It's also confirmed Hinako will be voiced by Reina Ueda, who also voiced Nagafuji in Adachi and Shimamura, Miyako in Wataten and Momoka in Whisper Me a Love Song.

I think this chapter has further cemented Lapis and Natori as the end pairing while Diana hopefully gets together with someone else (ideally another girl but Gran has proved himself a nice enough fellow so). I think the ending shows a very interesting contrast between Lapis and Diana's the nature of their love for Natori. Diana is somewhat immature and her desire to give Natori up is clear not something that is entirely genuine but more of an obligation she felt while Lapis' is 100% selfless and genuine. She really thinks that the she will only end up hurting Natori if they stay together and this is why she believes she must let her go.

I get you are talking about their relationship with Natori, but it just sounds odd to me to call someone who was planning to commit great atrocities against commoners "100% selfless and genuine". For the matter, "was" is the right word to use here, right? Right?

A leaker has said that this manga will be getting an anime. It seems this info came from the same person who said There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... is also getting animated and Gushing over Magical Girls is getting a second season, so if any of those three things gets confirmed, the other two will likely happen too.

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It's still just a leak, there has been no official announcement yet.

Once it's official, I do hope they keep the VAs from the PVs. I thought they were a good match for the cast.

No you won't, silly girls. Because you are actually Miranda and Ferdinand.

On different news, the latest chapter also comes with a small interview with the anime cast about what they think of the characters they voice. It's cute.

I wonder why studios have to wait until the anime premieres to draw. For example, an anime that premieres in April is only drawn 2-3 eps in advance, then shows and draws the remaining eps at the same time. Why don't they draw it in advance from January, then just check it again, dub it, and show it in April?

Because with so many anime being made nowadays studios are booked years in advance and genuinely don't have enough time to finish animating the entire thing before episode 1 premieres. They are that busy.

Exceptions do exist though. My Next Life as a Villainess didn't get delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic because the studio managed to finish the entire season before it started airing.

2.5 Dimensional Seduction also has an actual lesbian couple among the supporting characters, but they didn't get an arc focused on them until very recently in the manga (as in, the arc ended literally last week), so it's obviously not going to be in the anime, even if it's already confirmed to be 24 episodes long.

On the other hand, it's shockingly easy to ship the girls together even though this is a harem title. There were times while I was reading the manga where I seriously started to think the MC was a bait and the main female lead was the real harem protagonist all along, because she has a very harem-esque power of making everyone love her. And she manages to be even more blatantly bi than Marin from the similar title Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru.

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There is still a chance they are simply changing the order of events and will come back to the stuff they skipped later on.

Though even if they do this, it will probably be only at the end. Next episode will cover chapter 25, and the bet happens right after. It would be weird to have Himari and Yori go on a happy date between that and the festival since Yori is meant to be super worried during that time. So it would have to be after that.

Also, assuming the last 4 episodes don't slow down or go back to adapt the skipped stuff and keep adapting half a volume each, the anime would end... in chapter 34. Which would be an awkward cutting point to say the least.

Shiho has made an early debut in the anime, and I've got to say, my god, her voice is much cuter than I expected! If I didn't know better I would say they picked her VA based entirely on Chapter 47.5.

So glad this wasn't dragged on more than necessary. I was afraid it would go the annoying route of keeping Diana from talking with Natori so she would remain a pawn for the villain, but nope. They talk things through at first opportunity.

Now it's a matter of preventing Lapis from reverting back to her villainous ways to separate Diana and Natori.

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Episode 2 is out and Volume 1 has been fully adapted. Does this means every episode will adapt half a volume and the anime will end at Volume 6? Not necessarily.

Remember that Chapter 2 was Chapter 1, but from Yori's POV. Since the anime can freely switch the point of view, it adapted the two chapters together, which took less time than the amount of pages suggests. So I don't think we should conclude already that every volume will only take 2 episodes to be adapted. And personally, I don't want to see them trying to do that, not only because of the usual concerns about rushing the plot, but also because doing so may mean we will have less time to see them performing.

Also, I just noticed the festival mini-arc doesn't even end in Volume 6, it ends in the first chapter of Volume 7. More pages to rush through!

My current guess is that the anime will cover the first 5 volumes and finish at the start of the sixth, after the bet is made. People here already pointed out that there is no good stopping point since Shiho's arc is so long. So if there is no "things have ended for now" moment we could go for a "things are heating up" moment to build hype for the manga and a possible season 2.

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Going back to the discussion about how much the anime is adapting for a minute, the opening (which played as the ending for the first episode) more or less confirmed we are at least reaching Volume 4.

I just discovered this series, or rather the original novel, has a PV with voice acting. And the VAs are... Ayumu and Yuu from Nijigasaki?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZzzvziWkw

But how... I mean... this is cool but, disturbing but, sexy but... too much to be a coincidence... why would anyone...

Someone tell me how to feel about this!

Do we know until what part the anime will cover?

No, but I believe we will arrive at Shiho's introduction at the very least, because of the order of announced VAs. First they announced who would be voicing Himari and Yori, obviously enough, and after that came the SS Girls and Shiho.

https://myanimelist.net/news/68834561

By my own experience, VAs are usually revealed by order of relevance, so it would be very weird for the staff to reveal who voices Shiho so early if she is only going to be in a short flashback. So I'm pretty sure we will at least get to see her in the flesh.

Episode 11 dropped and aside from, again, some questionable pacing and presentation issues, I thought it was fantastic.
Although, I either watched a bad translation of they changed the context of Lord Enorme's lolification slightly but notably.

In the manga, Utena transformed her to better match her appearance with the character that Enorme had just proven herself to be; a shallow one-note villain who's unrealistically clinging to childish and vague goals like "world domination" because she's just THAT childish and immature as a person.

The anime I watched just said Utena just did it because it would be easier to bully her... Which, honestly, kinda robs the whole event of it's point. It's meta-commentary of villains like her in general pop-culture, wrapped in character development for both her and Utena, progression of the plot and cementation of the greater tone and point of the series' essence; Utena is a Big Bad who exists to facilitate Magical Girls, playing the bad guy and doing "bad" and taboo things exclusively because it brings out the best in everyone around her.

Unless the translation team did a fucky-wucky, I'm not sure how I feel about the change.

? Slightly different wording from the translation team aside, the explanation was the same in both versions.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/looking_up_to_magical_girls_ch20#12

Well, episode 10 certainly was exciting. I really hope the show does well enough to earn a second season, maybe even with more polished animation.

I wonder how many episodes are left... if it's 12 total, then we probably have Leo's fight and the start of Baiser's in 11, then the final battle and some aftercare in 12? Or maybe fit the entire fight in 11 and finish on the beach episode for 12 so Azul can get some closure? Either way they'll have to squeeze in a scene with Vena and Sister scheming to set up season 2.

...gonna reread these chapters to refresh my memory ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

MyAnimeList says 13. My guess is that they will either adapt three chapters in episode 11 OR skip chapter 22 (which could be adapted later if we get season 2), then end the anime with the beach episode.

Did they just got a mutha fliping, Finfunnel, Gundam Girl!?

Yes, we did. I call her Turn X-chan.

As always, nothing heals mental scars like the sight of a cute little baby.

Some new cast member for the anime have been revealed:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-02/whisper-me-a-love-song-yuri-anime-reveals-more-cast/.207134

Good News, the anime is pulling some good number in pre-sales. One of the BDs even passed the 1k mark. If it keeps the momentum it may become one of the best-selling anime of the season.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8+%E7%90%86%E4%BA%BA&i=dvd&language=en&ref=dp_byline_sr_dvd_1

You know what a good adaptation is? One that not only adapts the source material, but also expands it, adding new stuff to enhance the experience. That's what the MahoAko anime is doing in its third episode, adding important stuff that we couldn't know by just reading the manga. Yes, I'm talking about the revelation that Kiwi has inverted nipples! Praise the animators!

Did the author just call Fuuko by the nickname of the first Gundam? Wow.

^ Yeah, about that, the director doesn't seem to have a lot of interpretation for them
https://www.zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=11142

Has someone seen this article already. It's mostly about Bandai's dumb decision, but it also points out something interesting about Suletta's fingers in the epilogue.

https://kotaku.com/gundam-witch-from-mercury-characters-lesbian-anime-1850707971