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dandon223
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 Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:05 pm
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It comes across as the author writing themselves into a corner with the True Akari reveal and handwaving an easy solution so they can save the better scenes for later.
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It is because, as far as I remember, in the novels Akari did not help Menou in the fight against Pandemonium.
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darkchibi07
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:18 pm
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God, the ratings so far in the Encyclopedia entry of this show are still hilarious. And the true coup de grâce is how Manon was revived thanks to Pandemonium using that potato boy's corpse as materials. 
Yeah, there aspects of the show where some exposition gets clunky, but at least all the main girls are solid throughout and I wish there will be a Season 2.
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Aerodynamic41
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:20 pm
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| dandon223 wrote: | | It comes across as the author writing themselves into a corner with the True Akari reveal and handwaving an easy solution so they can save the better scenes for later.
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It is because, as far as I remember, in the novels Akari did not help Menou in the fight against Pandemonium. |
Yup, the last fight with Pandemonium was actually really short in the LN (only like 5 pages long). Menou and Ashuna defeated her quite easily and Akari never left her room. It looks looks like the anime changed things up to make it feel more climactic.
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Covnam
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:04 pm
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In regards to last weeks episode, I thought Akari's time powers might have made her immune to the deteriorating effects of using it (restoring her lost memories when rewinding time along with her body), but I guess that would make them too easy to use if she didn't have the same risk.
So if they're sisters, I guess Pandy must have been born in Japan and then summoned into the past (relative to the present setting), then their mother stumbled in to this world (probably looking for her) in the present (minus 15-20 years) and had Manon? Interesting family history if that's it lol. Also implies that time either isn't synced between the worlds or that summons might always pull from a certain period of time in Japan's history regardless of when in time they're summoned in the other world.
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Thesarum
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:27 pm
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| Covnam wrote: | | So if they're sisters, I guess Pandy must have been born in Japan and then summoned into the past (relative to the present setting), then their mother stumbled in to this world (probably looking for her) in the present (minus 15-20 years) and had Manon? Interesting family history if that's it lol. Also implies that time either isn't synced between the worlds or that summons might always pull from a certain period of time in Japan's history regardless of when in time their summoned in the other world. |
Yes, it hadn't really occurred to me prior to this reveal, but Pandy knows what movies are, but was summoned to this world around a 1000 years ago from the perspective of this timeline (and given Akari has rewound time by perhaps a few months an unknown but apparently large number of times, even longer than this from an outside perspective). So as you say, there must either be a narrow period of Japanese time from which sumonees are pulled (and given her references to various movie genres, we're probably talking 1960s+) or the time period they're pulled from is entirely random and it's just a bit of a plot-convenient coincidence that the key players all came from "modern" Japan.
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:42 pm
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| Thesarum wrote: | |
Yes, it hadn't really occurred to me prior to this reveal, but Pandy knows what movies are, but was summoned to this world around a 1000 years ago from the perspective of this timeline (and given Akari has rewound time by perhaps a few months an unknown but apparently large number of times, even longer than this from an outside perspective). So as you say, there must either be a narrow period of Japanese time from which sumonees are pulled (and given her references to various movie genres, we're probably talking 1960s+) or the time period they're pulled from is entirely random and it's just a bit of a plot-convenient coincidence that the key players all came from "modern" Japan. |
Not just key players - all the victims we've seen in flashbacks, including Menou's dream classroom, were modern middle- or high-schoolers. Even the mural of people praying to isekaijin depicted kids in a relatively modern school uniforms.
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nobahn
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:30 am
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| James Beckett wrote: | | I'll be honest: I have a really hard time getting into light novels, since I've never been impressed with the writing in any of the ones that I've read before, and I haven't heard great things about the quality of Executioner's prose, specifically. Still, it says something that I liked the anime version of The Executioner and Her Way of Life enough that I'm halfway considering giving the novels a shot anyways. |
Obviously, tastes can vary wildly from person to person; so, by all means, take what I say with a grain ─ and perhaps a shaker full ─ of salt.
- I didn't bother watching the 3rd cour of Ascendance of a Bookworm because TRSI shipped me everything through Part three ─ which is, in itself, five volumes. I'm enjoying it. Miya Kazuki has a gift for cliff hangers.
- I've forgotten just who it was who mentioned (in passing, no less!) that Spice & Wolf is a LN series, but I've enjoyed it so much that I didn't hesitate to pick up the sequel series (Wolf & Parchment) and I'm enjoying that one as well.
- Most of the physical editions are out of print, but I very much enjoy Book Girl.
- Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the short, two volume set of JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World. It was almost a gut punch for me when I realized that these two LNs are all that we're going to get.
 Yes, this is pornography; but if you ─ like I do ─ live and breathe for character development, then these 2 LNs are mandatory reading. PERIOD.
(I need to do a write-up in order to provide a cultural anthropological perspective of the 2 LNs; but, basically, author Ko Hiratori provides a subdued commentary on the Japanese patriarchy.)
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NeverConvex
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:04 am
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This kind of ended up as a mild disappointment to me. The opening episode or two were a great hook, but I feel like the writing and animation quality took a significant dip over the course of the show, and its subversion of standard isekai tropes was never very deeply leaned into. I do still like some of the world-building ideas, though (especially the idea of isekai'd superpowers making you a threat to be exploited or exterminated), and it wasn't abysmal, just not nearly as good as I'd been hoping it would be. Wonder if there'll be a second season?
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