I’m on episode 19 or 20 but I wouldn’t mind a thing on the Facil business since that comes up all the time and has only had like a half episode of exposition. And a retcon of the war in episode 1 would be real nice. Should I go ahead with those OVAs now?
My Conquest is the Sea of Stars is just two fleet battles, including the first time the two mains confront each other. Basically an intro. But you will enjoy it, I think.
El Facil is covered in one of the Gaiden series, I think.
I would wait to watch the gaidens after the main series. There’s a LOT there for you to discover.
What about Overture then?
Watch both of them one after another. Overture is the first two chapters + some extra stuff. My Conquest + Overture flow well together.
Quaro
5311
It’s been a long time since I watched the series but I can tell you that battle in particular drove me nuts and it never was that bad again. I totally agree it was terrible, it was like the first thing you would be told in an RTS tutorial immediately after learning how to move your units, the most basic of tactics, presented as a genius revelation.
But it’s not so much like the tactical discussion gets a ton more depth, but they abstract it more into terms and concepts that are used internally in the series so you can’t immediately break it down and understand it faster than the characters. Making up some bullshit it’s more like 'The attacks are using Projected-Box-Omega formations staged in 3 tiers, only a Rapid Spiral Rotation with our light troops will be fast enough to avoid having their defense overwhelmed, to hold out long enough for our other forces to outflank them and get to the weakness in the Projected-Box-Omega.
And has been stated the other thing to keep in mind is that battles are based on 18th and 19th century Prussian wars. So it’s all about formations and angles and different mixes of cavalry, infantry and artillery, lots of stuff about terrain. This series basically has mountain passes IN SPACE.
Part of what the series is about is how two decadent systems are too corrupt to manage their military forces properly and instead place people with political clout but incompetent a degree in charge.
As the series develops and things are overturned the incompetence is less prevalent.
arrendek
5313
Yeah that’s already happening very clearly. The politics is really what’s doing it for me, not the space battles.
arrendek
5314
Thanks for your detailed thoughts, I appreciate it.
I’d never heard of this until this post. I went and watched the first episode. A person from Japan pulled into another world.
Very nice! I love it when the hero is the underdog. A nice change of pace from a Slime who starts off by absorbing the powers of a dragon and a whole bunch of other monsters, making him really super strong.
(I’m a little irritated that the world is like a video game, but I’ll get over that. I hope).
I’ve seen a fair number of isekai-type shows (other world/video game, etc) and this is one of my favorites. I still have 5 episodes left in season one and it keeps delivering. Season 2 has been announced for next year.
Yeah, the world IS like a video game, which is a significant plot detail at various times, so try to give that some slack. It deals with some dark themes, but not for the sake of being edgy. And yeah, Naofumi has to overcome a lot, and there are reasons that start to make themselves known eventually.
Bofuri is my favorite because she wins because the devs were dumb and left too many exploits open. it’s very sweet and happy.
Zylon
5319
This is how, like, 90% of isekai are. Have you not seen Konosuba? Log Horizon? Overlord?
Konosuba was a comedy, as you noted upthread. It had funny characters and great comedic timing, and it worked well. The gamified aspects were minimal or unimportant. Log Horizon the game aspects were front and center and watching that anime was like playing an MMO: when I realized the only reason I kept at it was to watch meaningless progress, I quit. I think it took about 11 episodes or so. I can’t remember. It had no memorable characters or plot or dialog that I can recall.
I’ve never heard of Overlord.
geewhiz
5321
@Rock8man
Another season of Log Horizon is in the works. I always thought that the main draw at least in the beginning of the story, was to watch the MC outsmart everyone else. This changed as the season progressed in my mind. The main reason I liked the show was the Girl assassin and her shy relationship to the MC. My daughter and I watched it together. She also tends to like the shy relations in a show.
You may like Overlord it is extremely popular. It is about an Isekai type show. Generally the MC is a good guy who controls the bad guys (The bad guys and gals think he is the baddest boss ever). There is a good mix of humor vs seriousness at times.
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Noblesse has started on Crunchyroll. I had thought it wouldn’t appear until next season.
The Crunchyroll app continues to annoy me. It is really clunky not allowing you to hit the back button in many screens. I see my Roku TV take the signal but the app dies not respond. Ugh!
The only “game world” isekai I’ve thought was actually great is Grimgar.
My favorite “game world” anime so far has been “recovery of an mmo junkie”, but that’s just one season, and is very different from all the other shows discussed.
Grimgar was okay, but (and I don’t know how much of the light novel there is) the anime never felt like it really got going… like they had much more planned and hadn’t really gotten out of first gear.
