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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    Berserk talk reminds me, how is the continuation under Mori and Staff going?

    Quality. Sad, but still good. Artwork is A+ instead of SSS.

    He doesn't seem to be quite as good with dialogue, but there also hasn't BEEN too much in those chapters.

    Honestly I kind of suspect that they're going for a relatively strict "don't do anything Miura didn't tell them about" thing and running into a minor issue where he probably laid out a lot of plot beats but would've spiced them up with more dialogue once he actually got there himself.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    You know, that's the problem with democracy. It only represents the voters of today. Only the gods and their chosen king will wisely and benevolently rule for the future.

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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I always find the “can’t fire under-performers” complaint funny.

    I have never experienced any organization I’ve worked for firing the worst employees. I’ve experienced arbitrary firings mostly based on clawing back pay and retention of those willing to suffer the most abuse. Performance never really entered into it.

    It's also complete made up bullshit.

    Even with a union there are clear processes to fire employees who are not meeting the standards of their job requirements or have disciplinary issues.

    The reason management hates it is that it's a process, and in most cases can't be done arbitrarily or immediately. It also requires management to do work in documenting the issues, meeting and working with the employee (and often their union rep) and following through.

    It's EASIER to fire employees who don't have a union, that is all.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    zagdrob wrote: »
    I always find the “can’t fire under-performers” complaint funny.

    I have never experienced any organization I’ve worked for firing the worst employees. I’ve experienced arbitrary firings mostly based on clawing back pay and retention of those willing to suffer the most abuse. Performance never really entered into it.

    It's also complete made up bullshit.

    Even with a union there are clear processes to fire employees who are not meeting the standards of their job requirements or have disciplinary issues.

    The reason management hates it is that it's a process, and in most cases can't be done arbitrarily or immediately. It also requires management to do work in documenting the issues, meeting and working with the employee (and often their union rep) and following through.

    It's EASIER to fire employees who don't have a union, that is all.

    Yes but in practice that means even if everyone else is doing everything right the people doing a shit job are hanging around for ages while the whole process plays out. Which is just annoying and frustrating and sometimes enraging for everyone to deal with. And not just in management since their coworkers have to deal with that shit too. And every single person is not always doing everything exactly right in reality. And the disciplinary process can involve a lot of "give the person a chance to get their shit together" stages. And sometimes it's just easier/faster to make it someone else's problem.

    It's just like the legal system. If you can afford the lawyers to do it for you, there's a bunch of protections within the legal system for you as a defendant. Unions basically establish a similar system and make sure you get every right you are entitled to. Which is good, obviously. But you know how everyone gets pissed at how Trump keeps getting to delay consequences for his actions because he can afford to pay to file more motions and more paperwork and make everything take forever so the legal system can cross every t and dot every i? Same kind of thing.

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  • Martini_PhilosopherMartini_Philosopher Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    zagdrob wrote: »
    I always find the “can’t fire under-performers” complaint funny.

    I have never experienced any organization I’ve worked for firing the worst employees. I’ve experienced arbitrary firings mostly based on clawing back pay and retention of those willing to suffer the most abuse. Performance never really entered into it.

    It's also complete made up bullshit.

    Even with a union there are clear processes to fire employees who are not meeting the standards of their job requirements or have disciplinary issues.

    The reason management hates it is that it's a process, and in most cases can't be done arbitrarily or immediately. It also requires management to do work in documenting the issues, meeting and working with the employee (and often their union rep) and following through.

    It's EASIER to fire employees who don't have a union, that is all.

    It's lazier, management doesn't have to do the work of documentation or having to talk with people, or investigate what's going on in that person's life. There may be very good reasons that individual performance has been impacted but let's not find out about any of that, it gets in the way of our being productive for the company.

    On a personal level it's a means of separating out people with empathy from those who don't on the corporate ladder. A self-selection, if you will, for those who can climb higher by not giving a shit about those around them.

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  • HefflingHeffling No Pic EverRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Where is that article from, Hedgie?

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Some useless techbro that somebody on Twitter dug up and it came across Scott Lemieux's desk so he posted it at Lawyers, Guns, and Money.

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    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    THAT'S how the show ends?! Good lord, that's darker than how Fate/Zero ends.

    You can go back and rewatch the first episode. Since it's after the rest of the series but has no context on the first time through.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I always find the “can’t fire under-performers” complaint funny.

    I have never experienced any organization I’ve worked for firing the worst employees. I’ve experienced arbitrary firings mostly based on clawing back pay and retention of those willing to suffer the most abuse. Performance never really entered into it.

    I've never had to deal with, as an officer emeritus, "under-performance" as the sole reason for someone being fired. It has come up in addition to other complaints like "unsafe work methods" or "sexually harasses coworkers" or "unrepentant bigoted comments", but it's not something on it's own that can really get a person fired. At least, not in my line of work.

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  • RatherDashingRatherDashing Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've worked several jobs where they didn't fire people who should have been fired (and the managers said as much) but none of them were unionized. Regional managers and corporate policy wants it to be a hassle to fire someone because a bad employee is just a hassle for the store manager and fellow employees. But firing someone means hiring a replacement, which is a lot more expensive and affects the RM's bottom line.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    berserk post-Miura hasn't really hit for me, honestly

    the art's good technically but the rest of it feels very...sparse, maybe? Part of that is due to how (relatively) fast it's moving through new plot beats, but even when it lingers on scenes there's not much flavor to the dialogue and internal characterization has basically disappeared. There's a few points where I'd love to have more character work to dig into but it's just not there. Miura was really, really good at knowing when to use silence and when to let characters chatter and everything feels a bit awkwardly quiet or too straight-to-the-point these days.

    Right now it feels like a lot of the cast is technically present but the writer doesn't have a good handle on how to use them, so we just get these perfunctory little check-ins. Puck has probably suffered the most from this, it's definitely arguable that he'd been sidelined before but uh. You got any opinions on these events, little buddy? No? No?

    speaking of characters who are sort of absent
    i'm still kind of ???? about alfheim disappearing, i feel like that goes back on the consequences of the new world? Like where the fuck did it go i thought these planes merged. I can believe Isma leaving was part of what Miura had planned - going back to the start of this whole island excursion there's clearly setup for it - but also like, how is she possibly more tied to elf island than puck or ivalera are? I think this whole bit feels the most "oh we're working off of an outline of the story with some sizeable holes in it" to me.

    in conclusion, sword big and heavy to wield

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    He can't be replaced.

    I still want to see the shape of how he wanted to end it.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    He can't be replaced.

    I still want to see the shape of how he wanted to end it.

    At least they're making an effort, more than Satoshi Kon got.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The dog man in delicious dungeon is too good for this party of idiots, he needs to hang with Laios, they would love him

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    cursedking wrote: »
    The dog man in delicious dungeon is too good for this party of idiots, he needs to hang with Laios, they would love him

    The problem is that like dogs, he's loyal.

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  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Amazon sorta kinda does a thing where they target bottom 10% of devs, for uhh... attention from management, every review cycle.

    not fire explicitly, but start them working towards that, encouraged voluntary separation, or... put them on a management track, apparently.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I certainly hope that his coworkers and friends had spoken to him since he was 19 yes

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't think it's likely they would have gone through with the continuation if they weren't deeply enmeshed and privy to his thoughts and creative processes, but yes it would be awful if it was more like a bunch of people who didn't really know what he was thinking were just making shit up.

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  • Moth 13Moth 13 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I certainly hope that his coworkers and friends had spoken to him since he was 19 yes

    That's a complete misread of what I'm saying. It's not like he's going to constantly be updating people on his story beats. He might have told the guy the story beats ten, fifteen years ago and had a different plan for the trajectory.

    Iirc they said the reason they're continuing on with Beserk at all is that everything published since matched with the story outline they had been told.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I certainly hope that his coworkers and friends had spoken to him since he was 19 yes

    That's a complete misread of what I'm saying. It's not like he's going to constantly be updating people on his story beats. He might have told the guy the story beats ten, fifteen years ago and had a different plan for the trajectory.

    It sounded like they were in constant contact about it, and he's following Miura's wishes pretty closely to the letter.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I certainly hope that his coworkers and friends had spoken to him since he was 19 yes

    That's a complete misread of what I'm saying. It's not like he's going to constantly be updating people on his story beats. He might have told the guy the story beats ten, fifteen years ago and had a different plan for the trajectory.

    No, saying that their assertion was based on 10 to 15 year old information is pretty outrageous and out of line with everything they've said about their process. It's a pretty malicious suggestion, frankly.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I am going to believe them when they say they know enough to continue.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Aside from Mori, there’s the fact that the staff I think is still the same, and they’d been working directly with Miura to the point that Mori referred to them as Miura’s apprentices in the announcement letter for continued serialization, so you have them as well as creatives who would have an understanding of where the process was going

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The Haruhi Suzumiya re-watch with my kids continues; season 2 progress so far:
    We're five episodes into Endless Eight and they finally worked out that the "eight" implies there's three more to go -- watching three basically identical episodes back-to-back is a weird mixture of boring because all the same big things happen each time, but also it's easier to spot the small things that _do_ change between episodes.

    I gave them the option of just skipping to the end, but no, they feel like they want to 'do it properly' and watch the whole thing, which shows impressive persistence, I guess.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oshi no Ko chapter this week:

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Konosuba S3 started today, and it's very much emblematic of the series as a whole.

    Positive:
    It took just this one episode to really show everything WRONG with that bad Megumin prequel series. This show is funny as Hell. The character movements and expressions are funny and brimming with characterization specific to each person. The joke timing is funny, the VA is extremely on point, even the scene transitions are funny. The movie was in 2019 but the cast is instantly back in action like this season was just one or two years after the previous, instead of four years later. The bit with the moe monster KILLED (also literally), that's the kind of bit this show excels at.

    And Negative:
    The basis of the entire episode's plot is literally homophobia, carried over from the movie, which this is a very direct continuation of (the movie should just be considered season 2.5 in other words). It's frustrating for this to be the case after all the praise it deserves (see the above text). If this is a deal breaker for you... fair. Seems like this "arc" is over at this point, though. Fittingly for this show, the literal spirit of homophobia is banished by having cash on hand. Skipping to the next episode will probably make it so you don't encounter this at all.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    god damn it konosuba I want to enjoy you why are you like this every time

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14

    Konosuba S3 started today, and it's very much emblematic of the series as a whole.

    Positive:
    It took just this one episode to really show everything WRONG with that bad Megumin prequel series. This show is funny as Hell. The character movements and expressions are funny and brimming with characterization specific to each person. The joke timing is funny, the VA is extremely on point, even the scene transitions are funny. The movie was in 2019 but the cast is instantly back in action like this season was just one or two years after the previous, instead of four years later. The bit with the moe monster KILLED (also literally), that's the kind of bit this show excels at.

    And Negative:
    The basis of the entire episode's plot is literally homophobia, carried over from the movie, which this is a very direct continuation of (the movie should just be considered season 2.5 in other words). It's frustrating for this to be the case after all the praise it deserves (see the above text). If this is a deal breaker for you... fair. Seems like this "arc" is over at this point, though. Fittingly for this show, the literal spirit of homophobia is banished by having cash on hand. Skipping to the next episode will probably make it so you don't encounter this at all.
    Wait, is the spirit of homophobia a villain here, or is it a narrative reason to display homophobia?

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Konosuba's bad sex politics
    Kazuma is literally traumatized by a character with a dick being sexually aggressive towards him, previously. I'm using that language because the gender of it all is kind of unclear and I don't trust the way that writer would think about it in any case (they could EASILY be the type to say "There's only two genders!" if they had spared it any thought at all, which I sincerely doubt.) He keeps having visions of things that happened back in the movie, as if that character was a ghost, haunting him. In the end, he's so pleased to have lots of money, the ghost gets ignored and then poofed out of existence.

    The issue I have is that the characters are flawed in LOTS of ways, so it isn't inherently out of bounds for him to be homophobic. The problem is, the author almost certainly holds that view themself and treats it as a given, and an obvious source for simple gags, with zero thought put into it. Every other character in the team is equally homophobic, it's only unusual how emphatic Kazuma is about it. Hopefully, since I have no expectation for the author becoming more enlightened about this, they at least move on from it, and don't try to make it a bit that never goes away.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Today's chapter of Oshi no Ko:
    So that powder that Kana spends several pages shilling for? It's a real product, that apparently just announced an Oshi no Ko collaborative package last week.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Unfortunately it took me a long time to get my thoughts on berserk down so i'm still gonna post it:

    I think Mori and/or the folks at studio gaga probably have a pretty recent outline for the series. In interviews Miura has mentioned that Mori was partly responsible for coming up with Farnese's character - he's been close to the writing process for a while.

    That being said! Miura also spoke openly about how his creative choices were at least a little fluid - the berserker armor, for example, was something he came up with during the Tower of Conviction, not long before it first appeared. That's absolutely fucking wild, considering how important it is to the story! He wasn't winging it, but there were a lot of decisions that weren't set in stone, or at least, developed as the story did. Standard long form storytelling stuff, executed really well.

    I think this is a little bit of what bugs me about this whole project. I understand why you would try to adhere so closely to what Miura left behind, but in some ways I think authenticity is already off the table. We'll never get the ending to Kentaro Miura's Berserk because he didn't get to finish it. He didn't leave behind a script or storyboards for the rest. What exists is basically an outline with a lot of holes in it - and one that surely would have undergone many changes, at that. It can't be adapted, it still has to be created.

    Right now it feels like the creative team is trying to add as little as possible to what they have of Miura's thoughts, but they're also still releasing a monthly* manga and I don't think that those choices can hold together. It just feels like there are holes everywhere and they're afraid to start filling any of them in, despite how empty the work feels as a result. It's done out of respect, but in some ways it feels to me like they're parading around something that just shouldn't be shown as is?

    I know a lot of people would be pissy little freaks about it, but I think they have to start writing Koji Mori and studio gaga's Berserk. Not to say they should toss the notes away or whatever, but that I think they gotta start filling out the missing details themselves. It won't be the same, because it can't, but maybe it'll feel like a labor of love and not one of obligation.



    *look, it's more of an aspirational monthly

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Konosuba's bad sex politics
    Kazuma is literally traumatized by a character with a dick being sexually aggressive towards him, previously. I'm using that language because the gender of it all is kind of unclear and I don't trust the way that writer would think about it in any case (they could EASILY be the type to say "There's only two genders!" if they had spared it any thought at all, which I sincerely doubt.) He keeps having visions of things that happened back in the movie, as if that character was a ghost, haunting him. In the end, he's so pleased to have lots of money, the ghost gets ignored and then poofed out of existence.

    The issue I have is that the characters are flawed in LOTS of ways, so it isn't inherently out of bounds for him to be homophobic. The problem is, the author almost certainly holds that view themself and treats it as a given, and an obvious source for simple gags, with zero thought put into it. Every other character in the team is equally homophobic, it's only unusual how emphatic Kazuma is about it. Hopefully, since I have no expectation for the author becoming more enlightened about this, they at least move on from it, and don't try to make it a bit that never goes away.

    Konosuba DIIISCOURSE
    It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen the movie and I will never, EVER put up a spirited defense of the sexual politics of Konosuba so I could just be flat out wrong and totally okay with that….

    But I vaguely remember the gag being that while said person may or may not have certain equipment, the gag was that Kazuma was down to smash no matter what the answer was and he didn’t know how to reconcile that with himself, which I would say in the moment is a fairly flawed human emotion rather than a purely homophobic one.

    But that’s the movie, if the show recontextualized this/I’m just remembering wrong then you won’t get no pushback from me for that being some fucked up homophobic nonsense.


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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
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    Konosuba's bad sex politics
    Kazuma is literally traumatized by a character with a dick being sexually aggressive towards him, previously. I'm using that language because the gender of it all is kind of unclear and I don't trust the way that writer would think about it in any case (they could EASILY be the type to say "There's only two genders!" if they had spared it any thought at all, which I sincerely doubt.) He keeps having visions of things that happened back in the movie, as if that character was a ghost, haunting him. In the end, he's so pleased to have lots of money, the ghost gets ignored and then poofed out of existence.

    The issue I have is that the characters are flawed in LOTS of ways, so it isn't inherently out of bounds for him to be homophobic. The problem is, the author almost certainly holds that view themself and treats it as a given, and an obvious source for simple gags, with zero thought put into it. Every other character in the team is equally homophobic, it's only unusual how emphatic Kazuma is about it. Hopefully, since I have no expectation for the author becoming more enlightened about this, they at least move on from it, and don't try to make it a bit that never goes away.

    Konosuba DIIISCOURSE
    It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen the movie and I will never, EVER put up a spirited defense of the sexual politics of Konosuba so I could just be flat out wrong and totally okay with that….

    But I vaguely remember the gag being that while said person may or may not have certain equipment, the gag was that Kazuma was down to smash no matter what the answer was and he didn’t know how to reconcile that with himself, which I would say in the moment is a fairly flawed human emotion rather than a purely homophobic one.

    But that’s the movie, if the show recontextualized this/I’m just remembering wrong then you won’t get no pushback from me for that being some fucked up homophobic nonsense.

    A little bit of relevant Konosuba lore/backstory. The title of the story is Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! and it's essentially just completely ironic. A more accurate title for how the story plays out would be Konosuba: Reality is Often Ultimately Disappointing. Our "hero" is a NEET who was a loser in the modern, mundane world, but he then gets isekai'd. He meets a beautiful Goddess who tells him of his charmed destiny to reincarnate into a new world as an overpowered hero... except she's an empty headed, meanspirited moron and this charmed destiny is more akin to a contracting firm, grabbing people en masse to try to defeat a certain demon lord. To face the demon lord, you have to beat his generals, which are all types of well known monsters, usually with a twist. The first one they fight is a Dullahan, for example.

    So, in the movie:
    They find the next general is in the area and this person is a pretty well proportioned, stereotypical anime babe/seductress. Importantly, this character is a chimera, a blend of different traits from different sources. She puts the moves on Kazuma and he decides, Hell yes. I will betray my team and the human race to get laid, this is great. As they're kind of cuddling and embracing and so on and he's bragging about how he doesn't care about betraying his friends in this way, they're putting it on pretty thick to make the punchline land, he finds out, oh. This person also has male sex characteristics to go along with the visible female ones, their chimera-ness also extends in this way. This reads as trans to the audience, but again, the author is probably VERY ignorant, so I'm not sure if the 'intention' was that this character is ACTUALLY a male and they are merely 'pretending' to be a hot babe. This is pretty explicitly the "trap" trope. It's possible to read a litany of very bad things into this moment, and you'd have to be pretty, pretty generous to read nothing negative into it. Kazuma is HORRIFIED to discover this information and also, so are all the other characters. Despite his overt betrayal and this being the moment for his comeuppance, they're actually all willing to take him back and forgive everything, instantly, because this discovery is just THAT horrible, ya know? The chimera character is super aggressive at this moment and it is treated as an assault (but a 'funny' one, because lol anime). Eventually, they beat the chimera character, but episode one of S3 picks up with Kazuma not being over it and how that time has ruined his libido and so forth.

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