I ain't here for specific anime, I'm just here to drop the coolest fucking clothing commercial ever animated. https://youtube.com/watch?v=m8oSGs8hkcoMajor show ED energy and yet it was just for fashion in 1988, goddamn we need this kind of energy back now.
Been reading some good martial arts mangas lately. Holyland is actually really good so far. It’s a pretty realistic depiction of teenage punks streetfighting and follows a kid who’s looking for a place to belong. One thing leads to another, he learns more about fighting, makes friends, and tries to make his way in the mean streets of Japan. So far, I would recommend this one if you already like martial arts mangas.
Garouden is peak, and can be considered one of the OGs of martial arts mangas. It’s as brutal and exaggerated as Baki, the fights are amazing, and the story is great with many interesting characters. Originally a series of books that never got translated, it’s always been lesser known than other fight manga but its influence on the genre is massive. Netflix made a spinoff that was also really good, I love this series so much.
I recently started Tough, another one of the OGs that’s lesser known today. Again, reading this one you can see it’s genealogy in so many other works and it’s pretty brutal. It’s about a dude who likes to fight other dudes, I’m pretty early into it but liking it a lot so far.
I have a love of series where some kid trains martial arts and grows as a person through that, something like All Rounder Meguru or Holyland or take your pick of other classics. Holyland is one I’m about 50 chapters into and loving so far, I’m really interested to see how our main dude grows as he fights more.
I have a love of series where some kid trains martial arts and grows as a person through that, something like All Rounder Meguru or Holyland or take your pick of other classics. Holyland is one I’m about 50 chapters into and loving so far, I’m really interested to see how our main dude grows as he fights more.
I recently started Tough, another one of the OGs that’s lesser known today. Again, reading this one you can see it’s genealogy in so many other works and it’s pretty brutal. It’s about a dude who likes to fight other dudes, I’m pretty early into it but liking it a lot so far.
I love how when that show was first airing everybody was sucking its cock and talking it up as the OG reincarnation isekai and how it was going to save the genre's reputation and it didn't have all the same issues as its genetic successors and so on and so forth.
And then it came out, and immediately shat itself and died because it's EXACTLY the same as every single work inspired by it.
I love how when that show was first airing everybody was sucking its cock and talking it up as the OG reincarnation isekai and how it was going to save the genre's reputation and it didn't have all the same issues as its genetic successors and so on and so forth.
And then it came out, and immediately shat itself and died because it's EXACTLY the same as every single work inspired by it.
Konosuba is great specifically because it's a satire of the genre. Re:Zero is garbage though, I won't even pretend like it's good.
As far as what is and isn't an Isekai goes that one's fairly easy since Isekai literally just means "other world" and so any story in which a character is transported to a different world/reality is technically an isekai. Hence why I specified "reincarnation isekai".
Escaflowne is an isekai, Now and Then, Here and There is an isekai, and those are both really good. Depending on your definition of "other world" you could even count things involving time travel such as Inuyasha or MAO as isekais, and those are also good.
To be fair for Re:Zero I'm mainly going off of what my friends have said about it when I made the claim. I tend to not watch Reincarnation Isekai at all. 99% of the genre like you said is hot garbage
To be fair for Re:Zero in mainly going off of what my friends have said about it when I made the claim. I tend to not watch Reincarnation Isekai at all. 99% of the genre like you said is hot garbage
Re:Zero is definitely part of that 99%. It suffers from the classic LN problem where the author has a premise that is decent to good and literally nothing else. So he blows his entire load within the first two to three volumes and then is totally out of ideas and the series immediately nosedives into retarded lore and dumbshit characters that no one cares about doing shit that doesn't matter while the author saves up animation budget for the once per season (totally lame) fight scene.
Imagine that someone tried his hardest to write a story where the protagonist is a complete retard (well, a well-meaning complete retard) and proceeds to brutalize him repeatedly both psychologically and physically through the cliche'd "every time he dies he resurrects" to a point he feels like a schizo. It feels mean at times, like the author hates the poor retard.
Add to that a love story that's even more badly written and embarrassing than the usual trash slop (the half-elf or whatever is barely sentient) and plot developments that are essentially completely improvised and made up. Ah, also the author hates that the public loved the demon maid character (a psychotic stereotype, but hey, maid dress I guess).
The only redeeming factor in Re-Zero is imagining the point of view of the characters that do not know the protagonist is a die-resurrect time-loop guy: imagine for a moment that the schizo you met for like half a day started screaming how he loves you and you lived together for months and he understands you and can't live without you
