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| Overlord with boobs. Seriously though, a good starting episode. |
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| @groudonvert Sorry yeah. Just checked and I was wrong. I do think the MC designed the character to use the royal "we" still though. I wonder why so many people have problems with the gender-swap though. It's not that deep to make or break the anime for someone |
| Well look at that, the obligatory "professional literature analysis experts" have arrived to hand out their judgement, bringing along their usual hubris. @Dao_Seeker Stating that the "isekai" aspect could just be removed without consequences after 1 episode... let's pretend that the whole story of 9 LN volumes could be covered within 33 episodes with a reasonable pace making each episode about 3% of the whole story. Do you seriously claim to have enough insight into the story after seeing just 3 out of 100 parts of the story (in a streamlined form) that you can make such a judgement? Likewise with what you seem to think about the protagonist's agency. Don't you realize how ridiculous it sounds? You are throwing in several assumptions about the 97% of the story and character exposition/development/interaction. As for why you do it? It seems pretty obvious, you alluded to it in your own post. You see "isekai" and your brain instantly turns off, and you instead start acting out usual script of what you believe isekai supposedly ""always"" have in common. But does it really? Even if we assume you have actually seen a lot of isekai anime/manga adaptations (I am not going to bother to check your animelist for that) does that give you better insight? No, because to this date most isekai adaptations, both for anime and manga have not even covered 25% of their respective stories and it's often even less than that. But shouldn't isekai already show the relevancy of the isekai aspect in its first 25%? The answer is no, for a simple reason: When the isekai aspect becomes deeply interwoven in the main story, it means that you have reached a scale of events that reached "multiversal" scale. Other than the initial transference/summoning/reincarnation hook at the beginning, can you really just jump back from multiversal scale, a story aspect where perhaps people jump between worlds, to some standard fantasy scenario of protecting a village from monsters or some intrigue-plot in the royal capital of a nation? Probably not, it will seem weird and jarring to suddenly go back to localized conflicts after already having reached a dimensional teleporting scale. So in this scenario it only makes sense to place the storyline that makes the isekai aspect relevant near the end, which also gives an impression of "closing the circle" when you look at the story in a "hero's journey" lens, meaning almost no isekai anime/manga adaptations where this scenario applies will have shown the aspect of the "isekai relevancy" yet. That does not mean there are no ways to make the isekai aspect relevant earlier in different scenarios. All I am saying is that this presumption that the relevancy of the isekai aspect must be fully explored in the first 25% is complete non-sense. It's an option, not an obligation. @Hurrikhan What you say is even worse. You make every bad-faith argument imaginable (everything that's not thoroughly explained by the first episode must just be signs of bad writing!), and throw in even more baseless assumptions than the other "literature expert" did. You are taking actual plot points and instead of treating them as such you dismiss them as "bad writing" and then have the gall to say there's no "show, don't tell" in it. Yes, because you just handwaved those parts away. The protagonist essentially screams at you that he is at this point of the story a very, very unreliable narrator. Likewise you treat this series under the lens of a battle-shounen where the ideal must be external man vs man action-flick conflicts where the antagonists use the kind of power-scaling that reminds you of Elder Scroll games of "scaling just above the protagonist to be a difficult but not impossible challenge to overcome" for each new arc, making the protagonist an eternal underdog. There are only so many times you can "enjoy" seeing a David vs Goliath scenario over and over and over again. If that's the only kind of fiction you can enjoy, feel free to do so. I've seen it too many times by now that "you can do it underdog, you can win if you try very very hard!" just feels like a borefest to me. I prefer conflicts that aren't (mainly) motivated by whether the MC wins a battle or loses it these days. Once you realize that "winning a battle of raw violence" is not the only core for a story to run on, the argument that "an overpowering protagonist can only result in a boring story" gets instantly shattered. Both of your prejudices against isekai are manifesting themselves by you presuming that "an isekai can't possibly have any complexity to it" while not noticing that that very sentiment is just piling up your ridiculous hallucinations about isekai as a whole. If you went with that sentiment into a "classic" such a Death Note, you'd probably say off the first episode alone that Death Note would be a story about Light toying with the police and being a pure "power-fantasy" for Light where he has no equal enemies while getting girls to fall for him but showing the usual blushing stuttering reaction towards them while deliberately ignoring the OP/ED on its own completely disproving all that. Don't you realize how ridiculous that sounds? But that's exactly what you are doing yourself here. |
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| @Grey-Zone I didn't mean to touch any sore spots for your love of Isekai. I don't actually dislike the Isekai genre, I just think we are giving a pass for too many stories using Isekai as a crutch, or polluting good fantasy stories that don't actually need it. I don't turn off my brain when I watch Isekai and that's why I can see the problems in the many of their stories. Most of what I said was framed as just my own feelings and thoughts about episode 1. Obviously things can change later in the story, I haven't seen this show or read the source material for it. The fun part about writing episode 1 comments is about making those review predictions for how the show is going to be like. The claims I did make were that: 1. Many Isekai anime nowadays are just boring/badly written fantasy that is using the twist of Isekai to garner some attention and interest. This is true, though I may have exaggerated a bit much in claiming that "most" of them are like this. 2. There are a few well written & interesting fantasy stories that also have the Isekai twist, but for which it seems like a needless addition. I hypothesize that this is the case for this anime. However, since it's only episode 1, I obviously don't know that yet. (note that this means I'm not actually calling this show bad). Think of a good dense fantasy-only story that you liked, then imagine it's MC having been Isekai-ed from our world and injecting that into the story on top of the already good world building and story. It can certainly be made to work, but it'd seem like just a tacked on additional that's potentially polluting the story. (Imagine it for maybe Frieren, or Made in Abyss. Also anime like Demon Lord 2099, or Let This Grieving Soul Retire, could easily have been made as an Isekai but I'm glad they weren't) The main point you made was that: It's only episode 1, and for most other Isekai anime, they haven't yet gotten far enough into their story for the Isekai aspect to truly become part of the story... Well I agree, it is just my initial impression of episode 1. And it's true a lot of Isekai do have their stories closely intertwined with the Isekai aspect especially later on in the story. But almost always the affect and focus of the Isekai aspect is primarily around the powers they are given, and/or the difference in their personality & beliefs due to being from another world. Part of the appeal of Isekai is the feeling of us, the viewer, being placed in a fantasy world, and how would we react. This is why loss of agency for the MC is so damning for the Isekai aspect of the story. It begs the question, why is this even an Isekai? This is only really a problem if the loss of agency isn't front & centre as the most important focus of the story (which I don't recall it ever being). I would love to watch an anime where the loss of agency is the primary focus, for example, the soul of the person they take over is still alive in the body, and they clash internally for who controls and influences the body. Also, rarely does the "multiversal" aspect of Isekai play a part in the story, and if it does it's usually because the story is ending, like you said; but just having it thrown in at the end doesn't really mean it was part of the story. That's often just the author wanting to, or having to, end their story and thus need to wrap up the Isekai aspect. The multiversal aspect could also just be to Isekai them again into another world or back to their home world. This story though, is a great example of a multiversal Isekai aspect playing a crucial part of the story (and not just the ending): https://myanimelist.net/manga/156681/Tsuihou_sareru_Tabi_ni_Skill_wo_Te_ni_Ireta_Ore_ga_100_no_Isekai_de_2-shuume_Musou And just for reference, these are some of the Isekai anime I have enjoyed: https://myanimelist.net/anime/19815/No_Game_No_Life https://myanimelist.net/anime/48316/Kage_no_Jitsuryokusha_ni_Naritakute https://myanimelist.net/anime/32615/Youjo_Senki https://myanimelist.net/anime/49220/Isekai_Ojisan https://myanimelist.net/anime/28907/Gate__Jieitai_Kanochi_nite_Kaku_Tatakaeri https://myanimelist.net/anime/48997/Fantasy_Bishoujo_Juniku_Ojisan_to https://myanimelist.net/anime/38659/Shinchou_Yuusha__Kono_Yuusha_ga_Ore_Tueee_Kuse_ni_Shinchou_Sugiru |
Dao_SeekerOct 4, 6:33 AM
| Lol, she become a girl and have a powerful stats. It's reallly a cheat XD |
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I like everything about this except one GIGANTIC thing.. the gender swap takes this (for me personally) from a high 7 low 8 anime to the high 5’s low 6’s. I’ve been watching anime and reading books a long time.. I’m old, and in that time gender swapping just never made any sense to me. Why couldn’t the mc have just been a woman to begin with? There would have been zero issues with this and frankly I love a good female mc (not fond of reverse harems though lol) so to me this just makes about as much sense as a football bat. Honestly the only gender swap I don’t care to deal with is when the two male and female mc’s somehow swap bodies. Anything other than that is a bridge too far most of the time unless there’s some damn good cosmic reason for it. So what’s the reason here? Writer wants to be a woman? I just find it silly. The story itself I’d never seen or read about before so that opening battle was great. Other than a couple hiccups what we got here is WAY above the norm for generic isekai animation that comes with every season. Hopefully it will just be so good that the gender swapping won’t even matter. It’s not like the mc will be interested in women anyway so I guess him being one shouldn’t really matter.. just my 2 cents.
| @acidbart Yeah, that one always takes me off any story, just have a female MC form the beginning, but no I guess we can't because self insert people really need a vessel, I'll do my best to watch more episodes but I'm sure I'll drop it, I know it is a really stupid really but that's a pet peeve of mine but hey, maybe I get surprised down the line. |
KanameYuukiOct 3, 1:31 PM
| Bro is living my dream, isekai’d as a badass female villain. Welcome back Grace sama! Production values look great, MC is cool and it has some Mynoghra vibes as well with improved animation quality which is what let that series down. Hopefully they can keep it interesting going forward. Saturday’s are so stacked idk how much I’ll review weekly, but this was a good start. I love gender bent stuff like this, who doesn’t wanna be a cute girl? |
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| Great episode. It has strong overlord echoes, but adds a fresh layer with the gender swap. We get hints that Lufas' original soul is lurking in there also |
| Well, it doesn't look bad so far. But wait a minute. In games, side and optional bosses are often stronger than the main story ones: take Emil, Malenia, and Simon, for example. This anime has rich artwork. It's a feast for the eyes. I hope they don't drag out the pseudopathos like in Overlord. I understand why the NPC offers the player quests. However, I don't understand why the player goes to do dailies in the starting location when they can take whatever they want from any city, including the local treasury. You can also take a higher-level dungeon and get rich in an instant. There was an anime that came out not long ago where a guy rolled back time. The first thing he did was dig a tunnel to the treasury. |
| Holy shit she is too strong. I really like the premise of the show. Have always enjoyed this kind of setting. Not too mention the design of her character |
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| Seems kinda generic, but there's an overpowered female lead, so I'll continue. |
| I was going to say it was extremely mid but at least it has some gore, which gets rarer every day. That just makes it regularly mid |
| interesting first episode he or her was not joking strong MC... |
| PLEASE STOP RATING!!! less than 4 means that you don't know how to judge Anime / Manga!!! best recom on https://www.instagram.com/otakuweek?igsh=em5kY3Q4NTVtNXlh or Discord https://discord.gg/vbZrk64uH7 |
| Nice opening fight, like, really nice. Gosh I love her character design, time well spend! It reminds me of Ange.. MC gives the right explanation for why men pick female characters in games, I would rather stare at a girls butt than at a dudes butt for idk 40h. Major Overlord vibes but without Ainz constantly doubting himself, nice. I will likely continue to watch this for Lufas character design alone. I just hope this doesnt mellow out, though she is not even really evil to begin with. |
Comander-07Oct 5, 2:51 AM
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Damn the animations !!!!! Its clearly visible that work has been done to animate this tbh alota hard work even the sound effects and even Seiyuu has done their job well ! |
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| The PV got me interested, and this first episode just confirmed what I was expecting. I'm really excited for this! Watching episode two now |
| Ah the next Overlord is here. First Overlord, then The Eminence in Shadow, now this. Love series that focus on a OP villain builing up their army/power. And this one has a female MC so even better. (Dont care if they were once a man they're a woman now so its female mc.) I like the 'novel' system the game had where well known players/events became lore for the game. |
| Yuritopia FTW!!!!!!!!! BANZAI TO YURI !!!!!!!!!!!! |
| thank god it got better at the end. I was sort of dozing off at the beginning. |
| Very high quality thus far. Looking forward to more. |
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| Didn't expect much coming into this one but am pleasantly surprised. Getting some Overlord-vibes but with much better animation and action. |
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