The Three Behemoths, episode 10

Let’s see what positive things I can say about this episode:

1. The character art did not disintegrate, even though most of the battles were barely animated and Our Catsexual Heroine’s first fight didn’t even show her moves hitting any monsters.

2. The trivially-defeated Cocky Demon Lady was stacked, naked, and bathing, until she transformed, anyway. Since it was the only bath scene this week, at least they put some effort into it.

3. Our Catsexual Party all got to do something in the big battle, mostly because the enemy stood around and politely waited for them to finish their conversations. Neither the Big Bad nor His Mighty Minions seemed to be particularly motivated.

4. They were joined by Those Two Bikini Adventurers again, and probably the guys from that party as well. Shame they didn’t make it into a bath scene.

5. No homo. It’s sad that I have to call that out.

Other than that, it was just the usual coincidence and catsexuality. Our Hidden Behemoth transformed in front of everyone, but of course he was mistaken for something else, and got to turn back into a kitten at the end.

Verdict: this is past where the light novels ran out, so I have no idea what they’ll do in the remaining two episodes. But I have lowered my expectations again.

(Demon Queen Leafa-chan is unrelated, overdressed, and understacked, but the only character I’d want to generate for this week is Nekkid Demon Lady, who’s not in a LoRA yet; sorry, Stella, but your Big Moment was long-winded, obvious, and completely devoid of drama)

Solo Leveling 2, episode 9

Okay, in Esil’s final scene, right before she attempts to confess her obvious crush, she’s in the same light as Jinwoo, and their skin tones match the shot I used in last week’s comments, so canon is that she’s got an olive cast to her skin. Not inhuman or orc-like, just a tint.

With Our Best Girl abandoned, it’s time to save Mom, which they give a proper emotional payoff, showing Our Leveling Hero’s core humanity contrasting with what he’s made himself to get there. Also showing off Hot Little Sister nicely (and what was Our Sidekick doing hanging out with Schoolgirl Hunter?). Then it’s time to bathe the camera in testosterone and plot coupons, as The Sinister Japanese Hunters show up to taunt and train against Our Korean All-Stars. Big fight next week.

Verdict: four more episodes, which should wrap up the ant arc and drop some teasers for what comes next. And I kinda want to know how they’re handling this in the domestic release, where all the Korean characters are Japanese; are they simply reversing it?

(hey, actual fan-art of anime Esil, and she isn’t pulling a train!)

And one from an updated-last-week LoRA (with the tag line “the best girl is here!”), with decent ears:

Sample image from the LoRA:

A-Rank Dungeon Harem, episode 8

Four important things happened this week:

1. Our Little Blonde Titty-Witch survived with nothing more than some almost-fatal sword wounds, which is a lot better than her fate the last time we saw her. Turning State’s Evidence also led to her getting off fairly lightly, although I wonder what sort of work she’ll be performing for the next year to afford her little brother’s expensive medicine…

2. The rest of The Dick Party is dead (Rapey Muscle Guy and Queen Bitch offscreen with no details), and Fat Bastard Merchant is never coming near Our Harem Gals again.

3. Our Legal-Loli Healer is so far in the lead for Head Waifu that all the others are left stunned.

4. Wait, this show is going to run another cour? Without any asshole antagonists? Honestly, this week felt like a season ender, but apparently this was just the first major arc.

(the translated light novels are way behind what’s been released in Japan, so I have no idea what comes next; book five came out in the US ~9 months ago, and it ended before Jamie’s rescue mission)

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