I kinda lost interest in the anime tbh. I thought Delicious in Dungeon is really difficult to make into an anime, because its strength comes in a casual comment here or there that wouldn't really make sense to be included in a compressed show, but it's those moments it made the series for what it is. While a lot of DnD is macroaggression, how it handled racial microaggression is out of this world.
I make the So I'm A Spider comparison a lot. I'm A Spider novel series stood out to me on how intuitively the writer understood sexual aggression and how violating that really is. That's something difficult to transfer over, especially the whole Analeit siblings dynamics. Because the Hero Julius can do no wrong by the cultural standard of the verse, the writer set up for novels ahead about how gross Julius was toward Yaana and still was praised for it, and Shun excusing it because "my brother". Then when _that_ happened, holy fuck. You know the writer was making a point there.
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