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This lines up with my experience with all of these series as well, with the exception of Demon King’s Daughter. I thought it was fine, but I think there are better cute SOL series out there. Like you though, I didn’t get too far in before I stopped reading, so perhaps it gets better.

I stopped reading Made in Abyss at a certain point because it just gets darker and darker as it goes. The worldbuilding and thought that goes into that series is phenomenal, but it just became a bummer to keep reading.

Also, glad to see another fan of TEIS. The manga version of the story is genuinely hilarious and I love how crazy they let the manga get. The LN and anime are much more serious by comparison, to the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru (a manga-original addition) before he was isekai’ed and became Cid (among tons of other manga-original jokes).

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Unboxious@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

to the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru

Me! That was me! After I read the manga I saw the first episode of the anime and it was kind of a bummer tbh. I was curious about whether that was in the original LN, so thanks for answering that!

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- wjs018@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The first episode of the anime threw a lot of people for a loop. It was content actually drawn from LN Vol. 4 depicting Minoru being the Stylish Thug Slayer. The LNs and manga don’t show the Akane-related content until they get to the LN4 part of the story. So, if you hadn’t read through LN4 when the anime premiered (the most recently released volume at the time), then the whole first episode was anime-original to you. On top of that, the first episode rolls the end credits early and then has a long post-credits sequence.
  
  Very mild spoilers for first 4 episodes of the anime
  Honestly, I appreciate what it was trying to do, but I think the way they sequenced the first ~3 episodes of the anime was confusing for a lot of people. Also, by having the Akane kidnapping in episode 1, it made a lot of people think that kidnapping girls is all the series is about due to both Claire and Alexia seeing their own kidnappings very early in the show as well.
  
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