Next to Jamie Paige, I think MIMI makes my favorite version of Teto. It's really consistent in both style (audio and visual) and quality. I ran across a mashup that combines four of MIMI's Teto songs into one and it really drove that point home.
I do think that the crazy long title is part of the joke of this series. There is a title card each episode and the titles are intentionally super long and crammed onto the screen. As an example, here is the title card for this episode.
Yep, this is Cid from TEIS.
This kind of really raunchy series isn't usually my cup of tea, but I find this series weirdly compelling. I wrote some initial impressions a little while back and have continued going through this series. I am a couple chapters behind, but I will try to catch up.
If nobody picks up this series and we have to wait for official releases to get to this point, this will be a hell of a chapter to wait on. I don't expect this series to let a misunderstanding like this drag on too long as is too often the case in other series. However, it would suck to have it drag on forever from our perspective until we get a resolution.
I loved that page of her curled up under her bed. When my brain is spiraling from something, it often is easily distracted in the middle...like noticing a missing sock.
Well...Dad is pretty quick at assessing things. I practically expected him to make some Phoenix Wright or Conan references in that chapter.
I don't consider myself a loner...but I have an awful time remembering names; so I feel this a lot.
Uh oh...Margaret is one of those anime characters that never opens her eyes. They are usually extremely dangerous or pleasant. Fortunately, she seems to be extremely pleasant with those little apple bunnies. Surely everything will be ok...right?
I have been traveling recently, but have had a chance to check out a couple new shows this season. Some early impressions:
- Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage - Holy production value Batman! This one has been a joy to watch, based on the animation quality on its own. The story has been whatever, but that isn't why I am watching this at this point.
- Reborn as a Space Mercenary - As somebody that played EVE Online for like 15 years, the universe this is set in stokes those same nostalgic embers. The story has been fine so far, but I am loving the world it has built more. Keeping this one for now.
- World's Strongest Witch - I love this manga, and the anime has been fine so far. I am looking forward to this continuing to be more and more unhinged as we go.
- Romelia War Chronicle - This has been an interesting adaptation that I have mixed feelings about. I still think I am overall liking it more than not, but comparing the manga adaptation with the choices they have made in the anime has been really interesting.
Returning shows:
- Reincarnated Aristocrat - more of the same as previous seasons...still liking this one.
- Reincarnated as a Sword - the production value has seen a significant step up for this season in my opinion. Same old lovable characters, but now with extra juicy action animation.
Still blows my mind that they had her do that awful singing segment as Koshitan...the voice of Miku herself. It was hilarious though.
I think it was more harmful in this episode compared to last. I am going to include some manga panels as examples below, so I am going to put it in some spoiler blocks, however, I haven't included anything outside of content covered in this episode. Honestly, I could include a lot more than this, but I just chose three examples, all from the same manga chapter (chapter 3).
Al's Inspirational Speech
First, let's look at what Romelia was thinking in the lead up to Al's speech to inspire his fellow soldiers to charge into battle when they were hesitating. In the show, we just see her lay out the plan and then charge off...there was then a bit of awkward silence until Al spoke up and gave his speech. In the manga, Romelia charges off again, but this is what she is thinking while she does it:
...she knows that they aren't about to follow her just because she asks. Instead, she is setting Al up to give his speech and naturally grow into that leadership role. As proof, let's also look at what she is thinking immediately after his speech ends and the men charge into battle:
Ray's Hesitation
Another example from this sequence is why she singled out Ray to follow her and kill the injured demon. In the anime, she just tells Ray to follow her and then has him finish it off. But why? How did she know that Ray would struggle with this? Well, let's look at this small bit of internal dialogue that was left out:
...now it makes sense how she knew that Ray was hesitating. It's a small line of text, but it motivates her actions a lot.
Al's Reward
At the end of the battle, Romelia gave every soldier 1 silver, and gave a Al an extra silver in recognition of his merit. We see Al then proceed to buy an extra sheep and share it with the rest of the men in celebration of their victory. We see Romelia kind of smirk knowingly at this...but what is actually going through her head? What is the reason behind this reward system? Let's look at the manga. Here is her internal dialogue after Al buys the extra food to celebrate with everybody:
...so she is using this both as a bonding experience due to the feast, but also as a way to help them burn through their money to motivate them to earn more.
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