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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kupi wrote: »
    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.
    Even then, that's still like, within release week at least six different youtubers do that build for a shitpost.

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Is there an isekai where the only power the main character has is the ability to savescum?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Undertale

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opty wrote: »
    Is there an isekai where the only power the main character has is the ability to savescum?

    Re:zero

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opty wrote: »
    Is there an isekai where the only power the main character has is the ability to savescum?

    That's literally Re:Zero, yes.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    re:zero's is less like a power to savescum and more like a curse to have to repeat a period of time until he doesn't die horribly

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opty wrote: »
    Is there an isekai where the only power the main character has is the ability to savescum?

    Man, there's one this season, and a second that's not an isekai.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'd say by the end of the 00s every long running shonen action series trying to be the next Dragon Ball or Rurouni Kenshin had got an anime adaption and already been cancelled, people were getting tired of low budget harem VN adaptations and the ecchi RomComs trying to be the next Love Hina. Then you had Toaru Majutsu which combined action with harem so everyone switched to adapting LNs, eventually hit gold with SAO, and publishers turned to web novel sites like Shousetsuka Ni Narou and snatched up any remotely popular series which was mostly fantasy wish fulfillment which tends to be written as an isekai. The current trend has been people getting bored of perfect nice guy MCs like Kirito and wanting a MC with flaws but since all of the web novel authors are amateur hobbyists and don't know how to make characters they just go with the lowest hanging fruit which is incel sex pest.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I have never understood the appeal of Toaru Majutsu/A Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun, that shit was terrible

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Opty wrote: »
    Is there an isekai where the only power the main character has is the ability to savescum?

    Not quite an isekai but this is the premise of SSS Suicide Hunter. Gist of it is that main character has a skill where every time he's killed he goes back 24 hours prior. After
    CW for some fucked up stuff
    committing suicide enough times to go back TEN YEARS
    he makes use of this ability to do the usual Climb the Tower thing Korean webtoons love. Only rather than just using his skill to become the strongest he uses it as many times as needed to perfectly resolve problem situations in a way that he can prevent even a single lost life as he also elevates the people he knows will be among the strongest so that he can count them among his allies in the goal.

    It's some pretty good stuff!

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The appeal of Railgun was basically just watching Misaka invade secret government facilities and do cool shit with her magneto powers.

    That character deserved a better show then what she got.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    And the main appeal of Index and Railgun was watching this one random dude punch Accelerator, someone nobody else could even literally touch because his power always active, in his face at maximum strength
    https://youtu.be/ckKhUjQA8yk

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Right, that big climactic scene? That fell totally flat for me. They utterly failed to get me to care about or root for Mr. Protagonist With The Secret Specialest and Bestest Power. And the guy getting punched likewise failed to get any emotional response. Absolute bottom of the shonen fight scene barrel.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's true, Railgun is held down by being connected to Index and it's generic nothing of an mc.

    Would be a much more interesting series if it was solely focused on the weird esper powers and insane government cover ups without all the baggage of Index and it's boring punch man.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Started reading the manga of Monster, and if the anime is half as good as this, I can believe the hype.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Right, that big climactic scene? That fell totally flat for me. They utterly failed to get me to care about or root for Mr. Protagonist With The Secret Specialest and Bestest Power. And the guy getting punched likewise failed to get any emotional response. Absolute bottom of the shonen fight scene barrel.

    Oh I didn't care about it at all emotionally. No media has ever succeeded on that front. I can only figure out stuff I like based on how well it catches and holds my attention, and the best way to do that is some neat trick. The Imagination Breaker, for example, has the neat trick of cancelling all otherworldly powers...including his own good luck. Accelerator on the other hand has Vector Control, wherein anything that touches him can be redirected at will and at the extreme can be used to do things like create tornadoes by warping air currents.

    It's not a very deep interest, I haven't read either Index or Railgun in years, but I remember the tricks that I can maybe repurpose into my own work. Well, back when I wanted to write novels anyway. So now I just look for stuff that makes my brain mull it over a bit and file it away, never to be used but occasionally remembered again maybe.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The appeal of Toaru Majutsu is that in a city full of people with powers the main character is a regular guy but actual his power is that he cancels out everyone else's power so he is secretly OP as fuck. Also he keeps running into cute girls and helping them out so they all fall in love with him.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The only thing I've seen is the fight versus the big scary reality warper, and it's pretty good.

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

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of interesting things Frieren continues to make demons really goddamn scary in a unique way for such a rote fantasy race

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  • EspantaPajaroEspantaPajaro Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I could really use a new season of konosuba right about now . Actually think I will rewatch the show , I love those idiots.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There was this one isekai I remember seeing clips of on Youtube about the protagonist being a masked pro-wrestler who's nuts about animals. So when he's pulled into another world by a ritual led by the local princess and in the middle of an important match to boot, he calmly suplexes her in the middle of her explanations of why he was brought over and walks out. The rest of the show I think was about him becoming an animal/monster trainer. That and a lot of wrestling moves. Anyone else seen what I'm talking about?

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I have never understood the appeal of Toaru Majutsu/A Certain Magical Index/Scientific Railgun, that shit was terrible

    Some of the fight animation is nice

    ... That's about it.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Owenashi wrote: »
    There was this one isekai I remember seeing clips of on Youtube about the protagonist being a masked pro-wrestler who's nuts about animals. So when he's pulled into another world by a ritual led by the local princess and in the middle of an important match to boot, he calmly suplexes her in the middle of her explanations of why he was brought over and walks out. The rest of the show I think was about him becoming an animal/monster trainer. That and a lot of wrestling moves. Anyone else seen what I'm talking about?

    https://myanimelist.net/anime/39030/Hataage_Kemono_Michi

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Owenashi wrote: »
    There was this one isekai I remember seeing clips of on Youtube about the protagonist being a masked pro-wrestler who's nuts about animals. So when he's pulled into another world by a ritual led by the local princess and in the middle of an important match to boot, he calmly suplexes her in the middle of her explanations of why he was brought over and walks out. The rest of the show I think was about him becoming an animal/monster trainer. That and a lot of wrestling moves. Anyone else seen what I'm talking about?

    https://myanimelist.net/anime/39030/Hataage_Kemono_Michi

    Yeah, that's the one. I'd put up a clip of the moment I mentioned in question but the princess is wearing a dress so there's an obvious panty shot after the suplex.

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  • KanaKana 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

    So much of anime is YA focused, and YA doesn't need to innovate very fast, because they've constantly got a fresh new audience for whom the repetitive shit is new and unique.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Isekai is like 3 out of 50 shows every season. It's really not that bad. There's a hell of a lot of anime every season.

    Of ones I'd like to see adapted tho: Saving 80,000 gold coins in another world. About a girl who can move back and forth between a fantasy world and modern Japan. So she uses things like easily gotten fantasy gold to buy guns from mercenaries because you know, gun.

    It's not the most complex premise but like sometimes saving for retirement is tough yo.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'd argue it's more like 15 out of 50 in a given season at this juncture

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Japan was on an isekai kick, but we've been on a superhero multiverse kick for quite a while

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's 6/~39 (depending on what you're calling series) for this season, but there's a good argument to be made to add at least 4-5 more that are still literally RPG isekai, just without a reincarnating protagonist. Last season was 7/~32. I also made the mistake of looking at next season, and while there were only I think 5 (so far), there are at least that many idol shows as well.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also Imagination Breaker is only OP vs magic and esper powers to a point. It's pointed out really early the power is only in his right hand and he has to be able to touch what he's trying to erase. Meaning that when he took Railgun's special move the one time without raising his hand he got wrecked badly. Not to mention all you really need to counter him is a gun. He's tricky, but in the words of Heavy he can't outsmart bullets.

    Apparently at some point he also punches a literal Archangel out of existence though so that's funny to me.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered 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?!
    Anime is blood.

    The show is problematic as hell, but I still like the actual fighting at it's attempts at a story. The stuff with the Princess is MRA bullshit, and the fact that Raphtalia has decided to equate her specific case of slavery as marriage (because Naofumi is "one of the good owners") is definitely creepy. The other three heroes hated Shield because he was useless, but have started coming around on him as realizing he was actually correct about the situation they've been shunted into. Well, except for the Dragoon, but that's self explanatory. Plus Naofumi is slowly making the world better, even if by degrees.

    I'm curious to see how the plot with the demons from another realm shakes out, because it's been hinted that they're also in the same boat as Naofumi and the other heroes, just taking a more pro-active approach to their survival. Plus Kung-Fu Kaiju Chocobo is the best character, and you can't change my mind.
    Mill wrote: »
    Putting aside the various failings of Index. Imagine Breaker is actually a really good concept. It's a essentially a way to make a week character OP, but not have him invincible. Touma, I think that's the name, is able to beat magicians because most magicians spend tons of time honing their craft and a fair number aren't wild about using non-magic attacks. You also have espers, who have these really powerful abilities and some dude armed with just his fists beating them down, seems laughable. Touma ends up being able to beat them because they aren't expecting to be in a fight where their magic or espers powers amount to squat. He almost always runs into issues when his opponent knows how to melee the shit out of someone without relying on supernatural powers or they decide to bring a gun.

    It also had the gimmick where magic and esper powers were incompatible. Not only could espers not perform magic, but if they got tricked into doing that stuff that is essentially casting magic, it causes them physical damage. This of course leads to the introduction of a character who is both an esper and mage and the only reason can still use any level of magic is because his esper is regeneration, but there are hard limits on how much magic he can cast and how power it can be because he can only regenerate so much.

    It's a shame the writing of Index wasn't really that good because it had some new concepts that would have been amazing with a much better story. Index is good proof that you can have neat concepts, but those really can't carry mediocre writing.
    Index herself was a weight that dragged down the entire series. Plus the fact that the show(s) kept introducing more and more characters and it all just kind of became a blur to me.

    If they'd kept the shows to the three protagonists (Touma, Railgun, and to a lesser extent, Accelerator), with a tight set of co-stars, I think it would have been a lot better. I think Railgun did the best with this, but even that started to unnecessarily expand later on.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I want more reverse Isekai

    Send an orc to Tokyo U already

    Devil is a part timer.

    Is ok but I wanna see fairy take botany classes more

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Going by Garnt's videos the new in-thing for anime is idols

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Going by Garnt's videos the new in-thing for anime is idols
    I need a second season of Idolmaster Xenoglossia, it's true.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    New? There was a season a couple years back that had double digits of idol shows.

    Love Live is on its like eighth iteration.

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