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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I need 'Instant Death' to get an anime, speaking of Isekai. Better execution than I expected considering the premise.

    Class of kids get isekai'd, super powers are given to those that are compatible. Super powered person tells them they get to live if they get strong enough to be 'sages' or whatever.

    Dude sleeping in the back of the bus is the MC. Isn't given a power. Because he's had the power to just instantly kill anyone with a thought, even in his old world. Story goes from there, occasionally dipping into back story to hint at what dude is.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I like Isekai Ojisan for the pain it gives me every couple of chapters
    If you like something fun I would recommend reading Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute

    https://to-be-a-power-in-the-shadows.fandom.com/wiki/To_Be_a_Power_in_the_Shadows!_Wiki
    One big fat lie and a few twisted truths

    Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down...

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

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  • H3KnucklesH3Knuckles But we decide which is right and which is an illusion.Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Sorce wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

    Kind of sounds like it's managed to back away from standard isekai and right into classic Superman and Spider-Man 'the difficulties of maintaining a secret ID' territory.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

    Kind of sounds like it's managed to back away from standard isekai and right into classic Superman and Spider-Man 'the difficulties of maintaining a secret ID' territory.
    Yeah, but she's an anime character, so keeping her abilities under wraps is near impossible. The girls she's partied up with just roll with it though, because they know she's going to lie about it regardless.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 20
    it’s an old family secret

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  • H3KnucklesH3Knuckles But we decide which is right and which is an illusion.Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Sorce wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

    Kind of sounds like it's managed to back away from standard isekai and right into classic Superman and Spider-Man 'the difficulties of maintaining a secret ID' territory.
    Yeah, but she's an anime character, so keeping her abilities under wraps is near impossible. The girls she's partied up with just roll with it though, because they know she's going to lie about it regardless.

    I'm just amused to see it happen to professionals as well.

    I did something similar several times when I would make City of Heroes characters. I'd have an idea, and then put effort into making sure they weren't too derivative of the obvious copyrighted character with similar powers, only to realize I had merely ended up making a derivative of a different copyrighted character by accident.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

    Kind of sounds like it's managed to back away from standard isekai and right into classic Superman and Spider-Man 'the difficulties of maintaining a secret ID' territory.

    Nah, it's basically like if Superman accidentally blew up a subway station then threatened to destroy the city if anyone there mentioned it and thinking it'd actually work.

    She's really bad at it.

    Also she is totally Isekai broken. They don't really show it off in the anime much tho.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    I kind of wish the modern occult series would have blown up instead of isekai, we need more shows like the first half of El Melloi Case Files.

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I've mentioned I don't particularly mind the harem in Bakarina, because, well, the story actually spends a lot of time and effort making Katarina likable, instead of having an extremely generic dude in there with a dozen girls waiting in hand and foot.

    But for an isekai manga I have read lately that I found amusing, there's what I've taken to calling Kept Man Isekai, Risou no Himo Seikatsu. It's basically very much a completely indulgent trash fantasy, but the thing is, instead of being about getting slaves and power and killing dudes and being a stone-cold badass with OP magic, the main dude is a salaryman who happens to have a blood component that is really useful for magic genetics reasons, so the queen of a fantasy land offers him to come marry her.

    The "catch" is that part of what she wants is someone who won't threaten her own position, because the country in question is kind of very chauvinistic, so an ambitious husband with political savvy could pose a serious risk as nobles would be likely to align with him instead of her. The dude is about 200% on board with the plan of "marry a beautiful woman, and spend the rest of his life parading around waving his hand and doing fuck all else". He and the queen end up falling in love for reals, having a very romantic and extremely loyal marriage (a plot point at one point being that it's typical for noblemen to take concubines and the dude is like "are you nuts, I'm married to the most beautiful woman in the planet, the hell do I want concubines for"), a kid, and while she's queening he spends his time entertaining dignataries, and helping with such things as running checks on the realm's taxes thanks to mad Excel skills.

    And you know what, as power fantasies go, "be happily married and become a support pillar for your spouse" is one I'm okay with.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Sorce wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    H3Knuckles wrote: »
    Or like, take a powerful character from one kind of setting, and stick them in a different kind of world, but one where they have be careful and clever in how they use their powers because in a head to head fight they don't compare favorably to the native big shots. That could be cool too.

    But harems are always bad. The only one I can think of that I really liked was Ranma 1/2, where the entire series is basically about the main two characters trying to get rid of their respective suitors (including eachother at least some of the time).

    I'd love to see that first one. Like someone has gotten so powerful in their world that the resident god punts them out because they're screwing everything up. Then they land in another world and find that they're considered pretty good, but nowhere near the top, and if they want to get stronger they'll have to remember what life was like when they were weak.
    I Said Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life is kind of like this?

    Girl is good at everything, dies and when she's reincarnated, asks to be just an average person. Then the god pulls a trick and makes her 'stat numbers' the average of the strongest and weakest creatures in the world (also the average economically/socially between the Emperor and a slave). Which means she's stronger on average than a large majority of the people/creatures she encounters, and has to hide that fact. Often fairly poorly.

    Noob move. Should have asked for median.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Do you find yourself lacking Guts in these trying, modern times? Watch this week's Railgun T and have them slapped into you, at no additional charge! Act fast, supplies are limited!

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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    The 100 Girlfriends manga is probably the greatest harem running now.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Lars wrote: »
    The 100 Girlfriends manga is probably the greatest harem running now.

    The protagonist actually seems to put in the work, which is nice. Despite being mostly a parody, it's better than the stuff that's playing it straight.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    So I went in blind watching Sakura Wars, save that Kubo Tite did the character designs.

    The characters are CG! It's really jarring. Will report back after watching the episode proper, but that sticks out like crazy.

    Anyone else familiar with the series?

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    So I went in blind watching Sakura Wars, save that Kubo Tite did the character designs.

    The characters are CG! It's really jarring. Will report back after watching the episode proper, but that sticks out like crazy.

    Anyone else familiar with the series?

    The new show is reportedly hot garbage. The original game is great, as is the PS2 one.

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    I don't really have much to say about Sakura Wars. The america-based game that got localized was boring as sin to play. The original OAV is kind of a hilarious in a "This is literally made for people who played the games and no one else" kind of way...

    ...but most of all I'm just flabbergasted by how unforgivably ugly the mecha designs are! Like...not since Betterman have their been boring and unappealing designs.

    And it's all further compacted by the fact that you have these glamorous looking women piloting what amounts to steam-punk bipedal garbage cans. The contrast is actually kind of smart in a way?

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    FMA Brotherhood thru episode 18
    Roy Mustang cooking up this plan to have Barry the fuckin Chopper bust Maria Ross out of jail and then fake her death is just, chef kiss, it's so GOOD, this is my favorite plot device of capers

    mustang is good and my boyfriend

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    (responding in general to isekai discussion last page)

    I feel like Japan's definitely in a kind of postmodern isekai period where we're getting a metric fuckload of stuff that was either designed and written by soulless marketing people chasing after Sword Art Online's popularity, but also a lot of fringe things that are basically the Twilight fan-wank of it that are get popular enough to gain some notoriety.

    Either way, it's hard to write characters and stories that actually develop, but easy to just write out power levels, but with more steps, and this goes hand in hand with really lazy and shitty authoring versions of satire; to do the cliches, have a character announce that they're cliches, and then keep doing them anyway. As if that somehow turns it into a joke. The fan side is especially full of some particularly gross power fantasy and misogyny. If you thought Shield Hero was bad on that front, then hoo boy, that Eighth Son thing airing this season will knock your socks off. Its attitudes towards women are, even for Japan, extremely Not Good.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Wasn't sure what that Eighth Son was so I looked it up and apparently I read a bit of this years ago but fell off because it was just too damn boring like most power fantasy isekai. Probably didn't get far enough in to see what you're referring to.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Easiest way to tell if a new or upcoming isekai is going to be something different or just another boring power fantasy is look at the main character. If it's a teenage male then boring power fantasy.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    To be fair sometimes the teenage girls don't escape it either. OP teenage boys are always saving girls with super power and OP teenage girls are always saving the girls with super power too. Very rare I see a girl saving a boy in these things, at least not without the boy becoming the designated love interest.

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Only the first 2 are animated although just barely in Master of Ragnarok's case. The rest are light novels with the middle 2 getting manga adaptations.

    absurd skill also has a manga, but i don't know if it has an official translation.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Easiest way to tell if a new or upcoming isekai is going to be something different or just another boring power fantasy is look at the main character. If it's a teenage male then boring power fantasy.

    That's a pretty tough sell when pretty much every good Isekai ever made is also a teenage male. Probably need a better metric than that. 'More than three female protagonists' probably winnows the field down to a much thrashier tier.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    the actual safe thing to do is assume they're all shit because it's not worth wading through the 5 wastes of human lifespan that show up every season for the one good maybe bearable thing per year

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    edited April 20
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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Easiest way to tell if a new or upcoming isekai is going to be something different or just another boring power fantasy is look at the main character. If it's a teenage male then boring power fantasy.

    That's a pretty tough sell when pretty much every good Isekai ever made is also a teenage male. Probably need a better metric than that. 'More than three female protagonists' probably winnows the field down to a much thrashier tier.

    More than three female protagonists but only if they aren't part of the lead male's harem.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Uuugh, why is Kaguya Season 2 only on Funimation! It was on Crunchyroll last year.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    the actual safe thing to do is assume they're all shit because it's not worth wading through the 5 wastes of human lifespan that show up every season for the one good maybe bearable thing per year

    'Trash' is often pretty fun though. I get it if you don't enjoy it but I'm kind of surprised by how dismissive people are of everything.

    I have fun with pretty much every show every season. Maybe there will be one or two out of 30ish that have the fatal flaw of just being painfully mediocre to the point of being forgettable but I feel like that's a pretty specific case. (Looking at you, Afterlost.)

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Easiest way to tell if a new or upcoming isekai is going to be something different or just another boring power fantasy is look at the main character. If it's a teenage male then boring power fantasy.

    That's a pretty tough sell when pretty much every good Isekai ever made is also a teenage male. Probably need a better metric than that. 'More than three female protagonists' probably winnows the field down to a much thrashier tier.

    More than three female protagonists but only if they aren't part of the lead male's harem.

    Well if the girl is the MC that's a whole different matter. I can't really think of much that hasn't been at least decent. Though Fushigi got a little weird in parts. That's reaching pretty far back, admittedly, but it's a pretty limited pool if just looking at anime.

    Also Inuyasha still the best Isekai. MKRE gets an honorable mention for having some pretty ok games I played through in highschool and used to study.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Uuugh, why is Kaguya Season 2 only on Funimation! It was on Crunchyroll last year.
    That sucks, but maybe since it's on Funimation, Hulu's got it too?

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 20
    Chōjū-giga (studio Ghibli shorts)
    Studio Ghibli animating Chōjū-giga dating from the 12th century. This is considered to be the first ancestor to mangas.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 20
    Demon Slayer movie trailer is up!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJYac_dORw

    I really hope this comes to theaters in America eventually, or gets streamed, or something. Probably will be a big lag behind the initial release though.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 20
    I would say it’s very likely to get at least a one-weekend event release

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    The second episode of Bakarina is out.

    It continues to be great, and our titular heroine lives up to her nickname.

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    They seem to be cramming a lot into the first episode, I wonder if they are going to finish the entire story within a season (12 episodes)?

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 24
    are there any isekai with a reverse harem? i ask as someone who's read most of the genre and can't recall any.
    i've mostly seen male protag with a bunch of cute girl party members, or female protag with a bunch of cute girl party members.

    there are some isekai i've read with weak/support female protag who romances an OP native male,
    but those mostly just have romance genre conventions, which are fine but not very spicy, structurally speaking.

    re: gleipnir, the ecchi is indeed tedious and horrible as usual, but i'm in for the body horror and femdom i guess.
    protag vaguely reminds me of shinji.

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