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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I knew that the Black Clover anime had finished. I saw that the last episode was 170. However, what I didn't know, is that it didn't have an ending. It literally just stopped with no actual ending to what was going on. That seems crazy to me. I guess there is some sort of movie coming out?

    edit: It was good to see that Asta doesn't skip leg day. Also they threw Asta's mother into the last episode and explain absolutely nothing about it. Just, here you go. Crazy.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    They were to caught up with the Manga so instead of just making up filler they just paused

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    They were to caught up with the Manga so instead of just making up filler they just paused

    Did they pause or did they end the series? I read the latter which is very different than the former.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hell if I know. All i know is the manga is still going

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I want more reverse Isekai

    Send an orc to Tokyo U already
    A monster ends up in our world, sees all the ways our society and economic systems are fucked and uses their magic to begin reshaping the world.

    Basically, I just want a kobold to be explained the stock market, then blow it up.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    shadowane wrote: »
    They were to caught up with the Manga so instead of just making up filler they just paused

    Did they pause or did they end the series? I read the latter which is very different than the former.

    They finished a major arc then started with the transition arc.

    I figure they want to wait for the currently being drawn arc to be finished, then they will announce a new season.

    That said, the author rarely manages to draw the full 20 pages week to week these days; manga is a tough job.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's kind of an Isekai like that but it's also unusual in that it's an Isekai where the protagonist is not dead and traverses between the two worlds with a simple mechanism.

    Basically this office worker in Japan goes to a fantasy world every time he sleeps. He thought it was a dream back when it first started happening but then he realized no he really was going to another world and when he sleeps in that world he wakes up in the modern world, his body physically transferring between them.

    Eventually a situation happens where someone else is in close proximity as he's "waking up" and suddenly there's an elf in his apartment. The story shifts between their adventures in the fantasy world and more slice of life when in the modern world. It's not conflicting either, sometimes they use the time gap between worlds to come up with a plan or to escape a dangerous situation in the fantasy world.

    I can try to find the name if anyone's interested. Think the English name is something like Elf in Japan, only much wordier.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    There's kind of an Isekai like that but it's also unusual in that it's an Isekai where the protagonist is not dead and traverses between the two worlds with a simple mechanism.

    Basically this office worker in Japan goes to a fantasy world every time he sleeps. He thought it was a dream back when it first started happening but then he realized no he really was going to another world and when he sleeps in that world he wakes up in the modern world, his body physically transferring between them.

    Eventually a situation happens where someone else is in close proximity as he's "waking up" and suddenly there's an elf in his apartment. The story shifts between their adventures in the fantasy world and more slice of life when in the modern world. It's not conflicting either, sometimes they use the time gap between worlds to come up with a plan or to escape a dangerous situation in the fantasy world.

    I can try to find the name if anyone's interested. Think the English name is something like Elf in Japan, only much wordier.

    Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh, there's also another one! True Reverse Isekai where inhabitants of the fantasy world can come to the modern world, but the only way they can return is if they're physically similar to how they arrived. Considering all the delicious food in this world, that's often a problem and there's a good number of "hidden" fantasy races who end up establishing a life in the modern world after figuring out they can't go back.

    There's not much of a story and it's a combination "harem" where the protagonist has no actual interest in any of the would-be contenders, slice of life teaching healthy living tips since the protagonist is a health therapist, and comedy involving the many fantasy races interacting with each other.

    I don't quite remember either name of this one, but if you Google elf and French fries you'll probably find it.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kyougu wrote: »
    I keep seeing Shield Hero lauded as one of the better isekais and people seem to be excited for S2.

    And I"m like...how?!

    Shield hero is one of those ones i heard about, then did a little bit of reading, found out about the antagonist and their lovely names, and their eventual fate and decided that the author clearly had some uh, Issues and i was going to stay the fuck away from this.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Shield Hero is so bad it makes a lot of other terrible Isekai seem tolerable

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kyougu wrote: »
    I keep seeing Shield Hero lauded as one of the better isekais and people seem to be excited for S2.

    And I"m like...how?!

    Most anime fans are horrid degenerates. Unlike me, who is worse

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Another kinda reverse Isekai but much more abrasive would be The Hero Who Returns Remains the Strongest in the Modern World. I remember the title specifically because of the weirdness.

    Summary is that dude got isekai'd, became a hero, saved the fantasy world, and got sent back to the his original world. Only his specs are still fully intact.

    Then it turns out there's always been paranormal stuff in the modern world, including a really shitty family of demon hunters and the literal Vatican. It doesn't really have an overarching story and bizarre shit happens constantly, such as when he beats up a Yakuza, has him arrested, and gets admonished for it by one of the demon hunters and a literal angel...because there's an unspoken agreement between the Japanese government and paranormals that anything taken from criminals is free to keep for the paranormals who take them out. In other words, the yakuza are "loot pinatas" for those two characters and the protagonist wonders who the real criminals are in that comedic sense as they squeeze another yakuza member for the location of his main office.

    There's interesting weird stuff here and there too though. Like how his childhood friend clearly has something strange going on paranormally or how he doesn't see what's strange about having a mother who doesn't age and has a specialty dish that is literally spaghetti noodles and liquid bleach. Which he loves to eat and calls it "spicy". Just that bit of bizarre which keeps it from being a typical anything.

    Oh and pretty much every main character is some type of dirtbag person. Like they are not shining heroes, even the literal former hero though he's somewhat better than most of the dirtbags.

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    my fancy crowdfunded oddtaxi bluray set monstrosity arrived. it rules
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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm still waiting for the Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic anime that was announced awhile back

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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Oh jesus christ I'd never heard of Shield Hero and for half a page thought people were talking about Bofuri.

    Sitting here thinking "I mean, it's not doing anything groundbreaking but I thought it was cute and inoffensive, am I so out of touch?"

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ilpala wrote: »
    Oh jesus christ I'd never heard of Shield Hero and for half a page thought people were talking about Bofuri.

    Sitting here thinking "I mean, it's not doing anything groundbreaking but I thought it was cute and inoffensive, am I so out of touch?"

    Bofuri would be Rise of the Shield Supervillain.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The only questionable part of Bofuri is the idea that, in an MMO, no else had ever considered a fully defensive build before.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the thing you have to understand about maple is that she is so unbelievably dense that she becomes a genius

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Maple is perfect in every way, it is the world who is wrong

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Glal wrote: »
    The only questionable part of Bofuri is the idea that, in an MMO, no else had ever considered a fully defensive build before.

    Her build would have been an Iron Pineapple video set to The Wall

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 14
    shadowane wrote: »
    They were to caught up with the Manga so instead of just making up filler they just paused

    Did they pause or did they end the series? I read the latter which is very different than the former.

    the manga is in what seems like very much the final arc of the series. they've said they're making a movie after the anime finished, so I'm 99% sure it'll be the final arc animated and that'll be that for black clover. rip to a real one

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jragghen wrote: »
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    Irishman talks about Berserk for 2 hours

    This is a fucking good video.

    So as a follow up I watched his Garfield video.

    This guy is really good at crafting a narrative.

    I watched the "this manga [Teppu] will make you better at fighting" one, and like someone in the comments to that video, about five minutes in I stopped watching the video and went off to read Teppu, then came back to watch the rest of the video.

    It was really fascinating comparing what he got out of it to what I got out of it -- supereyepatchwolf does jiu-jitsu himself, so when he reads a comic about MMA he is looking for how well it presents the actual grapples and combat and stuff, and I guess if you know what you're doing it does a good job of that. For me, I don't know much about what was going on during the fights, but that didn't seem to matter, any more than how I don't know enough about Go to really understand Hikaru No Go, or enough about shogi for 3-Gatsu No Lion, etc. (that said, I have never managed to get on with a baseball manga, those seem to be too much about the actual whos-on-which-base details for me).

    Even without appreciating the fight choreography, though, Teppu is well worth a read -- is it a story about fighting? Well, yes, I guess so.

    But it's much more (imho) a story about the meaning of struggle, and the meaning of victory, and progression, and community, and friendship, and how success can be the worst possible thing to happen to someone and what to do to overcome that. (which kind of makes it sound like one-punch man, but it is very very different)

    It's completed, relatively short (the video says due to illness, and while the story does reach an ending, there was definitely more story to tell), and well worth a look.

    More shallowly it's also just a fun reversal of the standard shounen sports setup. Our protagonist is the ridiculously talented grouchy loner, while her antagonist is the plucky newbie who wants to show others how fun her chosen sport is, and powers through challenger after challenger with sheer hard work and enthusiasm.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I genuinely have a hard time telling at least half of the isekais that get picked up for an anime adaptation apart actually, I think they very much run into the same issue of mass-copycat web light novel churn

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I read all kinds of Isekai and most of it is garbage, but there's usually something interesting that I can differentiate from the others. Just not names, gotta be concepts. Like the Not Isekai that has an interesting take on what a class system would be like if it could influence the person with a class, especially in the case of "heavy" roles like Hero and Demon King.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    feels like it's been that way since the middle of the 2010s at least now, how long can this fad last

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mill wrote: »
    Well the isekai genre is also the current big fad of anime. This means that it's going to get all the people that are looking for a cheap and easy payout. So you get a shit to of trash and lazy writing, which really dilutes the quality of the genre as a whole. Trying to remember which genre was "the" genre for anime before isekai because during that time, that genre likely also had just a shit ton of trash and lazily written content.

    Tsundere magical girlfriends.

    "My sister wants to fuck me."

    "I am a mopey teenager and all the girls around me have metaphysical problems only I can solve solely by existing."

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Glal wrote: »
    The only questionable part of Bofuri is the idea that, in an MMO, no else had ever considered a fully defensive build before.

    I can almost (almost) see it for the very specific case of the MMORPG they're playing, where it's hooked into your real-world perceptions and your character's movement speed is based on your agility score. Like imagine being stuck at the absolutely pokiest walking speed you can manage, and that's what you have at 0 agility in this game. The wackiness with Maple's build happens when every goddamned point is in Constitution, and the penalties you suffer for having 0 in the other stats would drive someone without a saint's patience insane.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I think moé was the popular trend for the 00s, slowly losing steam up to Sword Art Online in 2012.

    The 80s were the decade of the OVA, so not so much a genre as 'spend a 12 episode budget on 3-6 episodes'. Then the 90s were the big commercialization tie-in years for mainstream anime, and once Eva came out you get all the Lains and such reacting to that.

    Also @Local H Jay I just finished reading that part of Alita as I wrapped up the last volume. Gonna read the gaiden stuff soon, then take a little break before starting Last Order.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mill wrote: »
    If I didn't have other things going on. I'd probably do a delve into Japan's economic history for the last two decades to see if it mostly matches the rest o the world because we've seen trends in horror movies being impacted by economic trends. I want to say that when the economy isn't great, Zombies are the thing. Kind of feel like that rule applies to other stuff as well. Other trends beside economy also factor in as well. With growing economic inequality, the impacts of climate change and a few other things. Isekai is probably the big in thing because it's so easy to dress up the MC as an analog for the audience that wants to escape the current state of affairs. So it might be around until people start having a more positive outlook on reality.

    I think there have been some factors specific to the anime industry as well. For example, the (deserved) total collapse of the visual novel industry/pipeline of VN -> anime. The haremy nature of VNs shares a lot of the same issues, but they were stories made to highlight a cast of characters, the protagonist is usually a non-entity blob, and especially having an established conclusion. Light novels are more designed to go on for fucking ever and each volume/arc's core commonality is the protagonist, it all narrows down focus to the world having to revolve around them in all ways.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mysst wrote: »
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Is Plus-Size Elf as full of body shaming as it looks?

    the art is often at odds with the text

    From what I've seen premise is essentially just an excuse for the artist to draw thick monster girls.

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Is Plus-Size Elf as full of body shaming as it looks?

    Depends if plus size as a fetish counts as body shaming

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    notya wrote: »
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Is Plus-Size Elf as full of body shaming as it looks?

    Depends if plus size as a fetish counts as body shaming

    While it's strictly better than outright shaming, the idea of plus size bodies being "good" because they turn someone's crank is pretty "yikes" on its own.

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