Fantasy Thread

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Fantasy series with unique setting.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>146141810
>Is so hard to find something that doesn't resemble an extremely successfull franchise?
Yes.

Wonder how many authors actually have played Dragon Quest beyond the meme tier 1,3, and 5. Judging by the doujins, not a lot.

No wonder they keep rehashing the same shit even though Dragon Quest itself has evolved its formula over the ages.

>>146141810
It is if you look? Like seriously? It's hardly easy to find maou in fantasy.

>>146141858
>What could possibly go wrong?


>Rushed
>No season 2

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>>146146480

>>146146565
wtf i hate america now

Japanese fantasy right now is at about that phase that Western fantasy was around 30 years ago, where everything was "inspired" by Tolkien (or D&D, which in turn was also inspired by Tolkien), only their "Lord of the Rings" is Dragon Quest and similar video games.

Give it maybe 10 or so years and you'll start seeing some variety in Fantasy, if it doesn't die out.

>>146146565
>cute mother dying
Alright, now I need to read this.

>>146146480
>>146146565
Ow, the edge.

>>146146480
Why didn't he just marry her?

>>146148628
iirc this is the one where guy is perma level one unless he kills a teammate and absorbs their power, albeit temporarily

>>146146480
I don't know what this is, but I can still feel, no, TASTE the edginess the same. And I will stay the fuck away from that.
>>146146565
Isekai Hiroshima?

>>146148879

If you don't take it seriously it's kind of fun.

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At least we have this each couple of months

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>>146148925
Most of this works are fun despite all, but you know...sometimes you want to see something straight something that is not the straight thing but with a tweeeeest.

Specially because if you think on it there are more "deconstructions" "parodies" "twist" or whatever you want to call them than the actual thing.

I mean, there is like one millon works that makes fun about the hero taking down the Demon King, but how many works are about an hero taking the down the Demon King in a serious way?

>>146149674
>mfw there's so many deconstructions we're getting deconstructions of deconstructions

Jesus.

MaoYuu was amazing but what happened to the manga? Scans turned low-quality and dried up.

>>146141810
Sauce? All search engines failed.

>>146141810
They'll start ripping off Warhammer once. You just wait.

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>>146149780
>Villager becoming a chosen hero its so meta, I know, lets make the MC a guy from another world!

>MC from another world summoned to become a hero its so meta, I know, lets make the summoned is useless!

>Useless MC from another world is so meta, I know let's gonna make him a powerful Demon King instead!

>Useless MC that becomes powerful Demon King is so meta...let's make him an useless monster!

But...but...I just want a villager becoming a hero!

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>>146150203
Yuusha Ga Shinda

>>146150251
Well, despite being isekai-ish New Saga is pretty straightforward. And actually good and interesting so far.

>>146141810
Source? Google gives nothing.

>>146150521
How about you stop being a lazy piece of shit and read the fucking thread?

>>146149674
>but how many works are about an hero taking the down the Demon King in a serious way?

Well, there are the Dragon Quest manga and novels but no one's translating those.

>>146150298
>Yuusha Ga Shinda
Thanks.

>>146150348
New Saga is no more isekai than Arslan Senki is.

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>>146150775
Yaa~ gomen gomen

>>146149674
It's sort of like how the princess trapped in a tower cliche turns into just busting herself out and proving the guy coming to rescue her either worthless or a douche.

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>>146141810
>their audience only want this kind of thing

Shit sells. That's the only reason they keep churning out the same shit over and over again.

>>146151465
>Shit sells.
This and japs can't into writing.

>>146150986
Time travel is a form of isekai and it shares a lot of story beats with standard isekai.

>>146151110
>prince/hero goes to rescue princess from tower
>he gets there, finds her watching elvish plays on her magic viewing crystal
>tower is constantly stocked with food due to magic refilling icebox
>she never has to work
>doesn't have to put up with people
>doesn't want to leave
>can the prince break the princess of her NEET ways and get her to leave the tower?

>>146152001
So now literally everything is isekai? What a time to be alive in.

>>146152139
Not unless literally everything is time travel or world travel.

>>146150298
Who is this cutie? I don't remember her.

I know it's flavor of the month and whatnot but Re:Zero's setting is fantasy that makes attempts to break away from the usual Dragon Quest formula. No demon king, no anointed hero, no great war happening atm., etc.

>>146152324
It's still your isekaishit. Call me whenver japs start to rip off Warhammer or something.

>>146152324
It is fantasy, but people have a bias and will call it Isekai Fantasy, when really it's still fantasy. Just confirmation bias, so just let it pass. Fantasy is as good as ever anyways.

>>146152422
How the fuck is it not isekai? The MC is your average japanese highschool boy.

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>>146149488
>no new chapter until October

>>146152479
>tfw one of the people I was just talking about in my post replies to me
It is isekai, but you're ignoring the other word. Fantasy.

>>146152595
Any isekaishit is fantasy, as generic as fantasy can get.

>>146152595
99.9% of Isekai is isekai fantasy, what the fuck is that even supposed to mean?

>>146152001
Its different in New Saga though. To make a video game analogy, New Saga is playing New Game+, while other isekai/time travel are playing a completely different game altogether

>>146148628
Her legs were cut off by some bad guy. She already was gonna die, but the MC killed her himself to get her powers

>>146152691
Which is why I called it isekai-ish, but you cannot deny that different timelines can be argued to count as different "worlds", and that it has a lot of the same story beats most isekai do (second chance theme, overpowered protagonist with a knowledge advantage, etc).

It's still fantastic.

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Would you read a fantasy story taking tropes from old JRPG (DQ1, Hero that have to slay the Demon king) while still having a bit more realistic/serious tone (gore/brutal deaths), but with the MC Hero being a lonely overpowered easygoing petite curvy girl mainly fighting with her fists because that's enough to kill all the monsters and demons opposing her? And with a face similar to girlycard.

>>146154034
Kanstoppu?

>>146141810
It exists, you're just too lazy and/or stupid to look for it/find it.

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>>146150234
>Nobunda Oda is the god emperor of japan born while the mongolian orcs invaded japan
>oda managed to become a famous orc killer by wielding his katana "head chopper"
>oda united Japan under his rule and became the god emperor then disappeared out of nowhere
>Japan was then split into many provinces after the emperor then starts anther era of sengoku.
>they gets invaded by high technology chaos worshipers from the continent of america
>also north korean are dark elf while south korean are high elf
>wood elf lives in taiwan
>Dwarf are the chinese fighting Mongolian ork from the north
>russian are the tomb kings, but instead of egyptian theme, they have russian theme
>also Stalin is like Nagash, the necromancer of Russia who ruined orthodox Christianity and other Russian shit with his lore of communist magic.
>lizard men lives in Philippine, with their leader known for ethic cleansing drug lord and degenerates.

>>146141810
FMA?

>>146155153
They went to a different country, isekai.

>>146141810
>DQ tropes in manga are kinda fun and the plot is interesting sometimes
>DQ itself is extremely basic and straightforward
All the shit I read and watch made me want to look into the series until I found out it never really goes anywhere and is not nearly as interesting.

>>146155303
Nah, not really.

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>>146146480
>that feel when you actually reverse image search and read the intro chapters

>This guy in my picture had a bedridden loli to protect and was just lost his job moments before meeting the hero

oh my jesus.
This isn't even edge this is CRAWLING IN MY SKIN.

That girl who he beheads even was only introduced the chapter before that and in Chapter 1 he offs his whole party just to kill some generic mobs.

>>146155430
He and the loli were going to die anyways.

bring back slayers

>Fags don't know about stuff like Ozanari Dungeon

Isekai trash can just fuck off

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>>146155430
Also,kinda seems like a plot hole that a nigger at level 1 can do this sort of stuff to others who have even just simply a 5 level advantage over him.

But i'm disgusted enough to not even give it a chance to explain itself on that.

>>146155572
y-y-you don't know that!

>>146141810
> JESUS it is so hard to find something that doesn't resembles Dragon Quest?
Not really, no. Try actually using a search database like MU, instead of just picking up random things from /a/ and hoping they'll be what you want.

>>146155737
Ozanari Dungeon is unfunny D&D garbage, and actually worse than plenty of isekai from that same era, in my opinion.

>>146155975
And in my opinion your opinion is worth less than shit.

>>146156008
Well, how about I just knock you flat on you're ass you troll, that sound any better to you? Just name the time and the place and I'll be there.

>>146156244
Stop impersonating me.

>>146155791
I bet there are revival spells.

>>146141810
>Is that japan can't do Fantasy or its just that it isn't worth because their audience only want this kind of thing?
Both. Nip fantasy writers are mostly hacks whose only exposure to fantasy is this kind of shit, but that's okay for them because their audience is the same.

So does anyone read yuusha ga shinda

I think it's pretty good, even though I don't care about fan service at all

>>146148775
He's not perma level one he just strives to be a complete and utterly useless dipshit. There's another subjugator who is like level 47 or something.

>>146155791

Never was a fan of super contrived death game-ish stories like that. I know the events are supposed to be tragic and whatnot, but the bizarrely convenient way every event leads right to bloodshed and sorrow just annoys me instead. I found it annoying in both Bokurano and Madoka, and no comic has sold me on it since.

>>146156445
Explain more anon I don't want to read it but I'm morbidly curious.

>>146152186
She's MC's brother, she's in some other hero group.

She even calls him onii-chan in that page.

>>146156483
>She's MC's brother

>>146156436
I don't care much for it either, but I enjoy Touka enjoying the fan service

>>146156244
Web can do you why would he be afraid

I say he talk most shit.

>>146156493
I'm sort of surprised I don't see it more often because of thicc memes when it's so focused on thighs

>>146141810
I don't mind the general setting but
>classes
>stats

And the worst offender,
>user interface

This shit has got to stop.

>>146156537
The art isn't really good enough to get it passed around for the thickness.

>>146156563
Don't most things not have a UI.

Even mmo isekais get rid of the UI most of the time

>>146156455
I dropped that subjugator shit two chapters in last year, but contrived/convenient seems like an odd criticism for these sorts of things, when the bloodshed/tragedy is usually a guaranteed result of the premise itself.

>>146156599
It's rare, but it really pisses me off when it happens.

Ore to Kawazu-san no Isekai Hourouki

is quite fun, despite it being another transported to Dragon Quest world series.

It's basically a fantasy One Punch Man

>>146156483
Oh, really? Interesting. I might have to pick it back up now. Hopefully he praises her thighs too.

>>146156734
She doesn't show up a whole ton (as she laments in the image) but he does, iirc.

Their dad does, too.

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>>146152001
>Time travel is a form of isekai
Yeah, and harem anime is a form of NTR because the girls want to fuck the MC and not you personally.

>>146141810
>but JESUS it is so hard to find something that doesn't resembles Dragon Quest?

For the Japanese? Absolutely. Their culture discourages standing out and having unique ideas. And this translates into the media they produce.

Anyone know any LN's or Manga where the hero is like a dark hero, or like the hero joins the demon or dark side?

Anti hero I guess?(Fantasy Male Protag)

>>146156892
>Their culture discourages standing out and having unique ideas.

Don't be stupid, there are ton of original series from Japan, most stuffs being uninspired is something you'll find everywhere.

>>146156480
Subjugator is his and the level 40 something guys class and their class ability is to let them absorb their dead teammates level temporarily. The reason the MC of that manga is level 1 is because he completely overrelies on it and does retarded shit like constantly killing his party to beat absolute nobodies. He says that, although in a less matter of fact way, himself.

So its pretty clear that despite how serious of an image he puts up about sefeating the demon lord, the MC is just a terrible person offing people because he can and does not really care about the demon lord

>>146156892
Most of the original stuff you'll only find in old shit from at least 10 years ago. Modern shit is all rehashed garbage.

>>146157089
Oh look, it's this meme again

>>146156892
No, there very much is unique stuff out there, /a/ is just too lazy to get off its ass and find it and expects to be spoonfed instead.

>>146156892
Jesus Christ, kill yourself. Fantasy is by and large incestuous and unoriginal genre regardless of where in the world you are.

>>146157019
Holy shit, read about the few chapters that got translated some times ago but didn't know about that, this is hilarious. How can the author even think having a story with this kind of character is even acceptable? And we're supposed to believe he's gonna beat the demon king? So the story will be pretty much just be about a kittle shit constantly killing his party.

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>>146152499
why do we have to wait so long each time?

>>146154648
>Kanstoppu

Is it good? Not usually into LNs but this one sounds intriguing.

>>146157011

I'm not saying that's not true. But Japanese society is very much about conforming and not standing out. Which is also why a lot of that really cool unique stuff tends to be pretty niche and rarely becomes popular enough to matter.

>>146157278
>But Japanese society is very much about conforming and not standing out.

Because USA and China are any better? What matters is that in the end there does are ton of good original stuffs you'll never find anywhere else.

>>146157278
> Which is also why a lot of that really cool unique stuff tends to be pretty niche and rarely becomes popular enough to matter.
Because popular mainstream comics in the West are really unique and creative, right? Face it, this is just how it works.

>>146157331

China? No. The US? Absolutely. We're a far more socially liberal society.

>>146150986
>>146152139

Come one, "technically" is not isekai that's true but when you have to say "technically" means that mostly is.

Guy is a powerful warrior that dies and reincarnates into his own young self and first thing he does is going to a treasure he knows to get infinite gold and endgame sword.

I enjoy that manga but if I only had two columns, Isekai and Not Isekai I would definetively put this manga in the isekai column

>>146157390
That really isn't showing.

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>>146151110
Did you made that post with or without knowing this manga?

>>146157443

What? Because comics, something most people in the US don't read or give a fuck about, are stagnant as a medium?

>>146157431
No, anon, it's not "technically," it just isn't. Isekai literally has nothing to do with time travel, and certainly not with "first thing he does is going to a treasure he knows to get infinite gold and endgame sword." That's a completely different set of cliches that happen to be common in conjunction with current isekai trends. Your argument is just as ridiculous as the people who try to say that something like Hoshi no Samidare is shounen, for example.

>>146157497
Mainstream movies, mainstream fantasy novels, etc. aren't particularly creative either. Or do I need to remind you of how blatantly popular series from Shannara to Wheel of Time rip off Tolkien?

>>146157431
That means it's a reincarnation novel not a isekai. There is absolutely no between world travel taking place whatsoever.
Are you fucking retarded?

>>146157431
You fucking nigger, isekai doesn't mean "anything that feels like an RPG-ish WN." It has a specific meaning, and New Saga does not meet it in any way.

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>>146156436
Its the closest thing to Slayers I've read in a while, its fantasy parody done right not based on game mechanics but more conceptually.

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>>146157431
>I am going to twist a word what I want it to mean its actual definition be damned
Have a genderbent vampire loli.

>>146157681
I've seen her around, she's /actually/ from an isekai right?

Is that the one from a year or so ago that had a garbage translation or a different one?

>>146157522
What the fuck do you call it then? There has to be a term for it.

>>146151110
Top princess here:
Maou-jou de Oyasumi

>>146141810
>>Demon Lord
>>Demon continent
>>Hero
>>Adventure guild

They're writing shortcuts, so yeah, they get frequent use for free plot and free social structure in place of actual work. Especially since webnovels became an accepted addition to the front of the Japanese content pipeline, with zero barrier to entry.

The ones who actually understand the formula and use it well are only exploiting it for a faster start of the story, and still do all the traditional worldbuilding work anyway. It's just that the template lets them shift the presentation order slightly.

The ones who are bad but don't know that they're bad use the template, add one twist, and pat themselves on the back for being brilliant deconstructionists.
The ones who are oblivious to the template just follow it blindly.
These two subsets are basically only recoverable if the author happens to be really good at character interaction. Otherwise it continues into rote game mechanic explanations and following the same old path, and you know it's probably safe to stop reading there.

It's basically the same thing as the three episode rule for new anime: because first episodes have gone so formulaic to try to grab eyeballs, you can't fairly start to judge the quality of most shows until they diverge in ep2 (or fail to diverge), and if you don't like the characters by the end of ep3, it's safe to drop it, because very very few shows are going to suddenly get good midseason, and the few that do, you'll catch later just by watching /a/ as usual.

>>146157709
Different one,
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-reincarnated-vampire-wants-an-afternoon-nap/

>>146157735
Kill yourself

>>146157786
Thanks anon

>>146157522
>>146157570
>>146157624

Its not time travel, he got reincarnated, reincarnation stories are Isekai. And the plot itself explains in the very few chapters, they explain how his soul jumped to another world. That's why there are two stones right now.

Did you even read it?

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>>146157880
The release schedule should be once a week but god knows if the guy will stick to it.

>>146157910
Isekai means different world, you dumb motherfucker, you don't get to change the meaning of a word just because.

>>146157908
Kek

>>146157634
Well, it still does have "levels", not like that's necessarily a problem.

>>146157277
Translations are pretty slow.

>>146158033
That was meant for >>146156958

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>>146157993
I dunno. I'm not too optimistic

>>146158052
The plot itself I mean. It's parodic?

>>146158083
Can't remember very well, but I think it was more serious than parodic. MC was basically a female One-Punch Man power wise, that's all I really remember.

>>146158153
>OPM but serious
That sounds awful family

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>>146158670
The dumbass upthread is repeatedly trying to jam the big round time travel peg into the little square isekai slot using a story where the time difference is like, four years. Not like modern Earth to year 1250 Earth. Like 2016 to 2012.

He's in his functionally identical body of that time in a functionally identical world of that time.

He's fantasy Okabe.

And he has one object carried through, so there are two of them in the world at the same time, which is an extremely common element of time travel stories and completely irrelevant to isekai stories.

There was a thread on a fantasy manga about some guy who volunteers to take the place of his childhood friend as a sacrifice for a dungeon but turns out she was cucking him with the local chad. Also I think he killed monsters in said dungeon to gain their powers despite being lvl 0 useless shit or something.

Anyone know what that manga was? I can't recall the name at all.

>>146159462
It's the not!Arifureta, since I said this, someone will find it.

>>146159462
Dungeon Seeker

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>>146159462
Dungeon seeker, remember to play CRAWLING for maximum edgy experience.

>>146159750
>>146159754

Thanks

>>146155430
>Truza (((Goldschleim)))

With jews, you lose.

>>146146480
THE QUICKENING

>>146157481
With, but I have nothing against that one. At least the position of Princess is still treated as dignified.

>>146159750
>>146159754
>Dungeon Crawling

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>Demon lord
Well if you count the Mc's buffed up shoujo protag Mary sue of a sister.
>Demon continent
More like germany vs the balkans
>Hero
Well if the Hero is an emperor with his harem of dangerous bitches who can easily topple a kingdom or two and have the balls and ability to keep them in check then he is rather different from your typical jap fantasy protags he actually dicks them in the end
>Adventure guild
Ok this one exists.

I don't really see why "Adventurer Guild" is a detriment.

It's like complaining about a government existing in the world, depending on the severity of the monsters/demons/etc there's going to be some sort of group that will attempt to curb them

>>146161039
Probably because Adventurer Guild is typically independent from the government, but usually just as if not stronger and more influential.

>>146141810
>Demon Lord
>Demon continent
>Hero
>Adventure guild
How is this any different from any other non-Japanese fantasy work though? All of that shit is standard fantasy tropes. They just call them by some other names.

>>146146480
ok that was onixpected

>>146161039
From what I gather from other people's autism, the complaint is that the adventurer's guild is a privatized system that essentially dictates everything that happens in the vicinity.

What if you have a significant problem, but can't pay to hire adventurers for it? Do you just resign yourself to getting gobbed?

As much as people mock Goblin Slayer for being grim goblin autism, it's being fairly accurate in how poor people get fucked by the ancap nature of adventurer's guilds.

I always thought that these guilds were at least partially government-recognized, but apparently not.

>>146160838
deepest lore

>>146149674
>hero taking the down the Demon King in a serious way

if I had to guess, that happened thirty-forty years ago in the early days of video games

>>146161231
There's shitton of actually different fantasy shit. I'll take Warhammer for 100.

>>146162234
>Archaeon
>Chaos Wastes
>Franz
>There's absolutely some fucking kind of "adventure" guild proxy in Warhams
Except the MC loses.

>>146161651
>I always thought that these guilds were at least partially government-recognized, but apparently not.
Some of them are.

iirc in overlord there's a separate "adventurer guild" for each country, even though I think they're all connected in some way

I could also just be misremembering htings

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>>146156455
>So the story will be pretty much just be about a kittle shit constantly killing his party.

Essentially yeah.
It seems like it largely wants to go the way of Kino's Journey or Cassherns Sins where the MC writes their faggotry across one place and then moves on to the next.

I hope it gets canned. It's not even trainwreck worthy with the guy being so literally retarded that he actually has a moment like this where he breaks down and cries while explaining what the easily solvable problem is. He's just either going to die or ass pull a way to defeat the level √9999 demon lord anyway which for the last will more than likely be executed in a completely unnecessary dickass way

>>146141810
>elevens
>originality

>>146155791
>>146156455
>>146162472
Seems like the urobuchi thing from last year.

Red dragon or something, ending was marginally less edgy than I was expecting.

>>146162601

how did red dragon end anyway?

I dropped the trainwreck after the first episode due to how cringy the protagonist is

>>146162697
Like 4 of the characters actually survived, though the main girl that was a cute catgirl sort of died but was reincarnated or something.

I looked it up afterwards and the anime was actually adapted from a D&D session of all things between Urobuchi and a few other big anime people. I think the rest of the campaign was (or at least was going to be) adapted into a manga or something.

Not surprising that he's as edgy in table top games as he is in anime.

I want to see more 'weird' fantasy in manga.

Dark Crystal, Morrowind, Zeno Clash. That kind of thing.

>>146161651
I think the complaint against the standard adventurer guild showing up in every story is that it's, like, a pure game mechanic devoid of connection to the setting. Or the setting in general is gaming meme soup and nothing makes sense in context of the world, because the world is never actually built up. You get dumped into another world, so you go to the guild to get handed quests and money and to have something to rank/faction grind because of course you do. The game cliche stuff IS the setting.

>I always thought that these guilds were at least partially government-recognized
When it's done right, like in >>146160884
it's explained well. Sevens actually has the guild system have an entirely different character and role depending on which country they're in. Like in one place they're really just an arm of the government; in another, they're only really there to cull the local dungeon and turn it into a profit center; in a third, it's an old italian style city state run by the merchant class, and the guild is their military and how they hire out mercs to neighboring countries (and keep them played against each other). The local politics are deeply involved in each case. It helps a lot that the setting takes dungeons and monsters seriously as an existential threat to humanity, too.

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>>146161651
>it's being fairly accurate in how poor people get fucked by the ancap nature of adventurer's guilds.

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>>146154034
>DQ1, Hero that have to slay the Demon king

Dragonlord.

And he's that goofy ass looking at pic related.

>>146155360
>All the shit I read and watch made me want to look into the series until I found out it never really goes anywhere and is not nearly as interesting.

You mean the games?

>>146156436
I think it's pretty dumb.

It's hilarious how the author backs away from his promised omorashi scene. Guess it's still too hardcore for nips.

>>146162823
To be fair, Butcher probably acts like that since that's how people expected him to act. These days, you can tell he's much happier than before and probably writes edgy shit because they pay him a lot of money for it.

>>146156958
There's a lot of that kind of edgy shit, anon.

>>146160884
Sounds real edgy there, anon.

>>146161039
>>146161142
I don't know where Nips get their adventurer guilds from since Dragon Quest doesn't have that shit.

>>146161651
>As much as people mock Goblin Slayer for being grim goblin autism, it's being fairly accurate in how poor people get fucked by the ancap nature of adventurer's guilds.
>muh realism in a totally made-up trope in a totally made-up setting

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>>146156958
There's that thing with the werewolf wizard that kinda counts, Hifumi from Yobidaresa really likes killing people to the point where he improves the economy of a area simply so he can get better engines of war built there, then there's all the revenge ones and all the demon lord ones.

Well there is Alderman this season, but it is so fedora tipping it hurts. I cringed during the atheism dance last episode.

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>>146164683
>it's fiction, so gravity doesn't apply and cows lay eggs

>>146164933
That would make a far more interesting fantasy world than the one in Goblin Slayer

>>146164648
Dragon Quest III featured an adventurer's guild at the start of the game where you recruited your allies.

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>TFW World of Warcraft not only fucked over MMO's and RTS games but fantasy anime as well

Blizzard unleashed a monster

>>146165007
That was a guild? I thought that was a bar at an inn.

>>146164933
You sound like those people who say GoT is much more realistic than LoTR.

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>>146164897
It wouldn't even be that bad if everything wasn't engineered to make him look good, no matter what shit he pulls, no matter what happens to him it ends up to his overall meta benefit, while chucklefucks like the dude from DD are dicks and everyone can see it and the only dicksucking he gets is in his bedroom.
>>146165049
Adventurer guilds are also bars a good amount of the time.

>>146165220
>Adventurer guilds are also bars a good amount of the time.

If they are only bars, then people wouldn't have any problem with them.

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>>146165246
They work as information hubs, let take people jobs while also offering food and drink for members. The magical supertechnology used in guild cards and nothing else ticks me off more than anything.

>>146164897
>the atheism dance

Wait what?

>>146165491
MUH SCIENCE

>>146165373
If only that, then we wouldn't have "stronger than the government" kind of adventure "guilds".

>>146165540
When your hires are the kind of people that kill dragons on foot the government can't do much.

>>146165673
Luckily, we only have the hero's party that can do that in Dragon Quest.

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>>146165673
>the kingdom doesn't have its own insanely strong forces or recruit from the adventurer's guild

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>>146165491
>Girl starts questioning the religious teachings of their country
>Main character starts dancing with her saying "You did it! You did it! You've thrown off the shackles of religion!"

Can't I have a series where the church is good and the main character is a badass palidan?

>>146165789
Why would they? The guild is basically a international corporation and has access to fucking everything, what can a single country offer that the guild can't get them in overflow?

>>146165856
>church is good
Nigga you know that will never happen.

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>>146165856
>"You did it! You did it! You've thrown off the shackles of religion!"
Does that fantasy world obviously have divine and supernatural entities? I hope the MC got his anus ravaged by a holy pillar of lightning immediately after for comedic effect.

>>146165965
Handmaiden pussy, knighthood and the land that comes with it.

>>146166106
>wanting to be tied down by responsibility
Mate, these people are travelers by nature, owning anything but what they carry on themselves is gonna be weird as fuck to them.

>>146166106
When a single high ranking adventurer is more powerfull than an entire kingdom, they could just hand over the kingdom to the adventurer.

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>>146166064
Elemental spirits are fucking everywhere and everyone has one.

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>>146166187
All adventures come to an end, anon. Rance is an adventurer but he obviously owns a ton of shit (as adventurers are wont to do). An adventurer who doesn't have a hoard of shit with them can barely be called an adventurer at all. More of a traveler than an adventurer.

>>146166456
Bags of holding are a thing.

>>146166540
Not in as much fiction as you'd think.

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>>146166709
Fun fact: all female adventurers have a bag of holding.