Also, new double episode on nyaa
https://nyaa.si/view/2123505

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>Great show.
>Ugly girls.

>>288874932
Will Season 2 slow the fuck down?

1700 pages in 12 episodes was a bitch much in season 1.

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>>288875051
>ugly girls

>>288875080
Season 2 will be like 35-40 episodes.

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>>288875086
>this is a 10/10 in backlund

Yes. Ugly.

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>>288875109
JUNIOR YOU DARE SLANDER THE JEWEL OF BACKLUND?!?!?

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>>288875148
>best girl in the show was a talking dog

Never saw it coming.

>>288875165
Best girl in the show is an actual doll THOUGH.

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>read the book

The anime did the fight scenes way better than the book.

>>288875214
A sequence 7 of the Darkness pathway should not teleport around in fights

>>288874932
This chinkyshit isn't anime chankoro

>>288875273
>this thing that is 100% like the other thing is not the other thing

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I read the book and didn't really understand this first special.

Although the second special with Azik killing Admiral Keelings looks pretty easy to follow from just the trailer.

>>288875234
After the third sequence their bodies are practically ninjas especially the more physical ones. Chinese animation loves to do the DBZ observation by a noob angle.

Not anime or manga
>>>/co/

>>288875295
It is by definition not anime. Fuck off to >>>/co/.

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Why are we getting an anime of these dogshit cultivationslop instead of the classic wuxias?
Considering how much of an influnce they have an anime and manga they should totally be adapted, it's the only way anime can be a thing again. But it also attracts the undesirables, while the novels filters them. Conflicting!

>>288874932
My favorite character from the first season was Dunn Smith.

>>288875273
>>288875459
>>288875617
it by definition mogged everything that came from Japan in its season. For some reason they fucked up the production value / saved in the bigger JP production companies.

>>288875634
>Classic wuxia
Just watch Thunderbolt Fantasy, nothing can top it.

>>288875677
NTA and I liked it but that's just not true given how fucked the pacing was. It's a big spectacle sure but the quality of storytelling at the start was downright terrible.

>>288875677
I don't give a shit china nigger. It's not anime. You can fuck off to >>>/co/ where you can talk about how your Chinese shit is so superior to anime there.

>>288875677
shoo shoo SEAmonkey

>>288875098
Well that's better. I stopped watching the first season about halfway through but if they do a good job with adapting the second I'd start watching again.

>>288875700
>>288875677
>double dubs
you are both right imo, but I am pretty sure that the anime now has a massive budget, it's going to mog everything else when it's up, mainly because the source is really good.

>>288875722
meant for >>288875715

>>288875685
I can't, it just don't suck me, I tried. But unread Wuxias are already tempting me, but I need to ruminate on the completed ones.
Also I'm not sure if Thunderbolt Fantasy could exactly be considered Wuxia.

>>288875749
Woops, I fucked up again. I meant to quote >>288874932

>>288874932
The ending of the first season really hooked me, with the pen that orchestrated everything.

>>288875677
Lmao this non-anime had bollywood tier direction.

>>288876101
>bollywood tier direction.
literally the plague of modern day anime

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Reading Wuxia actually makes me hate anime and manga seeing as it is a watered down TikTok version. The characters and writing all have shallow storytelling with the depth of a puddle. And these best girl comments on Xianxa webnovels where you wouldn't find a single decent romance in the whole genre is just the cherry on top.
Truly it caters to the lowest common denominator of fiction.
I'm just here out of habit.

>>288876175
There are very few wuxia/xianxia novels actually worth reading, of the top of my head, Lord of the Mysteries, A Regressor's Tale of Cultivation and Sky Tide.

I'm just jealous I guess, but seeing the whole JJK fiasco, maybe it isn't all bad.

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>>288876209
No, you haven't read a single Wuxia, you don't even know what Wuxia is.

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>>288876247
Wrong image.

>>288876247
wuxia is cringe

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>>288876247
The best wuxia is not even made by chinese.

>>288876454
I know you think this is cool but the inspiration is old, if you're looking for cool, I suggest you read The Smiling Proud Wanderer.

I've not read sentimental Swordsman Ruthless Sword. I've only read 7 of them so far. There's a lot more.

Real talk how the fuck do we get the Chinese to become better writers?

>>288876675
Writing already peaked with the Wuxia era, doubt it's ever gonna get better or original, so I've got no complaints.
The technology you should be asking for is wiping your memory so you can re-read.

>>288876719
The only shit I like from them is fucking middle era shit like Red Chamber etc.
All of their recent shit is purple as prose can be.

>>288874932
I watched this show called Ling Cage. A lot of it was actually good. Dark sci-fi kino. Then the 2nd season started and suddenly there was a team of farting Avengers ripoffs. Seriously, one guy's superpower was farting. What the fuck.

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>>288876747
>Red Chamber
That's not Wuxia and I keep away from doomed love tragedy stories unless the author fucking whips out of nowhere with it.

>>288875165
The best part is how she canonically digests potions faster than Audrey, lmao

>>288875190
Nah, that's 4head. Doll is close 2nd tho'

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>"It was a happy smile, an exaggerated smile, a ridiculous smile."
>"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times".
>"Light was the meaning of everything."
>"I won't lose too much, just myself."
>"Great Master, are you afraid? Yes."
>"I have never betrayed the City of Silver"
>"We saved Tingen".
>"From the beginning you've been a guardian. You mimicked others until you were mimicked by others".
The book has so many good and memorable quotes, it's such a good story.

>>288875742
Well, apparently there's gonna be ~40eps for 2nd season. Even with standard length it would still be much better paced adaptation.
Not to mention the leaks about said episodes having different length so there's still hope.
All they need to do is to not fuck up the Tarot Club meetings like in s1

Re:Zero is better.

>>288877176
must be bait

>>288875899
It was incredible twist, especially in the book where it was mentioned just once at the very beginning (just after Klein joined the Nighthawks) and then suddenly reappearing like 200 chapters later.
Anime cut out some side jobs plotlines, but it was interesting to read how every "accident" and "coincidence" were slowly reveal to be connected. Then the pen scene confirms it all.
Also the Pen-chan will be involved in s2 too.

>>288876675
It would unironically require the changes to the posting platforms to not require like 1-2 chapters a day to stay relevant and closing of the censorship bureau.
Two thing that will never happen.

>>288877103
Unironically the opening quotes and the volume ending ones are all 10/10

>>288877379
I keep hearing about this censorship bureau but then I keep seeing chinese stories with anti-establishment themes and gay relationships. It seems overblown.

>>288878251
>chinese stories with anti-establishment themes
The biggest one got banned for 10 years
>gay relationships
The CCP allows it because there are tens of millions of men that will forever be incels without a wife.

>>288878305
>The biggest one got banned for 10 years
I've just been watching Ling Cage a big recent show that constantly criticizes social credit score system and authoritarianism.

>>288874953
>spoonfeeding
NIGGER

>>288874953
>double episode
>one (1) twenty minute show

The fanart for this novel is genuinely insane.

>>288879531
Perks of having Osot as a fan - other artists try to match his level.

>>288879585
His Reverend Insanity art is also bonkers.

>>288879723
True, guy has the perfect feel for the series he depicts.

Did the execs screw this show too much?

>>288879926
They did screw season 1 but I think they'll make it up for it.

>>288874932
That trailer sure focused a lot on Sherlock & Sharron VS Rosago. Also Sharron does not quite look as I expected her to look...

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>>288874932
Lord of the Mysteries has smart characters written stupidly.

Ciel Dubois from Circle of Inevitability is a smartly written smart character. When Ciel kills a hotel room full of three people he books the room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can stab and shoot through, what flammable materials there are, whether there is enough space to break-dance, etc. This is a smart thing to do because Ciel is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.

If Detective Sherlock Moriarty from Lord of the Mysteries were to kill a hotel room full of three people. He'd enter using a secret door in the hotel he found via divination. He'd throw a mystic item infected by True Creator ravings near one guy causing him to lose control. The second person would then immediately die, as planned, as it's a "reasonable development" for the woman to be torn to shreds by the first guy who turned into a mad monster. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn't kill him at all. It's a reAson.b!e devel0pmenT fOr tHe 3rD mAn to di3 fRom A heArt aTta--- After turning around counter-clockwise, the third man removes his disguise to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his disguise to reveal that he is actually Lanevus attempting to frame the detective. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead people stand up, they're Sherlock's friends, Maric and Sharron, their deaths were just an act. "But Sherlock!" Lanevus cries, "The two of them looked like they clearly lost control or died, the woman even lost her head, how do you explain that?" Because I am better at using the thing behind my glabella, Sherlock inwardly Lampoons, the end.

This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.

Are there any other dongs like this show? Most of the ones I see are kung fu or sci fi.

>>288879926
Yeah. Should have never allowed the stupid decision to force "Clown" fight to 3rd ep.
Leonard being faster and stronger than some demigods or Klein almost blowing up the city from almost loosing control were alos dumb decisions just to try to cash out the solo levelling "aura moments".
I think that the worst victim of speedrunning the plot was Tarot Club meetings. Those were always the best part of plot, all the way to the end. And with them gone, we lost some nice Roselle's diary scenes.
>>288880054
She looks pretty much like in the fanart

>>288876454
trvke

>>288874932
First season had the most incompetent story telling and directing I've seen in a very long time. Why would anyone be excited about season 2?
Most importantly, it's not even an anime.

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I guess I was the only one who liked Season 1.

Just me.

>>288880473
I liked it but they fucked the coherence early on so it's hard to recommend.

>>288880473
i liked it but i like utterly incoherent stories where you have to piece the plot together deductively and assumed that was part of the presentation of the show.

>>288880570
>you have to piece the plot together deductively
That's how it should be but they went a bit overboard.

>>288880709
didn't seem overboard to me, but i have a high level of intelligence

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>Captain Dunn rips out his own heart and merges it with the ashes of Saint Selena in order to summon the fallen Nighthawks in the battle against the True (False) Creator, saving Tingen.

to be honest, it was AOTS. AOTY, even.

>>288880709
>they went a bit overboard
This is misleading as it implies any competency. Season 1 felt like a lot of clueless people who don't know what they are doing were involved in it. It's a big and expensive project for a beloved, domestic IP, it's jarring that nobody politely pointed out how shit it was turning out to be during production.

>>288880236
>She looks pretty much like in the fanart
It's probably the missing veil. I've gotten too used to that in all the official and fanart.

>>288880847
>Exec hears about the "3 episode rule"
>Mistakenly believes that means "'aura farming' moments need to happen within the first 3 episodes"
>Irreversibly ruins the starting pace of the entire story
Absolutely wild. How does this even happen. The 3 episode rule means a show's first 3 episodes need to be good, not that they need to maximize meaningless key jangling. The opposite lesson. Insanity.

>>288880847
>>288880960
The producers didn't do this. It's almost entirely Tencent suits that are at fault because they only greenlit 13 episodes for season 1 and also demanded the "3 episode rule" as a contractual obligation.

>>288881381
>suits runing things
Nothing new

Season 2 will mog kiddy japshit and you'll bitch and moan.

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>>288874932
Fuuuck yeaaah! I can't wait! We eating good!

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>>288880473
I also liked it. But I've also read the book twice and knew what was happening. Pacing was fucked but I think it was done as well as it could be given their constraints.

so... should i watch season 1 right now

>>288881997
Might as well. We got a special episode this weekend, and we got two more next weekend. Read the book if you're further interested.

>>288881381
It's a total misunderstanding of the concept behind 3 episode rule though.

>>288881381
literally no evidence of this, but ok.

>>288874953
The episode was kind of cool but I don't see the point of it just being a single episode. It brings up this huge problem and introduces a new character, but then it just ends? That's it? Apparently the other episodes coming up have nothing to do with it either. What was the point?

>>288883222
The studio realized that they didn't fucking explain what the City of Silver is, or who Derrick ("The Sun").

Although they could have just moved this episode to season 2 when Derrick matters more.

>>288875339
>I read the book and didn't really understand this first special.

in the forsaken land, there's a number of hostile conditions besides no sun. people born there suffer a curse, where if they are not killed by a blood relative they turn into a monster. that is why derrick was forced to kill his parents why were fatally wounded on patrol.

the white hair badie shepard lovia is a rose bishop. rose bishops specialize in magic that's more along consuming/transforming/manipulating flesh and blood. rose bishop sequence is a part of the hanged man pathway, which is the true creator's pathway. i'm sure you can see why derrick who is part of the tarot card club will find himself at odds with lovia the rose bishop.

>>288883368
ah, that makes sense. The white haired girl wasn't mentioned in The Clown, only the curse and the the city itself.

(I've only just finished The Clown.)

>>288883250
>Although they could have just moved this episode to season 2

i fully expected the special episodes to be like 1 hour long so that all the shit they missed or outright cut out could be explained. imagine my disappointment when i saw the episode timer.

i have friends i watch the show with who just watch it because the quality is great, but i sound like a fucking schizo trying to explain obscure elden ring lore or forerunner terminals from halo 3.

>>288883438

if you're watching crunchyroll release, it also doesn't help they didn't translate the on-screen text character introductions. shit is so bad i learned to use aegis to fix the subs for my friends.

>>288883250
Thanks. Honestly I'd need to rewatch to even remember they mentioned that back in the original season.

>season 1
>12 episodes
>season 2
>30 episodes

Explain.

So... when are the next two specials?

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>>288883887
This coming weekend allegedly.
>>288883846
Tencent gave them the greenlight apparently.

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READ!

I don't fully understand what's going on but I enjoy the Bloodborne aesthetic

>>288885170
If you have questions, ask away. If it's not a spoiler, someone will answer.

>>288885274
nta by why did DUNN SMITH had to sucky suck dudebros blood when he died?

>>288885430
I think it's implied but not outright stated. When one of the Nighthawks falls, Dunn Smith has been consuming their Beyonder characteristics to keep a part of them with him. It's very unhealthy and dangerous, but he was getting better towards the end.

>>288885474
taichou.....

>>288883846
>season 2
>30 episodes

i genuinely hope they subdivide season 2 into cours and do a better a job of compressing characters/plot arcs. as good as the animation of season 1 is, if they butcher faceless into a similarly mess as they did clown it could make or break the series.

>>288882409
Not only is there no evidence, it doesn't really change anything.
Whatever the reason is it's still a shitty train wreck and why should I care about a shitty train wreck getting a second season?

I haven't read Lord of the Mysteries yet but I did read a couple of clones with female protagonists (Dorothy's Forbidden Grimoire and The Speedrun Manual of Miss Witch) which copy the Lovecraftian Victorian setting and the paths power system. My question is how good are the girls in the original LOTM and how much focus do they get? I don't mind a male protagonist but having good girls around as well is very important to me

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Does the "curse" just come from the fact that they're making everyone beyonders or is it something separate?
Given the sort of setting this is, I'm half expecting that somebody set up this whole society just so they could farm a million copies of low-level beyonder drops for the ritual or potion they needed.

>>288885274
How strong is the teacher? Having a crazy backstory out of nowhere was cool but damn.

>>288888250
Something separate.

>>288888501
He's a Sequence 2 of the Death Pathway, Death Consul. He is really fucking strong.

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I really love the power system, it's really cool.

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>>288876454

>>288887805
>having good girls around as well is very important to me
Besides the Tarot Club women, Klein does not really interact much with women besides a couple of them. Most important characters are men.

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>>288876675
Get rid of all CCP censorship.

>>288876175
You haven't read enough then. Eventually it just melts into the same tropes and you come back to anime and manga for its pleasant visuals and uncensored creativity. If you want psychopathic MCs then wuxia is better though.

>>288889391
He'll literally spend the entire season 2 followed by a cute ghost girl.

>>288889499
>the entire season
More like 3 days or something like that.

>>288883846
they made a 10 year plan to adapt everything

>>288889786
Chinks love their x years plans.

>>288874932
not anime

>>288890034
and you're never going to be a woman

>>288889440
Reverend Insanity will be unbanned btw, so the censorship will end.

>>288890578
it's still banned, but the author is allowed to post it elsewhere now
the question is whether or not he will since it will undoubtably sour his relationship with qidian

>>288889167
Which one is seer?

>>288890578
>Reverend Insanity
Is total unapologetic garbage.

>>288890944
Second row, rightmost image.

>>288890960
Why do you think it's bad?

Is this crap any good? There are fewer and fewer series with good writing, and the good ones are left unfinished (sangatsu s3 when?). The trailer looks good enough for a chinese production

>>288890996
The source material is good, the 1st season is quite rushed however, but still good imo.

>>288889489
Psychopathic? I've never heard of them, again those are Xianxia webnovel stuff, you guys are making me more and more depressed.

Wuxia: Martial art, sword art, internal energy, brotherhood, chivalry, romance.
Xianxia: Immortals, deities, cultivation, lone wolf, sigma male, doesn't afraid of anything, no romance.

Read Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng.

>>288891021
Add poison in Wuxia.

>>288891021
Oh you mean the boring crap. Opinion discarded.

>>288891136
Nigger I will shank you.

>>288890979
In my optimistic estimate, half of it filler. Author really "worked really hard" to grind that word count up. It's a common occurrence and comes with the territory for serialized webnovels, but holly fuck... You can just delete whole chapters here sometimes. Author will explain the same extremely mundane thing over and over... And then do it again after another 3 chapters.
>water is wet?
>water sure is wet
>but is water truly wet?
>i guess water really is wet
Fucking dollar store Socrates.

The world doesn't really make much sense either. Maybe bending time and fate with his super rare exclusive dues ex cicada is pretty cool, but your regular gu masters bellow tier 4 are gimmicky chumps that require a wall-mart tier logistics to support themselves and their party tricks. Medieval knights pale in awe at how utterly stupid and inefficient that whole fictional system and society is.

MC also is something else too. A modern man who has seen the wonders of highly cooperative societies now starts larping about being a strong independent woman™ when gu cultivation is the most codependent power system that amateur writing community has ever seen.

Why did this shit ever gain traction? Why is it so popular? I'm not a big fan of LotM, but at least I can see why it took off, but Reverend Insanity is such a giant pile of crap that I'm baffled.

>>288891136
I don't even know where to start, look, any stories nowadays, how good it is depends on how much they resemble those classics. Even you edgy archetypes where do you think it came from?

>>288891021
>Xianxia
>no romance
Come on now, there are tons of them but they're for women and it's more xian and less xia

>>288891229
>your regular gu masters bellow tier 4 are gimmicky chumps that require a wall-mart tier logistics to support themselves and their party tricks
Not really since usually low level gus need to be fed like once a year. The wine gu was special because it needed as much wine as possible to increase the aperture.
>A modern man who has seen the wonders of highly cooperative societies now starts larping about being a strong independent woman™ when gu cultivation is the most codependent power system that amateur writing community has ever seen.
A level 6 gu master is above all rank 5 gu masters, only a rank 6 can fight a rank 6. A venerable is above all rank 8 gu masters, only another venerable can fight a venerable. In a world where a single person can overcome the entire society, what purpose is there but power? While it's true that the power system is codependent on others, Fang Yuan believes that as long as he is not the one on top he will always be controlled by others more powerful than him, and you can see this by looking at the Heaven's Court (the "good guys"), where you are forced to give up your aperture and future to join.
>Why did this shit ever gain traction? Why is it so popular?
Fun MC, interesting power system, few novels where the MC is a monster.

>/a/ - Anime & Manga

>discord jeets frothing at the mouth about chink anime

>>288890996
yeah its one of few (very few) good chink anime

>>288891289
Seriously, the live-action dramas are full of those adaptations. It's obvious why women like it, overpowered chad fails for one woman though multiple lifetimes. There are also many xianxia BL(danmei).

i got absolutely filtered by this on account of being a complete retard, i may give it another shot with the dub so i can concentrate on what's going on, chinese sounds wierd to me anyway its like someone whispering in my ear constantly.

>>288885430
As that other Anon stated, but to add - by that point you should know that beyonder characteristics (main potion ingredients) are condensing after person dies. What Dunn did was consuming multiple "potions" that he already done, as he's at higher sequence. But the thing is each new ingested characteristic requires "digestion" - that is to act out the principles of the sequence. Acting method is a very guarded secret, but Klein found that out from Roselle's diary (IIRC) and mentioned it to the Nighthawk team. This is why they had to swear on the holy sword that they won't reveal it to others. With Dunn acting as a Nightmare (literally went into Klein's dream to eat the soup he made, lmao) he slowly regained mental stability. Unfortunately it was much too late as the Pen already wrote the finale. I think it was also mentioned by "it" as the guy behind it revises the script

>>288891308
>few novels where the MC is a monster
Is he even that? He's not even strictly immoral. At best he's amoral larper who has to excuse almost every shady thing he has done in his inner monologue as if he's overburdened with guilt. Author can't go "the world is cold and the strong prey upon the weak" and then pretend that MC is extra super cold and mega ruthless when every other character is. In that setting he's a normalfag.

Anyway, I'm not hating on you or anyone enjoying it if you find it fun, but I absolutely am against putting it on any pedestal and pretending it's some sort of standard of good quality or an achievement of amateur writing.

>>288889499
and they do absolutely nothing together. Having finished the WN the negative that stands out the most is how the novel had the most heart in volume fucking 1 or 2 or whenever it was when Klein died. even subsequent moments are tied to that.

>>288887805
There are many girls in the series, most of them get some focus but only Audrey is treated as some kind of deuteragonist with the amount of focus she gets. They are usually nicely written and the important ones reappear often in the series, like next season's Miss Bodyguard.
There is no romance for MC in this series if this is what you are searching for.
>>288888250
This is kinda explained in ~season 6, but the full truth about it is revealed in the sequel series.
>>288888501
You should see him using incomplete power at the end of s2 and in the special episode on 28th.

>>288890996
It is good, even if quite rushed. Music is great, animation is good (some fights suffer from excessive camera movement) plot is great.
Unironically one of the few anime where english dub is fitting the Victorian steampunk not-england background.
But if you are going to watch it in dub, be aware that for some retarded reason they spoil one of the twists regarding power system in the very intro of each episode.

>>288891308
>Not really since usually low level gus need to be fed like once a year.
Opposite, Anon. Low level gu need to be fed often but with cheap and quite easily acquirable materials. high tier/immortal gu require very specific food but you need to feed it once a year or more. You can use food path to ease the burden of feeding them tho'
But no matter the rank, the more you use the gu the more often you need to feed it.

>>288892149
he shouldnt have died.

>>288892375
>Opposite, Anon. Low level gu need to be fed often but with cheap and quite easily acquirable materials.
I think you're right, but remember that if a rank 3 or 4 gu master has 3-4 gu's he's immensely rich already, most of them have a barely anything.

How's the sequel? I started reading a bit but to be honest I got burnt out on finishing the first one. I didn't connect to the new protagonist and just wanted to know what's next for Klein, but didn't have the stomach for a thousand more chapters

>>288892732
True, he was too precious for this world. If you read the books, you will find out the recurring joke with him where people (mainly MC) talk with him, then go outside his office and start counting. By the count of five you can hear him calling them back as he "just remembered something".
At least his memory lives literally until the very end of the series. Klein also uses Dunn the perfect guardian character that he tries to mimic till the very end of the story.

>>288892876
It's... ok...
Lots of fights, Lumian is not as good a MC as Klein.
Less mystery to the world.
China wank in the later parts.
I only read it to know what happens to Klein after his sleep.

>>288892876
Meh.
New MC is awful and halfway into the series literally stops being a character and turns into NPC with a pre-arranged route before him.
The team that MC gathers is full of non-character to the point that there's a spectator guy casting psychological invisibility so often that even his own teammates and MC forget about him. In a way that can be said almost about every new character in the sequel.
Too much focus of demonesses, Cuttlefish literally turns Franca into MC-lite and it almost seems like he regrets not making her the MC from the start.
There were some good fragments, but they usually involved characters from lotm. The twists are still great, Roselle is still the GOAT and some mini-arcs are great (like the Morora). Unfortunately the new group of enemies are retarded as fuck and get easily defeated, same with the evil gods cultists.
There is also sudden super-duper importance of China in 2nd half of the series that came from nowhere, especially apparent at the very end when it is suddenly the only way to save the world.
But my biggest gripe is how he made the Fool's dream so fucking boring arc. Jesus, it was painful to read.

>>288892986
>>288893019
Got it. It's a bit disappointing but it's good to know I didn't miss out on much
>only read it to know what happens to
Spoiler me. what happens? Does he ever come clean about conning the tarot club?

>>288892876
Lumian is a Hunter that literally doesn't use hunter abilities and all his weaknesses are solved by the Inevitability boons.
The fr*nch is atrocious, CF even tried to make Lumian into Gehrman 2.0 at some point but it was so fucking cringe I almost dropped it. Even without it, he was an annoying cunt without the fun of good provoker like Anderson or the ease of bullying like Danitz. Not to mention that he was nowhere close to Medici in fun and smart factors.
I also had to force myself to finish some of the arcs, but at least the finale was fine. Not too great, but seeing how we got there? It could have been much, MUCH worse.

>>288874953
When will the English dub for the specials come out? I really liked it in season 1.

>>288893108
>Does he ever come clean about conning the tarot club?
Kinda but they've figured it out by their own and some later members know directly.

>>288893108
Lumian puts the pieces together while in the Fool's dream and forwards it to the Tarot club members during one of the times he was going back out.
They react like "Oh. What he was like now makes a lot of sense!" in a single paragraph or so, reaffirming that they are still loyal to him and then it's no longer relevant.

>>288893108
They find out that he's the Fool, but he's also THE FOOL after apotheosis so it doesn't matter, they are all loyal to him. After all he did help them all reach demigodhood and eventually angelhood
The whole dream has interesting concept of multiple forces trying to help win either Klein or Celestial Worthy to be the dominant persona. Enemies try to corrupt Klein with assassin potion, all while the Hospital is being a den of Outer Deities (mainly MGod/MToD) that kill and replace important characters in the dream with their own, corrupted versions. Meanwhile you have literally Evernight being a shopkeeper that sells items that can help our heroes (like a fucking Arrodes,lmao) or Tarot Club members that tried to help Klein but got permanently kicked out of the dream after being too straightforward.. There is also a mysterious helper for Klein that turns out to be Adam split into multiple personas. There is also a very cute character based on Rozanne that unconsciously uses her "evil" powers to protect others until it hurts her, fully channeling that inner Dunn. Unfortunately there is the whole plot how only Lumian and Franca are so special that only they can solve the dream, especially Franca who is also chinese.
Instead of solving the dream they spend most of the time working literal day jobs, salivating about how good the chink food is and how modern china is heaven on earth with all the technological wonders like cars or fridges, lol. They kinda get addicted to smartphones too, kek

>>288893393
Oh, I almost forgot - they didn't wake Klein completely. They literally created GehrmanGPT that takes care of real world stuff while TrueKlein focuses on the fusion with CW

>>288893286
>>288893322
>>288893393
That's incredibly lame. The fact that they all reaffirm their loyalty to him by the end is naturally to be expected but I imagined that
>the great and powerful Fool returns from his slumber... by the way I used to be mostly just a guy and I hung out with you guys in disguise a few times it was exciting wasn't it?
to make an impact on them and be very important when revealed
>>288893466
Wait so he's not actually back yet?

>>288893681
He comes back just before the Apocalypse, surprising and buttfucking every enemy force as he is now the complete LotM. CW agreed to surrender as they both knew that without lotm the Outer Deities will make sure to seal his ass forever. Even then, Klein had to sacrifice quite a bit of his humanity and after hundred of thousands years CW will erode him completely. Sanity is temporary, madness is eternal after all. Klein carried Earth-side (and finale) so hard it wasn't even funny. Why the fuck I had to suffer 7 vols of CoI for that one scene?

>>288892319
>they spoil one of the twists regarding power system in the very intro of each episode.
I dont remember that part, did they really?

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>>288874932
New official art for the special episodes

>>288894087
They spoiled that seq0 is godhood

>>288893260
I would bet a week after each episode, I think this was the case with s1?

>>288894106
oooh so thats a spoiler