Campfire Cooking Trailer is out on Mappa's Youtube channel.

Maaya Uchida is voicing Ninrir (Liliruca Arde from "Danmachi", Katerina Claes from "My Life as a Villainess", Princess Melty Melromarc from "Rising of the Shield Hero" [purple filolial lover], Kaguya from "Date a Live 2" (hyperactive, chuuni twin), Chisato [glasses] from Saiki-K, Yuki Yoshino from "Food Wars" [polar star dorm wild game chef], Guild Girl from "Goblin Slayer", Irina Shidou from "High School DxD", Also a good pick (although Sora Amimiya [OG trash goddess from Konosuba] is a dead ringer for this role but she is working on another project).

🎊🎊🎊 Congrats to Elf Bride! I wonder if the first season is just gonna cover LN1/the first arc or if they'll do more than that.

I'm pretty sure LN 16, Manga volume 9, and the Barbatos spinoff volume 1 are all coming out on the same day in Japan, which is exciting too. Good news for Elf Bride all coming out at once.

There are 12 characters in that visual, and 4 of them are Inglis.

@Xyarn said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

Looks like the US home video release of Season 3 was silently added to Rightstuf/Crunchyroll Store on 14 October or 15 October 2022, last 24 hours. No news article unlike first and second season combo release from Crunchyroll.

Press release was sent out Friday. https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/10/14/crunchyroll-announces-january-2023-home-video-releases-including-obey-me-and-yu-yu-hakusho-30th-anniversary-set

Planned release is a placeholder date in January 2023 (Region A) with a pre-order deadline of December 20 at Crunchyroll. No information yet on Region B home video release yet.

All of these blurays Crunchyroll are releasing are regions A|B, meaning they’ll work in either region of the world.

All hail the Great Sage! The words of wisdom of our divine princess shall soon spread to the masses!

@Lily-Garden said in Tearmoon Empire Anime Announced:

Furthermore, they have Silver Link as the studio! They are the exact studio I would have picked to adapt the light novel into an anime! Given the good job they did on both the Bofuri and Bakarina anime, I have full confidence in their ability to properly adapt Mia in all her glory

No joke, as soon as we saw her reflecting on her death and vowing to prevent it I was going "This has to be Silver Link, right? Because I can already tell that they nailed it and who else would be better?" When it got to the end and I saw them in the credits I was like YUP!

@DeiLight I think I remember you saying that before... I would need to go back and reread the first two again (oh woe is me!) but it does kind of have that feel to it. Thankfully, not only did it not end there, but it developed a much deeper story as a result instead of sitting around all confused with zero idea of what to do next that results in just wasting time and words to do absolutely nothing I'm looking at you here Bakarina, story that should have just ended other than presenting whatever you ca...

Cough

Sorry, got away from me there.

@Planguy said in Tearmoon Empire Anime Announced:

I want to know how they portray the narrator. Standard deep voice?

I hope not. There is more than a little snark to be had there, so my head cannon voice is more dry and sarcastic than deep and serious. And male, oddly enough now I think about it, given that I fully subscribe to the belief that it's future Mia looking back.

I feel pretty satisfied with the anime.
the production told a story that fit within a cour, and ended at a good place, with few loose ends.

Yume is still in love with Mitzuo
Mitzuo is still in love with Ayai (who Yume used to be)

Yume is determined to win Mitzuo from her 'old self'

yea, it's more complicated than that in the LN, and even if events diverge from this point going forward - I feel the Anime stands on it's own

Season 2 is landing Jan 2023
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-09-16/by-the-grace-of-the-gods-anime-season-2-teaser-reveals-new-head-writer-new-cast-january-2023-debut/.189729

Miyabi has been cast as Yuiko Tatsumi. The main writer for the anime has also changed.

See the trailer for S2 on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2nmeBSXj9E

Aaaaaaaand... This one is getting a 3rd Season!

Well, the second season wasn't as bad as the first, but I wouldn't say it was especially great either. But, it is what it is. It does look like they may just well intend to animate the entire story at this point. All we can hope for is that they continue to try and do a better job with the 3rd season vs the 1st and 2nd.

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The entry for Clive was pretty good, it really lays down enough of the ground work for his abilities already. The zombie stares those women had…

Can’t wait for the next few episodes to play out.

Still watching but now Egyptians and Babylonians fighting? This is NOT Earth! Must be one of those worm hole things where people from different time periods coexist or something, and there is an afterlife in this world... maybe?

@pcj Unfortunately, I have read all the LN, so I know where everyone is going to end up. While it does spoil the suspense, (I refuse to post any spoilers, even in tags.) it does make every flustered reaction that much sweeter.

We're only three episodes in, and I'm wondering how far we are going to get. Maybe thru volume 8? We'll see. Heck, it's been so long since I read those early volumes that I'm going "Oh, yeah. That's right." and chuckling a lot.

@killerrin My guess is that with the introduction of more streaming platforms competing for a piece of the anime pie, the overall licensing costs have gone up. After all, there's a limit to how many new shows come out each season, so it's not quite like the LN market where titles are coming out faster than any company would be able to grab them.

Might not really impact the censored shows so much, that could just be that they're unwilling to pay the likely additional costs to host the less censored stream. If it's not going to impact the number of viewers (or more importantly, paying subscribers) it might not make a lot of sense to pay extra.

@Folker46 said in Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road:

@pcj I looked it up on the fanwiki and it pretty much has the same answer, the "outsiders" will lose control of their powers eventually and the longer they are alive the stronger the effect. The logic of the story is they MUST be killed even though they have done nothing wrong and are innocent people. Yeah the MC feels bad about doing it but it's her job so...
I find this story idea repulsive and way to dark for me. That it got an anime amazes me when better stories don't.
Like SEKAINOHATE DE AIMASHOU, very funny and needs an anime.

You know nothing more than the barest surface of volume 1. Ever heard the saying don't judge a book by it's cover?

@poisonedbite said in Can’t find BRK Dawn Fall:

@tahu
nonsense. I've never seen it but everything needs more ecchi.

I meant it could be considered R-ish right now, so they should tone it down to PG13-ish. Also, the BRK character design from the previous series was waaaaayyy better. What made them go from BRK that %30 cute and %70 hard core to a BRK that’s %60 cute and %40 hard core?

Let's just hope they'll cut at least some of the internal monologues...