Adventuring knight Laios Touden leads a small party through a seemingly endless dungeon, a subterranean maze full of dangerous monsters and precarious traps. Through the use of advanced magic, an explorer can sometimes be resurrected, allowing them to learn from past mistakes and give traversing the dungeon another go. However, when a powerful dragon eats Falin, Laios’ spellcasting sister, she sends her brother and his companions back to the beginning to save them from permanent ends.
Though strapped for cash and equipment, Laios resolves to fight his way through the dungeon and rescue Falin before she can be digested by the dragon. Despite some of Laios’ allies abandoning him, two remain by his side: elven mage Marcille Donato and halfling locksmith Chilchuck Tims. Due to their lack of funds, the party faces the daunting prospect of starving before being able to complete their quest. However, they find salvation in Senshi, a dwarven warrior with a penchant for cooking and safely eating defeated monsters.
With Senshi’s culinary expertise, Laios and his companions struggle through the dungeon while learning about gourmet dining—and each other—along the way.
taken from myanimelist
The anime is pretty popular. It’s the hardest anime nominated so far, but it’s also being read by the IMC so surely the vocab sheet from there will help somewhat. And it’s “some kind of adventure or fantasy to round out our genres.” And we already watched Campfire Cooking so it’ll help to review more cooking vocab? I enjoyed the anime. It’s a good mix of cooking, fantasy, adventure, and the characters are really lovable.
Pros and Cons
Pros
IMC is currently reading it, so some of the more common words in the series will already be on a vocab list.
There’s humor, adventure, fantasy, cooking…and it’s balanced well. The world and characters are fleshed out. There’s an entire ecosystem.
Characters are easy to root for. Who doesn’t want to rescue Falin?
The food looks good
Cons
Level 32 means it’s going to be a decent jump up from what we’ve been watching…but we can help each other!
Dialogue can be a bit fast
There’s 24 episodes, so it’s a long one
It came out in January, so people who saw it as it was airing might not want to rewatch it yet.
There’s going to be extensive discussions about dungeoneering, conversations about ecosystems and cooking fantasy ingredients. That’s going to be a lot of words.
Elementary school student Hotaru Ichijou has moved with her parents from Tokyo to the middle of the country. Now she must adapt to her new school, where there are a total of 5 students in the same class who range through elementary and middle school ages. Join their everyday adventures in the countryside.
Warning: Crunchyroll is listed as having this show everywhere, but that is season 3, Nonstop, only. It is not season 1.
Personal Opinion
It’s a cute and comic slice of life set in the Japanese countryside, which is actually a kind of unusual setting for anime. The everyday slice of life language should have a lot of stuff that’s approachable for beginners.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Uncommon setting in Japan for anime
Slice of life has every day language
You’ll understand all the Renge memes on the internet.
Cons
Availability is a crapshoot, Europeans will need their VPNs or nautical options.
Availability is confusing, if you just search non non biyori into your steaming service of choice, you’ll probably end up watching season 3.
In this anime, angels and demons need to do a year in a school in the human world. Our cast are angels and demons during their transfer year in the human world.
Despite being at its core a comedy slice of life about cute girls with a fantasy gimmick, this show really punched above its weight class largely due to pretty entertaining characters.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Entertaining slice of life
Entertaining characters
You’ll get to learn why someone is getting called Satania-kun in POLLthread
So poll typically lasts a week and then there’d probably be a few days to let people get set up so we’d probably be starting sometime around October 11 at the earliest? Sorry I somehow still feel new to the concepts of time and polling
I’ve been a bit sloppy with organising this because I’ve had a busy summer, but I’ll make sure to start the poll for anime 5 while anime 4 is still going on to avoid a repeat of this intermission.
Don’t worry about it. It took me 4 days to get the energy to make one nomination post, so I’m sure making a nomination poll with all the pretty links is even more effort.
If anything this gives more time to advertise in other threads or something.
Does a 3 way tie mean we watch 3 shows b2b2b before another poll?
I’ve created Natively lists for both the nominations and past entries and added them to the home post and current poll if anyone wants to browse that way.
のんのんびより is the winner. Since that’s my own nomination, I’ll run the club. However, I am away Monday to Friday, so I will start the first week on Saturday 20th.
Question: to nominate something, do I have to have watched it already? There’s some anime that I might nominate that I’ve only watched an episode or two (in English)
Not usually no, a general rule with book/anime clubs is that you need to be willing to be active and help, and watching along the club is one way to do that. I’m not sure if the anime club really pays attention to difficulty anymore, but having watched the show already would help with determining that.
Poll time again already? We do be shmooving. Which reminds me I need to watch the weekly のんのんびより episodes. After I watch the Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul fight
I really hope that Delicious in Dungeon will win, as I’ve started watching it in English and like it, but it is definitely a lot harder than the others… perhaps if it gets chosen, the club would no longer be specifically “beginner”? On Natively it’s currently L31, vs. Nonnonbyori is L20. According to natively that’s around N2 level, which is definitely not beginner.
That’s fair, we maybe should rebrand - we moved from being just beginner after a poll to allow more nominations because actual beginner level stuff was quite sparse.
