or Cuneugh this season lol. They did appear in volume 3 later, but the anime wouldn't adapt that... I'll address it later in the post.

You've already started Charlotte? and didn't say anything about it? t_t Anything you like in particular? Btw, if you do pick up spellblades, do mention what you like or dislike, i'm mostly interested in events/ideas/characters/story elements. You don't wanna me be the first person to die out of curiousity :(
"As for Angel Beats, I haven’t seen it but everyone and their mom were comparing Charlotte to it back in 2015 from the looks of it, and it’s one of those shows I’ve known about for a long time but have just never gave it a watch, might happen soon tho if I end up really liking Charlotte"
Oh, are you checking out the comments? Of course it's gonna be compared then lol, it was compared all the time back when I watched it and even after. Oh oh, I remembered something... to date, my best comment I've left is Jigoku Shoujo, if you ever decide to watch it, check out my comments please. I've put so much effort there lol... That was kinda random, but for some reason I remembered it. I didn't even put this much effort into Ishura comments lol... That feels regretable, I wonder how many people saw them, considering it's like a 2010 show lol.

Ajin is defintely amazing, but first season is defnitely better than the second... but then again, second season went a different direction. Also, I don't like stopping terrorist stories. But first season was insane, especially the first 6 episodes, I watched it during a season, and it was really hype. Others were hyped as well.

Yeah, spell consuption is very interesting. Yeah, pretty sure you'll like Katie. No, it's not the monsters that make them fail graduation. There are very vile monsters that cannot be communicated with, like wyrms (Particle Storm hehe). There are even worse monsters. But then there are trolls, gryphins who aren't found in the labyrinth from what I know, they exist in their world, but not in the labyrinth. The point is, since they are below humans and can't communicate, they are being used and experimented on by mages. Mages in Spellblades in general don't care about any casualty, as long as they can progress in their research. Katie realizes that, and tried to adapt. But the point is that it's completely normal for mages to do and Katie starts to fight it. It reminded me of the Uhak episode and that pup... many commentes, including you, about the pup and how bad you felt, and how Cunodeigh basically deserved what came to her... My head was just filled with ????

That's one huge pet peeve of mine, when viewers take their own bias, their own knowledge, and insert it into the fantasy world to judge whether something moral or not xD
To begin with, it was normal in their world, I know anime didn't mention it, but I thought it was obvious. The pup is cute, look how cute it is, but it grows up to be a large wolf who is gonna attack citizens later, he is a beast who is gonna attack you later, if you don't kill it, it is gonna kill you lol.
Also I remember in Spellblades, there is a very cute fairy, the biology teacher said to not get baited by their cuteness, that they use to get your guard down. So yeah, sometimes cuteness is a trap.

Yukiharu, like gray-haried child are visitors who both have an extraordinary power, when it comes to Yukiharu, I don't know what exactly... but gray-haired child's power is to know exactly what you want... Might be a spoiler, but it only gets mentioned by author in vol 4, and if something is mentioned by author, it can easily be skipped in the anime... And by the time season 3 comes, you might forget it... anyway, don't be mad. Now the scene with Toroa in the carriage makes more sense... He offered what Toroa wanted, "information on enchanted swords and protecting him from the eyes of others" but Toroa didn't want to be used... I wonder how the story would change if Toroa had information that Zigita Zogi the Thousandth and gray-haired child provides. Their information net is insane... and like we know, information is the key to winning. Shoul've joined him like Ozonezma who didn't even sacrifice anything for it, just fought on his side several times, nothing big, but got lots of information as a result lol... Onozenma, the name who I can't pronounce for the life of me, doesn't appear much, and in potential s3, it's not like you'll be fed this informatino I provided, it's just my deduction. I actually got quite excited reading more about him, never would've thought I would end up liking a chimera so much, very cool character, too bad you only get to see it in potential s3.

And Uhak's episode skipped ED entirely now lol.

I'm sorry if I'm gonna say something offensive, but I really don't like the tournament lol. From the beginning the bracket was bad. I know at the end only one wins, but still. Also some results make no sense. So it made me feel like the author does whatever is better for the story, that being said, I didn't read the battle, I just saw the result... but still it feels stupid. I wonder if Kazuki's episode tomorrow is gonna mention it... the truth about the tournament, so in general I don't feel bad when my favorite loses, cause it's a better fate than staying in the tournament.

Btw vol4 is absolutely insane, so many revelations, and just so interesting to read. There probably not a single bad page from what I've read. And the politics gets even crazier. Also finally I get to see Haede The Bullet Flashpoint, who has been described to have the only faction capable of fighting Rosclay's faction, back in vol2 (you actually saw him during the metting about the Particle Storm, briefly). But I finally get his actual action in vol4. He is absolutely insane... really makes sense that he sponsors Soujirou of all people lol.
I'm not gonna say it's better than other volumes... it's just that the introductions are over and the shit hit the fam, kinda lol. Though, to be honest, it already ended back on 250/407 page. Vol3 definitely feels like 2 volumes instead of 1, the second half of the volume after the introductions, feels way different from the first part of the volume.

Lucunoca's breath even changes topography because of cold it is. The author explained it, and I didn't it the first time I read it, but basically if the temperature falls low enough deep below the ground, it would cause molecules stuck closely together to separate from each other, changing the topography.... And what exactly changed in topography, was some parts of the ground sinking, leaving kinda-like a crater. Literally never seen anyone describe freezing the surroundings in this way... My question automatically was, if that's true, then it's impossible to stay near her, so it's impossible to win against her, temperature low enough to change the topography would kill anyone, so in theory she can't lose... so in my opinion, author overcooked, overthought it. Regardless, her battle with ... I really wanna say it... i really wanna say it :(((( Anyway her battle is one of the best I've read, it left me shook at the end, like "did that just happen?" "no way". I even had a bad dream about it...
But I only checked out 2 battles lol. But I don't think anything would top it... It ends volume 3 and leaves on the perfect cliffhanger/note... I really wish anime ended there, it would blow up (probably), maybe more people would pick up the anime as result, because they saw the clip of it somewhere... on the wide web. The anime still is gonna end on a good note, hence why I said volume 3 feels like 2 volumes in one. It has 2 good stopping points.

Now that I touched on that topic, let's get to it... The adaptation and what it's gonna cover. Last week, when I saw just Uhak in the preview, I had a thought that it's gonna be slower than I thought, and then seeing just "Kazuki the Black Tone" in the preview, all but confirmed it for me. We are gonna max slow, trying to cover one cover per episode and ending on a ... probably bracket? but something other important, other than bracket is gonna happen, a nice reveal, look forward to it.
Originally I thought we'd have Psianop and Uhak ep 7, Kazuki and Tu ep 8, ep 11,12 would be dedicated to the first 2 battles, which ends volume 3. I was okay with them spending less time on introductions, if we get to have good battles adaptations. Well, if we get season 3, it's 100% is gonna be 2 episodes for those 2 battles.
But now it's gonna be Kazuki ep 9, Tu ep 10, Hiroto ep 11. Hiroto's part is actually the longest.
Then I'm confused why Toroa's part is only half an episode, it literally was longer than Kazuki and Uhak by 2 pages :(( But Toroa shared his episode with Mestelexil. It makes sense, makes sense... volume 3 characters are more important, other than Psianop who got rekt the hardest lol. I think Uhak's story is very interesting and should be very well explored. Kazuki and her storm on the Free City of Okafu also, and her talk about visitors should be well adapted, not to mention Shalk and his interactions with mercenaries.
We won't get to tournament, but it's probably for the best. Anything is better than a rushed story... And here I thought, they adapted volume 2 well.... volume 3 (except Psianop) is looking really good.

Now lets talk about Uhak's episode. It was even better than in the novel, never expected I'd ever say it about an adaptation... Probably my favorite episode, even though I started liking Uhak less now lol.
Remember me telling you that Uhak's part was the only story told in first person by Cunodeigh? I don't think there were other first person told stories. And most parts were like "Uhak did this, Uhak did that" Like how she taught him the script was better explored in the anime, but in the novel it was a paragraph paraphrasing what happened. Then her remembering the kids, was a small reminiscence, but anime actually showed the scene with small Kuze and Nofelt, which was insane. I was overjoyed seeing it lol... Actually I even missed that it even happened in the novel, despite rereading that part lol. But then I later checked, and yes, it was briefly mentioned. And I expected anime skipping all of this, if they wanted to do 2 character stories in one episode.
Then I was very happy that they included the story behind Uhak's name. That one of the brothers couldn't speak a word, but was able to resolve conflicts silently... But there was one name that they missed... She also mentioned the name Fralik the Heaven, the member of the first party, who everyone respected(the party), including her(she said it). He had his throat crushed at an early age and couldn't speak. We'll see Fralik later, he replies with grunts.
The pup scene was very well done. The Belka scene was the highlight, it was kinda confusing in the novel, I only understood that she begged for help and got mad from the true demon king, and that uhak stopped all the words and then crushed her skull and started eating her and Cunodeigh said "it's not that he couldn't eat flesh, it's that he chose not to".
Then I was very happy seeing Uhak's expressions, cause novel didn't mention any of that, to me Uhak had the same expression throughout, that never changed.
Oh, another thing about Belka is that she was a champion... champions are pretty strong. She previously set her sights on taking down the True Demon King (but it was never shown), obviously looks like she lost just like the others.
The other intersting point about Uhak's story, is that it's unclear whether the True Demon King was alive back then or not. Because in the main story True Demon King has been killed for several years... wait, I just remembered that Nofelt approached him with the tournament in mind, and the tournament only came to be several years after her death... right, right. Well, then that means the curse lasts this long, Belka must have been suffering for this long, that's insane.
Also happy that Kuze's part was well adapted, him arriving after disaster happened, once again. Passing disaster... I felt really bad for Cunodeigh in the novel, and in the anime too. But novel at least was obscure about her death, it was unclear the first time I read it. I only remember the "Uhak, if I die, I want you to read my flesh" which I am really really happy they adapted. Actually I even expected them skipping Kuze, if Uhak's part was shared with some other character introduction. Good that they adapted it well, didn't expect it.

There was also a Yukiharu part, it was good, I liked it, he is planning on going to Land of the End, his part took like 2 min. And then it's 20 min of Uhak, which is insane, still shocked how much time he got and how great and well everything flowed together. Gonna see a lot more Yukiharu next episode, or maybe we'll finally see that visitor with a musical instrument that tried to play it to a True Demon king lol.

Btw it was happening in Alimo Row, which is close to the Land of the End, the place where the True Demon King was seen last. Back in the first season, Taren the Punished actually gave the information on Land of the End to Shalk, who was looking for it, saying that something was blocking her men to get anymore information... Keep that in mind as you watch the next episodes...

Btw Uhak's episode had the most spoilers, on reddit as well, they were the most annoying ones, spoiling something that shouldn't be spoiled... but they didn't say it outright, they hinted to it, which is even worse. I wish they just spoiled it instead, cause their comment would get taken down lol. I'm not gonna say what, but even I was spoiled, fuck that... I wish I didn't know that. Also it's something that I didn't even notice in the anime.

Oh, also very interesting how many versions there were about Uhak, like how Cunodeigh taught him how to kill... I never thought of that. It's true that Uhak brought the pup so she'd protect him, mentioned in the novel, but I always had an understanding that Uhak looked so calm and chill because he's seen a lot and is tired of constant deaths around him. Kinda how Kuuro is tired of all the deaths. But if Uhak wants to, he can kill... Uhak is definitely one of the more interesting stories, cause its so mysterious and people come to different conclusions...

Now, you are probably replying to it after Kazuki episode... I'm really curious what's your opinion is on the episode. Was it crazy? unexpected? what were you feeling? Just say whatever you were feeling, not just at the end, but throught the episode. Or mention the things that stood out. I'm actually curious about your opinion on next episode the most, it's what I was looking forward to, ever since we started talking and you said you like .... yes... him lol, in case you read it before the episode, not to spoil you. In a way its even crazier than an Uhak episode, author did a very interesting thing there lol. I really really really wish they include it, please. I'll show what it is later. But if they do include it, it would be so hype.

Actually vol 2 and 3 had no afterword, maybe because volumes were too long. volume 4 has one, but I didn't get to it yet lol. Volume 1 had a recipe of carbonara, and was like "don't spend money on cream and stuff" "you can just use eggs and that will save you this much money". I actually use some recipes I find in the novels, never forget Arrabiata pasta lol. The guy found chili in another world and got so excited, and felt that arrabiata pasta is the best thing to do lol... It wasn't Ishura, but I still remember... since then I've been cooking arabiata lol. Some novels have more cooking parts, but usually isekais. Ishura have none lol. Except for Hidow eating a sandwich.

It's always nice to meet other eva fans!!

As for Lain i love it a lot, i think it's one of the most convoluted anime series ever, every time I rewatch i realise something that i didn't notice before XD

Btw, just checked out the PV for the next episode, and I can't believe it only showed Uhak and the journalist. Hard to believe that's all they are gonna adapt? I thought they'd include Kazuki and Free city of Okafu, but I guess they wanna spend more time on Uhak. Never expected it... But I guess, the novel part about him is hard to adapt without spending some time, since the grandma tells her story in first person about what kind of person Uhak is. "Uhak wakes up this early, eats this, does this and this". Kind of like a summary style, so maybe they'd actually show those scenes in more details. Journalist part should be around 20 pages, after Psianop and after Uhak. I wonder if they are gonna combine it into one scene so they end the episode with Uhak instead of jumping to the journalist again. But even if it's 20 pages, I'd believe they could adapt it in 4.5 minutes top. and Uhak is just 30 pages, but like I said, lots of summary scenes that could be further expanded and shown better in the anime. Are they gonna use almost 18 minutes on him? I'm kinda excited, cause that means it's gonna be adapted well... But then we have 320 pages left for 4 episodes, and that makes me worried... hope it's not a mistake, and it won't make them cut or rush some of my favorite scenes.

lol,it's kinda funny, sorry but you are probably the first person with To Love Ru as the first anime. If anything, it's the anime I'd never recommend to someone who never watched anime, or any ecchi, but to love ru is on another level. Actually why non-anime people think anime is stupid lol.
Lol'd at "last rewatch" haha. I wondered if I read that correctly. I wish I can say that, but most of the favorites I've only watched once.
Kuuro and Cuneugh don't have a romance going on!!!!!! I got annoyed that it looked that way in anime... To begin with, homunculuses live for 5 years. That's why she said "are homnculuses forbidden to love someone?" I looked at it as how you love a family.... the normal romance ain't ever happening, Kuuro never shown any interest whatsoever, and it never went any further after that.
Hard disagree, any romance would be too forced in the show... unless it's Linaris with someone ^^ Btw maybe there is some romance later, but I doubt it.

Charlotte next? sure, I don't recommend it, even though I have some memories with it, just because it felt unsatisfying at the end and season 2 will never happen. But if you watched Angel Beats, then you should probably check out Jun Maeda's other work. I remember trailers before Charlotte even aired, and I wasn't even into the anime back then that much, I wonder how I stumbled on that trailer... I did watch Angel Beats at that point, and everone was hyping it up, given how Jun Maeda made his another work.
Angel Beats also felt a bit unsatisfying, but it was still amazing through and through (especially if you like emotional works). Charlotte has one emotional scene, that might or might not make you cry, depends on how emotional you are.
Now, his other work that's a bit less known (and was less hyped, not sure why) is https://myanimelist.net/anime/41930/Kamisama_ni_Natta_Hi
it's worse than the other 2 overall, but at least has a satisfying conclusion and story made sense overall, and while it has its faults and failures, most plotholes were closed.
Also, I remember I made a lot of screenshots, back when I used to take anime screenshots... there were a lot of those moments, here is just a sample...

It's not a recomendation or anything. I'm just stating my experience with Jun Maeda works... If anything, I want you to watch Spellblades or Sayuuki the most, from those we talked about lol.

Ajin is pretty good, especially the first episodes, but the anime is not finished.
There https://myanimelist.net/anime/55265/Tensei_Kizoku_Kantei_Skill_de_Nariagaru
first season in fall, second in spring, the third yet to be announced.... Ok, that's fine... for some reason I thought s3 already aired...

Not only broom-riding, also the academy itself. Never watched Harry Potter, but I think the Academy is pretty dangerous there and there are hidden rooms no one discovered(I assume). Endless book shelves in the library with the books flying around. Also I think in Harry Potter you can get to a labyrinth? from school... Not sure about the last one, but you can in Spellblades. There are layers in the labyrinth, first layer is pretty safe, second layer is already quite challenging and even second year students struggle there, third layer is pretty crazy(we actually see them going there at around ep 13 or something, and they had to be guided by a senpai and avoid fights to survive). Then MC himself went much lower, onto the 4th and 5th layer(not sure about the 5th layer) in volume 5, but he was being guided by his 6,7 year senpais, he wouldn't survive there by himself.
Another intersting point is that each student as they progress through their years, open their own workshop somewhere in the labyrinth. Ophelia, one of the scariest characters that you'll see in anime, had her workshop on floor 3. Our group also opened up their own workshop, on floor 1, I think.
I forgot if I mentioned it in my last post, but headmistress say that to all the first year students, "most of you will die". That's because the percentage of graduating die is very low... You can die to a monster in the labyrinth, or be consumed by a spell... Being consumed by a spell is a very interesting idea.
Another intersting part of the story is Katie, one of the girls from the main group, she is a equal rights activist. She fights for monsters having equal rights and to end endless torture that mages put them through... like trolls, gryphins. Mages use them for their experiments and stuff. Like the biology class, where they have to tame a gryphin and the method shown is through inflcting pain... via a spell of course. And Katie said to her friends, "don't even think about it" and tried to befriend him instead, instead of inflicting pain. Her story is very intersting to watch, because she is fighting a system.... something everyone thinks is normal... Oh right, Elfs, dwarves and some other races that I forgot are actually not discriminated against, but that's because she claims they are sentient, can communicate their thoughts, understand others... and her idea is... to prove that other species are also sentient... But then she also understand that some things she can't fight against, like eating animals(not sure which animals she referred, I assume chicken exist there), she is basically being a realist... She is also unbelievably kind, like oh my god... MC said a interesting thing to her. Like "How challenging it is to be kind, when the world doesn't reward you for being kind"... Wait, I actually wrote that down, I'll see if it's correct....
"As long as we live in this world, adversity to kindness will always exist. To be kind is essentially giving up your advantage. Giving someone else bread, means there is less for you. Giving your cloak to someone means you'll have nothing to cover yourself when it gets cold. You gain nothing from it, and that's what kindness must always content with"
Oh yeah, spellblades have some insane quotes. As you can see it also addresses some societal problems/issues/ethics/morals, not that much. But more than Ishura for example... and many other novels.
MC sees his past self in Katie, and wants to preserve this kindness of hers... wants to protect her from being tainted like him. Unbelievably freaking sad...

Yeah... gotta survive the broom riding part. MC can never be OP, that's the whole thing about the talent not being there. But with a spellblade and if he's in close range, he can beat anyone... Yeah we haven't touched spellblades... spellblades are insane and all have some crazy powers. One spellblade was so crazy, I couldn't understand it no matter how much I reread it.
There is also Nanao, also a very interesting girl... A heroine pretty much, who wants to die with MC fighting each other to the death... and can't help herself. She is a warrior who always had this dream.

Yeah, but the problem is... there might be not other seasons, and I have other volumes to read and imagine lol. Luckily after volume3, matches should be easier. Don't know, Ishura is pretty well written, but some fights are hard(but that's my problem).... Like Lucunoca changing weather, the way the author described it... Like in 1.5 pages. I didn't even think about so many things happening when the sudden winter comes. Like I expected "and everything got frozen everywhere" and that's it LOL. Well, that's why I'm rereading, I'll reread that part a bit later, and understand it better.

We already got one visitor last episode.... The journalist Yukiharu is one. And contrary to me wanting him to have less screen time, he actually already had more than he had in that scene in the novel. We actually don't know that he was in that expedition until after Psianop scene. Interesting to see so much other content being cut, in order to add that scene. Well, it's fine, since he is researching True Demon King.

furry guys lol.... Funny cause I would've said a similar thing, but in the novel they were clearly stated to be lycans. Another race. Neft The Nirvana being the only notable lycan.
Yeah, when an ED is skipped, it's usually good, means they showed more content. I wish it gets skipped more, and probably would be, we have too much to cover.
Also, didn't expect for you to feel that Psianop's part was not as satisfying as Lucunoca's part, noticing it was rushed. Guess it was pretty evident. Lucunoca's part was very well adapted.

Yeah, your thought process about Mestelexil is correct, that can happen... many things can happen with him in general, since there is a lot of factor in his fight, just like Toroa with the variety of options. To be honest, I don't know if the author made the outcomes of tournament battles the way it is, because of the story. For example if Mestelexil fought Mele, he made Mele win because he thinks it'd be better for the story and Mestelexil lost because it's better for the story(they aren't gonna fight btw, it's just an example). If I was in his shoes, I'd play out the battle in my mind multiple times, and let the strongest win, there is of course also luck and taking the opportunity at the right time as well. Playing out the same fight 10 times, Mele wins all 10 times cause he is better, or Mele wins 4 times out of 10, because certain conditions were there when he won. I really wonder how he played the battles out. If it's for the sake of the story... it's kinda lame, it feels rigged and less natural. But it's hard to say, I know who proceeds through the first round... and I feel like if the results were reversed, it'd also be good for a story.

I said about Lucunoca not losing to those two, because she is first of all flying... second of all she changes the weather. It's very hard for me to imagine, Soujirou or Psianop jumping far enough to reach her. Same with Alus, hence why he is so scary, but he at least needs to get into a melee range or hit his bullets, while Lucunoca has a breath attack. But Mele can snipe her.

Glad you liked his joke. Author is a funny guy, he leaves a recipe for pasta each volume lol. And the reason for that, is that his books are more expensive than normal novels, so he says "if you follow this cheap recipe, you'll save this much money, and use it to buy my book"

You were only in romance? that's weird to start with that, but I guess I don't know everyone's case. That makes me wonder if Ishura will have any romance... I hope not, it makes no sense, no pairings make any sense. Btw, if that was a western show, we'd have some forced romance :) that'd be kinda funny to see, like a poorly written fanfiction.
"watching a show weekly is a pretty different experience than watching a show after it ended" true that. Forgot you don't bingewatch, then it's more stressful for you, worrying not to skip a seasonal. And the discussions too, hard to be in the cycle of discussion after something ended. But just to let you know, if you ever watch some of my favorites, i'm always there, haha. My favorite is everything with 9 or 10 or if it's a novel I read.

Learning Japanse isn't that hard. Maybe because I've heard some of the words in the anime already, subconsciously my mind remembers them. Or maybe my memory isn't that bad. Obviously some words I actually remember, but some, I don't know, but maybe I've heard them before.
The only hurdle about Japanese is that, unlike other languages where you just need to learn a pronunciation and the meaning in your language. like ugoku = move, as long as you remember it you are good... since you already know the alphabet and know how to write that down... but in Japanese there are some ominous things called kanjis, that you also need to memorize... And you also need to memorize it in a way, that you not only recognize it from a shape after you see it, but you need to write it from memory. Like if I wanna say "I draw really well" can I write the draw kanji from memory? Sure you can look it up, but what if you are writing a letter, are you gonna search up every character? But it's fun, it's even more fun than playing games, cause in a way it's also a game. The more challenging the game, the better. (If you watched Ajin, you'd recognize the reference lol)

"Season 2 of “The Devil is a Part-Timer”" Yeah, I've heard about it, but don't know much deeper than that. But I think there is a long gap between seasons, so probablyp production changed, different teams do things differently, especially if a director changed. I don't about Ishura, but I doubt production changed much, but who knows. Yeah it got even better, but I doubt the team changed, they just had more budget... Also, I'm pretty sure that season 2 was already agreed upon, way before season 1. But they took a 1 year break. I think they usually agree for 24 episodes, but since it's too exhausting to make 24 episodes every week, they make it in cours.
I think there was some isekai a year ago, that got a second season announcement right after, and then season 3 after season 2, that's rare... I wonder if they agreed for 3 seasons. If I remember correclly, 3 season is already over, even though first season came out like a year ago.
You should check out 7 Spellblades, yes. Volume 1 ends at ep 6, you should like it by then. But every ep is amazing. The author has a lot of interseting ideas. Like Ishura(different ideas, but whether his own ideas, or influenced by someone). Whenever I read I usually write down the ideas down in a notepad on my phone... everyone that I found interesting. Ishura and Spellblades are leading right now... I'll make a quick comparison... wait a bit... Ok, so Ishura has 40... but I ended after Toroa's introduction chapter... Usually the most ideas are presented in the first volume, like visitor and stuff, after that you just see what author does with those ideas. It's execution time then. But spellablades has 68!!! and it never ended at volume 1 lol. Even though Spellblades uses a Harry Potter theme. Never watched it, but the ideas that were in Harry Potter appeared in many later medias, so I appreciate it. But 7 Spellblades is not a copycat. It just took an inspiration. One thing that they took from there, that I wish they didn't.... and one part I hate the most about Spellblades is .... guess ... it's broom riding ... especially the broom riding competition... god... Well, you won't see it in the anime, it was more for volume 4 and volume 6 that has a huge chunk of the volume dedicated to just that. I stopped on volume 6 at that part. Seeing broomriding covered for like 80 pages made me lose motivation lol. I don't skip, cause then I can't say that I finished the volume, and then what if I miss some cool scenes, but I really wish to skip it... I'll still try to read it slow, try to imagine everything, do it properly. It reminded me with One Piece, back when I was watching, I left on some uninteresting part and left for the day. And then I was either busy with life, I don't remember, but my link was broken and whenever I thought about watching it again, I'd remember that I left on an unteresting part, and I'm too lazy to watch it. Similar things happened with some other animes, but if it ends on a cliffhanger and I'm really curious what's gonna happen next, I'll jump on that episode the first thing it comes out.
Oh, another interesting part about Spellblades is that MC is really weak and has to work really hard, but even then he doesn't become OP (like in real life. I swear I hate animes that make hard work seem like it can overcome talent. Like this one https://myanimelist.net/anime/57058/Ore_wa_Subete_wo_Parry_suru__Gyaku_Kanchigai_no_Sekai_Saikyou_wa_Boukensha_ni_Naritai or this one https://myanimelist.net/anime/54913/Shinmai_Ossan_Boukensha_Saikyou_Party_ni_Shinu_hodo_Kitaerarete_Muteki_ni_Naru)
But MC can become really strong, by sacrificing his lifespan and getting into a very dangerous life and death situation, by using his mom's spellblade that destroys his body. You might say "well, just use it" but if you saw what it does to his body, you wouldn't think that. I honestly have never felt sadder than about MC. Really sad, helpless life.
All that talk about Spellblades made me crave it again... I have 6 volumes to read, lots to look forward to.

Never heard of these 2 chinese animes you've watched, doesn't look that interesting from the synopsis or the images

"True Demon King does sound interesting, I imagine he’d be a bastard if he was the “true” one so I look forward to seeing if he fits that name." yeah...
"And yeah I bet it is tough to see the action in your head for books, especially in a series like Ishura wish such crazy powers and weapons" Toroa and Psianop and Alus are hard. Psianop is hard to picture, but Toroa and Alus has so many items and weapons, You need to imagine how they look and what they do. Especially Toroa's swords are really hard. The easiest ones are Ketelk (extends the range), Divine Lance of Faina (shield that blocks a fast projectile), Nel Tseu the Burning blade(just burns, easy), everything else was really hard, I'm glad anime adapts his fight, I'll at least see every sword in action, but I kinda feel like I'm cheating

"And yeah I wouldn’t want to live in their world lol, living in fear that some mad scientist’s invention will turn me into vapor or a vampire is gonna make me kill my family just by being next to her once" yeah, just imagining it makes me feel uneasy. Made me remember Inglis squire (https://myanimelist.net/manga/125038/Eiyuuou_Bu_wo_Kiwameru_Tame_Tenseisu__Soshite_Sekai_Saikyou_no_Minarai_Kishi%E2%99%80)
I actually read the more of that novel then Ishura lol, but it feels like I've spent so much more time with Ishura... Anyway in that world (also has a lot of good ideas, hence why I read) the rain can cause animals to become monsters... which in turn kill you, which is a ridicilous world to live in... a fucking rain lol, magical rain but still.

Glad you liked the visuals. Yeah look forward to Kazuki next episode, another visitor. And Morio the Sentinel the leader of Free city of Okafu, who is also a visitor... 3rd volume is more about Visitors than any other volume. Already next episode, we'll learn a lot of information about them (unless they skip it, but nah, no way they do, it's such a reveal). Carmen Sandiego? I've searched it up, I guess... I can see the resemblance lol.
I remember reading Kazuki's fight, it was kinda stupid, like with Psianop, the way she fights... too unrealistic, like some kind of John Wick lol. Also I reread her part multiple times and I still couldn't understand why she attacked Okafu, if you want to contact Morio, just ask him directly.... or you think he will meet you if you kill his men? Don't know if that's much of a spoiler, I don't think it would change anything for you.

I know you probably have liked the episode, but it was my least favorite one. Lucunoca's part is fine, but not my favorite. While Psianop is my least favorite and they even rushed his part and skipped some parts I liked, like the 2 lycans actually had a master who Psianop killed, and they discovered him. They also discoverd many warriors etiher unconscious or struggling to breathe (that was shown), but they didn't show the extent of the wounds, like "limbs being bent at a weird direction" or "smashed into the wall". And it made you wonder, "who could be so powerful, that he destroyed everything. Could it be an explosion?" But in the anime they just jumped to Psianop straight away, no prelude, no anticipation. Psianop vs Neft was one of my least favorite fight (as any Psianop fights cause he is a stupid character). Yeah, if you wanna know why I really dislike him, its because his strengths is not fun, I really don't like how he can just read all of your moves before you even made them. Don't know if it makes sense. I really hope Shalk pierces him with a spear with his extraordinary speed, so fast that Psianop won't react... but they are in opposite bracket, and can only meet in final.
Then because he is a slime, it's hard to see his moves and he moves weirdly, like someone mentioned, in martial arts you have muscles, bones, you can't just move your limbs in whatever way you want, but he can... also his punches packs a force, while he has no muscle.... Yeah... all of that makes no sense to me, so I really really don't like his concept.
Everyone else is like:
1)Shalk - super fast, makes sense
2)Mestelexil - immortal and can create anything because of his knowledge from the Beyond with Craft Arts, the way it was explained, made sense.
3)Alus - just flies around, being really fast, but not as fast as Shalk, and uses his legendary items, makes sense
4)Lucunoca - uses the unknown Winter Arts, the only user of it, makes sense
5)Kuze - an invisible angel of death, makes sense
6)Kia - omnipotent, makes sense
7)Rosclay - obviously makes sense
8)Soujirou - another one who makes little sense, the idea is that his warrior sense lets him see opponent weaknesses... That made no sense with Nihilo.
9)Kuuro - similar to Soujirou, but at least it makes sense since he is using his Clairvoyance which enchances all of his senses.

No wonder I dislike Soujirou and Psianop the most, the cockiest, most annoying, with the ability that makes the least sense. Now, if I just was anime-only, I don't know. I'd still hate Soujirou, but I don't know about Psianop.
One more thing they missed from the Psianop part that I liked is that lycan tribe is a tribe of warriors that value martial prowess over anything. They attacked people simply to practice their skills. They also kinda poorly explained the library and its infinite well of knowledge. I thought Toroa's adaptation was the worst, but at least it wasn't rushed. Psianop's adaptation was definitely worse, only used like 9 minutes too... If you noticed we even skipped the ED... But I'm not hurt by it, since that's the part I liked the least.... But if they screw up Uhak, Tu or Kazuki, i'll be pissed :v Basically 3 next parts, that's the part I care for the most, especially Tu.
Uhak is next episode and Kazuki too and her war against Free city of Okahu. I wonder if many people will like Uhak. He is probably the most unusual character and had the most unusual way his story was told(like I mentioned, with first person)
Btw, the anime production dropped this teaser, I'm pretty excited. Rique and Krafnir look sick, some of my favorite characters
https://ishura-anime.com/assets/top/t1/vis8.webp

Btw, speaking of Lucunoca, she is legendary, right. But I think Mele would beat her, definitely the character he can build, he can also beat Alus, Toroa, Mestelexil But someone like Soujirou, Psianop, Kuze would be a problem for him. Meanwhile I don't see Lucunoca losing to Soujirou or Psianop...
It could be fun to speculate on the matchups, if you want, i'm Interested to know about your opinion.

Also it's kinda funny that the author made a reference to a "I got kicked out from my party" meme referencing Psianop https://imgur.com/9hwRPWe