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StrikerS is the least bad Nanoha thing, but it could have been good if the characters were robots or clear adults rather than little moe girls.
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Why is Isekai Ojisan the only good isekai? They may as well be adapting Thomas Covenant for how rapey the rest of the genre is. The one where the thug-looking dude raises the hero as his son and the one with the telepathic twins are pretty good too, since the fact they’re isekai are plot relevant, but the latter falls into the issue of “fifteen-year-olds are adults” that every other one falls into; therefore I deserve he right to rescind a positive opinion.
Really, most of them could be straight-up fantasy with Dragon Quest III rules and remain unchanged.
Really, most of them could be straight-up fantasy with Dragon Quest III rules and remain unchanged.
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Nigga please.
Now as a modern isekai it's a lot of fun and I want a second season. The narrative approach it went with I think is what really sells it on top of the uncle being rather straightforward in believing it's exactly like a video game and therefore didn't take it seriously. It's exactly how a parody of the genre should go, of which I'm legit upset there's not more of outside of KonoSuba.
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The manga is very fun and I always end up rereading the whole thing every month a new chapter comes out. It helps that he’s a weirdo and impulsive and oblivious, but still ultimately a genuinely good guy when it matters (I’m a sucker for this exact style of joke character, especially when they garner unwarranted negative attention from background characters). It also helps the fantasy of “what of girls liked me” is undercut by the fact that there’s no “will they won’t they” and everyone involved is a (poorly socialized) adult.
You’re right about Escaflowne, it was very watchable when I was fifteen.
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She's just good at what she does and trains a lot, she doesn't have god tier mana pool or something. Kind of the Goku of her universe, good talent and lots of practice but not necessarily having insane raw potential. Hayate (the girl from A's) is an example of huge mana pool, she's a walking nuke when given enough prep time.
They're adults in StrikerS. Before that I find it funny how it's a case of "9 year old girl acts more resilient and mature than most real life adults".
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Oh fuck, they'll be all over this shit as flavor of the month yuri. Can't wait to hear sperging super progressive and communist it is because Nanoha and Fate were a canon couple 20 years ago even though there's no political content whatsoever, the show originated as a hentai game and the first season is basically stereotypical in some of the fetishy shots of Nanoha and Fate who are fucking elementary school girls. I hope that makes it too problematic for these people.
Or maybe no one will watch it since I remember the two seasons in the 2010s getting very little fanfare even though it was a super popular show from the 00s.
That's why it's good because it's cute girls re-enacting plots from mecha anime. The final battle in Nanoha As feels like Super Robot Wars. We need more anime like that but all I can think of is Symphogear because that show is pretty much just "what if the entire theme of our show was those cool battles from Nanoha with the catchy Nana Mizuki insert songs?"
Escaflowne suffered from being cancelled or whatever it was that made them rush the final arc. It makes most of the show feel like filler episodes. Dunbine will forever be the best fantasy mecha isekai.
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I would say the vast majority of isekai are maybe filled with fan service but feature entirely dickless protagonists. Hell, for the last 2 years we've been getting 1-3 Otome Isekai per season with female protagonists aimed at a more female audience that mostly are content with the prince and/or half the male nobility making romantic eye contact with female protag from a safe distance.
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I just don't know why nobody corrected him. His editor would have him make giant sweeping changes to the manga, but someone can't go "hey, uh, Vegeta didn't know SSj3 yet"? Maybe the staff just doesn't know either, somehow? But wouldn't they just Google it to be sure? I just don't get it.
I think it only ever got any popularity here because it was supposedly heavily edited to be more like Pokemon and Digimon, focusing on battles to increase male viewership. It's something I probably wouldn't have otherwise liked when I was a kid, so I'd say it worked for a while.
The genre has a ton of good stuff but is buried under trash and mediocrity. A lot of isekai could just be normal fantasy stories, their reincarnation or whatever is often not at all important to the story. The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash (I'll never get over how terrible these titles are) is a surprisingly great one.
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Madoka Magica also had staying power with the Western audience, although it's more of because its a more recent show, and the SUBVERTING EXPECTATIONS deal that Madoka started with the Magical Girl genre. Most of the Madoka rip-offs (i.e. Magical Girl Raising Project, Magical Girl Site, and Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka) were just come and go, and even the ones that got more than one season, i.e. Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero, still have a smaller audience in comparison.
I will not stand for Fushigi Yugi and Magic Knight Rayearth slander:
Although those 2 series are leaned more towards the female audience, and the length of them in episode count does make the shows feel like a drag at times, so it's understandable if those titles aren't what you're looking for.
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They all have terrible titles because they’re all based on or ripping off light novels, a format so retarded it’s actually reducing the average Japanese’s literacy.
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Just wanted to post that Desert Punk is still an hilarious anime, and I still cant believe it will be 21 years old next year.
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I've been reading Versus and Bug Ego recently, both works by ONE, author of One Punch Man, I found both of them pretty fun, I've actually been enjoying them more the recent OPM chapters so I think I'll try effort posting about them.
Versus starts off as a stereotypical Hero vs Demon King however that soon changes with the reveal that the Demon Kings are basically unbeatable by the Heroes as they are humanities Natural Enemies. So they do the obvious, summon humans from another world to save them from their Natural Enemies, yes that's right its an Isekai with a short title, shocking I know. However as it turns out each world actually has their own Natural Enemy with which they have fought and lost against. The Natural Enemies include but are not limited to Demons, Robots, Aliens, Parasites, Kaiju and Video Games. So what to do when you can't fight your enemies? Simple get the enemies to fight each other, genius isn't it, and that's where it gets the title, Natural Enemies VERSUS Natural Enemies. It's a relatively new monthly manga so it only has around 20 chapters but I've been enjoying it greatly. It starts off a bit slow but picks up after the first few chapters.
Tl;dr It's an Isekai of multiple world that has them pitting their worlds enemies against other worlds enemies.
Bug Ego on the other hand is more of a surreal horror comedy which involves the two protagonists discovering real life-hacks that allow them to alter reality if they do certain things, for example if they dance naked at a certain time in a certain way in a certain place they can turn back time or by doing a pose in secret they can convince someone to find anything they like tasty.
It has less chapters then Versus, but you can read it on the websites used to read shonen jump mangas for free which is neat. Its humour is pretty juvenile, so it isn't going to be everyones cup of tea.
I prefer Versus more and I don't think either are high art or ground breaking but they've been two of the few manga I've cared about reading recently.
Versus starts off as a stereotypical Hero vs Demon King however that soon changes with the reveal that the Demon Kings are basically unbeatable by the Heroes as they are humanities Natural Enemies. So they do the obvious, summon humans from another world to save them from their Natural Enemies, yes that's right its an Isekai with a short title, shocking I know. However as it turns out each world actually has their own Natural Enemy with which they have fought and lost against. The Natural Enemies include but are not limited to Demons, Robots, Aliens, Parasites, Kaiju and Video Games. So what to do when you can't fight your enemies? Simple get the enemies to fight each other, genius isn't it, and that's where it gets the title, Natural Enemies VERSUS Natural Enemies. It's a relatively new monthly manga so it only has around 20 chapters but I've been enjoying it greatly. It starts off a bit slow but picks up after the first few chapters.
Tl;dr It's an Isekai of multiple world that has them pitting their worlds enemies against other worlds enemies.
Bug Ego on the other hand is more of a surreal horror comedy which involves the two protagonists discovering real life-hacks that allow them to alter reality if they do certain things, for example if they dance naked at a certain time in a certain way in a certain place they can turn back time or by doing a pose in secret they can convince someone to find anything they like tasty.
It has less chapters then Versus, but you can read it on the websites used to read shonen jump mangas for free which is neat. Its humour is pretty juvenile, so it isn't going to be everyones cup of tea.
I prefer Versus more and I don't think either are high art or ground breaking but they've been two of the few manga I've cared about reading recently.
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I wanted the series to come to Netflix so I could finally watch and its not. Is the wife prominent? It seems like the dude and the pink haired girl are more the leads...
Rewatching Nadia for the first time in 15 years. Fun shit.
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Anya is the most direct main character, but for Lloyd currently has the most background and clearest goal of the protagonist. Yor does get her own arcs and her sibling is a minor antagonist.
Yor does get chapters and even some arcs for herself. Her interaction with the fake family is interesting because she’s basically instantly compromised due to her personal life and social life lagging. Of the three her work circle actually has had the most progression as had her social circle.
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So I started watching Future War 198x, does anyone have a good quality version with subs, and is there anything else like it?
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Kids' WB fucked with the broadcast order and did some edits on the side for that very purpose, like how they would later have the first episode spliced in as a flashback in the Sand Card episode because it was about Sakura and Li practicing for a play that the Dark Card would interrupt, in which it and Light give Sakura a crucial hint about Yue. But they didn't show it on TV, either.
Tokyopop releasing the Cardcaptor Sakura manga untouched was what helped its popularity stick around once the show went off the air in the States and when the DVDs went out-of-print (it was (((shut down))) because the sub-only release was selling better, I remember seeing that release at a Suncoast). Canada got the anime proper albeit with script changes because, y'know, Rika and Mr. Terada's relationship, while toned down from the manga, was still creepy, and in all honesty, ten-year-olds needed to act like ten-year-olds, so cutting down on the romantic angle to be more like childhood crushes felt more natural.
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