Slime-Killing Witch 2, episode 2

Crunchyroll initially posted this without the subs, producing what may be the easiest-to-understand raw ever. Basically, if you can pick out one word in ten, both of the stories make perfect sense. The subs, when they finally showed up, were disappointing in one respect, botching the home-security hikikomori trope.

First up, Our Slime-Spirit Daughters get invited to a gathering of spirits. Our Ever-Seventeen Witch Mama tags along as chaperone, dispelling some rumors and learning a few things that will come in handy soon, before spending the night with One Hot Wet Momma Spirit. Not that way, sadly.

Second, Best Girl Beelzebub makes her first appearance of the season, soliciting assistance to track down a rogue undead. After her cunning plan fails, Our Witch remembers the rumors she just coincidentally learned the night before and leads the Scooby Gang straight to the target. Who turns out to be a cute busty catgirl gamer gal who was such a shut-in that she ended up dying of laziness, and was delighted to turn into a creature of the night that perfectly fits her lifestyle.

Verdict: fun and fluff delivered. Also, lazy undead catgirl is surprisingly well-groomed.

Bumpkin & Harem, episode 2

Our Fourth Haremette has combined her sword skills with a natural talent for magic, but the big news is that A Wild Legal Loli Appears. But first, the secret origin of Thirsty McWhiteHair, whose professional admiration for Our Rural Hero is genuine, but is thoroughly mixed with her deep tingling sensations. Honestly, the others haven’t shown any signs of wanting to get horizontal yet, while she seems to be planning out how many babies they should have. He is still completely oblivious to all this, of course.

Anyway, Legal Loli isn’t one of the listed haremettes, but she’s Number Four’s boss, and wants to try him out to see if he’s as awesome as claimed. With a sword, that is. For now. Given the glimpse we get up her skirt, she may not be all business.

Verdict: it’s kind of weird to see him teach Japanese-style swordsmanship with European straight swords, but I guess you draw what you know. Girls still cute, show not shouty, and his voice seems to work better for the role than it did in the trailers, or else he’s growing on me.

(swordsbunnygal is unrelated, all grown up)

A-Rank Adventure Harem, episode 13

So, we get some new eye candy in supporting roles, but the character art of Our Harem Party is off about half the time, including in Our Legal Loli Healer’s cuddling event that she must have had needed new panties after. Meanwhile, the world-saving plot continues, with a bunch of exposition while everyone drops their guard inside the dungeon, sigh.

Verdict: it hasn’t failed hard enough for me to drop it yet, but the main girls are the only thing holding it together, and Jamie’s still not here. Seriously, if this is supposed to be a do-or-die save-the-world quest, does detention really matter?

(I decided to help Rain make her wish come true)

Unrelated,

Why does X’s “for you” mode repeat the same damn tweet a dozen times a day? Also, how lazy do you have to be to generate a cartoon slut pic that looks literally 1000 times worse than the worst thing I’ve generated with Stable Diffusion. And I’m including total failures like this:

(side note: the Brave browser deletes both ads and phony thots from xTwitter, so they show up for a few seconds and then disappear)

Speaking of image generation…

Mina is based.

Visual jokes can be really hard to set up in Stable Diffusion. I just wanted a grinning Mina Ashido with her legs open, holding out a box of baking soda. When I finally got tired of pictures full of carbonated beverages and baked goods, I took those words out of the prompt and kept going until I had a half-decent yellow box, and then just Photoshopped the text in.

Bonus: exact same prompt, but this one turned out hilarious.

[note to self: design a complete Japanese product label with the kanji for baking soda (炭酸, “tansan”) and perhaps some appropriate emoji for the blackboard]

Back to the fry!

The only chains in my area advertising tallow-fried fries are the aforementioned Steak & Shake, Outback Steakhouse, and Buffalo Wild Wings. There may be some non-chain sources, but I haven’t seen them yet. Since I don’t have any regular TV service, I won’t know unless they drop an ad in my mailbox.

(“Dear Google, when I search for something ‘near Miamisburg, Ohio’, tokenizing it and giving me results for Miami, Florida is not helpful”; “also, your AI summary only mentions Steak & Shake, as if there were no alternatives”)

Best thing since sliced bread

The only downside is that it sometimes leads to me eating an entire pineapple while standing at the kitchen counter.

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