Still trying to fix things

I’m working on the odd bugs and updates needed, particularly the missing comments. I suspect it has to do with the age of the template (c.2010) but I’ve got to relearn so much crap. Update: Ok, it’s fixed. I also took down a 2022 post, not to self-censor, but self regulate. I never meant to mix politics overtly into this blog, but I was mad and Houblog was down. It was a mistake and I fixed it. Doesn’t mean I don’t still believe it.
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Yes, I do live

Well, I am still around, and I’m still having (a lot more) problems with trying to type, but hey, I’m bored. And getting back into anime. Frankly, I wasn’t enjoying the crap being put out for the last few years, but that has turned around pretty dramatically in the last two seasons. Frierin, Apothocary, Solo Leveling, 7th Time Loop, and more.

Beyond that, I’ve been falling down the rabbit hole with the whole Nijisanji/Selen/Sayu thing, and spent HOURS watching livestreams with Legal Mindset. I didn’t even know V-tubing existed before this fit hit the shan. Note: the summary is before the contracts became public. And hoo boy were those … interesting.

Maybe I should get involved in that for a little extra cash…. NANI??? A V-tube model costs how much????

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Pardon the Delay

im having a combination of arthritis and nerve issues. It’s difficult to type. Sorry about the hiatus just as i was getting back into thr swing of things. Also

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The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent

So this is going to be another anime post

, but it’s combined with the light novels as well. SPO (I don’t know what the Japanese portmanteau is) is a current release available on Funimation. I had been ignoring the books for some time, as I had no interest in yet another OP isekai protagonist. Having too much time on my hands after retirement, I queued up the anime, and then got interested in the novels as a result. The reason was simple: I’d completely misjudged the original, based on the title. It’s not a tale of a romp through an alternate world – if anything, it’s a slice of life / romance so far.

We start with the usual summons from an alternate world, but there’s an immediate twist… They expected to summon one woman, but got two: Aria (age 15, HS student), and Sei (age 26? overworked office lady). The Grand Magus collapses, and the First Prince barges in before anyone can figure out what’s going on. Taken by the pretty young girl’s beauty, he completely ignores the frumpy tired woman, proclaims the cutie is the Saint, and whisks her away. Sei is almost completely ignored in the chaos. Eventually she realizes:

A) She’s been magically kidnapped.
B) She can’t go home.
C) Some other girl is the hero; she’s just an accident.

Continue reading

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Tenchi Muyo – Ryo Ohki

Today’s post is going to be a little different from the last few days, as it’s about anime. Well, that was the original point of this blog, after all.

A few years ago, Silver Link (correction: A1C) started producing a series of OVAs based on Tenchi Muyo’s novels, set after the three main original series. Given the power inflation of the originals, there’s no real challenges possible, and no real “action”. Instead, the OVAs (of which there are about twenty, broken up into five seasons) are a whole lot of talking. The main point of this is to unify all the various spinoffs into one coherent narrative. The characters from GXP make a number of appearances, along with War on Geminar’s Kenchi, as a baby and small child.

The latter is the focus of series four and five. It seems that Kenchi’s insertion into an alternate world and his ridiculous physical abilities weren’t an accident. It turns out that Rea, the new wife of Tenchi’s father, is an artificial human from Geminar, deliberately sent to an alternate universe (Earth) in order to produce a child that would then be summoned back to lead the good guys. Um…ok, makes perfect sense.

In some universe. Continue reading

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The Great Cleric

“Idiot! I said summon a CLERK, not a cleric!”

A book in which very little happens, yet I didn’t find it boring. Yet another isekai, an unfortunate salaryman dies in a shooting, and is reborn into a world of magic, monsters, and demons (but at least those are safely locked away). Somewhat annoyed at dying unexpectedly, he goes through the usual meeting with God (who is a bit cranky), and gets to pick new skills to start with. Taking the name Luciel, he resolves to live a long life, die in bed, and thus picks a healing class. Thanks to a bonus from said deity, he starts with a nice set of skills, but he is in no way overpowered.

More below the fold. Continue reading

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Book Review I, May 2021

How about “Demon Lord Repeat” instead?


Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

  • Isekai.
  • Game designer watches as his game get shut down.
  • Suddenly finds himself in a game world.
  • As the Demon Lord he designed/played.
  • No social skills; he can’t deal with people.
  • So he roleplays the demon lord.
  • Of course he’s completely OP.

Yes

, it’s a complete re-hash of How Not To Summon A Demon Lord. While there’s a few different twists, it’s largely the same formula all over again. Summoned into a fantasy world not of his own making

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, he quickly ends up responsible for a pre-teen girl, allied with one-third of the ruling triumvirate of beautiful priestesses, the love object of another, and at war with a bunch of Satanists, while demi-humans, dragons, and other countries are wild-cards in the mix. Other than its similarity to the other books/anime, it’s not terrible by any means, though I do get annoyed at the transparent foreshadowing. It kept me entertained for one book, but I’ve no great urge to read further into the series.

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