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--- lb:allison [2025-09-07 18:53:48] – [Episode 2: First Impression Part 2] ninjasr
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 ====== Allison ======
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 **アリソン**(Allison) is a Light Novel about two teenagers in a world with two continents split right down the middle that are eternally at war until the end of the first light novel.
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 The reason this isn't that big of a problem is that the series is only 4 volumes total, so it just //barely// overstays its welcome.
-Besides that though? Yeah, it's alright. I think the worldbuilding actually //kinda// works if we take the intended theme (which is [[lb:Japanese Kumbaya]]-related) into account...as it kinda makes sense. The issue is that past the first volume, there are serious issues with the worldbuilding keeping everything in order...because, while it makes sense in that initial volume's premise...it //doesn't// make sense longer-term.\\
+Besides that though? Yeah, it's alright. I think the worldbuilding actually //kinda// works if we take the intended theme (which is [[lb:Japanese Kumbaya]]-related) into account...as it kinda makes sense.((:fn:>Though while watching the anime, I noticed an EVEN BIGGER issue with the worldbuilding: the <wrap spoiler>mural</wrap>.\\ <wrap spoiler>The mural cannot exist because, presuming it's from the Stone Age, there is no way in Hell that the two symbols (of the two continents) could have survived into the modern day. It just isn't possible.</wrap>)) The issue is that past the first volume, there are serious issues with the worldbuilding keeping everything in order...because, while it makes sense in that initial volume's premise...it //doesn't// make sense longer-term.\\
 My personal approach would have been to treat the first volume as a one-off/pilot/preview like you sometimes see with manga. Then I would have taken the time to work on the worldbuilding a bit more...and then I would have continued.\\
 But that's why I said it just //barely// overstays its welcome.
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 ==== Anime ====
 There //is// an anime which adapts //both// //Allison// and //Lillia// into a single series...which is an interesting choice. I've had it in my backlog for a while and I've been intending to watch it for a while...initially I avoided it because I wanted to finish reading //Lillia & Treize// first...but that ain't happening for a while, so it might be the only way I experience //Lillia//'s story.
-==== First Impressions (of Episode 1) ====
+=== First Impressions (of Episode 1) ===
 I decided to watch the first episode today (2025-08-28) and my first impressions (not having finished the episode) are...lukewarm.
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 I'm going to stick with the series, though I'm not particularly impressed.
-==== Episode 2: First Impression Part 2 ====
+=== Episode 2: First Impression Part 2 ===
 I forgot to mention it in the previous one, but they left out the bit where Wil's teacher is a straight-up nationalist racist, which is actually thematically important to the whole Japanese Kumbaya thing. I was also looking forward to it just because I wanted to hear it spoken.
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 Well, I'll add this last bit now: they left out the part where the old lady explains how they're supposed to act in those elite uniforms...so we'll see if they compensate for that or not.
+=== Episode 3: Revenge of the Impressions ===
+I remembered that they just don't address the language stuff at all. It's a thing in the LN that Allison and Wil can both speak the languages of both continents, which is how they can blend in no problem.
+Also, no, they don't explain the stereotype of the royal guard at all.
 ===== Speculah & Analysis =====
 ==== More Allison! ====