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Really looking forward to this one! The manga is one of my favorites.

I am up to date on the Farming Life manga (not read the LNs) and it doesn't really change in those regards. I would consider it an Iyashikei series (even though MAL just has it as SOL), so by design it is mostly just chill vibes and character-driven gags occasionally. I do think that the MC and supporting cast could be more dynamic though. It sometimes feels like the author just wants to nerd out about some topic of the week related to farming/village construction rather than character writing. There are other examples on that MAL page of Iyashikei series that have very interesting characters (including my favorite show of all time, Mushishi) and Farming Life is just so bland in comparison.

I also appreciate that the harem in Farming Life is so matter of fact, but it does mean the MC comes off as cold or distant a lot of the time. Agree that Makuro (spider) is great and everybody from the world is low-key terrified of Makuro. I also love the wolves Kuro and Yuki.

Helck has been interesting. It has had a very slow start, but it feels like it is doing a lot of work in establishing things. I mentioned in the last episode thread that the slow, unspoken worldbuilding they are doing in Helck reminds me a bit of Adventure Time. A pretty silly cast of characters that is set in a world harboring a very dark past.

Other than the seasonal anime airing right now I have a couple older shows I have recently finished.

• Lycoris Recoil: Loved this show. Really struck a great balance between action set pieces and some fluffy SOL stuff. Definitely a bit of suspension of disbelief on aspects of the show and some plot point around the Allen Institute aren't super clear, but overall really great show.
• Shimoneta: Really fun, silly, horny show. This show takes everything to 11. The translators must have had a hell of a time translating all the filthy, horny Japanese puns. If you are looking for a madcap, over-the-top comedy that is desperately horny, then you can't do much better than this one.
• The Vision of Escaflowne: Felt like checking out some 90's vintage anime and saw this one recommended a couple times. Overall it was enjoyable, but the story definitely feels a bit dated. I was initially intrigued by the combination of a fantasy setting with the mecha genre, but the fantasy aspects never really factor into things and it is pretty much just straight mecha. I loved the animation in this series...yes, the character models (especially the noses) are kinda weird, but the mecha animation and fight choreography was great. Also, props to the animators for animating a girl running like a human being rather than the way moe girls are often animated these days when they run.

¿Por qué no los dos siete?

Well, this show continues to surprise me. This week it was a discussion about the challenges associated with menstruation in a fantasy setting.

Also, the new, shy hero character's design reminded me so much of Mitsurugi from Konosuba. I half expected him to start talking about his cursed sword.

Freaking love this series. Some solid gags this chapter including one of my favorite recurring bits where Cid thinks Claire is just a chuuni. Also loved his posing mid-air as he was flying away from an explosion (and the TL decided to make him speak in rhyme to top it off). Great to see the LN Vol 5 content getting the manga humor pass.

If you aren't aware, LN Vol 6 is coming out in Japan on October 30!

The bot maintainer is @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org. I am not sure why the series isn't getting posts made since it is listed in the source code.

Interesting idea! I have really enjoyed the slow, unspoken worldbuilding in this show so far. We see ruins that hint at a civilization mysteriously wiped out in antiquity, some vague, super dangerous threat to the north of the demon territory, some unexplained toxin permeating demon lands. All of this hints at deeper lore and a fleshed out world, but the story doesn't give us some huge exposition dump explaining things. It reminds me a ton of how Adventure Time very slowly builds its world over the course of many seasons, but still never really explains things, content to leave some questions unanswered or open to interpretation.

I have gone super deep in the Darth Jar Jar rabbit hole before and I am convinced this was likely the original intent of the character. I believe he was written to be a character similar to The Mule from the Foundation series.

Agree about that final guy. The proportions just seem a little off, similar to some of the titans from Attack on Titan.

Had the same thought. I expected her to call Anne by the name Vermilio as she was monologuing to herself while the boat was sailing away.

The show looks great and I have been enjoying it, but the production side seems like it is a huge mess. I doubt if the show will be contained within just this season and expect it to stretch into more than one, similar to Nier.

I get that this show is by no means a world-class storytelling experience, but the pacing has been wildly inconsistent so far. I have a high tolerance for trashy isekai, but this show has oscillated between what feels like filler episodes where nothing of note really happens (basically everything that has happened since he confronted the queen with the one exception of finding Liza) and skipping hugely impactful stuff (connecting to the internet of his old world happens off-screen? his traveling to the capital and confronting the queen flew by and the fallout was just narrated?).

This episode was weird as well. When the ED started playing I was surprised because the episode felt short, but then I noticed it was hardly halfway through the runtime. The whole second half the episode was comprised of what feels like omake chapters that have little to no story relevance. It just feels like they could have paced things better so that episodes reach a more logical and satisfying stopping point rather than fill so much time with omake content.

I dropped the manga for a similar reason. I felt it had a lot of potential and some good art, but the story just wasn't engaging enough to keep me going much further than when he sets out on his own. I agree that the elf (Meneldor) is probably the best character outside of his adoptive undead parents.

I hadn't heard of this one previously, but reading the synopsis and looking at this visual it gives me vibes of Slime 300. If so, sign me up. I am a sucker for the slow, SOL comedies set in fantasy settings.

Really looking forward to this one. Just caught up with the manga and it is one of the best I have read in a while. Hope they keep the pacing nice and slow to keep the contemplative mood that the beginning of the series has.

I have been working through a bit of a backlog of series I have let accumulate before diving into new stuff. Because of this I have read a bunch of series in the past fortnight, but wanted to highlight just a couple. In no particular order:

• Tsuyokute New Saga: This series just had its final chapter posted, so I thought it was a good chance to pick it back up again and see how it ended. Overall, the ending felt extremely rushed. Through the first half or so of this story I thought it had a lot of potential, but it never really seemed to pay off in my opinion. I especially was surprised how poorly the final boss character was handled.
  Spoilers for the end of the story
• Saikyou Juzoku Tensei: Cheat Majutsushi no Slow Life: I had read the WN for this story a while back and enjoyed it but had left the manga sit in Tachiyomi unread all this time. I sat down one night this past week and blew through the chapters that are out (which are not many). The series is marked on MangaDex as on hiatus, so I don't know when or if I should expect any future updates to the manga, but what was there was pretty faithful to the story and I definitely liked how they treated some of the characters, Gizel in particular. If the premise sounds interesting to you, check out the WN as it is complete and reaches a pretty satisfying end.
• Maou ni Natta node, Dungeon Tsukutte Jingai Musume to Honobono suru: Another isekai entry to the list and another story that I originally had read most of the WN prior to picking up the manga. Overall, I liked the manga adaptation, but it felt a bit bland compared to the written version. It is one of my favorite WNs, but the art hasn't really elevated it. I will probably keep up with it since it has some really nice moments, but I am probably going to let this one pile up a bit before bingeing a batch of chapters.
• Shinryaku! Ika Musume: I picked this one up after I previously professed my love for the series Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu and @IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out that I should check out the author's previous work, bringing me to Ika Musume. I have been really enjoying the series so far. The art and SOL comedy feels very similar in both works. So, if you are a fan of one, then definitely check out the other!
• (NSFW) Tsugumomo: I had let a bit of a backlog of this series build up, so I thought I would knock that out to catch up. It seems as though I picked a good time since the most recent chapter more or less wraps up a bit of a story arc and the new powers feel earned (plus it's nice to see Kazuya having fun in combat).
• Ore no Ie ga Maryoku Spot datta Ken – Sundeiru dake de Sekai Saikyou: This is a chill isekai in the same vein as Isekai Nonbiri Nouka no Nichijou which recently had an anime adaptation. This is yet another series in which I first came across the WN and then picked up the manga. The manga has done a good job of capturing the laid-back tone of this story. There is never any real danger and problems are resolved trivially easily since the MC is so OP, but that is kind of the whole point of this type of story. The manga is most of the way through the WN at this point, just 1-2 more arcs to go if my memory serves. The WN just kind of ends unceremoniously, so I will be curious to see if they modify the end of the story in any way for the manga adaptation to wrap it up in a nice bow.

I was also on board for hating the guy, but my best guess is in line with yours in that he is probably affiliated in some way with the Usuba family (Miyo's mother's family). They spent some extra time in this episode to reiterate the importance and secretiveness of the family, likely foreshadowing his character. This, in addition with his standing in front of a cherry tree that looks suspiciously like Miyo's mother's tree seals it for me.

I haven't read telework yet, but I have read Sweat and Soap by the same author and highly recommend it. One of the rare adult romance stories in which the characters (mainly) act like adults and communicate rather than just high schoolers in an office setting.