Loner Harem, episode 6

Our Local Noble’s Exasperated Daughter rewards Our Hero with the three things he desires most: cash, meat, and a ticket out of town. This frees him up to finally confront the One True Class Villain, a mustache-twirling bloodthirsty math nerd. Meanwhile, the girls are doing what they do best: shopping, killing monsters, and worrying about Haruka.

Verdict: less shouty than last week.

Super Dragon Balls, episode 5

A large group of nameless wood elves (fortunately all male) get chomped by CG spiders to set up the stakes, and then threaten Our Future Threesome as they escort pigs on a truffle hunt. Our Draco-Adjacent Hero casually lies his way out of trouble after he not only recognizes the never-before-seen demon attacker but names the species. After escorting what’s left of the pigs and the other escorts back to town, they return to… lunch with monsters and flirt.

The planning for their polygamous wedding night is interrupted by even more CG demon spiders, which pose no real threat as they team up to… Oh, come on! Bad enough small-town dragon-boy is throwing around advanced combat spells like there’s no tomorrow, but he casually whips out a fucking dragon arm mid-fight without even worrying that his girlfriends might notice?!?

Verdict: is there no end to Dolan’s I-Win buttons? Excuse me while I go ogle a proper dragon:

Kabuki Magic Looniér, episodes 1-4

(…or something like that…)

Mauser’s suggesting this one, and the lead voice actress deserves a win after slogging through Earth: Final Bye-Bye, so I gave it a shot while checking the porch for little monsters. Speaking of voices, one of them should be very familiar to anyone who’s watched pretty much any anime made in the past 25 years. Okay, two. Maybe even three. Actually, the casting budget probably explains cutting a few corners elsewhere; they didn’t hire a bunch of noobs.

First up, let’s just pretend that there are no OP or ED credits for this show. I certainly plan to never watch or listen to them again.

I’m not going to go episode-by-episode, I’ll just say that I appreciate a heroine with the power of R.T.F.M., and point out that I binged four episodes in one evening without suffering.

Verdict: episode 4 brings it all together.

(bonus magical girl shows a lot more skin than Our Venturing Heroines, but if we’re lucky, those full-body transformation sparkles are called “Buy-The-Bluray”)

Speaking of little monsters…

Between the sidewalk ending at my house and the driveway being 75 feet long and steep, I felt the need to decorate the front windows with silhouette bats and cats and tombstones with witch hats, and the front door with silhouette ghosts, all cut out on a Silhouette (Curio 2, a recent crafting toy).

First trick-or-treater was my Amazon driver. He thought he was kidding, but I gave him a big handful of candy. Over the next hour, I got… 16. Nothing like my place in California, but better than last year, despite the fact that it was raining half the night (sigh). I’ll have to find something to do with the leftover candy that doesn’t involve eating it myself…like give a few pounds to the pizza driver, who not only has a store full of people to share with, but a kid.

Has this one been done yet?

“A Portal From Another World Spawned In My Basement, So I Turned It Into A Dungeon (But Not The Kind With Monsters) And Now I Train Sexy Elf Chicks And Sell Them On Etsy”

---

Comments via Isso

Markdown formatting and simple HTML accepted.

Sometimes you have to double-click to enter text in the form (interaction between Isso and Bootstrap?). Tab is more reliable.

---