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Thanks for the info!

I’m looking forward to seeing the explanation connecting Diablo, Rimuru, and the mask.

Is Elmesia (?), the elf monarch, the head of state of the Sorcerous Kingdom? If so, shouldn’t it be Queendom? Also, besides the really short fights with Razen and some of the religious zealots, as well a Elmesia’s wariness, I still don’t have a good idea of Diablo’s capabilities nor the reason why he’s so interested in Rimuru. I recall Diablo was very interested in the mask Rimuru’s body’s previous owner used, but I fail to see what that has to do with Rimuru since he wasn’t around yet.

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Luckily it’s been so long since I’ve read this part that I can enjoy what happens since I’ve forgotten this arc.

don’t let them slowly re-consolidate in the following 20 years

I too remember how AT&T was broken up only for most of its Baby Bells to remerge back into Ma Bell.

To prevent this for future breakups, I say the content and services sold by big tech should be made competitively compatible and interoperable via nullification of DRM laws; people buy music and movies and cloud storage; let them legally move their purchases to any competitor and big tech companies will break up naturally as local competitors emerge from people who dislike big tech for their own reasons. Monopolies cannot be trusted to lower prices for content and services. Legally nullifying DRM is like the FCC telling customers in 1968 that it was finally okay to ignore the “Bell equipment only” legal warning that had kept them locked into leasing their telephone sets for usurious amounts from AT&T for decades. A few years later, in 1982, AT&T was broken up. AT&T is almost a total monopoly again, but phones remain interoperable.

Imagine the water damage from rabbit stomach acid.

Also, is that meat-wrapped fruit that I spot?

Some kind of ceviche?

Dahlia must have some passive ability that summons perfect bishis to her if she ever feels sad.

Masayuki seems like the most relatable Otherworlder so far. All the others, including MC, seen to have been suffering from big red flags or depression. Masayuki seems like he’s genuinely a decent caring person who is just pleased to be here. Like a confused golden retriever.

RIP the animation. I feel sorry for the original author.

I am glad the author of the original light novel got their story animated. If this story had been published before either Overlord (2010) or Sword Art Online (2002), then the story would have been groundbreaking. However, the only main advantages this show has over other isekai is the lack of any spiciness, beyond the usual smattering of damsels in distress and a blushing pair of twins. Everyone seems chaste, honorable, and hard-working. No sign of any harem development in sight. There does not even seem to be any political antagonist or obvious grievances against the status quo. The most likely source of conflict seems to be MCʼs overpowered state, yet the author has made him successful in keeping that off the plot table for now. Instead of Overlord’s murderous menagerie of a sexually frustrated succubus, underage loli vampire, skin-harvesting demon, etc., we have an elf maid, an elf, and a fox. Nothing complicated.

It feels like a television program designed by a public morals committee that I would show my conservative grandmother to fool her into allowing me to see more interesting shows.

Edit: dropped the series as of episode 8. Animation did not get better.

If he doesnʼt die from COVID.

Damn. Now I want a solarpunk isekai.

Recommendation: I just finished The Terraformers (2023) which basically has all the bullet points. It opens with a rich kid being executed by a forest ranger for LARPing a carbon negative campsite on a private planet to eat some skewed rabbit. Wealth inequality is still an issue, but technology is crazy; people figured out Earth animals were people the whole time, and baseline Homo sapiens are treated as animals if commercial interests are not restrained by government. I would be a miserable monster living in that arguably better future simply because of my upbringing: I love me a good burger and feel squeamish about people being born from bioprinters. It really humbled me, making me realize the current status quo must change if we want to improve society for everyone; a typical Japanese isekai MC would be a complete fish out of water.

At least it wasn’t mayo or soy sauce.

Someday I hope to see an isekai that acts to humble the audience instead of cheerleading Earth culture. Imagine a Japanese high schooler MC waking up, ready to wow the world with Japanese cuisine, smartphone technology, and knowledge of modern medicine… only to realize:

• Most people are vegan and think MC is a monster for wanting to enslave and eat people (e.g. industrial farm cattle)
• Earth technology is inefficient and wasteful.
• 21st century medicine is their equivalent of bloodletting

I am sure it would not sit well with test audiences since no one likes being told their culture is bad, but even Earth cultures are incompatible across sufficient geographic distances and spans of history.

I actually hope he stays for the drama and character growth.

Without Carlo’s guidance, what will Dahlia do?

I also was thinking the same thing with the “trying to run from the oncoming rainstorm” metaphor for “You cannot run from the inevitability of death”. Dahliaʼs sudden desire to create raincoats felt like foreboding that she will want to create immortality-granting magic tools to help people like her father outrun mortality.

I think the author is communicating their dislike of senior coworkers trying to play matchmaker with their kōhais.

This is like your favorite bar removing all seating and converting itself into a vending machine with “NO LOITERING” signs plastered everywhere.

Edit: I cancelled my 7.99 USD/month subscription. It’s not a big signal, but it’s the only one I have that matters to SONY, the near-monopoly that owns the concern. Half the enjoyment I got was in seeing the immediate reactions of others to an episode. Now, without comments or reviews, I can’t even pretend that I’m not watching these shows alone. What’s the point of enjoying a show if you can’t talk about it with others?

Premieres sometime in 2025

Given the Tanabata 🎋 tanzaku in the image, I would guess sometime around 2025-07-07 or 2025-08-25?

Did the author finally get tired of her PS4? Or was it a PS5…

Veldora is a perpetual motion machine?