/anime/ - Anime

>>22014
>monsterfucker
H. R. Giger moment.

>>22816
This is what a humanoid Tesla looks like.

>ORE WA… YUBIWA NO OU SATOU DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
This honestly felt like a parody of an isekai anime, it's so fucking stupid. I'm surprised /a/ hasn't memed on this shit for how hard it escalates in the first episode and how many tropes it tries to hit without any actual depth or purpose. It's like those anime within anime that would run in the background while the actual characters are talking or something

>>22840
I am guessing you are talking about Tales of Wedding Rings. Havent seen it, but just reading the plot synopsis:
>To become powerful enough to save the world, he must marry four other princesses and gain their rings to get power over earth, fire, wind, and water.
I wonder if there are fans of this show trying to argue that this definitely isnt just a generic coomer fantasy because there is a *plot* reason for having a harem of women slobbing on his knob.

>>22841
I don't think this show has any fans who would defend it, because there's legitimately no appeal besides the girls' designs being somewhat decent. Everything from the dialogue to the characters sounds like it was written by an AI trying to approximate what an anime might sound like. The plot is so generic and void of tension it almost feels comedic. The best way I can describe it is the way NHK Satou fantasizes about himself in his delusions and online RP

>>22842
>They did make a point of it that royal marriages are normally done for politics/alliances rather than love and that's true even in our history. There's a reason a lot of royalty throughout history had mistresses after all.
From r/anime first episode thread. People seem to actually like it (numerous comments about how refreshingly not like other isekai it is). Not much pretentiousness, they are creaming themselves over uncensored nipple and promise of harem.

>>22843
I can't believe they wanted the studio to cram even a sex scene into that first episode, anime has fallen

>>22842
Jesus mid-budget shows from the 2000's look like shit today

>>22866
The MMO part of NHK is one of the uglier arcs, and NHK in general had a pretty limited budget IIRC. I still think the artstyle has its charm though, can you imagine it animated in one of the generic romcom artstyles from the past few years?

>>22849
That's not really it. It's more of a complaining about cliche relationship portrayal in japanese anime and manga. Where they behave like some sexually repressed 14 yo from showa era. And you end up with some schizo plot where character forms a harem around him, but the most thing that can happen is a kiss somewhere near the end of the 999 volume.

No need to make a straight up hentai, just don't make it so fucking prude and cliche.

>>22876
this tbh, let the harem protag have actual relations instead of teasing for a thousand episodes.

>>22878
>this tbh, let the harem protag have actual relations
That would require giving them first actual personalities.

>>22891
Heh, that's true.

>>22891
tenchi muyo did it

>>22899
Did it really? Quirks are not personalities. Tenchi is the original bland virgin protagonist, even.

>>22900
I think people like Tenchi because he's genuine and written like a person, while most harem protagonists are OP ubermensch 150IQ lolbertarians, impulsive screaming immature weirdos, or stupid doormats. Sure, you could say he's just a kind, honest kid and that's kinda overplayed in anime, but there's a humanity to him that isn't expressed in a lot of the harem protag simulacra where you already know how they're going to react to everything.

>>22903
>OP ubermensc
Like Tenchi.
> or stupid doormats
Like Tenchi.
>where you already know how they're going to react to everything.
Oh yeah, unlike Tenchi who is completely unpredictable.

Mate, you can like Tenchi all you want, but you can't pretend it's in any way different from other harems, since most of them copy tenchi anyway. At best you can say it has higher production value.

>>22904
Nah.

Isekai should be more about the setting, and how people like you and me would fare in it, than being a power trip for some NEET.

You've got some schmuck from modern day Earth flung into a fantasy world, do something with that! Have them be our surrogate in interacting with a strange, alien world that operates in ways that are totally different from what we'd expect.

And for some reason, the protagonist being from another world NEVER impacts the plot. They never try to get home, they don't even miss it, they show no signs of stress or trauma at being put in the most unfamiliar of situations, they never talk about their parents or friends… like, these are all young guys, not hardened veterans or something, they should be barely holding it together at first.

And the people from the fantasy world should actually be, yknow, shocked that some dude actually came from another world. It would be like if an alien just showed up on Earth.

>>22912
>Isekai should be more about the setting, and how people like you and me would fare in it, than being a power trip for some NEET.
An obvious answer that should have been said long ago.

I've been following John Brown Isekai for a while now and I'm enjoying it quite a bit

>>22912
>They never try to get home, they don't even miss it, they show no signs of stress or trauma at being put in the most unfamiliar of situations
It is an escapist fantasy, as an audience self-insert he has nothing he wants to get back to.

>>22912
many MLP fics go precisely this route

>>22922
Which one is the John Brown isekai?

>>22840
The anime adaptation wasn't as good as the manga. Don't bother watching. Just read the manga if you want to know what happens.

>>22935
It right here >>16741
CTRL+F is your friend.

>>20080
>>20061
>TF2 Isekai fics
There's actually A LOT of those, there's one where they end up in AOT-verse and just start fucking up the entire plot and its still updating ?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11350403/1/Attack-on-Fortress

I don't watch anime. I don't read manga. I don't care for isekai. But an idea popped into my head a while back regarding the genre, and I thought I'd share it.

We open with a modern-day tribesman in Tanzania. He's a hunter who brings meat for his family, in a town that otherwise lives off of subsistence farming. He's not "backwards" in any sense of the word - he's met tourists, his town uses some modern tools for daily living, and so on. But he's never been completely exposed to the industrial world. He hasn't watched TV, or worked an office job. He's maybe heard the word "Japan" exactly once in his entire life. And that's okay - he's happy with the life he and his family are living.

Well, one day in the savanna, he's making his way back home after a failed hunt when he's struck by the jeep of some poachers. He wakes up in a fantasy world, filled with magic and epic quests and anime girls…and he doesn't understand any of it. Not only is there a language barrier that the fantasy world's miraculous inclusion of Japanese or English fails to address, but he's not a pencil pusher who'd kill for an escapist fantasy like this. He's just some guy, and he has zero context for the tropes being thrown at him.

Monster slaying? He'd rather avoid large animals and only kill small prey with persistence hunting. Magic powers? He considers it taboo, or something he'd rather ask his town's religious leaders about. Girls fawning over him? He doesn't understand their advances, having grown up with different customs regarding relationships and marriage. He might recognize a slave market if the setting has one, and take action against it, but otherwise he's completely baffled by the world around him and just wants to go home to his family.

This idea has always made me chuckle because it's a great way to deconstruct the power fantasy elements of isekai. The protagonist isn't a contrarian or antagonistic to the world around him, mind you, he's just really, really confused and would rather go home than indulge in a story that's made for some weeaboo in Tokyo or New York.

The only reason I'd be hesitant to ever see a story like this done is because, realistically speaking, a studio that makes isekai would probably write the protagonist as a racist caricature, when the idea is that he's just an everyman meant to subvert the genre.

>>23410
That's just a Tanzanian adaptation of Goblin Slayer.

>>373
Are there any isekais that shit on the protagonist and mock him for being a loser in the real world?

Konosuba is getting a Season 3 finally, the trailer however makes me feel wary, it doesn't quite have the sarcastic fun vibe Konosuba had before.

>>23359
Why does this artstyle remind me of ATLA?

>>23815
I remember Konosuba having a seinen sequel series. Maybe that's why?

>>23822
Maybe, but even the movie managed to keep their characters consistent.

>>23821
Maybe because ATLA's artstyle is lifted from anime animation styles of the mid-late 2000s?

>>23815
Apparently Mushoku Tensei and Reborn as a Slime are getting new seasons too. As a side note Isekai as a definition got added to the Oxford Dictionary, what a time to be alive.

>>23410
This belongs in the Anime Writing Ideas thread honestly >>4263

>the isekai protagonist comes back to the real world
>he recounts the tropes he encountered there and experiences culture shock from being in a coma for 17 years
This seems like a funny premise.

>>24636
It is, one of my favorite jokes is that he was sent to the other world before the tsundere archetype was popularized.

>>24637
I liked how the first thing he asks is how SEGA is doing in the console wars.

Saw some retarded takes recently and I finally had some time to address it.
>Everything looks like an isekai because it’s filled with the same tropes. Weebs don’t like when you point this out.
This is just a useless and never-ending semantics debate.
For one thing, "Native isekai" is a weeb joke on isekai being so abundant compared to regular fantasy that fantasy is called native isekai jokingly.
Secondly; Yes, there are commonly widespread tropes between Isekai and regular fantasy… mostly because most Isekai take place IN fantasy settings, specifically LitRPG fantasy, only animated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LitRPG?useskin=vector
This encompasses the characteristics & eccentrics that are actually associated with "native Isekai" minus the ones that are too broad and just a common trope among either fantasy or Japanese media. Unfortunately the term is largely forgotten by modern weebs, which is why we get MyAnimeList takes like the following
>Native isekai: Series that share many tropes with the standard isekai anime, but they don't have the "travel to another world" element. This mostly means that they have a couple of the following features: OP main characters, medieval fantasy worlds, Tolkien-esque fantasy creatures (elves, dwarves, etc.), RPG mechanics (levels, skills, classes, UI screens, etc.), adventurer classes, dungeon exploration, harem, quests to defeat the demon king, reincarnation, etc.
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/40371
It's not wrong so to speak, but really it misses the fact that, Isekai or not, most Japanese fantasy today sucks balls because it always feels like a Dragon Quest ripoff with the whole muh demon king and muh RPG mechanics shit always being a part of the plot. I won't even go into KnowYourMeme and its lopsided page on "Native Isekai"
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/native-isekai

>>24704
On the subject of LitRPG and the general mass-production of fantasy stories (both slop and good stuff) I think recently Korean Manhwa and Chinese Manhua are starting to gain traction in foreign markets as well since their tropes have some slight variety that can attract some weebs and other consumers at the moment, it's like a new drug for fans of the genre. Stuff like Reincarnation of the Suicidal Battle God or Skeleton Soldier Failed To Defend The Dungeon have gimmicks

TL;DR: The current dominating fantasy genres are Japan's Isekai/LitRPG, Korea's Regression fics and China's Martial Arts Cultivation
Reverend Insanity is like all 3 of these things simultaneously

https://www.webnovel.com/book/reverend-insanity_7996858406002505

Edit: of course Gigguk did a video on it. It's his typical crap, but lists some interesting manhwa of the Regression genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9zfJPu2BbE

>>24704
Isn't the defining element of isekai just taking the "crossing the threshold" part of the Hero's Journey to an extreme?

>>24704
Yeah, "native isekai" is a synonym of "LitRPG." But you've gotta admit that nobody knows wtf LitRPG is, give people some slack and actually introduce them to this genre.

But thanks for introducing me to this term. Have any recs for Western LitRPGs?

>Isekai was added to the Oxford Dictionary
<alongside tonkusatsu
https://archive.is/KeLvk
LMAO. English lacks singular words for those terms but still, it's funny to see weeb terms normalized.

>>24729
I'm overworked at the moment so I'll give you the reccs a bit later when I have a spare moment for more than a cursory post. Pic rel is some basics. There's Deck Builders, Base Builders, Apocalypse LitRPG, Monster Evolution and other subgenres of LitRPG.

>>24721
>Isn't the defining element of isekai just taking the "crossing the threshold" part of the Hero's Journey to an extreme?
Sort of, but that makes Isekai start to lose meaning.
>pic
How the fuck is ATLA Lore Flexible? They don't travel to any other world unless you're counting the meditations to the Spirit World, which are more like communicating with deities than actually being in-another-world.

>>24721
the bible is an isekai

>>24720
>TL;DR: The current dominating fantasy genres are Japan's Isekai/LitRPG, Korea's Regression fics and China's Martial Arts Cultivation

endless trash!!

>>373
99% of isekai don't even use the isekai idea well
Like, it gets dropped by the 2nd or 3rd episode.
So to first fix it, I'll say either use the premise to its full potential, or don't make it an isekai in the first place.

>>24740
Chinese Immortal Cultivation Guide

1.Mix sulfur and mercury together.

2.Drink it.

If you’re still alive, you’re an immortal

中国修仙教程

第一步，把硫磺和水银混在一起

第二步，喝下去

如果你还活着，你就是仙人了