Honestly I love Isabella’s lullaby, I listen to the piano version, the mandolin version, the original version, and now the harp version on the daily.
Also I’ve said this before but I always liked Isabella, like she was supposed to be the super bad villain feeding the children to the monsters but for whatever reason her character just kinda drew me in even before she got some backstory. But the backstory made her easily one of my fav characters
it was a nice watch the first time for me. the second time i was like ok its time for this and this and watch this trope and hey its time for a joke. fuck good memory makes watching things a second time almost no fun. but the first time was great as i did not know the timing or the pacing. if i give it a few years i might find it to be fantastic but the current me gives it a 7/10 ( also watched it in order of release both times so your millage may vary )
So I’m reading grimgar of fantasy and ash, and I like it I really do, the story is great and the characters for the most part are good, but the author, even though he has good ideas and shit he just can’t write. I don’t think it’s a lost in translation thing either he just doesn’t know how to write. Like he writes dialogue mostly fine but descriptions and events/scenes he really falls short on writing and it sucks because I know he’s got good ideas and I really enjoy the story. For example the scene where minato dies, I just didn’t feel a single thing, like he didn’t know how to explain what the characters were feeing or how to describe the scene at all, like he legs you know what’s happening and you know it’s a sad atmosphere but it just lacks the proper description to give it that emotional punch it needs
TLDR: the author has good ideas and at the very least can write dialogue but fails at descriptions and other more subtle things like ambiance and atmosphere.
welp i was almost able to say give the author a few years and he might grow to be better but hes been at it for 15 years. but at least his choice of illustrators is decent. in cases like these the manga usually is better than the light novels.
I liked the anime but a manga for a series like that would be mind numbingly boring, like harem romance series like that have to be short and sweet, not long and never ending, which is what I’m pretty sure @kat said, “no end in sight”
As long as it doesn’t press down on stereotype tropes I don’t care (like every romance drama that’s long enough gets to the point where extreme jealousy is introduced and the other guy/gal is just the most annoying jackass you can imagine). Hetakoi is one of those. It was annoying and unnecessary and felt like the author just wanted to stretch the manga.
Still need to see how Nisekoi ends now that the manga has finished.