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Seems too loli for me but hey maybe I'm wrong
I feel like there's actually very few of what used to be the harem type shows with VNs going the way of the dodo and the Love Hina fad long since run its course.
Though isekai slave wife harems have certainly stepped into that hole.
And sometimes Actually Just Incest flavor.
Isekai:
Shield hero
Otomege
Skeleton knight
Bookworm
Virgin road I guess counts, but at this point anything that has invading forces from another world/dimension/whatever counts too. Since the story is from the invaded worlds perspective. Which makes Berserk an Isekai which is hilarious to me.
The other things are from what I recall just fantasy. Even if they have tropey rpg elements or whatever else that doesn't make them Isekai. Reincarnating in the same world isn't an Isekai it's very bad time travel, etc.
Maybe I'm forgetting something?
I'd very much like this name? Cos I'm not scared of liking Isekai.
https://j-novel.club/series/welcome-to-japan-ms-elf
No anime yet. Same site translates the manga as well if you prefer that.
And this is just world MMO stuff, old school MMOs expected you to treat them like a job, I knew someone who had transcended multiple times in OG Ragnarok Online (hit level 99 and get reverted back to 1) and I can't even imagine doing it once, that game was slooooooooow.
I made it to the final arc of the 2nd Index novel series before I just couldn't penetrate the increasingly ridiculous technobabble. The author uses so many words to say nothing it's obnoxious.
The author did have a few genuinely good ideas and characters. My favorite character is the one who can punch lasers aside because of his Guts!
Probably the cleverest plot is while the first Index and Railgun plots run parallel:
In Misaka's first Railgun arc, she becomes suspicious something is wrong when it rains when it's not supposed to. This kicks off the main plot.
Oh you mean the beater?
I'm disappointed the main character is not a bird, false advertising.
If there was ever an anime that deserved getting nuked from orbit, it's Love Hina, and it's brand of "look, isn't abusive behavior funny?" "humor".
Really glad they put out the large format edition.
When Kirito said he was a beta tester I think he meant he was a beta testee
On the specific example of Bofuri again, my headcanon to that series is that the devs, up against the severe technical challenge of not only getting the sensory helmet right but also fully populating the world, succumbed to the temptation to have the computers handle the combination of various factors to produce effects, similar to the way Breath of the Wild has its "chemistry engine" that dictates that flammable objects can burn and therefore take X amount of damage per unit time until destroyed. In Bofuri's case it's something like they have four or five different rules governing what objects can be eaten, how they can be eaten, and how their intrinsic properties should affect the result, such that if you somehow manage to eat an entire Hydra (a character itself fully resistant to poison, of a very high level, possessing great mass, etc.) the system winds up saying "this confers the full poison immunity status on the recipient".
To put it much shorter, when you have several hundred rules that can interact to produce results, you create hundreds of millions of possibilities and you can't inspect them all. I can forgive the devs for missing how some combination produces irrational results. (I've been there myself.
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Side with the rebels: The criminals go to jail and the social control machine imprisoning a dead girl's mind is exposed and dismantled.
Side with the police: The social control machine turns into society into a fascist dystopia, permanently powered by your dead friend's soul.
Protagonists: "We can't choose between these! We choose neither! We want to see you!"
Dead Girl in the machine: "Oh no! I have to murder you because I can't bear to face you."
Protagonists: "We don't need anybody warning us what the future is. We can deal with the consequences. Sure we're talking to you now, and you're suicidal as fuck, possibly some kind of new form of synthetic life, but you're dead and there's no saving you. We're not going to try, we just wanted to say goodbye."
Protagonists: "Also, we choose choice A, but without the wannabe fascist criminals who exploited the slums and murdered hundreds of poors going to jail. Yay, happy ending for everybody!"
Oh yeah I'm pretty sure their entire dev process was a PowerPoint with one slide that said
Wouldn't it be cool if?
The power of machine learning!
And then they fed that into an AI.
To be fair, it was basically an instant-kill button.
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True, and I think that unlike a lot of her other broken shit, this one could be copied by other players because it didn't rely on a unique item or ability.
I'm pretty sure she eats some people in monster mode.
She uses both the shield's instant-kill and the monster mode on players iirc, yeah. Maple is scary.
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These days I just rush through manga chapters since is much faster, so did that and the series is good, now watching the anime.
Selling merch to kids and teenagers is easier and makes more money, but there's a lot of manga that goes beyond that. And the contrast that you describe seems to be similar for other professions related to security, like watchmen, bodyguards or even the military: One half (mostly a lot more than half, but is still a series) of the time being a bunch of boring and tedious work with the other part being pants-shitting terror.
None of that changes that is fucked up though, however, art imitates life.
Long ago the Hero and Demon Lord fought each other in an epic battle of light and dark...but that was so long ago no one remembers it happening. Nowadays the Hero and Demon Lord still fight each other, but in televised virtual matches where Hero teams and Demon teams are ranked and cheered for as part of the global sport. The goal of each Hero team is to fight past ten floors of the Demon Lord's castle to reach the Demon Lord himself, something no one has successfully managed yet. Our hero is part of one of the up and coming Hero teams, but his class as Black Mage, a debuff-only class without any direct damage abilities, is one of the lowest ranking tiers in the meta and ultimately he is pushed out from the party against the protests of his childhood friend, the party leader and Hero.
However, there are those who know very well just how good the protagonist is as a "lowly" Black Mage: the Demon Lord and their lieutenants, who have been victim to his Black Magic multiple times before. They recruit him to take the place of the 10th Floor Master of the Demon King's Castle, the final obstacle between the Hero's goal of the Demon Lord.
It's an excellent story that focuses on characterization more than anything else. While the protagonist's Black Magic is indeed formidable his true strength lies in forming bonds with his comrades, learning their strengths and weaknesses, then utilizing them in tactics that maximize their potential when supported by his Black Magic. So most of the manga revolves around forming those bonds, examining the difference between him and his friend the Hero who share the same dream, looking at how there's people who are willing to accept you for who you are instead of rejecting you for not being who they want, etc. Very wholesome, a nice twist on the usual formula, and just overall an enjoyable simple story without falling into the "epic saga" trap.
The World's Finest Assassin was Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat!!
Yes, two seasons ago. The series has massive content warnings and should be avoided.
Thought it was great but left things on the table.
Just letting Ouken crawl away is also weird? Could have just retrapped his body.
Did like realising that the EP is post story.
Love these dumb-ass teenagers.
Note also how for the (more literally translated) Japanese title of the second season they crossed out the subtitle: Kaguya-sama Wants to Be Confessed To? -The Geniuses' War of Love and Brains-. It's well aware that these geniuses, well, aren't.
All you need to do is take the same generic Wizardry knockoff and find an easy twist
Ranking of Kings seems to be a part 1 of a potentially much larger adventure story, in similar fashion to something like Vinland Saga or Berserk
Whether or not we get more anime out of it, who knows