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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Uh, yeah.

    Don't fucking watch the Skeleton Knight in Isekai show.

    It starts with a rape scene, and then does it again halfway through the episode.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
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    There were two Skeleton Knight manga that were somewhat big not too long ago. I'm guessing the bad one got adapted?

    I think the other one had the skeleton knight be a regular skeleton mob that was stuck in an Re:Zero time loop situation. I read the first chapter or two of that one, but haven't read the other one at all because I heard it was bad.

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lars wrote: »
    There were two Skeleton Knight manga that were somewhat big not too long ago. I'm guessing the bad one got adapted?

    I think the other one had the skeleton knight be a regular skeleton mob that was stuck in an Re:Zero time loop situation. I read the first chapter or two of that one, but haven't read the other one at all because I heard it was bad.

    The good one is called Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon. I've read a chunk of it and it's fine and definitely doesn't have any of that in its opening chapters so I'm guessing this show is based off the bad one.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon has a little bit of that.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    There were two Skeleton Knight manga that were somewhat big not too long ago. I'm guessing the bad one got adapted?

    I think the other one had the skeleton knight be a regular skeleton mob that was stuck in an Re:Zero time loop situation. I read the first chapter or two of that one, but haven't read the other one at all because I heard it was bad.

    The good one is called Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon. I've read a chunk of it and it's fine and definitely doesn't have any of that in its opening chapters so I'm guessing this show is based off the bad one.

    Is that not the one that got an anime? I'm so confused.

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    There were two Skeleton Knight manga that were somewhat big not too long ago. I'm guessing the bad one got adapted?

    I think the other one had the skeleton knight be a regular skeleton mob that was stuck in an Re:Zero time loop situation. I read the first chapter or two of that one, but haven't read the other one at all because I heard it was bad.

    The good one is called Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon. I've read a chunk of it and it's fine and definitely doesn't have any of that in its opening chapters so I'm guessing this show is based off the bad one.

    Is that not the one that got an anime? I'm so confused.

    Looks like "Skeletal Knight In Another World" is the animoo that needs the content warning.

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  • J-bobJ-bob J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    PLA wrote: »
    Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon has a little bit of that.

    My memory is hazy so if there is any of that I might've forgotten it.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's some attempted sexual assault from some villains who quickly get killed for it, IIRC? I think it was just in the early chapters, though, and later villains graduate more towards the body horror end of atrocities.

    It's very much of the "this is a horribly evil but mundane thing to do, so I'll have my small-time bandit villains attempt it to show how irredeemable they are" school of thought.
    (kind of like how JoJo has villains murder dogs in awful ways to demonstrate that they're pure evil)
    doesn't stop it from being an unpleasant surprise for victims reading it, though!

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    darunia106 wrote: »
    Lars wrote: »
    There were two Skeleton Knight manga that were somewhat big not too long ago. I'm guessing the bad one got adapted?

    I think the other one had the skeleton knight be a regular skeleton mob that was stuck in an Re:Zero time loop situation. I read the first chapter or two of that one, but haven't read the other one at all because I heard it was bad.

    The good one is called Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon. I've read a chunk of it and it's fine and definitely doesn't have any of that in its opening chapters so I'm guessing this show is based off the bad one.

    Is that not the one that got an anime? I'm so confused.

    Looks like "Skeletal Knight In Another World" is the animoo that needs the content warning.

    I like the one that got a show more than than the one where the skeleton is stuck in a time loop, and it doesn't need a content warning. EDIT: I WAS WRONG. DEFINITELY NEEDS A CONTENT WARNING. THE FIRST SECONDS OF THE FIRST ANIME EP OPENS WITH NOT GOOD STUFF. I really didn't remember that from the manga. The manga seemed mostly chill and fun. But yeesh, I really don't need to see that stuff.

    Jragghen wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    darunia106 wrote: »
    PLA wrote: »
    Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon has a little bit of that.

    My memory is hazy so if there is any of that I might've forgotten it.

    I thiiiink the beginning/impetus of the story starts with the death of a woman, there's possibly some unsavory business involved

    This is correct, but it's not a focus past that initial incident (and there are many powerful women with agency in the series).

    Its real problem is a certain character who's a.....muscular mustached female which I'm not entirely certain which tropes they're trying for other than gross stereotypes.

    I thought that was a man that was crossdressing (the japansese okama deal)

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  • kriegskriegs Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yea, this Skeleton Knight anime is horseshit. On top of the horrid shit that has already been mentioned, it's just another poorly written isekai. Bog standard and lazy with blah dialog. A true skip.

    I watched this Dawn Witch thing, I think it's supposed to be a sequel (or prequel) to that Familiar of Zero anime? I never watched it but they did name drop it somewhere in the episode. Pretty boring first episode, I guess something will happen next week.

    Shield hero still has dumb-as-rocks secondary characters.

    And then there is some show that looks like an idol show? Forgot the name, something about an unpopular girl and her secret task. Not into the idol stuff.

    I don't know if there is much I'm looking forward to this season.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    So along with that "my friend and I got isekai'd but he is now a she" show, I like the idea that
    the girl essentially showing her face causes an immediate reaction in all dudes to call for her and want to marry her.

    Mostly for comedic value, of course, because a walking pandemic is rarely funny.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm trying to watch like 10 shows this season. And I still have two to finish off from last time.

    Although I'm certain I'll drop a few once I get a few episodes in.

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  • LeumasWhiteLeumasWhite New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's some stuff still to come that's worth giving a shot: Love After World Domination, Kaguya, SPYxFAMILY, Kunoichi Tsubaki, Shikimori-san, Bookworm. It's not a blockbuster season, but there's plenty of light, fun shows about.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Damn I didn't know about bofuri but this is a nice happy show about a horrible monster sorry cheerful lady who is enjoying her rpg build.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Maple invented Hate-surfing, you can't not love her.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Reynolds wrote: »
    I'm trying to watch like 10 shows this season. And I still have two to finish off from last time.

    Although I'm certain I'll drop a few once I get a few episodes in.

    Speaking of...it's not often I dislike a show just because of the art, but holy shit RPG Real Estate is actively uncomfortable to look at. Something is just completely wrong with the way the characters are drawn, the heads and proportions and stuff are just bizarre and unpleasant. It got a few chuckles, but not nearly enough to make me consider watching a second episode.

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ugh this arc of kaguya-sams is so booooriinnggg

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    since there was some talk about the amount of isekai this season, one moderately interesting one is Paripi Koumei a.k.a. Ya Boy Kongming

    tl;dr: Kongming (a.k.a. Zhuge Liang), the famous military strategist from the (Romance of the) Three Kingdoms, is isekai'd into the Tokyo idol scene.

    I'll probably have to check it out, I kind of love reverse isekai.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Is it really an isekai if it's the same world, just in the future

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Did you all hear??

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

    Finally, their body count will increase a hundred-fold!
    crwth wrote: »
    ugh this arc of kaguya-sams is so booooriinnggg

    Kaguya-sama Season 3 Episode 1? Where?!

    As in, where did you watch it? It's not showing up on crunchyroll's website in Canada...

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Is it really an isekai if it's the same world, just in the future

    I'd say so? time travel isekai are a classic subgenre, relying heavily on the whole "the past is a foreign country" thing and rife with the same metaknowledge stuff you get in "I reincarnated into my favorite game" isekai.
    reverse isekai (and "medieval knight in modern new york" type stories) play with different tropes where it's everyone else who knows about them, but they're under the same general genre umbrella

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  • Ark EvensongArk Evensong The NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Elaro wrote: »
    crwth wrote: »
    ugh this arc of kaguya-sams is so booooriinnggg

    Kaguya-sama Season 3 Episode 1? Where?!

    As in, where did you watch it? It's not showing up on crunchyroll's website in Canada...
    I think crwth's talking about the manga, latest chapter came out earlier today. Anime S03E01 is still two hours away. (Or half an hour if you're in Japan.)

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Is it really an isekai if it's the same world, just in the future

    Connecticut Yankee is pretty much the ur example of it, so if the past, why not the future? Same for things like Land of the Lost. Hell, you could make an argument for forcibly dumping someone who has never left Chicago into Korea. Maybe not a great one, but it's still completely foreign land and totally alien culture that the author is likely making up crazy-ass shit about anyway so may as well be fantasy.

    I do think the Koumei thing is more 'reverse' isekai though. But it's also nakedly an idol show, so...

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Okay let me rephrase that, it's not an isekai if it's not another world. Because that's literally what Isekai means "another world"

    Time travel and reincarnation are not isekai

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ya boi kongming is incredible but there are a lot of rot3k deep cuts so a grounding in that is probably required

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Neveron wrote: »
    since there was some talk about the amount of isekai this season, one moderately interesting one is Paripi Koumei a.k.a. Ya Boy Kongming

    tl;dr: Kongming (a.k.a. Zhuge Liang), the famous military strategist from the (Romance of the) Three Kingdoms, is isekai'd into the Tokyo idol scene.

    I'll probably have to check it out, I kind of love reverse isekai.

    Better quality of OP via YouTube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmznjPfosE

    (There's already a "UHD 60FPS" upload of the OP there too and holy shit it always looks terrible when people do this.)

    EDIT: Apparently the OP is a cover of a Hungarian club song that was all the rage in Japan recently.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjLbePQg1o

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Okay let me rephrase that, it's not an isekai if it's not another world. Because that's literally what Isekai means "another world"

    Time travel and reincarnation are not isekai

    It's dangerous to argue pedantics because according to the Japanese Wikipedia page, Dragonball, One Piece, and Hunter x Hunter are all representative examples of isekai.

    And 'fantasy' (as a loanword) means specifically European fantasy.

    Borrowed language is fun.

    By which I mean annoying.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Are you seriously trying to use Wikipedia, a source that can be edited by anyone to the point it is specifically banned for any kind of research project as a student, as an authority.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The crazy thing is wikipedia does in fact have sources you can go and check yourself. Sometimes, they're flimsy but most of the time it's actually not that bad. Teachers don't like every single student just hopping on Wikipedia and using the same list of sources though, especially if the source is from a book that neither the student or teacher has access to.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The crazy thing is wikipedia does in fact have sources you can go and check yourself. Sometimes, they're flimsy but most of the time it's actually not that bad. Teachers don't like every single student just hopping on Wikipedia and using the same list of sources though, especially if the source is from a book that neither the student or teacher has access to.

    The sources are fine to use, provided they're backed up in some way to be credible, but something tells me it's not a credible source calling One Piece an isekai.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    English Wikipedia cites the Journal of Anime and Manga studies using Farah Mendelson's framework of fantasy to classify Slayers as an isekai of the immersive framework (as opposed to eg portal quest). I have no idea who any of these people are, and the professor who wrote that article appears to mainly study hazardous waste, not Japanese culture, but it is a citation.

    Like a lot of terms, there's the scholarly definition, the definition as originally coined, the specific definition that random people used, and god only knows what else, and the verious circles of this venn diagram may or may not have a whole lot of overlap. It's just the "is Zelda an RPG" argument,

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hey, academics make mistakes too. Often, even! They're (in)famous for it!

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    GR_Zombie wrote: »
    Didn’t it recently come out that Wikipedia on the whole is actually more accurate than not? Maybe I’m crazy

    [citation needed]

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    crwth wrote: »
    ugh this arc of kaguya-sams is so booooriinnggg

    It really felt like they didnt want to keep it going. There are a few weird bugs lot threads that didnt seem to go anywhere after the brief break they took

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mysst wrote: »
    Maybe there doesn't need to be this tight of a definition

    Maybe words dont need literal meanings!

    Narf blargle warg nog!

    (Claiming "different world" doesnt have to mean different world will always be silly to me and if an academic argued it I think they're being silly too.)

    Its a type of portal fantasy, that's as old as the hills.

    Hikaru no go does this.

    You might as well stop using genres entirely. They cease to have relevance as explanatory power if they just mean whatever the hell you feel like.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://youtu.be/b51QB-jn5gU
    Loved the movie, really hope they can capture some of it's artistry in this

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    crwth wrote: »
    ugh this arc of kaguya-sams is so booooriinnggg

    It really felt like they didnt want to keep it going. There are a few weird bugs lot threads that didnt seem to go anywhere after the brief break they took

    I wouldn't be surprised, people get tired of working on the same thing eventually.

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