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Edjwald
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I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 11 volumes, written by Yomu Mishima, illustrated by Nadare Takamine) Demographic: Shounen Animation Studio: Quad Genres: action, comedy, drama, science fiction Themes: androids, aristocracy, betrayal, ecchi, harem, isekai, mecha, military, reincarnation, revenge, space Plot Summary: In his last life, Liam lived as a moral, responsible person…but died deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn into the ruling family of a vast interstellar empire, Liam knows that life is divided into the downtrodden and the ones who do the stomping, so this time he's going to take what he wants and live for himself. But somehow, things refuse to work out that way. Despite doing his best to become a tyrant, Liam's decisions lead to nothing but peace and prosperity for the empire under his rule, and he just gets more and more popular. Air Date & Platform: April 05, 2025 (Saturday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: 12 episodes [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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smurky turkey
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Come to think of it, space isekai is relatively rare right?
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Edjwald
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I'm thinking this one could be fun if handled right. I mean, suppose that's true for all anime, but the idea has some potential, and like you said, space isekai is either new territory or relatively new territory as far as I know.
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I have to admit I'm kinda excited for this due to the space isekai angle. Chances are it'll probably be not a very good show, but it might still be entertaining a la this season's Headhunted, Greatest Alchemist or Middle-aged Online Shopper. Then again, before it aired, I suspected that Red Ranger was going to suck and it turned out to be solid.
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Alan45
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I've read four or five volumes of the novel version. If they do a good adaptation if should be a good show.
The main character's idea of what is "Evil" is a bit odd. |
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Edjwald
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That's kind of what I'm picturing based on the description. "I'll make you all have Defined Contribution Pensions instead of Defined Benefit plans! Muahahahaha!" |
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smurky turkey
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I would take that over some space Hitler who is wiping entire planets from the map and making everyone slaves for the empire of man.
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Alan45
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The main character's thinking goes:
spoiler[I'm going to bleed them dry with taxes. Muahahahaha! Damn, my parents already that before they gave me the title. You can't get money from people who have none. I know, I'll make them really rich and then I'll bleed them. Muahahahaha! Institutes reforms that make all his planets very prosperous. ] |
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An Unchosen One
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Watched the first episode on a whim, and couldn't bear to watch the second.
I already didn't like that Hanae Natsuki is voicing another lead character (I got so sick of him after his overexposure following Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer), but I figured that if the series was just gonna be a generic power fantasy isekai where the character wants to be an evil conqueror and didn't take itself too seriously, I could consider it a "turn brain off to watch series" and at least enjoy it being sci-fi (well, sci-fi fantasy, at least) as a change of pace from the usual fantasy lit-RPG slop. Then the flashback happened, where it turns out the author is unable to distinguish between "rightfully angry" and "entitled"; the attempt at sympathy for the protagonist falls flat if any serious thought is given to the developments in the second half of the episode. He clearly takes both his wife and not-actually-his daughter for granted to the point of acting indignant when told he's home so little that his presence there barely makes a difference, and the wife turns out to be such a caricature that the whole thing almost comes across as written by an incel justifying why he won't get married than an actual backstory. And then there's the gall to have the "guide" say he was a good person who did what he should have and him to use the results of his life as justification for being a villain in his next one. Just an all around atrocious premiere. |
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Yttrbio
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I almost made it to the 2-minute mark.
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DuskyPredator
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I do agree with these thoughts. It kind of feels like the author wanted to make a defence of a man who was told that that he was a distant father and partner that only cared about work, and then filled in the blanks to make the wife and boss caricatures. Turning into the sort of thing I see from incel boards that say something as ridiculous as wanting superior genes or some shit. It is really weird because I swear that I have seen that dinner scene before, the craziest DeJa' Vu that I was watching that I had seen verbatim somewhere before. I did however watch the second episode, and, I do want to say that it has uncomfortable elements in considering the whole child and robot maid thing, even if they said his mind is an adult. It has the sort of thing that I could think might be actually really aware and is semi-critiquing the flaws in the main character in a way to how Re:Zero did to Subaru. But I am falling towards that I might be just hopeful and isn't actually that smart, it might just be another incel power fantasy closer to Mushoku Tensei rather than actually something more earning of something as creative of its sci-fi elements. |
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Alan45
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@DuskyPredator
Apparently the first two episodes are not clear enough. The "Guide" is a demon that feeds off of misery. The main character's downfall and betrayal in the first episode was not a power move by an evil woman but was deliberately engineered by the demon to make him miserable to death. The demon then turns on the ex and boss to make them miserable for his food. The demon transferred the main character to another world for the specific purpose of getting 600 years or so of unhappiness and misery out of him. He is not an incel, just a working stiff who thought he had a normal life. |
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Episodes 1 & 2
So my prediction that this was probably going to be a not great show that nonetheless I find entertaining in a Headhunted, Greatest Alchemist or Middle-aged Online Shopper kind of way seems like its right on the money. I get people being put off by the real world flashback stuff or a shota groping a maid stuff but I can set those things aside and concentrate on various wrinkles that are working for me. First, I did like the level of detail that went into showing Liam's real world life. Too many isekai give this aspect short shrift where we learn virtually nothing of what went on before the death. Seeing the set-up, ham-fisted as it was, makes Liam's desire to be an exploitative and ruthless evil lord understandable. I liked other wrinkles, like Liam being given the choice of which scenarios to be sent to. Clearly he was going to be screwed no matter what he chose thanks to the Guide's agenda. Probably wise to have avoided the Jurassic era. Some of the humour is working for me. Liam's shock at some of the selections he needs to make for his AI maid cracked me up. And, of course, the whole space fantasy thing is of interest to me. So yeah, I think I'm going to have fun with this, although it seems like watching it is not going to burnish my reputation as an elegant, sophisticated connoisseur of fine anime. A con-a-sewer, maybe... |
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asoka
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So I have to admit that I like anything to do with Mecha about as much as as the ANN site’s staff and most of the this community do when it comes to Iseaki, so when I originally saw this show my intention was to give it a hard pass.
But then the thought crossed my mind that maybe a Mecha Iseaki could work… So after watching the show I ended up really liking it. You’ve got the typical over worked black company salary man hell, the dutiful wife & daughter at home supporting miserable dad...but instead of the apologizing goddess sipping tea in fluffy cloud paradise getting ready to correct her mistake by giving our soon to be hero a bunch of OP stats there’s a demon whose idea of guiding Liam to a new life is to tell poor ole Liam his plan is to make him even MORE miserable! I like it! But the best part is the duplicitous cow & the demon spawn daughter don’t get away with it...the wife “gets” enhanced genes then spends 10 more years living with this guy? Really? Just why...what’s the point? Move on, your going to waste a decade of your life with this. Then the daughter who knows he’s not her dad, yet she smiles sweetly, eats his food tells him to by her a puppy and pretends to love him all the while she doesn’t care for him and even tells him that she likes her real dad more. But then the Boss gets caught and whisked off to jail, wife & daughter will soon move into a van down by the river to spend the rest of their days slurping instant noodles. Oh yeah finally some karma...as for the Liam he gets to design his personal battle/sex/companion bot and then vows to tear his new world down and let it burn. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Liam come out of the learning module in 6 months looking like a teenager with a 36 yr old mind. I have no idea how the rest of the series will work out but the 1st two episodes were a refreshing change from the standard Iseaki formula. |
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Edjwald
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I'm going to throw some thoughts out there and hopefully they might make some kind of sense by the time I'm finished.
I think it was a good idea to put two episodes out at once, because in my opinion, the first episode was a bad idea all around. The job of an intro is to do a couple of things...it doesn't always have to introduce the main characters...it could be a prologue about events that will affect them later, for example. And it doesn't always have to introduce the main conflict...it can introduce the seeds that will germinate into the main conflict. But the intro almost always has to set the tone. The only exceptions I can think of is when the story is going to pull some whiplash surprise ending where you find out that everything you believed is a lie. That's why I understand why the anime started out with a flash forward. The tone of the story about a corporate drone who gets screwed over is not comedic or action oriented. It's like watching Willie Loman getting his legs and arms broken by punks with baseball bats for twenty minutes. In fact, the scenario is so over the top pathetic that I think it's better that the MC's situation was apparently manipulated by a demonic parasite who's been raising the MC like veal because his suffering is so exquisite. In a weird way, it seems more realistic that way. The problem is, the flash forward battle scene is ass. The animation is mediocre at best. We don't know the characters enough to really give a crap. And then the rest of the anime is about as fun as passing a kidney stone. Actually, I've never had a kidney stone, knock on laptop, so forgive the exaggeration. I'm not trying to tempt fate. That brings us to episode two. Everything done in the last 20 minutes of episode 1 is to set up the real premise, which is that a basically good man has been driven to saying to hell with the universe and karma and everything else. He wants to be one of the wolves this time, not a sheep. So I'm not as offended by him groping up his android, which at that point he's thinking of as an inflatable doll that someone gave him. I'm more bothered that he's a 30 something in a 5 year old body. In my opinion, episode 2 was better, but it's still all about setting the show up. It's like the introduction after the introduction. I'm not remotely sold on this show yet, but at least it's on an upward curve, and I still like the premise of a basically good man trying his hardest to be a villain and not really getting it. I also like the idea of that emotional parasite guy getting tortured by positive emotions and happy subjects instead of torturing someone else, which I assume is where things are going. So...I was disappointed by the start, but I'm still giving the anime 3 episodes. |
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