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Since it came up I have mixed feelings about From Bureaucrat to Villainess. It's a pretty by the numbers Otome Isekai and the one thing it has going for it to subvert the formula (the person isekai'd into the role of the villianess is a middle aged man) somehow never comes up. I'm not saying I came in the the show with the expectations he'd be molesting girls his daughter's age in the locker room at not-Hogwarts; the show was pretty clear he was a good person from the beginning. But I don't think he's ever really addressed anything about being gender swapped, in fact I don't think he's ever worn anything less then a full night gown on screen. It's unrealistically squeaky clean in a way that I think works to it's detriment.
 
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I don't get the appeal of all these anime and manga about a guy reincarnating into the body of a girl that have been popping up with increasing regularity over the past few years. In fact, they make my skin crawl because it reeks of troonery.

Isekai is a wish fulfillment fantasy, so the only reason the writer and the audience would go for this slop is because it is their fantasy to become the pretty girl.

Or am I missing something obvious?
 
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regalterry said:
I don't get the appeal of all these anime and manga about a guy reincarnating into the body of a girl that have been popping up with increasing regularity over the past few years. In fact, they make my skin crawl because it reeks of troonery.

Isekai is a wish fulfillment fantasy, so the only reason the writer and the audience would go for this slop is because it is their fantasy to become the pretty girl.

Or am I missing something obvious?
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You can tell when it's the author's poorly disguised fetish. This show it definitely isn't so all I can figure is that it's putting a tag on it for LN discoverability because the plot would be no different if it was a 40 something city bureaucrat otaku mom being shoved into her daughter's video game instead.
 
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What seems like years ago on another forum (because it was) I saw some fool try to seriously argue that A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court counted as an isekai.
 
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You can tell when it's the author's poorly disguised fetish. This show it definitely isn't so all I can figure is that it's putting a tag on it for LN discoverability because the plot would be no different if it was a 40 something city bureaucrat otaku mom being shoved into her daughter's video game instead.
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Wasn't it originally a Twitter manga? Pretty sure it's just meant to be a shallow "villianess on the outside but get this, office worker on the inside!" comedy.
 
I really want a second season for Okitsura. It's the perfect anime if you want to relax without the fear of stupid twists just because, character assassinations, "I was overpowered all along", "just as planned", villains instantly upgraded by bullshitium...

Too bad the usual crowd don't find this kind of anime fun to watch.
 
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I kinda hate half-assed pacifists in general due to the lack of nuance that goes into writing them, but some are very well written. Thorfinn is not one of those, probably the worst one I've read.

The whole "I have no enemies" thing itself is retarded, the message comes from the most sheltered mindset possible. The type of writer who pushes this dense ideology in most cases, never experienced any real hardships or was never confronted with a society that valued individualism over conformity. This type of message only gets preached in works where the protagonist just so happens to be the strongest & just like the author, never has to come face to face with the harsh reality of barbaric & feral enemies trying to rape & murder their loved ones.

More than that, it's just very boring, not from a story perspective, but from a human one. It makes one look too privileged or sheltered, which Yukimura is.
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I think he's just trying to get his manga cancelled.
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
You can tell when it's the author's poorly disguised fetish. This show it definitely isn't so all I can figure is that it's putting a tag on it for LN discoverability because the plot would be no different if it was a 40 something city bureaucrat otaku mom being shoved into her daughter's video game instead.
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I think it's meant to be funny like all those 2000s movies where black men dress up like women
 
Is there any good anime airing lately? Haven't really been keeping up with the latest stuff because it always seems to be the same cookie cutter crap with outrageous wasted production value and talent that could have been used on a much better project that takes itself seriously than yet another forgettable high school slice of life show or some kind of isekai comedy.
 
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Is there any good anime airing lately? Haven't really been keeping up with the latest stuff because it always seems to be the same cookie cutter crap with outrageous wasted production value and talent that could have been used on a much better project that takes itself seriously than yet another forgettable high school slice of life show or some kind of isekai comedy.
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For many years I stopped watching seasonal anime, and the series that ended up breaking that streak was Medalist. It's a wholesome and heartfelt show about how it's not too late to pursue your passions even if your peers have many more years of experience than you.
 
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What seems like years ago on another forum (because it was) I saw some fool try to seriously argue that A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court counted as an isekai.
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Like most internet arguments it comes down to a cockfight between definitions. A Connecticut Yankee is an isekai if you define isekai as a trope of being sent to another world and but not an isekai if you define isekai as a genre of anime about getting sent to a different world and given cheat powers.
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
Like most internet arguments it comes down to a cockfight between definitions. A Connecticut Yankee is an isekai if you define isekai as a trope of being sent to another world and but not an isekai if you define isekai as a genre of anime about getting sent to a different world and given cheat powers.
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I figured the argument would be if King Arthur counts as time travel or another world because it is folklore.
 
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