Overlord is late stage storytelling. The author is calling in hooks and writing the actual ending… Which is always a difficult task.
Most stories / shows get dramatically less interesting as hooks and plot points diminish. But it’s how you reach an ending. It’s rare for endings to feel satisfying in any media especially if it’s taken years or decades+ to build up.
Frieren is still early. I’m not personally very impressed by its lore yet.
‘oh damn that’s fucked up’
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Green Squadron (stealth / intelligence experts at finding monsters) failing to recognize a monster?
Remember that Suzukiri / Yellow Jr. Rank1 instantly recognized Fighter D in Ep. 1. And she’s of the “tech” squadron. Its clear that those in the Jr. Rank 1 slots are absurdly intelligent and competent (except for Red Jr. Rank1, lol). Then again, Suzukiri is fighting well above her weight class, something crazy is going on with her…
Occam’s Razor is that Green Squadron recognized that Fighter D is actually reasonably competent at stealth / subterfuge and decided that Green Squadron was the best place for him.
I saw it in theaters. It feels… mean. I know we’re well into the “evil” arc of Overlord so its well into “evil Overlord conquers the world” kinda thing.
There is still a lot of good Overlord humor and laughs though. So the occasional “comic relief” to the rather heavy tragedies that Ains is now inflicting upon this country. But as the acts get “more evil”, its harder to laugh at the comedy IMO.
Ultimately, it feels like a sidequest. I can see why this was cut out of the season and into its own movie. It feels like an OVA. Yes, they finally “called in” that Jaldabaoth card that’s been sitting around since S2. So its good to see how that particular story is finally completed and how Ains (or really Demiurge) decides to use that card. But its a new country not covered before and doesn’t seem like anything they were building towards in the great scheme of things.
Hatsune Miku is closer to a musical instrument in that many different musicians use her voice in many different kinds of songs.
Saying you are a fan of Miku (on a musical level) is roughly like saying you’re a fan of Trumpets.
I personally am into songs like Karakuri Pierrot. https://youtu.be/DDjcqu9uvUE
When They Cry (Higurashi, specifically the original 2006 and its original answer arcs Kai).
This needed one more episode of falling action.
But otherwise, really good anime. Imma remember this one for a long time.
No Fap is more of an internet phenomenon that far left and far right alike have fallen for.
Just 3 I can think of that’d be against something like Konosuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygsxvHtU74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVuPwbnH1RQ
Zenshu, lol.
I promise you it isn’t an “overpowered main character” kinda show. There’s far too many restrictions on Natsuko’s powers in practice and they run into those restrictions within a short number of episodes. It pretends to follow the formula for just a few episodes then turns into something quite unique.
English dub of Digimon S1 is seriously a masterpiece, if we are talking about kid-based Isekai.
Yes. English dub only. Saban changed a lot of dialogue, music and such. Yeah yeah Butterfly (Japanese song) is great. But have you heard ‘Hey Digimon hey Digimon’??
Shield Hero taught publishers that people want that but also with the main character owning slaves for some reason.
Oh, it’s an open secret that a lot of anime plots are first tested in the pornography / H Eroge market first. Slave waifus (that fall in love with main character) have been a thing there for literally decades.
The question is how good do these writers hide that fact from the public and mainstream. And erm… Yeah, Shield Hero doesn’t do so good there.
I should note that KonoSuba is on the sexual side with its camera angles and… erm… Darkness. Just Darkness in general.
Hilariously so of course. But I’ve tried to get people to watch Konosuba in my group and they were all turned off by its sexual nature.
4 humans of “reality” becoming Kings and Queens of a fantasy world after meeting the god of that world? With Judeo-Christian slop words thrown around to sound deeper?
Definitely an Isekai.
Alas, its too 'new". Its decades after “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, which not only has kings, queens, fantasy, overpowered main character, science (gatling guns used on fantasy troops)… but also has the “Full Sentence Title” that Isekai are known for.
Zenshu is killing it this season. Anime-original story, tries to actually connect with Natsuko Hirose’s “real life” (not just focused on the fantasy world but also her experiences before getting Isekai’d), etc. etc.
Reincarnated as a Slime is my favorite somewhat trashy isekai (as in: it follows all the tropes but otherwise the animation quality is actually really good). Its an “overpowered” show where the main character rarely comes across a real challenge though.
I’m a Spider, so What?! is a fun boss rush that had a deeper than expected story. Main character always wins of course, lol, but I think it “felt” like a challenge as she learned combat of this new world?
Overlord is a “take over the world” / “Kingdom builder” (Slime also is a kingdom builder but its not as good as Overlord). Overpowered once again, literally no one in the new world can challenge the main character. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing for Overlord, it allows the plot to focus on kingdom building / alliances / kingdoms rather than the fights.
A grossly underrated Isekai is: “The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash”. Its basically just this young girl talking to herself for ~12 episodes as she’s forced to run away from home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-biFNoRk-3I . Still, the people she meets on the journey are all helpful and optimistic. This isn’t a battle anime (she runs away from pretty much every fight), and she very much relies upon the kindness of strangers. Its actually quite unique for an anime since she doesn’t have nearly as much “Because I’m the Main Character” energy, even if she gets a few special friends along the way. Very much an “underpowered” main character, who has to mostly dig through trash, cry, find friends and run away constantly.
Re:Zero and Jobless Reincarnation are probably the most popular Isekai. But I didn’t like them. I figure I should mention them though.
I personally think the animation got worse. I quit by episode 5.
At this point: I’m pretty sure Natsuko will have to destroy the Soul Future to return home or something.
We already have Lycoris Recoil at home /meme
Odd Taxi
I don’t consider this weird at all. The “weirdest” thing about this is just the artstyle. Otherwise its basically a Film Noir / Detective like story except the Taxi Driver is the detective-protagonist who saw the crime (and has a perfect memory of his customer’s faces). So as you go around the cast of characters and see where they want to go + their small talk with the Taxi Driver, you end up figuring out the mystery with the protagonist.
It does a very good job at making the city feel like a city, and making every taxi drive feel like its going somewhere. Obviously there’s red herrings to throw you off of the core mystery. But everything felt appropriate and actually relatively mundane.
Like seriously: the “weirdest” character is a rapping Yakuza / gangster who puts too much effort into making things rhyme. Nothing else about this show is “weird”. Its like, good (but dumb) cop, bad corrupt cop, unexpected Yakuza / gangsters, pop-idols, fanboys, dumbass (failing) Youtubers, Gachapon Whale, unpopular Radio comedian duo, dumbass friend who gets catfished and of course the titular character: the Taxi Driver.
If anything, I’m surprised at how incredibly mundane the whole situation is and yet how awesome the story was told. Its a murder mystery in a big city, but as it turns out this Taxi Driver is surprisingly at the center of it all as his list of customers happens to line up with the entire damn mystery.
We have this anime at home already.