I’m so worried that this adaptation is gonna be terrible, but the light novels are fantastic.

I enjoyed season 1 of this. It wasn’t amazing, but it was fun. Happy to have a season 2.

What? How is it disgusting? Eminence is fantastic.

Oh I know, I’m talking about the same thing. It usually happens to me when I’m sitting in my simracing rig which is next to my PC and a window. I’ll be worried thinking my GPU or wheelbase has started burning when in reality it’s an overheated car radiator or something right out my window.

Happens to me once every few months. It always turns out to be a smell from outside that’s made its way into my apartment. Usually someone’s beat-up, overheating car being parked under my window.

I really need to check out The Apothecary Diaries. I keep hearing good things.

Alright this was my favorite episode yet. I love Suzuka so seeing it accurately represented was great. As for the racing accuracy, everything they were saying was correct, but the visual depiction of wet weather tires vs slicks was pretty lacking.

If the track was really that wet at the start of the race, that 3rd place car on wets should have easily gotten past the two Belsorisso drivers. Like, maybe even before the esses. Having them all stay in line for the entire first lap was a little immersion breaking. When it’s wet out you tend to get drivers going all over the track hunting for any extra grip they can find, and drivers on slicks will be spinning their rears on corner exit constantly.

That said, everything else was great. I loved the detail about drivers on wets pulling off the line to cool their tires in the wet parts of the track.

The story this episode was great. I like that Kouya’s trauma wasn’t so easy to overcome and that he still has a lot to work through. And for some fun trivia, it’s fitting that the episode after they talk about Hunt and Lauda, Haruka retires from a wet weather race. In the 1976 season’s final race, Lauda retired from the Japanese GP because of how terrible the weather was, giving Hunt the championship.

Can’t wait to see where we go with this next week!

The new character designs are much closer to the original designs from the light novel. She’s supposed to look fairly young. Iirc she’s described as looking like a teenager.

Can’t wait for this. The animation looks pretty good, I was worried about that after watching A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special this season.

Same. Hopefully they adapt the entire series

Another solid episode this week. I figured it was something like that with the Prince, but it’s interesting to hear that they don’t think that the Saint can heal people. That’s like the first direction my mind goes when I think of a Saint in fantasy terms.

$1500 gets you a pretty kickass gaming PC, even if it’s not absolute top of the line.

In mountain biking, $1500 gets you a solid hard tail or an entry-level full suspension from a direct-to-consumer brand like Polygon if you’re buying new.

Makes perfect sense that Hunt is his idol lol.

For anyone watching this show that hasn’t seen it, I highly recommend the movie Rush. It’s all about Hunt and Lauda’s rivalry and Lauda’s wreck/recovery. It’s fantastic.

Very fun write-up! I love seeing comparisons between ports of older games. There was so much variation back then.

Finally able to sit down and watch this week’s episode. This was my favorite episode yet. The animation style choice for showing his dad’s wreck was great. And Kouya’s backstory was tragic. I figured it was something like that. You see it all the time in the comments for tragic photos. “Why didn’t they help?” is such a common sentiment, but in reality there usually isn’t anything a photographer could have done to help in those situations. I definitely feel for him there.

Loved the ending scene with Haruka talking to his father, and I can’t wait for him to win a race now. Can’t wait for next week!

From what streamers have said, turn off V-Sync and all of the depth of field options and your FPS should vastly improve.

The “Bunny Girl Senpai” is just the title for the first book. The LN series is “Rascal Does Not Dream” followed by whatever the book is about. Like “Knapsack Kid” for this movie. For the anime they just stuck with the title of the first book.

And they do sort of explain it right away when they talk about “puberty syndrome” or whatever it’s called. The entire series is about resolving supernatural phenomena happening around different characters.

Idk, I’m actually really enjoying the chill slice of life vibe it’s got going on. Concerning the summons from the king, based on the next episode title I’m thinking he’s going to propose a marriage between Sei and the second prince. Which in turn will force Al and Sei to actually commit to a relationship.

Most Gundam series fit that role. Check out Iron Blooded Orphans if you want a standalone series.

God I hope this is a good adaptation. I read all 6 books this summer and absolutely loved them. So many twists and turns in this series and while I’d love to talk about them, I don’t want to risk spoiling anybody. Now we just need the two epilogue books to get licensed for a translation. I know the author’s next series (an isekai in the same world but much later in time) is being released in English in January.

If anyone is curious, this is not an isekai, it’s a fantasy action romance series.

Series description:

“My wish as champion is for you to descend the tower and be my wife.” Climbing a deadly tower, Oscar seeks the power of its master, the Witch of the Azure Moon. He hopes her incredible magic can break a curse that will kill any woman he takes for a wife. When the prince sees how beautiful Tinasha is, though, he has a better idea―since she’s surely strong enough to survive his curse, she should just marry him instead! Tinasha isn’t keen on the idea, but agrees to live with Oscar in the royal castle for a year while researching the spell placed on the prince. The witch’s pretty face hides several lifetimes of dark secrets, however―secrets that begin resurfacing…

LN Volume 1 Cover for an art comparison: