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[Anime] has a new season, and you can kind of watch Urusei Yatsura instead.

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  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    Oh. So there is no greater meaning to anything in Overlord?

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    There is an edgelord revenge manga I'm currently following that goes something like The Vengeful Hero is Stained in Darkness, but what makes it unique to me are a few factors:

    * The protagonist limits their vengeance specifically to the people who earned it. No one else.
    * He does not engage in sexual assault for revenge. It's still pretty horrific, but he doesn't stoop that low. The villain though...
    * He tailors his vengeance to fit the person's sins against him so you can see how they earned their horrible death.

    It can currently be summed up as boy is isekai'd to a fantasy land, becomes the Hero, and defeats the Demon Lord. He is then betrayed by all of his supposed comrades, who reveal they were only using him to beat the Demon Lord, and after a lot of physical and mental torture he's executed while being framed for all the crimes the royal family did to consolidate their power, including massacring his entire village. However, he forces the reincarnation goddess to revive him, with a bit of time lag, and begins targeting all the people who betrayed him using the dark magic he's always had but refrained from ever using when he was the Hero.

    Among his targets are people like
    a cannibalistic general's family, a group of scientists who used his soldiers as guinea pigs for a super soldier drug that would kill them, a village that makes its living murdering visitors and taking their belongings to sell, etc. There's not a single innocent person among his victims.

    It is very edgelord, but I don't think I hate it like I do most of the revenge porn stories.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Oh. So there is no greater meaning to anything in Overlord?

    Overlord is pretty much the Dead Dove Do No Eat of anime, sure

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    That's a shame. I've been enjoying it.
    And everything up to that point seemed to generally err on the side of it often being an act to let Ains build up his Momon persona or vice versa, and while he was cruel, he generally undid it through resurrection.

    But the detailed account of what he did to the girl, when it's basically a tomb filled with One Punch Mans, was just full on irredeemable evil.

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    season 2 of overlord still has moments of ainz not being shit and trying to curtail his minions, with lots of edgelord thrown in

    season 3 abandons all pretense of character development for dumb bullshit and edgelord while trying to gaslight the audience into believing these awful monster somehow deserve sympathy for some fucking reason

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    season 2 of overlord still has moments of ainz not being shit and trying to curtail his minions, with lots of edgelord thrown in

    season 3 abandons all pretense of character development for dumb bullshit and edgelord while trying to gaslight the audience into believing these awful monster somehow deserve sympathy for some fucking reason

    It sucks because season 1 was fun as this normal dude turned into an overpowered monster tries desperately to do the right thing while his minions and an unknown force keep trying to push him in the wrong direction.

    Then the show just decides to lean into the evil and becomes boring.

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    season 2 of overlord still has moments of ainz not being shit and trying to curtail his minions, with lots of edgelord thrown in

    season 3 abandons all pretense of character development for dumb bullshit and edgelord while trying to gaslight the audience into believing these awful monster somehow deserve sympathy for some fucking reason

    It sucks because season 1 was fun as this normal dude turned into an overpowered monster tries desperately to do the right thing while his minions and an unknown force keep trying to push him in the wrong direction.

    Then the show just decides to lean into the evil and becomes boring.

    especially because it aired at the same time as two shows where outrageously overpowered protagonists were interesting and wholesome

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Speaking of, new slime started up today. Go watch that instead.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2021
    Oh hell yeah it’s slime time

    I was doing a rewatch of this because the recap ep reminded me how much I enjoyed it.

    This is a show that can throw dark when it needs to but still remain wholesome and optimistic.

    rhylith on
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Been reading the manga of slime, and I'm very much looking forward to this season.

  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    season 2 of overlord still has moments of ainz not being shit and trying to curtail his minions, with lots of edgelord thrown in

    season 3 abandons all pretense of character development for dumb bullshit and edgelord while trying to gaslight the audience into believing these awful monster somehow deserve sympathy for some fucking reason

    It sucks because season 1 was fun as this normal dude turned into an overpowered monster tries desperately to do the right thing while his minions and an unknown force keep trying to push him in the wrong direction.

    Then the show just decides to lean into the evil and becomes boring.

    Yes that Season 1 description is fair. I was a bit confused early in S2 with the
    lizard man subjugation and the purpose of it. I thought maybe there was a larger message about Ainz slowly losing his humanity now he is trapped in an undead form. He mentions it often enough so they clearly want to remind us there is a human in there. But then there is this weird spell that keeps subduing him as well. But the tone is become too wild between accidentally catching two lizards having sex and the thief butchery.

  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Been reading the manga of slime, and I'm very much looking forward to this season.

    Waiting for the
    wham line of (real ass manga spoilers)
    "Where's Shion?

  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    I gotta be 100 with you guys.

    The first episode of Overlord was 23 straight minutes of a dude sitting in a chair, talking about how he was in an MMO.

    Dude didn't even fucking get up once. Didn't leave the room. Nothing happened. Just a dude in a chair. Sitting there. For almost half an hour.

    It started pretty fucking boring too.

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    The best character in Overlord is that one random village girl.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    The best character in Overlord is that one random village girl.

    sebas is also decent

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    The best character in Overlord is that one random village girl.

    Oh absolutely

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    why isn't overlord about that village girl taking over the world

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    So there is another dumb anime name with an op protag.

    It is probably the worst title I have seen for a hot minute.

    It’s called something along he lines of “What if a kid from the village next to the last dungeon went to the starter town?”

    Surprisingly, it’s actually a comedy anime, also good?

    It’s definitely a light novel adaptation, and once the rub get’s revealed it goes WAY TOO HARD on it’s joke.

    BUT

    The protagonist is Maple levels of OP, coupled with Maple levels of pure cinnamon roll innocence, which makes the second level of reveal the reason why I bought in.

    Check it out for a lark, it’s on Funimation

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    I’ve been talkin about that one!

    It’s good!

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Oh hey log horizon season 1 showed back up on funimation.

    I don’t see season 2 now though haha

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    Dropkick on my devil is some light hearted comedy with low stakes too

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  • CururuCururu Registered User regular
    So there is another dumb anime name with an op protag.

    It is probably the worst title I have seen for a hot minute.

    It’s called something along he lines of “What if a kid from the village next to the last dungeon went to the starter town?”

    Surprisingly, it’s actually a comedy anime, also good?

    It’s definitely a light novel adaptation, and once the rub get’s revealed it goes WAY TOO HARD on it’s joke.

    BUT

    The protagonist is Maple levels of OP, coupled with Maple levels of pure cinnamon roll innocence, which makes the second level of reveal the reason why I bought in.

    Check it out for a lark, it’s on Funimation

    I’m apparently the target audience for this. The giant grasshopper running gag has gotten me every time.

  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    This sports festival episode in Dragon Maid is incredibly wholesome

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Cururu wrote: »
    So there is another dumb anime name with an op protag.

    It is probably the worst title I have seen for a hot minute.

    It’s called something along he lines of “What if a kid from the village next to the last dungeon went to the starter town?”

    Surprisingly, it’s actually a comedy anime, also good?

    It’s definitely a light novel adaptation, and once the rub get’s revealed it goes WAY TOO HARD on it’s joke.

    BUT

    The protagonist is Maple levels of OP, coupled with Maple levels of pure cinnamon roll innocence, which makes the second level of reveal the reason why I bought in.

    Check it out for a lark, it’s on Funimation

    I’m apparently the target audience for this. The giant grasshopper running gag has gotten me every time.

    His lack of common sense on the difference between "animal" and "monster" was a good line.

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    hey what if I got into Gundam

    Gundam seems good

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Isorn wrote: »
    It's a universal truth that villain songs are always fantastic, but Blumenkranz in particular slaps unrelenting

    First time I heard it I realised at some point that the lyrics are supposed to be German and not a made up language. Most words are pronounced wrong so it took me a second to figure that one out. It is a great song as long as I ignore that part.

    I believe its German with a Japanese accent which considering the character is utterly spot on and cannot be unintentional.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    More Dragon Maid talk:

    Fafnir turning into a total weeb is just incredible, what a perfect transformation for the most fearsome and gold lusting dragon

  • HamHamJHamHamJ Registered User regular
    I'm kind of impressed by the animation for SoIAmASpiderSoWhat? (What is like the accepted shortening of this thing anyway?) It seems to be a lot of 3D cg but with like ArcSystemWorks quality cell shading? Though the real question is how it will look if and when the spider model has to be in the same frame as the humans who I'm pretty sure are drawings and not models.

    While racing light mechs, your Urbanmech comes in second place, but only because it ran out of ammo.
  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User regular
    Well I finished Dragon Maid!

    I super loved it (Lucoa bad shit excepted obviously). It's really wholesome, it has such a great vibe in every episode, it surprised me with what it did with several characters, and everyone in the cast was loveable to some degree.

    Also the dub was impressively good, especially the VA for Miss Kobayashi who was frankly sublime. Easily one of my favourite contemporary-set anime characters in recent years.

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    That last episode of AoT was white knuckle.

    god yes..
    Isorn wrote: »
    It's a universal truth that villain songs are always fantastic, but Blumenkranz in particular slaps unrelenting

    First time I heard it I realised at some point that the lyrics are supposed to be German and not a made up language. Most words are pronounced wrong so it took me a second to figure that one out. It is a great song as long as I ignore that part.
    As a native german, I loved that song, until I noticed that it was supposed to be german.

    It's very.. not good. Not goood at all.

    The melody still slaps, but whenevery I hear the lyrics, I cringe into another dimension and become a non-evil skeleton lich in a better version of overlord

    autono-wally, erotibot300 on
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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    Mr. G wrote: »
    hey what if I got into Gundam

    Gundam seems good

    Most Gundam is good, it's a big enough franchise that you'll find at least one series you enjoy. There's an official Youtube channel that cycles through different series. At the moment it's Gundam Build Fighters and Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, but it's worth checking once every couple of months to see what's there. Netflix and Funimation have Iron-Blooded Orphans and Unicorn.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    HamHamJ wrote: »
    I'm kind of impressed by the animation for SoIAmASpiderSoWhat? (What is like the accepted shortening of this thing anyway?) It seems to be a lot of 3D cg but with like ArcSystemWorks quality cell shading? Though the real question is how it will look if and when the spider model has to be in the same frame as the humans who I'm pretty sure are drawings and not models.

    Spider Isekai?

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Slime isekai episode this week:
    So they're picking up all the threads that got cut short last season and connecting the seasons. I'm wondering if they didn't know they were getting a second season when the 1st season ended?

    The ED was cute with Milim and Shion, who probably love Rimuru the most? His bestie and secretary.

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Is there a new episode? Crunchyrolls menu system is so fucking confusing I cant tell. Half the time something updates its a dub for a language I cant speak. I wish they'd let you filter that stuff

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    Is there a new episode? Crunchyrolls menu system is so fucking confusing I cant tell. Half the time something updates its a dub for a language I cant speak. I wish they'd let you filter that stuff

    There's actually three!

    OVA5, wrapping up Rimuru's school mini-arc

    24.9, which is a season 1 recap

    25, which is the season 2 first episode

  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    Latest AoT spoilers:
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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    Because I'm behind on everything, I finally started Princess Connect.

    Reaction so far...
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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Is there a new episode? Crunchyrolls menu system is so fucking confusing I cant tell. Half the time something updates its a dub for a language I cant speak. I wish they'd let you filter that stuff

    I was looking at my queue the other day and for some reason, In/Spectre, which has only one season shows 3 seasons. The Sub is season 3, the dub is season 2, and season 1 doesn't exist.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Is there a new episode? Crunchyrolls menu system is so fucking confusing I cant tell. Half the time something updates its a dub for a language I cant speak. I wish they'd let you filter that stuff

    I was looking at my queue the other day and for some reason, In/Spectre, which has only one season shows 3 seasons. The Sub is season 3, the dub is season 2, and season 1 doesn't exist.

    Yeah its a confusing mess.

    I have a podcast now. It's about video games and anime!Find it here.
  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    I wonder how the later fights and events in the current arc are even going to top whatever is going on right now in Murata's rendition of One Punch Man

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