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TD912
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While the art direction is fairly bland, the animation and sound effects are actually pretty decent in episode 3.
Small stuff like the fox girl's reaction when being approached, Princess Sue rolling up into a "roll cake" and being annoying, and of course the fight scene in the second half of the episode were all actually animated fairly well. No obvious shortcuts or off-model characters. I actually find this show pretty funny after watching KonoSuba, since that show was basically a parody of this one. The "steal the panties" spell, explosion spell, etc. I'd bet the people working on this show are well aware of all the other shows with the same tropes, as a lot of the stuff in this show feels tongue-in-cheek despite being played seriously on the surface. It doesn't excuse the completely obvious totally generic isekai "plot" from the source material, but I actually kinda enjoying watching this show every week for some mindless entertainment. Last edited by TD912 on Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:36 am; edited 2 times in total |
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leafy sea dragon
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Based on what I've read about the books this is based on, it was written by a non-professional, and one with pretty little experience in writing or narratology at that. I can see this story being played absolutely straight if that is the case, as it'd be the author having learned to crawl before he learned to walk. (In other words, before you can play around with tropes, you first have to learn how to play them straight. You don't have to publish them though. Anyone who's good at writing stories is only good because they learned firsthand what DOESN'T work in a story.) On the other hand, I also heard that the literature this was based on got a lot of character motivations and other related types of reasoning removed for the anime. |
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Taifood
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Man the MC is always [expletive] smiling. That is the worst thing ever. All we need is another massively OP, nice guy, fuckwit.
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Shiroi Hane
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Is was originally self-published on syosetu.com and was actually itself written entirely on a phone. |
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mangamuscle
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For me this continues to be a relaxing fantasy rpg romp. You don't need to "boldly go where no one has gone before" to be entertaining, rather prefer this that other stories where they try (and miserably fail) to be edgy/revolutionary. Dunno why people keep getting distracted by the character plot armor since I can't think of one character (since Hitchcock psycho movie) that does not have it, at least the shenanigans here are fun and the attempts of the MC to get our heroines "slimmed" are but a passing joke.
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meiam
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There's a big difference between "we won't let the MC die cause the story would stop there" and "we'll make sure the MC never has to produce a single drop of sweat due to either exertion or being in any kind of bind". Without struggle there's no story or character growth, drama or tension and the show need to entirely revert to something else (great animation, good comedy, or as I'm sure we'll see more over the next few week fan service). |
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CheezcakeMe
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Ugh, I'll take a dickhead protagonist over a "Nice Guy" protagonist every day of the week. Not that you can't have a hero who's nice, but a guy who blandly smiles at everything and has never had an ounce of conflict in his life is dull, dull, dull.
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mangamuscle
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You have never in your life seen an slice of life series, have you? |
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Desa
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Smartphone? More like Sadphone. Much neglect
It's right there in the title yet it takes a backseat to his OP-as-hell magic powers. Definitely not treading any new ground here in the isekai genre, like, not even a little. That being said, I'm not bored just yet. Biggest complaint I have is that all these girls keep getting added to his party in the most improbable way. It's so blatant it feels cheap. Hyoudou Issei's life goal is to obtain a harem and even he doesn't have it this easy. |
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ChibiKangaroo
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Good god, thank you so much for these reviews. I totally need this in my life right now
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Melicans
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Part of the appeal to me while reading the series, at least post volume 1, is the number of ways the protagonist figures out how to apply his smartphone functionality to situations. The author admitted in an afterword that he didn't come close to using the premise properly in the earlier portion of the series, but since then that has been rectified decently I think. It's true that at this point he hasn't had to struggle too much - and honestly some of the ways he wins are pretty cheap, though amusing enough (looking at you Turtle-snake) - but I think that people are taking umbrage for the wrong reasons. This is an isekai series, but there is no demon lord here. There is no big evil bad through the first four volumes and almost certainly the full anime season. He may be in a new world but he isn't there to become a hero because the world needs it. It is a story about journeying with friends, and the appeal comes in the ingenuity with which he uses the token 'catch' of the series, the smartphone, to deal with unexpected or potentially dangerous situations. Anyone who is looking for more than that won't find it in this series, because that isn't the kind of series that Smartphone is. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Shiroi Hane
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I doubt they'll go as far in the anime but he can be a definite d**khead to human (or at least sentient) enemies. |
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cutslo
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I don't think this show would be better if he used the smartphone more.
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DuskyPredator
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Any other show worth its salt would have it revealed that the supposed awesome coat had no powers and he was simply swindled. He has little knowledge of the world, a character should not be perfect all the time. Part of my worry is that him being perfect just totally overshadows all the other characters, like there is rarely a time he is out of his depth and would require them to take point, which I thought would be what would be needed when at least shopping. Can he have a flaw already? Like be too trusting.
And shogi took off like a hit? Usually these fantasy settings have something akin to chess. Rather than him being awesome in making the boards, I kind of wonder if it would have been better he could make one, and then kick start some sort of woodcarver's work in creating a market if it was such a hit. |
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