These chapters have been so cute lately, can’t wait for their totally-not-a-date at the zoo next week!

Worry not, I already played it long ago! I’m patiently and eagerly waiting for them to release the Mod of The Decade edition to re-play it again, I’ll definitely try the city guard path and I’m very excited to see what the teased water mage path will be.

I finished my second playthrough of Drova - Forsaken Kin (wanted to see both of the camps + experience the new content added with the last patch) somewhat recently and it gave me the itch to go back and replay the first two games from the Gothic series. I’m already done with Night of the Raven and making my way through the first game now. Getting them to run smoothly on Linux was a bit of a process but other than that they still hold up incredibly well, at least in my incredibly biased view.

Big reveal about Miko’s dad being able to see spirits in life, explains why he is so chill with whatever the horse demon thing is that is protecting their household. I really like how it shows the spirit being clear even when he’s not wearing glasses, it shows that spirit vision doesn’t rely entirely on sight but something more.

I think the anime that made me tear up the hardest was Assassination Classroom, I didn’t expect this goofy premise with an ending that’s pretty much spelled out for you from the very beginning to actually hit as hard as it did when the moment came.

With the news of MangaDex’s demise it looks like I’m going back to the old RSS feed + aggregator sites method. I already followed some series that way because of publisher region locking BS (Viz…), this just makes me switch all of my active series to this method.

I know it’s a manga about dragons but I still wonder where all this ice is coming from. Is she sucking out the moisture from the surrounding air? Using her own body’s water supply? I feel like that would dehydrate her incredibly quickly so maybe a mixture of both? The answer is probably ‘dragon magic’ but I’m still curious about the deeper physical implications of these powers.

What an ending! I was a bit worried but they wrapped things up pretty nicely. And of course in a typical Re:Zero fashion there was no way we could end things on such a high note, gotta add some suffering at the very end. We also have season 4 confirmation already so we might not have to wait 3 years like before for this cliffhanger to resolve!

Really nice conclusion to this arc, most friendships start from a very superficial point, like liking the same thing or how they look but then learning more about the person and enjoying them for who they are. Ruri’s circle of friends might have gathered around her because of her unusual look but they all stayed with her because of who she really is, half-dragon or not.

I hope next week we get a 30min episode (or the actual dream, another 1,5h one like the first one) because there is still so much stuff to go through and only one episode left in the season. I feel like it’s pretty much unavoidable they end it on a cliffhanger, but hopefully at least some of the plot points get resolved and we won’t be left waiting for 3+ years for answers.

I don’t think Reinhard and Wilhelm made up, if anything their relationship is more hostile now than ever. Wilhelm called out to him using his name, asking Reinhard if he regretted his actions. After getting his answer, he turns his back to him and addresses him as “Sword Saint Reinhard-dono”, using a very formal tone and his title and tells him he has nothing more to say to him. He goes from trying to reach out to a family member to coldly addressing a title bearer, a title that he likely hates considering what is has done to his love. While he understands why Reinhard did what he did he cannot accept his answer and so tells him to effectively “get lost”, just in a more polite manner.

What an amazing episode! The Astrea family really is cursed, everyone in there seems to be miserable all thanks to the “blessing” of the sword saint. It turned Theressia from a happy flower loving girl into a war-scarred orphan, while poor Reinhard did the only reasonable thing he could do in the moment and it destroyed his relationship with his grandfather and pushed his father to hate him even further, considering he “killed” his grandmother twice now. It makes one almost able to feel some sympathy for even Heinkel, although I still can’t feel bad for the bastard.

Ruri is becoming more and more dragon every day! At this point I feel like it’s a matter of time before she grows scales or wings. This is definitely the shifting point in the story, she can no longer just blend in with human society and has to consider whether she is OK with still trying to participate in it despite her differences. Also, sensei definitely knows too much, not enough to make me think he’s a dragon himself but some kind of dragon researching scientist? A government agent? Definitely not just a normal teacher, for sure!

Regulus is down! Guy really went out in the worst possible way, slowly alternating between the pain of stopping his heart and drowning. He gets no sympathy from me though, bastard more than deserved it! Watching Emilia go full ORAORAORA on him was great, and of course Reinhard just couldn’t resist having the flashiest possible entrance, pulling off the Saitama special and launching himself off the moon.

Screw Gothic 3 and 4, this is the real sequel us Gothic fans have been waiting for! A genuine delight to play through, and the Polish voice acting was just as incredible as it was in Gothic 1 and 2, despite being a fan project! Waiting patiently for the Mod of the Decade edition to re-play it again and try out all the new things they add (very excited for the teased mage path!)

Priscilla’s power lets her sacrifice things she loves to prevent damage to herself, huh? If this extends to beyond just objects, it would explain why she keeps most people she cares about at arm’s length. Makes you wonder how many of her 8 husbands died a premature death due to this “gift”.

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It’s finally back! They knew what the were doing by opening up with Priscilla undressing. Sorry for the 3 months break, have some boobs!

Regulus might be immortal but that just means Reinhardt gets to have the cathartic experience of breaking his spine over and over again while kicking him around until Subaru figures out how to actually kill him for good.

Capella coming in to finish the job and give poor Felix even MORE trauma.

Shame this is the last of the community releases, although I fully understand why they would stop. I generally prefer the community translations to the official ones, I’ll especially miss the chapter related memes we got on the last page. Off to the high seas I go, I guess (fuck geo-locked content).