This is just a silly post. Don’t get your hopes up. 😛
There’s an anime I’m watching because it plays while I’m digesting me evening meal. It is a terribly average, Slice of Life thing about some girls training to be healers. They heal though singing, so the show has one massive advantage over some others: the songs are always subtitled.
The third episode dropped today and I started it off with little expectations of a stunning watch. The girls are about to take a test which will decide the future of their careers, so I was thinking ‘Angst! Angst! Here comes the angst!’ And what I got, in a series which has at least one major musical production number a week, was the musical episode. Because the girls are concentrating on their test so much, they kind of get stuck in singing mode. They sing everything. It’s actually funny too.
So, yeah, an episode meant for fear and trepidation ended up stripping the angst away in a couple of minutes and concentrating on musical comedy. Mind. Blown.
Meanwhile… Episode 2 of Bookworm drops tonight. Can’t wait.
Also, Death’s Handmaiden 6 is going fairly well, but some scheduling may delay it coming out. If so, then you may get it and another book in short order. Other book might be about a succubus teaching magic. Depends whether the plot works out.
Oh, and Happy Easter.
Witches and Ray-Guns 
Can we has Succubus, pleeeze?
Happy Easter everybody.
Well, working on it…
I completely forgot ‘Musica Episodes’ were a thing! O.0
Thinking back on it I do remember that quite a few cartoons used to have them. Makes me wonder if they still do them? (Besides this amazing example obviously.)
Ohhh and a new DH book does sound nice. I enjoyed DH5 quite a bit. The callback was cool and I really like the concept of more Harbringers just hanging around.
Gr Cloak
I watched an episode of the anime you’re referring to. I need to go back to it, but I’ve been occupied with a few others. Looking forward to DH6, and to the Succubus novel if you get it to where you think it’s worth putting up for consumption (given my appetite for reading material, consumption is the correct term). Fair winds and happy anime watching!
Will the succubus sing? Julie Andrews with pentagrams
Personally, I think it’s best to leave musicals to things with sound. Also, I can’t do poetry to save my life, so writing lyrics would be torture. So, Boobalicious Mary Poppins is out, sorry.
She does have a good voice though…
O.0
I just found the perfect villain for my DnD campain!
Gr Cloak
I worry for your players…
Every attempt I’ve seen over the years to integrate music into a written story has failed badly, IMHO.
Anne McCaffrey used to manage it, and I can think of one or two others. All are special cases and, even when music is a major factor in the story, it’s not like everyone is singing all the time.
It can work. I still remember being moved by one of the songs in ‘Dragonsinger.’ That being said, it’s HARD to get right and I am not the author to do it.