So I just finished watching this , but am I a brainlet or something? What was the actual point of this anime?
From episode 1 I had hoped there would be a more conclusive ending but it kinda just fizzled out and went absolutely nowhere. I suppose that is also the reason it was only 10 episodes long which is a weird amount. To me it just seemed like another "wasted potential" anime.
On the positive side though, the girls were cute and I loved the ED.
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Izayoi was a fucking shit
he really did seem like a gary stu
knew all the answers to everything
couldnt be beaten in a fight
If anyone else is here a made a "high quality" webm of the ED
i love their dancing
streamable.com
Not everything needs a point
Seething
im aware of that i was just wondering if the anime production was rushed or something
I only got about 5 in before I dropped it. Good shows need that rise in stakes as they progress
this, as you say, just sort of peters on and fizzles out
from episode 1 i thought that the trio + black rabbit would go win a game against the demon lord that ruined their community and get their name back
but no, they did nothing of the sort and got nowhere
glad I dropped it at ep 5 then since that's where I thought it was going too
I guess it's an anime purely for the sake of selling the manga/LN
It was fun and I want more kuro usagi.
it really did seem like a "season 2 never ever" sort of thing , ie, as you said a GO READ THE MANGA ending
>manga is about competing and trying to outsmart your opponent.
>mc power is literally the power to always win.
>rich girl mind control power had to be nerfed into a power to control a giant robot (through mind control).
>beast girl jobs to everyone.
wasted potential.
i usually avoid isekai with a 10 foot pole because about 99% of the time its wasted potential but i picked this up solely because of the ED so i have no right to complain
The point was to bully the bunny.
>What was the actual point of this anime?
To make you go buy the original source material.
I agree but theres hardly any good lewds out there
it makes me wonder , did it accomplish that goal?
It was the adaptation of the prologue of the LN.
that makes sense that it never went anywhere if it was just the prologue of the ln that was adapted
well , i will make my peace knowing this will never get a s2 and forget about it , just like ive done for many other shows
The show is good because it has no stakes.
We dont need shitty villains
Read the LN, I think it's good, one of the few ones that I actually read.
Izayoi is not a gary stue, people just call everyone who is strong m/gary s(t)ue, because they are shit. Stuff is also better explained in the LN.
Izayoi did not actually use the letter that fell on him on the river bank.
>deleting your post because you fucked up
cringe
izayoi a shit
worse than kirito and touma
yes, its a well stablished LN with multiple volumes strong and has a very loyal fanbase
that sounds alright then
maybe we will get a s2 in the future after all
>What was the actual point of this anime?
To sell copies of the LN.
No, they actually finished at a pretty good cutting point if I remember correctly.
They simply were too early for the isekai boom.
From the story's side yeah, but as the viewer lots of things went unexplained that made a lot of people confused. They should either went for more or less, they kinda stopped halfway in my opinion.
Does anyone watching seasonal anime not understand that the overwhelming majority of them are glorified commercials?
You have too much fate in humans.
Wait wait what? I think I missed that part, what volume did they mention that in?
You would be surprised user.
Why do you think there's still dumb fags making "why x trend is popular when its bad" threads
>They simply were too early for the isekai boom.
I only just realised it's an isekai. God, I'm an idiot. Still, I'm not sure if it would have benefited from being a part of the boom. What we got was a pretty lively adaptation, all things considered. We might have ended up with low-budget slop instead.
It's pre the narou boom, so it doeesn't really count
12 kingdoms is isekai but nobody worth their salt would shit on it for that tag.
I don't remember where it was, but it was the story about Izayoi still being in his world, and the nigger shinigami coming to pick him up for Canaria, he give him another letter and he uses that. Though could be that I just misunderstood and he gives him the letter he already got, but that wouldn't really make sense in that context. He was to be sent there since he was basically groomed to restore the community and save the world, and Kurousagi just lucked out summoning him too. Basically there is like week or a month between the letter falling and him actually going.
I've never quite understood why isekai was suddenly picked out as a genre, I mean this has been going on for a while, with Alice in wonderland or Peter Pan for example, there are probably more stuff too. It's nothing new and most stuff I've watched isn't really isekai, because the character acts like a native by ep2. Or simply the transfer wouldn't make sense like in overlord.
It's a trend, just that, a trend that got popular via dumb luck just like HS, sure there are cultural elements there like the fact japan's work culture is the pure dog shite, nips otaku and normalfags alike wanting escape etc etc, a few stand out cases like MT and SH just broke the proverbial dam to the masses.
The real question you should be asking is the sheer negative response the west had and still has for the genre, something not even Yea Forums who's divorced from much of the rest of the bottomless pit that is western anime fandom has.
the reason why i avoid isekai is because the writing is either retarded as fuck or its just wasted potential
an example being that slime one
he gets reincarnated as a slime? ok fine thats "unique" were on to something here
BUT OH WAIT HE CAN HAVE A HUMAN FORM
so whats the fucking point then ?
What was the deal with the MC's headphones though was that ever explained?
>HS, MT, SH
What are these?
The west probably hates it because it's somewhat a romanticization of the "old" west. I can't really say anything about the genre being bad, there are good and bad shows in any genre.
But there are just about the same amount of shitty anime that's not isekai.
Not in the anime, it's important in the LN.
Give me the LN spoilers about them.
While i hate to defend shit that has an anime adaptation, slime does stay on his slimeball form for anything that's not combat, and the selling point of the work is his kingdom building antics.
Your post doesn't answer my question by the way, i want to know why the collective westerner anime fanbase has such a strong response to a harmless genre which is pretty goddamn honest about it's self inserting and power tripping wants. to expect anything beyond that from the genre is simply dumb.
High School setting
Mukoshou Tensei and Shield Hero
that is a fair point but theres just something about isekai i dont like
theres one other genre i actively avoid and thats harem
sorry for not answering your question i dont really know why its so universally hated as well
>why isekai was suddenly picked out as a genre
I'd say that it was actually a natural progression of wish fulfillment. First we had dating sims and bishoujo games, which tended to provide an idealised depiction of school life with a hint of fantasy. Then we got the urban fantasy stuff (girl falls from the sky and lands on the MC, it turns out she has magic powers and drags him into a world of magic and whatnot), then that shifted to battle harems which combined the fantasy battles with school life harems, and then finally we ended up with isekai where the MC is literally shifted into another world (often older than high school, often killed off and reincarnated) where he gets magic and a harem and whatever else he wants.
So basically something like:
school harem -> urban fantasy -> school battle harem -> isekai
where each shift is an additional step further removed from reality and closer to a power fantasy and wish fulfillment.
Harem is more of a tag than actual genre, multiple genres have the blasted thing bolted on to pander to the various tribes of japanese otaku, a total detriment to any story since pulling off a god harem is something beyond the ken of WN/LN writers.
It's ok, at least you gave me a honest reply, that's more than the usual "lmao status screens are bad" shit i get when asking.
>why the collective westerner anime fanbase has such a strong response to a harmless genre
Probably because it's so repetitive and creatively bankrupt. Especially the game mechanics, which are usually played straight. Western anime viewers haven't quite reached that level of existential crisis and general despair.
The best harems are the ones where the girls work with and complement each other. Usually though each girl gets her own individual time in the limelight and then gets shuffled back into the rear as a different girl gets her "turn".
I mostly just watch comfy SoLs , CGDCT , "comedies" ect , generally stuff thats pretty light and relaxing.
Isekai tends to be more action oriented and thats probably why im not a huge fan of it.
Dont get me wrong i do watch it very occasional , a case being this anime and konosuba.
Very well put user.
Yet high school battle harems have plagued the anime industry for decades and even then it took years to the nomalfag horde to start crying about it.
I blame being raised on the cream de la cream of 80s and 90s anime, they didn't had to suffer the numerous bad OVAs and as such developed the mindset that the older stuff was better.
Oh yes, in those cases they evolve beyond being the cardboard cutout 1 dimensional character made just to pander to a specific group, they become honest to god characters, something that your average narou writer simply can't pull it off.
It's an advertisement for the LN just like all anime, of course it doesn't end conclusively
>Yet high school battle harems have plagued the anime industry for decades and even then it took years to the nomalfag horde to start crying about it.
This place has always disliked school battle harems, culminating in 2015 when the first episode of both Gakusen Toshi Asterisk and Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry were essentially identical, plot-wise (main character sees a red-haired heroine changing and as a result gets challenged to a duel by her, where he displays unusual skill in order to defeat her). It's just that school battle harems are still less blatant in their lazy use of various tropes in order to push wish-fulfillment rubbish, and have at least a little bit of dramatic tension which keeps things going.
Also the normalfag crowd really only started coming into full force in late 2017 and 2018. School battle harems more or less died out by the end of 2016.
I thought that was the point. Usually the point of a story is to have stakes or pretend to. Nothing wrong with doing a variation of it one time.
Actually, I should correct that. Instead of
>This place has always disliked school battle harems
I'd say we started out liking and more or less tolerating them (stuff like Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, the first season of Infinite Stratos, even Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism later on), but they kind of got stale and repetitive as more and more of them got adapted. I think it's a chronic problem with the industry where they mindlessly adapt stuff as advertisements for the source material until the bubble pops.
Indeed, i've just remembered how Hundred had such a muted response when that came out, 2016 i think, i was expecting the usual "look another HS battle harem garbage anime wasting talent and hard work" threads but it got nothing.
I can't agree with you on the usage of lazy troupes on the other hand, it was bad even on the good stuff, but you do have a point in regards to drama and tension, the final battle in IS season 1 was pretty damn good.
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It's complex and involves multiple arcs, so it's not easy to sum it up. It's not the headphones itself that is important, but the connection, about half of the later part of the story connects into this, what I can quickly tell about it wouldn't say much, but I don't want write a summary of 4-5 books.
Anyway, shit happens and it breaks and Yu needs to repair it since she is somewhat responsible for it, and she remembers that her father had one with the same marking. Meanwhile Izayoi remembering that it was given to him by his little brother from the orphanage, who has a similar ability to Perturabo and makes it by himself, the logo is his own. The important part is establishing his brother in the plot.
But we had shit like that for long. Someone had push it into the spotlight.
Was it SaO? I don't really think of it as isekai, because while technically it is, they are not actually removed from their world.
And I don't think isekai is necessary for wish fulfillment and power fantasies, or strong character would automatically be for those.
What's wrong with battle harems? It's cute girls and fighting what else would you need?
To quote the other user
>repetitive and creatively bankrupt.
But what's repetitive? The fighting? That puts about half of all anime there then, I don't think it's anywhere as bad as shounens.
I mean, most anime is just a redo of previous stuff with a twist on it anyway, especially if it's a subgenre.