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just a wanderer who loves watching anime and reading manga that irks my curiosity. i delve into doing some paper crafting too & writing (lately both hobbies are inspired by whatever anime/manga i just recently finished).
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Umm, I check regurly the lists but so far no like. A new season of Nanoha comes but with the kids, so I do not know i f I wanna watch it
Shaman King Flowers and Classroom of the elite s3. Both loving it,and both unsure when the next season will be. Like Maou
Glad tto hear, still enjoying the job? um I finally got around to watching 2 animes, that are finished
On that note I'd like to add that it is kind of disappointing how many good animes don't get a 2nd season and some mediocre ones do, like huh?! So I've been thinking of focusing more on animes that have had multiple seasons that I still need to watch and focus less on new animes that only have 1 season and catch up on those later, especially if they get a 2nd season. As you know I plan on watching SH soon followed by someday watching DBZ, Fairy Tail, Is it Wrong..., etc.
About Slime
a person who is blinded by their own self worth and self justice or whatever the heck they are so full of themselves about, won't bother to listen to what anyone they considered "beneath them" in stature, especially if they were mere monsters whom everyone seems to think were dumb, stupid and just after killing off humans.
Speaking of otherworlders, even though I also dislike Hinata she at least isn't arrogant in as so far as to think there isn't anyone stronger than her, hence her putting up a barrier before attacking Rimuru. At this point I'm not sure if her and Rimuru will fight again before S3 but I know she's around since the poster you linked a week ago showed her.
The 2nd ep. was about farming and it was ok and slow. Ngl, I'm definitely missing the main series already and I liked the earlier OVAs compared to this. Hopefully there will be a beach episode (or 2) to mix things up. What did you think of Dairies as a whole?
About Wrong Way...
About Slime,
I just finished up watching part 1 of S2 and in ep. 11 Rimuru officially became a demon lord, and it was a sight to behold! The demon named Diablo returned when Rimuru summoned several demon lords and the Great Sage evolved to become Raphael with the same subtle attitude lol. Also, Shion has been resurrected which I pretty much expected to happen despite there only being a 3.14% chance. They did add that the 3.14% chance was before Rimuru became a demon lord (but that doesn't make much sense since he couldn't revive anyone unless he became a demon lord right?) so I'm guessing the chance of resurrecting increased quite a bit after his transformation.
Ep. 12 was another packed episode with some humor and confirmations of the storyline. First about the humor, it was funny how Benimaru made a password w/ Rimuru to ensure he was still the same person by coming up with the phrase "Shion's cooking tastes like shit" and it backfired thanks to Raphael lol. Also it was nice how Rimuru woke up in Shion's lap w/ her boobs resting on his head, he probably missed that haha.
About the confirmations, it was confirmed that Milim did declare war against Eurazania and fought it out w/ Carrion for unknown reasons and its also confirmed that Clayman is somehow behind that and on that note I'm surprised that Milim left herself vulnerable to allow Clayman to either control or manipulate her. I'm assuming that will be explained later on at some point. Oh and it looks like Veldora is free now! So I'm guessing part 2 will have Veldora play a role for Rimuru.
There was another confusing part regarding Diablo as I thought he already had that name? Wasn't that his name back when he saved Shizu??
Anyway, part 1 of S2 was an enjoyable and entertaining watch but I'll be taking a break w/ S2 since I now have to watch the Dairies since it was released between part 1 & part 2 of S2. Did you like those episodes because I'm assuming it's very SOL considering the name of this series?
Also, good to hear that you're refreshing yourself for Irregular so that you don't miss any part of the new season. As I said I have that on my PTW list but I don't know when I'll get started because I had planned on watching SH after I catch up on Slime.
i watched the first episode too. i wasn't sure if i was gonna like this or not, but the synopsis was intriguing enough and although it felt kinda slow to me the start of the first episode, it did become interesting midway through so now i wanna know what happens next episode.
Ok now about Slime
Btw ngl, I kind of miss her as she added her own silliness and comedic moments to this show and she hasn't been around since S1 except for one brief moment looking out a window from a demon lord's place which I think was Clayman's but not completely sure.
So I watched ep. 10 yesterday and it was a satisfying watch with the revenge beginning. Benimaru had a very easy time taking down the side he was assigned to, the fight scene between the elder ogre, Hakuro, and the otherworlder w/ the all seeing eye was great, but it sucked that Shogo was able to escape although the old sorcerer guy ended up using him for his body, literally lol. So I believe that all of the otheworlders are dead, at least from the group that attacked Tempest.
Oh and that old sorcerer guy that took Shogo's body was surprised to hear that Rimuru lives as he knew that Hinata fought him so that confirms that Hinata is working for the same church/group that also attacked Tempest. What did you think of ep. 10?
Regarding SLF
About Wrong Way...
About Slime
Yeah, those guys are pieces of trash lol And I really wanna get my hands on 'em and bash their faces in coz of how full of themselves are, a trait that Rimuru warned the monsters to not develop after they evolved. Those Otherworlders were clearly displaying those traits of belittling those they deem beneath them simply because they're low level monsters. And if they hadn't cheated, those so-called low level monsters would've beaten their sorry asses in zero time flat lol
I want to add that in ep. 7 Rimuru cloned himself to escape Hinata's fatal strike but you'd think that she could've felt his presence still, unless her barrier masked his mana/life force.
Girl, ep. 8 was pretty morbid with confirmation that Shion and Gobta's friend were killed by the otherworlders and a bunch of other goblins were killed too. Also, Myulan confessed to everything and told Rimuru what she knew of Clayman. Ooh, also Eren, whom I had forgotten about, appeared and told Rimuru of a fairy tale about resurrection where a half dragon/half human eventually became a demon lord and the illustrations of the girl looked alot like Milim!
Ngl, after hearing the story and with Rimuru having a "3%" chance of success in resurrecting Shion and the others I think that it will happen because of plot armor lol, what do you think?
Lastly, ep. 9 was mostly a buildup ep. w/ Rimuru planning on taking on the 20,000 troop army to become a "true" demon lord (this is one of the first times I can recall them implying different levels of demon lord), so I think ep. 10 will be crazy w/ action & violence.
Speaking of new series, there's still a few more to be released but I have 3 I'm watching on Monday including one that is supposedly an OG that influenced Slime and that is Re:Monster. While the first ep. was decent it seems like it's more basic than Slime and some posters that have read the manga have implied that. Have you watched that one, and if so, what did you think?
About Slam Dunk
Anyway, I hope this gets a 2nd season because this has the potential to be better than this 1st season.
So you're enjoying S2 already, and 4 episodes in already. That's good. Things are starting to get turned upside down now, but that will only propel the series to moving forward a bit faster.
And I think Hinata dislikes Rimuru coz the Western Holy Church doesn't like monsters; to them, monsters needs to be killed. So Rimuru will have to work real hard to convince her and her team that his Tempest crew are the good kinds of monsters with almost OP abilities lol
So about eps. 5 & 6, yeah things really took off and shit hit the fan to say the least. In ep. 5 the otherworlders entered Rimuru's capital city and tried to frame Gobta's friend but Gobta stood up to them and knew they were lying (my fondness towards Gobta went up in this episode). Myulan revealed who she really is and it was confirmed that she's being used by Clayman and they said he has her heart (do they mean that in a literal sense?) Also 2 barriers were put up to weaken the monsters and Milim declared war on Eurazania, what's up with that ??
Ep. 6 confirmed that this season actually started before the end of S1 which is weird and confusing. My guess is that the producers weren't sure if this would get more multi-cour seasons and since it was approved later they added scenes that were probably going to be omitted, what's your thought on that?
About Hinata and Rimuru, Rimuru messed up when he admitted to "killing" Shizu since I think that made Hinata more determined to kill him. And Hinata is a bitch because for one thing, she weakened Rimuru with her barrier (although I'll admit it's a smart tactic), but also because she has refused to listen/reason w/ Rimuru. With that said, this ended w/ Rimuru using gluttony so we'll see what happens next.
I've been pretty excited watching that last couple of episodes but man did things take a turn for chaos, good stuff although it irritates me how the bad guys are cheating w/ those barriers but I'll admit that makes things more interesting. Are you excited for S3 starting when you read this? :)
On that note I hope that The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic gets another season because I thought that was a good series this past season and it ended when I thought it was getting better. While I don't care much for that new girl character, Felm, because I don't trust her after what she did, I still want to see where this series goes. Back to Felm, I actually thought she was going back to her demon group to tell them what she knows when she sneaked out and instead she was going to wait on Usato but I'm still relieved to see Rose keeping an eye on her. I ended up giving this series an 8, what about you?
About Slime, brace yourself lol:
I think Hinata's given the wrong information about how Shizu died, and since Rimuru wore Shizu's face on his humanoid person, Hinata most likely assumed that he ate her corpse and gained her features.
Btw I started watching S2 yesterday and have seen 4 episodes total. Ep. 1 showed that Rimuru was still teaching at the school w/ the kids so that was a bit confusing since last season he said goodbye to them so not sure if he returned or this started a bit in the past? I'm guessing based on a couple of episodes later that they went back to before the end of S1.
Anyway, got introduced to a caravan from the animal kingdom with the leader being Carrion which I remembered from S1 and being behind the Charybdis enemy. Him & Rimuru established diplomacy so this episode focused on that with one of beastketeers being overly aggressive and Shion wasn't having none of that lol.
Ep. 2 was pretty good episode with Rimuru's village coming to an agreement with trade with Carrion's group. I thought it was funny when Shion threw a tantrum when Rimuru was going to have her stay behind while he and Shuna visited Dwargon lol. Speaking of Shion, in ep. 3 she got drunk and passed out while Rimuru was talking to Gazel, funny stuff, and of course the ending was more funny w/ Rimuru and the boys going to that elf chick bar that they went to back in S1 and unfortunately Shion and Shuna found out by asking one of the goblin guys that had no idea what he did lol. So now Rimuru has to eat Shion's cooking for a week... RIP :p
Btw the mysterious wizard girl, named Myulan, that was shown w/ Demon Lord Clayman is trying to get with Youm's group, presumably to get closer to Rimuru. She is pretty but I don't like her much so far because she's following Clayman's orders although it looks like he may be blackmailing her so we'll see I suppose.
So ep. 4 seems to be a turning point where things are about to get darker. Falmuth sees Tempest as a nuisance due to business downturn, Myulan is spying for Clayman, Milim made a brief cameo and it looks like she's with Clayman (or maybe it's another demon lord?), definitely curious as to what's she's been up to and what's going on with her.
Also, Rimuru is still with the kids but he has told them that he's leaving soon so it appears that they did backtrack from episode 23 from season 1. There's also new "otherworlders" that are going to confront Rimuru but also seem irritated at being told what to do so I could see them turning on their bosses especially if Rimuru offers them manga or something lol. What did you think of these early S2 episodes, I'm liking what I'm seeing 👍
Diamond no Ace is actually pretty good, and I like the characters. None of 'em are the annoying, cringe-y types. But I think after binge-watching the first two seasons, I was all baseballed-out and can't concentrate on watching the 3rd season lol
About SLF, so the finale just happened, and I thought it ended at a decent spot since there wasn't a cliffhanger but it felt like it slowed down a bit too much after the Wethermon fight. Also that fight and the build up to it felt like it dragged a bit, you know? Having said that, I did enjoy watching it and I liked the goofy/humorous bits littered throughout. For example, Emul really started imitating Sunraku especially towards the end of this season. Not sure if you noticed but in the beginning of the final episode Emul was copying Sunraku's facial expressions when he was showing off the rare materials he was showing off to Bilac, it was pretty funny.
One thing that impressed me was finding out that S2 is coming out this fall and it will be another 2 cour (~24 eps.) season again. What specifically impresses me is how fast they're releasing S2, it must've been greenlit before S1 came out since these take at least a couple years to animate 2 cours so someone gambled on this series. It seems popular enough, what are your thoughts?
About Slime,
So I watched the 4th & 5th episodes of the OVA and I gotta say I liked both of them as they were almost on par with the regular season. It's funny how Rimuru got that "camping car" which is way better than the carriages the others were using. Even the teacher assigned to his class used the built in shower lol. I didn't realize how powerful Shizu's students were but they pretty easily took care of those adult bandits and it was cool to see their abilities in action.
Regarding the butler, apparently he's a spectre of some sort (I don't recall them mentioning that type of monster/ghost before) and that's how the 4th ep. ended. NGL it sucks how long these were released in between each other, this one came out in July and the 5th ep. came out in Nov! For these it may definitely be worth waiting to binge them all at once.
Regarding the 5th and final OVA ep. I did not expect Diablo to come out of nowhere. On that note I thought that the teacher was going to die to give up her soul to him as part of their contract but the only thing he requested was for her to keep quiet about him as he only wanted to repay his debt to Shizu. I remember he appeared in ep. 24 of S1 but what was the debt he owed her? Thinking back was it the fight they had that led the corrupt human leaders and the other demon revealing themselves to kill Shizu which allowed him to find and kill them? Because I can't recall what else he's talking about.
Lastly, the final ep. before S2 was from a new character's perspective named Hinata and this ep. gave me some info about her. While this is yet another recap (is this a record?) I liked this a bit more than Veldora's Journal, probably because they focused on Shizu more and teased who is going to show up in S2.
About Hinata, apparently she was one of Shizu's students and I'm pretty sure was the one that eavesdropped on Rimuru and Ranga having a conversation after they left the kids at the end of ep. 23. What I don't like is her assumption that Rimuru killed Shizu and so therefore has a bone to pick with him, I hope he smacks her around and she ends up realizing the dumb mistake she made in her assumption. What did you think about these OVAs and the other recap episode?
Oh btw, it looks like Slime S3 started a week early so if you weren't aware it should be on Crunchyroll in case you want to get started on watching. I'll be starting S2 very soon 👍
Mostly I pay it when I get my salary.
About Slime and regarding Chloe:
Anyway, as I said I watched the first 3 OVAs and here are my thoughts:
The first one was about Rimuru having a dream about sumo wrestling that devolved (or is it evolved?) into butt wrestling lol. It was a pretty fun and silly episode that, while it looks to be complete filler, was entertaining. Fanservice was good too and they showed the both guys and girls in sumo attire.
The next episode focused on Rimuru and the gang looking for a special fine sand so that he can make bean bags for the girls since Shion and Shuna were playing tug-a-war with him. More fanservice in this one which was nice and Rimuru definitely acted like a guy since he had the bikinis designed that way and he likes them lol. At the end of this episode the girls went back to playing tug-a-war with him so his plan essentially backfired. These 2 episodes definitely felt like filler as I don't think they will affect the main storyline but they were alright.
The 3rd OVA was the start of a mini-series with Rimuru's days teaching the kids so I think it's in the past before he departed from them in ep. 23 and the first one was a set-up with Rimuru getting the kids weapons and competing against another teacher. Rimuru seems to have an agenda with wanting to win the 10 gold coins to buy an antique desk but you'd think he could just have the dwarves or others in his village to make him one you know? So what did you think of these episodes?