These three episodes came out today as a joint episode 13 for the third season. I went ahead and made the post for it since there was activity up through episode 12 for the third season earlier this year.

If we end up with nothing else about this ending being satisfying, at least we got to see a happy Sarina. It might have been some dream or hypothetical, but I really enjoyed seeing her live her dream, loving parents and all.

I don’t think Methode is part of the mage squad assembled to protect Serie unfortunately. I had the same exact thought when Sein showed up again.

I wouldn’t be surprised, but I don’t think it was that explicit. It was basically Sein asking about Gorilla Warrior and then that older warrior basically raising a metaphorical eyebrow in response. Then we moved on.

Given the way that this group of fighters tend to operate with alter-egos, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Gorilla Warrior is living under a different name now, complicating Sein’s search.

I figured that Makoto had stopped wearing his mask long enough now for Rinon to have seen him without it. However, I guess he must not make too many appearances in Tsige when school is in session. That would probably raise too many suspicions.

Also, I had kind of completely forgotten about Yuno’s friend at the adventure guild. It’s been kind of nice that the manga is adapting these parts that the anime skipped. It helps refresh my memory from when I read this part of the story ages ago.

Sein is such a bro. Walks in, doesn’t even bother for an explanation, and heals Stark. I hope he finds the onee-san he is looking for soon as he deserves it. Wait, I mean his friend…

That…makes a lot of sense. I had come up with all these ideas about the golden color and how it related to the golden rose signifying Liz as the saint. But then I was confused why it happened while Alicia was talking.

I like this theory way more. I think my brain was trying to read way too much into a silly otome show.

This should get posted to one of the fanart communities instead of this community.

Alright, Alicia is finally getting to actually do Villainess things. She is playing out all her schemes, doing her best to be the Eminence Villainess in Shadow of this world.

I am not quite sure what her plan is with Rebecca in this prison colony. Rebecca is going to be some sort of local hero? I don’t really see why the residents would buy that or how it helps her ultimate aim of reintegrating the town into the rest of the Kingdom. However, she definitely has something in mind… @[email protected]

Duke continues to be super creepy with his obsession over Alicia. He essentially abducts her this episode and pins her against the wall. Not cool man, learn some boundaries (also she is 13 lest we forget).

A weird thing happened when Alicia was confronting Liz about her essay. One of the guys had his eyes briefly flash golden. It was just a couple frames before he blinked it away, but I have no idea what it is meant to signify.

Normal Eyes	Golden Eyes (next frame)

Yes! Alicia has finally actually entered her Villainess era. Though, it really feels like Duke is actually being kind of villain-y with forcibly teleporting away Alicia and then wall slamming her. Kinda creepy dude…

I believe the source light novels are still being published (currently 15 volumes it looks like). I am an anime-only, so I don’t know if this upcoming season might end at a satisfying point or not though if the anime concludes.

Really looking forward to this one. Currently trying to convince my wife that she should watch the first season after we finish Trigun.

It was nice to see a confident Shibisu that people seemed to respect as a team leader. I remember in season 1 with Hatz and Anaak basically ignored him all the time.

So, am I right in assuming that the Traveler and Endorsi were left off the ship? It seemed like the counter had reached zero before we cut back to them, but I wouldn’t put it past this show to have arranged things non-chronologically.

Alright, we seem to have finally moved on to the Archimedes and put this pregame behind us for the most part. It was exciting to see Rak show up again at the end. The best part of it was that it was tiny Rak! We saw this version of Rak last season, but it was because he was shrunk against his will. I didn’t realize it was something he could turn on and off.

Not sure what Endorsi is planning to do next now that she realizes who Viole is. Especially since she seems to have been left behind and didn’t make it to the Archimedes in time. Also, the traveler has been left behind. They are both big fans of Emily, so maybe they will get up to some wacky hijinks on their own.

Finally, the last thing I wanted to point out is that we actually had a couple impact frames this episode. When Bam activated his power, somebody decided to animate his knockout punch. It was brief, but things moved on screen, so I’ll take it. @[email protected]

Edit: Updated post above, but this is going to be a simultaneous global release per ANN.

I believe that this November 7th date is (at least) the US availability on Prime. Amazon hasn’t said what other markets it will be available in yet. However, once it is released digitally, I am sure that the high seas of the internet will have their hands on it shortly thereafter.

Would there be interest among people here if I created a dedicated discussion thread for this when it releases? The 7th is a Thursday, so perhaps creating a thread on the 8th to allow people some time to watch it (or for the pirates to get it in their regions)?

That is the logo for Studio Trigger, which animated the anime.

Really glad that you have liked it! I am up to date with what has been released and I am happy to say that it has not yet gotten too real or depressing (for me anyway). In fact, more recent chapters have taken on an air of optimism that has been a bit refreshing. There is a really big reunion that I am still waiting to see and hope it happens soon.

The AniList api only lists a release time for the first episode of a batch. So, for something like this series, episode 1 would have a release time listed (and get picked up by the bot), but episodes 2+ just don’t have any airing time and are therefore not picked up by the bot.

I have done some quick searching around and found some other apis that I might play around with (Jikan which queries MAL, and AnimeSchedule.net has an api). I think the ideal scenario would be if a batch release would list all the episodes with the same airing time, and then I could program logic on my end to batch the episodes together into one post (the subreddit makes a series of individual posts, but I don’t think we have enough activity to support a deluge of posts like that).

As for nyaa, it is a popular public anime torrent tracker where pretty much any episode that airs gets posted quite soon. So, the main way that holo keeps track of what episodes have aired is that it parses the recent listings on nyaa to see what new torrents have been added.

I don’t have a lot to contribute this week as I have been absolutely slammed with work this past week. I have found that when my irl workload gets high, I have an easier time kicking back to some anime rather than reading manga. So, this has resulted in my manga backload growing quite a bit unfortunately. So, in the absence of talking about series that I enjoyed this past week, I thought I would write about series that I wish got updates. I scrolled through my library and just picked out the first few examples that caught my eye (except Star Tripper since that one was on my mind and prompted this topic).

• Star Tripper: Planetarium Ghost Travel

I really wish there was more of this series to read on Mangadex (I think raws go to chapter 27). I absolutely adored the dark whimsy of this series. It reminded me a lot of Adventure Time in that everything about the aesthetic is cute and fun, but there is a hidden darkness to it all that everybody has just accepted. If my request could reach the ears of any scanlation groups out there, this is the one I would would ask for.

• Vtuber Confucius

This was a fun little jaunt that seems to have been dropped by the translator. I think the series is completed and ends with chapter 20. It’s really silly and I enjoyed what I read, so I wish somebody would just wrap up the second half of the series so that I could clear it out of my library.

• Tonight, We Are Having a Sleepover

This is another one where the first half of it was translated and posted to Mangadex, but then it stopped. The final chapter is 37, so only 18 more to go! The storytelling was pretty nonconventional in this one, so I am curious to see how things progressed as the story went.

• Shinigami Ramen

This one didn’t get too far in before it was dropped by the translator, but the raws have finished up now with chapter 25. It was pretty dang cute and wholesome, despite its protagonist being a severely overworked salaryman. I really want to see more of this one!