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the green death
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I find this series to be a hoot. I don't find the satire as biting as Sam, but there's a lot of damn funny bits with the fiction of the future and also the main character being dumber than a stack of bricks lends a lot of hilarity. He is definitely not a character readers are going to want to be like.
One thing that is interesting though is how the series both parodies light novels and also makes a vigorous defense for "liking what you like" and not stressing over it too much. That aspect seems to grow each volume too. Finally want to say that I think this series benefits more than any other by reading it serially as a J-Novel member. It works a treat in bite sized pieces. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Ah, all right then. I can say I didn't get that impression reading this review either. It definitely came across as, "This future is awful, but you secretly like it, huh? Wink wink." ChibiKangaroo's post made me realize something though: The difference between a true satire and something that just playfully twists the tropes around is that a true satire is aimed at people who dislike whatever is being made fun of, whereas the latter is just playful teasing and aimed at the people who'd still like that stuff anyway. From what everyone is saying though, I'm not really clear on which side this story is on, if it's chosen a side at all.
An even easier way to make it undoubtedly a satire is to change the perspective to the little sister. This way, the story would be from the perspective of someone annoyed by these little sister fetish stories, and her otaku older brother would be cast in a harsher, less sympathetic light. In addition, the little sister has studied life before this dystopia and can thus provide direct commentary when necessary on how things have deteriorated from her time. |
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TenCentFang
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I'm a member of the blood related little sister political party. I've got a button and everything. Trump and Clinton conspired to keep me out of the presidential debates because they don't want the masses hearing #thetruth: if you're gonna do an incest story, don't chicken out! Do it right!
Yeah, but most of the time it's lazy. As already mentioned, Konosuba is one that's great for going above the usual standards of anime comedy, which is an extremely low bar. |
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jr240483
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well said. its more or less the reason why people disliked oreimo's ending cause it was clear we all knew it was going to have the siblings as a couple and for some reason unknown the author completely chickened footed with that story. and the fact that this series dont even have these siblings blood related is a sure fire way that light novel authors are scared to even touch that storyline and go with the non blood related route to prevent their works from getting trashed on all sides. its as you said. if LN authors want to do an actual incest storyline in their series, then they should take some examples from the authors that did angel sanctuary , koi kaze , and others. dont do a massive 180 and go all chicken scratch no matter what the reason. see the story through to the end and do it right for sure. |
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EricJ2
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Also (haven't read the GN), the idea of "Can't read kanji" is meant to suggest immaturity, since Japanese students don't learn their entire kanji vocabulary until though high school, and only little kids or lazy students need everything spelled out in Hiragana. (As you often see in the hiragana "subtitles" under the kanji in the anime logos for popular kids' shows.) One joke on Sailor Moon had the future adult-queen Usagi still writing everything out without kanji, because she continued to be so lazy and immature, or other comedies making their character seem dimmer when a kanji-written letter made him "illiterate". The Japanese "Idiocracy" joke of cutesy marathon-titled moe-incest light-novels eventually taking over the culture and wiping Kanji out of the Japanese language pretty much has its own judgmental comment on the current otaku-era tastes built in, and it ain't an "affectionate" satire. As one gaijin who has a low tolerance for darling moe-incest imoutos (and is still doing his hardest to get through Kemono Friends and Miss Kobayashi), I can't say I'm one to disagree... 
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ChibiKangaroo
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The whole issue of Japanese people failing at Kanji has been a joke for a pretty good while though, predating the current otaku scene. I remember back when I was studying in Japan in the early 2000s and my professors would joke with us that Japanese youth were losing the ability to write and understand Kanji due to the growing popularity of Denshi-Jisho.
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