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[Anime] of Fall 2024: Aliens VS Spirits, Remakes VS Isekais
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I never read Instant Bullet, but the ending is also underwhelming, supposedly. Love Agency barely got an ending, since it was axed. The humor was there, but you could tell they were struggling with the premise.
Aka is also teaming up with the artist from Record of Ragnarok to do a new fantasy series this coming Spring(?) I think. Not sure what to expect.
Oh, yeah, you're right, when I go back and skim through that, they have literally "a XYZ refresher" for a bunch of people as well as a whole bunch of general "here's a map of the world, in case you forgot" sorts of thing.
(though that was the arc just before Wano, and Wano went on for long enough it's pushed a bunch of other things out of my 'details I can remember about one piece' list, which is, I must admit, fairly short in the first place)
10/10 would not give them my banana
Edit - why is the grandma so hot ?>_>
I will get into premise spoilers here, but honestly people who haven’t watched and are thinking about it should click.
It’s still very, very juvenile stuff tryin to return Okarun’s magical golden testicles, but the ghosts and aliens stuff is handled well and the characters are fun, plus a lot of the jokes are actually landing and the art is wild. It’s kept me interested.
And last shot of the OP as all fuck Reinhardt showing up.
Character designs are often cringeworthy and it has some obvious trashy tropes, and yet despite it all it is written much smarter, than it could be expected and it remains consistently interesting after first 10 episodes of first season.
It is a very engaging story, but I still wish the artstyle was not so utterly "anime". I wish I could recommend this series to friends, but I know that they will look at it and ask me what kind of trash am I watching and why.
As someone who bounced off ReZero because my first encounter with it was Subaru making an ass of himself during some kind of princess election, I also got curious about who this Reinhard fellow was to be considered so strong.
The story explicitly explains how during several arcs. It's pretty clever.
Anyways I don’t have crunchyroll right now so I don’t think I can watch the new season.
It can be said that it serves contrasting how "anime" it looks with how utterly brutal it can get, but I dont think that the benefits of it are worth the drawbacks.
On the other hand, it still is praiseworthy that the series has atually good story and actually well written characters, despite looking like something so completely cliche.
Incredible episode. No notes.
The thing about re zero is that the misery has a point. Subaru fails. Constantly. it is the fucking theme of the show! His power only ever works when he absolutely, categorically fails. But he has more growth than literally any other anime character I have seen. He grows as a person each episode each season.
And honestly, I don’t really like some of the waifu designs either, but they make sense thematically. Why does Roswell make Rem and Rom dress like French maids? Because he is a creepy, awful person.
As for Subaru’s power being OP…it’s really, really not. He has no control over the save points, and has no idea when they will kick in. And he to, and this is VERY important, actually die each and every time in order to have it kick in.
And it hurts, a lot, every time. The reason why the shows are wallows in his misery at times early on is to drive that point home. It isn’t just a respawn, he has to slowly bleed out after being disembowled. More than once his mind was utterly shattered by how he had just died and it took a minute (or magic) to have him pull himself back together.
And the Emilia/Subaru romance doesn’t make a ton of sense to start…but by season 2 it all starts making sense. They are an actual couple who argues and shit, but care about each other.
I dunno, I am always willing to go the mat for this show because it is extremely clever writing that addresses a lot of the issues with standard isekai trope writing. And like someone said, it actually feels like a world with history that existed independent of Subaru.
But it's not like huge tiddys covered by 3 washcloths.
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Why is this man wearing a tracksuit.
The guy in the track suit just got there.
Good.
probably not a satisfying ending, I guess
I'll wait.
Manga that actually explores a relationship properly is so rare.
I said Reinhard, not Subaru.
I literally don't see how someone like this can exist in a story and have it be good short of him never being in the story, ever, or being the final boss and therefore doomed to somehow be defeated.
Well, it is good, so....
All that really matters is if it manages to engage people. If you keep them engaged you can do whatever you want really they'll buy into it.
Well, Reinhardt is OP. But like, he has been in exactly 1 (one) situation that he was able to instantly solve for subaru, in episode 2, before you are informed how OP he is.
They lampshade it and use it to critique the OP OC protagonist type. It's especially funny in isekai quartet.
Everything about reinhardt is excused because of isekai quartet.
(actual spoiler)
I actively hated that show before it revealed that it was at least somewhat self aware.
Reinhart
Well, got there like 18 months ago by now. He really should get a different outfit. That isn't his butler outfit.
Yeah, this is the important thing to remember.
The political limitations are also huge. He cannot do anything against his father, who is a drunkard and holds all the power in his family. He supports one of the rivals for the throne, so while his interests usually align with Subaru this is the first time since the early episodes that he's even been present for any of Subaru's shit. The last time we really saw him before this season was S1 when Subaru was making an ass out of himself.
In essence, he cannot lose a fight. So he doesn't always succeed in his goals, if his goals require strategy or diplomacy.
It also does a great job with the inner monologue of teenagers figuring out who they are, their issues with self-confidence/doubt, social awkwardness, etc.