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1·22 hours agoSaw that coming, but MC is likable.
The exposition is a bit hamfisted and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story, but I feel like it could be a lot worse (Bookworm PTSD).
Another power fantasy. I give this first episode a 5 because it’s so generic but not bad either.
The opening sequence is also excellent. It’s packed with references to various cultural works (Spiderman, LotR, Nirvana, and a bunch of others), and I probably didn’t even catch half of them.
the ones I recognized:
Footlose
Leon The Professional
Dumb&Dumber
Trainspotting
Nirvana NevermindWas wrong here. It was Trainspotting, which also fits better with the film setting.
The Usual Suspects
Breakfast Club
The Evil Dead (maybe, its a reach)
Lord of the Rings
Fight Club
Resident Evil Extinction
Spiderman 3
Pulp Fiction
Wednesday Adams
Saturday Night Feaver
Fallen Angels
A Better Tomorrow
Chinatown
Conclave
Project A
Ready of Not
Blade Runner
Coffeee and Cigarettes
Flashdance
Stand by Me
The King of Comedy
The Yellow Handkerchief
Pierrot le Fou
Night On Earth
Farewell Friend
Blue Spring
Either way, anime YouTuber will have a field day with this one. I can’t wait to see a side by side of the entire opening with the original shots.
edit: thanks to the internet sleuths I have some reference material as well and references that I missed.
Still so many scenes missing…
Can you imagine you are a light novel author and your editor tells you you finally get a anime adaptation. And then he tells you it will be handled by GoHands. That’s nightmare fuel.
That was great. The hook works and I want to know how this will turn out. The animation is also beautiful and the OP is a banger.
Okay, I have to ask: WTF?!
This is kinda bad with how power-fantasy-esque this is. But it’s the kind of bad that I find entertaining, so it stays in the list.
It sucks that they skipped all of Luciana’s hard work paying off and surprising her friends with this:
In the light novel there Luciana’s friends are stunned by the change since their last time replaying basically the same gag we’ve seen this episode 2 times already, but I think that tea party important to show the relationship those 3 girls have. The anime points out that the Rudelbergs are indebted to those two families who helped them out. But the LN goes out of its way to show that those two girls aren’t looking down on Luciana and are genuinely happy that her living circumstances has improved so much even though everyone else in noble society is looking down and shunning her. I feel that them being real friends is lost in the anime by skipping this scene.
Dude, don’t talk about pizza and loli in the same sentence. Just don’t.
I feel like I’ve seen that same show a million times already.
Seeing Hartmut acting normal gives e the icks.
I don’t know how I feel about the art style. If it were anything else than Sekiro, I would be in love, but I don’t think it’s fitting into the game’s aesthetic.
Kimi to natsu no owari shourai no yume, oukina kibou wasurenai…
By the way, that song should have been in the list from this post today!
Nagi no Asu kara has that refreshing sea theme.
The pilot was a bit strange and out of order. They’re basically pulling a Bookworm where they show off something from later on to show off fan favorite Luciana early on instead of going in order, just like Bookworm did with Ferdinand. I wonder how this episode felt to anime-only watchers. But one thing is clear: Maid-Magic truly is the most powerful magic there is.
I’m late to the thread, and there are already some real highlights mentioned so I’ll just add some that are criminal ly missing:
Rudeus does mention once that Paul (isekai father) is scum, and that’s why they understand each other, but… that’s it. In the meantime Paul cheats on Zenith (who’s monogamous) with Lilia (who’s employed by Paul, so Paul is in a position of power over her), and gets away with it.
That part also gets a bit deeper and more disturbing in the WN (I’m not sure if the LN has cut that part or not):
WN spoiler
In the WN Paul rapes Lilia, a fellow student, in the academy and gets kicked out as a consequence. He then starts a family with Zenith. Lilia, on the other hand, somehow did fall in love with her rapist and seeks him out to insert herself into his family, where she knowingly creates a situation where Paul would cheat with her (leaves the door a slit open while masturbating). Once Zenith finds out, they enter the harem route, with the consequences being that Paul has to sit on the floor in the hallway. I remember this written in a way that made it sound like it was slapstick (haha, look at that pitiful man that has to sit on the floor haha).
I’m not a prude. Rape happens. Cheating happens, and harem routes are an anime staple. The problem I have with Paul’s story is the message between the lines. If you rape a girl, she will fall in love with you. If you cheat on your wife or are a home wrecker, you will enter the harem route, where everyone is happy. And all that without any bad consequences for the bad behavior. And this was something I’ve seen in all aspects of the series throughout. Sure, bad things happen to people, but it’s as a consequence of unrelated factors instead of their shitty behavior (i.e. the displacement is bad for Paul, but it’s not happening because of his raping and cheating, etc.).
In earlier discussions about this, I’ve seen the argument that it is just realistic and that bad actions don’t necessarily come with bad consequences in reality. And while this is infuriatingly true and can’t really be argued against, it still rubs me the wrong way in entertainment, even more so than MC being MC.
In the words of the late Sean Lock: “That’s a challenging wank”