I have read most of the manga for this series, but had a lot of fun with the series based in large part to the great VA work. Rys, Uliminas, and the other hero character were all fantastically acted.

I am guessing it is a pun based on my limited knowledge of the language. I never knew before why the lily flower was synonymous with yuri relationships, but I just looked it up and it’s because the way you pronounce the kanji for the lily flower (百合) is yuri (ゆり) and the lily was traditionally associated with women’s purity in Japan. Then, in the 70’s, it was used to describe lesbian readers of a BL magazine by the editor and it kind of took off from there.

The title is written as リリィ which is “riri” (or lily) but written a little weirdly with the small ィ at the end. I don’t know enough about the nuances of katakana to know the significance there. I am guessing that the Lily part of the title is literally correct, but that the target audience is supposed to get the second meaning implying yuri.

Then again, I am not a native Japanese speaker…so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lol, that’s a good way of putting it. Even when Hiiragi is all ready for it to happen, we can’t because we need to have a serious talk about our future instead.

There was even a moment in this chapter

This is what made me think about it. So many wasted opportunities. Before this festival, I remember thinking that the test of courage they were on was another good opportunity.

Is this the end of the cultural festival then? A little part of me was hoping that Kuzuhana would get the chance to speak her feelings to Saotome since the festival/fashion show has been so important in the series previously. Alas…

Yeah, I was surprised by this too. The character almost always has a box of fries in her hand in the manga, so it makes sense that she is associated with fries. However, like you said, if this is a trade association meant to promote fries, then it is questionable whether this is actually helping.

Now I can’t unsee Zelda in this character design…

I skimmed the article a little too quick and initially missed that this is not just about a game, but an anime project as well. Very little info on the anime portion of the announcement yet. I would assume the voice cast would be remaining the same at least.

This season was over way too quickly. Here’s to hoping that we get more Konosuba soon.

@rikka@ani.social

Yeah, I fully expect the final volume to print with a mirror finish on the front cover. Something like TIME magazine did back in 2006.

ANN Article

That makes sense. The “announcement” that happened seemed really weird. I am going to edit my post about it to reflect the change.

She is the definitely the most fun of any of Ars’s retinue. Things are never boring with her around.

So, I can’t say that I fully understood the end of that chapter with somebody setting up the situation to come and rescue the Drancam kids. However, I assume they were also in contact with the information broker that was probably playing both sides to set up some kind of confrontation.

We are only 22 chapters into this series and the way these two have grown closer together has felt so extremely natural. So many other series could take note that you don’t need grand gestures or contrived situations in order to have two people fall in love with each other. It can be just as simple as walking home and spending time together.

What a great series.

Feels like a bit of a letdown compared to the confession, though tender moments are always appreciated. I was looking forward to word spreading through the other characters.

Just quickly read this series and the end of chapter 1 really caught me off guard and changed everything. A really well executed twist. Looking forward to more.

Meta comment:

I am doing some updates to the bot. I just implemented a language option to help our colleagues from the Myanmar community in !aum@ani.social that are planning to run their own version of the bot. I am guessing that I will need to do some further updates here as I probably baked English into the bot in a lot of places they would like to change it. Let me know @w_tree@ani.social!

The next thing I have started working on is a way to create an organized list of all the shows that the bot is currently monitoring even if it isn’t making posts for them. This was a requested feature to provide a reference for people that might not know if a show is requestable from the bot or not. My current plan is to have this be a page on the wiki that is updated automatically and include a link to that page in the sidebar as well as in the post of recent threads. I think with some clever scripting I can make the wiki be auto-updated…but it is as yet unproven.

The milestone after that is to further tweak the way that shows/episodes are sorted in the pinned summary post of recent discussion threads. I had been kind of banging my head against a wall for a way to sort things nicer, but I had some ideas after taking a fresh look at the code after a break, so I hope that it won’t be too difficult.

As a sidenote, I set up a kanban organizer for myself to help keep track of all the lemmy/bot stuff I have going on (Vikunja specifically). So far, I have really liked it and expanded to use it for other things. The experimental Android app has worked flawlessly as well.

Tagging @zabadoh@ani.social since I had talked with you about some of this in past threads.

I felt like we could use a new version of this post as we are moving toward a new season and I am going to be making some updates to the bot. So, the comments about formats in the previous version of this post would be out of date.

Note: there are no changes to this post formatting compared to the previous one yet, but I am actively working on it.

I posted about this series before in the weekly threads, but I wanted to highlight this chapter because it was super cute. I have been really enjoying this series so far.

I am in this panel, but I don’t really mind it: