The novel is significantly more visceral and significantly more grim. You just have to compare what Flum did to the slave trader in the anime vs the LN. Or what happened to Flum in her first mission.

This is already ignoring the novel completely lol. Chimeras shouldn't show up until way later in an underground secret laboratory. The werewolves didn't even fight Flum, they were killed by a monster called an Anzu that Flum had to take down after being dismembered by its wind attacks.

The pacing of this adaptation is horrendous.

Alka? What is that?

But thank you, it makes sense now. I have no idea why they would omit something as key to the story as the reason why Shiroha died. The whole ending arc relies on that single fact.

I play heaven burns red, and I can tell you Maeda is still at his prime when it comes to making people cry. But Key's anime adaptations never, ever live up to the visual novels.

I didn't play the game, can someone explain what was the point of all of this? It seems like a lot of context is missing.
Umi is born, but soon after Shiroha dies/disappears(?) and her life sucks because Hairi is working all the time to provide as a single parent. She travels to the past so she can enjoy a summer with her mom. All of that is good.
But then Nanami, aka older Umi, travels even further back into the past, to prevent Shiroha from doing the same. Wasn't Shiroha's power about seeing the future? Why did that change?
What even is Nanami? Should she even exist, if Umi went back to the past (meaning she disappeared from the world) when she was a kid?
What did Hitomi want, and why should she be satisfied with the timeline where Hairi just helped at the shed and not with the one where she actually spends time with Hairi?
How did any of what happened prevent anything bad from happening in the future? The crux is Shiroha's disappearance soon after Umi was born, but since they never even explained what happened to her, what about the final timeline prevents whatever happened to her from happening?

yeah so much for being the smart one, he stood in the line of fire with a bag of goo instead of taking that time to crawl to a safe spot

Nobody will believe you but i know exactly what you mean. What a strange yet entrancing series. And the spinoff is even better.

Extremely late to this but the protagonist "adding a pinch of fantasy to everything" is pretty much what Fujimoto does. All of his one shots are very grounded stories that get some small element of fantasy or scifi at the end. I'm pretty sure the vampire is meant to be real.

peak

All the shows you linked are rated R18 in japan. So they get the adult tag. Simple as that.
Your arbitrary definition of "adult" as "pornography only" is not what adult means, it's just your personal view. Content rating systems exist for a reason, and all these shows are 18+.

They live very tiring lives if what is shown in the screen is the bulk of their daily life

That is quite literally the ENTIRE point of the show. Jougoro is sick and tired of overanalyzing everything and wants to stop it and be normal, but he can't because that's simply how his brain is.

There is nothing wrong with 3 years of age gap at 17 and 20. It's not even illegal anywhere in the world.

You forget that the entire point of the challenge is that the mother wanted Yuhi to go through this to "prove" that her fans are nice and won't pose a real threat after her apartment address got leaked.

The mother saw the haters attempt to assault them with her very own eyes. She knows for a fact, after this episode, that there are haters out there who will jump at them, and she knows her daughter isn't safe in this line of work because there won't always be fans around to save her. So the challenge was actually failed, and the fact that they're trying to play it as "her insanely strict mom was convinced because she saw fans saving her ass" is just an insult to our intelligence as viewers who know how the real world works.

Your view is actually the reductive one, because yes, if I go out I have a non zero chance of getting mugged. But if I was a celebrity with a lot of haters and angry fans, who also happened to know where I live, where I study and where I work, that non zero chance would be dramatically higher.

It was stupid. Insanely stupid. The only thing the walk of shame did is prove to the mom that they actually have some pretty unhinged haters that could assault them right on the steet at any time. The only reason they got through unscathed is because their diehard fans were keeping watch, but the haters could wait for them outside of school any day without anyone to defend them. They know where they live and where the school is. And her mom just saw all of that with her very eyes.

I expected the show to take itself more seriously as most hobby/work themed shows do, but this is simply disappointing.

Username is already an unique index. Get rid of the emails.

Dumb excuse. You don't need to collect emails from users, you can literally just offer your own email for people to send bug reports to.

And the username is already unique, plus anilist accounts have a numeric ID, so the "more robust data" excuse is also bullshit.

Holy fuck... he's so proud of it too...

ayo?

bruh if you have eva that much why do you talk so much about it

Well the manga is actually one of the better isekais out there but yeah episode 1 was a disgrace