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FatMebius said:
At least the anime version of the Spirit Tortoise arc speeds things a long. You can tell that even the staff wanted to get through it. It also sets up the reveal of the real antagonists a bit better than the novel version too. It's not like nothing big happens in it, but it just feels like too much of a stepping stone to get to more interesting stuff.

Yeah. It's grungy, but not in a drab Game of Thrones way or anything. It winds up with a very pragmatic and matter of fact view on the darker acts Naofumi winds up having to commit to make the world a bit safer. And always makes an argument that a good act and a moral act aren't always the same thing. Even Itsuki, the biggest moralfag at the start winds up changing his ways and becoming an expert in torture.
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I think the biggest issue with the anime version of spirit tortoise was it felt compacted. You could feel it getting squeezed. Then the next arc got decompressed in a massive tonal shift. It makes rewatching it extremely hard.
 
FatMebius said:
Yeah. I'm happy it's still going. I know a lotta viewers dipped with the Spirit Tortise arc (And that really is a pretty bland arc), but it really does start picking up not long after. I like that there's always progression. Everyone's gear and outfits are always changing, Naofumi switches up who he takes with him fairly often and the stakes are always ramping up and expanding.
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Post spirit tortoise it started feeling kind of convoluted with all the separate realms and evil heroes. Maybe if I went back and re-read it I would follow it better but I had trouble remembering who each new character was and I kind of forgot who the big villain was until they actually faced off against him. The slow release schedule probably didn't help. Each month I had to try and re-familiarize myself with what was actually going on.
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
Post spirit tortoise it started feeling kind of convoluted with all the separate realms and evil heroes. Maybe if I went back and re-read it I would follow it better but I had trouble remembering who each new character was and I kind of forgot who the big villain was until they actually faced off against him. The slow release schedule probably didn't help. Each month I had to try and re-familiarize myself with what was actually going on.
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They set up the idea of multiple worlds in the very first chapter though. What with each of the four holy heroes being from a different Japan. The idea of their being mutliple different fantasy worlds is just an extention of that. The Tortoise arc is still kind of a slog though. It's a lot of setup for stuff that pays off in the long run, but it still feels kind of meandering on its own. Naofumi's return trip to Kizuna's world is better, since it's such a big shakeup. Like when he loses his shield for a couple novels and learns that people from the different fantasy worlds can get summoned to other worlds too. Let alone realizing that Kyo, Takt and some of the others are all 30 year old Nip NEETs who've been isekai'd and are all basically just fucking around in the other worlds.

WelperHelper99 said:
I think the biggest issue with the anime version of spirit tortoise was it felt compacted. You could feel it getting squeezed. Then the next arc got decompressed in a massive tonal shift. It makes rewatching it extremely hard.
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For sure. Part of it is that a good chunk of the start of the Spirit Tortoise stuff was tacked onto the end of season 1, but they speedran those two books. The training with the old lady and the week in-between the first and second tortoise fights and even the trek to the Spirit Tortoise were all trimmed. Ost showed up earlier in the anime too. It's weird they still managed to spend so much of the season on that arc in spite of trimming so much, now that I think about it.
 
God of Nothing said:
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When the character embodies the audience's feeling. Maybe the author really hated Sasuke and the whole character is making a Sasuke copy suffer.
FatMebius said:
I rewatched the first season of Shield Hero after ploughing through the novels. And noticed something I otherwise wouldn't. In the final episode, Motoyasu briefly talks like his future crazy self.

In the novels, after he winds up so buck broken that he only sees women ad literal pigs, he winds up with a speccial spear that lets him go back to day one whenever one of the four holy heroes are killed. I like the implication that he's already on a repeat loop.

I hope season 4 is a 26 episode one. That way they can get to the Takt arc. That arc legitimately had me enthralled. Pretty much everything went in directions I wasn't expecting. If not, that one'll get pushed to season 5.
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I remember reading that there is a spinoff about spear guy having the power to go back in time and he basically fixes the plot so shield guy doesn't get killed at various points in the story. Kinda killed my enthusiasm about the setting.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I remember reading that there is a spinoff about spear guy having the power to go back in time and he basically fixes the plot so shield guy doesn't get killed at various points in the story. Kinda killed my enthusiasm about the setting.
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It's hard to say how the spin-off is going to go, since it's still going. It's looking like Motoyasu is going to realize that the only way for him to see Filo again is to let things play out as normal. Since him fucking with the timeline causes Filo to be born as a Filolial named Sakura instead. So, I'm guessing in the final volume of that he'll resolve to pretend to be his old shitty self again. The anime definitely has a small implication that he's already doing the time loop shit at the very least.
It's actually a neat spin-off, since it gives a lot more information about the setting and you see a bit of Motoyasu's Japan too. With the occasional hint at something big. Like Fitoria saying something about his time-controlling spear and that he's going to have to make a big decision. Plus it's actually pretty funny.
The main novels have left off on a more traditional time travel arc right now. And have really heavily split off from the web novel as a result. Apparently the web novel's ending(s) were pretty hated.
 
is anime deliberately designed to be impossible to talk about in real life
there are very few shows that don't make you look strange when you mention them casually
 
Apperantly Maomao inherited the deathglare from her pappy.
bird.up said:
is anime deliberately designed to be impossible to talk about in real life
there are very few shows that don't make you look strange when you mention them casually
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Japanese title names and character names + weird plot points = Sounding like a crazy person if you heard something like the above sentence in real life.
 
it doesn't seem like Jinshi knows how to bandage a wound or how dealing with it right away, or even running to someone who can, would help the injured person not get worse.
 
The 18th is this VA's birthday
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Betonhaus said:
it doesn't seem like Jinshi knows how to bandage a wound or how dealing with it right away, or even running to someone who can, would help the injured person not get worse.
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It'd be weirder, if he had acted in such an urgent emergency for a lowly servant girl.
 
FatMebius said:
They set up the idea of multiple worlds in the very first chapter though. What with each of the four holy heroes being from a different Japan. The idea of their being mutliple different fantasy worlds is just an extention of that.
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The multiple worlds thing I had no problem with. The entire jumping between world arc just didn't do anything for me and I'm still 50/50 on whether the execution was lacking or whether it was just hard to stay invested in a story with that much going on when new releases have a whole month between them. I just haven't had the time to revisit it. It may be different when I can read the chapters on a shorter timetable.
 
greasyArchivist said:
First time with a WSJ? I mean seriously, JJK isn’t great (although the power system is genuinely some of the best in manga), especially post-Shibuya where it all becomes rushed plot points and useless new characters, but this has always been par for the course. At least its more coherent and less generic than Black Clover. And unlike HXH Gege actually updates sometimes.
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I agree, it was a really good power system when it was in Hunter X Hunter.
 
bird.up said:
is anime deliberately designed to be impossible to talk about in real life
there are very few shows that don't make you look strange when you mention them casually
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I honestly don't bring it up, ever, to include on dates unless the woman is clearly in to anime as well. Any time I've done it previously, you notice a change in how they perceive you.
 
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