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Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is FINALLY back so I know I'm going to watch that (and maybe go back to 1-3). The Strongest Job is an Appraiser seems extremely stupid but fun.
A few things I was looking forward to are coming soon, but idk if it's this season

So yeah, a pretty good show. No, the guy isn't interested in boinking the girl, though I certainly don't fault anyone for dropping it when it looked like that was where it was going. I took a few weeks off the show after episode 1 until we knew it was safe.

Also I have to say, the voice actress Sayumi Suzushiro of the girl Rirui is GREAT. Usually anime kid voice acting is grating at best, but she is having a LOT of fun with the role. Looking her up, she's been in a few things I've watched but I haven't noticed her as much as here.

The show keeps a slightly gritty tone that I really like in anime. The mc smokes and makes gross jokes sometimes, and there's some violence when the story needs it, but overall it's pretty friendly.

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An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29: Look I'm as surprised as anyone that I kept watching this. After the "child becomes an adult at night" stunt that episode 1 pulled this show got dropped by basically everyone I know. Well guess what it basically had no point.

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Easygoing Territory Defense: Enjoyable. Scratches that good "let's renovate a house" life-improvement itch that isekai does really well, with a good cast of characters. Wouldn't mind a s2, but wouldn't cry about it if not.

Props to this show for having an isekai where the character was from a DIFFERENT fantasy world.

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A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation: like the plot, a fun trip through an unfamiliar world that was clearly intended as yaoi-bait. Don't think making a single female character in episode 13 will throw me off the scent.

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Shit I dropped:
Kaya Chan Isn't Scary: Kid who understands everything but nobody listens is a very frustrating plot for a show.
Does it Count if you Lose Your Innocence to an Android: turns out they just make actual porn.
Part-Time Torturer: Not satirical enough to have a purpose

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There was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party so I tried Confessing to Her: It didn't end up being something I'd run to watch when it released, but I stuck with it. Worth a watch but don't expect something with drama or stakes. Most of the interpersonal conflicts are "people being dumb."

I like that the season actually encompasses 3 years of classes- it's a shame that the students who graduate leave the show, but it means new combinations of classmates and it gives more natural reasons for spotlight episodes. This is not a show I would have expected to see episode 12 of.

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A Misanthrope Teaches a Class For Demi-Humans: Probably my biggest surprise of the season- I was planning to drop this show after episode 3 but I hung around and there was a LOT more here than I was prepared for in the stories of the students. It's still not a massive recommend?

I was somewhat surprised they didn't have a time-rewind with one of his powers to make him able to change the actions that killed the village warrior that sparked his evolution into the big evil dragon, but eh whatever, it at least makes it meaningful.

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Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling: Fun show! I'd like if there was more of it, but I don't know if there really is more for them to tell, since so much of the plot is about the character evolving and changing over time.

In the last episode Grandma gets put to WORK. The fate of characters living and dying is told by voiceover with a 2-second clip. Good on them for getting the show finished but without that narrator it would be a MESS. OH YEAH THE DEMONS WERE GOOD GUYS ALSO THE GIRL IS FINE AND THE EVIL HEART IS GONE

Okay finally, the narrator. There has been a narrator in certain scenes through the show, talking about what's happening like it was a book. Not always, but every now and again. It gives a little more life to the still scenes, though the voice sounds like a nice grandma which is weird sometimes.

So in the end Flum kills the bad guys by pointing her hand at them and yelling the name of her powers which does... something. Those characters that were gruesomely killed off for cheap drama are mostly fine actually! This brutal show actually never kills anyone you like!

So, the local guildmaster who is kinda in the mob tries to get Flum killed because... reasons. He's mad that she didn't die when he tried to get her killed the first time? I dunno. Well he gets crazy body horror powers from the evil god and there's a little girl with evil powers but she's nice

Again, the fact that Flum is clinging so desperately to this girl as her new soulmate despite only meeting her a little while ago and not really seeing any interactions between them COULD be a plot point... but it's not.

The show then naturally tries to capitalize on our love for these kawaii antics by putting these characters in jeopardy- an obvious and unsubtle play, except none of these characters has any depth to them. Her light-yuri maid whose burn scars she's getting healed barely even talks.

Then, after a pretty brutal fight she suddenly had a free house and makes a bunch of friends and there is episode after episode of uguu kawaii friendship time. The show theme song is screaming and blood but the show after it is her and her light-yuri maid playfully deciding what to have for lunch.

We got 1 episode that sets up her and her powers, gives her her magic sword that infinitely heals her instead of melting her to goo because of reverse magic, she rescues another girl and escapes imprisonment. Episode 2 she's trying to get adventuring jobs but she has a slave brand on her face.

Characters just have a DEEP hatred for the MC for no reason. It seemed like they were working towards the plot being that the big evil god was brainwashing people to hate her because her power was a threat to it, but that seems to not have been the case... unless it was part of the ending plot dump?

Flum having inverted effects from magic is COOL, and her tracking down evil cursed items to get stronger would have been a satisfying premise that guarantees villains to build a plot out of. Instead we get a plodding show and BREATHLESSLY rushed wrap-up like Fallout 2 recapping your moral choices

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Roll Over and Die: I can't believe I finished this show. There was some stuff I liked in it, but by the end I was ready to start hammering the skip ahead button.

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MHA Vigilantes Season 2: I liked it! It didn't have quite the same vibe as season 1, but by the end of the season I was on board. Not really that much to say about it since of all the stuff I watched, this one is probably a known quantity.

One thing that I like in isekai shows is when they actually USE the fact that someone has a different worldview as a plot point, and the fact that two people from Japan saying "yeah I dunno why there can't just be multiple gods" is basically all it takes to end a religious conflict is a real hoot.

I feel like the show wrapped up pretty well- the magical plague is gone, there's the chance that the girl can go home to Earth someday, the MC and the now clingy protective guard captain were honest with each other about their feelings, and the secret conspiracy in the church has been found

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Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter: I really liked this show, and it found a great balance of relationship plot and actual plot. The events of the show make their relationship change, and vice versa. I don't know if I'd want a continuation though

He's a unique and fun character who was raised to be a flirty weirdo who makes incomprehensible jokes by his personal maid, and the entire show is just seeing how this weirdo interacts with a very standard magical fantasy setting. He's a little too perfect, but that's also the point of the show.