No.22000
>>21999>999Checked for based terato-isekai.
On that note the Monster Hunter movie by Anderston would technically count as an Isekai even if there's not monstrous monstergirls. A lot of Monster Hunter fans got assmad about it, but I thought it was a pretty good film for what it was supposed to be. Obviously its not close to the plot of the games, but it works for the story.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3642158/monster-hunter-two-new-international-trailers-give-us-first-look-ron-perlman-palico/ No.22005
>>22002>Pomni and the others are essentially character avatars created by users of the game and are sort of corrupted mind copies/reflections of the person playing said gameOooh, that havent even occur to me. I interpreted it as straight up getting sucked into the computer, but this makes sense. Maybe thats the reason the teeth guy doesnt want them to leave, he knows they are just copies and have no body they could return to.
No.22007
>>22005Imagine if they could get out but kept their in-game bodies… some freaky shit tbh. I suspect they'll pull a .hack however, or something similar to that.
>>22006 It's suffering o'clock again!
No.22790
>>21065>>21066>>21068Eh part of the issue w/ Tanya is that the whole point is that both her and the Empire's self-destructive tendencies manifest in the long term, and the movie left off more or less at their high point. No doubt they took advantage of the content of volume 4 of the LN to pander to rightoids (the Moscow raid, etc), but going forwards it's going to get increasingly more difficult to do that without deviating from the source material. Shit basically goes all downhill for them from that point on in the LNs. Volume 5 opens with Tanya's unit bogged down on the Eastern Front, slowly getting eaten away by constant attacks by geurillas and special forces. In regards to the glorification issue, I don't think that the anime (not including the movie) really takes sides in that regard. Of course you get some scenes that seem to be hyping up Tanya and her unit, but they do the same thing with Anson Sioux, also the Francois forces when they retreat to their colonies and declare their intention to resist the Empire no matter what. Tbh the real test of whether they are trying to stick to the LN's critique of late capitalism and individualism will be how they handle the deterioration of Tanya's and the Empire's situation in season 2. Also of course how the LN's themselves end is yet to be seen (I'm hoping for an ironic ending where Tanya survives the war only to be pushed in front of another train by a disgruntled subordinate lmao).
No.22791
>>22007>two eyebrowsArtificial intelligence is great.
No.22799
>>22014>monsterfuckerH. R. Giger moment.
No.22818
>>22816This is what a humanoid Tesla looks like.
No.22841
>>22840I am guessing you are talking about Tales of Wedding Rings. Havent seen it, but just reading the plot synopsis:
>To become powerful enough to save the world, he must marry four other princesses and gain their rings to get power over earth, fire, wind, and water. I wonder if there are fans of this show trying to argue that this definitely isnt just a generic coomer fantasy because there is a *plot* reason for having a harem of women slobbing on his knob.
No.22843
>>22842>They did make a point of it that royal marriages are normally done for politics/alliances rather than love and that's true even in our history. There's a reason a lot of royalty throughout history had mistresses after all.From r/anime first episode thread. People seem to actually like it (numerous comments about how refreshingly not like other isekai it is). Not much pretentiousness, they are creaming themselves over uncensored nipple and promise of harem.
No.22866
>>22842Jesus mid-budget shows from the 2000's look like shit today
No.22875
>>22866The MMO part of NHK is one of the uglier arcs, and NHK in general had a pretty limited budget IIRC. I still think the artstyle has its charm though, can you imagine it animated in one of the generic romcom artstyles from the past few years?
No.22876
>>22849That's not really it. It's more of a complaining about cliche relationship portrayal in japanese anime and manga. Where they behave like some sexually repressed 14 yo from showa era. And you end up with some schizo plot where character forms a harem around him, but the most thing that can happen is a kiss somewhere near the end of the 999 volume.
No need to make a straight up hentai, just don't make it so fucking prude and cliche.
No.22878
>>22876this tbh, let the harem protag have actual relations instead of teasing for a thousand episodes.
No.22891
>>22878>this tbh, let the harem protag have actual relationsThat would require giving them first actual personalities.
No.22899
>>22891tenchi muyo did it
No.22900
>>22899Did it really? Quirks are not personalities. Tenchi is the original bland virgin protagonist, even.
No.22903
>>22900I think people like Tenchi because he's genuine and written like a person, while most harem protagonists are OP ubermensch 150IQ lolbertarians, impulsive screaming immature weirdos, or stupid doormats. Sure, you could say he's just a kind, honest kid and that's kinda overplayed in anime, but there's a humanity to him that isn't expressed in a lot of the harem protag simulacra where you already know how they're going to react to everything.
No.22904
>>22903>OP ubermenscLike Tenchi.
> or stupid doormatsLike Tenchi.
>where you already know how they're going to react to everything.Oh yeah, unlike Tenchi who is completely unpredictable.
Mate, you can like Tenchi all you want, but you can't pretend it's in any way different from other harems, since most of them copy tenchi anyway. At best you can say it has higher production value.
No.22912
Isekai should be more about the setting, and how people like you and me would fare in it, than being a power trip for some NEET.
You've got some schmuck from modern day Earth flung into a fantasy world, do something with that! Have them be our surrogate in interacting with a strange, alien world that operates in ways that are totally different from what we'd expect.
And for some reason, the protagonist being from another world NEVER impacts the plot. They never try to get home, they don't even miss it, they show no signs of stress or trauma at being put in the most unfamiliar of situations, they never talk about their parents or friends… like, these are all young guys, not hardened veterans or something, they should be barely holding it together at first.
And the people from the fantasy world should actually be, yknow, shocked that some dude actually came from another world. It would be like if an alien just showed up on Earth.
No.22917
>>22912>Isekai should be more about the setting, and how people like you and me would fare in it, than being a power trip for some NEET. An obvious answer that should have been said long ago.
No.22927
>>22912>They never try to get home, they don't even miss it, they show no signs of stress or trauma at being put in the most unfamiliar of situationsIt is an escapist fantasy, as an audience self-insert he has nothing he wants to get back to.
No.22928
>>22912many MLP fics go precisely this route
No.22935
>>22922Which one is the John Brown isekai?
No.22946
>>22840The anime adaptation wasn't as good as the manga. Don't bother watching. Just read the manga if you want to know what happens.
No.22971
>>22935 It right here
>>16741 CTRL+F is your friend.
No.23410
I don't watch anime. I don't read manga. I don't care for isekai. But an idea popped into my head a while back regarding the genre, and I thought I'd share it.
We open with a modern-day tribesman in Tanzania. He's a hunter who brings meat for his family, in a town that otherwise lives off of subsistence farming. He's not "backwards" in any sense of the word - he's met tourists, his town uses some modern tools for daily living, and so on. But he's never been completely exposed to the industrial world. He hasn't watched TV, or worked an office job. He's maybe heard the word "Japan" exactly once in his entire life. And that's okay - he's happy with the life he and his family are living.
Well, one day in the savanna, he's making his way back home after a failed hunt when he's struck by the jeep of some poachers. He wakes up in a fantasy world, filled with magic and epic quests and anime girls…and he doesn't understand any of it. Not only is there a language barrier that the fantasy world's miraculous inclusion of Japanese or English fails to address, but he's not a pencil pusher who'd kill for an escapist fantasy like this. He's just some guy, and he has zero context for the tropes being thrown at him.
Monster slaying? He'd rather avoid large animals and only kill small prey with persistence hunting. Magic powers? He considers it taboo, or something he'd rather ask his town's religious leaders about. Girls fawning over him? He doesn't understand their advances, having grown up with different customs regarding relationships and marriage. He might recognize a slave market if the setting has one, and take action against it, but otherwise he's completely baffled by the world around him and just wants to go home to his family.
This idea has always made me chuckle because it's a great way to deconstruct the power fantasy elements of isekai. The protagonist isn't a contrarian or antagonistic to the world around him, mind you, he's just really, really confused and would rather go home than indulge in a story that's made for some weeaboo in Tokyo or New York.
The only reason I'd be hesitant to ever see a story like this done is because, realistically speaking, a studio that makes isekai would probably write the protagonist as a racist caricature, when the idea is that he's just an everyman meant to subvert the genre.
No.23412
>>23410That's just a Tanzanian adaptation of Goblin Slayer.
No.23415
>>373Are there any isekais that shit on the protagonist and mock him for being a loser in the real world?
No.23815
Konosuba is getting a Season 3 finally, the trailer however makes me feel wary, it doesn't quite have the sarcastic fun vibe Konosuba had before.
No.23821
>>23359Why does this artstyle remind me of ATLA?
No.23822
>>23815I remember Konosuba having a seinen sequel series. Maybe that's why?
No.23823
>>23822Maybe, but even the movie managed to keep their characters consistent.
>>23821 Maybe because ATLA's artstyle is lifted from anime animation styles of the mid-late 2000s?
No.24235
>>23815Apparently Mushoku Tensei and Reborn as a Slime are getting new seasons too. As a side note Isekai as a definition got added to the Oxford Dictionary, what a time to be alive.
No.24337
>>23410This belongs in the Anime Writing Ideas thread honestly
>>4263 No.24637
>>24636It is, one of my favorite jokes is that he was sent to the other world before the tsundere archetype was popularized.
No.24638
>>24637I liked how the first thing he asks is how SEGA is doing in the console wars.
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