What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0

[Seto Kaiba]

31 minutes ago, Hikaru Ichijo SL said:

I started The Saga of Tanya the evil.  I enjoyed the 1st episode.

It's an interesting title to say the least.  I'm quite fond of the alternate history it presents, a world where "sufficiently analyzed magic" became practical technology in the early 20th century and events are slowly building towards world war.  It's one of the top titles in its genre for good reason.

It's a shame that so little of the light novel has been adapted thus far.  A second season was announced back in 2021, but there's been radio silence about it from Studio NUT ever since, so all we have right now is the 12 episode first season and the "special episode" (plus a compilation movie).

If you take a liking to it, there is a passable English translation of the original light novel by Yen Press available in both realbook and ebook form.  Thirteen volumes out so far, with a fourteenth due out in June.

 

15 minutes ago, Big s said:

I watched the first season back when it first came out and before I was completely burned out on the whole dude gets resurrected as something else shows that became way overdone very quickly. I had fun with it. I even bought the figma. 

Success inspires copycats, and they did REALLY abuse the hell out of the premise.

IMO, the only ones in that genre really worth bothering with are the subversions of that "introvert fantasy" that drives most of the genre.  Not coincidentally, the major successes in the genre are almost all hard subversions of the formula where the protagonists either suffer a Reality Ensues, are Blessed with Suck, or end up in something approaching an ironic personal hell.

 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Success inspires copycats, and they did REALLY abuse the hell out of the premise.

 

They didn’t just abuse it, they tortured it relentlessly and then beat it into submission and then tortured it till it died , then resurrected it to torture it to death a few times too many and then abused it some more

[Seto Kaiba]

4 minutes ago, Big s said:

They didn’t just abuse it, they tortured it relentlessly and then beat it into submission and then tortured it till it died , then resurrected it to torture it to death a few times too many and then abused it some more

Yeah, that's a pretty normal trajectory for any genre that's trending.

You get some rough starts, a few key innovators who perfect the formula and make bank, and then a deluge of low-quality copycats trying to cash in on the trend before it goes out of fashion and the next thing comes along and leaves just the well-established and successful properties.  We saw this same thing happen in the 80's with mecha anime.