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Well, that is just lame.

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Gate is advertisement for the japan army. They don’t even hide it much.

My theory about anime is that Japan is bad and wrong.

From their wrong culture, to their country build on top volcanoes. They do everything wrong.

Isekai being “wish fullfillement” or a cheap excuse to have you the lector in a fantasy world is just another example of that. I love isekais.

this is bad.

I watch it, because is well done, but is cringe and theres still parts that I feel they are wrong and should not be part of a enteirnament piece at all.

I am basically against this particular anime. Also powerless.

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I mean, most anime is wish fulfillment to one degree or another. It’s why harem anime protagonists are boring audience insertion characters, or shonen protagonists are the chosen special super powered ones. It’s why almost all anime feature emotionally available, supportive friend groups.

Isekai does feel a step beyond most other genre though.

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Any anime like Chivalry of a Failed Knight? I’m always a fan of main characters without extraordinary powers rising to the top, whether its World Trigger, Black Clover (which is and isn’t this case) and of course Chivalry of a Failed Knight.

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Anime is an attack on quality using numbers.

They made sooo much anime, they have so many talented and hardworking people on it, that eventually they make something that is a gem. I think is why it have a western audience … and maybe some of us are weak to that wish fullfillement, why not?

If you what to know more about my opinion about anime, heres a audio in twitter (in spanish)

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If memory serves, a good chunk of the fighting was done by a literal demigod who was traveling with them.

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Well, that’s one of the reasons for this thread, right? We don’t really want to watch the bad stuff and even the mediocre stuff. We want to watch only the gems and our fellow Qt3 denizens guide us that way.

A quick note on Mushoku Tensei. I heard it was based on a web novel that was put online for free. So I looked up a translation and started reading it last night. It’s pretty much what the anime is, but the writing is so bad, you guys. It’s just a series statements, like this happened, then this happened. There’s no warmth or good clever descriptions or anything. It’s amazing to me that someone can take this dry, terrible writing and make such an impressive looking anime from it. Of course, in the interim there was also a comic based on it as well, so I’m guessing that’s where a lot of the words got turned into something more.

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Did you just call the manga a “comic”? I mean… techincally mangas are comics, but if you’re going down that linguistic road, may as well call the anime a cartoon too.

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this transformation is even more amazing with the “One Punch” guy, where the drawing of the original webcomic was beyond terrible…

…I guess people pay more attention to the story than how is wrapped.

maybe the translation was bad for the web novel you was reading?

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Yeah, it did occur to me that maybe the translation is poor. Maybe it’s more interesting colorful language originally that’s translated into just plain statements in English. That’s definitely a possibility. Anyway, it’s not an interesting read, I wouldn’t recommend the translation at least.

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I heard japanese is a very dry language where when things are said literally most of the time. So maybe is a “too literal” translation.

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Youtube threw up these awesome fan made trailers for Attack on Titan in my feed. Maybe you guys will like them too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c44sr5cw-DY

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You say this as though it’s somehow unique to anime: Sturgeon’s law and all that.

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I think is more extreme on anime. Or perhaps the “badness” of bad anime is more extreme because fanservice.

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wow, this last season of Atack on Titans is really good, much better than older episodes

Damn Mushoku Tensei also consistently good

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Mushoku Tensei I’m completely caught up on the anime, and the original light novel up to that point as well, and now reading ahead. I said before that I don’t like the writing in the light novel, but it still lets me know what’s going to happen next. But it’s still interesting to then see that week’s episode, and see how the anime handles the same thing so much better.

Attack on Titan, I’m a few episodes behind. I’ve watched up to Episode 7 this weekend. I had to consciously stop myself from catching up all in one weekend. If I watch an episode a day, I’ll be caught up before next Sunday’s new episode.

What really amazes me about this season of Attack on Titan is just how much the show lines up with and explains everything we saw in previous seasons. It manages to have great actions, but doesn’t sacrifice the deeper themes along the way. This might change, but if they can stick the landing as they seem to be doing, I think this might be my favorite anime of all time.

I know that it’s made by something very formal sounding like “The Attack on Titan Committee”, or something like that. But I can’t wait to see what the Attack on Titan Committee can make next. The show kind of reminds me of Evangelion in how well it can do both action, and psychological character-building. One is good because of the other, and vice versa. Evangelion did NOT stick the landing, however, so I’m hoping Attack on Titan will end up being a lot better in the end.

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But many studios have been shut out of the bonanza by an outmoded production system that directs nearly all of the industry’s profits to so-called production committees.

These committees are ad hoc coalitions of toy manufacturers, comic book publishers and other companies that are created to finance each project. They typically pay animation studios a set fee and reserve royalties for themselves.

Ah, the studios are paid in piece work… You know, like garment factories in the USA did

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Much of Attack on Titans is pretty weak. Thats why I was surprised.
The last episode was very weak (episode 12). The intro is amazing, it really sells the season motifs.

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I guess we’ll disagree on that point. I’ve really enjoyed it since the beginning. I just love their deranged premise, and then taking it so seriously and exploring the PTSD effects it will have on people and society, right from the beginning. Season 2, I felt, was the strongest in this regard. But I also love throughout that the show isn’t afraid to give our heroes bad choices where there is nothing good to choose from, and the fallout from those choices.

Yes, agreed. The marching men with guns, the ending image zoomed in on a statue of a frightening Titan, it sticks with you, even after the intro is over. Again the Season 2 intro and outro is probably my favorite, but throughout the show they’ve done a great job of having the intro and outro portray an atmosphere and feelings instead of just some introductory credits or characters.