If they put the effort in this could be a really good show. The LN has a lot of rough edges, but on the whole it’s a great concept that goes in interesting directions. But the art does a surprising amount of heavy lifting; the depicted horror of the characters to those unfamiliar with them creates this interesting dichotomy with how a lot of the day-to-day interactions proceed, and it would be really easy to just gloss over that and make a fairly generic isekai.
Code: White was so much fun in theaters. It kind of runs into similar problems to a lot of other anime movies, with the non-canon status-quo excuse for a big fight, but Spy X Family naturally handles that better than many series and it turned out to be a ton of fun.
!The fact that the fate of the world rests on Anya not taking a dump is just peak comedy, I don’t care what anyone says.!<
We really got the whole spectrum of Darkness being best girl this episode. This season has truly been blessed.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma⭐Ilya. I swear I’m not a pedo. I just want Ilya to be happy.
From what I can find it’s okay. It’s not up there with the big shonen movies which are in the $10+ million range but, as an example, the slime movie got $1.4 million in its opening weekend.
Anecdotally, I saw it in IMAX and the theatre was mostly full, whereas I’ve only seen that for the Digimon 02 movie and Dragon Ball Super Hero in the past couple of years.
Hey, nothing wrong with being excited about discovering new things about a show you love! Even the German word bit, it’s super prevalent in fantasy (especially Japanese fantasy), so most people have had that exact realization at some point with some show, so now it just feels obvious haha.
A lot of the framing of modern Japanese fantasy derives from Dragon Quest. There is some MMO-specific stuff mixed in at times, like the raiding terms, but the tropes mostly shake out from a time well before the Internet was a thing.
The bit about old clans and such is especially not an MMO-specific thing, it’s just life. It’s something everyone experiences, and the exploration of those themes in varied ways account for a large part of why the show is so universally praised.
That said, if the MMO framing helps you to get a deeper understanding of the show you go for it. Part of appreciating art is finding your own ways to engage and relate with it.
Is the movie important to watch before season 3? It’s on my list but I’ve been procrastinating on it for ages.
I only just started season 2 of Mashle yesterday but I’ve read the whole thing and love it. It’s goofy fun and the anime captures the vibe perfectly.
Also the new OP is the most aggressive earworm I’ve ever encountered. My brain has been on a BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BORN loop for, like, 20 hours now.
I stumbled across Yasuda’s shorts a while back and thought they were both fun and super well animated. Excited to hear he has a full-length movie coming out!
This idea seems stupid and ridiculous…
Oh hell yeah. The web novel is fantastic, the manwha is a great adaptation, and if they provide this a bit of care it should be a great show.
That said, it takes a while to really get going. The physical manwha started coming out and the entire first two volumes are by and large just okay. Depending on the pacing of the first season it might not blow up the way it could or should simply because it won’t be very good yet.