Emotional manipulation turned up to eleven without the expert story crafting of the likes of Violet Evergarden or Natsume’s Book of Friends. This one just feels cheap to me.

MC probably turns out to be sexually attracted to rocks, but only if they’re younger than 1bn years old.

Joking aside, they made the currently running Flower and Asura and from the 2 or 3 episodes I’ve seen it didn’t look like it would be something controversial.

https://rurinohouseki.com/

Do you enjoy playing Zerg in Starcraft? Then this is the right anime for you!

Looks great but now I’m hungry.

But maybe he was busy, sitting brooding on rooftops.

“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

It’s a fantasy world. If I can accept the concept of magic I can also accept the concept of an entirely evil race. I really don’t see the need to overthink it.

(Also, I guess im cringe then. I can live with that.)

Did I miss something here? The way I understood it was that the demons were inherently evil and antagonistic towards humanity. They were good at playing the humans in that one town but ultimately Frieren did unmask them and the party did stop their plot. Sounds to me like reading some woke BS into a simple “monsters = bad = kill” story.

What’s the genocide problem?

I think the website and key visual are new.

I love the family aspect of this series.

Looks like Kenzaburo got himself a keeper.

Lightnovel was okay-ish. RTS player gets isekaied as the commander of his favorite (evil) in-game faction and starts zerging in the fantasy world.

As far as high school romance go it’s in my top 3.

Yes, both manwha and light novel.

I would argue that those examples aren’t pointless. Just showing fight scene after fight scene without anything in between is pointless. Take your first spoiler as an example: that scene highlights his change in personality. The same goes for the second spoiler with added info about how abnormal his abilities are.

Then there is all the deliberating and thoughts he had in the secret dungeon. In the anime he enters, there is a montage, he fights some boss and he leaves all in the span of just a few minutes.

I worry a little that this will turn into an unnecessary love triangle / harem

There she is! Wridra is my absolute favorite character in the series. Can’t wait to see more of her animated. In general I really like the adaptation so far. The main selling point of the series is to feel the happiness of the mundane through someone else’s eyes and the animation and voice acting do a banger job delivering on this.

I really wish more shows could make the protag and their posse good without the need to lower the bar by making everyone else around them terrible pieces of shit.