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I don't understand the question
The most recent incarnation being in like 2008. It's time. Give me more Slayers.
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ahh ok got it, I'd assumed it might have been the typical thing of the first 3-5ish eps being lighter on before the show hits its stride
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Lisa Ortiz or Megumi Hayashibara?
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Loudness beyond the voice that sings
Buried in the stream of time is where your power rings
I pledge myself to conquer all the listeners who stand
before the mighty gift bestowed in my unworthy hand
Let the fools who stand before me be immersed
by the power you and I possess...
GIVE A REASON!!
Megumi Hayashibara, was a japanese thing
Someone can be on the verge of death and they'll still be making the same face and chatting in the same tone as someone commenting on the weather.
Reckon I'll wait until the season is done and give it another proper shot
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I missed this show
partly it's because it became the new standard flavor for extremely low effort harem crap that gets shoveled out constantly in the serial light novel mines
Combine this with the asinine popularity "Who wants to be a writer" contests that publishers mainly use to pick up what to carry, and that means that whatever's popular at the time stays especially sticky under kind of a tyranny of the majority deal. If you want to get picked up, you've got to write that specific story with one little twist on it and then who gives a fuck, which is why so many start out with laborious explanations of their mechanics, the MC immediately leaps to OP by like page 5, and LN editors are being driven insane because a ton of these people come up with one quirky idea for a webnovel but can't actually write for shit and have zero work ethic.
this was exactly my experience as well, except I immediately loved it. it's a very slow paced series, but is absolutely better off for it. actually giving characters, conversations, even just single scenes, time to breathe is such an important aspect of storytelling that I feel like a lot of modern anime forget to do well, if at all.
I can blame SAO if I like! It certainly deserves it since it's so awful. I wasn't claiming to be making an authoritative statement about where all the blame lies haha
But yes yes obviously it's much more complex than that, but I'm still blaming SAO for at least a good portion of it all for being the catalyst.
Yeah, no, that's entirely it. Ignore me.
GGO is written by not only someone completely different to the regular SAO writer, but that someone also happens to be Sigsawa, the author of Kino's Journey. He knows what he's doing.
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Good news! Season 2 was announced in July:
The suitcase. The best.
I watched entirely too much of it and yeah, pretty much. The first arc is actually pretty good, but then they go and make Asuna helpless instead of the badass she had been to that point, do a bunch of weird sexual assault shit, and just be dumb. Then the GGO part happens and it's very ok but not offensively bad.
Honestly the next part where they're just playing SAO together was kinda fun. Just a bunch of friends playing a dumb game together. This is probably the second best part.
Then Alicization, what a mess.
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And then there's gen:LOCK. I fucking LOVED the first season. Loved David Tennant. HBO bought it, and it went to shit so hard. Is gratuitous sex scenes a requirement for all HBO shows, including animated ones?? I think I only got to the 3rd episode and gave up. It's literally been years and I'm still bitter.
really, the biggest problem with SAO is that the first initial "stuck in a VRMMO death game" arc is probably the best one... but since it was meant to be submitted to the Dengeki Novel Prize it was one standalone volume (but it was too long to be submitted so he self-published it on the web instead, and also made some side stories and less good continuation stories)
it's honestly hard to believe that it took twelve years for him to actually start a spinoff series of light novels covering that entire Aincrad story at a less breakneck pace, you'd figure that he'd come to that point earlier but I guess the release of the anime adaptation motivated him to do that
(if nothing else, it's better than Alicization... which was releasing simultaneously and I think might be the first not-based-on-the-web-novel arc?)