I thought they would actually go back to the fight in Kaleneon this episode but, nope, fast forwarded through it. I still really don’t understand what Mio did to make the demon general a smol lizard… I assume it has to do with his reflection skill but… I didn’t remember or expect Mio to have won the fight by eating.

Mondo and Lime best bro duo this season.

They kind of glossed over it but the prince(ss) was expecting Makoto to be normal and like… blackmail her. That and Makoto turning down a full time teaching position shows it really does help to have a pocket dimension where all your needs are met.

What I was wondering if would get adapted last episode was (I wonder if we were talking about the same thing, wjs018), and Sofia is shown to be still alive! Oop, nevermind. Hard to not feel bad for her, Root definitely comes off as the villain here with his blasé attitude towards life, but perhaps that comes with living a very long time and losing everyone you get close to by being functionally immortal.

I had a moment during the party where I was thinking “Wait, is this the scene with… Right Mio won the contest… so will they adapt…” And yep, I feel like that’s kind of a bad scene to end on, as Makoto brushes her affection aside, comes off as prime dense protag to me, but at least they all get a last name so they’re like family, right?

I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the entire season, but doubt I’ll have enough time to go through it all to collect my thoughts. Overall I didn’t find the adaptation disappointing, but that might be because I have a lot of context with the WN, manga, and soon LN to fill in the gaps. I do wonder if things would be better if they went even more cut-heavy. Like people complain the students aren’t fleshed out in the anime, but are in the manga (so go check it out if you want to see more), but I wonder what if the anime just completely cut them out? Nah, that’s impossible, but what if… I’m not sure I’ve seen anything make that amount of drastic cuts though.

It was a fun ride, surprised it got a 2 cour episode season, and even more surprised it’s getting a season 3. I think over time this became my favorite isekai, though it’s very slow going there’s so much character and relationship development, as well as crafty antagonists and allies, that I couldn’t think of anything I’d place higher, so even though the anime adapation itself has been a bit iffy, another season is still something I look forward to