Two letdowns and a Best Girl

Sat 2/22/25 7:09pm

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The Three Behemoths, episode 9

Let’s not speak about the scene at the adventurers guild. Ever. Actually, that applies to most scenes at the adventurers guild.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody who’s been paying attention, Our Braless Cat-Blacksmith-nya is secretly a much more powerful smith than she’s been admitting to, as well as a member of the Hero Party that saved the world. She just wanted to live a Slow Life instead of cranking out artifacts for the kingdom.

Anyway, in a completely unnecessary escalation of the plot, Our Catsexual Heroines have been recruited to join the new Hero Party and save the frontier from Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. Which they’re not currently capable of, but will receive intense training for, with A Fresh Prince tanking Our Dragonette, A Demon Queen drilling magic into Our Dryad and Our Pixie, and Our One True Heroine reuniting with Her Savior And Idol for weapons drill. This is much less interesting than the bath scene, which is too short.

The legendary sword saintess is wearing a revealing maid costume when we meet her, which is part of her complicated relationship to the “grand mage” who led the earlier Hero Party. Because of course she’s a slave wife who loves her owner; had to work that trope in here somewhere, right? The flat-elf from the ED is revealed to be a reformed Demon Queen and also his wife. And he was isekai’d from Japan, so we’ve got all the bases covered. At least they left out the part about him being an effeminate cross-dresser.

Verdict: I was really hoping they wouldn’t get this far into the story this season.

(busty wet elf maidens are unrelated but busty, wet)

Solo Leveling 2, episode 8

“I’m gonna borrow your daughter.”

Finally. Also sadly, since this is the last time we’ll see Esil until the spinoff series about Jinwoo’s son. Still, she got some decent screen time, split up with advances in the ant-raid arc.

Oh, yeah, and Our Solo Hero beat the Big Bad and got the final piece of the Elixir Of Mom-Saving. With some timely help from Our Best Girl.

(someone’s working on updating their LoRA with today’s episode, but for now I’ll have to rely on an older one that has a hard time with the ears)

A-Rank Dungeon Harem, episode 7

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Not only do we fill the dungeon with exposition, The Bozo Party is back, and every word out of their mouths is dripping with stupid. This completely erases the fun of Our Redheaded Swordsgal teasingly advancing her position in the harem and Our Legal Loli Healer going for a ride.

It’s nice to see Little Blonde Titty Witch finally step up and do good, but this is not the redemption I had in mind for her. I cry foul.

Verdict: well, that was whiplashing garbage. I wouldn’t mind the show having antagonists if they weren’t so stupid and boring and shallow; they’re just a collection of Evil Checkboxes without a hint of personality or motivation. The big doofus suddenly wanting to rape Silk and Rain in front of Yuke (and his own female party members) is a perfect example; it wasn’t a clever psychological ploy to coerce Yuke into signing the contract, it was just another evil checkbox.

(just in case we never see her again; pity the LoRA can’t figure out how to reproduce her distinctive stockings)

Coming soon…

Would you believe there are multiple shows in the next few seasons where the main character was kicked out of the hero’s party? What are the chances?

I think it’s time to see if I can beat the market:

Kicked Out Of The Hero’s Party For Being Just That Awesome, I Was Hit By A Truck And Woke Up In Bed With A Reincarnation Goddess Who Gave Me A Magical Cock Ring That Enslaves Any Female Who Touches It, And Then She Touched It, So Now I Rule A Private Universe Where I Intercept All The Reincarnating Hot Chicks And Add Them To My Harem

For amusement, I fed that to various Stable Diffusion models as a prompt. It’s not a good prompt, but I thought it might be interesting to see which tokenized words they ended up focusing on…