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smurky turkey
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Given that the second season is starting in april it is high time for a rewatch. The first episode reminded me of how calming the show is.
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Edjwald
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It's a spring release? Awesome.
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smurky turkey
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And so ends my rewatch of the first season. Just like after the first time watching I am impressed by the sheer amount of great fitting music to enhance the mood. It is also still such a good show to relax with.
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Tony K.
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I am halfway through it on my first watch. I added a ton of theme tags from just the first 6 episodes. And I'm surprised this has almost a dozen and a half light novel volumes. The detail in town-building is very extensive and impressive. Lots of little nuances about agriculture, architecture, and food stuff.
However, the harem/non-harem aspect kinda' bugs me. He's the only human male, so far, and these elf chicks keep talking about wanting to repopulate, and he's all like, "I have no idea what they're talking about!" And yet, there's no sexual tension, even though the show is clearly pushing fan service all the time with the cleavage shots and the fact that 98% of the population in this town are attractive women. If I could find the most perfect giant "gimme a break" eye-rolling meme pic, right now, I'd post it. |
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smurky turkey
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The harem thing is indeed a bit weird. In the manga and novel Hikaru sleeps with all (or most of) the elves, maids, dragons, angels, mountain elves, demons and more. Or maybe I should say that he is being slept with since the girls have taken control of the night and the poor bloke is only able to handle it all due to his healthy body perk. The anime alludes to it here and there but is not willing to stick to the source material. That is going to be interesting going forward since more babies are supposed to be born, lots more in fact.
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Edjwald
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If you go back and read this thread from the top - not that I'm recommending it - those of us who watched this show week to week from the beginning and hadn't read the source material were shocked when the vampire became pregnant, and we were trying to figure out who the father was. This anime did such a good job of making the MC seem like the typical sex phobic, clueless male anime protagonist that it almost completely occluded the stud horse shenanigans of the MC and his village. I had to go skimming through the first light novel online to figure out what was going on.
I'm guessing that the studio wanted to present this tale as a harmless, charming slice of life (and succeeded admirably) without offending a good portion of the audience who usually go for harmless, charming slice of life stories. |
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Tony K.
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Okay, so I finished watching the rest of S1, last night, then read this whole thread, this morning. I'm just gonna' call Hiraku's "son" Baby Jesus, since there was never any implication of romance, physical affection, etc., between him and Lu. "Their" "son" is a result of immaculate conception, because we know the god that messed up in giving Hiraku too much power with the almighty farming tool/spear to begin with is apparently a bit of an idiot, anyway. So he might as well have messed up, again, by planting a celestial baby in Lu's womb.
Like, imagine if this were Dr. Stone and Senkuu rebuilt all of human civilization, but they didn't show any of the conflict (of which there's a lot) in-between the peaks of advancement and such. It would feel incomplete. And it's not even "incomplete" in the sense of "oh, they just took a little something out." It would be a "how the effing eff did that happen, and why did they effing skip such an important detail?!" Even if it is just, what sounds like mostly inconsequential, sex. The harem aspect is, indeed, important, and I can't believe whoever was in charge of leaving it out thought it'd be a good idea, if not for adaptation purposes, but at least logical consistency. This isn't even close to the orgy guy thing from Seinfeld. A female is pregnant with no signs of sexual contact, and the "father" never even so much as acknowledges her as a mate at any point of the season. You don't have babies with platonic relationships. Therefore, it's all sorcery or supernatural in origin. I wish I could find an eye-roll gif so big, that every time someone clicked the link to view it, Zero-G (the studio that made this) would have some non-harmful, but very annoying occurrence happen at their headquarters, like, knocking out the power for a couple of minutes, or having a bucket of water magically appear over the main writer's head for this show and dumping it on him. All the building aspects were great! The perceived reputation of the town by all the neighboring people is pretty funny! But omitting the harem stuff to the point of it making no obvious logical sense is awful, awful writing from a consistency standpoint. Just make it make sense, even if it means painting Hiraku a a sex slave in his own town. They already went way past the wish fulfillment phase by making the town 98% women. Just allude to them jumping his bones every night, already, even if they have to depict it as an aside with him saying "man, I'm really tired after all these nights of f***ing." I guess I still have more educational building aspects and celestial babies to look forward to in S2. I haven't been this frustrated with a series in a long, long time. I still like it. But, UGH! |
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smurky turkey
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It makes me rather curious about the second season. More babies are going to arrive so either the show has to address the elephant in the room or somehow omit those babies but given that they are important to the story....
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Edjwald
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It seems pretty likely to me that Season 2 opens up at the beginning of one of the original light novels, with the theme of the arc being rapid expansion.
As far as second season openers go, I thought the first episode did a good job providing a smooth transition. It even managed to work in the main secondary support characters by having them be the ones escorting refugees. Some of the main characters didn't get much spotlight time - I would have rather had the young dragon (Lasty?) appear in front of the arrogant centaur for example - or seen a reminder about the angel and the vampire's frenemy-ship. But considering the sheer number of characters they covered, I have no complaints. I got a chuckle out of the village building mishap. |
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smurky turkey
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Yeah, the start of the second season is pretty much more of the same for good and bad. All the charm is still there with the soundtrack in particular making it feel like I have come home. It was also a good reminder of how crazy the village is. You can be part of a high ranking noble family but it means nothing in a village filled with overpowered characters. Miss centaur could have been fried if certain others had heard her talking down to Hiraku. The Hiraku has no harem thing is also still there but I have accepted that it is a choice they have made. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E2:
They managed to make it work with the new villagers. Given how ridiculously capable many of the villagers are it was to be expected. The dragon girls alone can easily clear the whole forest. The gang realizing that farming without Hiraku and his godly tool will actually require being a proper farmer was funny. Even funnier was the showdown between the horse and Gruwald. Still a charming and silly show. |
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Edjwald
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I'm wondering how they're going to handle it when the angel gets preggers. Are they just going to omit it or have her walking around with a baby bump as if it were asexual reproduction?
On the same front, why do I get the feeling that the ogre maid was flashing young Hiraku Jr. her panties to make him stop crying? I kind of feel like that must have been a "Like father, like son" joke from the book. I chuckled at quite a few parts too. Like when Hiraku did his equine dance for the third or fourth time, or when the goddess of creation blew a gasket because Hiraku made another statue of an old man. I can't remember how that misunderstanding got started, but I do remember that she put the god who first greeted Hiraku in deity time out for a century of so. I still think it's an easygoing, enjoyable show too. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E3:
I think that the second season is not going to address the baby thing at all. A shame but there is plenty happening in the town besides that. This week that mostly meant lots of food. Like most isekai mc's Hiraku is bringing all kinds of food culture to his new world. The confusion it causes is amusing. A fighting tournament is going to be pure chaos given how strong everyone is. |
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Edjwald
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I've been wondering too, and I think there's pretty good chance that Lulucy might be the only female to get preggers - an anime only adaptation. I don't know how else they could obliquely keep avoiding the issue.
And maybe that's a good thing? Anyhow, I thought episode 3 fell right back into the well-worn groove that I enjoyed so much in season 1. Not that I disliked episodes 1 and 2 of the second season, but there was so much going on with so many new characters that the show lost a little of that laid back kind of feeling that is the anime equivalent of going "Ahhhhhhhhh" while sinking back into an armchair. Making a new meal out of rice...blowing things up with too much magic and enthusiasm...getting a new sea-based dish out of the Merchant...none of it was ground-breaking, but it didn't feel old either. Come to think of it, I've liked all the winter episodes. |
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smurky turkey
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S2 E4:
We got the first episode with a lot of action in it. The only other action so far has been Hiraku shooting down some dragons and wyvern in the first season. The fights were decently well animated and half were intense while the other half were gags. It showed that the village can take on a few countries with ease. The episode combined with the others showcases that while there are still chill episodes with only laid back fluff it is not the only thing on offer. |
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