I agree with Kanade. Even if she’s not doing it on purpose, Mayu’s constant “I’ll forfeit the soli”, is quite insulting. She seems to think Kumiko will not surpass her and she absolves herself of responsibility of actually forfeiting by putting the ball in Kumiko’s court. Almost like Mayu’s baiting Kumiko.

Also, it was great to see their previous senpais again. Nicely dressed up too. Yoroizuka playing the piece that caused her so much trauma in previous seasons was great to see as well.

I’m curious what Kumiko will end up doing for after high school. I’m not quite sure I understand why she doesn’t want to do music, but it’s fair enough. You can also do music outside of school of course.

Zoe is quite the saber face

Did Jelly never perform it?

Seems quite likely. Didn’t Celestria at some point say that Jelly didnt perform her duties or something? Or am I misremembering?

• Claymore
• The Promised Neverland
• Murcielago
• Black Lagoon
• Dandadan
• Gachiakuta
• Yakuza Reincarnation
• Shy
• Crazy Food Truck

The manga has a lot of trashy moments, but a lot of heartfelt moments too. I quite like the manga.

Finally the secret’s out. I would’ve liked it earlier though. Kinda felt like they were stretching it out as much as they could. Good episode.

Though I still dislike the ED with a passion.

It is not official. It remains contentious and depends entirely on who you ask. China lays claim to Taiwan while Taiwan refutes that. Sure, Taiwan isn’t officially recognized as it’s own country by the UN, but that’s due to pressure from China. For all intents and purposes, it is it’s own country.

Looks to be a similar case as ATLA and Castlevania

This was a bit better. Did they speed through the previous eps just to get to this arc?

I’m still bothered by the fact that witches supposedly have it hard, but we’ve never been shown this, making it hard to imagine it or understand the whole ‘I don’t want to marry because the kid will have it hard because magic’. Also, being married obviously doesn’t suddenly spawn a kid. If they’re worried about a kid, maybe hold off on having sex (though I imagine magic can be an effective contraceptive).

The last bit had an odd moment. Oscar asks why he and Aurelia are targeted, but the reasoning is quite odd. Leonora has a grudge against Travis and Tinasha, so she targets others?

Asuka only needs a small appearance to reclaim the best girl crown!

I’m actually quite excited for this.

I quite liked it at the time. The music in particular https://youtu.be/BSA60FS4cBc?si=qugVUHIPzM8-bhWE

Konosuba just cannot miss.

That was nice. I enjoyed this episode

I mean, you’re right, but Gainax hardly released anything the past 10 years. The last full TV anime production was in 2015 (from what I can see on Anilist). After that only a few shorts. So I don’t think Gainax’s bankruptcy has anything to do with that.

Yea that’s interesting. This article also says that Taichung is a Chinese city, when it is actually a Taiwanese city.

The AI translation argument wasn’t really about whether nor not it would work, it was people voicing their frustration at Western Localizers making large alterations to apply their own personal culture and politics to a work that did not originally have that.

That was not the argument at all. Japanese publishers want this to be able to increase production overseas. That was the argument. Translators don’t want this because a: it’s their jobs, and b: it’s very inaccurate.

https://animehunch.com/japanese-govt-major-manga-publisher-invest-heavily-in-ai-translation-to-boost-manga-export-overseas/

Also, the politics insertion is on such a small scale that it doesn’t warrant full scale AI translation in any way. Many of these cases are due to editors anyway and not the translators so AI would not fix this problem. Localization itself is very much necessary. Japanese is conceptually such a different language system to English.

And honestly, I would prefer grammatically inaccurate machine translations over “localized” translations that deviate significantly from the original.

These ‘grammatically inaccurate machine translations’ often are so bad that they don’t even get the subject of a sentence correct, completely changing the meaning. Or don’t have context and as such, writes something that completely doesn’t relate to what was previously written. Calling it just grammatically inaccurate is downplaying how bad it can be in my opinion. Human QA can remedy some of it so that it’s more readable, but that’s not enough to actually fix bad flow, misinterpreted meaning, missing context etc. Having to go back and fix shit is much more intensive than doing it right in the first place.

I like Renge’s attitude. Complaints that it’s not the same as with the previous owner? Just make it even more different.

She’s just unabashedly herself

Given how they talk about Thanasia, so clearly within earshot too, it’s no surprise she turned out the way she did.

I don’t know the source material actually. I don’t know what they skipped, but it’s very clear they did because things just don’t make sense.