NineSwords

No not even close. The first season adapted only 2 volumes of the light novel which has currently 15 volumes.

It's the type of trash that I really like but the love interests thirsting for a kid half their age is off-putting. I hope this will be put more into the background.

There isn't a thread for Dahlia In Bloom so I'll post here how much I HATE the voice of Volfred. He's supposed to be the super strong and tough soldier that stands at the vanguard of a monster hunter division that laughs death in the face. And then they somehow decided to go with a breathy shota twink voice for him. I hope they haven't ruined the LN for me.

The track list made me chuckle. But the Walkman Fu was using was from 1979, so the production team get a bonk for not using songs from the right year. Or maybe it took 1-2 years for the songs to reach Japanse shores. In which case I haven't said anything.

No, definitely wouldn't have made it better. But I still feel unsatisfied with such an important point just omitted. Aya died in her mid 60s so there could have been a lot of possible explanations given for her passing, but at the same time it's young enough that I am left wondering what the reason was.

They could have made it even worse. They didn't say why Aya passed away at such a young age. Let me spin you a story:

Since she obviously didn't make it big time and only played a single concert in a shady club in NY, she got disillusioned when hear dream didn't come true. She found solace in drugs and an abusive boyfriend who pimped her out. One of those customers beat her to death in a drug induced rage when she tried to steal some of his drugs for her own addiction. The club owner only has her guitar because she pawned it off early on. As to why it was special to him... he was the boyfriend how pimped her out and he's remorseful for indirectly causing her death. 3 days after Fu brought back those memories a he gets found by those band members we saw in the episode with an overdose and a suicide note saying just "sorry". And it could all have taken a different turn if only Fu had confided in Aya back then.

I really like that Aqua got humanized. So far he only came across as this calculating revenge machine without any human emotion. To me he's always been an unlikeable character. But showing him now actually suffering from losing his mom, makes him more likable to me. It's not nice to say "hey, I like you better with PTSD" but it is what it is.

Akane seems like a genuinely good person to me and I hope her love will be returned at some point.

As a self entitles source reader snob I often shit about anime adaptations of titles that I love. This whole arc with Abiko is so relatable, especially her hate for deviations from the source. But I will try to be less harsh in the future now that I understand better how those changes come to be.

Hopefully we’ll get a taste in the next episode.

I suppose we have to wait for episode 4 for that. I like the slow pace though. As a source reader it’s nice to see an adaptation that isn’t rushed to hell and back for once.

This is a lo tmore entertaining than I thought it would be. I can see this becoming one of the few shows that I’kll keep watching all through the end.

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I love every frame of this. I think I found my anime of the season.

MC is basically Yukihana Lamy from Hololive who started out like MC but dropped the good girl act after the introduction of alcohol. She has her own brand of Sake by now (which even won a bronze award at an international wine competition. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this reflected here further down.)

Hikari is Oozora Subaru (different Gen but Hololive as well) and the game she played is a real one that Subaru played.

There are a lot of other references like the software used for example, and most likely a ton of others that I missed since I follow JP vtubers only via clip highlights or special events.