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As my first post after losing my account due to expired recovery email, I would like to share with you that anime has truly peaked.
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Putting what I said earlier more eloquently, one vital part of isekai as a genre is "a new beginning". It's not just the "going into a new world" aspect that's a writing trope older than paper, it's having a leg up to advance beyond the normal people in that new setting (even if those are simply higher social status/body build/self confidence) so old mistakes will not be repeated.

Even the part of "new world" in isekai isn't really that correct that much, it's pretty common the settings is based on games the protagonists have already played so nothing is new to them and they game their knowledge.
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I don't think "new beginning" is at all unique to isekai since I can think of a few series that aren't where a loser MC gets some special power or mcguffin and suddenly becomes better than everyone else, it's just a bad power fantasy trope that is common as fuck in Isekai yes but isn't necessary for something to be one and can be found anywhere regardless of genre.
When I said isekai just means other world (not necessarily new world mind you) I think that's actually literally since iirc that's what the kanji mean (don't quote me I don't know moon runes) and japs started using it because it's such a old plot setting to describe stories, which they like to do alot since they made up the term "mecha" to call anytime that has giant robots and I swear they have specific ones for series set in the country and CGDCT.
 
Saiana said:
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Huh.
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If this had been made ten years ago: "This is about appearances being deceiving, about why you shouldn't make assumptions about someone's personality or pigeonhole them into a role based on gender stereotypes. Women can be strong and athletic, it doesn't make them men."

Because this was made in Current Year: "This is anti-trans because the female main character doesn't conform to gender stereotypes but still thinks they're a woman."

It reminds me of that Simpson bit, "Whenever Poochie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, 'Where's Poochie?'" Whenever a tranny's not on screen, everyone has to ask, "Where's the tranny?" Like LGBT shit is the only lens through which anyone can look at anything anymore. This tweet isn't even that bad, but it's still so goddamn tiresome.

Edit so my whole post isn't just culture war shit: Started watching Lucky Star recently, and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. I tried watching it when it first came out and couldn't get past the mind-numbing scene in the first episode where they ramble about chocolate coronets. I forced myself to get past that scene this time, and I've been enjoying the rest of the show. Very cute and funny, and it's a nice throwback to a simpler time.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Unironically, FMA 2003's story was superior to Brotherhood in every way and only smug midwits think Brotherhood is better solely on the virtue of being a carbon copy of the manga. If you like Brotherhood more because you prefer the more generic shonen style, that's fine and dandy and more power to you.

And before you go "but muh not following the manga", the mangaka of FMA personally oversaw the development of the separate story for the 2003 anime and ensured all the changes had her full approval.
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wow alchemy is cased by gased jews

so deep
 
Johnny Salami said:
wow alchemy is cased by gased jews

so deep
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Yeah, I'll admit it might not be "deep" or whatever but I find that it's still more enjoyable than the overly generic upbeat shonen fare that is Brotherhood. But that's my opinion and I'll stand by it.

Pour yourself a glass of whiskey, put on some Siouxsie or The Sisters of Mercy, and calm your tits. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Once again modern amerimutts try to eradicate tomboys.
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I don't what it is about tomboys specifically that pisses off wokester troons so much but either way, it's sad that the Twitter loons are up in arms again over petty and idiotic bullshit.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I don't what it is about tomboys specifically that pisses off wokester troons so much but either way, it's sad that the Twitter loons are up in arms again over petty and idiotic bullshit.
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Because Tomboys are 0% gay. You're not dating a man, but a girl with the essence of a bro/homie, so you're not a faggot. You're dating a girl, without any of the idiosyncrasies (faggotry, bullshittery, etc.) that comes with a woman. The troon knows it can never be a woman/man, so it hates the thing that does both naturally, without any physical self-harm.

TL;DR - Tomboys are the superior race of women. It makes the lower breeds dilate.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Because Tomboys are 0% gay. You're not dating a man, but a girl with the essence of a bro/homie, so you're not a faggot. You're dating a girl, without any of the idiosyncrasies (faggotry, bullshittery, etc.) that comes with a woman. The troon knows it can never be a woman/man, so it hates the thing that does both naturally, without any physical self-harm.

TL;DR - Tomboys are the superior race of women. It makes the lower breeds dilate.
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While I definitely wholeheartedly agree in principle, I'd like to offer one piece of counterpoint I've heard expressed on occasion: Wouldn't dating someone who shares all the same interests as you might make for a less ideal relationship than you think because you don't really have bro time anymore?

(P.S, pretty sure the original pic was made by one of the tranny haters and not in reaction to them)
 
Saiana said:
(P.S, pretty sure the original pic was made by one of the tranny haters and not in reaction to them)
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That's what I figured, too. Even if they hate trans shit, they still felt compelled to use the tranny lens to examine a show that has nothing to do with trannies. It's just a comedy about a tomboy trying to be cute for the guy she likes. It's not pro-trans, it's not anti-trans, but they had to bring trannies into it anyway. That's what I find tiresome. I just want there to be one thing in the world that doesn't show up if you search Twitter for the word "trans." Why is that so hard?
 
skykiii said:
Autistically, I kinda hate the term "isekai." maybe this is just a western fandom thing but it feels like they're trying to claim this kind of story is a whole new thing when stories about people being transported to other worlds have been being done since the Bible.
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"I know it when I see it".

Vidya james people sperg about DRM a lot. Starforce is DRM, Always Online is DRM... is having to create an account to download a game DRM? Is having to download the game (requires internet) DRM? Is a printed manual DRM? Is money DRM? The answer is the term DRM was invented to describe a specific new thing in the world, and it's retarded to wrangle the "definition" to retroactively apply it to things which predate it.

Isekai is a word that was invented to describe a thing, a cluster of things. And we all know what it is. Go to mangadex latest updates and see:
  • Takeshi Jinguji, an executive candidate of the Self-Defense Force, who had just graduated from the University of Defense, was reincarnated into a different world due to a traffic accident.
  • I'm the guild receptionist, but since I don't want to work overtime, I think I'll just solo the boss
  • Protagonist Kang Han Soo killed the demon king after 10 years of being summoned in the fantasy world.
  • King, magician, musician, prosecutor, wealthy person, beggar, saintess, witch… She lived for a thousand years, many times over.
  • Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe!
now this:
  • One fateful day, a girl time slipped into the Sengoku Era.
doesn't have the tag. (taimusurippu is a somewhat different genre, I explain why below)

Ok, that was surprisingly few. Going on to page 2:
  • A normal office worker, Toru Minasuki, was swallowed up by a dimensional fissure and reincarnated into a different world.
  • Late, an assassin with a mission completion rate of 99.9%, suddenly receives a request for assassination from an unfamiliar client. ... The next assassination target of the strongest assassin Late is "God of another world"! ??
  • A male engineer transmigrated into another world, and became a prince.
  • The protagonist along with his step-mother, and 2 step-sisters(step-aunts) are summoned into another world
  • "I can't do this!" Yoke Feldio, A Red Mage, has left his A-rank party of five years to become an adventurer
  • Lucifer, the greatest demon lord, who saved the demon race in the war with gods, is reincarnated as a normal adventurer.
  • During the school trip Touka and his classmates are summoned to another world. However, Touka was the only one with the lowest rank: E-rank
  • Saito was reincarnated to the other world at the age of 15, becomes the Great Sage, and defeated the Demon Lord.
  • Jin Mita, a farmer living in a small countryside town, discovers an unconscious female knight in his rice field one morning. She calls herself Seraphim, and she seems to have come from another world.
  • A murderer who cannot stop the urge to kill people, even though he wants to stop, receives the death sentence he wants. His joy is short-lived, as he is reincarnated in another world.
  • The once well-known online game "Magic Continent of Light" is now ready to be discontinued for a dying year. Hardcore fan otaku Wei Chuan decided to accompany the game to the last second, but he did not expect that the villain in the original game would drag him into the game!
(There was one mpreg title and one so badly MTLed I couldn't understand what it was about.)


I hope a common theme emerges. (I fucking despise isekai, and I have a very good idea of what I despise.) Most of these are set in the Default Fantasy World, sometimes with placeholder names still, er, in place. These worlds often work off MMORPG mechanics even if not actually said to be a "game reality". There are adventurers with classes and levels and shit. A variation is "visual novel reality"; again, it might not be explicitly set in a visual novels but there'd be male leads and villainnesses and other visual novel conventions.

Is there a deeper theme? That's up to massdebate, but I would suggest that "isekai" is the peak consoomer and peak cuck genre concerned with losers getting empowered to shape fictional worlds to their liking. The "first-tier" escapist media is failing consoomers, and they have to go deeeeeper. Like, normally you'd get shouted at by the shift supervisor at the amazon warehouse, go home and defeat the Demon King. But the isekai audience gets anally raped by the Demon King (probably because they can't pay to win), and want to read a mango where they find an exploit and win anyway. Their dreams and aspirations and now confined to the fictional world, they don't wish for a better job or to minecraft Bezos. Absolute hypercuck squared.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Well, this made my year:

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「甘神さんちの縁結び」TVアニメ化決定！累計85万部突破のラブコメディ | アニメ！アニメ！

「週刊少年マガジン」にて連載中のマンガ『甘神さんちの縁結び』のTVアニメ化が決定した。動画生配信サービス「LIVEPARTY」にて2023年4月21日に配信された、「“甘神さん愛”が試される！ 『甘神さんちの縁結び』クイズ大会」内でのサプライズ発表となった。
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Yae best gril fite me
 
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