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The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Mushoku Tensei and Konosuba, just to name two anime running this season.
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I dropped MT after four episodes because its conflict felt too contrived and the characters weren't acting like believable humans. Same reason I bounced off of Shield Hero.
Konosuba's still good, but the jokes are starting to get repetitive and I wish it would advance Kazuma and Megumin's romance faster.

If that's all anime has to offer, then it's not much better off than the cartoon landscape.
 
Trollblade69 said:
I dropped MT after four episodes because its conflict felt too contrived and the characters weren't acting like believable humans. Same reason I bounced off of Shield Hero.
Konosuba's still good, but the jokes are starting to get repetitive.

If that's all anime has to offer, then it's not much better off than the cartoon landscape.
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Well, I haven't watched every anime this season. There's literally dozens of shows that get greenlight every season, let alone in a single year. It can be hard to keep up. Those were just the two I was personally familiar with. What about MT felt contrived to you?
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
What about MT felt contrived to you?
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The conflict over Paul's infidelity not resulting in the Greyrat household torn apart, because Rudy tells everyone to stay in a mutually abusive and traumatic living situation. Also Lilia saying she was deliberately acting like rapebait felt so fucking stupid and like they wanted to paint Paul's infidelity like it wasn't entirely his fault, which only makes me hate both parties more.
 
Mega Black said:
Dungeon Meshi is the only anime I've been watching lately. It's pretty good.
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Read the whole manga inside of a month at the start of the year, don't feel any motivation to keep watching the anime after the 10 episodes I saw didn't look any more impressive than Little Witch Academia.
 
Trollblade69 said:
The conflict over Paul's infidelity not resulting in the Greyrat household torn apart, because Rudy tells everyone to stay in a mutually abusive and traumatic living situation.
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They stayed together because the alternative was worse. Lilia and/or her child would have died had they been forced to leave the house during the winter (hence, why Rudeus tried to prevent that), and Zenith's only alternative to staying with Paul would have been to crawl back to her family (which would have been unpalatable for a number of reasons). Hence why they stayed in a less than ideal situation.

Trollblade69 said:
Also Lilia saying she was deliberately acting like rapebait felt so fucking stupid and like they wanted to paint Paul's infidelity like it wasn't entirely his fault, which only makes me hate both parties more.
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Lilia wasn't acting like rapebait. She just seduced him because she was horny listening to Paul and Zenith fuck all the time, and finally couldn't take it anymore. Paul didn't actually rape her (that time), that was just a lie Rudeus spun to get Lilia off Zenith's hate list. Paul is still very much at fault for giving in, and Zenith doesn't forgive him immediately. But Lilia is equally, if not more, at fault for seducing him.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
They stayed together because the alternative was worse. Lilia and/or her child would have died had they been forced to leave the house during the winter (hence, why Rudeus tried to prevent that), and Zenith's only alternative to staying with Paul would have been to crawl back to her family (which would have been unpalatable for a number of reasons). Hence why they stayed in a less than ideal situation.
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Those honestly sound like much better dramatic decisions than to remain where they are.

The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Lilia wasn't acting like rapebait. She just seduced him because she was horny listening to Paul and Zenith fuck all the time, and finally couldn't take it anymore.
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Because there's totally no alternative to this situation than "seduce your married rapist".
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Paul didn't actually rape her (that time), that was just a lie Rudeus spun to get Lilia off Zenith's hate list
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I really don't think that would spare her from Zenith's resentment. She'd still be there as a victim and her child a byproduct and reminder of all the reasons why this family should not be under the same household.
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Paul is still very much at fault for giving in, and Zenith doesn't forgive him immediately. But Lilia is equally, if not more, at fault for seducing him.
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Yeah, this is especially what I mean by "contrived". It's making an adulterous sex pest not entirely at fault, because his constant rape victim just couldn't stay away from the cock. That's not a dramatic story, that's either an h-doujin scenario written by Takei Ooki or a pointless subplot in Atlas Shrugged.
 
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Trollblade69 said:
Read the whole manga inside of a month at the start of the year, don't feel any motivation to keep watching the anime after the 10 episodes I saw didn't look any more impressive than Little Witch Academia.
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Couldn't really give a fuck less. The animation is solid enough. I'm not asking for incredible moment to moment animation from DM.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Those honestly sound like much better dramatic decisions than to remain where they are.
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I mean, I'm sure Lilia would rather not die out in the cold, and Zenith definitely did not want to go back to her family, which was the right decision considering how poorly they treated her family later.

Trollblade69 said:
Because there's totally no alternative to this situation than "seduce your married rapist".
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They live in a small, medieval agricultural community, not even in town. Probably aren't that many single men around to seduce outside Paul.

Trollblade69 said:
I really don't think that would spare her from Zenith's resentment. She'd still be there as a victim and her child a byproduct and reminder of all the reasons why this family should not be under the same household.
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Oh, Zenith still wasn't happy, she just redirected most of her resentment towards Paul. And Lilia never completely forgave herself for betraying Zenith, and never considered herself part of the family, only a servant, despite Paul marrying her.

Trollblade69 said:
Yeah, this is especially what I mean by "contrived". It's making an adulterous sex pest not entirely at fault, because his constant rape victim just couldn't stay away from the cock. That's not a dramatic story, that's either an h-doujin scenario written by Takei Ooki or a pointless subplot in Atlas Shrugged.
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I mean, I'm not sure how its "contrived". The story still makes it clear that Paul is scumbag; even Rudeus himself admits this in his own narration. Its just that Lilia accepts her own role in the situation. And Paul only raped Lilia once, when they were teenagers, long before the story. Every time they had sex afterward was consensual.
 
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