Anime, Manga, VN, JRPG, Related Things Discussion Topic CIII

I don't typically keep up with seasons or watch weekly... but ain't no God dang way I'm missing Panty & Stocking next month. I've been waiting fourteen years for this.

The hype for the Trails in the Sky 1st remake is increasing. I feel like 2nd and 3rd are more or less guaranteed, but ... the suspense is there.

Part of me wants to make a wild guess they'll definitely do 2, but then make an entirely different 3 that ties a bunch of things together. Then maybe the 3-as-we-know-it down the line.

whoa, Ar Ciel translation finally actually happened, and they hacked a lot of the online-only content back into the game. never thought this project would actually complete

it's the prequel to Ar Nosurge, which is kinda sorta related to Ar Tonelico. it's a weird raising sim/visual novel kind of game

I love when a translation just drops out of nowhere for something you've been hoping for.

Also, it sucks when you start a show and can tell it's gonna be a slog, cause the episodes feel like they're taking 3 hours each to finish.

it's worse when it's an episode that stretches 5 minutes of content into a whole episode, so you have entire episodes where just nothing happens

looking at you sakamoto days, turning a single chapter into four episodes

The worst kind of filler is spending half the episode recapping what happened last episode.

agesboy posted...

whoa, Ar Ciel translation finally actually happened, and they hacked a lot of the online-only content back into the game. never thought this project would actually complete

it's the prequel to Ar Nosurge, which is kinda sorta related to Ar Tonelico. it's a weird raising sim/visual novel kind of game

Sounds interesting.

keyblader1985 posted...

The worst kind of filler is spending half the episode recapping what happened last episode.

One Piece.

Holy crap the nostalgia that this show triggers
https://youtu.be/C5iv4nTUBmY

Catching up on apothecary diaries season 2 and the last few episode are really pissing me off. Why did shisui and that whole faction not just kill the old frail psycho bitch that literally everyone hates thats also guaranteed dooming them to not only die but even have their entire families slaughtered. Like bro, just fuckin kill her. Nah, instead poison the children and run for the hills to be hunted down for the rest of your life knowing your family hangs in the gallows. Like, how am I supposed to be sad for people this fucking helpless and stupid? How did this woman even get power? Suirei was willing to infiltrate the palace and try and kill innocent people, shisui was willing to poison children to death, they clearly can kill, fucking kill the woman. Jesus christ.

An unexpected low point in this masterpiece of a series but it stings quite a bit since everything was moving towards this end game right from the start.

Been staring at Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite for a while, so I finally decided to start watching it. Wasn't expecting that to happen. I'm on ep4 so far and it's definitely interesting, glad I started it.

Yo gquuuux is in bad fanfic territory now. Nyaan and Machu are such terribly written characters. Zero motivation except "omg that guy I had like 2 conversations where we talked past each other is so hot lets genocide earth so I can see him again maybe". Gundam really can't get down a female MC.

And then the rest of the characters motivations are nonsensical except maybe char .

It's like hey, remember how psychic cheat powers are the worst part of our human war drama? What if we actually just made that the entire plot and most grounded element of the series.

This also makes the 3rd series in a row where they build up to a war and then just, fizzle it out instead of having an actual war again.

I didn't really have super high hopes in the first half of this season, but the second half has let even those down. The next major gundam better have a fucking war in it, they've proven they can't do anything else.

gqux actually is hella good now

don't really get how challia can fuckin read minds now though

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Catching up on apothecary diaries season 2 and the last few episode are really pissing me off. Why did shisui and that whole faction not just kill the old frail psycho bitch that literally everyone hates thats also guaranteed dooming them to not only die but even have their entire families slaughtered. Like bro, just fuckin kill her. Nah, instead poison the children and run for the hills to be hunted down for the rest of your life knowing your family hangs in the gallows. Like, how am I supposed to be sad for people this fucking helpless and stupid? How did this woman even get power? Suirei was willing to infiltrate the palace and try and kill innocent people, shisui was willing to poison children to death, they clearly can kill, fucking kill the woman. Jesus christ.

An unexpected low point in this masterpiece of a series but it stings quite a bit since everything was moving towards this end game right from the start.

I think you missed the point of the (admittedly convoluted) plan. Going off the novel, at least...

The old woman got into power because of her sheer spite and everyone else's stupidity allowing it; remind you of any groups in the modern era? Shisui wanted to end her, but knew her clan was doomed before she had the chance to put any plans together. So her master plan was to have her half-sister look up revival medicine in the royal capital, but said sibling, being under the old woman's thrall, needed to make an attempt on Jenchi's life. So the next step was to use her close friend, Maomao, to lure Jenchi to the clan before Shisui: set fire to everything, used her half-sister's new, barely developed medicine on the children, drop a hint to Maomao, hold her mother captive, and make a few requests to Jinshi, whom she knew had more power than he let on. One of those requests was to let the dead lie, but worded in a way where, once Jinshi knew the children were not actually dead, they would be allowed to live their lives. The final request allowed her to fake her death; no body would ever be found while Shisui left the country to explore the world and start a new life. In other words, her plan was for her and those children to all survive the inevitable, because events had already been in motion, and some lives saved is better in her eyes than no lives at all. The fourth book ends with her using the hair ornament Jinshi had given Maomao to pay for passage to another land, out of the emperor's reach (I haven't watched the anime version of this ending).

I should read books 5 and 6 soon.

Entity13 posted...

I think you missed the point of the (admittedly convoluted) plan. Going off the novel, at least...

Yeah... OR, just kill the old women and then everything is fine. This differs in a key way from how most incompetent spiteful morons end up in power in that nobody is benefiting behind the scenes. Behind every kim jung un is a more competent oligarchy not ready to give up their power, which is why they rarely actually get into a conflict. Behind this woman's plan is people rushing to die losing all their power for no reason. It's the same problem with now and then, here and there's world, where literally nobody at all benefits from letting that guy remain in power and he's incompetent.

I would have to imagine if their clan killed the woman and idk, presented her head on spike to the emperor or something, their clan would be fine. Not to mention, Jinshi would have died in season 1 if not for mao mao being there in literally the last second. How does the plan shake out if that doesn't happen? The revival medicine isn't perfected, how does it work out if that doesn't work again? What if there's a guard in the gunpowder room or it's not all stored in one place (why the fuck IS it stored in one place, in a room with heat and fire?). What if they get killed in the attack? What if the emperor got word and led the army there himself (why didn't this happen btw?)? What if jinshi died in the attack? What if the kid's died from smoke inhalation because they set fire to the building? What if a lot a things? That plan is so incredibly reliant on coincidence when there is a much simpler and more effective plan of just killing the woman, who btw, is still going to die in the other plan.

You are also only talking about shisui. What about literally everyone else? Every guard in that castle is going to die and their family be slaughtered and they all knew that was going to happen and did nothing. In that one scene, the guard was willing to get punished, probably to death, instead of just killing the woman since he was the only one around with a weapon. It makes no sense. At the end of season 1 when it was clear some master plan was going on behind the scenes connecting all these seemingly unrelated mysteries, I had much much much higher hopes for what that master plan would be and who would be behind it. Someone like Lakan was a much greater villain (even though he wasn't actually). It's such a disappointing resolution.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

gqux actually is hella good now

What?

yeah dude, shit got wild

machu still sucks and adds nothing though

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I would have to imagine if their clan killed the woman and idk, presented her head on spike to the emperor or something, their clan would be fine. Not to mention, Jinshi would have died in season 1 if not for mao mao being there in literally the last second. How does the plan shake out if that doesn't happen? The revival medicine isn't perfected, how does it work out if that doesn't work again? What if there's a guard in the gunpowder room or it's not all stored in one place (why the f*** IS it stored in one place, in a room with heat and fire?). What if they get killed in the attack? What if the emperor got word and led the army there himself (why didn't this happen btw?)? What if jinshi died in the attack? What if the kid's died from smoke inhalation because they set fire to the building? What if a lot a things? That plan is so incredibly reliant on coincidence when there is a much simpler and more effective plan of just killing the woman, who btw, is still going to die in the other plan.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit

If Jinshi were to die in an apparent accident, like Maomao had prevented , only some more of the emperor's own people would have died and been ejected from the palace as punishment.

We simply don't get to know the details of any contingency plans, due, in part, to limitations in the Narrative (the whole series is 85% Maomao and 15% Jinshi.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

You are also only talking about shisui. What about literally everyone else? Every guard in that castle is going to die and their family be slaughtered and they all knew that was going to happen and did nothing. In that one scene, the guard was willing to get punished, probably to death, instead of just killing the woman since he was the only one around with a weapon. It makes no sense. At the end of season 1 when it was clear some master plan was going on behind the scenes connecting all these seemingly unrelated mysteries, I had much much much higher hopes for what that master plan would be and who would be behind it. Someone like Lakan was a much greater villain (even though he wasn't actually).

Four books, or two seasons of anime, tell us why people don't typically stand up against the heads of house, clan, or empire. This goes even more so for the common man, woman, and child who is raised to stay in their place and keep their head down; something that is beaten over our heads through the series. Furthermore!

Consider for a moment the clan kills the woman at the head of it all. Do you think this would be quiet if the people didn't choose to take this to the emperor? Do you think there wouldn't be an immediate investigation leading to countless more heads rolling that Shisui cannot control? All of the worldbuilding and politics shown until now gave us a picture of what would happen if the emperor saw anyone beneath his station kill a ranking member of society, let alone deliver her head on a pike, regardless of their reasons.

Entity13 posted...

I should read books 5 and 6 soon.

Where are the novels available at?

j-novel club

once a month they'll make a couple entire series available to read with a $6~ subscription, if you don't want to buy each book individually. i've seen apothecary diaries up on rotation a few times, usually coinciding with a new anime season

Entity13 posted...

Four books, or two seasons of anime, tell us why people don't typically stand up against the heads of house, clan, or empire. This goes even more so for the common man, woman, and child who is raised to stay in their place and keep their head down; something that is beaten over our heads through the series.

That's just too much for me to suspend my belief. These people are not devoid of brains or reasoning capability. And if they are that far gone, how am I supposed to care about them? We've seen multiple attempts at poisonings, common men trying to gun down prominent figures, convoluted 50 step plans to drop a piece of wood on a man of higher station. Nothing about this world so far has shown me the common man lacks audacity or the will to defy his "superiors", especially when the motivation is "everyone you know and care about will be publicly executed if you do nothing".

Entity13 posted...

Do you think this would be quiet if the people didn't choose to take this to the emperor?

Considering the emperor still hasn't done anything despite 2 attempts on Jinshi's life, yeah probably. Frame her death as an accident if you have to, or illness, or just talk one of the countless people whose lives she's ruined into being a sacrifice. Or just hide her death. Like, no plan could possibly be riskier or harder to pull off then the one they went with. If they do nothing, the stakes are everyone they know and care about dying. How could you possibly frame this any other way? Cattle waiting to be slaughtered, marching themselves into the slaughter house with years of time to think about it.

Additionally, I would really think that if the entire clan, besides one person, killed that person, and then explained the plans they had, they'd probably be fine. If not, there wouldn't be any prominent houses left at this point. The show focuses on shisui and suirei's role in this, but neglects that dozens if not hundreds of people are also involved in this plan, carrying it out to their certain doom for no reward. The fact they were able to keep such a large plan secret for so long seems a little odd as well but I suppose it doesn't matter.

Even ignoring the faulty logic, which could probably be fixed by making changes to the setup, isn't it just a lot less interesting? On one hand we have a clever mastermind, with knowledge of who Jinshi is, able to make a fake death medicine, and escape the palace. We don't even get a hint at who is pulling the strings or what their aims are. Then we find out that it's just some bitter incompetent jilted women carrying out a plan that has zero chance of working out of blind misdirected malice? It's just so, boring. Her aims are downright pathetic. I could accept it as a one off episode, but as the central underlying narrative, that had such excellent setup? Not to mention mao mao's role in this is entirely passive. She discerns nothing of value and is just brought around everywhere for several episodes as a glorified mcguffin to get Jinshi to act.

i have been reading shinewbie and it's like boring and kinda ass but it's like rly cute too

agesboy posted...

j-novel club

once a month they'll make a couple entire series available to read with a $6~ subscription, if you don't want to buy each book individually. i've seen apothecary diaries up on rotation a few times, usually coinciding with a new anime season

Oh I can't afford that.

Evil galactic lord and country bumpkin have ended, the first 2 shows of the season that I'm watching that have. Both were pretty ok. Evil galactic lord was pretty fun for most of it but it's hard to call it good. It's like that one prozd skit where the villain tries to be evil but accidentally helps everyone instead. Failing upwards kinda show. I really liked how he mastered the techniques his scam artist sword teacher made up to con him out of money only to be amazed he somehow actually did what should have been physically impossible.

Bumpkin is kind of frustrating but still decent because it has real european swordsmanship stuff in it, but only like, 1/3rd of the time, and usually they are slightly be importantly wrong about all of it. So like, it's really cool that they tried, but they missed more often than they hit. Extra frustrating because supposedly the manga basically always got it right and the anime just missed a lot of the important nuances. Story wise it's just another middle aged man is overpowered but doesn't realize it. This one is far more believable and the man less overpowered. All sorts of people 20+ years younger than him want to bone him and he is oblivious of it.

I also watched a bunch of cultivation donghua. I've just got the itch for it right now. Watched season 1 of jade dynasty most recently but also watched the first eps of a bunch of new shows (embers, over the heavens, demon's ascension, ling cage, probably some more I'm forgetting). Branching away from the greats in the genre (which I'm still watching weekly) I'm seeing some very common problems. My biggest issue is that they never explain the power system clearly enough. I got through all of jade dynasty season 1 and I have zero idea how strong anyone is. You got people with 5 years training holding their own against thousand year old immortals with no explanation for how and the characters never advance realms or anything else.

The greats of the genre generally do spend a decent amount of time introducing the power system and it's levels, it's one of the main draws of the genre. Mortal record, swallowed star, and battle through the heaven's remain the best, but soul land probably has the best and most well explained power system. Makes me wish there was an open world game of it.

Well, gquuuuux finished airing. What a fucking train wreck of a story. At least the last couple episodes had some decent fight scenes. All the way through the end, Nyaan never got a consistent personality. They all care more about Shuji and Lalah's feelings more than the 5+ billion lives that hang in the balance.

Also Shuji has killed over 1 TRILLION humans. What an insane feat. Not even the slightest hint of regret or remorse and the story doesn't really even acknowledge it.

Ninja and assassin wrapped up and what a show it was. Highly recommend. I hope theres a season 2 but it would be fine if they stopped here. So casually depressing and yet funny and oddly wholesome and hopeful.

gqux was good, but it was not as good was wfm

it needed a second season

Gquuux was terrible, even worse than wfm. Wfm needed another season or two to cook and had a promising episode 0 and season 1 finale, this show just needs canceled. Overall gundam been pretty shit for quite a while now. Thunderbolt season 1 was the last good thing I can think of but for full series, maybe AGE? That was just ok though.

just sounds like you don't understand what peak is

On the one hand, I'm almost positive they don't. On the other, I agree the latest Gundam series was far from good, with a tonedeaf ending besides.

Been rewatching the killed slimes for 300 years and maxed my level anime, so I could watch s2. I think I'll finish my s1 rewatch, but I no longer want to watch s2, so I think I'll look for something else. It doesn't quite feel like a slog to watch, but it's really not grabbing, so more of it seems pointless for me to watch.

dragon504 posted...

Been rewatching the killed slimes for 300 years and maxed my level anime, so I could watch s2. I think I'll finish my s1 rewatch, but I no longer want to watch s2, so I think I'll look for something else. It doesn't quite feel like a slog to watch, but it's really not grabbing, so more of it seems pointless for me to watch.

If it's the same series I'm thinking of, I got bored a handful of chapters into the manga. Like there were makings of something neat or interesting, but the manga couldn't deliver. Just a witch girl who was oblivious of how long she was grinding because of her previous life trapping her in that grind mindset, and then she ends up with a bunch of loli girls with bareboned personalities or reason to be there.

it's definitely a series you have to be in the mindset for slice of life for, they never stick on an idea for longer than an episode or a handful of chapters. her powers are essentially only a gag to resolve things quickly and get back to the cute girls doing cute things. which is fine, just misleading for a "ultra OP isekai MC" kinda story

it kind of reminds me of kuma kuma kuma bear but that one at least tried to do legitimate threats every now and then. everyone azusa surrounds herself with is already borderline unkillable

Going to wait for G Quacks to fade into the background before I give it a go.

I have plenty of Gundam 00 left to revisit, anyway.

New season just about to start. Lord of mysteries aired it's first 2 episodes and it's ok. I'm not hooked yet, but I'm intrigued enough to give it more time. Main guy seems to accept the situation awfully quickly though. I like how his most useful power thus far is the ability to read simplified chinese.

I'm currently rewatching grand blue since season 2 is about to start. Can't believe it actually got another season after so long. I hope it's as good as the first one. Was kinda weird though, I originally watched it not long after it aired and loved it, tried to rewatch with a friend a year or so later and it just didn't seem that funny, the friend really didn't get into it. Now, rewatching it alone again, I was right the first time, it's hilarious.

It's surprising to me that there aren't more college bro humor anime out there. In the west, it's obviously a relatively popular sub genre (stuff like american pie and eurotrip). I also forgot how much I loved the OP. One of the best summer songs for putting me in a good mood. Feels like it'd be perfect to listen to while cracking open a beer at the beach (if i could have beer anymore or survive a trip to the beach).

oh yeah, I've been playing the uma musume game, and it's pretty good. pretty different gameplay for a gacha game, it's like chocobo racing with a focus on ""breeding"" (finished runs give you a mentor that itself inherits its mentors stats, and new runs let you pick two mentors) and adapting to a ton of RNG events to steer stats into the right direction on short-ish roguelike runs

the balance is also kind of neat. character rarity basically doesn't matter and support cards determine all the random events you can get, and a LOT of your power comes from the 'parents', so you can boost any character into being a winner. my best run was a 1* (bakushin) so far and my worst runs are a 3* (rice shower). the real optimization is probably in getting the exact six ancestors' special skills inherited onto a specific horse with specific high-rolled stat/aptitude buffs but I ain't doin all that

I don't know why I haven't gotten around to Grand Blue yet; everything I've seen from it looks hilarious.

I'm making pretty good progress on getting my copy of Persona 5 signed by the whole main cast. Off the top of my head I know I've got MC, Ann, Makoto, and Morgana, and next weekend I'll be getting Haru while working at a convention.

keyblader1985 posted...

I don't know why I haven't gotten around to Grand Blue yet; everything I've seen from it looks hilarious.

I'm making pretty good progress on getting my copy of Persona 5 signed by the whole main cast. Off the top of my head I know I've got MC, Ann, Makoto, and Morgana, and next weekend I'll be getting Haru while working at a convention.

I think I screwed up and won't finish all the confidants before NG+

I feel like you shouldn't even try to do that first run, unless you're explicitly following a guide

.........or are cheating extra days into the game with cheatengine because you're a dirty little cheater like me

agesboy posted...

I feel like you shouldn't even try to do that first run, unless you're explicitly following a guide

.........or are cheating extra days into the game with cheatengine because you're a dirty little cheater like me

I followed a guide at first but stopped when I realized the guide was for vanilla. Then I screwed up by not just maxing people I could have right away by doing stuff like studying or wanting to see all of them before max ranking.

Soooooo.. time to start watching last season's stuff now that it's over
And I just finished S2 of Aharen Is Indecipherable , I honestly think it's one of the best comedy/romance series I've seen in a long time, the fact it had a proper ending that left me feeling satisified was great too.

zoro-1992 posted...

Soooooo.. time to start watching last season's stuff now that it's over
And I just finished S2 of Aharen Is Indecipherable , I honestly think it's one of the best comedy/romance series I've seen in a long time, the fact it had a proper ending that left me feeling satisified was great too.

I still have the last few episodes to finish up but I agree. Consistently funny and the romance is cute with minimal melodrama.

1 of the 4 best times of the year, new anime season. I've watched the first episode of a few things.

Clevatess had a double length episode and it was pretty good. Quite brutal with ok enough animation. I have a feeling the rest of the show might not be as good since this was like a setup prologue but I hope to be wrong. Easily the best of the 3 shows I checked out.

Onmyou Kaiten was ok but not great. Honestly kind of expected better from David productions (it's an anime original). It's technically an isekai but it's not fantasy. Main character is a delinquent that can and will fight and there isn't an annoying side character whining all the time...but it's not a delinquent anime. Somehow the whole thing feels kind of childish in a weird way.

Tsuyokute was also mostly fine although it's just a setup episode. Hero manages to defeat the demon king after much sacrifice (all his loved ones and over half the human race) and gets sent back in time to 3 years before the war so maybe he can do it better. The only issue I have is that he is not telling anyone what happened or that he went back in time. I'm hoping he does next episode but it feels borderline like a plot hole. He has this ancient treasure thing that is the one thing that could possibly allow time travel that had been lost for 1000 years (demon king had it) so his story would be very believable and his mom who he trusts completely explained the only way time travel could possibly work and he just doesn't tell her that he has the treasure or that he came from the future. There is zero risk in telling them. Supposedly this is 15 years old and actually one of the first isekai of the isekai boom so I should expect it to be fairly generic. Source material reviews are that it's kind of ok.

Nothing truly exceptional yet although for this season I guess that actually would be fine, since we have so many great sequels.

I_Abibde posted...

I have plenty of Gundam 00 left to revisit, anyway.

That reminds me I tried to revisit Seed a few months ago. The animation quality didn't hold up for me as well as the earlier entries in the franchise. There was just something off about it, like some lamp that infuriates me the longer I stare at it. Probably perfectly fine in the eyes of others, but I just couldn't do more than the first episode.

Entity13 posted...

That reminds me I tried to revisit Seed a few months ago.

I just played through that section of SD Gundam G Gen Eternal , and all the screenshots they used for the story bits were ... fugly, for lack of a better word.

00 gundam is probably my favorite gundam that i haven't watched, mostly because of super robot wars

and specifically gundam dynames

Watched the first episode of dan da dan season 2 and like, maybe I forgot that their powers were sealed or weakened or something but it was kinda infuriating to watch them just...not use their powers.

"How are we gonna get up there!". Bro, one of you can jump like 500 feet in the air and run up walls, the other one has psychic powers that can easily propel humans that you just used like 15 seconds ago. Like, I could have sworn the main cast was a lot stronger than this in season 1. Okurun didn't even use his powers once in the entire episode or fight scene or to help afterwards. All of the problems would have been solved instantly with the use of their powers.

When using the powers it was also odd. Momo used her powers directly on one of the dudes which completely wrecked him with no counterplay, then against the old woman that was dodging all the stuff, why did she not just grab her with psychic powers? It felt like one of those awful scripted losses in games where your party is actually much stronger than the boss but you just lose in the cutscene.

peak is back

ddd s2 is off to a bang

Dang, so many shows aired today and saturday is already the day most donghua airs.

Stunned hero - This show might be better from the hero's perspective. Dude was only awake for like 30 seconds of total runtime, just constantly waking up mid fight just to overdose from social anxiety and pass out again 5 seconds later after bodying someone. Funny enough show. Will keep watching. Something about the animation almost makes it feel like it should be extreme ecchi. Like it somehow reminds me of harem labyrinth or immoral guild in it's shot composition and dialogue but it didn't actually get sexual.

Scooped up by s rank party - I'm so sick of the banished from the hero's party trope. The only time it was done ok was the alchemist show last season but that was moreso good in spite of that. This show really could have just completely ignored that aspect and had him team up with the girls he ends up with anyway. The backstory of the character is also the classic trained by someone really strong that kept telling him he sucks so he thinks he does even though he is actually the second coming of anime jesus. Ugh.

Bad Girl - yuri comedy so thats awesome right out of the gate. We might even have a harem or love triangle or something as well. It was fairly funny and cute. One minor thing that bugs me about pretty much every yuri is I never feel like the girls are actual lesbians. They are only ever attracted to one specific girl and seem to possess zero lust for the female form. The only real exception I can think of is maria holic but they ruined that with the incapacitating nosebleeds. I have some hope for this one.

Finished my rewatch of grand blue in time for season 2 to start in a few days. What an amazing comedy. It just has fun vibes.

Checked out busaman. It was a fine first episode but I wonder how they will keep the gimmick from getting stale. Also damn bro that system is broken, he could have put his looks at max and just been a god from dropping his income rate low. You can just let someone else handle the money (if you even need it with near infinite stats).

Watched the first episode of dekin as well which is weird. I don't know if it's any good or not after that first episode.

Still got several shows with episodes already out I intend to watch. This season is just giga packed with stuff worth checking out.

Also WOOHOO mushoku tensei's next season in 2026. Return of formerly best girl as well.