Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru • Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing

Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru • Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing - Episode 1 discussion

*Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru*, episode 1

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Due_Cricket18852026-01-09 17:51

Of course he does

Careful_Ad_90772026-01-09 18:10

It was fun the first time when maple did it.

After that, it takes some writing skills to pull it off. The one I remember the best is the one where the mc unintentionally and indirectly maxed out his luck stat so all his vlbullshit works. And even that one has the added layer where the mc states that his knowledge is late meta, and the way the world natives act is consistent with early meta.

MFA_Nay2026-01-09 19:15

>The one I remember the best is the one where the mc unintentionally and indirectly maxed out his luck stat so all his vlbullshit works.

What was the name of that manga / anime?

Careful_Ad_90772026-01-09 19:29

it's the one wiht the clown waifu.

The Exiled Reincarnated Heavy Knight Is Unrivaled In Game Knowledge

funny thing I googled "clown waifu isekai". It's going to get an anime relased soon.

Toloran2026-01-09 21:23

The clown waifu was the one who maxed their luck, not the MC. Her spec is a luck/crit build.

The MC's build is more of janky-ish DPS tank build. The kind that's really good once the build comes online, but leveling it sucks and in a fantasy world where death is permanent, that's a major problem for most people.

Careful_Ad_90772026-01-09 21:33

Yeah, i did not want to spoil too much because of the sub we are in.

He had his game plan for himself, clown waifu was a happy accident.

Galinhooo2026-01-09 23:06

> clown waifu

I am sold

abandoned_idol2026-01-10 05:34

The story is actually pretty decent.

Plot is serviceable, even if it's just a Literary-RPG.

The manga adaptation includes a number of unique character designs (faces).

Characters... I like one of them (huge victory right there), and the protagonist is voiced by Tsukasa-sensei (best boy).

And...

That's all the objective praise I have for it. I'm looking forward to the adaptation by studio ~~GotDizzy~~ GoHands.

Soggy_Association4912026-01-09 23:37

> it's the one wiht the clown waifu.

In that series, didn't the MC fully intentional used his stat because he knew it is the meta and it wasn't luck at all?

Careful_Ad_90772026-01-09 23:43

Kind of.

His stat is advanced meta, like when the game has been out for around 5-10 years, while the humans in the Isekai use early game meta, from the first 1-2 years. But for the humans to use advanced game meta they'd need to be loopers or smt.

Now that's HIS tank build. He licked out/unintentionally for a luck build by teaming up/falling in love with clown waifu.

Daiwon2026-01-09 20:22

"The mc unintentionally and indirectly maxed out his luck stat so all his vlbullshit works"

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-10 07:03

The premise made me THINK he might actually struggle, but nope, episode 1, he's a toddler strong as an adult.

I'm guessing by episode 3 or so he'll summon the giant boars that take 20 men to kill! (that will probably give him 1 million strength bonus)

Torque-A2026-01-09 17:54

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Scrooge-McShillbucks2026-01-09 17:57

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abandoned_idol2026-01-09 18:16

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Scrooge-McShillbucks2026-01-09 18:18

Ahh yeah you are right, that is fair. Him doing mental math on leveling up.

AlphaBreak2026-01-09 18:08

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Torque-A2026-01-09 18:55

Surprisingly, not a lot of that. Everyone is aware of how big number he is, and he actively helps his friends also get big number

abandoned_idol2026-01-09 18:15

Do you like many numbers?

Arbitrary numbers?

We finally have the numberphile anime added to our catalogue.

MumrikDK2026-01-09 18:45

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Torque-A2026-01-09 18:55

Non-joking answer: it plays everything pretty straight, honestly. I can only count a couple times where a series introduced its game-like concepts and then broke them at the same time (for instance, a manga about a speedrunner who enters the game he runs and then breaks the whole game apart, showing all of its glitches and whatnot)

DugACCat2026-01-09 19:06

Surprised to hear a comment like this. Personally I really like Shangri-La specifically since it actually feels like games and played by an actual exploitative gamer. First of the game based anime I’ve seen that put the emphasis on the games being games rather than trying to amp up tension by having lives on the line or a gamer sucked into a game world as reality. Anyhow it’s one of my favorites. But I’ll try this one too.

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szalhi2026-01-09 17:57

*Dude got tired of playing r/outside.*

AAA_BATT2026-01-09 18:06

would've been much better if it was just called "Hell Mode" without the synopsis in the title gimmick

mekahamedan2026-01-09 18:18

finally one of manga on wishlist get adapted to anime
quite enjoying prolong story eps 1, production didnt feel that cheap (which pretty good for standart non hype booming isekai sadly)
hope studio didnt fall down till end of season

cs_cast_away_boi2026-01-09 18:18

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KiwiBennydudez2026-01-09 18:59

TyraniTEMPESTar2026-01-09 18:20

Pretty run of the mill, basic reincarnation first episode.

Except Allen's summon a grasshopper the size of his mom's leg, basically jump scared her into a premature(?) labor.

Let's see where things go from here once he gets his appraisal ceremony.

Zeikos2026-01-09 21:14

> premature(?) labor.

I don't think so, the baby didn't look premature at all.

LeonKevlar2026-01-09 18:23

Not gonna lie, I was worried for Allen's family the entire time. [Considering how sweet they are](https://i.imgur.com/gh76BUk.jpeg), I thought something tragic was gonna happen that would force him to start adventuring at a young age. Thank god that wasn't the case. We even ended the episode [with his little brother being born](https://i.imgur.com/8DELL5q.jpeg) and thinking that having a family like this isn't so bad.

As for the premise of the show itself, [I think the mechanics of his skill and his summons are interesting](https://i.imgur.com/8N2QQ2F.jpeg), other than that, this is pretty much your standard isekai tensei first episode.

I'm gonna give this three episodes to see if I'm gonna drop and keep it. I'm just worried that this is being animated by Yokohama Animation Lab. After what happened to Whisper Me a Love Song and the production issues with the last couple of episodes of Sword of the Demon Hunter, I'm worried this one is gonna suffer from delays too.

The_Parsee_Man2026-01-09 19:29

We've gotten so many happy family-tragic end first episodes we've come to expect it.

dont_trust_the_popo2026-01-09 19:38

First instinct i have "Oh no they're so nice, fuck they're doomed"

The_Parsee_Man2026-01-09 19:57

Well that mole of his can did graves nice and quick if it turns out to be a second episode fakeout.

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-09 21:37

Ikr? Was expecting the village to attacked by bandits or some hordes of monsters

no1foryou2026-01-09 23:11

I steeled myself for his family dying. When the bells rang I thought it was a monster raid, but it was it was just 3:00. Then the mom giving birth with no mid-wife ok she's dead- oh never mind she showed up. Hopefully he just departs with no incidents and gets to visit.

NanDemoKnaives2026-01-09 19:36

Lol whilst I was watching I was just thinking "Hopefully nothing happens to his father in the future" but by the end I'm thinking this will be the more lighter kind of anime.

justking14142026-01-09 21:19

This episode felt like more of an info dump, clarifying how the world works and why we should actually care about these people. Not the most exciting intro but it’s important to establish all this

Thomas_JCG2026-01-09 22:57

It's like that DND joke, every character gets some tragic story, but the last player is all "I come from a loving family and think that adventuring is really neat". It's good that we get something nice instead of the usual tropes. Though this is still the first episode.

JustARiverOtter2026-01-09 18:28

I never know what anime are coming out, so this is a pleasant surprise. Binged a few of the LNs a while back and stopped when I ran out, didn't pick them back up. Was actually thinking about going back to them then this pops up lol.

Animation actually looks decent, so that's a good sign. Liking the cartoony designs on the summons so far, gives them more personality than just straight animals like I was expecting.

Shmappii2026-01-09 18:41

Completely blindsided by remembering the OP sequence to The Great Cleric when this show's ED has Allen doing that same weird clapping animation loop. Is that clap referencing something else entirely or does this show share staff with The Great Cleric?

hosusuki2026-01-09 20:26

I remember that clapping sequence to, looking into anime info they are share same studio so maybe the director of OP is really like this clapping animation lol

cs_cast_away_boi2026-01-09 22:38

Haha I enjoyed that bit a lot! I was pointing like that gif with leo dicaprio pointing at the TV. like *thats the great cleric!!*

shadebug2026-01-11 16:14

Can’t be the Great Cleric team. There’s more than five keyframes in the episode and there actually seem to be characters and plot

Torque-A2026-01-11 19:40

A little late here, but it's indeed the same animation studio: Yokohama Animation Lab. And wouldn't you know it, the director of Hell Mode also directed The Great Cleric: [Makoto Tamagawa](https://anilist.co/staff/130008/Makoto-Tamagawa).

Megadragon8982026-01-09 18:47

I read the manga and i was really looking forward to it when i saw the trailer.

I wonder if he would have been a villain had he chosen demon lord? Love how he was so calm to being born again lol. I love the summoned creatures they are cute.

porpoiseoflife2026-01-09 18:50

Fuck it. I'll pick this as my trashwatch of the season.

DaydreamingIns0mniac2026-01-09 18:57

Is this on stream anywhere?

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-09 19:06

Hidive or other means

I_happen_to_disagree2026-01-09 19:06

Hidive

DaydreamingIns0mniac2026-01-09 19:11

Awesome thanks

oxlemf102026-01-09 19:00

I have to say, for an isekai, this is excellent. The fact that Allen has to evolve from the beginning instead of starting overpowered is a good point, and his family certainly adds charm to the story. I hope it can continue like this until the end.

aramatheis2026-01-09 19:50

It's nice. It's giving me Mushoku Tensei vibes but without all the perverted shit

wmansir2026-01-09 23:42

I was wondering if he was going to peep on his parents having sex before he opened the status book. To be fair I think the author was baiting the audience with that setup. Right before MC faked being tired he said he expected they would be having a second child soon, with the implication he was giving them some alone time to do the deed.

aramatheis2026-01-10 00:27

Yeah they clearly set up the peeping thing and he doesnt, nor do we see anything happening. And he also makes that throwaway comment "yeah breastfeeding is great and all, but". He's like the anti-Rudeus from Mushokou, it's refreshing

froggyc192026-01-09 20:02

I liked that even though he personally knows all the tropes, even getting his stats to show up was a struggle.

justking14142026-01-09 21:26

Agreed. They’re literally starting this dude off as a baby who can only summon bugs so weak that even his mom can stomp them out of existence with ease. But they’re also giving us some good forshadowing for what he can do if he’s smart. Just with his 2nd set of monsters he can already trick enemies into falling into pits and with his adult level strength he can then stab the trapped monsters to death

Galinhooo2026-01-09 23:07

Yeah, really good start

justsyr2026-01-10 00:24

>The fact that Allen has to evolve from the beginning instead of starting overpowered is a good point

If the 'cards' [at the end are his future cards](https://i.imgur.com/citPyT3.jpeg) I can see at least a knight kind of card, a... battle maid? lol, a dragon? I bet he'll be overpowered in no time lol.

AsterJ2026-01-09 19:01

The production is better than I expected! The studio knows how to keep things fun and lively.

The_Parsee_Man2026-01-09 19:08

'Hell Mode' turns out to be the least grimdark fantasy show this season.

Dude is one step from being a Pokemon master.

NoNameSwitzerland2026-01-09 20:18

maybe we should put him on hell's paradise with his current stats.

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-10 06:54

Not just the grim dark aspect, but the challenge;

*Hell mode, literally impossible to play no, stats, no leveling, nothing*

*"Hey, I'm a toddler who can split logs!"*

Earlier-Today2026-01-10 16:03

And yet still constantly loses to that neighbor girl.

Seems like normal players in the game would be much stronger than he is.

It makes me wonder if the neighbor girl is a player too. Also makes me wonder if he'd do better if his wooden sword didn't keep breaking.

shadebug2026-01-11 16:08

Presumably her talent will be swordsman or something so she’s just always going to dominate him when it comes to that. Doesn’t even need to be another player

PeaceAlien2026-01-09 19:15

Wonder if there are other isekai'd people

fractal_magnets2026-01-09 23:22

Imagine he meets someone on easy mode and gets one-shot

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-10 07:12

Throw a grasshopper at them

[](#evilgrin)

whores-doeuvres2026-01-10 08:55

Turns out the little girl is also a player who fights everyone in town every day to grind xp.

pandavova2026-01-09 19:17

Wdym "hell mode"? How is this hell mode with his parents being alive?

dont_trust_the_popo2026-01-09 19:38

You've never met my mother

NoNameSwitzerland2026-01-09 20:15

How I survived a harem with 10 mothers in law!

ESCMalfunction2026-01-09 23:28

That would be the most unbelievable anime ever made. Suspension of disbelief ruined!

Agreeable-Cap-26662026-01-09 21:11

Hell Mode: Handsome/Pretty Kind Supportive Parents with Cute Emotional Support Pets who Fight for You

Hmm... Something doesn't seem quite right

justking14142026-01-09 21:17

He does level up much slower and he’s as poor as possible

il-Palazzo_K2026-01-10 01:45

Being poor is a huge disadvantage alright.

YdenMkII2026-01-10 03:23

Wasn't being poor part of choosing summoner rather than hell mode?

justking14142026-01-10 03:34

Oh true. Forgot that detail. Well he’s still leveling up at 1% of everyone else. Not terrible as a low level serf but he’s still gonna seriously struggle as he ranks up and fights alongside people his own age.

justking14142026-01-09 21:16

Next episode: they’re all brutally slaughtered by demons and he has to hide under their corpses for a week

(That’s a joke. Not a spoiler)

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-10 07:04

> (That’s a joke. Not a spoiler)

UNLESS

[](#spooked)

justking14142026-01-10 07:54

Yeah honestly it might happen and I’ll be more surprised than anybody

Shodan302026-01-10 01:13

ya gotta wait until you are old enough that you can really appriciate being an orphan before becoming an orphan.

mekahamedan2026-01-10 02:15

hell mode isnt about he 24/7 suffer
hell mode is about his starting point is lowest and her power growth is harder

Spoon_Elemental2026-01-10 03:03

It said on the screen when he selected it. He needs 100x more XP to level up. I'm guessing it comes with some hard mode perks that weren't listed though.

abandoned_idol2026-01-10 05:38

I think japanese games have a difficulty mode named "Hell".

Other variations are "Nightmare", etc.

So you can just think of Hell-Mode as "frustratingly tedious difficulty" mode.

And no, don't expect him to struggle AT ALL, he keeps succeeding and progressing. They should have just called it "fun mode".

pm-me-nothing-okay2026-01-10 09:54

eh, their is deff drawbacks, his early stuff is by the most brutal, but like a train engine once the value train starts it feeds itself.

SYZekrom2026-01-09 19:19

Why's the bgm so much louder than his voice in this first scene

Never mind its like this whenever he's thinking to himself yikes

Mom stomped that bug with her bare foot. Gross, girl. Also, it should've been me. What?

aramatheis2026-01-09 19:26

Oof. Imagine being reborn into a magical fantasy world of infinite possibilities and you end up with the name Allen.

The_Parsee_Man2026-01-09 19:30

By Japanese standards I guess that's a fantasy name.

He should count himself lucky. If this were Water Magician, he could have ended up named Albuquerque.

coffeecakesupernova2026-01-10 07:59

At least he always would have known where to turn left!

PM_ME_AWESOME_SONGS2026-01-10 17:20

I know it's just because the Japanese find these names exotic, but I still get slightly surprised when I see such a normal name in my country used in a fantasy story. I wonder if I'll ever see my name in a fantasy anime.

Torque-A2026-01-09 20:34

It’s actually kinda funny how many narou series have the protagonist’s name as Allen. It feels like the default JRPG name.

polycontrale2026-01-10 06:57

The canon names for the early Dragon Quest heroes were a variation of Allen. Arus, Alef, Arel, and sometimes just Allen were used in different places for the early games. So that might be why.

TurkeyPhat2026-01-09 22:18

yeah i want an MC named aurelius or some type of shit

Latter_Rope78692026-01-10 02:50

Every TikTok has the MC as jack. Idk if that’s just me

Aetherdraw2026-01-10 16:59

Ore no na wa Jack~

The_Commie_Salami2026-01-09 23:43

Oh come on, he was named after that cool alien from Invincible who doesn’t like pickles on his burgers

Xrave2026-01-11 06:01

The real backstory behind these names is that they must be easy to parse in Katakana, doesn't cost ten keystrokes to type on a Japanese keyboard, and not too esoteric. If you think about it that way it makes sense why they prioritize shorter English names like Klein, Arc, Satou, Tanya, Myne

etiolatezed2026-01-09 19:26

This has a bit of the personal growth angle via isekai you only see in Jobless Reincarnation.

BornfromDarkness2026-01-09 20:12

Does he know.gif ???

justking14142026-01-09 21:21

Very true. Both MCs were kinda dead to their original worlds and found value in their new family. That’s honestly kinda rare. At most we usually just get an mc obsessed with fawning on his younger siblings

MayonakaMadaraka2026-01-09 19:32

I love the critter designs, and the rambunctious neighbor lass who arrives everyday at 3:00 to whoop his ass!

cs_cast_away_boi2026-01-09 21:29

It's 3 PM allen! Time for your daily ~~ass whooping~~ knight duel!

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-10 14:46

3 pm quest timer

Duel with your childhood friend

Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-01-10 06:55

Surely they'll be a ship when they grow up?

Come on, the childhood friend can't lose EVERY TIME!

NanDemoKnaives2026-01-09 19:35

This was a lot more wholesome and enjoyable than I thought it was going to be, I thought it was going be more generic or trashy but I'm really liking the strong family vibes already created. Rodin and Thereseia are such sweet parents and I like how Allen knew he'd be getting more siblings with how loving they are with one another lol.

I do like he's a gamer who likes a challenge, it makes me think of Sunraku and his trashy games, but it'll be interesting to see Allen test out the limits of his summoning skills and how he'll use them in Hell mode.

It is a little odd he still has the black hair and eyes even though his parents have such light hair and eye colors.

BornfromDarkness2026-01-09 20:13

Irl it’s common etc

Isekai though? Odd them outright mentioning it

BornfromDarkness2026-01-09 20:08

Few things come to mind:

surprise they outright say their child has different hair color (yes it’s a common thing but you would think in such a setting this would mean much more)

Did no one care about the grasshopper disappearing now twice?

Pitfall…. So… when did it get filled? How deep can it go? Can we just do a “fall to death”?

Did not get an answer on learned skills by monsters… guess not?

…did they just make the guys sleep outside during winter?

Where I’m at that would be “death” to put it bluntly

How did the baby get access to the hatchet?

The_Parsee_Man2026-01-09 21:20

Can summon Pokemon and create pitfalls. This guy needs to start Team Rocket.

djthomp2026-01-09 20:09

For a show with Hell Mode in the name that was pretty chill and comedic. OP at the end pretty clearly spelled out where this is going, too, so I don't expect that to change too much.

The summons are goofier than I would have expected, particularly the mole.

marcostadeusc2026-01-09 20:18

I can't find this anywhere to watch

ObvsThrowaway51202026-01-09 20:23

A gamesekai where the devs are literally gods? Nice. So far, this has been pretty fun. Little dude’s snatchin up summons like Pokémon. He’s got a brother named Mash too. I wonder if this one likes cream puffs and is an expert in “muscle magic” lol.

Arzhart2026-01-09 21:05

The summons are so pokemon-like, that's fun

I enjoyed this first episode, I hope it stays consistent

Zeikos2026-01-09 21:15

The guy's skill kind of reminds me of level 9999 gacha. It's very close but with a sane protagonist and actually rational power scaling.

BiggerG72026-01-09 21:26

If all the Hell Mode difficulty does is make you require a ton more exp to level than normal then that sounds like a lazy hell mode lol.

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-09 21:31

Should have been a quarter exp earn or something like in 100 million lives anime

BoxSweater2026-01-09 22:26

> that sounds like a lazy hell mode lol

I don't know if it's intentional on the show's part, but "garbage balancing" is also part of the title.

wmansir2026-01-09 23:45

When i read the title my first guess was that "garbage balance" meant the MC would be exploiting shitty game balance to dominate the world, but then after seeing the "hell mode" setup I thought it was saying the difficulty was too high.

Thomas_JCG2026-01-09 23:03

The massive XP requirement is just the first difficulty, his class also has requirements to master.

Next-Moose-91292026-01-09 22:35

what app is this on ? i dont see on crunchyroll

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-10 14:44

Hidive

Djbadj2026-01-09 22:47

Interesting the more grown up Mc in the outro looks just like the MC from By the grace of the gods.

AceSoldia2026-01-09 23:09

Does hell mode just means being lower class and having to work hard? Okay..then that's most of us 🤣

Thomas_JCG2026-01-09 23:21

Oh, so we are starting with childbirth. Much like Allen's level gains, they decided to go slow, so I wonder if some people might get bored soon.

Background_Formal9402026-01-09 23:57

I like this anime already but it looks like trump kun was late also it feel like a combination of Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon

bensor742026-01-10 00:42

Oh my, I love this one.

Nightwish19762026-01-10 00:56

I was pleasantly surprised by the first episode. Mushoku Tensei vibes..

Striking_Chard24202026-01-10 03:08

For it being hell mode, it sure as hell doesn't look like it. I guess the game means in terms of stats and environment 'cause everything else seems great. The summons' designs definitely screams more family-friendly than I would expect so I guess I know what kind of anime this is.

animepig2026-01-10 03:23

Is this the only Hidive show this season?

Why did I re-up my subscription….

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-10 14:43

Mato Sehai no Slave 2

Earlier-Today2026-01-10 16:32

There's another as well - Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling.

yueber2026-01-10 03:30

This show has much better art and animation than I expected.

pmmeyourfannie2026-01-10 05:14

Where are yall streaming this?

shatteredauthor2026-01-10 05:18

This is some weak sauce hell mode shit. That difficult slider might as well have been skyrim's " targets get more health, while you do the same amount of damage" difficult slider.

He's a serf, but the entire community is supportive and regular hunts together and shares resources.
They are living under a noble but by all appearances they have their basic needs met comfortably enough that in his several years of life nobody has starved or froze to death (that we know of)
He is a summoner, but the system GIVES HIM THE SUMMONS and his summons give him stat boosts!

By far the biggest not hell mode thing is that he has a healthy, happy, and loving family and community.

I'm not saying I actually want to watch grim dark fantasy isekai, god knows we have enough of those, but i'm just saying that by all accounts the only thing hell mode seems to have actually done is make it take a ton more time for him to level up, even being born as a serf can be seen to just be a fluke of statistics since apparently everyone is appraised and presumably those with worthwhile skills are taken by the nobility functionally giving a form of class mobility.

This is only episode 1, so I know I could be totally wrong and things get mega serious once his appraisal ceremony hits but I really doubt it. I think this will end up just being a relatively ok isekai slop show.

(I will feel so validated though if he ends up being able to earn XP through his summons fighting for him!)

abandoned_idol2026-01-10 05:42

The CGI is probably going to be the best part of this anime adaptation.

I look forward to making fun of this anime along with everyone else.

-whiteroom-2026-01-10 07:10

Didn't seem very hell mode yet. And the summons look like something out of a toddlers show. And if the ED is anything to go by, they don't get better, that CGI monster in the credits looks awful.

Maccaz152026-01-10 13:42

This is like the third or fourth anime I've seen do it. But who the hell decided that translating shuchu to lock in instead of focus was a cool idea. It doesn't even make sense to use slang in all the cases I've seen.

HolyDragSwd25002026-01-10 14:41

Hidive translation. You can see them in Mugen Gacha 9999

HotBloodedNinja2026-01-10 15:47

The creature designs reminds me of pokemon, lol.
From the Op. seems like he's gonna have a sister too.