AI localization company Orange Inc. announced on Tuesday that its emaqi e-bookstore service is adding 11 new exclusive titles this month. Eight of the new titles will be available through its “emaqi Premium” monthly subscription service. The company also announced emaqi‘s new feature, a “chat assistant” feature designed to help readers find titles from the service’s catalog, based on their mood and preferences.

emaqi‘s exclusive new titles are:

Title: Streaming Under My Control
Author: Yuka Tatami
Release Date: October 6 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Maiko Yamakage, who his looking for a boyfriend and a job, meets the gloomy and unremarkable Aya Masuyama on a dating app. As they talk, she senses his potential as a video streamer and suggests he start doing live streams showing his face, but… A story of a streamer’s growth, starring a positive woman and a negative man!! [E-book Bonus] Includes e-book-exclusive illustrations at the end of the volume!

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Title: The Soldier Groom and the Daikon Bride
Author: koma
Release Date: October 9
Synopsis: One day, Hana, a farmer’s daughter, receives a visit at her home from Homare, a young soldier in uniform. Homare then tells her that he came because he was informed today was to be his wedding ceremony…

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Title: And So, We Mostly Destroyed
Author: Ryokuji Yoshizawa
Release Date: October 13 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Humanity has been defeated. People have mutated into grotesque monsters that wander the streets, attacking anything in sight. Civilization is on the brink of collapse. Almost everyone has been wiped out. But somehow a father and his daughter have managed to defy the odds and survive… Enter a unique dystopian world imagined by the genius mind of Ryokuji Yoshizawa!

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Title: Shin Ikki Tousen
Author: Yuji Shiozaki
Release Date: October 16 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: The souls of the heroes who colored Three Kingdoms history are reborn in the present day! At last, the first collected volume of the acclaimed Ikki Tousen since its move to a new magazine! The stage: Nanyo Academy. And new transfer student Sonken is in for a brutal welcome on day one…?!

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Title: Kill Me Baby
Author: Kaduho
Release Date: October 16 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Wanna be killed by the assassin Sonya!? For some reason, Sonya, a girl assassin working for a shadowy organization, attends a perfectly ordinary school. And then there’s Yasuna, the fearless airhead who just won’t stop clinging to her. Together, this duo deliver’s razor-sharp killer gag comedy in 4-panel format!! These lethal knives are absolutely addictive!!

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Title: Song of the Thirty-Year-Olds’ Blues
Author: Kawakami Daishiro
Release Date: October 16 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Six friends reunite at their high school reunion at the age of thirty. They’d all found their footing in the real world and were living comfortable enough lives, but something still felt missing. Back in high school, each of them had a dream. Pro gamer, musician, comedian… Then one of them spoke up, “Let’s give our dreams one more shot.” So all six quit their jobs and moved into a shared house together. A story of passion, second chances, and adults who refuse to let go of who they were meant to be.

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Title: Time Traveler’s Disease
Author: Tsuji Yamuri 
Release Date: October 16
Synopsis: Mirai, a husband who keeps his emotions locked away, lives happily with his bright, sweet-natured wife, Meguru. But Mirai carries a secret he has kept even from her… an illness that throws him back into the past whenever his emotions swing too far. One day, Mirai receives a suspicious phone call… and 3 days later, he learns that his wife has died. As his emotions erupt, Mirai is hurled into the past, and he sets out to save his wife… A time loop thriller about one married couple’s future begins!! This digital edition reproduces the color pages exactly as they ran!! (*This e-book collects Chapters 1-8 of Time Traveler’s Disease (Single Chapter Version). Please take care not to purchase duplicates.)

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Title: Slow Loop
Author: Maiko Uchino
Release Date: October 20
Synopsis: “Lately, fishing has kind of been… really fun.” Hiyori is a girl who spends her days fly fishing alone by the sea, a hobby lovingly passed down to her by her late father. It is there that she crosses paths with Koharu, the daughter of her mother’s new husband form her remarriage. From this quirky little encounter, the two become “sisters.” Why not take it slow and enjoy some quiet time “fishing” alongside Koharu and Hiyori?

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Title: A Meal by Moonlight
Author: Santa Uonome
Release Date: October 20 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Genta Kono, 59, a former member of the yakuza, had been imprisoned for a certain crime. After serving a sentence of over ten years, he was released, but the world had completely changed since his time inside. Kono struggles every day to regain his independence as soon as he possibly can, when a young boy he’s never seen before appears before him… In a town beneath Tokyo Skytree, a former yakuza with a criminal record and a young boy neglected by his toxic mother deepen their connection over shared meals, despite the pain they carry…

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Title: My Maid Can’t Keep Her Mouth Shut!
Author: Ginmoku
Release Date: October 23 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: It’s good to be honest. Probably. When Shuji’s parents went on a business trip overseas, they arranged for a maid to move in. She’s cute, but can’t keep anything secret! With a clear, innocent gaze, she casually blurts out the most outrageous things… A normal teenage boy in his second year of high school is about to have his life thrown upside down living under the same roof as a girl who can’t help but say whatever’s on her mind!! The author’s first collected volume of a serialization originally released on Twitter. 

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Title: Orc with a Child
Author: Misora Riku (story), Saitani Umetaro (art)
Release Date: October 30 (emaqi Premium)
Synopsis: Seven years have passed since the all-out war between demons and mankind. Three elf siblings call a peaceful village home, and what should appear before them but a survivor of the demon race–an orc!! In a panic, the younger sister, adventurer Alicia, draws her sword, but the orc is cradling a human child… The orc begs the elves, his enemies, to “please save this child”?!

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There’s so much to potentially talk about in this double-length, final episode of the season. I could go on at length about Emilia beating up an elderly Alzheimer’s patient in the most creative (and likely best animated) fight scene that Re:Zero has ever had. Or I could spend time looking at Shaula—the tragedy of her life and the less-than-happy ending she is saddled with. And then there’s the ending cliffhanger where Subaru gets something he’s longed for since the start of season two—only to discover he’s only got Rem back in body but not in soul. However, rather than go into those things directly, we’re going to focus not on the individual parts but rather the thing that ties them all together: Flugel.

While the Pleiades Watchtower clearly has several purposes, the trials within were designed so that only one group of people would be able to overcome them—our heroes. The first trial is impossible if you don’t know the layout of Earth’s stars. The second requires an ultra-innocent, pretty woman. The third? Well, that seems to require you literally be either the Witch of Envy or one of those who sealed her away. And all this is before getting into the mabeasts, Shaula turning into a giant scorpion, the arrival of the Archbishops of Gluttony, and Satella just showing up whenever things go too far off the rails.

Or to put it another way, everything that happened since our heroes arrived at the Pleiades Watchtower seems designed to lead to this exact ending. Someone who knew the future (or perhaps someone who lived it as his past) must have been behind it—and it’s almost certain that this person was Flugel.

But more than that, between this season and Isekai Quartet: The Movie – Another World, it’s heavily implied that Subaru and Emilia are Flugel and Satella. At the very least, they look identical to the pair from 400 years ago. And while there are numerous details that seem to contradict them being one and the same, having our main pair (or a version of the pair from one timeline or another) go back 400 years into the past hardly seems out of the realm of possibility for a story centered around time travel.

If we go on the assumption that Flugel is a future, time-traveling Subaru, many of Flugel’s more callous actions make sense. He is trying to guide his younger self to the perfect ending—likely one he got close to but never quite reached. He only did what he did to Shaula because he knew she would get a happy ending at the end of it. Oh sure, she’s a tiny scorpion now, but once Subaru and the party of Capella, Subaru himself may be able to reshape people just as she has been able to. And if not, well, Flugel clearly turned her into a human once, so some magic has to exist that can do it again.

Likewise, while Rem might not be fully back, she is well on her way to being so. It’s likely her memories are either sitting in Roy or Rui’s stomach, and it’s only a matter of time until she’s fully back. I would even go as far as to guess that Subaru, Rem, and (I assume) Rui being teleported out of the tower was also orchestrated somehow by Flugel, as it prevented Subaru from meeting Volcanica—and thus revealing that Shaula isn’t the only person who thinks Subaru and Flugel are one and the same.

All in all, this season has been interesting. In some ways—namely the memory loss—it’s a retreading of what came before. However, the point gained from it all is that Subaru was always going to grow up eventually. At some point, his actions would cause him to hit rock bottom, and he’d have to force himself to become a better man. And, as a whole, none of our heroes come away having fully accomplished their goals, but all are closer to getting them and have come more to terms with their current situations.

Where do things go from here? I have no idea. But with one girl who has no idea who this weirdo is claiming to be her hero and another who is a Sin Arch Bishop fresh off a battle to the death with herself, I fear things for Subaru will be anything but easy.

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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Makoto Morishita‘s Sudachi no Maoujou (The Fledgling Demon Lord’s Starter Shop) manga unveiled an additional cast member, key visual (pictured), and second teaser promotional video on Tuesday. The anime is scheduled to premiere in January 2027 on TOKYO MX, MBS, BS11 and other stations.

Youhei Azakami (Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri 2nd Season) is joining the cast as Ash.

Jun Taira is directing the television anime at Project No.9. Keiichirou Oochi (5-toubun no Hanayome) is handling the series composition and Katsuyuki Satou (Mamahaha no Tsurego ga Motokano datta) is designing the characters, while Takurou Iga ([Oshi no Ko]) is composing the music.

Morishita began serializing the fantasy comedy manga in the Monthly Shounen Magazine in October 2021. Kodansha published the 13th volume on July 16, with the 14th volume scheduled for release on October 16. The manga has a cumulative 1.2 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Kodansha released the manga in English digitally through its K Manga service.

Teaser PV 2

Source: Animate Times