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EP. REVIEW: Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra

the list of anime that are even sort of about building up a civilization, town, kingdom, country, etc isn't as long as you might expect.

I believe I am caught up on the current episodes, but don't count your Civilizations yet. This anime will not play like a game of Civilization. Lets just say this will be a far more complicated and punishing game.

Glad they picked it up. I will be watching to the end of the season and hope they will do a second season. Wonder also about the pacing and whether or not, they are going to end the season on a cliffhanger. Which is quite possible. The pacing is key for that determination.

Sadly in the LNs it takes till book 3 for the. . . "scope" of the game world to show its true form.

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the list of anime that are even sort of about building up a civilization, town, kingdom, country, etc isn't as long as you might expect.

While this is true, given the enormous number of isekai titles out there, off the top of my head I can think of a few. Reincarnated as a Slime and Dr. Stone are the obvious heavyweights in the room. There's also Farming Life in Another World, Re:Monster, Noble on the Brink of Ruin, and to less ambitious degree, building-wise, Middle-Aged Online Shopper. That's just in the last year or so. Then there are other titles where the isekai-ee just drastically alters their world with otherworld knowledge, like Bookworm, or rebuilds existing countries, like Genius Prince and Realist Hero. Amagi Brilliant Park isn't quite it, but then neither is Rollercoaster Tycoon, so it's adjacent enough to count. :)

All that is to say that as a not-a-gamer, the idea doesn't seem quite as fresh to me as it does to the reviewer, so maybe I'm more willing to overlook its shortcomings in not living up to its apparently revolutionary potential? It just seems like good enough to keep me interested standard fare.

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Sadly in the LNs it takes till book 3 for the. . . "scope" of the game world to show its true form.

Interesting. Based on the pacing of the first three episodes, do you think it's likely they'll get to book 3 in one season? (This feels like it's paced for more like six episodes per novel, but I also haven't read the source material.)

Dr. Stone is time travel, not isekai.

Interesting. Based on the pacing of the first three episodes, do you think it's likely they'll get to book 3 in one season? (This feels like it's paced for more like six episodes per novel, but I also haven't read the source material.)

You'd think Takuto would know about this event, and by extension of that, how he can reach his desired outcome. And yet, there's no such conversation of any sort. Not even a passing thought along the lines of either, “Oh I remember this event” or “I'm not familiar with this event.” Maybe this will get addressed later—I hope it does. But on its face, it just makes it look like the writing wasn't thought through.

We haven't been given any reason to believe thus far that anything's been deviating from the game as either of them remember it. In theory, they—or at least Takuto—should know every possible thing that could happen.