There have been, technically speaking, far "worse" debuts already, but this was one of the few that felt so much longer simply due to how obnoxiously unfunny it was.

This is if anything a great demonstration of everything insufferable and tedious about litRPG (as a fan and someone generally amenable to the concept of "gamey" reincarnation stories and those with gamified trappings!), and I have read some of the original manga lol. So much here, right up to the "Wow, sucking on those titties felt great" and hackneyed stat screens are ills of the excessive narrative handholding and general dearth of creativity that so flourishes. If anything, on some level volume 1 was worse about it because I remember a lot more stat screens and interminable dialogues between chapters that are essentially systems explanations without any actual reason to care about the systems or their being explained, so I guess the YAL folks did that right.

Yua's fine, I like her. If anything I'd sooner complain about her not getting quite as much interiority for her lashing out at him to feel like it was really Yua speaking (unfortunately, giving Nozomi Fujisaki, even if I did basically like her too).Though I also don't need much convincing most teenagers wouldn't quickly onto people in power telling them they're gifted (sounds familiar), and a just power for this world. Plus she's being doted on alongside, easy to give into self-serving instincts. Cold water on a freshly-baked cake.

Well, that, and this being a thoroughly workmanlike adaptation, if at the mercifully more middling end of that (for now).

WOW I did not expect Sui-chan to appear here. A lot more excited for the anime now.

Singing the OP only, mercifully, so hey. Big "Wait for it to show up on animethemes.moe."

Isekaijin financial office worker boy's love is cool actually, and it'd be equally so were it spicy along the way, lol.

He's gay

Lots of people do follow for follows, so...

I wouldn't say empty. Mugen Gacha basically spent 3 episodes spinning its wheels for the sum total of valuable information which could have been delivered in a fraction of the time. That's empty.

As risible as I find the actual drama to be — specifically because of the execution, there's not anything intrinsically wrong with showing a contrite cheater truly wanting to do better for those he cares about — playing therapist to a couple fits well enough with the throughline of what is (not) love. It's just, (un)fortunately, very goofy ass.

I'd say it's fairly on-brand for this season, by this point, to have a practically nothing episode (no less with a thoroughly unconvincing gesture at the idea of the gang breaking apart in true stock fashion) this late into the game. Even if it's still got some parts to appreciate here and there this has been pretty weak.

Half-assed is charitable to something that just forced in the flimsiest, barely-functional connecting thread beyond Light ostensibly still having a "heart" to him and yada (for all that reflection mattered since he was a grinning fool at the end) for this to not feel like an entire mini arc of wheel spinning. I had some nice laughs though, so hey.

Also Redo is better, I'd say, if only by technicality; all sorts of adult material exist that are so clearly contrived toward specific audiences and niches (it practically comes with the territory for the more fantastical stuff), but in terms of storytelling fundamentals it's still a headscratcher trying to make it in the Cirque de Soleil for all that much of its actual story beats hold water.

This show is hilarious.

I'd respect it more if it committed one way or the other, as it is it weirdly can't seem to decide if he's this menacing boy that scares even his followers, or just a poor widdle guy who is awkward even around his most devoted servants.

I gotta give props to the script though, it's genuinely great and the punchiness needed for this crap.

If Akira wasn't the protagonist, and building (not-)a harem and getting into the stupidest love polyhedrons known to 22XX his ass would be so freaking dead.

I need to finish that, but agree from the like 40% I've read. Although, that one gave me much more "This too, is yuri."

It's funny seeing people whine about the random schoolgirl getting transmigrated just because it's happening at all, as if the fact that this random chick who suddenly (in Scarlet's world) helped take her life from bad to worse, is not in fact part of the problem. Also like, Terenezza was already an awful young lady, but that she's presumably from Earth, 20XX or whatever and is tacitly hunky-dory with the corrupt nobles' dealings just makes her magnitudes more awful (yet in a way that doesn't call to mind the tactlessness of writing seen with someone like Malty).

Anyway, really paints the ED in a harsher, more insidious light. If anything the bigger frustration this episode was with the drop in animation quality and awkward editing showing the limitations of what we'll probably be working with going forward, as the story is otherwise fine.

Fall 2025 Seasonal Challenge

Challenge Start Date: 2025-10-15
Challenge Finish Date: 2026-01-25
Legend: [O] = Completed [X] = Not Completed

01) [O] 1st Anime
Dusk Beyond the End of the World
Start: 2025-09-25 Finish: 2025-12-18

02) [O] 2nd Anime
A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace
Start: 2025-10-07 Finish: 2025-12-29

03) [O] 3rd Anime
Ninja Vs. Gokudo
Start: 2025-11-19 Finish: 2025-12-26

04) [O] 4th Anime
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days
Start: 2025-09-30 Finish: 2026-01-25

05) [O] 5th Anime
May I Ask for One Final Thing?
Start: 2025-10-03 Finish: 2025-12-19

06) [O] 6th Anime
You and Idol Precure ♪
Start: 2025-02-02 Finish: 2026-01-24

07) [O] 7th Anime
My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I'm Out for Revenge!
Start: 2025-10-03 Finish: 2025-12-19

Seasonal Badge Vote (Optional): The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess

shoujo has already been censored into oblivion by pearl-clutchers

And otherwise frequently given the stick of "no good production pipeline for you" vs variously middling battle-centric anime. This one, despite my reservations, actually doesn't look like Acro Trip (though I loved it) and others I can name. One more reason why I'll always be happy to see shoujo with seemingly some attention given to it, even when I don't vibe.

Shit could have and should have been a memo. For trying to convey a world where Light, our cipher who can do no wrong (and everyone loves him), with the helps of him summoned heroines that are flawless (and want his dick), built up a ~kingdom~ it was remarkably absent... anything of note. Everyone is a discount knockoff of some other character, the Lv. 9999 girls don't look any more interesting in design or flair than the junk that was A-Rank Party.... and why are the names so basic? Why do these special people have names like everyone else?
Anyway:

Yuugure sure is pretty casual about the whole "widespread slavery as a normal part of life" thing, that's always a trait I look for in an heroine waifu (this is sarcasm).

This show sucks and I had a great time with it. The mana density relating to quality of gacha pulls is admittedly coherent in this goofy ass LitRPG way, but that's the only thing about it I can compliment like that.