Lilisionnach posted:

Looks to be some controversy around Onimai censoring international releases of the anime. Not sure it bothers me too much but some people seem to be upset about it

What kind of censoring? not releasing at all or steam in the bath?

Steam in the bath, cutting a couple shots from scenes, etc. Like for example, when Mahiro was getting her bra fitted it took out the shot where she was struggling to put it on and just had the dialogue over Mihari watching from outside the fitting room instead.
Overall I actually find the censored version to be an improvement. The manga doesn't have much fanservice so the anime having so much of it felt really off.

Like, stuff the manga has that the censored version doesn't includes: the moaning when Mahiro is trying to play the eroge at the beginning and no steam when Mahiro sees her body in the mirror. That's the end of the list
There's also two things that neither version of the anime don't have: Mahiro groping her breasts when thinking she doesn't have much there (in the anime she just looks down) and Mihari bringing the mirror into Mahiro's room after the skirt twirling (in the anime she already has the mirror in her room)

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I finally started watching the anime. Did they skip the arc where they save the army men? Because right after the arc where they meet them, the anime seems to skip straight to when they party up in Okinawa after helping them.

The anime jumps around with the files here and there. The rescue operation was in the last episode I think. There's also one or two anime original stories

I saw the pre air and it's AWESOME (MagiRevo).... I skipped the whole fake out during the party of course, I don't need to see that again.

I also saw the onii san is done for (pre air too), is really good and so nicely animated too but is clearly aimed to lolicon fans so be aware of the "fanservice" it provides, I have one question does she really changes to the point that she starts liking boys now? because that's hinted in the very first episode but who knows, I would prefer if she doesn't... or he doesn't, whatever fits better now

No and she does get what could be called a girl love interest later on. I.e. a girl that's interested in her but not quite vice versa because Mahiro isn't a lolicon. But yeah, no interest towards boys, still likes boobs and the like, and gets a girl love interest and is shipped together quite a bit with her by a girl who really loves yuri.
There are a couple scenes after she starts going to school where she interacts with two boys giving them a bit of service such as handing them chocolates on valentines. But she doesn't like them at all, she just remembers what it was like to be a boy and wants to make their youth a little less miserable

But don't worry, the series leans quite a bit into the yuri

My first thought is that this isn't much of a love triangle if Diana can't even get the name of her crush right.

They hadn't interacted that much; seems obvious to me that Diana is hearing "Natori" as a name more familiar to her. Especially with Japan's l/r phoneme.

My point was more that in comparison, Lapis never seemed to need correcting on what to call her and always calls her Natori. Natori has to correct all kinds of people, so Diana just seems like every other person who doesn't get her name right. And more to the point, she doesn't seem to be putting in any effort to get her name right.

Like, in real life, if someone messes up a name and gets corrected it would be pretty rude to keep saying the wrong name.

I mean Natori IS the way a japanese person would pronounce Nataly, considering the manga's original language they are probably just making a joke were they write the name the same way but with katakana and hiragana.

ナタリー na-ta-rii vs ナトリ na-to-ri

Not the same pronunciation, the last two syllables are different

Wait, Lady Lapis is 15? Since Diana is and she's in her same class. Jeez, these high schoolers seem to be getting taller than most of my classmates were...

It's amazing what good nutrition can do to a teenage growth spurt. :-)

I was already around 170 cm by 12 so I can confirm

I wanna see Seika giving Kikuri the strap

Actually no, I wanna see PA-san give Seika and Kikuri the strap

This is Nijika POV I decided

she could just be saying that it'll be far more lewd than she ever thought it could be

... and more importantly, ch27 is up and we got a nice, if short little moment between the pair of main characters... and a whole lot of stuff other than that, as always :P Which I think makes it interesting - this manga does seem to me mostly about the magical revolution itself and the princess, and the relationship with Euphie, while important, doesn't take center stage. Even if repeat myself incessantly about how it would probaby better if they cut the dialogues in half, I still like it.

I am okay with Anise and Euphie's personal relationship being a subplot rather than the main plot, because I am convinced that being the Queen Consort is still Euphie's destiny... just with Anise as her Queen Regnant. :3

Their relationship is the main plot in volumes 1 and 3 of the novels. Volume 2, which is where we're at right now with the manga, has it on the backseat. It'll probably keep alternating so volume 4 will again have it be on the side.
Also, be prepared to be disappointed by volume 3 when the manga or anime get to it. It was bad.

Is this for the web novel or the light novel? I'm about to purchase the translated ones on Amazon to give a read through... is it that bad bad?????

Light novel. It's a "I really didn't like it and this development feels like it came out of nowhere" bad but not complete shit. I could see some people liking it, I just didn't. And Volume 4 might still make it work and Volume 3 does have some good in it like some nice relationship development but the main plot just does not work for me and feels very unsatisfying, made worse thanks to volume 2's ending being fantastic which got me so hyped for 3

... and more importantly, ch27 is up and we got a nice, if short little moment between the pair of main characters... and a whole lot of stuff other than that, as always :P Which I think makes it interesting - this manga does seem to me mostly about the magical revolution itself and the princess, and the relationship with Euphie, while important, doesn't take center stage. Even if repeat myself incessantly about how it would probaby better if they cut the dialogues in half, I still like it.

I am okay with Anise and Euphie's personal relationship being a subplot rather than the main plot, because I am convinced that being the Queen Consort is still Euphie's destiny... just with Anise as her Queen Regnant. :3

Their relationship is the main plot in volumes 1 and 3 of the novels. Volume 2, which is where we're at right now with the manga, has it on the backseat. It'll probably keep alternating so volume 4 will again have it be on the side.
Also, be prepared to be disappointed by volume 3 when the manga or anime get to it. It was bad.

"I'm on the bottom?"
Business as usual

Kinda weird seeing all these very negative comments to this when this is basically what I expected to happen regarding the whole roommate situation. This series has never had the most interesting story so I'm mainly here for the cute and the drama so these kinds of developments are just whatever to me. It's just like... sure? Why not?

It's not a reflection. There's just a small Bocchi rocking out in Kita's eye

Typically LN adaptations take 2 - 4 volumes depending on the pacing. MagiRevo will probably go for three since Volume 3's ending would work perfectly as an anime ending... which is kind of sad because Volume 3's ending is shit... But maybe the anime will make it better...?

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We all do

This is fake, Kita is definitely a pillow princess

Missing Yukiho x Alisa and Erena x Anju tho

"You changed your lipstick?" What a cocktease!

Um no, not cock. I need to reword that. Let me think...

"Clam-Jam" You're welcome.

That's the equivalent of block, not tease.

Finger painter

So weird to see these all clean and without the yellow tint. Not that I'm complaining it's wonderful to finally have the complete versions of them translated after... 8 years......

And while the final story is new to Dynasty I do love that it references this

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No no no, she said boyfriend! The three Bs are a-okay in a girlfriend

When Maki realises that this isn't an Ooshima Tomo doujin

Same. I'm still waiting for that Nijika x Kita stuff

Moments like this are what make the manga worth reading even though I prefer the novels

Just look at that face!

Personally I think Kotori and Umi have a really strong bond and I think they make for a very interesting ship. It's just that I started to ship them for completely different reasons than the other four (specifically, that scene in episode 1 where Kotori fetches Umi from archery practice and brings her to watch Honoka dancing made me ship the fuck out of them. It's only on a rewatch (like a week or two later) that I started to see the characters beyond the ship which also made me like the ship more. And I'm also a big Honoka stan but 1. I think she works much better with Tsubasa 2. I genuinely can't see anything romantic between her and Kotori or Umi and 3. I view their dynamic as Honoka + Kotori and Umi so it doesn't feel like she's being "left out" by shipping KotoUmi)

The source says it's "Bocchi the Recoil" (ぼっちざりこいる) so that's probably it