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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel like Idols are an eternal constant, like Battle Shonen and [insert harem show here]

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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

    Dragon Maid?

    Seems too loli for me but hey maybe I'm wrong

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ph blake wrote: »
    I feel like Idols are an eternal constant, like Battle Shonen and [insert harem show here]

    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.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    No the harem shows are still around, now with I Can't Believe It's Not Incest flavor.

    And sometimes Actually Just Incest flavor.

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  • chocoboliciouschocobolicious Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So there is 44 series running this season. Not counting the 'shorts' even though I normally would because some of those are good.

    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?

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.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.

    I'd very much like this name? Cos I'm not scared of liking Isekai. :)

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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.

    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.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered 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.
    I mean, this is the genre that gave us the player who spent over 4000 hours leveling to 90 by just picking flowers and mining.

    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.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Index, the character, is the worst part of of the Index series. She is useless and all plots involving her tend to drag. All of the interesting plots involve Misaka, which makes the spinoff Railgun series probably the best part of the universe.

    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 the first Index novel, Index destroys the Tree Diagram, which is a satellite supercomputer whose calculations can predict the weather perfectly to the second, then it lends its spare processing power to the various experiments in Academy City, including the Sisters Project, which Misaka's clones are the base for.

    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.

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  • EvilOtakuEvilOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I am fascinated by anime MMOs and their busted bullshit their designers apparently thought was a good idea. Beta Testing? Ain't nobody got time for that!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Beta testing is how you get Kirito, so probably best to avoid that.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    A Certain Adjective Noun is primarily about playing with neat shower-thoughts and rules-lawyering. There is also an esper who only learned enough magic to leverage the damage it's supposed to cause to espers and cause a landslide.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Beta testing is how you get Kirito, so probably best to avoid that.

    Oh you mean the beater?

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Birdie Wing is incredible. The main character's goal is to beat people at golf so badly they just fucking give up after one hole, max.
    I'm pretty sure she beat one person so hard they just retired from the entire sport on the spot. Like she seemed to be considering the pointlessness of anyone else bothering to play golf when such a freak of nature exists. Guess we'll see if she shows up again later or not.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    "GG, uninstall", the anime!

    I'm disappointed the main character is not a bird, false advertising.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Do not watch the new anime. It’s bad. The movies are mostly fine but do not cover a lot of ground

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I will also say the beginning of the manga is a bit rough, but it really comes into its own

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    ph blake wrote: »
    I feel like Idols are an eternal constant, like Battle Shonen and [insert harem show here]

    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.

    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".

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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've been reading through Berserk a bit at a time as well. I really like the 90s anime but hadn't read it. I will say the eclipse segment in the books made me feel physically ill which I don't think is something I've had happen before. Maybe after a film but nothing comes to mind. I was forewarned by virtue of having seen the anime, but the book just got to me. So I did put it down for a bit but am now partway through the Millenium Arc. There's also no other manga or comic I've read where I am as continually in awe of the art. There's so many full page spreads with just an immense amount of detail.
    Really glad they put out the large format edition.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Beta testing is how you get Kirito, so probably best to avoid that.

    When Kirito said he was a beta tester I think he meant he was a beta testee

    https://youtu.be/iAqCk63gc5k

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    EvilOtaku wrote: »
    I am fascinated by anime MMOs and their busted bullshit their designers apparently thought was a good idea. Beta Testing? Ain't nobody got time for that!

    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. :lol: )

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Tokyo 24's ending was every bit as batshit nonsensical as the rest of the show has been. Truly the comedy of the season.
    The last choice given to them:

    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!"

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Kupi wrote: »
    EvilOtaku wrote: »
    I am fascinated by anime MMOs and their busted bullshit their designers apparently thought was a good idea. Beta Testing? Ain't nobody got time for that!

    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. :lol: )

    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.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    What's amazing in during the whole season there was only one of Maple's abilities that the developers deemed too overpowered and needed to be patched right away, and it was something she got from the first boss she ever faced.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    What's amazing in during the whole season there was only one of Maple's abilities that the developers deemed too overpowered and needed to be patched right away, and it was something she got from the first boss she ever faced.

    To be fair, it was basically an instant-kill button.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    What would happen if Maple tried to eat another player like she did the Hydra

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    What's amazing in during the whole season there was only one of Maple's abilities that the developers deemed too overpowered and needed to be patched right away, and it was something she got from the first boss she ever faced.

    To be fair, it was basically an instant-kill button.

    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.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    What would happen if Maple tried to eat another player like she did the Hydra

    I'm pretty sure she eats some people in monster mode.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Madican wrote: »
    What would happen if Maple tried to eat another player like she did the Hydra

    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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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I also finished watching Hakozume/Police in a Pod recently. It's good, but I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to. It's 50% a comedy about how much being a policewoman sucks, and 50% a realistic drama about how much being a policewoman sucks. You'll get 15 minutes of the main characters not being taken seriously, getting talked down to by male coworkers, etc. And then 15 minutes about PTSD from taking graphic testimony from assault victims or seeing dead bodies.

    Gonna put this specific one in a spoiler just in case, because it's pretty rough.
    One episode starts out with them being annoyed at traffic duty and the macho motorcycle cop they have to deal with. Then they show up to the scene of an accident, and go into routine 'straighten out this boring fender bender and clear the road' action. Only to realize a baby was flung from one of the vehicles and is lying dead in the middle of the street. Leading to the MC being fucked up for weeks. But then the macho motorcycle cop gives a speech about how they need to be the ones to deal with this shit so normal people don't have to, and preventing horrible accidents like that is why they do boring traffic duty and pester people about seatbelts and car seats and everything else they'd been insulted about in the first half of the episode.

    Also, out of nowhere the last three episodes are them solving one big case. Which is really cool! Except you again swap between goofs about how the person nominated to be sketch artist can't draw to stopping a guy with a knife from kidnapping children. It's fucked up! And finding out the creator was a policewoman for 10 years makes perfect sense.

    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.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's a manga I've been reading that I would really love to get an anime when it finishes. It's called Welcome to the Impregnable Demon Castle.

    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.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Did you all hear??

    The World's Finest Assassin was Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat!!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ESTAB Life episode 4 is right up there with lots of other weird fourth episodes. Which is saying something, considering how weird the first three episodes were.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Did you all hear??

    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.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Finished Ranking of Kings.

    Thought it was great but left things on the table.
    Uh. What happened to Desha after he was taken to the divine treasure vault, where every King who has ever gone there has taken a particular treasure and met a Bad End?
    Just letting Ouken crawl away is also weird? Could have just retrapped his body.
    Did like realising that the EP is post story.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Started up S2 of Kaguya-sama, since S3 is inbound (I think?).

    Love these dumb-ass teenagers.

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  • Ark EvensongArk Evensong The NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yes, season 3 starts tomorrow-ish. (Official website says it starts Friday, 9:30 AM PDT. Can't find the listing on Crunchyroll itself yet, and Funimation is geolocked for me.)
    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.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel like one reason the current Isekai circle jerk feels so unbreakable is because it's self-sustaining with minimal effort

    All you need to do is take the same generic Wizardry knockoff and find an easy twist
    Finished Ranking of Kings.

    Thought it was great but left things on the table.
    Uh. What happened to Desha after he was taken to the divine treasure vault, where every King who has ever gone there has taken a particular treasure and met a Bad End?
    Just letting Ouken crawl away is also weird? Could have just retrapped his body.
    Did like realising that the EP is post story.

    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

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I just looked it up and apparently a part 2 of the manga has started which is continuing the story. The anime is all of part 1. It's only a few chapters in, so it'll be a while.

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