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Just makes me sad that the talent isn't applied in other areas of the story, and worse, that amazingly talented studios are throwing bodies into the furnace to make adaptations out of them.
My brother summed up our feelings on it with, “I know what playing an MMO feels like.” We were both wondering, "what's the hook?" I watched all of Bofuri with my sister, and we liked it as a low-stakes slice of life comedy because we could always look forward to seeing what/how Maple was going to break the game in the next episode. I just don't see what the hook is in Shangri-la. Geoff Thew seems to like it though. I could watch a few more episodes and see where it goes but something else has come up...
Okay, but what's it about?
Say less! I've got the first episode queued up.
It doesn't help that old people keep teaching him secret mining-tricks that make him immune to all physical barriers that are supposed to limit his possible paths.
Honestly?
This is pretty accurate. And then madcap hijinx and the occasional fight ensue.
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Fantastic pitch on Undead Unluck and completely agreed about it
Also seconding the sense that the gropey lechy shit from the start was being pushed by whatever editor was assigned because it really does just disappear fast, like around the time the Spoil arc starts if memory serves.
I mean, I read through the rest of the responses. I was just making a joke about someone comparing it to Ranma and that being enough for me because… well you know.
I need to find a good Ranma gif. It’s time to change my avatar I think. Maybe do an Italian flag filter or something.
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Having read volume 1/2, I'm guessing
Season 1: The main plot is easier to understand (much less wordy), but cut down in places. Stuff the game horribly fails to properly establish to new players is put front and center with stuff like establishing shots (imagine!).
Season 2: Same, but the censorship became pretty heinous this time, as the darker elements are key to understanding what is actually occurring in the story, but their restrictions or timeslot or whatever it is makes this resemble a 4 Kids translation at times. More on this in the third section.
Season 1: The combat is truncated or missing.
Season 2: Still a present issue, but improved.
Length spoilers, not really plot spoilers in this block.
Season 1: Instead of battles to the death, there's a whole lot of punching and kicking and shooting guns and swords out of hands. On the upside, this approach does make certain things make more sense (when is a kill on a boss a KILL and not a defeat they scurry away from? See also, when a good guy Operator is beaten, but not killed outright vs when they ARE actually killed.) On the downside, this is usually very silly looking and doesn't represent the world of the game very honestly.
Season 2: Have to jump into spoilers for this as its the whole plot of the season.
More notes from being a fan of the game first:
Tl;dr, it's entertaining as a show and better than experiencing the game's story in many ways, but it is being chipped away at by the extremely bad judgment of what kind of rating or timeslot was appropriate for this story. I hope they at least get a part 3 for grand finale of this part of the story.
Also it's blissfully free of fan service or otherwise being creepy, which is really nice, if depressing that that's not the standard.
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Like this fighting game is so buggy it's got a tiny, tiny playerbase.... Who love it because it's so buggy the bugs have become part of the meta
Or this game is really good quality, but has an immense learning cliff due to its controls, which keeps it's playerbase low, etc.
It's good stuff!
I also appreciate that our protagonist is not some generic good at games guy - he's one of the best players, but his skills are all earned and come from his background of playing nonsense trash games. Just a really nice chill read so far
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I could use something with a lot more chill vibes to offset that
I recommend Akane Banashi, Frieren, or Delicious in Dungeon
I really enjoy what I've read of Marriage Toxin. (And ironically, it's a very non-toxic relationship.)
All three of these are very good, but I'm not sure about chill
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Great write-up, but I want to interject here and note how ironic this is because the arc this takes place in isn't generally regarded that fondly.
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oh man, I loved that anime
good idea, thanks
Yeah, some parts of Frieren are downright tense.
Chill mangas to read:
Skip & Loafer, Laid-Back Camp, Spy x Family (for the most part).
if we're not counting the gun devil backstory?
On second thought, spoilers
Damn, sounds like those two animes have a lot of fucking going on.
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