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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's really annoying that it's 100% a trope at this point.

    Just have the protagonist save a damsel in distress. Bandits, monsters, whatever.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    So, quick question, is anyone watching, or reading Black Summoner?

    It's Isekai trash, and I am a trash goblin, but I do have one spoilerrific question for anyone familiar with the source material
    So, like, he goes to buy a slave in the third episode? And this is treated as a trope? Like as an Isekai trope now, to have a slave? Is this fucking forreal? Please tell me this changes and is not as completely fucking disgusting as it appears to be at face value? Like this is some wholesome isekai rite of passage now to buy a fucking member of your harem now?

    I literally could not finish the episode as I was getting way, way too heated.
    He buys a cute elf girl uses magic to remove her curse and she becomes his devoted maid and I don't think he ever bothers to free her cause he is a good master who treats her well so there's no problem.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Polaritie wrote: »
    It's really annoying that it's 100% a trope at this point.

    Just have the protagonist save a damsel in distress. Bandits, monsters, whatever.

    but then you don't get the thrill of literally owning a human being to use for sex, apparently that's a big turn on to a certain subset of disgusting sociopaths

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yes.

    edit: Uh that was a very late yes to Transporters original question.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I kind of like Black Summoner, but yes that is 100% an isekai trope at this point and it's one of the grossest aspects of the subgenre for sure
    Honestly, I had kind of forgotten that's how Efil "joins" because those circumstances don't really come up at all after that, thinking back it's almost weirder that he didn't just hire her or save her somewhere or something like... everyone else in his party

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Polaritie wrote: »
    It's really annoying that it's 100% a trope at this point.

    Just have the protagonist save a damsel in distress. Bandits, monsters, whatever.

    but then you don't get the thrill of literally owning a human being to use for sex, apparently that's a big turn on to a certain subset of disgusting sociopaths

    Isn't there's an isekai where the protagonist IS the slave?

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I don't see where this idea that "buying slaves is an isekai trope" came from.

    I'm trying to think of all the Isekai I've watched and if they buy a slave.

    Overlord - No
    Konosuba - No
    Re: Zero - No
    Mushoku Tensei - No
    Tsuki Michi - No
    Reincarnated as a Slime - No (Although I haven't watched all of it so maybe later on?)
    Sword Art Online - No

    Rising of a Shield Hero - Yes

    Granted that's just all that I've watched. Maybe it's rampant and I've just been lucky, but every time it gets brought up I don't know what people are talking about.

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    I don't see where this idea that "buying slaves is an isekai trope" came from.

    I'm trying to think of all the Isekai I've watched and if they buy a slave.

    Overlord - No
    Konosuba - No
    Re: Zero - No
    Mushoku Tensei - No
    Tsuki Michi - No
    Reincarnated as a Slime - No (Although I haven't watched all of it so maybe later on?)
    Sword Art Online - No

    Rising of a Shield Hero - Yes

    Granted that's just all that I've watched. Maybe it's rampant and I've just been lucky, but every time it gets brought up I don't know what people are talking about.

    It's rampant

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    it's becoming more prevalent recently, it didn't used to be a thing

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  • DrascinDrascin Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yeah, no, it's super common, it's just that the better isekais don't do it, which is usually at least 10% of why they're the better isekais.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Yo check out this DBZ fan project:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKLM45aIik

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    One thing i commented elsewhere on that animation - getting rid of the Sayians tails is such a mistake, because of how useful they are as a source of secondary animation and motion.

    It's not a huuuuuuuge thing, but it is a thing.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    ph blake wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
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    I have never watched One Piece because I'm too off-put by its art style.

    Also I hear it's like five billion episodes long.
    which art style, the original or the current?
    I've only ever seen the one style. I'm assuming it's the original.
    For the most part, the art improves.
    With Nami and Robin being the only real exception.

    God I miss their old designs so much, Oda please stop making every woman in your series look exactly the same.
    Chopper's design also got worse with each redesign, he looks like a toy now.

    But yeah, aside from the sheer length, the way Oda draws women was one of the reasons my partner bailed on watching the anime with me after a while. They're all weird stick figures with giant sphere boobs.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kaiju #8 is like reverse Bakuman, where the story inches forward despite the panels flying by.

    A chapter of Bakuman felt like it took 5 minutes to read there was such much crammed into each.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    So... how many episodes is Venus Line Veeeenus Line Birdie Wing s1 supposed to be? Because episode 13 wasn't much of a season finale.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    they've confirmed a second cour this winter

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    CSM 100:
    Will new kind girl betray Mitaka?

    Or will she be destroyed by someone else to hurt Mitaka?

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    One thing i commented elsewhere on that animation - getting rid of the Sayians tails is such a mistake, because of how useful they are as a source of secondary animation and motion.

    It's not a huuuuuuuge thing, but it is a thing.

    TOTALLY. Also, it's kind of insane that they never really do monkey based powerups for super saiyan levels. Give him a giant golden monkey tail. Or like an arc where they learn to control the full moon monkey, and then make himself human sized while still having the same power. Shit like that.

    (DB GT doesn't count although SSJ4 was the most awesome of transformations)

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Last night on Animenagerie:

    Koalas, severe PTSD, and creepy fishmen.

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Much like the Isekai name thing, I'm pretty sure it started as a hentai thing.

    Probably became mainstream with the wrong way to summon a demon lord, where he was summoned from his video game by two people who were trying to make HIM a slave, sand his gear reflected it. That series has a lot of ick stuff, but was quite popular.

    Eh, owning women has been around in anime since basically anime existed. Even stuff like Chobits and Ah! My Goddess is pretty much "Oops, I accidentally own a wife now in a world where everyone owns their wives." We've been through at least three or four different trends of it, maids, magical girlfriends, hot spring inn ownership, etc. Isekai's 'twist' on it is, like everything godawful isekai does, is to make everything overtly explicit. Same as reducing all the displays or competence or courage to looking at status screens and giving the protagonist the biggest numbers. There's no wink or nod about some magical contract or obligation or gratitude. They are explicitly slaves, because it's a misogynist fantasy about owning women and humiliating lesser men.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Overlord is also a weird pick for the 'doesn't buy slaves' category because of *waves hands* everything that happens in overlord.

    Overlord is misery porn. There is also definitely slavery iirc? I've given up on the series and haven't watched the latest season, since last season was way too much with:
    The adventurers raiding the tomb arc.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm Gundi,

    I'm super into chainsawman lately!

    Also Overlord is a bunch of good fantasy stories grafted to the shittiest most awful most boring cast of characters who consistently ruin said good fantasy stories. It's a shame.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Overlord is also a weird pick for the 'doesn't buy slaves' category because of *waves hands* everything that happens in overlord.

    Overlord is misery porn. There is also definitely slavery iirc? I've given up on the series and haven't watched the latest season, since last season was way too much with:
    The adventurers raiding the tomb arc.

    There are slaves but Ains is pretty much anti slavery(thats hes aware of)

    The demon with scary shiny glasses:
    kidnapped and enslaved a bunch of townspeople in season 2 I think? When Momon the dark Knight saves the city from "invasion."

    They're not just regular slaves, I believe he skins them to make parchment and uses magic to heal them. Nightmare shit.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    In Overlord
    there's also the thing with editing the NPC lady to be madly in love with Ains, which was gross

    anyway, I am one of those fools who thought Overlord might become more than what it is and ended up watching most of it

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Honestly, i find that One Piece's art style is unreadably busy these days.


    I've thought it was too busy since I started reading it in Skypeia!

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Thinking of something like Nagatoro, where it really seemed like it was someone's very specific sort of fetish anime and instead it's a pretty whole some rom com.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Thinking of something like Nagatoro, where it really seemed like it was someone's very specific sort of fetish anime and instead it's a pretty whole some rom com.

    Isekai Uncle was that for me when I first started reading it with hesitation and now it's one of my favorites for how chill everything is

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I definitely did not expect to like Assassination Classroom as much as I did.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Birdie Wing

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm sure some of the anime in my list has problems other than "protagonist has literal slaves".

    But I have to confine it to one problematic trope at a time because *gestures at anime broadly*

    Also it's not like Ainz maliciously edited NPC lady (Albedo). He thought she was a non-sentient NPC at the time and was just goofing off in the final moments before everything got deleted anyway.

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Are there examples of anime where it actually turns out way better than what was expected?

    Thinking of something like Nagatoro, where it really seemed like it was someone's very specific sort of fetish anime and instead it's a pretty whole some rom com.

    Two of my favorite shows from last year were shows I had already decided to pass on, until my friend wanted to give them a try.

    The first, Muteking, is a genuinely delightful and wacky show that made me nostalgic for a time where I would just turn on Toonami and say, "what's with this weird cartoon?"

    The other, Mieruko-chan, is not something I can wholeheartedly recommend since it loses steam as it goes on, yet remains moderately horny throughout. But I was very interested to see what happens to the girl who sees ghosts.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I'm not sure if Muteking was better than I expected, but it certainly was incredibly weird.

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Also it's not like Ainz maliciously edited NPC lady (Albedo). He thought she was a non-sentient NPC at the time and was just goofing off in the final moments before everything got deleted anyway.

    I'll admit that I initially skipped Overlord partially because I assumed that this was going to be a major recurring thing, but surprisingly it's not. When it does come up it's more along the lines of Albedo being frustrated that Ains has zero interest in her due to his undead nature.

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