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Take away the harem bs and Shield Dude has some pretty good moments, though it is sometimes a bit heavy handed in its presentation. His fellow heroes are doing all these great and grand things to level up and gain more acclaim, but fail to look at the consequences of their actions, like Spear Idiot and Bitch with their magic seed.
Pretty sure spear dude is just a patsy for bitch with nefarious goals.
Also yes, Filo is definitely a mixed bag with what she brings to the show. I like her “heavily fowl” persona, but having her turn into a Loli who wants the main dude to mate with her actively detracts from my enjoyment.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Ehhh, its not nearly as bad as most Haram anime. We at least had 4 episodes of character development for Naofumi and Raphtalia before that happened, and she was still just a bird for most of episode 5.
Most Haram's give you a new girl each episode.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
AduroT wrote: Pretty sure spear dude is just a patsy for bitch with nefarious goals.
Also yes, Filo is definitely a mixed bag with what she brings to the show. I like her “heavily fowl” persona, but having her turn into a Loli who wants the main dude to mate with her actively detracts from my enjoyment.
AduroT wrote: Pretty sure spear dude is just a patsy for bitch with nefarious goals.
Also yes, Filo is definitely a mixed bag with what she brings to the show. I like her “heavily fowl” persona, but having her turn into a Loli who wants the main dude to mate with her actively detracts from my enjoyment.
some very VERY big spoilers the anime won't get to (seriously, these are REALLY big):
Spoiler:
Bitch (as her name is later legally changed to (for real)) is a fragment of an evil god, and is directly responsible for the curse series of weapons and corrupts each of the heroes
I do heavily agree with Filo. It would have been better if she was just a cute girl doing cute things instead of actively trying to be in naofumi's love life (but you can blame that on the fan outcry partially when the web novel first ended)
Big BIG BIG spoilers again:
Spoiler:
The first ending has naofumi and raphtalia get kicked back to japan when the "final boss" in the previous spoiler basically kills naofumi, fans went nuts and hated the ending, so it got rewritten to where naofumi has a slave village harem, which was then rewritten AGAIN to just be shards of naofumi as he and Raphtalia travel between worlds killing the "final boss" in the previous spoiler
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bittersashes wrote:One guy down at my gaming club swore he saw an objective flag take out a full unit of Bane Thralls.
Wolfblade wrote: the first was the best imo, and I'll also point out I did simplify a lot of the details around the endings
The first ending was the best ending and only ending as far as my head canon is concerned
I'm surprised the author bothered trying to rewrite it honestly. You can see the author get better as the story goes on, and the ending was a really nice cap off to the story. But it wasn't a stereotypical harem ending, and the series does have that section of the fans who are... a little too committed to how they think things should play out (creepily).
LordofHats wrote: I'm surprised the author bothered trying to rewrite it honestly. You can see the author get better as the story goes on, and the ending was a really nice cap off to the story. But it wasn't a stereotypical harem ending, and the series does have that section of the fans who are... a little too committed to how they think things should play out (creepily).
That's not exactly a unique trait of that single fandom.
Wolfblade wrote: the first was the best imo, and I'll also point out I did simplify a lot of the details around the endings
The first ending was the best ending and only ending as far as my head canon is concerned
I'm surprised the author bothered trying to rewrite it honestly. You can see the author get better as the story goes on, and the ending was a really nice cap off to the story. But it wasn't a stereotypical harem ending, and the series does have that section of the fans who are... a little too committed to how they think things should play out (creepily).
That's how I feel. I'm currently reading the LNs, and I hope the author won't end it poorly, and the writing gets WAY better the further you go into the novels
(I'm actually surprised the anime is so good, because the first 6 episodes are like, nearly 3 volumes IIRC.)
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bittersashes wrote:One guy down at my gaming club swore he saw an objective flag take out a full unit of Bane Thralls.
LordofHats wrote: I'm surprised the author bothered trying to rewrite it honestly. You can see the author get better as the story goes on, and the ending was a really nice cap off to the story. But it wasn't a stereotypical harem ending, and the series does have that section of the fans who are... a little too committed to how they think things should play out (creepily).
That's not exactly a unique trait of that single fandom.
No it's not. It's a general issue that constantly comes up in the entire Japanese pop media scene.
While some people on the FGO Comics Reddit have been lamenting the soft banning of numerous characters from comics for fear of the ban hammer befalling the whole board, I'm also quietly in the back thinking that as much as I like some character, I feel like other people like them a bit too much and yes random internet poster I know Helena is technically a grandma, but she looks like a twelve year old and I feel like you specifically are just using her lore as an excuse to draw a tween <CENSORED> and it's really freaking me out. So yeah, not lamenting that much.
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One of the worst, bog standard Isekai I've read to date.
Weak kid and his whole class get transported to another world, he's also a weakling there and during a dungeon raid gets fireball'd in the back by a jealous classmate because princess of the class likes him a lot, so he falls deeper into the dungeon, loses his arm and must survive by embracing his inner edgelord.
His big skill is I can't remember, but it allows him to magically create things. In his case, combining stuff like ores, fire elements and whatnot to build guns, napalm grenades and a motorbike in order to survive. Along the way he becomes obscenely powerful, gains a harem including an underage vampire and bunny girl and just about everything else that's on the isekai checklist really.
BrookM wrote: One of the worst, bog standard Isekai I've read to date.
Weak kid and his whole class get transported to another world, he's also a weakling there and during a dungeon raid gets fireball'd in the back by a jealous classmate because princess of the class likes him a lot, so he falls deeper into the dungeon, loses his arm and must survive by embracing his inner edgelord.
His big skill is I can't remember, but it allows him to magically create things. In his case, combining stuff like ores, fire elements and whatnot to build guns, napalm grenades and a motorbike in order to survive. Along the way he becomes obscenely powerful, gains a harem including an underage vampire and bunny girl and just about everything else that's on the isekai checklist really.
I think I read this as a manga, and it starts off pretty good before diving way off into the deep end of stupidity.
Also read the manga, recently, after a friend dared me to.
It's..
It jumps into that comfortable "let's do what all isekai do" zone way too fast.
Well, at least the chapters revolving around a trap dungeon were funny, as it was set up by a troll who was genre savvy enough to make the experience as tedious and painful as possible, even for a group as horrendously overpowered as that of the protagonist and his waifus.
On the bright side, this crap made me like Shield Bro even more than before now.
AduroT wrote: Pretty sure spear dude is just a patsy for bitch with nefarious goals.
Also yes, Filo is definitely a mixed bag with what she brings to the show. I like her “heavily fowl” persona, but having her turn into a Loli who wants the main dude to mate with her actively detracts from my enjoyment.
some very VERY big spoilers the anime won't get to (seriously, these are REALLY big):
Spoiler:
Bitch (as her name is later legally changed to (for real)) is a fragment of an evil god, and is directly responsible for the curse series of weapons and corrupts each of the heroes
I do heavily agree with Filo. It would have been better if she was just a cute girl doing cute things instead of actively trying to be in naofumi's love life (but you can blame that on the fan outcry partially when the web novel first ended)
Big BIG BIG spoilers again:
Spoiler:
The first ending has naofumi and raphtalia get kicked back to japan when the "final boss" in the previous spoiler basically kills naofumi, fans went nuts and hated the ending, so it got rewritten to where naofumi has a slave village harem, which was then rewritten AGAIN to just be shards of naofumi as he and Raphtalia travel between worlds killing the "final boss" in the previous spoiler
Yeah, Raphtalia was already kinda pushing it for me given that she's still effectively a kid even if she "matures" faster due to her demi-human nature. Filo just going flat out saying she wants Naofumi as a mate made me go full "NOPE". I don't even want to think the logistics of how that would even work, not to mention that it's like a horse coming onto its rider. Dammit Japan!
Recently, I've found Love is War to be much better if you're interested in light romantic comedy, the narrator is by far one of the best parts of the show and its refreshing to have a different premise for once for the two main leads (though Shinomiya is definitely a lot more crazy when it comes to scheming to have Shirogane "confess" to her, she only fails several times because of Chika or other circumstances).
my roommate is a cat, kaguya-sama, and the promised Neverland are all fantastic for this season. If you haven't watched those 3, you're really missing out (ignoring shield hero as it's been talked about already, and mob psycho 2 which feels like the clear winner of the season so far imo, but also a 2nd seaaon of an already amazing anime)
As for shield hero, I liked the premise a lot, but the slow descent into harem territory annoyed me a lot in the novels. Almost everyone who joins his party seems to have a thing for him (as in, regulars of his party. I can think of one character who isn't interested in naofumi romantically) and I'd like to blame that on the outrage with the web novel, but I'm not really sure I can.
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bittersashes wrote:One guy down at my gaming club swore he saw an objective flag take out a full unit of Bane Thralls.
Wolfblade wrote: As for shield hero, I liked the premise a lot, but the slow descent into harem territory annoyed me a lot in the novels. Almost everyone who joins his party seems to have a thing for him (as in, regulars of his party. I can think of one character who isn't interested in naofumi romantically) and I'd like to blame that on the outrage with the web novel, but I'm not really sure I can.
It's kind of part and parcel of the entire genre as it is. Best bet is to just ignore it and focus on the rest, that I think right now Shield Hero is in one of the weaker parts of it's story. Everything about it starts getting a lot better at the conclusion of the first arc, which hopefully the anime will make it through.
That's what I did for the 13 books so far. Outside of the constant harem stuff it's a decent series. I'm just hoping the ending isn't anything like what I've heard about how the web novel finally ended.
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bittersashes wrote:One guy down at my gaming club swore he saw an objective flag take out a full unit of Bane Thralls.
BrookM wrote: Cat roommate is fun, it's a bit predictable and plays it on the safe side, but fun and wholesome nonetheless.
Every season it seems I have one slice of life show that is just there to chill too and this season it's My roomate is a cat.
As for the topic de jour, I got really plugged into Shield Hero and binged the manga and now find myself having dropped the anime having seen the direction that the manga goes in.
Switching gears quickly, at the beginning of the latest episode of Mob Psycho 100, I though to myself why they were doing the psudo slice of life story and Mob's growing maturity and self confidence and when they were going to get to the "crisis" storyline for the season, then last five minutes just went BAM! Well that got dark real fast.
"Preach the gospel always, If necessary use words." ~ St. Francis of Assisi
Mob is also quite wholesome in some ways and a nice aversion of the usual "everybody hates this kid" sort of story, where instead everybody, even the jocks, are so damned nice and supportive of him.
But yeah, things just got real dark and serious real fast!
BrookM wrote: Mob is also quite wholesome in some ways and a nice aversion of the usual "everybody hates this kid" sort of story, where instead everybody, even the jocks, are so damned nice and supportive of him.
Just watched Angel Cop for the first time, no idea how I had missed that one before.
Tropey as hell, amazingly 80's in feel, an absurdly convoluted and contrived plot, bad voice acting, and it was great
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IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT.
New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights! The correct pronunciation is Imperial Guard and Stormtroopers, "Astra Militarum" and "Tempestus Scions" are something you'll find at Hogwarts.
