5466

The manga is a lot better than the anime. It goes more into her thinking and strategy (though you have to like stats similar to LitRPG in books). The anime also added her schoolmates which I never ran across in the manga - maybe they came later in the story but they were certainly not a part of the beginning. Her progression is a lot slower in the manga and I would assume the light novel.

The anime skips over a lot for example she is extremely vulnerable when she grows and she has to learn how to hide herself. It also goes more into how she tries to not kill humans but that could change since they keep trying to kill her in the manga. There are also scenes of the really powerful bad guys that may be laying the groundwork for a more involved story. I did stop reading manga because I switched to my book backlog but as far as Isekai goes this one did try to be different. It has a strong female lead and is about a monster etc

5467

You’ve got it backwards. The manga dropped the classmates storyline which was apparently present in the light novel. The anime restores it.

I’m fine with the anime accelerating her progress, because in the source material she was all alone in the dungeon for a very, very long time. She’d still be in the dungeon at the end of the season if they’d included everything she went through.

5468

Ah, I did not read the light novel. I do not like the anime because it is rushing things to much. Their trying to show her exuberance almost constantly is just too much and I think it detracts from the show. My daughter does like it (she thinks it is entertaining but confusing) so we have been watching the show - I hope it improves.

5469

I just want season 2 of Rising of The Shield Hero

5470

You stopped literally the moment before Buffy got good, FWIW. (not that there’s nothing to like about season 1 if you’re already a fan, but…it’s so rough.)

See, that actually sounds like an isekai I’d want to watch. For me, a big part of the appeal of this sort of story is exploring and exploiting the mechanics of the fictional game (preferably one that’s implausibly more detailed and reactive than any real videogame) and the one I tried, Sword Art Online, could not have cared less about the game they were stuck in. I mean, it didn’t really have a ton going on in terms of characterization and plot either, but it was like “yup, you’re in a game now” -skips straight past how anything works- “now we’re going to tell random short stories about people you don’t have any connection to, yay!” Also the tiny bit of what they did have to say about the actual game sounded like a terribly, terribly boring game to actually play.

5471

SAO is garbage. Well-produced, pretty-looking garbage, but garbage nonetheless. Log Horizon is like the good version of SAO.

Edit: Holy crap, Log Horizon season 3 just started airing! It only took them… six years to get around to it.

5472

Seconded.

5473

The spider lady: well, they did their job, no? they made a story you want to know more about.
The slime anime failed to do that as soon it become “Monster city mayor” diary.

About jobless… artists admire this particular isekai, is in part why so much quality is pour in it. We are invited to it, even if we will never understand the qualities in the story. I will be here for the animation, backgrounds.

5474

This is correct.

5475

Fun fact: Jobless Reincarnation is actually one of the oldest “reborn in a fantasy world” stories around, and apparently originated many of the tropes that have since been run into the ground. So you’re experiencing the Seinfeld is Unfunny effect.

5476

Eh it depends on your definition I guess. John Carter of Mars goes back to 1917, then like Wizard of Oz, the Dungeons & Dragons TV series from the early 80s, Tron etc.

5477

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, comes to mind.

5478

I obviously meant in the context of anime/manga/light novels you idiots.

5479

In that case Escaflowne, Twelve Kingdoms, Rayearth and others are all from the 90s.

I get what you are trying to say with Jobless Reincarnation being one of the first to use the current template that seems to have over run the industry over the past few years but your broader phrasing of “oldest “reborn in a fantasy world” stories” is more than a bit misleading with how old that trope actually is.

5480

It really doesn’t matter what you think, or even what I think. I’m just relaying the standing it has in the Japanese fandom.

5481

The gameified nature of the fantasy world is what really sets apart modern isekai.

5482

I remember when John Carter targeted the crab in the head for maximum damage, I think he got it to 9000. The cool down on that skill was really long though.

5483

ACYIKAC is awesome, and AFAIK theres no adaptation that make it justice. The contrast between the pragmatism of the yankee and the idealist of the knight & princess world is delicious. Theres technological progress where the yankee teachs the power of steam engines to the arturians (If I remember it correctly)

Speaking about Jobless. I have axe here… the edit or production or whatever is called is too heavy handed. On many scenes is noticeable that they have abused the zoom on the picture, so the image is noticeable blurry.

5484

Has any jumped on the Season 2 of World Trigger? I watched the original season when it was on Hulu, and I enjoyed the concept enough that I decided to continue to follow it many years later. They start exactly where they left over with some really interesting battles.

5485

I watched the original but got feedup. Very short episodes that waste half the time in filler. Kind of simple story.

Watched one episode of the new season,… it did not interested me enough. Simple story, simple animation. Not much to see here.