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the amount of plot armor encasing the main cast

This is one of those things that you can't unsee in a series once you notice it. For years, I have enjoyed playing the Dynasty Warriors games (ever since DW3). Those games are similar in the way that it will often have some kind of scenario in which a whole army is wiped out in some trap or ambush, but the general character leading that army comes out just fine, ready to fight another day.

I have heard good things about both Magilumiere and Trillion Game from source readers. So, if the buzz is good, I might have to try to find time to check them out.

How was the first season of Ron Kamonohashi? The synopsis didn't really catch me, but a good mystery series is always fun if it is done well.

I might have to check out Magilumiere. I don't dislike the premise and have heard generally good things about the manga, but I am going to be pretty crunched for time this Fall, so I would probably need to drop something else to make room for it.

These sound great. If you told my teenage self that one of my favorite genres of media was going to be cooking when I got older, I would have thought that I was super lame. However, I now do a ton of cooking and I am a big fan of the genre.

That panel is basically the manga version of the Community meme:

That was definitely my reaction to Monster Mira. I also thought it was really cute that the evil doctor made Mira cute just because he didn't want her to get hurt anymore.

I haven't been watching this show, but taking a look as the person maintaining the bot, I think the thing causing the off-by-one confusion is that this show started with an episode 0. The bot pulls its info from the AniList api, and episode 0 of this show was listed as the first episode. According to the AniList api, episode 18 is airing on Sep. 19th, which would correspond to what Crunchyroll is calling episode 17.

Actually a kind of touching chapter. Karla promised a river of emotion, but maybe a small spring of emotion would be more accurate.

That's a good point! It just popped into my brain as I was typing replies instead of going to sleep.

TIL tags are a thing in photon. That is super cool actually.

Happy to hear from others what their thoughts are on this.

Currently there is no requirement for tags in this community (so feel free to switch things up). The [DISC] convention has simply been carried over from the manga subreddit. For a while when I started this community, I was making all my posts without the [DISC] tag to try to effect change. However, it never really caught on and everybody else kept using [DISC], so I switched back. I don't see any reason that we have to keep the same convention as reddit, but there is always a lot of inertia in trying to change a community's culture.

The only issue I can think of is that in the world of super long light novel adaptation titles, you might run into character limits with the longer title that a different tag would have. I have run into character limits for a couple of series in the past and have had to edit down a title or two.

Reading the blurbs on their site, I think that is where the seeds are sewn, but it doesn't become official until later (though it is pretty clear that is where things are headed).

Yeah, I don't want to oversell it, but I enjoyed it. It was a good mix of wholesome, fluffy romance, dungeon building and development, and then some good battling action. If I could change one thing about it, I wish that it didn't go down the harem route later in the series. However, that is largely because the first couple is just so dang cute.

I am going to only talk about two series this week. One of them I mentioned last week as well, so I will start with that one.

• Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord

Last week I recommended this series when I was only 5 chapters in. This week, I just finished volume 4 (chapter 24). My recommendation from last week holds up 100%. I have been really enjoying this series. It is such a nice, comfy, adult romance. In addition to the main pair, there is an interesting cast of side characters that I genuinely am invested in their stories as well.

One of the things I have really appreciated about this series is that, even though the main couple are in a lesbian relationship, it has literally never been a point of drama, or even commented on by any character in the series. It just feels perfectly natural and is accepted by everybody else in-universe, including older characters like parents and grandparents. I just really appreciate that the author didn't try to inject drama into an otherwise chill series in that way.

• (NSFW) Mato Seihei no Slave / Chained Soldier

This has been on my to-read ever since the first season of the anime wrapped up. I finally dove in this past week and started working through it. I just finished up the second volume and have been enjoying it so far. Even just reading this far, I definitely sympathize with the complaints that @[email protected] and others had in the discussion threads for the anime. The artwork is really good, and that was not really translated to the animation at all.

Story-wise, the adaptation was pretty faithful so far. I have just gotten to the tournament arc in the story where the cast of characters begins to expand quite a bit though, so I am expecting that there might be more exposition that was cut for time in the anime through this section.