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https://twitter.com/isekai_quartet/status/1128325214578679808 Nice ED card from the latest episode of Quartet. I should probably get around to watching Youjo Senki.
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RareAcumen posted:Imagine if like, the YuruYuri cast got pulled into Pokemon season 1/ Red/Yellow/Blue. I'm enjoying this, but gosh, was Yui always so selfish and egotistical? Kyouko really comes across as the protagonist.
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Ibblebibble posted:https://twitter.com/isekai_quartet/status/1128325214578679808 why would you give Darkness a minigun oh god
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:why would you give Darkness a minigun oh god Who cares, they gave Cocytus two.
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RareAcumen posted:https://twitter.com/nichegamer/status/1124507075453886464?s=19 I read the novel for this and the writing is extremely amateurish. Like, your basic fanfiction writing is leagues better. I am honestly surprised it got any sort of adaption at all.
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https://mangadex.org/title/27202/the-ride-on-king There is apparantely an isekai about Not!Putin getting transported into another world, and he promptly sets out on a quest to ride all the different magical monsters of the world. I have only read the first chapter but the premise seems amazing. edit: actually the more I read of it, the more off it seems. edi2: on the other hand, the not!Putin tends to think that slavers and other assholes should all get punched in the face, so at least the isekai slavery-garbage is completely something considered villainous within the story SpiritOfLenin fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 17, 2019 |
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:why would you give Darkness a minigun oh god Don't worry, she can't hit anything.
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https://twitter.com/BlackDragonSP/status/1129356634763849728 Yep, hamsuke is the class pet, unfortunately for her death knight-kun was slain by aqua.
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:why would you give Darkness a minigun oh god if you roll to hit 1000 times you gotta get a 20 eventually!!!!
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Elfface posted:Don't worry, she can't hit anything. At least not intentionally. Crit failures might still be a thing.
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New Shield Heroine Its time for Maple and Sally to team up for the Event. What sort of challenges await them?
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 The greatest hardship of all.
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I started reading Kenkyo Kenjitsu and it's quite good! It makes me nostalgic for reading the Princess Diaries back in high school. I wasn't super gripped with it until fifty or sixty chapters in, but I think it adds a lot of depth to the high school stuff to see Reika and her friends grow up together. When's the best natural stopping point for reading it? I saw it's on hiatus, and I don't want to be left hanging on a cliffhanger, but it's not exactly like it's a series with a ton of cliffhangers to begin with.
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Elfface posted:Don't worry, she can't hit anything. I dunno how well that applies to hitting her friends on accident
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nrook posted:When's the best natural stopping point for reading it? I saw it's on hiatus, and I don't want to be left hanging on a cliffhanger, but it's not exactly like it's a series with a ton of cliffhangers to begin with.
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new sword dad lol I can't get over this little bit with him using the float spell while fran is eating lunch  
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Bloody Pancreas posted:Crunchyroll, out of the blue, just put up The Twelve Kingdoms in its entirety. This was my first foray into Isekai before I even knew what that meant. Also it's really, really good and I'd recommend it to anyone (who likes anime). Twelve Kingdoms not having more books written in its setting is one of the top two depressing LN things (with the other being the likelihood that Rokka no Yuusha will never end). It is very good and has one of the most interesting fantasy settings I've ever encountered. It's Actually Good, as opposed to "we know it's bad but it's still entertaining" (which applies to most of the stuff we discuss in this thread). I actually like the addition of the two classmates into the anime, though (from what I understand, the LN didn't have anyone travel to the 12 Kingdoms world with her). Asano's whole arc was particularly interesting (it's probably one of the few "accurate" depictions of what would actually happen if someone was randomly transported into some fantasy world, without knowing the language or anything).
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Captain Invictus posted:new sword dad Okay, the float thing was goofy but I should have known this would happen eventually...
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Someone's been watching Daikon IV.
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Captain Invictus posted:new sword dad I think you're not supposed to pick up cats like that.
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Kittens is okay, adult cats no.
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chumbler posted:I think you're not supposed to pick up cats like that. At least he's not picking up cats in a dungeon like that.
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I dunno if this has been mentioned already, but I recently found this weird series: The other world doesn't stand a chance against the power of instant death It's an intriguingly cynical parody of the premise of a lot these Isekai stories, and as a result of that I feel like the world itself is more interesting than the characters, so I'll start with that. Basically, the setting is described as the "lowest energy potential" of all the infinite isekais, so it's extremely easy to get transported there and extremely hard to get out. Which means it's constantly under attack by extra-dimensional invaders of all kinds, from demons to elder gods to mecha. But the most dangerous invader of all is of course the Ordinary High School Student, who usually ends up with some OP cheat ability and starts enslaving the populace or whatever. Basically it's a hellhole where cities are blowing up every day because of all the clashing OP-ness, and almost everyone is a sociopath. Keeping "order" such as it is are the Sages, who are the most OP of the OP who have filtered their way to the top and are basically amoral gods who will casually kill lesser mortals with a wave of their hands. They're the only ones who stand a chance at stopping invaders from other worlds, so they consider themselves the rulers of the world, and, well, who's going to stop them? However, not even the Sages are truly immortal, and sometimes they die in battle against invaders. To replenish their numbers, one of the Sages (they have no leader, since naturally every single one of them thinks of themselves as the most powerful) orders a new shipment of Ordinary High School Students, this time an entire class of students on a bus. They're all given RPG stat menus and OP new abilities yadda yadda yadda, and maybe one of them will end up being powerful enough to join the Sages. Probably not, but eh, they're expendable and they can always get another batch. However, also on the bus are a few students who failed to "install" the RPG mechanics and they're abandoned by the other students, assuming that they'd weigh them down. Naturally, these people turn out to be even more special than the others, and in fact were special even in their original world, and are all ridiculously OP in their own, even more OP ways. Etc etc. Basically it's a ridiculous black comedy parodying all the OP cheat slave-owner type protagonists, as pretty much everyone is an awful person trying to kill each other. The most fundamental, basic gag of the series is the anti-climax though. As the title indicates, the main character can just kill anyone or anything by thinking about it. It's sort of designed to be the most ridiculously overpowered, yet also boring, ability possible. But he's vaguely a nice guy (not really) so he only uses it in self-defense. IE: if anyone even thinks about hurting him they will immediately die, from any distance. Other than that, he's the most boring man imaginable (intentionally so). The story is usually told more from the perspective of his companion, who's the one who overreacts to everything until she gets bored of doing that. Also she's a highly trained ninja, for some reason. It's the kind of story where everyone has some crazy backstory, because every single person in the world is the main character of an Isekai novel. I don't know how well the writer can keep this from getting old, but the premise is absurd and creative enough that it really stood out to me. Also there is absolutely zero harem nonsense (still some romcom nonsense between the two leads though), and the slavers are villains who gets killed, if that's the sort of thing you worry about.
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Clarste posted:I dunno if this has been mentioned already, but I recently found this weird series: I had once read a little bit of the novel, but the translation was practically Google Translate and wasn't that understandable. You've basically got the gist of it, though. Isekai protagonists are all amoral psychopaths who all deserve instant death.
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I've read that series recently as well, and my feelings can be summed up thusly: "Mark Millar writes manga". That is not an endorsement.
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Nipponophile posted:I've read that series recently as well, and my feelings can be summed up thusly: "Mark Millar writes manga". Can you elaborate on that?
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seething contempt for the isekai genre is fine but it can't carry an entire story when you have no other ideas and nothing to say. i prefer webnovels that are bad in entertaining ways over mediocre works like instant death.
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Blew through the manga. Can't say I'm interested enough to make the jump to the webnovel. It's not bad but I can see how it could definitely peter out.
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It's one that is fairly entertaining as a manga, but I can't imagine holding out in text.
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To be honest, I kind of dismissed it myself until I was talking to my brother about it (as a list of "bad isekai I've read recently") and then when I described it it sounded way more interesting than how I felt when I read it. That's kind of why I thought the premise was more entertaining than the characters or whatever, although that did make me look back on it more fondly than I had before.
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Clarste posted:However, also on the bus are a few students who failed to "install" the RPG mechanics and they're abandoned by the other students, assuming that they'd weigh them down. Naturally, these people turn out to be even more special than the others, and in fact were special even in their original world, and are all ridiculously OP in their own, even more OP ways. Etc etc.
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The ending page of the new sword-dad deserves to be airbrushed on the side of a van, and also be the finishing blow against a powerful enemy.
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Mordaedil posted:It's one that is fairly entertaining as a manga, but I can't imagine holding out in text. Having read both the manga and the webnovel I feel kind of the opposite. Because there's really only one "gag" in Instant Death (some super powerful foe being introduced and then instantly dying while all of the onlookers gasp shocked disbelief) it sees a lot of play. And in the manga that's especially apparent because of the space limitation inherent in the format, so it feels like just a parade of villains being introduced so that they can instantly die when the timing is slightly comedic. The web novel has the same problem, of course, but it's a bit better off because it has more space to flesh out the setting and characters and to set up the overarching plot. At least that was my feeling when comparing the two. The webnovel feels like it has a lot more going on (things like insight into the characters thoughts or how the setting works or setups for a big overarching plotline) rather than just the same comedic beat of some guy dying mid powerup transformation sequence that gets hit over and over again like in the manga.
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instant death is a p uncomfortable power fantasy with lots of kind of skeevy elements so im gonna ask we not discuss that one in this thread
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Sindai posted:Yeah I think it's fine to just read up to the most recent chapter. I'm on it. Looking forward to Reika giving more people unfortunate nicknames. e: 200 chapters in I still have no idea what Fellow Stalking Horse's name is and he shows up like every chapter
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Clarste posted:Can you elaborate on that? I never read the series but: you know how there's a million series that are like "DID U KNOW: if superheroes/Superman were real they would be really bad???" I'm assuming they mean that but for isekai premises.
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I started watching Tanya of the Evil Empire or whatever solely because it's the only quarter of Isekai Quartet I haven't seen. Gotta say, the first episode didn't really blow me away. Does it get a lot better or is it just "crazy OP Isekai protagonist in magical WWI" the whole time.
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It's mostly the latter. It's like Overlord in that the protagonist is steadily digging a deeper hole for themselves when they think they're being clever for using their past world knowledge.
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not really? there are a couple decent schticks or running joke kinda things, and the plot involving the god who reincarnated tanya is vaguely interesting but it doesn't really ever get any better than that
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The episode that features it manages to quite stunningly represent the If you're not really into the whole magic WWI scenario, then it doesn't really offer much, no.
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