WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Mushishi. Very serious, well-told stories told in single episodes. Occasionally a younger character will come along, but it’s mostly adults, and the cast outside of the MC rotates episode to episode.

“Please stop making isekai.”

“OK, how about a show where a man’s wife becomes an elementary school student?”

“Forget I said anything. Go make more isekai”

Thanks for digging that up. Steve’s got an eye for comments, that’s for sure.

LMAO. Did he really say that?

Yes, all new.

I don’t think anyone saw this coming. The general sentiment among readers was that this was going to get stretched out across X chapters, but here we are. Wow, talk about blindsided!

The last arc was excellent. I trust they’ll do just as good with this one.

The OP to the second Mushishi season is soooo good.

Invincible build. Not mine - found it on YT or Overframe.

Armed with a Kuva Nukor running Cascadia Flare. Great weapon as-is, but add in the Furax w/ Amalgam Furax Body Count to boost your fire rate. It’s a “stat stick” of sorts.

Merulina Guardian also boosts fire rate for your secondary. With such high fire rate the Nukor turns into a rapid-fire microwave capable of doing enough damage to nuke just about anything on the regular star chart and all of SP. The build is great is for solo Netracells, too. You do need to practice just tapping the fire button and not holding it, as ammo becomes a real concern (I use Carrier to mitigate this, but I still run out.)

What trips me up are the persistent Yareli-specific bugs that randomly lock out weapons and entering/exiting spoiler mode. It seems like every major update has fixes for her (they just fixed her not getting affinity while using Merulina) but there’s still more. I’m hoping they can wrap it all up by the time her Prime releases.

Calm before the storm. I love this arc. Dedicating so many episodes to it just like the original was the right move.

I just started watching the original!

Spice and Wolf is a masterpiece. Excellent adaptation of the LNs. Incredible VA work on both the Japanese and English versions. Excellent writing, and some of the scene direction during the last few episodes was stunning. Really hope this hangs around to adapt the entire story.

Think we’re getting a release date for 1999 at Tennocon?

Picked up my tickets. Love this movie so much.

Waiting a bit to see what shows actually hold, but currently only watching Spice & Wolf and Kaiju No. 8.

Spice & Wolf is perfect and is following the LNs almost exactly from my recollection.

Unfortunately Kaiju No. 8 is boring as hell. Despite having immense power capable of one-punching kaiju into showers of blood, the MC has spent 90% of their screen time being functionally useless. It’s just such a weird way to write an MC. I get 1 or 2 episodes, but nearly half of the 12 episode run? The pacing needs to pick up 10x. I’m not kidding. We should be seeing kaiju getting bodied every episode. The slow burn it’s trying to structure itself around is not happening at all. Boooooooooo. Pick it up!

RE: Your edit. Votes are public. OP didn’t downvote you. You, however, downvoted OP when they replied to your question. No idea why you’d do that when all they did was answer your question. FWIW I upvoted your comment so it doesn’t get buried, but yeah, people shouldn’t be downvoting posts unless they’re off topic or against the rules IMO. No need to weaponize them.

Glad this is getting positive reception so far. I’ll be curious to see what gets adapted going forward given the OG anime skipped some things and slightly modified others, but so far this is really close (if not exact) to what’s in the LN.

Really good. Closer to the book as I remember it.

Also, one of the few shows I’d love to hear a dub of given how good the original dub was. I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of the LNs (which have the same VAs as the dub) and they’re great fits for Kraft and Holo.

All parts in 1hr15m-ish. Got 3 of the parts right in a row and bought the missing one after.