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Well, there is Ariel from "Is this a zombie?". She isn't technically middle age as she is suspected to be over 100 years old. But I'd guessing magical girls aren't supposed to age past being a teenager. To some extent you could also include Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura - or more specifically her cameo appearances in XXXHolic/Tsubasa: Reservior Chronicle as she is old enough to have had children by that point.

I've been trying to watch the new GXP series. It's hard going - much like the later seasons of Tenchi Muyo. The main problem being it includes people/events from the novels and I keep having trouble following who/what they are talking about. Anyway, my vote if for Mari Tomita from Air Gear. Despite being constantly being paranoid that men are going to molest her, she has a tendency to act very erotically.

Sounds a bit like Isekai Transporter: https://mangakakalot.com/read-dp8xn158504983443

I think it's supposed to be Lunch. A lot of the characters in Dragon Ball have a food based naming scheme.

I'm going to say Momoka and Tamama from Sgt. Frog. Both vary between innocent and polite to being homidical - generally it's a matter of having their rage button pushed though.

Does anyone know how many episodes Naruto went for if you cut out all of the filler episodes?

I know two decades ago that political correctness wasn't nearly as prevelant as it is today. But how the [insert expletive here] did that dub ever get approved?

I tried starting to watch One Piece on Crunchyroll (lord knows how long it would take to catch up). For some reason it kept changing my language preference to Spanish so I gave up.

My preferences run in this order: 1) A well done dub - ie. skilled, professional voice actors that fit the character 2) A well done sub - ie. subtitled text is an accurate translation and has correct spelling and grammar 3) A badly done dub - ie. Poor audio quality or mediocre voice actors 4) A badly done sub. - Spelling and/or grammar seem to have been done by someone barely familiar with the language I'll highlight a failure that pushed one anime from a 1) to a 3) in my mind - the Negima!? anime, For some reason, they made Negi sound like a snooty young English professor. This was annoying by itself, but especially irksome since his character he grew up in Wales, not England. To make things worse, Evangeline sounded like a haughty English noblewoman. She was't English either though. They never indicate where she was from exactly but eastern europe would be more likely. If I have one minor peeve it's that some type 1) anime still has voice acting where you can't quite make out what someone is saying on occasion. Switching on the subtitles doesn't help since they are a translation of the japanese dialog and not the localised dialog that the actor is speaking.

From: Is this a zombie "You've already graduated from high school? Why am I always drawn to forbidden love?" Tulio Orito "It's especially forbidden by me" Ariel

The wiki page seems to indicate that the new one was effectively her daughter just with all of her memories and powers: https://tenchi.fandom.com/wiki/Ryo-Ohki She certainly acts childlike while growing up.

I think the most disturbing part of Tench's wives would have to be Ryo-Ohki. He literally saw her grow up from a little girl to an adult.

Wagnaria (aka Working) has a couple of odd ones. The main character starts working at a familiy restaurant because a small, cute girl asks him. But she is older than him and he has a dislike of older females due to his sisters. He doesn't end up dating her though - instead he ends up with the girl who has severe androphobia and who spends most of the series beating him up. Then you have a chef working there who has a crush on the chief of staff even though she spends most of her time talking about the manager (another woman) who she has a crush on.

I've been trying to work out if "Farming Life in Another World" is coming to Crunchyroll or not. A google search suggests yes and they do have news posts about it. But it doesn't actually seem to be available.

Something occurred to me last night as I started watching yet another isekai type anime. Why do so many of them have an adventurers guild that the main character(s) can join to start earning money and doing quests? At first glance it seems perfectly reasonable - an adventurers guild seems like a standard thing to find in a fantasy setting. But isekai/litrpg are usually based on video games with the idea that the main character(s) have found themselves in such a setting somehow. I can't really think of many RPGs where you have an actual adventurers guild though. Off the top of my head: 1. The Bards tale games. The adventurers guild was the starting point for each game IIRC. But that was just a place to create/replace characters. It didn't hand out quests. 2. The Elder scrolls games (Skyrim, Oblivion etc.) have guilds, but each are faction specific - mage, fighter, thief etc. They do have quests but they are for individual people or just for the guild in general rather than taking requests for the public. 3. Legend of Heroes (Trails in the Sky, Trails of Cold Steel etc.) has the Bracers guild but that requires training and qualifications to join and doesn't just hand out generic quests for anyone to take. Are there games I've forgotten or not played? Or is the adventurers guild mainly just a ploy device for isekai fiction to give the main character(s) somewhere to start?