Never cheat with a gal who sheds...
[looks like Crunchyroll is running behind today; probably all that Global Warming and Record Warmth we’ve been digging ourselves out of while shivering in the freezing cold]
Isekai Prime, episode 2
“My slow life doesn’t need women”?!? Again: Dude! You’re banging your Sweet Young Landlady, you’ve got a Catgirl Cuddle-Buddy, and you can’t take your eyes off The Merchant’s Daughter’s Big Bouncy Boobies. (amusingly, it’s Her Quietly Hot Maid who buys the hundred clothespins that were mentioned in last week’s comments…)
ahem Our Entrepreneurial Hero signs a distribution contract, giving him enough money to build a house out in the woods. At no point does he seem to worry about gaining title to the land first, and he’s close enough to the city that the guards on the walls can hear his power tools and see him fell trees, so apparently resistance is feudal.
Now, why he’d try to do all the work himself with imported expensive tools instead of, say, hiring the catboys who follow Our Furry-Boobed First Catgirl around, I can’t imagine. It’s not like they aren’t all good friends now, between the curry, the booze, and her nighttime cuddling. (her relationship with the catboys seems platonic)
Verdict: Dude’s not just playing on easy mode (despite the ongoing saga of The Forlorn Feral Loli Future Daughter, whose happy ending is telegraphed in the credits), he’s reverting to his chuuni middle-school days. I’ll give it a few more weeks to assemble the rest of the harem.
Side note: the three light novels have a common cover theme: guy, loli, large cat-thing pet. The eight manga volumes have:
- guy, blonde, blue catgirl
- guy, blonde, loli, cat-thing
- guy, loli, loli2, blue catgirl
- guy, blonde, loli, orange catgirl
- guy, blonde, loli, noble blonde
- guy, blonde, loli, loli2
- guy, blue catgirl, orange catgirl (all wearing hazmat suits)
- guy, blonde, loli, cat-thing, blue catgirl, orange catgirl
(I prefer my catgirls a bit less furry than…(checks website) Myarey, but at least she shares her voice with Bilac)
Literal Dream Girl Elf Waifu, episode 2
As their totally-not-a-date-date comes to an end, Sleepy Hero treats His Hug-Pillow Elf Waifu to a scented bath before they snuggle in bed in the hopes that she’ll either make it home or be trapped forever as his live-in girlfriend. She seems to be fine with it either way.
They did face the tiny little problem that they’d been incinerated by a dragon while trapped in its lair, so while he expected to be whole and healthy as usual, they had to come up with a plan to stay that way. Based on a quick game of twenty questions, their plan was… beer!
TL/DR: they are now best friends with one of the mightiest creatures in the world, who in her role as Hot Dragon Chick is completely tsundere for Earth food and drink. So we’ve got Tsun Elf Waifu and Tsun Dragon Bestie, for the makings of a lively and well-rounded party.
(…but she’s no Grea)
The Apothecary Diaries 2, episode 2
I won’t say that I made a mistake by reading all of the translated light novels after the end of last season, but it does mean that I’m so far ahead of the story at this point that I’ve actually forgotten a great deal of what’s coming up and in what order. It’s actually a bit jarring to have all the major secrets still unrevealed.
Also refreshing, as it lets me revisit these events with confidence that the adaptation is not simply plundering the source material for a highlight reel.
Anyway, this week, A Day In The Life of three cute serving girls, with just a dash of rear-palace intrigue and a whiff of conspiracy. And of course Actual-Cat Maomao makes an appearance.
Hammer Of The Guild Gal, episode 2
FYI, about half of the relatively-high-budget high-concept OP animation has nothing whatsoever to do with this show, and not just this season. In case you hadn’t figured that out yet.
The ED is much more in tune with the actual show, being cute and bouncy, like Our Mighty Shouty Receptionist Heroine. Unlike Alina, however, the ED doesn’t suddenly go into a murderous psychotic rage every week.
Last week’s cliffhanging asshole adventurer causes big trouble in town, realizing far too late that there is in fact a woman who doesn’t have to put up with his shit. Unfortunately for Our Heroine, her costume isn’t enough to protect her identity when she saves the day in the middle of town in broad daylight, not when the guild leader’s special power is timepeeping. Next week, it’s a trap!
Verdict: if this took itself seriously, it would suck. Instead, it’s about as silly as last summer’s Dungeon Drops show, which works for me.
Clippy Is Your Copilot
Miscreantsoft has just turned on their Mandatory AI features in every Office 365 application. You can sort-of turn them off, but the big colorful button is prominent in the UI, and intrusive to the point of having another button at the beginning of every new Word document offering to write for you. Just the thing to promote academic misconduct!
You can disable “connected experiences” on each device you use MS apps on, but it’s still there, lurking just under the surface for someone to abuse. And if you’re a corporate user (or somone who runs their own content-blocking firewall at home…), you can’t just block the traffic, since it piggybacks on regular Office traffic, with only 3 obvious DNS entries out of 18 referenced that might reduce the reach of its tentacoo waep.
You will serve your Anally Inserted overlords!
Meanwhile, Reddit is throwing up Scary AI Halloween ads…
ObGhostbusters: “You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.”
In a moment of weakness…
…I purchased a box full of Richard Blade novels on eBay. With a bit of OCR, they could produce entertaining results when fed to an LLM. It is technically an isekai series, after all…
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