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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Wait I thought the thing that brought up the discussion was Black Summoner?

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Wait I thought the thing that brought up the discussion was Black Summoner?

    That's the power fantasy that the main character will eventually sleep with his slaves not to be confused with the power fantasy that is just about sleeping with sex slaves.

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  • DaypigeonDaypigeon Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    gonna be honest i think everyone should isekai less

    back in my day when somebody got hit by a truck they just fucking died

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    How many stamina tokens do I have to buy to tell the AI that I want to see unbridled ( Y )

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Wait I thought the thing that brought up the discussion was Black Summoner?

    Black Summoner is the other isekai slavery anime this season, the one that got expanded on "Summer Anime 2022 in a nutshell" was Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo.

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  • ElaroElaro Who am I? What do I want?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    gonna be honest i think everyone should isekai less

    back in my day when somebody got hit by a truck they just fucking died

    Back in my day, people got isekai'd by a pillar of light and/or magical summons, and we were happy with it!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Notice how even when a hero has immense power they rarely seem to use it on anyone of status. Or on the systems they know to be wrong. I want to see an isekai where the protagonist finds out slavery is a thing and personally pays a visit to the location to kill the leader of the operation. Or hell, murder some nobility for once.

    I've made this joke before, but this is the exact plot of the book series Guardians of the Flame. They get sent into their own D&D campaign and immediately start a war against all slavers.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Elaro wrote: »
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    gonna be honest i think everyone should isekai less

    back in my day when somebody got hit by a truck they just fucking died

    Back in my day, people got isekai'd by a pillar of light and/or magical summons, and we were happy with it!

    Tornados and a cupboard also work!

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Notice how even when a hero has immense power they rarely seem to use it on anyone of status. Or on the systems they know to be wrong. I want to see an isekai where the protagonist finds out slavery is a thing and personally pays a visit to the location to kill the leader of the operation. Or hell, murder some nobility for once.

    Skeleton knights main arc is destroying an international slavery ring.

    Isn't this the one that opens with a brutal scene, that Crunchyroll had to put CW on?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    While Black Summoner does have Efil start out as a slave, it's honestly a little weirder that it does that at all because it's not even really much of a plot point after that, and the series would be better served if he just saved her or helped her without also buying her

    I kind of like Black Summoner because it's mostly just dumb battle manga junkfood, and I had kind of forgotten that Efil was a slave at first until it was brought up in here

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My understanding with Goblin Slayer is that one horrendously graphic scene in the first episode is an extreme tonal outlier for the rest of the series. Like the rest is just regular schlocky not particularly offensive stuff.

    But man that scene, and as a way of opening your first episode, is... woof. Jeez.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Gundi wrote: »
    My understanding with Goblin Slayer is that one horrendously graphic scene in the first episode is an extreme tonal outlier for the rest of the series. Like the rest is just regular schlocky not particularly offensive stuff.

    But man that scene, and as a way of opening your first episode, is... woof. Jeez.

    No, I'd say it maintains a backing of that kind of material consistently as the story goes on. That kind of stuff is baked into the backstory of every love interest in the series, for example. It's pretty gross!

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I wouldn't know. I only watched up to said scene in the first episode since people's negative reactions to it were so visceral and I kinda... had to know. And yeah, woof.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    goblin slayer desperately wanted to be berserk without understanding why that kinda shit worked for miura

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
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    Lycoris Recoil is a nice entry into the classic genre of schoolgirls with guns

    good animation + cute girls and wholesome characters so far

    I really liked the first episode, the second was fine, but after that, the writing has gotten quite bad. It feels like it's being pulled in multiple directions. One writer wants to just be cute girls, and the other wants a cyberpunk gunslinging thing, but neither is talking to the other.

    (Ep 3 and 1 mainly)
    Episode 3 is such a weird retcon of the first episode. We're introduced to Takina by seeing her ignore orders and go in guns blazing, needlessly endangering everyone around her because She Knows Best, which is why she's kicked out. The first thing she does when kicked out is... to again go in guns blazing and needlessly endanger the person she's supposed to be protecting, and learns the valuable lesson to treat life more preciously and to not be so arrogant.

    So then we come to episode 3, and it does a total 180 on that. ACTUALLY, she was totally in the right and did nothing wrong. Why? Because her bosses are jerks and made a mistake too, and her teammates are also jerks, who are arrogant assholes and clowns. They DESERVE to be sucker punched because they're worse at everything and how dare they criticize her when they're garbage? Are you really Both Sides-ing this and ignoring the entire other half of the first episode?

    Episode 4 and 5 are similarly headscratchers if you stop and think about pretty much literally anything that happened. That they had a whole episode about one of the characters wearing boxers and you can't just wear whatever you want, that's WRONG, is bad enough without all the supposedly genius plans that are plainly and obviously catastrophically idiotic. I've ranted enough about the show though.

    Still better written than RWBY. I'm not that familiar with the original, but I've heard the writing was pretty dodgy. Still, from the third episode on, it's been painful. The third episode for the obvious reasons that they apparently tried to fit like five episodes into one. Then the fourth was almost literally that Spongebob meme.
    Lady: "Okay, Ruby. Your friend is possessed by a dream demon that's corrupting her."
    Ruby: "Right."
    Lady: "So in her dream world, she's going to be corrupted."
    Ruby: "Right."
    Lady: "So you need to find her in an exaggerated, corrupted, Persona world that's designed to imprison her with all the personal things that are twisting and corrupting her."
    Ruby: "Right."
    Lady: "So you see around you her entire dream world worshipping her domineering father and fascist imagery about obeying him everywhere."
    Ruby: "Right."
    ...
    Ruby: "I found you, but why are you so twisted and corrupted!? This makes no sense! I hate you because you're being so twisted and mean! And for no absolutely reason whatsoever!"

    Not sure I'm keeping with that any further.

    Since I'm already ranting, as for the rest of the new season...

    I like that You0 Deco and Teppen!!!(etc) exist. They're off-kilter and more experimental, but the last couple episodes of both have been a little iffy. Teppen's most recent especially was... well...
    It's a bottle episode that almost entirely takes place on the backseat of a bus, trapped in a timeloop discussing Hokkaido urban legends. Next to no cutaways or anything. Just 20 straight minutes of deadpan manzai... on the backseat of a bus.

    It's far enough off the norm that I can appreciate that it was clearly going for something different, but goddamn, was it borderline unwatchable. And this is after an episode about crypto at that.

    You0 Deco #05
    Dude was trying to make a nue exist by faking its existence on fake-Wikipedia so he could keep the one he made in the zoo of 'realistic' animals, but when it was revealed to be a fake (via accidentally making an even faker one go viral by spamming the entire world), rather than just keeping his as a personal pet or something, he euthanizes it. Because Wikipedia won't accept his vision. Uh, what? If society doesn't accept what you love and are passionate about, throw it away, even if it's a sentient animal? I don't think that was well thought out.

    Engage Kiss is also flirting with being good, if still too schlocky and fanservicey, but the protagonist is such a sad sack that the relationships are tough to buy into. Also, it really loves to spend entire thirds of its episodes on dudes in offices discussing logistics for some fucking reason.
    Demon hunter dude contracted to an obsessed demon girl who subsists off of and is powered by consuming his memories (despite that being all he has left of his murdered-by-demons family, which haunts and drives him), which she's also using to manipulate and control him into an unwanted relationship, particularly in removing the ones about his ex-girlfriend and her attempts to repair and renew their relationship, past and present. Not just silly anime hand holding or the like, but outright desperation sex. This is ripped right from The CW relationship drama with still very well animated fights most episodes, but the $10 million question is why either of them is attracted to him at all when he's just an ass all the time with no redeeming qualities. Plus, he's supposedly obsessed with killing all demons for revenge, but all we ever see him do is mooch off of the two girls, not be obsessed with killing all demons. I'm sure a flashback is coming eventually to explain their undying devotion to him, but we're five episodes in. He shouldn't be such an ass to start with and are well past when this stuff should have been justified. If anything, the demon girl absorbing all his loving memories of the other girl should be getting with her instead.

    Summer Time Render's recent episodes remain fantastic, though they really need to cool it with the new shadow powers all the time. I did end up binging the manga after the gym episode, so now I... know all the things. The rest of the show is gonna be a trip. Call of the Night is also pretty consistently well structured and has some good things to explore about relationships, particularly casual and regular dating, and the importance of communcating.

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The grossness is baked into the setting, but actual depictions become rarer and rarer as the series goes on, opting for goblin gore instead.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Kelvin of Black Summoner is way too busy being a raging battle junkie to have time to do anything else.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 13
    Tonight I watched Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress.

    Gosh, what an exceptionally pretty film.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Tonight I watched Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress.

    Gosh, what an exceptionally pretty film.

    Yeah I only recently watched this one but it has the signage Kon flair that really makes you appreciate his storytelling style.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    it's by far my favorite satoshi kon movie

    (guy that has only seen two satoshi kon movies)

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I feel like Paprika is special to me because it was the first movie of his I saw, but Tokyo Godfathers I happily show anyone vaguely interested in anime

    Perfect Blue is uh, well I save it for later usually

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Paranoia Agent is also pretty trigger-warning laden but I still feel nostalgic for when it aired on Toonami back in... The before times

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    it's by far my favorite satoshi kon movie

    (guy that has only seen two satoshi kon movies)

    Well, you're only missing one, and his show.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Two movies, and the show: Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, and the show Paranoia Agent

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  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Goblin Slayer's greatest strength is that it is about how we react to and deal with trauma. Do you close yourself off from the world? Do you lash out, focussing only on payback? How do you build yourself back up again and allow yourself to trust?

    Goblin Slayer's greatest weakness is that it revels in the trauma, pretty much fetishizing it. Therefore making itself inaccessible to the majority of the audience, especially those who will want to see the above themes explored.

    Such a shame, there's some great poignant moments but I never feel comfortable watching it and can never recommend it.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Madican wrote: »
    Notice how even when a hero has immense power they rarely seem to use it on anyone of status. Or on the systems they know to be wrong. I want to see an isekai where the protagonist finds out slavery is a thing and personally pays a visit to the location to kill the leader of the operation. Or hell, murder some nobility for once.
    Okay, but enough about Marvel movies...

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    You know what's good? Witch Hat

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  • FlamuFlamu 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Witch Hat Atelier? I just started reading that and the first several chapters keep one-upping themselves in in coolness

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    gonna be honest i think everyone should isekai less

    back in my day when somebody got hit by a truck they just fucking died

    (Spoilers for a Koji Seo manga that ended years ago)
    Poor Fuuka...

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Daypigeon wrote: »
    gonna be honest i think everyone should isekai less

    back in my day when somebody got hit by a truck they just fucking died

    Yeah! And then their ghost worked as a Spirit Detective!

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Finished Macross Frontier(TV), absolutely adored it from start to finish, and the last battle was one of the most glorious spectacles I've ever seen.
    Grace sure went full SMT in the end, good lord.
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    A+, highly recommended, ESPECIALLY over the films.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Finished Macross Frontier(TV), absolutely adored it from start to finish, and the last battle was one of the most glorious spectacles I've ever seen.
    Grace sure went full SMT in the end, good lord.
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    A+, highly recommended, ESPECIALLY over the films.

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    The most important question is what did you think of the squishy Frog phone.

    This is a test. You can fail it.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Finished Macross Frontier(TV), absolutely adored it from start to finish, and the last battle was one of the most glorious spectacles I've ever seen.
    Grace sure went full SMT in the end, good lord.
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    A+, highly recommended, ESPECIALLY over the films.

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    The most important question is what did you think of the squishy Frog phone.

    This is a test. You can fail it.

    I'll take two.

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

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Re: latest nagatoro
    I feel like that new manga app would have censored this full frontal hand holding

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