Umm, I never really found it slow even though I’ve watched the first season three times, so not sure I can really say… it does get to competition stuff in the first season if that helps.
So you’re saying it’s not just a trashy step-sister romance story?
I watched the trailer for this one last week and noped out pretty quickly. I just don’t get these kinds of setups…
I liked the first volume of ダリヤ enough to want to give the second a try, but I’m not completely sold on the series yet. Details that didn’t contribute very much to character or world building (like food and drink with no special or regional characteristics, for example) got very long descriptions that dragged the pacing down, while details about the magic and crafting system felt relatively lacking for a book about a professional magical craftsperson. But the glimpses of magic in volume one were compelling, and the book seems to be setting up a slow burn romance which I usually enjoy.
Because nearly everything it recommends to me (and ended up buying) have been horrible, except when it went with the safe bet of just recommending the next volume of something I just bought.
I think people might have complained about it, because the recommendations aren’t visible through the web interface anymore, just in-app.
Guess it’s just my musician background then, as I feared. Part of the reason it feels really slow for me is b/c they’re (understandably) explaining and going through stuff that feels like the alphabet for me… like watching ppl demo & pick instruments, learn about mouthpieces and how they work, decide on pieces, practice with metronomes for the first time, etc, is incredibly boring - even if it’s setting up chars and plot.
So between that, and a bit of aversion to the whole school concert band + music competition setting, I had a bit of trouble with it. Still, it did seem like it had potential to be a good story.
Yes - it’s the polar opposite (non-trashy romance). So far I’ve only had one cringe moment - and the other character involved also cringed and was like “uh, no”, and it resulted in increased backstory and character development for both characters… subverting a trashy trope in the process. (I mean, I like my share of trashy romance… but it’s nice to see something take it seriously for once)
That’s fair. I thought the trailer was really interesting, since it had a kind of slow, heavy, and introspective vibe… but not everyone’s cup of tea
That sounds annoying… I’d probly just completely skip those paragraphs
I often get bored as hell with those sorta descriptions… so that’s actually kinda encouraging
Skipping text is such a wild thing to do to me. My neurodivergent brain would be screaming at me that I need to read all the words, in order.
And mine screams at me that I don’t need to waste time on irrelevant, boring information 
- especially when it’s redundant (cough fantasy LNs). I’d never get through certain books without it. Like it’s not my problem an author decided to waste my time & attention on info I don’t want or need 
I usually resort to skimming tho, and don’t usually 100% skip, unless I’m really desperate. Some of it’s just cuz I already read so slowly. If I read anywhere near my EN reading speed, it might not be such a big deal.
Generally I agree, but there are exceptions. When I’m reading a book and there’s a sudden multi-page tangent about cooking food (cough 本好き cough) I skim so quickly that it’s borderline skipping. If I didn’t skim/skip through sections like that it could legitimately force me to a halt on the book for a couple days. Thankfully stuff so bad that makes me want to skim is fairly infrequent.
Though I will note that it’s not uncommon when reading in English for me to just skip over things some non-dialogue parts that my brain has just filtered out as unimportant. Only rarely do I actually miss something that requires me to backtrack. I still don’t do that in Japanese though since I can’t really tell intuitively what isn’t important.
Meanwhile I grit my teeth, buckle up, and read all the words. In order. It does stop me at times, though. I have a few books that I have half abandoned midway due to that kind of problems.
Maybe I should teach myself to do that…
On this note, I routinely use the “skip ahead 10 seconds” feature on streaming to get out of super cringe scenes in TV shows. I usually miss less than one minute of a TV series doing this (note: most shows I watch are around 12 episodes) and actually have success in finishing them this way!
A guy I know was horrified by this practice, but he was also baffled I’d drop a book or show I didn’t like and not look up the ending I lack a sense of completionism, I think 
I think I’d just yell at it, or like look at something on my phone in the meantime, so I’m not totally missing it
I mean if I dropped something, it’s specifically because I don’t want to complete it, and probably want to completely block it out of my memory… or I was bored. Neither of those incentivize me to look up the ending
I think the most interesting story of the current season is 異世界失格 S1, so far. Not sure, how it will turn out, though, as it’s not far in yet.
Ah, I do close my eyes and go (literally) “lalala” over those scenes (to my spouse’s consternation if we are watching together).
I sometimes do the same thing with books, but it does work as well.
I never thought of checking the ending of a book I drop 
In general, when I am at the point of dropping a book, it means that I just can’t be bothered with that book anymore, so I don’t really care about the ending…
The only thing similar that I did was to check a summary of the next volume when I was considering to drop the Re:Zero series. The summary convinced me that it was indeed time to stop.
It didn’t convince you that you’d already read 10 volumes too many?
I blame the bookclub on WK. Fans of the series kept telling me “wait! It will get better! It’s all buildup for something that happens later!”. Then the thing happened, I hated it, and dropped the series. I would have stopped around volume 4 I guess without them (and probably volume 1 nowadays, since I am more familiar with LN tropes and can recognize what I am going to hate).
What’s the thing?? (feel free to spoil me)
I’ve been struggling for a bit to find something to live in my short anime/drama spot (as opposed to my long anime spot that is now taken up by Inuyasha).
I think I finally found it.
I’m a sucker for a sports anime, and this starts with someone struggling (instead of the more common episode 7 or 8 injury/crisis of faith), has an owl, and a hot mentor guy. I’m sold.
In case you want to ease the length for Inuyasha: Inuyasha Filler List | The Ultimate Anime Filler Guide (I love that show, but it’s long enough lol)
ツルネ has been on my list since September… I should try watching it at some point
Memory’s fuzzy at this point, but the main character (who’s extremely annoying) gets thrown into a magical challenge that forces him to overcome his past trauma. So we get to see some of his life before he got isekai’d, which “explains” why he is such an a-hole. And like, okay? But that does change the fact that he is an a-hole, though? He is still unbearable even if you justify it. Plus, since he overcame his trauma, shouldn’t he get better from there on? I do get that it may take time, force of habit and the like, but nah, no progress whatsoever. And finally, his “trauma” was a whole lot of nothing anyway. In real life I wouldn’t judge because, well, we can’t really chose how things affect us, but in fiction? I’m 100% judging him.
Hmmm, it’s been a long while since I watched the series at this point, but that sounds like it may be within what the anime covered. Too fuzzy to have an opinion on this point tho. Thx!
Yes, it’s supposed to be part of the second season.
