Wait, so you watched the first half of episode one, then the very end of the final episode of season 1 and you’re judging the show based off that? Wow. Firstly, that’s a terrible way to watch shows. You have no idea what it’s even about and you’re calling it disgusting and wondering why people like it.

The entire concept of the show is that the main character is completely unhinged and totally believes in his 8th grade delusions, then dies and gets sent to another world where all of his delusions keep actually happening, but now he thinks his “friends” are just really cool and playing along with him. He’s massively overpowered and that’s explained in all of the content that you didn’t watch.

The main character has absolutely zero interest in romance. He may have a bunch of girls vying for him, but I don’t consider this a harem anime. All he cares about is living out all his OP character fantasies.

The first episode is played 100% straight, and the last episode is a big final fight wrapping up this entire plot that he’s gotten himself tangled in. But he’s literally just toying with the two women he’s fighting, they aren’t anywhere near his level. Anyone who actually watched the show understands that. You picked two of the most serious moments of the show to watch and are wondering why it’s not funny.

I’m not saying you have to like it, but not watching a show but then calling it out for being “discusting” is a weird thing to do.

I enjoyed season 1 of this. It wasn’t amazing, but it was fun. Happy to have a season 2.

What? How is it disgusting? Eminence is fantastic.

It really is, I’m just nitpicking when I point out things that could be done better. I’m stoked about this series and have been recommending it to all my simracing teammates.

I really need to check out The Apothecary Diaries. I keep hearing good things.

Alright this was my favorite episode yet. I love Suzuka so seeing it accurately represented was great. As for the racing accuracy, everything they were saying was correct, but the visual depiction of wet weather tires vs slicks was pretty lacking.

If the track was really that wet at the start of the race, that 3rd place car on wets should have easily gotten past the two Belsorisso drivers. Like, maybe even before the esses. Having them all stay in line for the entire first lap was a little immersion breaking. When it’s wet out you tend to get drivers going all over the track hunting for any extra grip they can find, and drivers on slicks will be spinning their rears on corner exit constantly.

That said, everything else was great. I loved the detail about drivers on wets pulling off the line to cool their tires in the wet parts of the track.

The story this episode was great. I like that Kouya’s trauma wasn’t so easy to overcome and that he still has a lot to work through. And for some fun trivia, it’s fitting that the episode after they talk about Hunt and Lauda, Haruka retires from a wet weather race. In the 1976 season’s final race, Lauda retired from the Japanese GP because of how terrible the weather was, giving Hunt the championship.

Can’t wait to see where we go with this next week!

Very fun write-up! I love seeing comparisons between ports of older games. There was so much variation back then.

God I hope this is a good adaptation. I read all 6 books this summer and absolutely loved them. So many twists and turns in this series and while I’d love to talk about them, I don’t want to risk spoiling anybody. Now we just need the two epilogue books to get licensed for a translation. I know the author’s next series (an isekai in the same world but much later in time) is being released in English in January.

If anyone is curious, this is not an isekai, it’s a fantasy action romance series.

Series description:

“My wish as champion is for you to descend the tower and be my wife.” Climbing a deadly tower, Oscar seeks the power of its master, the Witch of the Azure Moon. He hopes her incredible magic can break a curse that will kill any woman he takes for a wife. When the prince sees how beautiful Tinasha is, though, he has a better idea―since she’s surely strong enough to survive his curse, she should just marry him instead! Tinasha isn’t keen on the idea, but agrees to live with Oscar in the royal castle for a year while researching the spell placed on the prince. The witch’s pretty face hides several lifetimes of dark secrets, however―secrets that begin resurfacing…

LN Volume 1 Cover for an art comparison:

I should pick this manga up again and give it another shot, I stopped reading somewhere around chapter 17ish. I remember it being enjoyable, but it just never really hooked me.

I really enjoy this manga, I just wish we had more translated chapters and a regular release schedule. Hopefully the adaptation is halfway decent. This promo art looks promising.

Well this was dark af. I went into this fairly blind so I didn’t know what to expect, but after that start I really hope the MC goes on a murder-fest. Seems like a lot of humans in this world deserve it.

Well this looks like it’s going to be a fun arc. Can’t wait for the next episode.

Super impressed with this first episode. I wasn’t expecting actual brand names and real racing series to be mentioned, let alone small details like tires being left in the sun. Can’t wait for the next episode.

Holy shit seriously!? This is one of my favorite manga. I really hope it gets a better adaptation than all of his other works. I’m also a bit worried that people will fall off of watching it early on since the first act can feel fairly generic at times, even though the second act is amazing.

The trailer has me feeling cautiously optimistic that the action will be better than Biscuit Hammer’s adaptation, but I’m still a bit worried. This author writes amazing manga but they’ve all gotten fairly poor anime adaptations. 3 cour is a good sign though, they probably won’t rush it.

This isn’t exactly what you asked, but you can use a program called Calibre to remove any DRM on ebooks you have. That way you can put them on any reader you like. You can also edit their metadata, which can be handy, especially if you’re downloading translated web novels that don’t have any metadata like series name, volume #, cover art, etc…