Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
I know in one season the robots are powered by orgasms.
Nono that's the good part of aquarion, it was the rest of it that sucked.
For a certain definition of good, anyway.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I'm definitely in the minority opinion on the recent dandadan episode
Like yeah it was well directed, very intense, etc. But damn dude did we really need an intensely realistic and violent sequence about a woman being abused dropped right in the middle of the - until now - light entertainment? There a lot of stories where I'd be singing praise to the director for it, if it was a show that was going to continue examining those ideas in a direct way. Dropping it into this story feels like they were just making it shocking for the sake of being shocking, when we're just gonna go back to ball jokes next week and never mention it again. I thought the way the manga handled it was more appropriate to the overall tone of the story.
Anyway I say all that with a heavy dose of ambivalent, it was well done, I don't think someone's wrong to have liked it, I just don't think it worked for me in the larger context of the show.
Kana on
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
You're more than free to feel that way, but imo a lot of the greatest art tackles tough subjects. The world can be both funny and tragic, things can be dire one moment and silly the next. I can't tell you how many times I've been in shouting matches with a family member or someone important to me, only for us to laugh about it later.
I would say that also, the show hasn't been all that light in tone before that either
With the reveal of all those dead girls from the tunnel
This is clearly a story about something larger than just the paranormal, it's just the somewhat fun and goofy lense through which they've chosen to explore those themes
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
I tried reading the LN when J-Novel picked it up but dropped it pretty fast cause it was just trying to be the edgiest edge lord revenge story.
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Havelock3.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
You're more than free to feel that way, but imo a lot of the greatest art tackles tough subjects. The world can be both funny and tragic, things can be dire one moment and silly the next. I can't tell you how many times I've been in shouting matches with a family member or someone important to me, only for us to laugh about it later.
I would say that also, the show hasn't been all that light in tone before that either
With the reveal of all those dead girls from the tunnel
This is clearly a story about something larger than just the paranormal, it's just the somewhat fun and goofy lense through which they've chosen to explore those themes
Right. Vengeful Ghosts/Spirits don’t get that way because their lives ended in a pleasant manner.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
I tried reading the LN when J-Novel picked it up but dropped it pretty fast cause it was just trying to be the edgiest edge lord revenge story.
Arifureta has that covered
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
I think I just insta-skip on anything with being "backstabbed by the party" or a cheat skill mentioned in the title.
It took someone here telling me the actual premise of My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered to get me to take a look at that since it is both mocking most of the others with titles like that and actually has an interesting twist on the premise.
He didn't get the power from being isekai'd. His entire class got isekai'd and got powers, but he slept through that part and didn't get one. However, it turns out that he already had a power, even back on Earth...because he's the entire concept of the end of all things in the form of a human teenager. Several of his classmates turn out to be undercover agents from various government agencies on Earth that were terrified of him and wanted to keep tabs on him.
At one point the goddess that isekai'd the class isekai's a scientist from Earth to ask what the hell is up with this kid, and the scientist just goes "Oh, you're the reason he disappeared from Earth? Thank you so much for getting him the hell off our planet!"
It also helps that the MC isn't an edgelord or anything, he's actually just a lazy teenager that would rather play his Switch than deal with all this fantasy world crap, and will generally take the shortest route through whatever his current predicament is (usually the shortest route is making whatever is in his way drop dead). He's also working towards returning towards Earth instead of just accepting his new life in fantasy land.
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
I tried reading the LN when J-Novel picked it up but dropped it pretty fast cause it was just trying to be the edgiest edge lord revenge story.
Arifureta has that covered
Arifureta doesn't have a candle on The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Exterminates with Darkness.
It is far more edgy than its title looks, if you can believe it. The "protagonist" targets not only his former party members who killed him, but also the royalty who ordered his death, the people who cheered his death, and last I read a chapter he was working towards killing the god of death because sure why not.
I do not recommend.
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Havelock3.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
I tried reading the LN when J-Novel picked it up but dropped it pretty fast cause it was just trying to be the edgiest edge lord revenge story.
Arifureta has that covered
Arifureta doesn't have a candle on The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Exterminates with Darkness.
It is far more edgy than its title looks, if you can believe it. The "protagonist" targets not only his former party members who killed him, but also the royalty who ordered his death, the people who cheered his death, and last I read a chapter he was working towards killing the god of death because sure why not.
I do not recommend.
woof
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
yeah that episode 7 was sure something. the tone episode to episode is fucking WILD in dandadan.
Its a silly teen shonen show but it also makes it clear the real world exists and is awful and these kids are being dragged kicking and screaming into it
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Aquarion is a franchise about reincarnated X-Men teenagers who fly planes which combine into giant robots through orgasms. The giant robot(s) are sometimes a banana.
Regardless, the style, aesthetics, and tone seems to be... uh, a bit different from its previous incarnations.
You're more than free to feel that way, but imo a lot of the greatest art tackles tough subjects. The world can be both funny and tragic, things can be dire one moment and silly the next. I can't tell you how many times I've been in shouting matches with a family member or someone important to me, only for us to laugh about it later.
I would say that also, the show hasn't been all that light in tone before that either
With the reveal of all those dead girls from the tunnel
This is clearly a story about something larger than just the paranormal, it's just the somewhat fun and goofy lense through which they've chosen to explore those themes
Came over even though I barely internet anymore because I just finished watching.
This episode really really landed for me. I didn't see it coming at all but it hit me hard (nbd just crying on the couch while the dog stares at me like I've gone crazy).
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I'm definitely in the minority opinion on the recent dandadan episode
Like yeah it was well directed, very intense, etc. But damn dude did we really need an intensely realistic and violent sequence about a woman being abused dropped right in the middle of the - until now - light entertainment? There a lot of stories where I'd be singing praise to the director for it, if it was a show that was going to continue examining those ideas in a direct way. Dropping it into this story feels like they were just making it shocking for the sake of being shocking, when we're just gonna go back to ball jokes next week and never mention it again. I thought the way the manga handled it was more appropriate to the overall tone of the story.
Anyway I say all that with a heavy dose of ambivalent, it was well done, I don't think someone's wrong to have liked it, I just don't think it worked for me in the larger context of the show.
As an aside, moving forward
Each arc is going to be defined by tragedy to some degree or another, at least when at least one new member is added to the main cast (the only one who doesn’t get a tragedy tied into their backstory either for themself or their connected spirit is Kinta (we won’t see him this season as far as I know by how much this seems to cover); but Jiji, Vamola, Rin, Unji and now Kouki all have some pretty big sad times.
Manga spoilers:
JiJi’s Evil Eye “guardian” was the fusion of two kids into one yokai, at least one of whom was used as a human sacrifice for the town’s “god” and the other witnessed the supernaturally induced suicide of his parents.
Vamola is the orphaned survivor of a massive war of colonization against her world and people, the tragedy only tempered by the unit of soldiers who took her in managing to survive yet unbeknownst to her
Rin was estranged from her best friend because she had to care for her ailing grandmother, and when her friend was coming to try and patch things up she and her family were killed in a car accident.
Unji’s kid brother drowned which causes his mother to go mad with grief and try to murder suicide with Unji after (she didn’t survive)
Kouki was a piano prodigy when something yet unexplained happened and she became reclusive and gave up on her talents for years, and is now being blackmailed with explicit photos of herself
Basically, Dandadan is a land of emotional contrasts
There's a lot of focus here on the mecha orgasms and very little discussion about how one of the big bad's various plans for revenge over being dumped is to trick his ex-boyfriend's reincarnation into impregnating him via magical angel powers.
There's a lot of focus here on the mecha orgasms and very little discussion about how one of the big bad's various plans for revenge over being dumped is to trick his ex-boyfriend's reincarnation into impregnating him via magical angel powers.
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WearingGlassesOf the friendly neighborhood varietyRegistered Userregular
I'm definitely in the minority opinion on the recent dandadan episode
Like yeah it was well directed, very intense, etc. But damn dude did we really need an intensely realistic and violent sequence about a woman being abused dropped right in the middle of the - until now - light entertainment? There a lot of stories where I'd be singing praise to the director for it, if it was a show that was going to continue examining those ideas in a direct way. Dropping it into this story feels like they were just making it shocking for the sake of being shocking, when we're just gonna go back to ball jokes next week and never mention it again. I thought the way the manga handled it was more appropriate to the overall tone of the story.
Anyway I say all that with a heavy dose of ambivalent, it was well done, I don't think someone's wrong to have liked it, I just don't think it worked for me in the larger context of the show.
As an aside, moving forward
Each arc is going to be defined by tragedy to some degree or another, at least when at least one new member is added to the main cast (the only one who doesn’t get a tragedy tied into their backstory either for themself or their connected spirit is Kinta (we won’t see him this season as far as I know by how much this seems to cover); but Jiji, Vamola, Rin, Unji and now Kouki all have some pretty big sad times.
Manga spoilers:
JiJi’s Evil Eye “guardian” was the fusion of two kids into one yokai, at least one of whom was used as a human sacrifice for the town’s “god” and the other witnessed the supernaturally induced suicide of his parents.
Vamola is the orphaned survivor of a massive war of colonization against her world and people, the tragedy only tempered by the unit of soldiers who took her in managing to survive yet unbeknownst to her
Rin was estranged from her best friend because she had to care for her ailing grandmother, and when her friend was coming to try and patch things up she and her family were killed in a car accident.
Unji’s kid brother drowned which causes his mother to go mad with grief and try to murder suicide with Unji after (she didn’t survive)
Kouki was a piano prodigy when something yet unexplained happened and she became reclusive and gave up on her talents for years, and is now being blackmailed with explicit photos of herself
Basically, Dandadan is a land of emotional contrasts
Mr. Shrimp too has a sad backstory - not as bad as the kids, but it's an adult kind of problem.
I'm definitely in the minority opinion on the recent dandadan episode
Like yeah it was well directed, very intense, etc. But damn dude did we really need an intensely realistic and violent sequence about a woman being abused dropped right in the middle of the - until now - light entertainment? There a lot of stories where I'd be singing praise to the director for it, if it was a show that was going to continue examining those ideas in a direct way. Dropping it into this story feels like they were just making it shocking for the sake of being shocking, when we're just gonna go back to ball jokes next week and never mention it again. I thought the way the manga handled it was more appropriate to the overall tone of the story.
Anyway I say all that with a heavy dose of ambivalent, it was well done, I don't think someone's wrong to have liked it, I just don't think it worked for me in the larger context of the show.
As an aside, moving forward
Each arc is going to be defined by tragedy to some degree or another, at least when at least one new member is added to the main cast (the only one who doesn’t get a tragedy tied into their backstory either for themself or their connected spirit is Kinta (we won’t see him this season as far as I know by how much this seems to cover); but Jiji, Vamola, Rin, Unji and now Kouki all have some pretty big sad times.
Manga spoilers:
JiJi’s Evil Eye “guardian” was the fusion of two kids into one yokai, at least one of whom was used as a human sacrifice for the town’s “god” and the other witnessed the supernaturally induced suicide of his parents.
Vamola is the orphaned survivor of a massive war of colonization against her world and people, the tragedy only tempered by the unit of soldiers who took her in managing to survive yet unbeknownst to her
Rin was estranged from her best friend because she had to care for her ailing grandmother, and when her friend was coming to try and patch things up she and her family were killed in a car accident.
Unji’s kid brother drowned which causes his mother to go mad with grief and try to murder suicide with Unji after (she didn’t survive)
Kouki was a piano prodigy when something yet unexplained happened and she became reclusive and gave up on her talents for years, and is now being blackmailed with explicit photos of herself
Basically, Dandadan is a land of emotional contrasts
Mr. Shrimp too has a sad backstory - not as bad as the kids, but it's an adult kind of problem.
It makes his intro fight where he’s shouting his catch phrase all the more sad. Dandadan is good at showing that monstrous appearing characters are actually people. Even Turbo Granny’s origin is hella tragic.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
Aquarion is neat, there are space ghosts who are angry because they can't read, immortals who mistake some weird dog for a reincarnated hero, and things like that.
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I think I heard a character say "aquarion" in there somewhere so guessing it's that
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members (Shinjiteita Nakama-tachi ni Dungeon Okuchi de Korosarekaketa ga Gift "Mugen Gacha" de Level 9999 no Nakama-tachi o Te ni Irete Moto Party Member to Sekai ni Fukushuu & "Zamaa!" Shimasu!)
Yeah, that's definitely some Aquarion flavored gooseshit.
I mean, we already have Anime Monte Cristo (and it's actually good, with art direction that very likely involved drugs.)
Nono that's the good part of aquarion, it was the rest of it that sucked.
For a certain definition of good, anyway.
Anyway I say all that with a heavy dose of ambivalent, it was well done, I don't think someone's wrong to have liked it, I just don't think it worked for me in the larger context of the show.
I would say that also, the show hasn't been all that light in tone before that either
I tried reading the LN when J-Novel picked it up but dropped it pretty fast cause it was just trying to be the edgiest edge lord revenge story.
Right. Vengeful Ghosts/Spirits don’t get that way because their lives ended in a pleasant manner.
Arifureta has that covered
It took someone here telling me the actual premise of My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered to get me to take a look at that since it is both mocking most of the others with titles like that and actually has an interesting twist on the premise.
At one point the goddess that isekai'd the class isekai's a scientist from Earth to ask what the hell is up with this kid, and the scientist just goes "Oh, you're the reason he disappeared from Earth? Thank you so much for getting him the hell off our planet!"
It also helps that the MC isn't an edgelord or anything, he's actually just a lazy teenager that would rather play his Switch than deal with all this fantasy world crap, and will generally take the shortest route through whatever his current predicament is (usually the shortest route is making whatever is in his way drop dead). He's also working towards returning towards Earth instead of just accepting his new life in fantasy land.
Arifureta doesn't have a candle on The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Exterminates with Darkness.
It is far more edgy than its title looks, if you can believe it. The "protagonist" targets not only his former party members who killed him, but also the royalty who ordered his death, the people who cheered his death, and last I read a chapter he was working towards killing the god of death because sure why not.
I do not recommend.
woof
Heavy but very good episode
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Its a silly teen shonen show but it also makes it clear the real world exists and is awful and these kids are being dragged kicking and screaming into it
Yeah. He kept trying to press her into sex too
Not having watched any Aquarion - that's the good part??
Regardless, the style, aesthetics, and tone seems to be... uh, a bit different from its previous incarnations.
Came over even though I barely internet anymore because I just finished watching.
This episode really really landed for me. I didn't see it coming at all but it hit me hard (nbd just crying on the couch while the dog stares at me like I've gone crazy).
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I only watched the first series and it's been over a decade, but iirc it was all vibes based orgasms, tied to the Giant Robots combining together
Edit: Or maybe it wasn't actually combining two seperate robots, but that they needed 2 pilots? Like I said it's been a while
As an aside, moving forward
Manga spoilers:
Vamola is the orphaned survivor of a massive war of colonization against her world and people, the tragedy only tempered by the unit of soldiers who took her in managing to survive yet unbeknownst to her
Rin was estranged from her best friend because she had to care for her ailing grandmother, and when her friend was coming to try and patch things up she and her family were killed in a car accident.
Unji’s kid brother drowned which causes his mother to go mad with grief and try to murder suicide with Unji after (she didn’t survive)
Kouki was a piano prodigy when something yet unexplained happened and she became reclusive and gave up on her talents for years, and is now being blackmailed with explicit photos of herself
Basically, Dandadan is a land of emotional contrasts
The instruction book is very clear about how it works actually
Hitachi started making mecha, to take on their arch nemesis - the Tengabot
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