It’s damn funny and self aware
That’s almost all isekai today, though. Even the most hackneyed isekai authors are starting to realize the genre has been beaten to death so thoroughly that they must throws some new spin on their trite and the standard these days is “isekai but it’s self-aware!” Even that has been done countless times already.
There’s something really wack with the scale of things in the potion scene. Like, the potion bottles fit comfortably in GS’s hand, meanwhile they appear bigger than the rhea girl’s head who is basically supposed to be hobbit sized but not really smaller than that? Weird.
Overall the art isn’t quite as crisp but it gets the job done, and at the very least there wasn’t any scenes with CGI Slayer (at least not yet, we’ll have to see once we get more action on screen) which is a huge win.
Shield Hero
the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.
Goddamn Robbie Rotten has deeper motivations than any Shield Hero villain.
I’m surprised they didn’t make the list given the general popularity, but let’s be real here, Goblin Slayer is honestly mediocre and Shield Hero has been spiraling down the drain ever since it started.
While I do often feel that way too, it needs to be pointed out that Anime Corner is a bit of a niche site and this reflects only the opinions of 5408 people. Their polls are known to have a bit wack results at times. If you look at other sites, MAL for example has had 25k people rate the list’s top entry, Sousou no Frieren. If you want to truly gauge something’s popularity, it’s worth looking at more than just one site.
No offense to any potential fans but I do have to say how depressing I find it that any even remotely original anime are never getting a second season yet a million cookie cutter faux medieval European fantasy harems are greenlit every day. I get that they produce whatever sells but surely people will have to grow bored of the same thing being done over and over again? Surely…?
Yeah, it’s depressing how much of wasted potential the criterion dungeons are. They fill a nice niche of 4 player hard content and being generally somewhere between extreme and savage, but the fact that the rewards are garbage mean most raiders aren’t ever going back in after their first clear solely for the experience. All content sorely needs rewards to bring people back in to keep it alive and criterion dungeons are doing the absolute worst of all content except maybe rival wings.
This is definitely interesting and I look forward to see how it plays.
At the same time, I remain slightly skeptical, as big brand name tie-in products often tend to be less than stellar. It takes a lot of effort, testing and polishing to put out at truly good TTRPG system and it’s not easy even for big companies that are dedicated to the industry. I’d love to see this succeed and continue to get extra material in the future, but at same time I’ve seen one too many fail trying to do things like this.
Brings to mind the Dark Souls TTRPG book built on top of D&D 5e, which was a thick tome absolutely chock full of gorgeus art and just as full of baffling, contradictory and clearly not at all playtested rules. Such a shame.
The First two movies, Beginnings and Eternal are simply a slimmed down version of the original series. The third movie, Rebellion, is entirely new content, as is the upcoming movie. Thus, either:
Will both work fine, though generally the series is recommended over the movies due to them having to cut out some scenes to save runtime. Or if you want and don’t mind the repetition, you can always watch the series first and then all of the movies.
Magia Record series is a spinoff featuring a different main cast and can be watched any time after the original series/first two movies. It will most likely not be in any way mandatory watching before the upcoming movie.
Japanese man realizes money is necessary for living in a modern society, more at eleven.
Not to mention, “X’s comeback” and “X’s final work” are a PR team’s wet dream. Why not both and why not multiple times?
Yeah FF6 has Relm, whose ability “sketch” lets her copy enemies’ attacks by drawing them with a brush. It’s fairly similar to blue mage in its original form, but I highly doubt they’d make a second, highly similar limited. So I suspect it’s a lot like blue mage in its style except it’s a real job.
Previously Yoshi P’s shirt clues have not been particularly complicated so I think this solution makes the most sense so far.
They already revealed the job is a caster, not physical ranged, though.
The translators did their best with the ending pun, in Japanese the point of the joke was that five is go (五), as in Godard. At least for once translation woes work for instead of against the translators as the joke is intentionally awful even in Japanese.
Castlevania > Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba)
The only mildly warm part of this take is that Castlevania isn’t really anime but western animation.
Demon Slayer has amazing visuals thanks to Ufotable, but outside of that the story and characters are as bland as, if not even worse than in any other painfully mediocre battle shonen to ever come out. If you look at shows as a whole instead of hyper-focusing on animation quality, pretty much anything with even mediocre writing will beat it.
Absolutely. It’s a shame the first season’s pacing was such a mess, I’d imagine many people who dropped it or decided to skip the second season due to it would have enjoyed it immensely more than the first one.
Funny enough, this is the first thing to come to my mind too. It’s a nice little song for an otherwise quite unremarkable show.
Now that you mention it, I kind of smell a distubring possibility of a Kyokou Suiri S1 happening to this show’s pacing as well. To those unaware, the show is a very similar supernatural detective show, one which started strong with two episodic plots and then squandered ten whole episodes on one mystery at an absolutely glacial pace. S2 was paced massively better with the longest mysteries being at most 4 episodes (and this time having an amount of twists actually justifying the length), feeling a lot better.
I really really hope this show wraps up the case quickly in the next episode and then throws in something new, but I have a fear it may also be heading towards a “season finale” case taking up half the season (perhaps with one shorter case in between for padding), and if that’s going to happen with the pacing we’re currently seeing, that is going to be a painful watch. I hate to be pessimistic about the show because I had such a good first impression of it and am really liking the concept and characters so far.
While true, there are some languages that are the wrong tool for every job. JS is one of them. I’ve dreamt of a future where web frontends switched to something sane but instead we got stuff like typescript which is like trying to erect steel beams in quicksand. For web frontends I can understand that historical reasons have lead to this but whoever came up with node thinking JS would be a great backend language has a lot of explaining to do.
And that works well when you have Discord for instant, synchronous messaging and voice chat and something like Reddit or another forum for more permanent, asynchronous discussions. Now that Reddit’s going the way of Digg, people are looking for anything to replace its functionality. Discord gets close, but isn’t quite there for the countless reasons already mentioned in this thread. That’s why I really hope something like this community on Fediverse takes off.
I would agree otherwise as it’s excellent, but Re:Zero is definitely a harem. There’s a designated pairing from the get-go but it doesn’t stop the MC from collecting an army of girls that are all more or less infatuated with him.