anime

Pika, does your rule about watching entire franchises mean you are going to watch the LOGH remake after the bookclub ends?

He actually made that joke today at the book club lol

Also the blind girl anime is cute

remakes do not count

or premakes

I did not watch fma original

or spice and wolf original

I like that the MC is a dick

I wish you had asked me the musical question a month earlier. I could have watched, recorded and recommended "A Succulent Chinese Musical"

It's similar to LOGH in that it is about Democracy Manifest.

by which I mean it's supposed to be a prequel to the youtube video "Democracy Manifest" Cop:"No akido or taiquando. I'm going to know my judo well!" Chorus: "YOU KNOW YOUR JUDO WELL. YOU KNOW YOUR JUDO WELL".

Thanks for answering the call my video asked for

this is pure skizo if I don't clarify why you are posting this

who even uses imdb

Looking at the ratings

apparently like 600 people total

imdb raitings are retarded when it comes to anime, and the one hype show every season gets spammed every week with "it got 9.9/10, breaking all records"

it was Re:zero last season (which is fair, season 4 was pretty great)

writing reviews per episodes is insane if its not an anthology series

Also true

Anime ads have now reached the military industrial complex https://vxtwitter.com/anduriltech/status/2079258396650614908

I was going to say, that felt very Anduril

they get a pass

it's cringe, but Palmer Lucky is the king of cringe

I'm really sad, it seems one of the greatest videos of all time is no long on the internet, because Konami copyright claimed it and idk if anyone has it archived

Damn, I hate Anduril

Also what was wrong with episode 4? It felt like the same as the previous 3 episodes

nothing, MT just has a captive hater audience who waste their time complaining about MT endlessly everytime it airs

Oh, sorry, I assumed episode 1-3 were normal ratings on imdb lol

no, just ep 4 got hit harder i guess

E1/2 did not have the evil diddy n;id ra[ost as twotter calls him, E3 had him but E4 is moreso when the show gets into full swing

god

I fucked that up

thats what I get for typing while walking away from my pc (not looking, holding my wireless keyboard)

Do they call him evil diddy or evil daddy? lol

well, that depends on what you thinkg ra[ost was supposed to be

If he had a kid's voice as his internal dialogue, I swear none of this discourse would even exist.

It would, because there is a subset (say 20% of people) who cannot understand that you are not supposed to root for every character ever written who is a protagonist (unrelated, since I am rooting for rudy)

Honestly, outside of S1 Nanahoshi and Orsted and S2 Paul dying, it is so far a generic isekai with a really good story.

Yeah, like spider man

I've seen the papers, he is a menace

Jobless I imagine is mostly a slow burn for the world building, We haven't been shown a ton of universe original concepts beyond that of of some of the strange abilities of the demons, the sword god system, and the curses but with how much I was able to know by taking notes during my season 1 rewatch a few years ago for season 2, and how much I was able to piece before it occurred in s2, and how many things were open ended, I can assume plenty is getting set up for people who are staying hypervigilant.

World building is second to story quality anyways, even if both feed each other.

I say this as someone who loves MT I think partially because the author is into the idea of time passing as Rudy grows up (which is more obvious in the novels), he writes downtime in which breaks up the pace of the story in a sorta weird way

I really like downtime in stories where the world feels like a character in its own right. It makes the setting feel lived in instead of just being a place where the plot happens.

idk if this is criticism or what, but MT is on the chekov side of writing, where characters/places/things are drawn upon time and time again, and I think a lot of fantasy (and anime in general) is more used to Shounen or monster-of-the-week sorta pacing, where the story progresses by introducing new things/characters and just sidelining those plot elements once they've been resolved in the moment, so the story can move onto the next thing

The author gets more explicit with the themes he's going for with the story as it goes on, but I think most of them are pretty obvious even now

Yeah like the theme of polygamy is awesome

which was also the entire point of the one robot anime from a few seasons ago that had the really good episode 0 then consistantly got worse each episode after that

To the original discussion Dialga/Pika were heaving, I really don't understand the anti crowd at all for MT

Its preformative weebing

I think that is entirely it

or even the reddit take of "you're not supposed to like Rudeus"

you want to engage with anime, but you don't really like it, but you want to engage with it

isnt it “generic” because its one of the genre defining entries?

I think some people think they have to engage with something when it's popular even when they hate it, so they just waste their time being mad instead of doing something better with their time

i also see some weird sect of Re;zero fanatics who love to advertise for re;zero while hating on MT for some reason?

If Re:Zero is so good, why arent there 50 new clones of it being written each week like MT?

i don't like re;zero but i dont feel the need to go tell re;zero fans their show is bad

(i don't think it's bad though its just not for me)

Re:Zero (and Shangri-La for that matter) do have a ton of inspired-by works

they're just all WNs

and never escape the format

idk whether to even blame Shangri-la for the litRPG craze, because the genre itself was Russian originally, then went over to Japan/Korea

I should have said published then

publishers love their generic MT clones with extra slavery

every isekai needs slavery and rice

it's a rule

and mayonaise

Every Tales game needs mabo curry worked into the plot somehow. It can't just be a thing your characters learn to cook, it has to show up in dialogue. And if it doesn't get mentioned in the game's dialogue by a main character, it shows up in the prequel.

Ok pyrrhic but tales games arent a genre its all the same IP so it makes sense to have repeating things like that

I wish these children putting garbage on WN blogs would copy the part of MT that is sadly very uncommon: a magic and ability system that isn’t explicitly a video game

I think its a good call, but the MT anime also doesn't spend almost any time explaining the magic/martial system in the world Rudeus gets a little bit from a book in S1, and the magic/sword masters will explain some things a little here and there

there is a very rigid system, that I think most anime-onlys will be surprised by some aspect of it at some point

at least rudy doesnt openly have a menu, levels, or unique named skills

if this rigid system actually justifies chant magic as a mechanic then its a great system

now who holds it like that

Started watching Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers. It's another kids show where you don't realize how fucked up the premise is until you're an adult. A couple in the NT who own a service station, find a baby in a guitar case are convinced the kid is the illigitimate son of Elvis Presley. So they raise him up to be an Elvis Impersonator, and they won't let him go to school.

And it's not like his parents weren't Elvis impersonators before they started raising the kid.