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I eventually looked it up, and she was Mad Moxxi from the Borderlands series.
When the credits started I screamed "that's it?" Episode flew by.
The S&W dub is really really good, too.
Spice and Wolf is often jokingly (but not really) called an economics anime. It's about a merchant in a generic middle ages low fantasy setting, who randomly meets and begins traveling with a wolf goddess. It's more of a "two outsiders bond with each other" kind of thing, but a lot of the plot involves them getting caught up in economic scheming, market manipulation, etc.
Like a club or sports anime, except instead of teaching about fishing or paper mache or futsal, it rambles incoherently about economics. Spice and Wolf being the first really notable/popular one that comes to mind, but Maoyuu by the same people was the one that really solidified, as they say "big tiddy economics" by having entire episodes where they do nothing but descend from their ivory tower to explain crop rotation to farmers. Nation building fantasy stuff has been around forever, but usually more of the "fight monsters and save the world" variety. Postmodern trends have been to go "That's unrealistic. It's actually about politics/economics," and isekai being the intellectually bankrupt subgenre that it is, frequently defaults to a random teenager popping in and going "All you guys are idiots. Stop building gold statues of the king and being turbo racists. Invest in agriculture and infrastructure. GOVERNMENT SAVED!" It comes up a lot in low end western young adult fiction too.
There have only been like 4-5 so far of the pure "I Was Put in Charge of The Kingdom And Had to Save It Through Doing Paperwork" adaptations so far (though a lot, like Slime, dabbles hard), but given trends in LNs/web novels, the tsunami is fast approaching. Probably not a good sign for the youths' faith in the government.
Also Maoyu, by the Spice and Wolf mangaka I believe
e: oh we covered that
I like Maoyu, and it's only half because the demon lord's got big tits
Spice and Wolf and Maoyu also aren't isekai to their great credit, they're just straight fantasy.
I had been kind of wondering if I had gotten a bit desensitized to Ufotable sakuga because the last several episodes have had really good action but didn't quite have that same mind blowing quality. Then moments like in this episode drop and remind you that oh right, this is what it's like when Ufotable *actually* pops off
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It definitely feels like they're trying to push an art form to the limits of its possibilities.
The anime adaptations of Spice and Wolf/Maoyuu were made by the same core staff (though different animation studios), but the light novels were by completely different dudes. Maoyuu and Log Horizon were the same dude.
Fun fact, the Maoyuu dude went to jail for massive tax fraud.
I don't know how much slack I'm willing to cut the ultra wealthy, particularly when it comes to them benefiting from their own negligence. Who among us doesn't personally own a company that forgot to report a million dollars of income? Hire a fucking accountant.
What about INVESTOR Z
I haven't read it.
What, you aren't looking forward to an anime that's just filler arcs?
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First, Pieck continues to be actually the most competent.
Second,
OH MY GAAAWWWD IM SO EXCITED!!!!
Planet With was pretty good, so I'm hopeful, but it was kind of a speedrun of the themes he likes to hit on. If they're cramming Biscuit Hammer into a single season I'll be a bit worried, but anything that gets us closer to a Spirit Circle anime is good.
It's very much in that genre of like painfully raw, psychological manga like My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness or Goodnight Punpun. I have no idea how they're gonna film it in live action cuz it'd basically be two hours of a young woman having a complete nervous breakdown.
She's playing chess, the Eldians are playing checkers.
Then we got Sebastian Stan an episode later from one of the girls, I think.
Two idiots fated to unite in their stupidity