If my monsters are imagined, why do they trigger the motion sensor lights?
Depends on how you want to interpret the question. Is it about adapting the story of a specific game, or is it about adapting the setting of a game into anime form. Nier would be the former, Edgerunner the latter. Goblin Slayer is something in between. So regardless of how the question was meant, I gave a example.
It’s my favorite anime. My one and only anime that I would give an 11/10. But I wouldn’t call it cozy because there is an underlying darkness and uncertainty to the characters and what’s going to happen to them. It doesn’t feel “cozy” even though nothing “un-cozy” is happening plot-wise.
Goblin Slayer, NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners come to mind.
And take Dragon’s Dogma and the Persona animes as a template for what not to do.
Series that lack characters acting out of malice and plots without perilous situations. On the other hand, even shows that are usually cozy can, out of nowhere, turn into the most brutal betrayal that shellshocks generations of viewers.
I have only seen the first episode of Kimi to Boku and am not familiar with Hetelia from memory, but Daily Lives of High School Boys is a prime example about how boys centric show would generally follow more raunchy themes. If the other two shows are different and genuninely show innocent themes, then I would call them outliers more than the rule. Same as with outliers to girls being depicted as innocent. Sure there are girls that play on the gap-moe bit those are the outliers (and lets be honest here, they are more often then not just there to deliver some innuendo joke).
It makes sense once you think about it. Straight dudes would rather look at girls, and vice versa.
I don’t think that is the appeal of CGDCT shows for the seinen audience. I think the appeal of CGDCT shows for the seinen demographic is the perceived innocence of girls. Not in the sense of “I’m a mindless, hormone-driven beast and want to ravage that innocent girl”, but in the sense of “I’m surrounded by constant anxiety, malice, and selfishness in my day-to-day life, and watching those innocent girls do whatever lets me forget this for 25 minutes”. Girls are generally perceived as nice and free of malice (before I had two of those myself, I thought the same), so that’s why there are no “cute boys doing cute things” shows. The general expectation for a show following boys would be for it to be more raunchy. Compare K-On! to Nijiiro Days, for example.
Yeah, no wonder. It’s been 16 years, and the basic premise just screams “ecchi”. I mostly remember it especially because of the gap between what you think this will be and what you actually get. Getting a heartwarming (and tame) romance story from the show about a girl who wants to fuck a hundred guys was surprising.
Sometimes, when you really think about a well-written story, you realize that literally the only reason the protagonists are seen as the good guys is that the story is written from their perspective, and that if the story was written from the opposite perspective, you’d believe the other side was the good guys.
You have to check out Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom. This series is blurring those lines in such an interesting way.
From the “I can’t believe this isn’t hentai!?” end of the spectrum, I really enjoyed Interspecies Reviewers.
For something from the other end (let’s call it “Barely Ecchi” to go with the theme here), I would choose Agent AIKa. To me, Aika will always be a Best Girl contender.
But the real gems are found right in the middle: Keijo!!!, Shokugeki no Souma, Kill la Kill, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Prison School, To LOVE Ru, … All real good shows in their own right, and you get to have fun seeing the prudes loose their shit online. Win-Win.
Given the premise, it was surprisingly tame. I would personally not consider it ecchi, and from what I remember, it was just a heartfelt romance show.
Okay, a 9-episode season. And even though they had 9 episodes for a single LN volume, they still stripped away a lot of what makes Nonna, Nonna. They focussed entirely on the romance between Victoria and Jeff and let all other characters fall flat. It’s okay if they want to go with this, I guess, but the second volume was one of my absolute favorites (not just in the series but in light novels in general), and I would LOVE to see it animated. The problem is that the second volume would heavily lean on Nonna, and the anime did not set her up to be who she needs to be. Anime Nonna is completely different from book Nonna, both from her personality as well as from her skillset.
We can serve this was well.
I had to check since I was certain I would recognize her. So PSA: this is only for the EN Dub.
I hope they invited her to her birthday party at the end.
I am strictly against remakes because in general they just shit on the original and kill the IP for me. But assuming we could guarantee that it’s a good remake then I would like to see:
That is what was said in the episode. Question is were those books “Rules of the empire” or “Black Magic for Dummies”. Both could have a warning about magic being forbidden.
Yuuki is the worst addition to the story that I had to drop the light novel at some point. I just couldn’t take this guy any longer. The only real question for me is which character kills a franchise more. Yuuki or Fuga from Realist Hero.
It’s one of those 3:
I don’t remember which one of those was actually the first (most likely Heidi or Maya, just going by the kid-friendliness), but all three are in my earliest core childhood memories.
When it’s good, it’s my second favorite genre, so I consume a lot of it. Sadly, it’s mostly bad. Most of the time, it’s just a crutch for the author to explain the world to the reader/watcher in modern terms and as blatant self-insert pandering. It’s very seldom that the isekai aspect has actual ramifications on the plot. Most isekai would just as well work as a fantasy where the main character just so happens to be born with a special power. The Earth knowledge of most MC’s doesn’t really play into the narrative.
As for good examples, I would recommend Ascendance of a Bookworm. I have problems with the anime adaptation (a whole different can of worms, and once I start, I won’t stop again), but it’s the opposite of a power fantasy (she nearly dies from climbing a flight of stairs), and her modern-day knowledge is her only superpower and her motivation. Without her Earth knowledge, she wouldn’t have the motivation that drives the entire plot, and she wouldn’t have the means to rise above her station.