It comes with the territory, especially when the Japs get involved. This was common knowledge at one point I feel.
He's not my friend anymore if that's any indication of said cognitive dissonance. Seriously, you're numb to a guy getting decapitated and getting run through SAW level traps, but when a story decides to get mature, give the hero actual motivation to hate the Goblins that slaughtered and raped his entire village including his sister, that's too much? Come on man.
Z does have a lot of filler, but Kai removes most of it and even speeds up certain scenes (like powerups), though I feel its dub is inferior. GT looks a bit "off" compared to Z for some reason but I still think it looks alright.
It reminds me of modern Mortal Kombat, getting more and more gory and realistic looking, detailed in its excessive violence, but afraid to show some female skin unless it's shredded and ripped off her body. Literal Orwellian logic.
Actually true. The violence in Goblin Slayer, Anime wise, is a lot tamer than say... Elfin Lied, but people freak out about goblin Slayer because it dares to say "yeah, people get raped by shit covered goblins who burn entire towns, did we mention this is the medieval era?". Its not unexpected, yet people's reaction to it is just so off-putting
Read Year One. Goblin Slayer (the OG series) is him after becoming silver. It hits harder why goblins are a threat and also why no one else wants to kill them- it's dirty, dangerous, and pays nothing
The original Dragon Ball manga is a masterpiece. Some guy dumped it on /a/ and everyone was enjoying it far more than they thought they would.
Kaiji is great. The related shows Akagi and the one about Tokugawa aren't as top tier as Kaiji imo. I believe Squid Game creators were influenced by Kaiji when they made that show for Netflix.
Akagi is a whole different beast. I think it's arguably even better, in a different way. It's more of a philosophical essay.
Legend has it Akagi and the old man are still playing death mahjong to this day.
I'm actually watching Kaiji with a fren rn, so this talk about the Bossman Jack show amuses me
It only took them 20 years, but hopefully the new Fukumoto golf manga will feature a 30 year golf game.
Meh, call it cope if you want, but the manga makes it pretty evident that usually Gremmy doesn't fight. He just shows up and whisks people out of existence. He's been imprisoned this entire time and everyone normally just gives him what he wants anyway. So the idea of being challenged never actually occurred to him. Kenpachi wins because he baits him into actually fighting him. Kubo does go out of his way to show us that Gremmy's powers take a lot of effort and concentration out of him, and he never bothered to actually test out what his limits are. Which conveniently the anime decided to cut out all of these details for its detriment, go figure.
It explains why no one wants to do it, it doesn't explain why it isn't better compensated or seen as more necessary. You'd think in a world where humanity and friends are constantly at war with everything the constant pervasive threat to the food supply and everyone's wife/mother/sisters would punch higher than it does. Hell, they even juxtapose Goblin Slayer single handedly saving a village from 20+ rapegoblins against a bunch of adventurer teams pooling resources to raid a gold mine because a not-purple worm and a bunch of slimes took up residence. The big worm that eats rocks in a gold mine is wildly ignorable as far as threats go, even if everyone goes for the higher paying job they should be self aware enough to see that what Goblin Slayer was doing was probably more useful in the big picture.
Your point isn't wrong, but I see it as societal apathy. The goblins have just always been there. Like locusts. Even if you knock out a nest, more pop up. So I see it as just, people kinda gave up after a while. Goblin Slayer just didn't get the memo.