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Reading ana satsujin and within the first 12 chapters i got to see a tranny get a hard on from being a female serial killer...this ones gonna be a wild read i have heard however the latter half falls apart.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
His entire backstory disagrees with that. He was basically a fucking wendigo until he got a few positive human relationships under his belt and the few people who remember that mostly deal with him because he hasn't wiped out any villages recently they don't want to bait him back into angrily eating people and there's no easy way to kill him.
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It’s a stretch to call Elias an antagonist though. He was a feral creature before actually gaining his identity and still displays moments of hostility/aggression, even towards Chise (albeit more so in a possessive way), but he’s clearly not meant to be the villain of the story and is portrayed as more of a manchild. Elias and Chise care about each other despite the questionable nature of their relationship. It’s also much less of a typical romance than one would expect.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
I mean, it can't really BE a typical romance given that Chise is human (albeit special) and Elias is...whatever he is, with the alien mindset to match.
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Interspecies romances aren’t exactly new, but my point was less about physical differences and more about the process of falling in love since what Elias and Chise have is more teacher/student than anything. Some monsterfuckers may have gone into this series expecting a fairly straightforward romance instead of what’s actually given to you.
 
The Fair Lady said:
It’s a stretch to call Elias an antagonist though. He was a feral creature before actually gaining his identity and still displays moments of hostility/aggression, even towards Chise (albeit more so in a possessive way), but he’s clearly not meant to be the villain of the story and is portrayed as more of a manchild. Elias and Chise care about each other despite the questionable nature of their relationship. It’s also much less of a typical romance than one would expect.
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I'm not saying Elias is the antagonist of Ancient Magus Bride and from a fairy tale, I am saying that he is a character who was a Fairy Tale antagonist (and is likely one Bad Day away from being one again). He's the sort of character that is the original reason why the elders in your village tell kids to stay out of the old woods until this day very day.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
I'm not saying Elias is the antagonist of Ancient Magus Bride and from a fairy tale, I am saying that he is a character who was a Fairy Tale antagonist (and is likely one Bad Day away from being one again). He's the sort of character that is the original reason why the elders in your village tell kids to stay out of the old woods until this day very day.
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If you’re referring to the series Fairy Tale then I’m afraid I don’t follow because I don’t know jack about it.

Point being that Elias looks the part of a horrible monster, yes, but he isn’t inherently a bad person. He’s civilized now but does still have issues that show how dangerous he’s capable of being if he fully snaps.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Are you this dense all the time or are you having a giggle? I'm saying he's the BAD CHARACTER that EATS PEOPLE from FOLKLORE
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Dude, you capitalized fairy tale for some reason or other, that’s on your ass. No fucking shit he’s based off a folklore creature. What I’m saying is that he’s not actually a bad character.
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
Thankfully I wrote a sentence after that one for additional context because you appeared to be suffering from reading issues.
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Maybe, y’know, don’t capitalize random words or use poor phrasing and then get assmad when the other person gets confused. Makes a huge difference. Reading the rest of what I said would probably help you a smidge too.

Anyway, the point and re: the original question: Elias embodies classic fairy tale monster tropes and used to act like one but for the most part he’s a pretty alright guy nowadays, he just views the world through an alien lens. The series is less romance-focused and more fantasy (I wouldn’t consider it horror though there are some dark themes) but worth looking into if you like that sort of thing.
 
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So thus ends another anime season, kinda underwhelming but at least I watched a few shows. Next season shows that might be good:
* Goblin Slayer 2nd season - Total Goblin Death.
* Sousou no Frieren - Read the few first chapters, Elf gets hit with the "all my friends are dying from old age".
* Undead Unluck - Remember from what I read it was cool.
* Hanako-kun - It getting a second season surprises me, I liked the first season and it did the mystery angle well.
* Ragna Crimson - I have no idea what it is, but I've seen it pop up on Youtube so there's probably a lot of money in it.
* Bullbuster - It sounds like Ball buster and the studio named is Nut, clearly we are talking about people who've gone beyond comedy.

Holy shit that's a lot of sequels in that list. Also amazed how many studios there are.
 
Bullbuster's premise seems interesting with some harder sci-fi stuff, so it might be good, but my expectations are not high. Bikkurimen looks like it will have good animation, and I like the cool exo-suits and transformation sequences, but I fear it will come off as trying too hard and that it will be overly self-aware. Finally, I have very high expectations for adult Precure. It will probably be very bittersweet.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Are you this dense all the time or are you having a giggle? I'm saying he's the BAD CHARACTER that EATS PEOPLE from FOLKLORE
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I haven't read the manga far enough to really know for myself, but I could see such a character being shown as not inherently bad. Some sort of portrayal where the character simply does not understand human morals and doesn't understand why eating someone is any different from squashing a bug. Just like you wouldn't blame a bear for mauling humans who intrude on its territory, you wouldn't treat such a creature as "evil" per se so much as a dangerous force of nature which is all the scarier precisely because it isn't acting out of any form of malice. That to me was always the defining trait of fairy tale monsters.
From what little I've read it seems like what they're aiming for, and if it is I do think the nuance is worth pointing out.
 
Sailor Troon said:
After watching lots of children's shows on the more comedic and lighthearted side, does anyone have any suggestions for kids' shows that are more serious, such as Digimon Tamers, Webdiver, Zambot 3, or Dennou Coil? Thanks.
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I'm not gonna ask why, but there is actually a kids anime I tell a few people to look at purely for the novelty of "how the fuck did this get made".

If anyone grew up in the late 90s to 00s and had yearly scholastic book fairs at their schools, you probably kind of remember there was a small trend of episodic kids fantasy series that where all short but had like 10-20+ books, stuff like magic tree house, warriors, ranger's apprentice, redwall, etc.

Well one of them, Deltora Quest, somehow got popular in japan and was given an anime adaptation by OLM back in 2007.
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Like I said, really only recommended it for the shear novelty, I did try watching it a few years ago because I was a fan of the books as a kid and while they did add some anime aspects (and the horrible CGI), some of the charm that made every kid (at least from my elementary) devour it and any fantasy book like it,still shines through. Actually did reread some of the series awhile ago before handing it off to a younger cousin and they surprisingly held up for some books and some darker things that went over my head like an entire town's worth of people being covered in tarr, another being drowned in a plague of rats, and the demon king winning in the first book by making the rulers fat and useless over multiple generations and tricking them that everything outside their castle walls was fine while it conquered the whole kingdom
 
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The only thing I'm interested in this season since I basically don't watch anime anymore is the sequel to Yes Precure 5 where they're adults now. I've been wanting something like this for ages, even though Yes5 isn't a favorite season of mine I still love it. Much more excited though for the Maho Precure sequel that's coming next year.
 
vern said:
I'm not gonna ask why, but there is actually a kids anime I tell a few people to look at purely for the novelty of "how the fuck did this get made".

If anyone grew up in the late 90s to 00s and had yearly scholastic book fairs at their schools, you probably kind of remember there was a small trend of episodic kids fantasy series that where all short but had like 10-20+ books, stuff like magic tree house, warriors, ranger's apprentice, redwall, etc.

Well one of them, Deltora Quest, somehow got popular in japan and was given an anime adaptation by OLM back in 2007.
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Like I said, really only recommended it for the shear novelty, I did try watching it a few years ago because I was a fan of the books as a kid and while they did add some anime aspects (and the horrible CGI), some of the charm that made every kid (at least from my elementary) devour it and any fantasy book like it,still shines through. Actually did reread some of the series awhile ago before handing it off to a younger cousin and they surprisingly held up for some books and some darker things that went over my head like an entire town's worth of people being covered in tarr, another being drowned in a plague of rats, and the demon king winning in the first book by making the rulers fat and useless over multiple generations and tricking them that everything outside their castle walls was fine while it conquered the whole kingdom
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I'd always heard it as Rodda's kids were big anime weebs and she went out of her way to shop it around to nip studios to get a cartoon made for them. They came out with at least one DS game based on the anime so it must've been at least somewhat popular.

Also seem to remember hearing that when the anime adapted the first 8 book series' worth of content they came up a few episodes short, so instead of adding filler earlier or stretching sequences out they just did a bit of epilogue stuff focusing on Leif as the new king of Deltora, separate from where the sequel books took it.
 
vern said:
I'm not gonna ask why, but there is actually a kids anime I tell a few people to look at purely for the novelty of "how the fuck did this get made".

If anyone grew up in the late 90s to 00s and had yearly scholastic book fairs at their schools, you probably kind of remember there was a small trend of episodic kids fantasy series that where all short but had like 10-20+ books, stuff like magic tree house, warriors, ranger's apprentice, redwall, etc.

Well one of them, Deltora Quest, somehow got popular in japan and was given an anime adaptation by OLM back in 2007.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=VFZ2uxWOt-w
Like I said, really only recommended it for the shear novelty, I did try watching it a few years ago because I was a fan of the books as a kid and while they did add some anime aspects (and the horrible CGI), some of the charm that made every kid (at least from my elementary) devour it and any fantasy book like it,still shines through. Actually did reread some of the series awhile ago before handing it off to a younger cousin and they surprisingly held up for some books and some darker things that went over my head like an entire town's worth of people being covered in tarr, another being drowned in a plague of rats, and the demon king winning in the first book by making the rulers fat and useless over multiple generations and tricking them that everything outside their castle walls was fine while it conquered the whole kingdom
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Fuck anime, Rangers Apprentice was based, read that one instead of the big-eye comics.
 
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