Always meant to read the manga but never got around to it and eventually figured I might as well wait on the anime adaption seeing as it was in good hands with Trigger. Very pleasantly surprised to see a generic swords and spells fantasy world with such creative worldbuilding. Will absolutely be an all-time favorite of mine if it keeps up with this quality.

Really enjoyed this story. Loved the aesthetics and themes of the early and middle chapters best, but the story got much more intricate towards the later chapters. I think this is one of those things you have to re-read later to really understand what's going on, but the happy ending was nice.

I also really want to see where Chito and Yuuri are headed to.

Still set in the opinion that this is getting worse with every episode. The racing has absolutely no sense of speed, especially in the cabin views of the drivers, completely stoic with no body movement or so much as a bead of sweat on their forehead. Watching this alongside re-watching the original Initial D series, these differences are highly exacerbated.

I've given up on hoping for a race with any cool moments in it, I'm 100% just hate-watching at this point. Initial D and car culture as a whole is truly just a soulless husk of what it used to be, and it will never get better.

If this eternal dogshit race isn't concluded by the next episode, I'm just going to drop this. Even watching on 4x speed is a waste of time.

Would strongly recommend watching the entire (original, not remakes) Initial D series before watching MF Ghost. Once you get a grasp of basic togue racing culture, you can realize MF Ghost is an absolutely dogshit sequel to Initial D. I'd also recommend Wangan Midnight, but there's not much else besides that to really do car culture justice in the form of anime, sadly.

The disappointment of MF Ghost made me start re-watching Initial D. Coming directly from the 1st season's finale into this episode, it's laughably bad. I don't know how something from the same author could have fallen off so hard.

Also, what's up with the Ted Kaczynski reference? I want to say it's based, but it's so out of place that it just feels jarring.

Christ, the lack of an animation budget really showed in this episode's battles. It's almost comedically bad at this point.

Am I really the only one who thinks this new studio completely butchered GS? The charming worldbuilding is absent, and they seem to be scared of showing any kind of graphic violence, which is almost comedic for a studio picking up one of the more popular hyperviolence-focused series. For the dungeon in ep. 2, the manga featured much more graphic physical and sexual violence, which would've been a perfect starting point for this season of the anime to remind viewers of the nature of goblins. Instead, all we have now appears to be a generic magic and swords fantasy setting with a quiet badass MC.

I wasn't really looking at reading the manga because the first season did such a seemingly good job of adapting the content, but I might look at picking it up now if that's the only way of getting my GS fill from now on. Sad.

that's actually an incredible idea

Just felt like generic CGDCT slice of life filler from a studio that generally releases overall better anime during a season that had better things to watch.

Tried to watch this because of the cute raccoon girl, dropped it in 10 minutes and just watched Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou instead.

God damn what a fantastic decision.

The only thing about it is its feels like its missing something that makes you want to stay and binge it. I can't quite tell what.

More than one episode being available would help.

I liked it a lot. The art is refreshingly unique and that OP is a fuckin bop. Seems very promising. It's weird that one of the executives involved is threatening to take people to court for making doujins of the show though.