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On 10/31/2022 at 10:11 PM, Plk_Lesiak said:
I'm not feeling like making a season thread,
Well, I am.
Anyway, I've watched the current episodes of Bocchi the Rock, and it was pretty good. I've never really watched any music-based anime, so I don't really have anything to compare it to, but so far it's been pretty enjoyable, and the comedy is gold. As someone who also suffers from pretty strong social anxiety, I like how they presented the protagonist. It's overly exaggerated, of course, but I did find myself in many of her antics, and it didn't feel particularly offensive like how often Japanese comedy tends to be. On the other hand, she does grow throughout the show, but obviously she still has a long way to go.
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1 hour ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
I have not heard about that one at all until you mentioned it. This season is so noisy it's pretty easy to miss stuff, but I'll add it to my growingly-desperate to-watch list.
I've read the first two volumes of the LN, and it was slightly boring, but generally pretty good.
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As long as you don't get any substantial amount of money from it, it will always be "just" a hobby. This, however, does not devalue our experience with them in any way.
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17 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
The thing is, the protagonist here is NOT an angel.
Oh, I wasn't talking about this story in particular. As little as I remember about the original novel, I'm pretty sure she was definitely not like that.
I was mostly just rambling about the villainess genre in general and why I don't follow it as closely as I used to. On the other hand, there are still a lot of really good and creative stories there. And, well, even among stories that follow that formula there are some enjoyable ones.
On another note, have you watched Bibliophile Princess from this season? I'm pretty curious about what people think about this one.
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12 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
Bakarina quickly got me bored with the repeated jokes and lack of character developmen
I liked the first season of Bakarina, but when it ended I realized that I wouldn't watch the second season, nor read the original. I just felt that the first season did everything that it could with the setting, and the continuation wouldn't add anything new to it.
To be honest though, when it comes to LNs and manga, villainess stories at this point are just as overdone as regular littpg isekais. Usually it's just the same story over and over again: the villainess is actually a literal angel, but nobody understands that; the original heroine is a complete sadistic bitch, and the original love interests are just idiots. Though there are some decent ones as well.
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29 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
I'm not feeling like making a season thread, but just wanted to shill the new otome villainess anime. It's my genuine favourite this season: fun plot without filler, adorable romance between the protagonist and the demon lord, protagonist getting her way not by being OP, but with determination and wit... It's simply all I would ever want from this kind of formula. Obviously not the best anime around, as this season is insane, but deeply enjoyable. ^^
Huh, so it's actually good? I remember trying to read the fan translation of the web novel version way before it got the official translation. And either it didn't give the original justice, or it just wasn't my thing, so I dropped it pretty quickly. That's why I got really surprised that this one was one of the few villainess novels that got an anime.
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15 minutes ago, Seraphim said:
Maybe it's because the character art is by Hamashima Shigeo, known for Euphoria and Maggot Baits, among others?
I mean, I like the character art, but I generally don't add VNs to my list based only on the art. Actually, I recalled that you could look up when each VN was added to your list, and it seems that I added this one in 2017, so maybe it got reviewed by someone I followed back then and I found the review mildly interesting.
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16 hours ago, littleshogun said:
5th Announcement - Shinsou Noise ~Jushin Tantei no Jikenbo~
For some reason it's in my vndb wishlist, but I honestly can't remember why I put it there. Does anyone know anything about this game?
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15 hours ago, Nemesis said:
MLA S2 - is as shitty as ever as an adaptation. Do yourself a favor and skip this. Only good thing is Jam Project singing the OP.
So it's actually bad, huh? For some reason, I don't hear anyone talking about this anime.
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On 9/11/2022 at 4:13 PM, sarkasmus said:
getting as far away from the main story as possible!
My experience with Japanese and Korean fiction says that this plan always fails miserably.
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1 hour ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
But the earie part about the list in this thread is that it mostly got out-of-day by companies fading away than more stuff popping up.
Does not seem to be true for LNs. There are quite a few of companies missing in the list. They did get a lot more popular in the recent years.
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11 hours ago, HataVNI said:
I should finally try those. They are so casual and don't stick out, but the series is alive for so long so I should play them simply ro have more stuff to rec for total VN beginners
I mean, they are pretty good VNs anyway even if you are not a beginner. They are different enough from the usual stuff to be interesting, and there are things they do quite well, especially the second part (the first one is mostly the introduction to the series as a whole).
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Yeah, for some reason nobody is talking about it. I've seen that it was released, but I haven't tried it yet.
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11 hours ago, Mr Poltroon said:
The idea of a self-centred but powerful person who doesn't help others if she doesn't need to unless she feels like it appeals to me, but it depends on how its done.
Kind of off-topic, but recently I started reading some English-original web-novels, and I really enjoyed this one. I thought that you may like it as well. The MC there is somewhat contradictory: being a demon stuck among people, she does have some pretty unique values, and while she is mostly self-centered with the exception of small set of companions she really cares about, she still ends up helping others a lot. I thought her character and how it changes through the novel was extremely well, done, and that's probably the main reason why I enjoyed this novel. She is also pretty hilarious.
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10 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
When it goes to more ambivalent stuff, Elaina's Journey was quite a letdown for me...
Yeah, I've seen some similar criticism for the LN. I used to be interested in this title, but these points make me think that it's probably not worth watching/reading.
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46 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
Hey, don't die quite yet Fuwa. I won't allow it, because my favourite studio, Ekachi Epilka of Maou-sama Retry fame, is going to deliver us the culmination of anime history, this fall: My Life After I Became a Dummy Head Mic One Morning. ASMR themed shoujo ai original series starring a dummy head ASMR microphone as a protagonist, apparently. We can all die in piece, after we watch it.
What the **** is that premise?
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Perhaps it was available on vnds in the past? I'm not sure if vndb still shows vnds ports.
5 hours ago, adamstan said:H-scenes in KEY games are so bad and out of place that they just ruin the experience. It's no wonder that KEY removed them even for subsequent PC releases (Memorial/Perfect Editions etc). But what can I know - to each their own porn I guess, even if it's the shittiest kind of porn squeezed into an otherwise great story in a desperate attempt to boost sales
Air was actually the first vn with h-scenes that I played. It was definitely a very weird experience.
Especially with how out of place most of them were.
Ps. Also, I remember reading somewhere that originally Air was supposed to be an all-ages vn, and the h-scenes were added at the very last moment.
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6 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
And you reminded me of the Average Abilities show that Poltroon recommended me to skip... From what I heard that might be an actual case of this brand of isekai being more annoying than relaxing.
Well, the first 5-ish volumes of Average Abilities LN were actually pretty decent, imo. It's a rare "relaxing" isekai that actually has some semblance of character development, worldbuilding and overarching mystery. Though the development was extremely slow, and after 10 volumes it still got basically nowhere. The characters themselves are pretty colorful, and I didn't find them particularly annoying. Though nowadays I'm way more tired of these common isekai tropes, so there's a chance that if I read the story right now I would find them a lot more annoying. My problem with this story is that it didn't end while it was still good. Eventually it just starts getting boring, and the jokes start getting dumber and rather repetitive. The overarching mystery also gets nowhere. The author still manages to keep some level of quality, and it is still somewhat fun to read, but at some point I just stopped caring.
I tried watching a few episodes of the anime, and, honestly, it's hard for me to judge it since I've read the source material, but I didn't like it at all. It changed a lot compared to the source material, and while I don't think it's a problem, but I compared how some scenes were handled I couldn't help but feel that the LN version was better. For example, I recall there was a scene in the LN where the MC intentionally lost in a fight to seem weaker than she actually is, but her examiner still realized that she is a lot stronger than she pretends since she avoided all the blows that could hurt her. In the anime... she just snaps when someone calls her flat-chested and accidentally wins the fight. The Ln also has a lot of these types of jokes, but there were also some good ones. Though, I guess, this type of the anime is more similar in quality to the later volumes of the LN.
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52 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
I think at this point wholesome isekais with female protagonists are their own, major sub-genre
Sure. And I generally find them pretty enjoyable. Though, I'd say Leadare is still on the weaker side there, because even among the other works in this sub-genre there's nothing that makes it stand out. I don't remember the comedy being particularly funny, and some scenes are outright cringy. The MC is nice, but somewhat bland, and the other characters are completely forgettable. It still works, somehow. Probably due to the comfy feeling it provides.
52 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:I'm haven't encountered one bad enough to not be enjoyable to me.
Well, it doesn't have an anime, but I'll Survive Making Potions (from the author of Didn't I Say to Make my Abilities Average?) went complete horseshit in volume 6, and it was bad enough to make me instantly drop all books from this author.
SpoilerBasically, at some point in the story the MC gets stuck inside her own inventory for seventy years. It feels like an instance for her, but when she comes out of there, all of her acquaintances are either very old or dead. It all is played for laughs, and all of them lived good lives, but it made me feel very uncomfortable and anxious, and I don't think this kind of a plot twist is okay for a lighthearted comedy.
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7 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:
Leadale... Is much less surprising, but I also think it's a bit underrated. It's a feel-good, "finding family in another world" kind of show and... Well, it just delivers. It also treats the fantasy setting in a way I enjoy, for example showing the protagonist confronting with the fact that the world she messes with is no longer just a game and her actions has very real - and deadly - consequences. There's also the pretty weird idea that the protag starts the story already having NPC children (now all holding important position withing the world) she has to deal with. It's shallow and meandering, more or less as you would expect from this brand of isekai, but outside of the children characters being too one-note I can't see a reason to hate it. If you don't mind these "pointless" power fantasies, you'll get exactly what you're singed up for – and I imagine the weak reception it got is mostly due to general isekai attrition. 7/10 if you're the intended audience.
I've read a few volumes of the original LN. And it was kind of okay? Nothing particularly outstanding. Zero story to speak of. OP protagonist. But it also has none of these revolting elements so many other isekais have, and is kind of okay for a light read. I may continue with it eventually when I have nothing better to read.
Paladin LN, I believe, is quite well received, but I haven't read it.
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Fall 2022 Anime Discussion
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Ahem. Reincarnated as a villainess is literally an entire genre in web-novels and light novels, and while Hamefura is one of the earlier ones and did inspire a lot of the other works, it's far from the first one. The first web-version came out in 2014, while there are some similar novels that started in 2013, like It Seems Like I Got Reincarnated Into The World of a Yandere Otome Game, or I Will Live with Humility and Dependability as My Motto.