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Phantowhite
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as much as i love this series even i have to admit after the whole milim arc, things started to go south pretty fast. the biggest problem probably has to be pacing. there were so many important details and interactions that got skipped or outright changed for little to no reason. a lot more political things happened during the final arc that i'm just baffled they decided to leave out. i'm not sure why they didn't show how much work rimuru actually put in to figuring out how to save the kids. i'm really not sure why they made the whole chloe twist that obvious since it was definitely a lot harder to figure out in the novel. granted there is still some things about that twist that haven't been completely given away but it was definitely a little too on the nose with the vague flashbacks and veldora's reactions.
well hopefully season 2 doesn't have this same problem. as long as they take it slow like they did at the beginning things would be fine. |
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zrnzle500
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Yeah, I should have been more specific and not conflated isekai with power fantasies, though many (but not all) modern isekai fit into both categories. Again, nothing wrong with not liking that kind of story, but I disagree with the idea that they are inherently boring or lazy or bad. I think it can be done in ways that are engaging and ways that are not, and I think the differences in reception between shows like this or Overlord and shows like Smartphone or Ragnarok bear that out. Look, we can only truly evaluate a show how we personally experience it, and I don't think anyone ought to expect otherwise, but we need to be aware of this. Isekai was not the right word, but I still believe that, fundamentally, our difference of opinion on this show comes down to you not liking this kind of story and me feeling differently. I do agree on Restaurant to Another World, and I think it used the other world premise better than Isekai Izakaya, which was more late Middle Ages/Renaissance Europe than a fantasy world.
To tie into what I had said above, we can only truly evaluate a show as we ourselves experience it. While people ought to be more respectful of the opinion of those with dissenting opinions on a popular show (or an unpopular show, for that matter), I think that requires that we in turn abjure any claim that our opinion is the only correct or true one, and to realize that what is a problem for us is not necessarily a problem for others, and it isn't so much that those who have a different opinion are failing to see or acknowledge the "truth", but rather they and you see things differently. |
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Cat's Tuxedo
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"Did That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Peak Too Early?"
That there is certainly a headline. |
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trilaan
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This series really flips my fandom switches, taken to another world, changed into a non-human creature, gender bending and others. I love it...in novel and manga form, I merely really enjoy this adaptation so far, clearly not because It's failing me in what it shows but in what it doesn't show. They skipped so much in minor and major development and I can't fathom why and it's really annoying to me. Still, I can't get behind some of the things the article participants say I just hope that season two does better in the storytelling and, yes, I mean not skipping stuff and doing a more direct adaptation. That's what I like for my more beloved titles.
To at least one of the article points, one reason my favorite isekai is the old OVA series El-Hazard: The Magnificent World is how the character powers are handled, especially for the most powerful one whose power only works if he doesn't do certain things. I do think a limiter can be used exceptionally well and be very enhancing to a story but I love an OP protagonist, without limitations, too. Every now and then it's good to feel unstoppable. |
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steelmirror
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re: overpowered protagonists
While I do think that Rimuru is pretty overpowered and thats not necessarily my favorite thing for a show to do, I don't think that's actually the main problem (for me) with Rimuru's powers in this show. I can accept a very powerful protagonist, even one who clearly outmatches most of their foes, if they have an interesting power that I understand. Then fight scenes can be less "will they win" (and let's be honest, 99% of anime fight scenes will be won by the protagonist), and more "what interesting way will they use their powers to win this time, and can I guess what it is before it happens?" The big issue with Rimuru is that not only are his powers crazy powerful, they are completely nebulous and seem to be changed or expanded on a whim just so that he can crush his latest challenger. This is part of why I think the first couple of episodes were actually the best part of the show, because when he was just a slime with a couple of well-defined powers, we could follow along with his challenges and guess how he's use his couple of key capabilities to overcome each obstacle. Seeing him explore his own powers and run up against their limits was also entertaining, for example when he passed out from handing out too many names. All that stuff was fun precisely because we could follow along and even speculate on further ways to use and combine his powers, and because of that audience knowledge Rimuru felt more "fair" in power level even though he was playing on easy mode from episode 1. Since that time, the show has pretty much dropped the pretense on letting us know how his powers work or even really how many powers he has at all, so each fight scene is just him smirking and annihilating some foe with 0 peril or interest using abilities we have no way to follow along with, and that feels a lot less engaging (again, IMO). tl;dr: a writer I really like says that "An author's ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic. ... Otherwise, the magic can constitute a deus ex machina." To me, that's a bigger problem with Rimuru as an engaging character than his sheer power level. |
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Hal14
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Yeah, Brandon Sanderson is great |
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MesousaGaby
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Newsflash: Lost Song is still a freaking great fantasy anime without having to go down dumb down Isekai boulevard.
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Wrangler
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problem i see is (as guy who was introduced to Rimuru from the manga vs light novels) is that the run isn't over, were reaching the filler part of it. As far i can read, the anime needed to pick up it's own storyline once it got to defeat of the Demon lord's hog. They should created new arch to wrap up the story, because story now becoming random stories until author does his end game moment, where Rimuru has to deal with the world's bigger issues, like other Demons who ultimately he going have to contend with and freeing his dragon in him.
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