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 Grey Templar wrote:
You know its serious when its trading punches with Berserk over "Most effed up Anime/Manga of all time" award.

the first few chapters sure did ratchet it up. Depends how the rest of the story develops, but it's been pretty good so far.

Both occupy their own niches of the grimdark market for sure.

Berserk is a massive crapsack world that is out there to screw Gatz over any chance it gets, whereas Goblin Slayer looks nice and shiny (just look at all those legendary heroes), but underneath there are some serious "pest problems" that have ground all progress to a halt.

I mean, Made in Abyss is also a thing.

So do we think Demiurge Knows that Ains is full of BS and is just manipulating him? Or does he actually believe what he’s saying?

 BrookM wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Ah yes, the true Dark Souls of anime.
I wonder how they are going to handle the darker parts of the manga, because it can get pretty rough.
That poor rookie party in the beginning :(

I hope that they go for the light novel route, which is not as graphic in the sexual violence as the manga, but still outright grimdark and depressing in its setting.

Anvildude wrote:That's not... Grimgar, is it?

The scrubs of Grimgar wish they were as effective in combat against goblins like that dude over there!

That's Goblin Slayer, a soon to be anime trying its hardest to out-grimdark Berserk.

In a nutshell, he is the sole survivor of a goblin attack on his village, forced to watch as they well, rape and pillage everything. This has turned him into a finely honed murder machine who only goes on goblin hunts and has reached his high status rank only through that. Some see him as a glorified trashman but he does not care, as long as he can kill goblins. What makes things quite crapsack is that goblins are a serious problem in this world, but due to a lack of proper rewards / trash tier monster levels, nobody really bothers to cull them and keep them in check. Add in that goblins are vile and cunning creatures, which makes them not an easy challenge for beginning adventurers but thankfully we've got..

I'm really curious what the original Japanese writing is there, because that's an obvious Doom reference.
But yeah, Goblin Slayer is great. At first I thought it was going to be another stupid edgy fantasy thing, but its actually fairly well written and intelligent. You can tell the writer is having a lot of fun poking fun at common fantasy and RPG conventions. He even takes the piss out of flails, which are stupid weapons which never really existed in the first place.

A slight correction for Slayer's backstory though - his entire village was not wiped out; his childhood friend survived as she was out of town at the time, iirc. Which is a good thing, because if everyone in his past was dead that would have been really depressing. She's pretty much who kept him sane throughout the years, imo. Well, as sane as a revenge obsessed killer could be, anyway.
Even his companions were like "dude, I know that using poison gas and fire is the most efficient way to kill goblins en masse, but it also puts us in danger. Can you not do that?"

 AduroT wrote:
So do we think Demiurge Knows that Ains is full of BS and is just manipulating him? Or does he actually believe what he’s saying?

I don’t think so. I think we might be close to Ainz running out of bluffing ability.

Agreed.

At this point it has been well established that all of Ainz's followers are loyal to him unto death, they may act odd or strange from time to time, but that's due to their programming from their original creators. While Demiurge comes across as a manipulative backstabber, everything he does is aimed towards furthering that silly little remark Ainz made waaaaay back in the first season about how fun world domination would be.

I also found the captured Death Knight from a few episodes ago a fun callback to the first season. To think that this Death Knight chased his enemies all the way to their own lands and still tries to kill them despite the time passed is glorious.

 BrookM wrote:

I also found the captured Death Knight from a few episodes ago a fun callback to the first season. To think that this Death Knight chased his enemies all the way to their own lands and still tries to kill them despite the time passed is glorious.

Oh its THAT Deathknight? lolololol

Is it Fall yet? This has been probably the worst season of anime IMHO in a while. I am pretty much only watching one show right now (Overlord).

Is it possible I have missed some hidden gem from this season or is there a current simulcast show anyone would encourage me to give a second chance?

Attack on Titan season 3 is currently on-going.


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Regarding the latest episode of Overlord.

I am really digging S3 of Attack on Titan. The fundamental plot is increasingly convoluted and silly, but the pacing, subplots, action, characters, animation, and music are just so on point that I can't bring myself to care about the flaws.

Angolmois is still fine in my books, though I am getting a bit annoyed with the filters they put over everything to make it look like old scroll work or something along those lines.

Also watching Hanebado! but talk about messed up people doing messed up things.. bitch of a mother who abandons her daughter when she loses a match, only to want her back when she beats her adopted daughter. No wonder her daughter is so..

I decided that anime right now is crap and I'm going to re-watch good anime. Any suggestions? I am re-watching Angel Beats as I type this.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
I decided that anime right now is crap and I'm going to re-watch good anime. Any suggestions? I am re-watching Angel Beats as I type this.

Spice and wolf, cowboy bebop, trigun and FMAB, are all ones I'd recommend off the top of my head.

If somebody wants something older then i can still recommend Haikyuu (to this day I rewatch bits and pieces, it's so much fun).

Old stuff that still going this season:

* Attack On Titan
* My Hero Academia
* The "Naruto's kid show" had a really good episode actually. Worth watching for the animation and fight choreography alone (Boruto episode 65)

New stuff:

* Banana Fish: I only saw two episodes those were okay/good (at least worth a try) and it supposedly gets really good so I'll have to look into this one at some point in the future.
* Chio's School Road is absurd, and fun. It also repeatedly goes for the "You don't need enemies if you have friends like these" jokes making things worse (for the characters) and better (for the audience).
* Grand Blue is fun/special in its own way (it's about diving!) and pushes the "You don't need enemies if you have friends like these" idea even further than Chio's School Road
* High Score Girl: If you want some video game nostalgia with your comedy/romance/school anime then this is for you. It's quite nice (although I haven't seen the last few episodes)

 BaconCatBug wrote:
I decided that anime right now is crap and I'm going to re-watch good anime. Any suggestions? I am re-watching Angel Beats as I type this.

Darker than Black is pretty good. Well, the first season anyway. The second season is a bit gak.
D Gray Man is a nice shounen. Its filler arcs are actually nice.
And of course, you can't go wrong with JoJo.

I actually rather enjoy Symphogear. And I'm considering re-watching Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, after reading a Vathara fanfiction for it.

I finally got around to watching my DVD's of season 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which is a rewatch since I caught it on Toonami

I actually like Phantom Blood and I AoT got grimderp enough that I finally stopped. Which is a shame as I was looking forward to this season.

Today's episode of Overlord can be summed up as.. ATTACK OF THE HORRIBLE CGI ARMIES

It was a fun one though.

 BrookM wrote:
Today's episode of Overlord can be summed up as.. ATTACK OF THE HORRIBLE CGI ARMIES

It was a fun one though.

Bad CGI vs Bad CGI.
I don't know, I'm getting kind of bored of the constant out of left field curb stomps. Like, where did that Goblin Legion come from? Even Ainz had no idea what the hell was going on.
Why are humans so gakky too? Can't even fight goblins. They need an alchemist to hurry up and make guns or high explosives, because humans need a damage increase. Or just hire the Goblin Slayer I guess.

That was the dumbest thing.

Is anybody still following Attack on Titan? I'm the only one that thinks this season is going very... fast? In like 9 episodes the stuff that has happened is ... enormous. The problems come and are resolved at a pace that wasn't there before in the anime.

I do quite like this season of Titan. As you said, stuff isn’t getting drawn out as much, and they seem to be avoiding the previous cliche of inspiring speech immediately followed by slaughter. And we’re actually getting answers instead of just more questions.

 Galas wrote:
Is anybody still following Attack on Titan? I'm the only one that thinks this season is going very... fast? In like 9 episodes the stuff that has happened is ... enormous. The problems come and are resolved at a pace that wasn't there before in the anime.

From what I read the manga was really, really, *really* long/convoluted during this part (haven't read it) and the author sat down with the anime team and helped them re-organise everything for season 3 for better pacing.

I can understand that. But I believe they have ended up too much in the other direction.

Like... the coup was... 2 episodes long

 Galas wrote:
Like... the coup was... 2 episodes long

I like it. Better than crawling through half a dozen episode where nothing happens. It also doesn't really feel like a big deal. Wohoo the boss at the top changes but life's still fethed inside the walls (well, not inside inside the walls, just for the people in general).

Having seen the first season and still yet to get into the rest I'm glad that they've started speeding up Attack on Titan a bit. I'm a big fan of slow build stories but even AoT felt glacial! I think it was further harmed by the fact that every time they'd get near to doing something they'd kill off more than half the cast in attack so it would always feel like you were gaining more questions, no answers and even more barriers to answers.

So I'm glad they've shifted the pace the other way around and are pushing for more answers. There has to be a balance in anything between holding mystery and not witholding so much that the audience loses grip and interest.

I don't know. The start of the first season wouldn't be more frenetic. Yeah, then it slows down with the female-titan arc, and the forest part was a little longer that it could have been. But I have never feel bored or "I wish this was shorter" in any point of watching all Attack on Titan Seasons.

So basically my problem with season 3 is that I would love to have more of it

Well, the main reason for the slowing in the character deaths was more because they had literally run out of characters to kill. They had to add new characters in a couple episodes so they had some fresh meat

Fortunately I think they kept enough tension that you were always second guessing. I genuinely thought Mikasa was going to die a few times throughout the show. Its only now that certain characters have grown any plot armor,

Sounds like I need to actually get watching S3 of Attack on titan.

Also does anyone follow MHA? That fight was something else.