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wjs018, 9 days ago

Like brother, like sister! In hindsight, the signs were there in how they treated Ojou similarly, but I was still surprised when the little sister appeared at the end of the chapter.

wjs018, 9 days ago

I shortened the title a bit because it was just way too long. This chapter sees our dorky Villainess fail to do Villainess-sy things and stumbles her way into success.

wjs018, 10 days ago

RIP left braid. 😢

wjs018, 10 days ago

Looks like Tina has learned about the power of slime and its ability to enhance oneself just like Epsilon from Eminence in Shadow.

wjs018, 10 days ago

Glad to be getting some Senshi backstory coming up next episode. Looking forward to hearing more and learning about how he got his helmet (and its signature scratches). It’s pretty obvious that it will be a pretty traumatic tale involving a Griffon.

I believe this is the first time that we learned the Mad Magician’s name, Thistle. At least, if we heard it before I don’t remember it. The villagers might be in for a bit of hurt after helping Laios and crew, but at least our intrepid heroes managed to get out before Thistle showed up.

I think the standout thing for me this episode was the way that the animation was used to bring across both the serious and the silly sides of the show. When Marcy is flopping around while controlling her familiar, it is goofy as hell. When we switch to the familiar’s point of view, it is sakuga city with some stellar action animation. Such a fantastic way to use visual cues to complement the story. As an aside, I have been trying to streamline my clip creation process and quickly cut this clip of my favorite sequence this episode, Marcy’s second familiar.

https://static.wjs018.xyz/gWxKhpNpVBtVEbBa.webm

If somebody out there does stitches, could I request a stitch of the panning shot of Laios creating his dual-headed dragon familiar? He looked a bit scary there for a minute…

https://static.wjs018.xyz/y67WhTEcIZw3hPZc.png

Finally, I wanted to talk about Marcy’s skyfish. The shape instantly reminded me of a UFO theory I had heard before called rods. If you were to comb through my post history with enough scrutiny, you would find out that I have a PhD in physics. What that means in practice is that any time friends or family have any questions about something science related, they think I must know the answer. I bring this up because I was asked one time about these “aliens” called rods and what I thought of them. It is a popular enough theory that it has its own wiki page. Something I just noticed looking it up this time is that the theory seems to have garnered some cultural awareness in Japan due to the prevalence of Japanese media in the popular culture section, including Dungeon Meshi.

wjs018, 10 days ago

Fantastic! The cartoony dragon in the background gives me Trogdor vibes. Combine that with Laios’s crazed face and Marcy’s incredulity towards Laios’s fervor and this shot contains multitudes.

wjs018, 11 days ago

Something tells me that these guys are not long for this world. I know they want us to expect Kuzuhana to come back and throw down, but, sticking to the nonviolent theme, I hope that Stuco Prez shows up and busts them for the creep shots.

wjs018, 10 days ago

I agree that would be nice. They didn’t feel like your typical delinquents, the pictures felt much ickier and clearly cross into illegal acts.

wjs018, 10 days ago

I agree! She doesn’t shy away from what her previous self has done or try to divert blame. Just tries to do better going forward and lets things like her reputation recover over time, organically.

I am far from a connoisseur in the genre (eg Kadath), but another I can think of that is similar in this respect is Slime Saint.

wjs018, 11 days ago

This is the first chapter of the Eminence in Shadow spinoff manga, The Seven Shadows Chronicles. This story was written by the LN author for the mobile game, Master of Garden, then adapted to this manga form. The story takes place during the time skip from the main series while the girls and Cid are all still kids. It tells the story of how the girls build up Shadow Garden into what we see later as Cid begins attending school in Midgar.

wjs018, 11 days ago

I might check this out. I have a friend irl that is a big Patlabor fan and has tried to get me to watch it in the past. I just started watching Squid Girl this past week since I am a big fan of the manga, but I haven’t really been digging it. So, I might just bail and switch over to this next week.

wjs018, 10 days ago

Alright, I haven’t quite caught up to this chapter yet (work has been hellish this week, on chapter 39), but I just wanted to pop in here after seeing the discussion brought up Book of the New Sun. I really liked the series, and I think about it a lot at random times when it just pops into my head. Behind the Foundation series, it is probably my favorite sci-fi work out there.