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roddy piper; isekai protag
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we should give um, credit to stranger in a strange landvforcreally pioneering the harem element of iseki
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May 14, 2021 07:31
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pairofdimes posted:OK that explains why I wasn't familiar with it, the entire genre basically sprang up while I wasn't looking. Check out Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu. It's about a modern day Izakaya with a front door that opens to a medieval European low-fantasy world. All the medieval people are blown away by food that isn't terrible and the Izakaya quickly becomes an institution in the town. It's all on Youtube I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epNcUO4FV4
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May 14, 2021 14:15
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the last anime I really liked was Dorohedoro. now that was a good one. you forget that they can have good writing
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May 14, 2021 15:21
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check the manga, the art is super cool and grimmy, the anime couldnt really ever get close to it but they did their best in closing the gap
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May 14, 2021 15:24
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I don't think rezero is that good or that bad. There are a lot of tropes of isekai that are built on power fantasies that rezero kind of subverts but it also kind of plays it straight in a lot of ways in a way that starts to kind of clash with the main premise after a while. Anyway the second season got way too contrived and I no longer knew what the hell was going on because they put a big gap in the middle of the season where they didn't air anything because of covid so I stopped watching
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May 14, 2021 15:47
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The 2nd season of Re:Zero gets bogged down in a way that feels like the light novels it's adapting get a little too deep into exploring the implications of all its premises. Like, plot wise there's a lot happening because Subaru is getting killed a lot by the big story event, but chronologically it's stuck in the same week of time and the same location. If you wanted the overarching "world" plot to go anywhere you're sort of stuck with what the writer wants to explore instead, and that could be a big turnoff. If you can't stay emotionally engaged with it then it's not going to work.
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May 14, 2021 15:54
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a cyberpunk goose posted:I’ve seen all of re:zero and I think it’s a dog water anime for shmucks who will lap up anything with moderate production value and dynamic voice acting with a touch of grimdark because anime is so creatively bankrupt most of the time that anything slightly out of the box is mind blowing to people who only watch anime and Disney channel originals drat! This dude cutting through the poo poo!!!
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May 14, 2021 15:56
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That's an ancient Greek dude, c'mon man. I guess it was huh. I get them confused sometimes.
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May 14, 2021 16:05
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Honest Thief posted:check the manga, the art is super cool and grimmy, the anime couldnt really ever get close to it but they did their best in closing the gap mmmm maybe I dont know if I want to start getting into manga but then again I spend most of my day pretending to work so what I've noticed about most exciting new anime series is that the first few episodes are good because the author had some great original ideas but then they quickly ran out of them and the shows turn into tournament arcs and literally the same plots, characters and settings as every other show of that type
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May 14, 2021 16:19
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mistermojo posted:mmmm maybe I dont know if I want to start getting into manga but then again I spend most of my day pretending to work so Iunno man I still dig the moments of triumph in My Hero Academia and it's 4 seasons in. Lot of other shows do it pretty badly tho
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May 14, 2021 16:22
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mistermojo posted:mmmm maybe I dont know if I want to start getting into manga but then again I spend most of my day pretending to work so
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May 14, 2021 16:22
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I finally got around to finishing watching Yasuke and it's by far the most disappointing thing I've seen in a long while. You can have every individual element of production going right for you, but if the writing and concepts are bad then it's just not going to work. Yasuke is a historical figure ripe for adaptation because there's plenty that we know about what he did in Japan, but the details of his life or what happened to him after he returned to the Portuguese is a complete mystery. He's a figure that can act as a vessel to explore a whole range of topics like slavery and liberation, the limits of loyalty, the nature of what it means to serve. Instead the anime hints at bigger ideas but never goes anywhere with them and just ends up saying nothing. It feels like an amateur writing project where they just tried to emulate all the parts of anime they thought was cool without considering if any of it would fit or work or even seem interesting. Not even the fights are particularly good. If you know even a little bit about the historical period it also gets pretty offensive. They make the Japanese out to be way more racist than they would have been at the time. Why does Akechi Mitsuhide care that Yasuke is a "servant?" Why would the people of Iga care that he was a slave? "Samurai" literally means servant. There was a big opportunity for it to be something really special and instead it's the worst kind of mediocrity, where it's not so bad that it's funny or interesting but not good enough to feel like you didn't waste your time.
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May 14, 2021 16:59
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The Mandela Effect is just when you're the Isekai.
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May 14, 2021 17:15
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Kind of agree. Tried watching it but gave up by the second episode because it just wasn't interesting.
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May 14, 2021 17:16
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net work error posted:Kind of agree. Tried watching it but gave up by the second episode because it just wasn't interesting. You'd think a show called Yasuke would be about its titular character, but the real protagonist is actually the little girl and Yasuke is just the guy who gets her from point A to point B. The main antagonist isn't even Akechi Mitsuhide or anybody else who would be involved with the historical Yasuke, it's an old lady spider demon who wants to live forever.
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May 14, 2021 17:38
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Not everything can be masterpiece of historical fiction Nioh and Nioh 2
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May 14, 2021 17:44
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it at least shouldn't suck
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May 14, 2021 17:58
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I think the first Isekai I watched was a weird show back in the 90's about genocide, rape, child soldiers and abortion called Ima Sokoni Iru Boku. The term was definitely not in use back then though, it must have been SAO that brought it forward.
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May 14, 2021 18:20
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Tanya the Based Tanya the Redpilled
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May 14, 2021 18:28
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Is magic school bus an anthology isekai?
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May 14, 2021 18:34
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is the original isekai everything is a derivation of that
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May 14, 2021 18:47
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Larry Parrish posted:Not everything can be masterpiece of historical fiction Nioh and Nioh 2 SEEEERSHHHEEHH
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May 14, 2021 18:57
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The Christmas Carol is isekai.
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May 14, 2021 18:58
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Having watched neither, which is worse RE: Zero or Konasuba?
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May 14, 2021 18:59
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The Voice of Labor posted:what's the word for isekai when the character isn't transported to an alien world but their regular world becomes alien to them? special-kai? I think that's just called "soldiers coming home from war"
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May 14, 2021 19:22
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christmas boots posted:I think that's just called "soldiers coming home from war" the chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front when he gets home leave
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May 14, 2021 20:10
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the chapter of All Quiet on the Western Front when he gets home leave OK, who wants to be the one to make a twitter thread about how All Quiet on the Western Front is an isekai?
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May 14, 2021 20:14
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christmas boots posted:I think that's just called "soldiers coming home from war" nam was an isekai
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May 14, 2021 20:38
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Honest Thief posted:Chris Dorner was an isekai
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May 14, 2021 20:40
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This is fast becoming are Technicals an Isekai? Or is an isekai a technical?
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May 14, 2021 20:55
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[slaps roof of the isekai] this bad boy can transport all sorts of virgins
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May 14, 2021 21:00
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:[slaps roof of the isekai] this bad boy can transport all sorts of virgins That's just a truck
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May 14, 2021 21:01
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Genesis is an iseki, as are many creation stories.
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May 14, 2021 21:14
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That actually reminds me of a story from the Thompson people of BC from James Taits ethnography where it's a Thompson boy who goes to Europe to fight cannibals and have adventures. There is no escaping isekai. Imaging a world without isekai? I'll bet you'd like to escape to that world, wouldn't you?
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May 14, 2021 21:19
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Ascendance of a Bookworm is pretty good isekai leftist-anime
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May 14, 2021 21:20
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:[slaps roof of the isekai] this bad boy can transport all sorts of virgins KomradeX posted:That's just a truck 
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May 14, 2021 21:27
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yep, that'd send anyone to a fantasy world with inexplicable video game systems.
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May 14, 2021 22:52
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Be sure to make contact with the bumper.
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May 14, 2021 23:01
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I think the other day on these forums someone made mention of an anime or manga that was about truck drivers whose job it was to hit people with their trucks so they could be reincarnated into fantasy worlds that needed them.
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May 14, 2021 23:07
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