If my monsters are imagined, why do they trigger the motion sensor lights?

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  • Where to start. They have so many issues that there is something in there for everyone:

    • price hikes and end of the free tier
    • declining quality of subs and the use of AI for subs
    • activist localization slash “woke” changes to the subs when humans translate <— with the previous point, now both the pro-AI and anti-ai crowd are unhappy
    • data breach (at least one, but I think they had two)
    • Funimation customers got fucked since they lost access to purchased content after the merger with Crunchy
    • monopolistic tendencies and general corporate greed and tactics
    • comment sections got removed because people dared to be negative

    And possibly a myriad others. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Crunchy mentioned in a positive way.



  • As I said, I like isekais, so I’m not trying to shit on the genre, but my working theory is that for a lot of authors, this is used as a narrative crutch. A helper setting that allows them to describe the world in contemporary terms. The dragons were “large as a school bus” instead of “one score feet long and as high as a korrexian wabbit can jump”. Coming up with a working magic system is hard, but saying it’s like video game skills is a lot easier. They might also find writing something that they know easier than tackling something unique for their first steps. And tracing back many animes to the source, it makes sense as well. Many shows start as web novels from hobbyist writers. It’s no wonder they take to the isekai setting. It’s popular, and it makes writing easier. It’s a win-win in that regard.

    On the flip side, this also means that many isekais are written by first-time authors writing glorified fan fiction, and it shows in the quality of many shows. So the problem is not the setting but the quality benchmark Kadokawa has for what gets picked up.













  • It has an interesting turn of events that differs from stories with similar premises.

    Lightnovel spoiler

    She starts out as the typical fiancée of the crown prince who gets framed by an ambitious noble upstart; a story we’ve seen a million times by now. She then flees the kingdom and is out to get revenge. Where it differs from all the other stories of the same ilk is that she actually gets her revenge and turns into a bona fide villainess. Not the cutesy type of villainess who is evil because she didn’t say ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes, but the type that wipes out whole towns to get one up on a noble. Very refreshing once you get past the initial setup chapter.



  • They have a spell drawn over them together, they’re thrown in a heap, Qifrey lifts one, then???

    Brimmed Hat mage put a portal spell on the paved stones to lure and trap the girls in the maze/pocket universe. -> After they stumble into the trap, the mage destroys the paved stones to close the portal and keep anyone else from finding them /helping them. -> the girls break the magic seal on the inside that keeps the spell active -> with the spell broken the door back to reality opens and Qifrey can enter and save the girls.