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Anime |OT| Winter 2019 - Stand with the Mob or Stand with your Friends
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I think I'd throw Yuri in with the Overdrive business as these brief incredible moments in what's normally a fairly benign environment. Flashes of superheroic stuff that really isn't what the show is about. Bamboo Man (I'm irritated the design was wasted and not his actual look, I assumed his other identity was the mask) was wonderfully threatening since he was always incredibly potentially disruptive since his powers were always on instead of one of the aforementioned flashes but he was woefully underutilized and I think the ramp up toward the end needed more than just his presence and the requisite monster of the week, especially in a show where the latter was mostly forgettable in light of the more "realistic" crime stuff and associated nonsense like the tv show ep.
Glad you enjoyed it overall despite its fumbles! I agree with you that I don't think this was a 2-cour series compressed (it would have needed to have been going faster from the start for that to be likely) so much as that it's tricky to get the pacing of an ongoing plotline just right.
3 more episodes in the spring! They look to be goofy episodic stuff from the titles, so they should be fun!
The fact that Bamboo Man and Anthem were so extraordinary actually makes aliens more plausible, not less. Where'd all this impossible technology come from? If its another country then it'd be more widespread, but having an alien culture use ours as a petri dish? It's exactly the kind of weirdness that makes sense. And it's not like we're too far behind either, as Yuri and Apple's usual inventions are well beyond what humanity is capable of.
Rinshi!! Ekodachan 01
Nice that they subbed the interview (though I mostly skipped over it). Moves at a very fast rate which keeps things amusing. Will be interested to see the different approaches to it each week.
Run with the Wind 12
Looked like Kakeru was putting on a Hijikata amount of mayo on his meal.
Can't be a sports anime w/o a training camp. Having had Kakeru accept his teammates and their skill levels in the first cour, it seems we will now turn to some of the same issues he faced with his high school team. Good to see some more team strategy to the running in the opening scene though I didn't fully understand it.
Dororo 01
Was very into this premiere. Some neat shots in the opening (like the character diving in through the background like it was water).
Nice that they subbed the interview (though I mostly skipped over it). Moves at a very fast rate which keeps things amusing. Will be interested to see the different approaches to it each week.
Run with the Wind 12
Looked like Kakeru was putting on a Hijikata amount of mayo on his meal.
Can't be a sports anime w/o a training camp. Having had Kakeru accept his teammates and their skill levels in the first cour, it seems we will now turn to some of the same issues he faced with his high school team. Good to see some more team strategy to the running in the opening scene though I didn't fully understand it.
Dororo 01
Was very into this premiere. Some neat shots in the opening (like the character diving in through the background like it was water).
Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan Episode 1:
Well, this is a thing that exists, pretty much a stream of consciousness program and I can see why most of it was the interview.
Well, this is a thing that exists, pretty much a stream of consciousness program and I can see why most of it was the interview.
Shield Hero 1
Well, there's all sorts of questionable shit in this show so far and it's only an episode in. There's this troubling trend in isekai shows I've noticed recently where the protagonist travels to the usual quasi-medieval fantasy videogamey world that has a thriving slaving economy and manages to snag himself a slave or two, which coincidentally always happen to be young girls, and I guess this is supposed to be a good thing since he treats them well or whatever. I gotta say I care not for this trend at all, to say the least. Where the hell did this trend get started? Where are all these MMOs with deep slave purchasing systems that they seem to keep taking inspiration from?
The shield's skill tree looks okay, I guess.
Well, there's all sorts of questionable shit in this show so far and it's only an episode in. There's this troubling trend in isekai shows I've noticed recently where the protagonist travels to the usual quasi-medieval fantasy videogamey world that has a thriving slaving economy and manages to snag himself a slave or two, which coincidentally always happen to be young girls, and I guess this is supposed to be a good thing since he treats them well or whatever. I gotta say I care not for this trend at all, to say the least. Where the hell did this trend get started? Where are all these MMOs with deep slave purchasing systems that they seem to keep taking inspiration from?
The shield's skill tree looks okay, I guess.
We'll just have to disagree here since if Lisvalletta tech isn't far behind alien tech, it's also quite plausible other nations would be around Lisvalletta, whether it be ahead or behind. I think the more elegant solution would have been to somehow link Lisvalletta's incredible advances to the alien culture rather than just running parallel which would have been more narratively satisfying. Maybe the show did do this and I just missed it.
surely there must be an isekai where the first thing that happens is the protag gets enslaved himself and then he starts a slave uprising or some shit
Eh that'd mean that the power fantasy aspect of it wouldn't be there. Even in Re Zero while Subaru gets tortured he still has his power fulfillment moment ( I like Re Zero btw)
but starting the slave uprising can still be a power fantasy of how much more advanced and awesome protag is because of their superior future moral values.
Run With The Wind 12- This show only gets better.
Love the new OP and how beautiful this episode was.
Most episodes in this show look better than entire series.
Don't sleep on this one. No filler.
Also the twins and Masu are my favorite now.
Love the new OP and how beautiful this episode was.
Most episodes in this show look better than entire series.
Don't sleep on this one. No filler.
Also the twins and Masu are my favorite now.
It's almost like a lot of Isekai authors have problems with women.
I've peaked at a number of manga adaptations and a lot of them include the slave stuff. It's weird.
There's also a lot of them where the MC is like "i've got a unique power in this world? time to get a harem" even outside the slave stuff.
I'ts time for an Isekai where the protagonist is a woman.
Yuri harem ensues. I don't even know if this is good or bad.
I don't understand, do you want the version of the protagonist of the real world to be a woman, the version in the fantasy world or both?
Both, in an analogous way that in usual Isekai the protagonist is a man in both worlds. Not that I'm against the protagonist changing gender as it goes to the other world but it was not my initial idea.
EDIT: I know Escaflowne exists but getting new stuff would be nice? Does Inuyasha count as Isekai? Is Kagome really the protagonist? I'd still would like something new.
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Isn't The Twelve Kingdoms basically this? Also Escaflowne kinda counts.
Was any of them made (as in broadcasted as anime) in the last 10 or 20 years?
Hmm, for new female isekai protags, Otome Flag Destruction and Kumo had animes announced, didn't they.
Flag Destruction is a romcom series, and part of a sub-section of isekai stories where the main character is reincarnated as the rich, rival girl in a dating sim/shoujo manga.
Kumo has the main character be reborn as the weakest of spider monsters in the bottom of the largest dungeon as she fights her way out and discovers why she(and her classmates) reincarnated in this fantasy world.
I remember liking both series.
Though, mostly just the original first two books of Flag Destruction.
And the Kumo trailer had the extremely bad CGI monsters, so I don't have tons of hope for it.
Maybe Zombieland Saga is Isekai and truck-kun sent WhatsHerName to a fantasy world where the only difference with the real world is that zombies do exist.
The Rising of the Shield Hero - Episode 1P
Didn't think I'd care much for this, but I actually like the protagonist. A bit naive, but has a good head on his shoulders. The world itself doesn't look like anything special; hopefully that changes.
I get how the big moment in this episode can be problematic in a lot of ways, but I could gloss over that since it was apparent there was gonna be a betrayal in some form, so the form it took wasn't that essential. What I didn't like, though, was the "slave" conceit. Man did that bring things down. Hopefully it works, in the end, but I'm not sure I can just gloss over it when it's obvious it's going to be important.
I liked the ostracized Shield Hero and his change of demeanor, forcing him to go solo. More of that would have been nice.
Didn't think I'd care much for this, but I actually like the protagonist. A bit naive, but has a good head on his shoulders. The world itself doesn't look like anything special; hopefully that changes.
I get how the big moment in this episode can be problematic in a lot of ways, but I could gloss over that since it was apparent there was gonna be a betrayal in some form, so the form it took wasn't that essential. What I didn't like, though, was the "slave" conceit. Man did that bring things down. Hopefully it works, in the end, but I'm not sure I can just gloss over it when it's obvious it's going to be important.
I liked the ostracized Shield Hero and his change of demeanor, forcing him to go solo. More of that would have been nice.
Rinshi Ekoda-chan 1
I'm not sure if it counts as isekai when Hitomi was brought back to real world at last episode, or so I thought.
I'm not sure if it counts as isekai when Hitomi was brought back to real world at last episode, or so I thought.
I think the saga of Tanya the Evil half counts. (it's a Japanese business man reincarnated into a girl into another world)
and at the very least there isn't any harem stuff going on.
There's a lot of manga and light novel stuff with purely female protagonists. Not many of them seem to be getting anime adaptations, though.
Off the top of my head (and what I'm following right now, actually) there's "In Another World, I'm Called: the Black Healer" which is RIFE with shoujo tropes and tons of politicking, and "Ascendance of a Bookworm", which takes place in a much lower-fantasy (but still fantasy) world and eschews much of the usual power fantasy stuff in exchange for a protagonist who just does whatever she can to get her hands on some books (which are incredibly, INCREDIBLY expensive in the world she's reborn in).
And yes, the spider in "I'm a spider, so what?" is a lady spider. Not that it's really relevant with how the story plays out, but yeah.
Funny how it's pretty much always the female-led isekais that grab my attention. Log Horizon's probably the only exception in that regard thus far. If only they could get top billing...
This reminds me, 3D Kanojo Real Girl has a second season and I don't know why
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