Not Red Reviews

I was expecting this episode to be as difficult as usual, but what I got was beyond my expectations. I’m very certain that the target audience of this show is the people who have already read the light novels and thus know what’s going on, because I’m pretty sure that just listening to dialogues like this would be a challenge for Japanese as well (judging from the comments on streaming sites and 2ch at least). You could go on saying that it’s only difficult for me because my Japanese sucks, but for some reason the book on international politics I’m reading for one of my classes gives me no such trouble… (nor any literature published after 1950 that I’ve read so far.)

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