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Holy shit the anime of Guilty Gear is a fucking slideshow. There's good chance for salt flowing in.

Also the first episode of Vigilante has more soul in it than in an entire season of Hero Academia.
 
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Another new one is called Exiled Heavy Knight and its the usual song and dance, guy gets reincarnated into a world that's almost one to one to a video game he played and gets the "weakest class". Only thing it does differently is he used to main said class and knows what build he has to make to make said class one of the best. From what I've read the actual build is very much an end game one so most of the story is a series of "where's this stupid fucking item that actually makes this garbage class viable" instead of getting good over the coarse of one chapter off screen.
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Heavy Knight is bizarrely good for how completely straightforward it is. It's completely standard isekai fare except it's good.

The guy picks up skills. A handful of them. They make sense for his build. They make sense for his role in combat. He actually uses them consistently.

He has an op build. His build makes sense. It actually works like an op late game build. He has to get specific items and gear for it.

The combat system feels like a split between actual mmorpgs and Dark Souls. As in it feels like the author has not just played dark souls but has an in depth understanding of the combat system. The mc is literally a heavy str heavy armor build. He staggers and parries enemies. How many litrpgs are there where it feels like the author actually has an idea what a game is beyond a surface level?

The mandatory 'attractive female companion' has a build that not only makes sense but actually complements the mcs build. High mobility crit build to match mc's slow tank with massive burst damage potential.

The bosses have actual interesting character designs and whoever drew them seems to have had a lot of fun with it.

Overall it feels like a challenge run from a high skill player with lots of system knowledge.

There's nothing here that isn't completely everyday isekai except it's night and day compared to everything else. 0% innovation 100% execution.

It's good but it's weird.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Also the first episode of Vigilante has more soul in it than in an entire season of Hero Academia.
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Oh boy, let's have another herbivore protagonist with paper-thin convictions whose sole interesting traits can be summed up as "he's nice" and "he tries really hard", because we didn't already go through 7 seasons of that in MHA.

I haven't read the manga, and I really have no wish to bother watching the show either now that the protagonist has been revealed to just be another Deku clone.

The least the writer could have done is actually give the protagonist a semblance of personality.
 
regalterry said:
Oh boy, let's have another herbivore protagonist with paper-thin convictions whose sole interesting traits can be summed up as "he's nice" and "he tries really hard", because we didn't already go through 7 seasons of that in MHA.

I haven't read the manga, and I really have no wish to bother watching the show either now that the protagonist has been revealed to just be another Deku clone.

The least the writer could have done is actually give the protagonist a semblance of personality.
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Tbf, a herbivore protagonist works when he actually needs to step outside his comfort zone, improve himself, and doesn't get his dick sucked perpetually.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
he actually needs to step outside his comfort zone, improve himself, and doesn't get his dick sucked perpetually
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Which rarely happens, as that would require the author to put in actual work and have the character grow (a spine).

Maybe I'm getting too jaded for most anime, but I really wish they'd feature more character archetypes that aren't "herbivore cuck" or "hotheaded imbecile."
 
regalterry said:
Which rarely happens, as that would require the author to put in actual work and have the character grow (a spine).

Maybe I'm getting too jaded for most anime, but I really wish they'd feature more character archetypes that aren't "herbivore cuck" or "hotheaded imbecile."
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Have you tried not watching and reading only the most popular things as this sounds like a problem of your own creation.
 
Endless Torment said:
Have you tried not watching and reading only the most popular things as this sounds like a problem of your own creation.
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The problem is that I've watched pretty much all the anime I was going to like, and the rate of release of titles that I may be interest in can't keep up with my demand.

I'm not going to argue with the statement that it may be a problem of my own making in some ways, since I do agree. I tried watching shonenshit and got myself a plateful of shonenshit, but I still feel like it's also an issue in the industry.

Perhaps it's my own confirmation bias, but I felt that in prior decades authors were much more willing to experiment with different kinds of protagonist, and that female protagonists tend to have a much wider range of personalities compared to their male counterparts these days.

More to the point, the author of MHA should be criticized for featuring the same kind of protagonist in Vigilantes and MHA. Maybe I'm mistaken and he takes the whole thing in a different direction and I end up looking dumb, but I really can't say I have the patience to sit through a few more seasons of discount Deku doing his thing.
 
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regalterry said:
That makes it even worse.
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I don't care if someone likes or dislikes MHA or Vigilantes, but crying and bitching about something you know nothing about is a waste of time.
You have like 50 years of anime and manga to watch or read so I recommend trying to look at shit you never thought about.
You could also just take a break and engage in a different hobby.
 
regalterry said:
More to the point, the author of MHA should be criticized for featuring the same kind of protagonist in Vigilantes and MHA. Maybe I'm mistaken and he takes the whole thing in a different direction and I end up looking dumb, but I really can't say I have the patience to sit through a few more seasons of discount Deku doing his thing.
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It does, though I think it would've been much harder for the Vigilantes guy to replicate Horikoshi's endless story fuckups rather than write something saner. Give it a chance.
 
regalterry said:
Oh boy, let's have another herbivore protagonist with paper-thin convictions whose sole interesting traits can be summed up as "he's nice" and "he tries really hard", because we didn't already go through 7 seasons of that in MHA.

I haven't read the manga, and I really have no wish to bother watching the show either now that the protagonist has been revealed to just be another Deku clone.

The least the writer could have done is actually give the protagonist a semblance of personality.
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The difference is that the protagonist in Vigilantes doesn’t stay that way for ever and is a genuinely well done character. His what Deku should’ve been and honestly it’s just a much tighter and more enjoyable story with better characters. If you don’t like it and don’t think it’s going to improve then don’t bother but I really think you should at least try to read it. Haven’t watched the anime yet, actually didn’t even know it was getting a anime lol.
 
Endless Torment said:
They are completely different authors.
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Kind of, while Furuhashi did write the series Horikoshi did act as a supervisor/editor for the series and give a few broad plot outlines.
Koichi and Deku are similar at the start, I'd say the main difference between them is how they grow because of the side cast. All Might and Knucleduster are both the mentor character to their MC but they differ in how they act as a mentor. All Might aside from being the one who gave Deku a quirk is on the sidelines and only vaguely gives moral support/the goal Deku is trying to reach.
Knuckleduster is quirkless* He actually had a quirk but got it stollen by AfO, but instead of giving up and became a teacher like a certain crybaby, he kept doing hero work as a vigilante and they only thing he gives Koichi is on the job training as a somewhat willing sidekick (can anyone actually think of a time where Deku and All Might actually fought together). The way Koichi grows for better or worse is becoming more of a knockoff spiderman then he already is, chatting/joking with street level thugs as they try to hit him and making them chase him so Kuckleduster can sucker punch them from behind and later leading them right where Aizawa has a side office and letting him deal with it. There's also no Bakugo equivalent that's constantly shitting on Koichi like Deku (that spike guy comes back a few times but isn't as central as a focal point as Bakugo) where 90% of the story in MHA can be summed up as "Deku starts to get a little confident, Bakugo calls him a faggot and to go kill himself, Deku is back to a crying bitch".
 
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It should be an internationally recognized crime punishable by death to cut out already short manga chapters in multiple "##.1 ##.2 ##.3" parts and uploading them over the period of weeks.
I guess back into the Kanji mines I go, for the eighth time I will try and probably fail to learn japanese.
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Heavy Knight
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Genuinely feels like someone saying "I want to make an MMO" and at some point spent some actual manhours writing and documenting his thoughts and ideas on what the MMO should be like, and eventually settled on it being a manga.
I'm curious when the anime is going to start, but again >GoHands
 
Watamote only getting one season is criminal. I need more of the socially awkward cringe lord
Anyone got recommendations for similar shows? I've been on a binge of shows that punch me right in my social anxiety because I enjoy suffering apparently

I finished march comes in like a lion and komi can't communicate so far, was gonna check out bochi and the rock next. Any others worth checking out?
 
SandyCat said:
Watamote only getting one season is criminal. I need more of the socially awkward cringe lord
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The manga is far away from that now as she solved a lot of her issues, has a lot of friends, does stuff, and some yuri bait is thrown in. There is a reason no one really talks about in anymore.
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I finished march comes in like a lion and komi can't communicate so far, was gonna check out bochi and the rock next. Any others worth checking out?
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Welcome to the N.H.K is the classic one
 
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