Anime Thigh Thread II

[Yunru]

Hetalia World★Stars -- garbage
Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara -- it got my interest
Tokyo Revengers Ep 0 -- skip
Godzilla Singular Point -- zzzzz
Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood --- meh skip
Mars Red --- eh vampires again ...skip
Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui --- into trash it goes

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Redo of Healer

Watched the first 5 episodes (on HiDive, censored. Didn't want the bother having to run back and forth between the computer and the TV every 20 minutes to chromecast an episode).

The show feels... inconsistent. The first two episodes are straight up revenge porn following an evil protagonist. But then you reach episode 3, and the show turns into your run of the mill fantasy/isekai story where the protagonist is being treated as a heroic person by the other characters and the narrative. It's also weird that when he mind controlled the evil princess, she just turns into a waifu bait good girl... and the protagonist says "that evil nation made her evil!". Um... what?

Well, at least the show doesn't have CGI (man, it's sad that not having CGI nowadays is the exception, not the rule).

[Zatheyll]

Spider is the best show this season

[BloodyAngel12]

New key visual for the Yuru Camp film that was announced for 2022.

[Selastan]

Getting some FLCL vibes from that promo

[Belize]

New key visual for the Yuru Camp film that was announced for 2022.
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The chances of this getting official subs are about as high as the NNB Vacation movie

[Katchii]

Oh, so the spider MC isn't the demon lord, but one of her lieutenants? The one who killed Schlain and massacred the rest of the soldiers? Well... yeah, back to what I had said in prior episodes: it's hard to care about your MC when she is a mass murderer.

There's a reason she sided with the Demon Lord, and it wasn't to be an evil mass murderer, though that's sometimes what is needed. Context matters, you've said so yourself.

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Redo of Healer

The show feels... inconsistent. The first two episodes are straight up revenge porn following an evil protagonist. But then you reach episode 3, and the show turns into your run of the mill fantasy/isekai story where the protagonist is being treated as a heroic person by the other characters and the narrative. It's also weird that when he mind controlled the evil princess, she just turns into a waifu bait good girl... and the protagonist says "that evil nation made her evil!". Um... what?

I'm not sure how you missed the context of that. She was raised in a nation with horrible principles and therefore became a horrible person, simple as. He recognizes that the reason he was treated so horribly previously is rooted in the fact that the nation these heroes are all from is a horrible, misguided, and selfish one. The people who mistreated him, did so because they're horrible people which are the product of that nations horrible principles and upbringing. He wants to "fix" that. By "fix" I mean he wants to tear that kingdom down and get revenge on the people who made it that way.

That doesn't really have anything to do with his brainwashing of her, that was obviously for his own safety...can't exactly have a woman following you around that would sell you out or kill you the first chance she gets.

Also, he recognizes that he can't just run around killing everyone and destroying everything. He's not stupid and he's not all powerful and can't do everything. Taking a more measured approach to his revenge means that he'll actually be able to accomplish it. If he goes in everywhere guns blazing he'll more likely end up dead before he can accomplish his goal. He also has to actually survive in the world, which means making money, which means making business decisions and partners...can't have business dealings if you kill everyone.

Well, at least the show doesn't have CGI (man, it's sad that not having CGI nowadays is the exception, not the rule).

Some CGI is well done and not overly terrible, I admit though, a lot of it is terrible. But just having CGI doesn't automatically make it bad.

[bals]

SSSS.Dynazenon giving me a healthy dose of Gridman/tokusatsu action, exactly what I wanted from it. They've even improved the CG from Gridman, though the 2D character work did feel slightly more rough, I guess. They wasted very little time and just got right into it, can't complain with that.

watching before the gura&ina watchalong - I still haven't gotten around to watching it

sharo sings the ed!

[bals]

dang that's smart

[BloodyAngel12]

I feel it lacks Rikka Thighs.....

[Selastan]

So I've been through the first few episodes of Redo of Healer and dear FUCKING God...This is the most messed up thing I've seen since RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne, at least outside of some REALLY niche hentai. I'm watching what I assume is the uncensored version, but since there are three I don't know if I'm getting the FULLY uncensored one or just the somewhat untouched one. I doubt it, because literally anything more than what I've seen would just be porn. How the hell did this get on TV...

Love it though. Doing fucked up things to fucked up people. Can't really route for the protagonist, but it you DO want to route AGAINST the antagonists, which is nice.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

How the hell did this get on TV...

According to animesuki and MAL (can't remember which), it aired at 4 AM in the morning in Japan, so I guess that works. If kids get up to go to school at 6 or 7 like Westerners do, then they should be fine, I think.

So I've been through the first few episodes of Redo of Healer and dear FUCKING God...This is the most messed up thing I've seen since RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne, at least outside of some REALLY niche hentai.

Eh, not the most messed up thing I've seen. Graphic rape isn't that niche in Japan. In fact, it seems to be an actually somewhat popular genre among women. Hao Airen was published in Shojo Comic Magazine and there was plenty of the MC heroine being repeatedly raped by a brutal Yakuza/Triad leader (and also passed around his subordinates, and then she unironically falls in love with him for real and marries him, no insinuation of stockholm syndrome at play here. Also, don't forget kids: trying to be a hero and saving the heroine from a life of being raped and manipulated by a brutal crime lord by shooting him makes you worse than him! Heroes are evil!). And Haou Airen isn't just one exception; there are several "romance" manga where the MC heroine is graphically raped by the main guy (I hesitate to them heroes, lol), manga by women and published in girl's magazines. For example, Teacher's Pet and Renai Shijo Shugi (and pretty much all of the other manga done by their authors). Red River was also published in Shojo Comic Magazine (MC woman gets raped and becomes the concubine of a Hittite king).

And given that Redo of Healer was apparently more popular among women than among men... I think it might be safe to conclude the rape/smutt is somewhat popular among women in Japan. Maybe their fantasy is being conquered by some handsome, dangerous alpha man.

[bals]

shaman king 2021 ep 1 these ridiculously small heads are making me laugh

[Yunru]

So I've been through the first few episodes of Redo of Healer and dear FUCKING God...This is the most messed up thing I've seen since RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne, at least outside of some REALLY niche hentai. I'm watching what I assume is the uncensored version, but since there are three I don't know if I'm getting the FULLY uncensored one or just the somewhat untouched one. I doubt it, because literally anything more than what I've seen would just be porn. How the hell did this get on TV...

Love it though. Doing fucked up things to fucked up people. Can't really route for the protagonist, but it you DO want to route AGAINST the antagonists, which is nice.

Dont watch the cenzored version as you miss on a lot of gore later . Sex scenes are realy bad quality tho.

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shaman king 2021 ep 1 these ridiculously small heads are making me laugh

Yeah, i kinda dislike this show already due to character models.

[Selastan]

Dont watch the cenzored version as you miss on a lot of gore later . Sex scenes are realy bad quality tho.

Yeah, I'm fairly certain I'm getting the uncensored version because the ONLY thing they could possibly add at this point is animated genitalia. That and the episodes are 24 minutes long, which is a full runtime for a 30 minute show accounting for ads.

[Yunru]

Yeah, I'm fairly certain I'm getting the uncensored version because the ONLY thing they could possibly add at this point is animated genitalia. That and the episodes are 24 minutes long, which is a full runtime for a 30 minute show accounting for ads.

They dont even show that. Heck if they did they would still have to cenzor just that part due to weird Japan laws.

....also....lol ads....i just download everything

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Amazes me people will actually watch complete shit like Redo. It has nothing redeeming about it.

There aren't many shows like it; a story about going up against insurmountable odds, using every ounce of ingenuity you have and a titanic amount of perseverance to make it through. Desperate. Grimly heroic.

But Redo of Healer botches that from the start, with him resetting the timeline and having inside knowledge of who can do what and who is evil, and has cheat powers that lets him trivialize situations. And after episode 2 it just fell apart and became another generic harem fantasy anime.

Shield Hero's first 7 episodes were great, and even then it still did pretty okay to around episodes 12/13/14. It didn't completely fall apart until around episodes 19 when we got one simple fight that was dragged out for 3 or 4 episodes with Dragonball Z esque pacing.

Re:Zero was unbearably bad from the getgo.

Attack on Titan had that "against all odds" feel for the first 5 episodes... but then he was able to transform into a titan and suddenly the tables turned and that feel went away. Only got a little bit of that feel again during the Female Titan arc, and the manga version of the return to Shingashima arc.

I suppose Berserk 1997 got that desperation feel at the end, but only the Golden Age arc was good and the manga went downhill after. Fate UBW had that feel in the VN, and at the end of season 1 (not so much in S2). Otherwise, that's pretty much it for anime. Only games I can think of that have that feel are the Trails of Cold Steel games, and The Banner Saga.

[Jester Joe]

There aren't many shows like it; a story about going up against insurmountable odds, using every ounce of ingenuity you have and a titanic amount of perseverance to make it through. Desperate. Grimly heroic.

But Redo of Healer botches that from the start, with him resetting the timeline and having inside knowledge of who can do what and who is evil, and has cheat powers that lets him trivialize situations. And after episode 2 it just fell apart and became another generic harem fantasy anime.

I'm confused how you say "There's not many shows like it" and then proceed to say "Well it's also nothing like this".

I mean, I'll admit I read the manga out of pure boredom, and at no point did it ever feel like anything close to your first description.

It read more like someone's wet dream fanfic.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Can you elaborate on why it was unbearably bad?

I've tried watching Re:Zero four times. Only finished season 1 when the English dub came out and Sean Chiplock voiced Subaru. I started season 2 and then dropped after two episodes.

TL;DR

Re:zero: anime adaptation of a web novel. It's about a guy who gets isekaied to a fantasy world, but when he dies, he respawns at an earlier "checkpoint" in the timeline. The show has a set formula where a new, mysterious threat shows up and kills everyone, and the guy has to slowly unravel the mystery by save scumming until he finds the path where everyone lives, and the show progresses forward. I found the show to be unbearably slow and hypocritical. It can't decide whether or not its MC is supposed to be a pathetic deconstruction, or to praise him for the very things it was criticizing. Also, it bears repeating that the show moves at a glacial pace. None of the characters were likeable (except Reinhardt). I do not recommend it.

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I'm confused how you say "There's not many shows like it" and then proceed to say "Well it's also nothing like this".

I mean, I'll admit I read the manga out of pure boredom, and at no point did it ever feel like anything close to your first description.

It read more like someone's wet dream fanfic.

I suppose its MAL description and the way people hyped it up promised me something that didn't turn out to be true. I saw a lot of comparisons to Re:Zero and Shield Hero about the MC being a nobody with the whole world against him.

[Zatheyll]

I've tried watching Re:Zero four times. Only finished season 1 when the English dub came out and Sean Chiplock voiced Subaru. I started season 2 and then dropped after two episodes.

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I suppose its MAL description and the way people hyped it up promised me something that didn't turn out to be true. I saw a lot of comparisons to Re:Zero and Shield Hero about the MC being a nobody with the whole world against him.

Subaru isn't a nobody and the entire world is for him. Wtf are you talking about. Even in season one he was well known by those in power or those with any import.