Anime • Page 116

No, we can forget about that

 

I need to rewatch seasons one and two. It’s been too long.

 

Recommend anime to me that you like.

 

he loves isekai

I just know it

 

I like some that I’ve seen. Slime season 1 (2 was a lot different) was good and RE: Zero was alright. Faraway Paladin is on right now and it’s an amazing show so far.

 

I really liked Kimi Ni Todoke, Yu Yu Hakusho, La Cordo d'oro, Silver Spoon, etc.

I'm sure I could think of more recent ones but I'm blanking right now haha

 

I plan on watching the original Yu Yu Hakusho before the Netflix version comes out. I’ll look up the others.

 

I absolutely hope that Netflix show never gets finished.

 

I mean, there's really nothing wrong with isekai. It's a plot device just like any other and there's a lot of flexibility within the genre.

 

Is the Kimi Ni Todoke on Crunchyroll one of those weird situations where they only got like the 360p version or does the show actually look that rough? I tried watching it the other day actually but I wasn't sure if I could find a better quality version somewhere else

 

It probably is. The show also just has a style that makes it look a bit older than it is, but Crunchyroll does do that from time to time.

 

In the interest of full disclosure, I stopped watching the show after like ten minutes because I couldn't get over the art style and the quality, but then I gave it a second chance and it's one of my favorite shows of all time.

 

Kimi ni Todoke is one of those animes that I see clips for on YouTube all the time and it's on my list to watch and I just haven't gotten around to it yet, but it looks so adorable.

 

It's really quite wonderful. The theme song can make me cry because it just strikes the perfect balance between being sentimental and joyful.

The show has one of the most realistic depictions of friendships in high school I've ever seen. The main character getting friends for the first time as a teenager is so wholesome.

 

I'll give it another shot, I've been wanting a more upbeat/easy show after the last couple I've watched.

 

Welllllllllll, a majority of it is easy and upbeat, but some of it isn't because it's about a teenage girl discovering friendship and love for the first time and so some of it can be really heartbreaking to see her struggles with self doubt and some of the relationship friction that happens because of it.

 

oh I don’t mean any hate for the genre I’m actually interested in learning it more. It’s just I like to mess with vase.

 

I mean, most Isekai does suck even though I love the concept

 

Oh, don't worry...

...I completely understand.

 

The biggest problem with Isekai is they just view it as the easiest way to write a harem show. You have a stranger in a new world and they meet all sorts of attractive elf, bunny or witch girls and then they fall for him because he's charming and mysterious (and of course has a super awesome power) and that's the show.

It blows because you can do a lot with that concept like .hack//sign or Re:Zero or even Konosuba which takes the harem concept and flips it making the harem a bunch of insane characters and the whole thing is a parody of the genre.

 

You're not wrong, but I think there's plenty of both to go around. Besides what you mentioned, there's also Rising Of The Shield Hero, Overlord, and Saga Of Tanya The Evil off the top of my head. For a lighter pick I'm also going to throw Cautious Hero out there as something that's a little more intelligent with what it does and how it deconstructs its premise.

That being said, I do also sometimes like dumb thoughtless stuff. Like, I straight up enjoyed In Another World With My Smartphone even though it is every bit a cliché as what you stated, just because to me it's a case of So Average, It's Alright. I don't know if that makes sense. I also enjoyed Arifureta. It's just mindless entertainment.

Like, on the lower end of the scale, I watched Isekai Cheat Magician, and that is such a boring, boring show. The difference between that and Smartphone is at least in the latter the cast is entertaining, but Magician had absolutely nothing going for it. It is every bit as generic as the name implies.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for someone to make an anime out of the isekai where the guy is reborn as a vending machine. That sounds awesome.

 

Slime is fine too, it's not the best, but not the worst.

I really hated the spider one after a while because they did a bunch of "twists" and they all sucked.

 

Oh man, I forgot Slime. Surprised I did since I'm playing the mobile game currently.

I haven't watched the Spider one yet, but it's on my to do list. I had heard good things before, so now I'm wondering what went wrong.

Another anime I'll bring up is Gate, which I haven't watched but it's been on my list. Apparently it's a reverse isekai where the otherworlders come here instead of the other way around? I like that idea. It's interesting to turn a concept on its head.

 

GATE is fine. It's better than some of those others.

 

How is One Punch Man manga compared to the anime?