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[Seto Kaiba]

So... I decided to give Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight a go over lunch today.

The original light novel is by the same author (Mikage Kasuga) who did The Ambition of Oda Nobuna, so it being full of gender-flipped historical domain characters was practically a given.  This time it's in the Hundred Years War instead of the Sengoku Period.

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The main character seems to only be referred to as Montmorency, presumably a member of the House of Montmorency that doesn't line up with any real individual I can find.

Seeing Arthur de Richemont as a blonde teenage knight in a miniskirt is just... bizarre.  Blonde versions of Jeanne d'Arc are kind of commonplace these days.  Seeing the demon Astaroth as a buxom fairy in a frilly dress is equally bizarre.

It's probably for the best that Japan is a country where Christians are a tiny minority, since the expositional onslaught surrounding...

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... Montmorency's discovery of Astaroth and the Philosopher's Stone and what he learns of its history from Astaroth essentially labels Jesus of Nazerith a fraud and charlatan who used the Philosopher's Stone to fake his miracles, in a story set in Catholic France no less!

Between that and Montmorency being warned by a character who may or may not be Nicolas Flamel about the dangers of becoming immortal, I have a feeling there's going to be a fair bit of conflict with the church at some point.

All in all, it didn't really leave much of an impression.  The first episode was so scattered that it didn't really tell a coherent story.

[Sailor Arashi]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

So... I decided to give Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight a go over lunch today.

Haven't checked this one out yet, but reading your synopsis it looks like the author watched Fate/Zero and Fate/Apocrypha and decided to use them as the historical basis for their own story.

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Given your description, Montmorency is almost certainly supposed to be Gilles de Rais.  Japan likes to re-interpret him as an actual sorcerer rather than the depraved serial killer he is (possibly unjustly) remembered as.

 

[Seto Kaiba]

Well spotted.  A +1 from me to you.

[eXis10z]

Anyone watching SSSS.Gridman? It's not bad. 

[SuperHobo]

3 hours ago, eXis10z said:

Anyone watching SSSS.Gridman? It's not bad. 

I am and it's Obari as f*ck. I had all of the SSSS toys when I was kid and seeing Gridman as an anime is something I thought I would never see. 

[SMS007]

I watched the first episode of Gridman. It seems to hold promise. I don’t get why so much of the “camera” work was so janky though. I thought at moments that my Internet connection was lagging. 

[SuperHobo]

29 minutes ago, SMS007 said:

I watched the first episode of Gridman. It seems to hold promise. I don’t get why so much of the “camera” work was so janky though. I thought at moments that my Internet connection was lagging. 

Ep 1 did have some weird stylistic cuts. But ep 2 has none of that and it has made it on my watch every week list. 

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I watched the 2nd episode of Index III and I am happy with the story right now.  Itsuwa is just to cute.

[Seto Kaiba]

Just finished episode two of Goblin Slayer, and on a lighter note the series seems to have opted to avoid the gory and exploitative bit that appeared in the light novel and manga with the all-female party of adventurers who met their end in the elven fortress overrun by goblins.

Some good characterization for Goblin Slayer himself, and a few more staple characters introduced.  Definitely a lighter episode than the first one... and we bloody well needed that.

[renegadeleader1]

5 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Just finished episode two of Goblin Slayer, and on a lighter note the series seems to have opted to avoid the gory and exploitative bit that appeared in the light novel and manga with the all-female party of adventurers who met their end in the elven fortress overrun by goblins.

Some good characterization for Goblin Slayer himself, and a few more staple characters introduced.  Definitely a lighter episode than the first one... and we bloody well needed that.

Out of curiousity do we see Goblin Slayer's face at all in the manga or light novels? I'm just wondering if there is going to be a bit of a Samus Aran it's really a woman under the armor twist.

[Seto Kaiba]

21 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Out of curiousity do we see Goblin Slayer's face at all in the manga or light novels?

We do... but not the entire thing.  We get to see him both as a youth and an adult, but the way he's drawn the upper half of his face is perpetually in shadow even if all of his head is in the frame.

We get to see him without his helmet for the first time near the end of the first light novel volume, when someone asks to see his face as repayment for a favor (spoilers, so I won't say any more than that) and he obliges.  The manga also adapts a section of the light novel before that where he goes around town without his armor while it's in the shop and nobody in town recognizes him because he never takes it off normally.  We also get a number of flashbacks to him as a kid before he became an adventurer.

 

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I'm just wondering if there is going to be a bit of a Samus Aran it's really a woman under the armor twist.

No, Goblin Slayer is most definitely a man.

Cow Girl¹, who is introduced in the second episode, was basically his girl-next-door childhood love interest...

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... from when they were neighbors in his old village before it was attacked by goblins and their families there were variously raped, tortured to death, dismembered, eaten, etc.

Cow Girl was lucky enough to be elsewhere at the time, on an errand to her uncle's farm where she lives in the present day.  Goblin Slayer was not so lucky, and from his hiding place had a front row seat to his elder sister's (his only living relative's) horrible fate for three solid days.

 

1. She takes care of cows on the farm.  She is not a beastman.  The name is almost certainly also a none-too-polite reference to her great big... tracts of land... which the light novel goes well out of its way to talk about and show you, and the manga is even more blatant about.

Edited October 15, 2018 by Seto Kaiba

[Sailor Arashi]

14 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Just finished episode two of Goblin Slayer, and on a lighter note the series seems to have opted to avoid the gory and exploitative bit that appeared in the light novel and manga with the all-female party of adventurers who met their end in the elven fortress overrun by goblins.

Some good characterization for Goblin Slayer himself, and a few more staple characters introduced.  Definitely a lighter episode than the first one... and we bloody well needed that.

I'm of two minds about the editing.   I am supremely grateful that they cut the torture porn inflicted on the first party, but I think cutting them entirely was a mistake.  This was supposed to be the scene showing exactly how good Goblin Slayer is at his job by contrasting their approaches.  The first party is lured into a trap by the body of a victim who turns out to already be dead, Goblin Slayer reasons they're already dead based on the time frame and doesn't even go inside.   The first party is overrun when their fighter catches a rock upside the head, Goblin Slayer always wears a helmet and when the goblins try the same trick it bounces harmlessly off.  Stuff like that.  Cutting out the first party entirely leaves the contrasting elements divorced from context and looking weird, like how Goblin Slayer being harmlessly conked on the head is still there, but the scene showing that being the doom of the first party is not, making it random and weird.   I think they should have left the first party in, just cut away after they're defeated (where the novel and manga then show them being tortured to death).

Additionally they removed the context of Goblin Slayer's big motive rant.  He's supposed to be delivering that speech to Guild Girl right in the middle of their office, ending with him claiming to be no different than the goblins themselves.  This leads Guild Girl to chew him out about it and insisting he needs to act more heroic as befitting his silver rank.  Cutting out this context just makes his rant a "badass boast" rather than showing how fraked in the head he is, skips good characterization for Guild Girl, and removes all context for his comment at the end saying it's hard to act his rank.   It doesn't give me much hope that they'll be able to capture the really rather subtle shift in his character over the course of the series, if they're missing vital bits like that.

9 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Out of curiousity do we see Goblin Slayer's face at all in the manga or light novels? I'm just wondering if there is going to be a bit of a Samus Aran it's really a woman under the armor twist.

 

9 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

We get to see him without his helmet for the first time near the end of the first light novel volume, when someone asks to see his face as repayment for a favor (spoilers, so I won't say any more than that) and he obliges.

Ironically, during that scene in the manga at least, someone in the background laments that they had wagered he was actually a woman.

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

I'm of two minds about the editing.   I am supremely grateful that they cut the torture porn inflicted on the first party, but I think cutting them entirely was a mistake.  This was supposed to be the scene showing exactly how good Goblin Slayer is at his job by contrasting their approaches. [...] I think they should have left the first party in, just cut away after they're defeated (where the novel and manga then show them being tortured to death).

The first party isn't totally missing from that sequence... you can see what's left of at least one or two of its members, though it's pretty clear they're counting on the audience having read the light novel or manga there since broadcast standards won't let them show such graphic material.

 

2 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Ironically, during that scene in the manga at least, someone in the background laments that they had wagered he was actually a woman.

To be fair, at least one bystander also wagered he was an atypically large goblin himself.  There was a LOT of wild mass guessing going on there in-series.

[Seto Kaiba]

Caught the second episode of Gyakuten Saiban's second (third) season yesterday.

They're following the game VERY closely... a little too closely, IMO, given that Yusuke Amasugi's voice is rapidly becoming THE MOST ANNOYING SOUND thanks to him ending almost every sentence with an upward inflection and shouting in his incredibly whiny voice.  (Seeing him from behind, which the game sprites never did, makes his head look distressingly like a penis thanks to his stupid haircut.  I'm going to choose to interpret that to mean the artists are hinting that he's a massive dickhead, because he totally was in the game.)

Today it'll be the second episode of Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight.

[Seto Kaiba]

... well, that's a thing that happened.

Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight's second episode is mostly no improvement on the first.  It gets good for a few minutes near the end.

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They cold open on Jeanne d'Arc praying with a group of fairies - who are all drawn in chibi form at such low detail they look fresh out of Crayon Shin-chan - for an end to the Hundred Years' War... and for bigger breasts.

Apparently there's a seven year jump cut between episodes 1 and 2, revealing that after seven years Montmorency still hasn't managed to create the elixir that'll actually let him harness the power of the philosopher's stone.  He makes another attempt at creating the elixir only for an incredibly airheaded loli-Jeanne to get in his way and cause the whole thing to explode, nearly killing him.

A gender-flipped La Hire shows up to warn that an attack by British-allied Burgundy and the British Army is imminent, and much fuss is made about how the French king and his court are broke so La Hire's troops are demanding payment from the village (but defend it anyway when the British arrive?).  Jean Poton de Xaintrailles puts in an appearance as a hopelessly generic-looking knight, as the British Army razes Jeanne's village, massacres the fairies, and stab Jeanne fatally.  (Right around this point I was so heartily sick of Jeanne and the fairies that I was well and truly rooting for the British.)

We get another bloody jump cut transition to La Hire and Xaintrailles cornered by the British, only for Jeanne to show up like the goddamn Batman, with a slasher smile that'd do Alucard justice, and somehow start dicing the British up with a sword that is still in its scabbard.  She collapses after challenging La Hire to a duel because apparently the philosopher's stone works like a super mode and she can only activate it for three minutes at a time, gaining huge speed and power in exchange for going a tiny bit completely mad.  Her village kicks her out for being a heretical monster, and she apparently joins Montmorency and La Hire to fight the British.

Between all the fanservice-y shots of La Hire (oh the sentences I'd never thought I'd write) and Jeanne being an obnoxious twit, I'm not sure I want to keep following this series... but I'll give it a couple more episodes to see if it turns into something decent.  It's pretty clearly headed for les yay territory, what with La Hire practically drooling over both Astaroth and Jeanne.

[Petrov27]

Wow after watching the ep3 of Reincarnated as a slime we sure have differing views of goblins this season between shows lol.....

[Seto Kaiba]

17 hours ago, Petrov27 said:

Wow after watching the ep3 of Reincarnated as a slime we sure have differing views of goblins this season between shows lol.....

Well, Priestess did wonder what a good goblin would be like... and Goblin Slayer's reaction to the goblins in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime would be an amazing thing in its own right.

 

Three episodes into That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and I'll admit I have no clue where this is headed.  The OP suggests we're in for some standard action/fantasy type stuff, but so far it's mostly just the titular slime (Rimiru?) dicking around.  I am a bit surprised that Rimiru doesn't seem to have thought to question the RPG elements in the world yet... or the obviously computerized voice in his head.

[Sailor Arashi]

42 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Well, Priestess did wonder what a good goblin would be like... and Goblin Slayer's reaction to the goblins in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime would be an amazing thing in its own right.

I'm amused by the contrast that nobody in Goblin Slayer has a name, and Reincarnated as a Slime makes a big deal of the powerup you get from having a name.

[JB0]

4 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

I'm amused by the contrast that nobody in Goblin Slayer has a name, and Reincarnated as a Slime makes a big deal of the powerup you get from having a name.

That's why everybody in Goblin Slayer keeps dying, obviously.

[Sailor Arashi]

Impressions so far this season!

Bloom Into You:   It's fluffy yuri goodness.  There's no way this wasn't going to be my Anime Of The Year^TM

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai:  I have no idea what's going on, but I'm liking it.  What looked like a weird fanservice anime from the promos is instead giving me vibes like it's an entire season of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya instead.   Consider me intrigued and following.

Goblin Slayer:  Two episodes in and we have the first episode slavishly following the manga in depicting the graphic rape of Fighter which was only suggested at in the novel, and then a second episode almost entirely cutting the fate of another adventuring party, then showing a group of newbie adventurers, whom the novel explicitly said died, returning to the Guild Hall safely.   It's a rather disjointed and poorly-edited affair so far, but the fact that they're willing to eschew the overly-explicit rape/torture-fetishism of the manga sometimes means I'm going to keep following for now.

Ms. Vampire Who Lives In My Neighborhood:  Meh.  Dropping.

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime:  I read the first 1 1/2 novels beforehand and it was tedious drek focused entirely on describing the main character gaining new skills in excruciating detail while also rapidly summarizing all plot developments so they can get back to explaining more skill interactions.  The anime, hilariously, seems to be largely summarizing the tedious skill descriptions in favor of depicting the cutesy fantasy-lite plot and setting.  Following for now, as the anime is actually entertaining as opposed to the books.

Today's Menu For Emiya Family:  A bit of a cheat, as it's been ongoing since January, but wevs.   Once a month fluffy Fate goodness.  I live for epic cooking scenes.  If only all Fate series could be this wholesome.

Zombieland Saga:  A general WTF!?   I get serious "Flip Flappers" vibes from this one, if only due to how aggressively nonsensical it is.  Following for now, hoping the random weirdness pays off into something interesting.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Sailor Arashi

[Seto Kaiba]

20 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

I'm amused by the contrast that nobody in Goblin Slayer has a name, and Reincarnated as a Slime makes a big deal of the powerup you get from having a name.

I'm more weirded out that giving something a name in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime takes magical power, to the extent that you can hurt yourself doing it.  

 

15 hours ago, JB0 said:

That's why everybody in Goblin Slayer keeps dying, obviously.

The sacrifices you have to make so a single-minded Silver-rank adventurer can get his occasional "I AM BATMAN" moments...

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai:  I have no idea what's going on, but I'm liking it.  What looked like a weird fanservice anime from the promos is instead giving me vibes like it's an entire season of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya instead.   Consider me intrigued and following.

I got through the first episode of this one and decided to give it a miss.  I got the same Haruhi vibe from it, and decided that was a tall glass of Nope.  (I can't stand the Haruhi Suzumiya stuff, esp. the titular protagonist, who I find irrationally annoying.)

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Goblin Slayer:  Two episodes in and we have the first episode slavishly following the manga in depicting the graphic rape of Fighter which was only suggested at in the novel, and then a second episode almost entirely cutting the fate of another adventuring party, then showing a group of newbie adventurers, whom the novel explicitly said died, returning to the Guild Hall safely.   It's a rather disjointed and poorly-edited affair so far, but the fact that they're willing to eschew the overly-explicit rape/torture-fetishism of the manga sometimes means I'm going to keep following for now.

I'll say this for Goblin Slayer... it intrigued me enough to actually look up the original light novels to read.  At time of writing, I'm 3/4 of the way through the fourth volume of Yen Press's translation of the light novels.  (This is the third series this year to do that... a new personal best for the industry.)

Quite frankly, if the anime opts to leave the blatant torture porn, excessive fanservice, and the wink-wink-nudge-nudge tabletop gaming references on the cutting room floor I will consider it to be an enormous improvement.  It's not often I read a book that prompts me to start judging the author's lifestyle choices, but I can't help coming away from Goblin Slayer with a sneaking suspicion that its author is that one guy every game store seems to have who talks a lot of misogynistic crap when no women are around, has never had a girlfriend, and exclusively plays armies like WHFB Dark Elves or WH40K Slaaneshi Daemons because of the "sexy" miniatures and their memetic rapey-ness.  All the women in Goblin Slayer seem to fall into one of two categories: the one-sided love interests which Kumo Kagyu can't resist describing in fits of sexually-charged purple prose, and the women who've been assaulted by goblins.  The prequel manga is a bit more even-handed in dispensing abuse, but only a bit.  It's overwhelmingly the women who are the victims in Goblin Slayer, despite there being roughly equal numbers of male and female adventurers.  It's enough to make you suspect that the author has something against women.

Goblin Slayer himself is an interesting Byronic hero with a lot of potential... but it keeps getting lost amidst the fanservice and torture porn.  If the anime wants to cut as much of that crap out as it can and focus on the titular character, I am 200% behind it.

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Ms. Vampire Who Lives In My Neighborhood:  Meh.  Dropping.

It's cute, but that's about all it has to recommend it... my girlfriend seems to like it though.

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime:  I read the first 1 1/2 novels beforehand and it was tedious drek focused entirely on describing the main character gaining new skills in excruciating detail while also rapidly summarizing all plot developments so they can get back to explaining more skill interactions.  The anime, hilariously, seems to be largely summarizing the tedious skill descriptions in favor of depicting the cutesy fantasy-lite plot and setting.  Following for now, as the anime is actually entertaining as opposed to the books.

Does it ever get past this and develop something resembling a plot?  The OP gives one such hope that there's an epic story in the offing, but so far it's Faffing About as a Slime.

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Today's Menu For Emiya Family:  A bit of a cheat, as it's been ongoing since January, but wevs.   Once a month fluffy Fate goodness.  I live for epic cooking scenes.  If only all Fate series could be this wholesome.

I gave up on this one a while ago... Fate is, IMO, a played-out property that only ever really had two or three good character designs.  This feels like they're trying to inject novelty by copying whatever was popular at the time.  Namely, Shokugeki no Soma.

 

15 hours ago, Sailor Arashi said:

Zombieland Saga:  A general WTF!?   I get serious "Flip Flappers" vibes from this one, if only due to how aggressively nonsensical it is.  Following for now, hoping the random weirdness pays off into something interesting.

Honestly, the insanity of it all reminds me a bit of Wandaba Style... which never really stopped being about the weird.

 

 

Looking at the new offerings on Crunchyroll, there are one of two that I'm thinking of giving a go.  One is Skeleton Bookseller Honda-san, which just looks so incredibly bizarre I can't help but be a bit curious.  The other is Xuan Yuan Sword Luminary, which I've heard almost nothing about except that it's based on a Taiwanese game, which sounds novel enough.

[Sailor Arashi]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I'm more weirded out that giving something a name in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime takes magical power, to the extent that you can hurt yourself doing it.  

That only applies to magic-born unnamed monsters because of an incredibly long-winded explanation that I don't care to recall.  Essentially anything you'd consider an "NPC" race will not have a name by default, but will be much more powerful if they do.  Basically the setting uses Mook Rules.  

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Goblin Slayer himself is an interesting Byronic hero with a lot of potential... but it keeps getting lost amidst the fanservice and torture porn.  If the anime wants to cut as much of that crap out as it can and focus on the titular character, I am 200% behind it.

We are of one mind in regards to this series.  The more the focus is directly on Goblin Slayer and his party, the more I'll like it.  He's a compelling enough character that I keep plugging away at the novels and manga to get more despite the bit that keep popping up that make me feel awful inside.  

I want to add a third class of female character to your assessment, though:  The blatant character cameo.  This includes folks like Witch, who is the sorceress from Dragon's Crown, and Chosen Heroine who is literally just Haruhi Suzumiya herself.

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Does it ever get past this and develop something resembling a plot?  The OP gives one such hope that there's an epic story in the offing, but so far it's Faffing About as a Slime.

I only made it through a book and a half, as I said, so I can't say if it gets better, per se.  There's a decently epic plot involved, but the books are so poorly written it's told almost entirely in summary, with the bulk of the text instead focusing on the minutia of the skill system.   The anime shows promise in possibly fleshing out the actual plot, though I think the real test will be in the next two episodes.  In the book it's an adventure in the dwarven kingdom that is heavily overshadowed by Rimuru learning how to chain skills together and spontaneously developing like fifty new superpowers.  If they focus on the dwarves and skip over the system wankery (which they've been doing a good job of so far...the goblin town fight consisted primarily of explaining how the web powers work in the books) then the series will still be worth following and will probably be pretty cool once he starts throwing those powers around.   If it bogs down into a discussion of theoretical power usages between Rimuru and his disembodied skill voice, then I wouldn't expect the series to live up to it's admittedly cool OP.

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

One is Skeleton Bookseller Honda-san, which just looks so incredibly bizarre I can't help but be a bit curious

I've heard good things about it, but haven't checked it out beyond a few clips someone posted.  It's funny in a "Why is this funny?" sort of way, it seems.

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, Sailor Arashi said:

We are of one mind in regards to this series.  The more the focus is directly on Goblin Slayer and his party, the more I'll like it.  He's a compelling enough character that I keep plugging away at the novels and manga to get more despite the bit that keep popping up that make me feel awful inside.  

Yeah, that's about where I am with it.

Goblin Slayer himself is carrying the entire story, and the bits where the girls just get together and talk about him just highlights that he's the only one moving the story forwards.

 

1 hour ago, Sailor Arashi said:

I want to add a third class of female character to your assessment, though:  The blatant character cameo.  This includes folks like Witch, who is the sorceress from Dragon's Crown, and Chosen Heroine who is literally just Haruhi Suzumiya herself.

I put Witch in the love interests category, since the light novel leaves no doubt she wants the G... er... the D.  She's what, the fifth or sixth woman who finds him to be irresistible? 

(Priestess, Guild Girl, Cow Girl, Sword Maiden, High Elf Archer... and the Witch makes six.  Good thing Goblin Slayer is oblivious.)

Chosen Heroine is like a fake alternate protagonist, but considering what happened to the last two of those in Goblin Slayer (Fighter and Sword Maiden), I have a nasty suspicion she'll be experiencing "goblin hospitality" sooner or later.  Especially given that she was part of the framing device for volume five.

 

[AN/ALQ128]

On 10/16/2018 at 4:01 PM, Sailor Arashi said:

Zombieland Saga:  A general WTF!?   I get serious "Flip Flappers" vibes from this one, if only due to how aggressively nonsensical it is.  Following for now, hoping the random weirdness pays off into something interesting.

It seems like they're setting up some kind of character arc for the girls, but I don't think it'll ever stop being wacky. It is a comedy show about zombie idols, after all.

It does have the one of the best OP sequences of this season though.

 

[Major Focker]

watched ep1 of Karakuri Circus.

i think i'll keep watching because of the musical score

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I am starting Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko soon it looks interesting.

[Marzan]

On 10/17/2018 at 1:01 AM, Sailor Arashi said:

Impressions so far this season!

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai:  I have no idea what's going on, but I'm liking it.  What looked like a weird fanservice anime from the promos is instead giving me vibes like it's an entire season of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya instead.   Consider me intrigued and following.

Goblin Slayer:  Two episodes in and we have the first episode slavishly following the manga in depicting the graphic rape of Fighter which was only suggested at in the novel, and then a second episode almost entirely cutting the fate of another adventuring party, then showing a group of newbie adventurers, whom the novel explicitly said died, returning to the Guild Hall safely.   It's a rather disjointed and poorly-edited affair so far, but the fact that they're willing to eschew the overly-explicit rape/torture-fetishism of the manga sometimes means I'm going to keep following for now.

 

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime:  I read the first 1 1/2 novels beforehand and it was tedious drek focused entirely on describing the main character gaining new skills in excruciating detail while also rapidly summarizing all plot developments so they can get back to explaining more skill interactions.  The anime, hilariously, seems to be largely summarizing the tedious skill descriptions in favor of depicting the cutesy fantasy-lite plot and setting.  Following for now, as the anime is actually entertaining as opposed to the books.

 

You're spot on about Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai. It does have this The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya vibe with a touch of Bakemonogatari sprinkled on, since it seems the MC will move on to solving a different girls supernatural problem in the next episode. Oh and Mai is a Senjougahara clone with the kuudere tendencies toned down. Very enjoyable though.

Goblin Slayer is so far pretty entertaining and I'm intrigued by the MC. I'll definitely keep on watching. The series sure has created an enormous uproar and now even Crunchyroll has put a trigger warning at the beginning. That wouldn't have been necessary if they did their homework and their ratings featured more prominently, but as it is now, it's sometimes hard to know what you're going to watch. You can jump from a lighthearted fantasy series to Berserk (just to give an example) without any sort of advisory.

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime seems to be fix for those with an Overlord addiction with a less compelling MC. I'm not entertained though and too much time is spent with the skill descriptions (I cannot fathom how you got through 1.5 novels if it was even more pronounce there) and if it doesn't pick up soon I'll drop it.

I'm also watchin Gridmann SSS that has some EVA vibes (don't they all ) and then the cheesy Ultraman influence. I always enjoy Trigger shows so I'll keep this one.

[Big s]

I think a lot of the streaming services are like that. One of my mistakes on Netflix was when a couple friends were over and we wanted to watch a cheesy horror. We picked Antichrist due to the title and teaser picture and Willem Defoe. Then the movie started and we thought we were watching a porno. I should have read who directed the film first. But at least Netflix has a bit of a rating system.

I think that Crunchyroll could benefit from an age rating or maybe the old animerica tentacle rating system if things showed up a bit rapey. I’m glad I don’t have young kids, but just imagine sitting with your youngling that didn’t know any better and saw what they thought was gonna be just an innocent fantasy based cartoon only to be surprised by goblin rape scenes. 

 

[Seto Kaiba]

On 10/19/2018 at 9:04 AM, Marzan said:

That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime seems to be fix for those with an Overlord addiction with a less compelling MC. I'm not entertained though and too much time is spent with the skill descriptions (I cannot fathom how you got through 1.5 novels if it was even more pronounce there) and if it doesn't pick up soon I'll drop it.

My hopes for this series are not high.  Since we've got a power outage that put the kibosh on my plans for the day, I've been reading the manga adaptation of the light novel and it's a mess.  It legitimately takes at least fifteen LONG chapters (we're talking monthly serialization 30-50 page chapters) for them to even give Rimiru a humanoid form, and 20 chapters in I still have no sodding idea what's actually going on.  It's almost stream of consciousness of Rimiru reacting to random bullsh*t that happens.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara is just so good the visuals are great.  It is P.A. Works so I am not surprised.

[chyll2]

Gridman = simple joy in this season.

[Petrov27]

hehe

 

[eXis10z]

Just started on Goblin Slayer and damn was the 1st episode disturbing. 

[Big s]

The third episode was good. It really is a big change from how things started. The next episode promises some action for the gang and I don’t mean adult action.

[Seto Kaiba]

8 hours ago, eXis10z said:

Just started on Goblin Slayer and damn was the 1st episode disturbing. 

For the light novel and manga, that first story was starting as they meant to go on.

Goblin Slayer's anime series seems to be headed in a slightly less gratuitous direction, if the second episode omitting the grisly and graphic fate of the all-female party of adventurers who found that ruin before Goblin Slayer came along is any indication.

 

1 hour ago, Big s said:

The third episode was good. It really is a big change from how things started. The next episode promises some action for the gang and I don’t mean adult action.

TBH, that was the point where the story picked up in the light novels too.  Having an actual party to adventure with starts to make Goblin Slayer a bit less "Medieval Doomguy" and more "Medieval Batman"... even if High Elf Archer's perpetual refrain is "Stop using [extremely effective and practical anti-goblin strategy] because it's not adventurer-like".