<Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters!> - Volume 10 by KAYA - ★★★★☆, 182 MynePages™ - A nice ending to the series, even though it felt somewhat rushed at the very end. I think one more bonus chapter after the epilogue with the "event" actually happening should have brought it to a better end than just leaving it open. I think the readers deserved that much. But still, going by how few series actually end, instead of just fizzling out once sales drop, I think it's commendable that we get a finished series for once. Still, would have loved to see one extra chapter. That's going to be one of those that will continue to bother me whenever I will think back on the series.

I had to check since I was certain I would recognize her. So PSA: this is only for the EN Dub.

Household Spells, Isekai Walking, and Easygoing Territory Defense for me, but I started reading Warhammer 40k novels, and that seems to be a rabbit hole in itself, so I'm not sure if I follow that particular gothic death cultist rabbit down its hole or keep up with the light novels next.

I hope they invited her to her birthday party at the end.

Where to start. They have so many issues that there is something in there for everyone:

• price hikes and end of the free tier
• declining quality of subs and the use of AI for subs
• activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate <--- with the previous point, now both the pro-AI and anti-ai crowd are unhappy
• data breach (at least one, but I think they had two)
• Funimation customers got fucked since they lost access to purchased content after the merger with Crunchy
• monopolistic tendencies and general corporate greed and tactics
• comment sections got removed because people dared to be negative

And possibly a myriad others. I don't think I've ever heard Crunchy mentioned in a positive way.

Isekai is one of my favorite genres, but man, they really have a low standard of what they publish or adapt.

"No, no, no! You see, having a fashionably late hype entry is more important than saving half a dozen of my fellow hunters!"

- Sung Jinwoo, trying to enter St. Peter's Gates, ca. 2086

As beautiful as the day I lost her.

Also I want now a crossover episode with RuriRocks in that cave.

Hard to top Mother Knows Breast.

As a self entitles source reader snob I often shit about anime adaptations of titles that I love. This whole arc with Abiko is so relatable, especially her hate for deviations from the source. But I will try to be less harsh in the future now that I understand better how those changes come to be.

Shinichiro Hatta, the eldest son of Hideaki Hatta, will be the new Studio President/CEO. He has previously worked as producer/production manager as far back as 2005 for AIR.

• Haibane Renmei
• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
• Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
• A Silent Voice
• Sweetness & Lightning
• Akebi's Sailor Uniform
• March Comes In Like a Lion 2nd Season
• A Place Further Than The Universe
• Non Non Biyori Nonstop
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Doesn't Scrabble have its own dictionary?

The opening sequence is also excellent. It’s packed with references to various cultural works (Spiderman, LotR, Nirvana, and a bunch of others), and I probably didn’t even catch half of them.

the ones I recognized:

Footlose

Leon The Professional

Dumb&Dumber

Trainspotting

Nirvana Nevermind Was wrong here. It was Trainspotting, which also fits better with the film setting.

The Usual Suspects

Breakfast Club

The Evil Dead (maybe, its a reach)

Lord of the Rings

Fight Club

Resident Evil Extinction

Spiderman 3

Pulp Fiction

Wednesday Adams

Saturday Night Feaver

Fallen Angels

A Better Tomorrow

Chinatown

Conclave

Project A

Ready of Not

Blade Runner

Coffeee and Cigarettes

Flashdance

Stand by Me

The King of Comedy

The Yellow Handkerchief

Pierrot le Fou

Night On Earth

Farewell Friend

Blue Spring

Either way, anime YouTuber will have a field day with this one. I can't wait to see a side by side of the entire opening with the original shots.

edit: thanks to the internet sleuths I have some reference material as well and references that I missed.

Still so many scenes missing...

Did I spot a wild Rin there?

And now there's a Chiaki.

Aoi with her little sister as well.

And a Nadeshiko to make the main cast set full.

All hail Rikka our chuuni overlord bot!

Thanks for all the work.

When Fern told Stark that Frieren is to her what Himmel is to Frieren it was such a beautiful moment.

Very nice. I like the first season very much. One of those rare shows where people are just people instead of stereotypes.

This was my favorite episode yet. In a show that has almost no episodes that I didn't like they still managed to raise the bar. I especially loved all the Frieren mannerisms they put in this episode.

Counterpoint: They are not commercial products, and there is nothing stopping groups from just abandoning series mid-season. For example, Komi Can't Communicate got a sub that translated all her written text in place and then just dropped it after a couple of episodes.

I've seen two arguments during that time.

1. as fan subs, those are entirely done voluntarily and the people behind it owe nothing to the community

2. they shouldn't have started the series if they weren't committed to completing the season. Other groups sat out on the series because of that.