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*Brofist.*
I'm not crying shut up.
Anya is adorable.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Clip:
Thoughts:
Also, it's heavily implied one of the samurai Yamato meets is Zoro's father, right?
General notes:
-The desert mission begins (and is basically over). Jackass joins for the whole mission instead of just being a weirdo you see at the start.
-Please pay no attention to the phrases coming out of the Machines' mouths (?), it's fine. It's probably fine.
-THIS. CANNOT. CONTINUE. (is horribly ironic considering the production pause for the anime's release schedule). I was quite pleased to see that the nature of the activities the machines were up to was not changed or obscured for the TV version. Good sign for not shying from the adult themes/content.
-The introduction to some pretty key characters here at the end of the episode.
Superfan commentary:
-They're really interested in pulling from the whole franchise for this, a big flashback to Nier Replicant this time with the city of Facade and the wedding (which goes horribly in the end because Nier).
-Beastlord that 2B was using in the episode 1 flashforward visible at the weapons store.
-I wonder if a full heel turn is possible for Jackass in this version. The game introduced her as this very sussy weirdo and then did nothing with her, ever.
-Popola and Devola "want to help" huh? Yeah, that's one way to describe it.
-Adam's initial form was brand new and made 9S' confidence that it was a machine lifeform make a lot more sense. Eve seemed to literally emerge from a rib, which was a nice choice. The boss fight was pared down to just stabbing him to death immediately.
I hope the hiatus is just till like February or something and that they don't just scuttle the entire project because of it...
Really clever reference to the game levelling system, that sadly they didn't use much if ever again in the game. But in that moment? Fucking genius.
It also only works in NG, coming back NG+ he doesn't match your new level, so the power of it is lost.
Nier
This arc has been up and down but this chapter was great.
The whole point is that the protagonist is from another world.
But so many of them are just immediately like, "Well, fuck it, I guess I just live here now. What? Friends and family? WON'T MISS 'EM!"
And then it's basically never mentioned again.
Like, imagine watching Attack on Titan or something, and in the first episode they were like, "Oh, BTW, Eren is from Earth, he just got Isekai'd into AoT" and then the rest of the anime just plays out exactly the same and it has no bearing on anything.
Does it count as an isekai is the character is simply taken to another world. Not a fantastical world or one they can't recognize at all, just a different world?
Yep. Isekai = another world = Portal story = not here and now.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/portal-fiction
I dunno how old it is for sure but "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells (edit: 1895) is 100% an isekai, it just uses time hopping instead of dimension hopping as the jump.
Some anime seem to get classified as Isekai if a protagonist just dies and then gets reincarnated again in the same world.
Neverending Story, for example. Pretty classic example.
Honestly the most interesting thing is why they've suddenly become so popular. I'm seeing a fair few of them that are basically office workers that get moved from their old life somehow and the fact that they straight up don't give a shit about their previous life doesn't seem to be considered a problem. Considering how popular those are that seems to indicate a lot of their readers wish they could do that too. And they really don't give a damn if its not mentioned, because they don't even wanna think about it. If you think about that too hard it's kinda a downer.
Which, if that's the case, I am judging 95% of all other Isekai pretty harshly...
You're gonna have to narrow this one down a bit.
"This week our Sci-Fi show is going to spend a swift 44 minutes in your sub-genre and just blow everything else out of the water. This isn't a warning, its a declaration."
That and the finale of the entire show are just fucking wtf levels of quality.
You know. It's the one where the guy uses his knowledge of video games and comic books to save the world. The one where the only other male characters are either evil or old men? It takes place in a realm of sword and sorcery.
This is true.
Can Inner Light be considered an Isekai if Picard didn't actually go anywhere, except in his own mind?
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That's also assuming they even can return. More than a few isekai protagonists are in the other world because they died in the original and got reincarnated, hence the meme of Truck-kun being so widespread. Those people often are born and grow up in the isekai world and regardless of how much you remember of the original you're going to have attachments in a place where you've spent such a long time.
This week, we saw two instances of what Serious Gentle is capable of - he subdued an entire fucking prison of quirk wielding criminals singlehandedly, and then stopped a floating island from crashing.
Yeah, Gentle is not to be fucked with.
That life was real and Picard would call you a monster for saying otherwise goddamit.
I have bad news about how genre naming conventions have panned out in practice then