Good girl gone bad bird!

Keep in mind that the series are only similar when it comes to the protag hating the goddess, but past that they’re really different. Like, Makoto is by no means as sly and deceitful as Touka, while Seras (the deuteragonist elf in the PV) is there for the drama (unlike Tomoe and Mio).

Still, I think that it’s worth checking out.

It was overall a good episode. A nice mix of action, romance, and the marriage to kick in. I guess that the next episode will be their early life as a married couple?

I wasn’t expecting Lavinia to show up though. My sides went into orbit!

Aah, I really need to read this LN…

Exactly my thought!

It was a decent ride, I guess. Not overly exciting; but I like how ending the season with Gobjii’s death gives it a “book endings” feel, at the start we see a bunch of goblins being born and then one dying, while the others move on with their lives.

And goddammit Aporou, let a dying person talk.

Depending on how they do it, the animation might be really fun. The story has the same “driving force” as Tsukimichi, of a character wanting revenge on the goddess that dumped him in a world; but it’s far more serious, the overpowered skills aren’t as flashy, there’s no “city building” aspect but a lot of “my strategy beats yours”.

And it’s overall a good method. Language learning combos really well with fiction media, there’s lots of room to create simple sentences that still make sense within that work (like they’re doing with the “recipes”), and the series is popular so it’s overall more enjoyable. (A good chunk of language learning is to keep yourself motivated.)

For reference: I’ve learned the basics of Latin through a similar method, but instead of Dungeon Meshi it was Aulularia (a Roman slapstick comedy). More than a decade later and I still have simple sentences from the method stuck in my head.

Pfffffft. Furio and Lys can’t get some privacy, can they? GODDAMMIT AND OF COURSE THE MAOU WOULD FUCK THINGS UP.

(I really liked this episode.)

Sofia’s face when Makoto correctly understood how the Prison of Swords worked, and proceeded to destroy the swords, was amazing!

As well as Makoto’s “sorcerer? close combat fighter? nah, I’m an archer!”. Sofia was having such a hard time with Makoto, only to discover that he wasn’t even playing his strongest cards yet.

If not for Rudeus’ monstruous mana pool they would be all dead. He kept a water wall against three heads dragonbreathing the group.

…hard to talk about this episode without giving spoilers on what comes next. (The LN equivalent is vol12 ch9, by the way.) The fight was exciting, and it ended in such a sorrowful note (Paul is dead, Rudeus lost an arm, there’s something wrong with Zenith). A rollercoaster of emotions, really - and it shows how much Rudeus evolved, from the distance towards his Earth parents to the concern about his new ones.

Poor Rudeus, not being recognised by his shishou. …but on her defence would you? He was a kid back then.

It’s a great way to reset the relationship though - now she doesn’t see him as a brat, but as a man. And she’s clearly into him. (And “curiously” in no moment he mentioned to be married to white mama, at most that he is not married to black mama.)

Telling his own son that it’s totally OK to get a second wife, because they’re different, and that once you get used to this life you won’t be able to go back. With a swords analogy. Got to respect Paul for being scum even inside a labyrinth.

It’s really cute to see how much Lys improved in the kitchen, from “raw meat = ITADAKIMASU!” to fun and delicious dishes with decent plating. And the animation did a good job keeping her consistent between lupine and humanoid forms - you see that big wolf, but you know that it’s Lys, simply by her behaviour towards Flio.

Hibiki has no standing ground to call Makoto’s super awesome armour “weird cosplay”. Just saying~

The episode felt like a warm-up for the next one, I’m mildly excited to see Makoto vs Sofia.

I’ve been watching Shinigami Bocchan s3, and kind of surprised that people aren’t too much into the series. It’s fun, and I’m fairly certain that the story is reaching its conclusion.

Glad to see that the issue was solved in a bloodless way. It might be naive, but it fits rather well the idealism of the series.

So many great things about this episode.

Paul and Rudeus’ mended relationship. He’s certainly better than he was before, as a human being, but still being recognisably Paul - a pervert who tries to brag about stuff and look cool in front of his son. Also mending his relationship with Elinalise, with Rudeus’ internal voice mocking Paul for not knowing that they’re “family” now, mwahaha.

Geese still calling Rudeus senpai, after all those years. That TP book happening to be just perfect to brave that labyrinth would, most of the time, feel like a deus ex machina; but here it felt incredibly natural.

But the cherry on the cake was the end of the episode. It was just… right, you know? Roxy being surrounded by monsters, losing all hope, only to see the threat suddenly gone and some young man - her saviour - walking in, with a smile on his face. They could’ve animated Rudeus reaching her (how did he know that she was there?) but I guess that they’ll do it for the next episode?

Like that other user often says… peak fiction.

Hiya, don’t piss off the nice guy. It’ll never end well.

Ditto. I don’t exactly mind well made 3D, but things done the “right” way are always great.

That scene was hilarious!

Making her a “good hohoho” would be damn great, indeed. But I like how it showed that, even with all her ambition, she’s just a dreamy teen. Talented and capable, sure, but a dreamy teen.

Rudeus did a lot, by not doing the shit that people trying to help depressed people do, that only digs the knife deeper into the wound. He didn’t try to lecture Norn, or that stupid “LotSa PpL HaD iT WoRsE LOL LMAO” +> “stop being a crybaby”.

Comparing her case with Nanahoshi, it’s like water and oil, isn’t it? Nanahoshi was having a meltdown out of frustration and hopelessness, her mindset is completely different from JP!Rudeus and Norn.

Fuck. I really love this series.