Isekai wa Smatphone to Tomo ni

Shit OP
save your own screenshots

>>160837939
You lost me about halfway through, can you structure it a bit better?

>>160837939
Yeah man I know. It's the best anime in ages. Now if only /v/ could aquire patrician taste and enjoy this anime like a superior being such as myself

Unironically one of the worst anime in years. Sasuga isekai.

>>160838148
Go back to SAO Kirito-kun

>>160837939
It is anime KINO.

>>160837939
Why does he wear that hairy coat?

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>>160840597
It gives him resistance over elements he can use.
And he can use all of them.

>buys glorious japanese steel
>wizard by next scene

>>160840597
fujobait

>>160838347
But anon is right. Yeah, SAO is still garbage but it still showed more ambition in writing, that this show.

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>>160837939
I love every moment of it.
>>160840597
It's the pimp coat, man.

Why this thread is so important

>>160837939
>Mystic Eyes of Nice Guy Perception
>except when conveniently makes it not work

>>160837939
>>DESU VULT
You're killing me, anon.

Another thread by the wannabes eh?
you fuckwad simple can't stop eh?

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>>160840585
Literally next season, anon.

>>160837939
>Is this some sort of sophisticated ironic parody?
Yes, the fact you had to ask makes you one of the unsophisticated peasants who can't truly grasp how great the show truly is.

>>160837939
It's a comfy time where things go right for once. Fuck off if that bothers you.

>>160837939
Reminder that only /v/ and newfags think they're smart for pointing out cliches that you wouldn't even think are worth noting at all if you'd seen more than 26 anime in your whole fucking life.

>>160841864
Please tell me that's not how Kino will look in the new season.

>>160837939
>Is this some sort of sophisticated ironic parody?
Of video games where you can never use your skills, spells or knowledge to accomplish anything because the writers wanted it to be a lengthy fetch quest even though you can cast lvl 7 GREATER RESTORATION or use automatic quicken Time Stop to interrupt the villain etc.? Yes.

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>>160841927
That's not how Kino will look in the new season.

>>160837939
>DESU VULT
Ok, I smirked. Not worthy a bump, but have a (You).

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The ground beneath Yumina must have been soking wet when she met the MC

>>160841864
Hold up, is that a fucking A-1 design?

>>160841911
>>160841911
with death march coming up next season this will only get worse

>>160837939
Kazuma is better in every way.

Praise our sleazy lord, as he escapes debt and poverty!

>>160837939
>shows up in the new world
>immediatelly makes money off clothes
>conveniently makes a harem in the first 10 minutes or so
>happens to control all the elements
>all stats receive a boost
>has GOD on speed-dial

It's no wonder this show will be liked, it is made for delusional losers to self-insert when they fail their job interview and need to "take a break".

I can see the fat folds convulsing in an eternal kawaii

If there's one thing I don't get it's why he hasn't married them all already.

>>160837939
The author basically said fuck it and tried to create something so fucking ridiculous that would make the nips try and think about the shit they do in anime
It just turned out though that they liked it

>>160841864
They are making another Minami ke?

>>160837939
>my 12yo daughter conveniently happens to have Mystic Eyes of Nice Guy Perception
Ok, I laughed

>>160842663
nah, i think it is not even a parody show.

Also, the isekai genre of jumping into a different world keeps growing, makes me wonder how desperate nips are for a holiday lel

>>160842663
just wait until you get to giant fighting robots.....that won't show up in the anime unless it gets a couple more seasons

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>>160837939

They know guys.

>>160842868
That's because you can't think fucking retard

>>160843221
Like fucking light novels require thinking lel.

It's all wish fullfilment for exhausted asians and dont you dare think otherwise.

>inb4 nooo its fucking better than tolstoy and shiiiet, its pure art and girls going nyaa is sophisticated

hehe

>light novels
>thoughts

sure hehe

>>160843338
Lurk before posting.

>>160843338
Does anyone know why some posts read and sound like shit?

>>160843406
still true though heh

>>160843338
literally off yourself you fucking mess

>>160843470
I bet sartre would like to read about cat girls going nyaa master i pissed myself will you clean me :)) hahahaha

At least japs are fucking aware its all shit hahahaha

>>160843406
>lel
>hehe
>sure hehe
Because that poster is a fucking off-site faggot, that's why.

>>160843470

Stars wander
Great numbers of them
Sometimes glimpsing a shooting star
When people see such fleeting moments, each recite a wish in their heart.

But isn't the sky divided by the falling meteorites?
Accompanied with thunderous roar, the mass falls upon the earth with overwhelming speed.

There might be people who enjoy seeing them on TV or a video site... but no one would want to see this downpour in close proximity.

Yes, right now hundreds of meteorites are falling down in front of my eyes.

Nay.


Look at this fucking MASTERPIECE!

Such THOUGHTS! Such PROFOUNDNESS!


I bet fucking dostoevsky cant match this shit.

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>>160843550
And still he understands isekai better than the retard he was replying to.

>>160842328
Why does every single show need to be an exercise in armchair psychology for you fucking retards? Off yourself

>>160843635
Just look at this samefagging

>>160843991
Try the other one.

>>160843635
how does that post indicate a knowledge of anything at all, exactly? He literally spewed shit and name dropped some authors

Even the redditor knows that it's a shitty wish fulfilment, not a a parody.

You guys are ALL wrong. It's a deep psychological treatise on man's inhumanity to man.

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>>160842214
I see that you are a fellow Kazuma-san patrician.
So many people who wage war in the name of their dumb slut waifu like the megumeme, divorceness and the literal retard, but they fail to notice that based Kazuma-san is real best girl.and the only thing that makes the show worth watching.

>>160844121
Or maybe it's just an anime without any of your retarded half baked buzzword labels

>>160844121
>he doesn't know

>>160843338
Oh no. It's ritardando.

>>160844232
>>160844226
nice job with that phone

>>160843588
Reads like a perfectly good book, with typical literary descriptions, just like all those "masterpieces" you read about in school
Just because critics and experts don't circlejerk it doesn't mean it's inferior, it simply doesn't have the same mainstream appeal

>>160841707
when did her mystic eyes not work? or are you one of the retards who thinks it didn't work on the noble because she didn't accuse him of poisoning the king with no evidence?

>>160843924
because that's what their favorite anime youtuber tells them to like.

It's not that I hate this kind of series, it's straightforward and happy which serves a purpose. Nothing goes wrong and there's no thinking required, so as long as the character designs are at least half-interesting it will get a market.

What I don't understand is why isekai adaptations so heavily lean towards this kind of thing most of the time, that or edgelordbait. I know, I know, self-inserts and all that, but wouldn't it be far more interesting to self-insert into a series that is, well... actually interesting?

It's just baffling when I think about how LNs as a medium allow for more legitimate characterization, growth and development, more worldbuilding, and interesting plotlines than manga (despite having less potential for cool action scenes) and yet the kind of LNs that keep getting adapted are the ones that don't make use of any of that. Bland characters, bland settings, bland stories. You don't need an LN to pull that off, yet those are the ones dominating the scene right now.

It's a damn shame.

>>160846603
> I don't get why
Because it's for kids (30+).

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>>160846603
>What I don't understand is why isekai adaptations so heavily lean towards this kind of thing most of the time, that or edgelordbait. I know, I know, self-inserts and all that, but wouldn't it be far more interesting to self-insert into a series that is, well... actually interesting?

Well, the main appeal is mostly self-inserting in the main character. So the girls can't fell for any defining traits nor the plot can can advance for the protag personality.

That's why they can't put an interesting plotline or setting. It would require a protagonist with minimum defining traits to work.

Also, this show is kind of nice. Kind of comfy and I can't really bring myself to hate any character. The plot is so retarded is funny.

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>>160846603

The money involved in making an anime is considerable enough that taking a risk is less acceptable than simply taking the money free for the taking by providing a bland and unappealing product.

>>160847255
See, I don't understand this argument no matter how many times it's used. Isekai essentially boils down to escapism, right? So why would you want a bland MC? That would mean that they're just a template that lets the personality and other traits of the person self-inserting shine through instead of the MC's.

Isn't that the opposite of the point? Shouldn't it make more sense to have a strongly characterized MC with a vivid plot so that they can escape into a person and a world that's much more interesting than themselves? To me it just sounds like they're doing escapism wrong.

>>160847474
Fair enough but why does that kind of thing specifically flock towards the LN adaptation scene? Uninspired cashgrabs can be used in any medium.

>>160847529

A bland MC lets people say "AH-HAH, I'm better and cooler than he is, I'd totally hit that" instead.

>>160847628

And they are, but the Japanese entertainment market is what it is.

>>160847474
> Risk
Anon. It's bland because the market will only buy bland things. Just check out the most lucrative comic on /co/ for the past few years questionable content

>>160847730
>A bland MC lets people say "AH-HAH, I'm better and cooler than he is, I'd totally hit that" instead.
I'd sooner buy that argument if I didn't see so many cases of people finding these characters and plots legitimately appealing at face value. Apparently, many people find this kind of shit to be interesting all on its own, and not because it makes them feel better about themselves. Anecdotal evidence sure but I've seen far too much of it to write it off as coincidence.

>And they are, but the Japanese entertainment market is what it is.
That's what I'm trying to come to terms with. Why? Is it just because LNs have a lower point of entry due to not needing so much art, mostly just an author? If so shouldn't that lowered risk also apply to all the potentially interesting stories out there as well? Yet bland isekais dominate LNs as a whole. It seems counter-intuitive, even if true.

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>>160847529

Dunno, mostly lazy writing probably. Most of this isekai stories were originally web novels created by people in their free time, so it's to be expected.

I think mushoku tensei is more or less better escapism compared to others like Arifureta or this.

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Gary Stu's aren't a problem but when you're a boring idiot like this MC who just dandies around the village being Bob the builder that is when it's a problem.

This show has no creativity at all.

>>160837939
thanks for this OP.
you know you're loving every minute this show, just admit it.

>>160848032
the real problem isn't that he's way stronger than average people, it's that there's no antagonists or rivals on his level. he doesn't need to be this strong and his magic completely hijacked the focus from the smartphone. if there were other people on or above his level then it'd be better at least

also obligatory fuck off lelouch

>>160837939
What pisses me off the most is that they make money off of this shit.

FUCK, give me a chance, i will make you have a 10 inch dick too for that sweet, sweet yen coins. You want cat girls? Done. Corpse girl? Done. A harem of blind paraplegics? Fucking DONE.

Now, how do i make a scheme to write one, do i pretend it is a translation and add honorifics and chan to anything or what?

Think about it - this actually makes MONEY.

>>160848032
you're thinking too hard, tripfriend. the show isn't even TRYING to be creative. it's modus operendi is EVERYTHING goes write for once. which is what makes it so fucking comfy. just enjoy the cute girls and turn your brain off to every plot point that defies suspension of disbelief, because pretty much everything that happens in this show goes against it. that's basically it's thing.

>>160848233
It would be an actual enjoyable show somewhat but holy hell that shitty animation where punches or slashes dont connect, characters run with a backround still, or awkward movement is just.... so bad.

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>>160848032
>Gary Stu's aren't a problem but when you're a boring idiot like this MC who just dandies around the village being Bob the builder that is when it's a problem.

He literally does not give a fuck. Also he's bland as every harem lead.

>>160847923
>That's what I'm trying to come to terms with. Why? Is it just because LNs have a lower point of entry due to not needing so much art, mostly just an author? If so shouldn't that lowered risk also apply to all the potentially interesting stories out there as well? Yet bland isekais dominate LNs as a whole. It seems counter-intuitive, even if true.

Because it sells? You need to understand this is a business, people need to adapt a series that will be brought by the customers. Customers normally being, obsessive otaku that prefer this kind of thing.

Try to laugh unironically at this or enjoy it at face value. Don't lose sleep over this shit.

>>160847529
Sometimes people just want to watch fantasy Superman go around saving the day and doing the right thing. He's an everyman but at the same time the ideal human doing what he thinks is right.

>>160837939
It's Eromanga-sensei level. What the fuck is with this season?

>>160847802

And McDonald's sells lots of burgers.

>>160847923

>I'd sooner buy that argument if I didn't see so many cases of people finding these characters and plots legitimately appealing at face value.

How many of them have you asked about whether or not they'd do things differently or other manifestations of it?

>Yet bland isekais dominate LNs as a whole. It seems counter-intuitive, even if true.

Ah, that's Sturgeon's Law, writ large.

>>160848343
> he's bland as every harem lead

Hikigaya has something of a personality... I think?

>>160848380
Yeah, sometimes. Like I said, I don't hate this kind of thing. Just confusing that there's so much of it.

>>160848314
>it so fucking comfy. just enjoy the cute girls and turn your brain off to every plot point
But it isn't, though? girls are boring walking cardboards and the MC is a bland ass faggot with absolutely no personality. I personally don't give a damn about plot or fights or powerlevels, if the characters are ok it's ok in my book. This shit definitely isn't, makes you mad just by watching.

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Now you can sympathize with this guy.

>>160848467
>How many of them have you asked about whether or not they'd do things differently or other manifestations of it?
The odd thing is that those who I have asked generally give responses like how it's witty and creative and they wouldn't have thought of doing things that way. They seem genuinely impressed.

>>160848394
>What the fuck is with this season?

The harem MC trope has begun to ironize itself and the cuteness shows are becoming disturbing and sad. Quite a strange season. They went overboard with infantilizing character looks sometimes?

>>160848506
>makes you mad just by watching.

maybe you should pop a prozac, friend.

>>160848394
So it's a masterpiece?

>>160842663
Reminds me of Nisekoi.

>>160848506
>makes you mad just by watching.
Alright anon, I'm gonna give you tip here ok? Just follow along alright? Ok, listen closely, here goes. You could just try not watching it.

Just glad there's a harem that doesn't have a weak ass literal retard MC.
Enjoy it or watch something else.

>>160848574

Interesting. Any particulars?

>>160848757
>implying he watched past the first 10 minutes of episode 1
I guarantee most of the people crying about the show in this thread aren't even watching it.

>>160848591
I meant it in the sense that instead of giving you that goofy feeling of "so bad it's good" which allows you to laugh at its flaws, it makes you feel annoyed. The sort of bad that you just can't enjoy because there's not even a bit of flavor. Like drinking "lemonade" which tastes just like water.
>>160848757
Just found the OP funny and came to see what people thought about it, sorry to ruin your little hugbox, anon.

>>160841864
that's a cute boy (female)

>>160848959
Not many people complain about the quality of animation which is weird since that very first "combat" scene is the most awkward shit imaginable, with those lizard men just standing around lel.

>>160841864
How about the LN with the insanely large title that this author wrote?

>>160848959
half the thread is people saying this is the worst show ever made. the other half is saying its fun.
>sorry to ruin your little hugbox
are you retarded?

>>160848874
Re:Zero, KonoSuba, and Log Horizon. Lots and lots of those three.

Also Overlord, Danmachi, and even some GATE. There's also this one guy obsessed with how "cool and unique" Re-Life is but I'm pretty sure that's just cause he's a NEET in his 30s and wished that happened to him.

For some reason though the people in question didn't really care for Drifters or Youjo Senki.

>>160849250
> Drifters

Fucking drifters arrived in my neighbourhood, now you hear rap at 3 in the morning and gunshots, fucking drifters, i swear.

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I like it, it's mindless fun

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>>160848469

8man starts as a contrarian and a edgelord teen (which is pretty realistic with modern teens) and then grows some more. But he's still pretty bland in a lot of aspects.
His series is also dead because the author is a hack and a sellout.

>>160849420
*brainless

>>160849054
The show just has bigger and more fundamental problems than shitty animation. Take another shit show like busou shoujo machiavellism for example, the animation was shit (which sucks a lot taking into account it was more action-oriented) but it had "something" (decent MC, likeable girls, more or less funny shenanigans) which made it watchable and sort of enjoyable, but sadly smartphone lacks any of that.
>>160849176
Well, the "don't like it don't watch it" excuse is typical from hugbox faggots shooing away anyone that criticizes the shit they watch. Don't talk like one if you don't want to be treated like one.

>>160849501
>His series is also dead because the author is a hack and a sellout.

Why, did something happen? I know he was on a hiatus, also no new works (it stopped at vol 12 i think) so what did he do?

Hikigaya is still somewhat okayish.

>>160849562
>Don't talk like one if you don't want to be treated like one
i wasn't who you were talking too. i was just calling you out for being retarded.

>>160849562
>but sadly smartphone lacks any of that.

I watched the first one and felt annoyed as fuck, tried watching the second one... it genuinely feels like a CARTOON, not an anime, a cartoon. like it is a parody of western animators on jap themes or something.

Also, he shows up and invents ice cream in a different world on a whim?

However i still think it wont crash. No tension, no plot, no struggle is the new in this season.

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>>160849250
>Danmachi

Wait, I don't remember this one being a isekai.

>>160849567
>Why, did something happen? I know he was on a hiatus, also no new works (it stopped at vol 12 i think) so what did he do?
>Hikigaya is still somewhat okayish.

More or less meme. He don't want to release the 12 vol and keeps on advertising oregairu merch.

Also, yeah. He's still fine, I guess. Better than most bland protags at least. More relatable too (in my case at least)

>>160837939

Thanks OP

I want to watch this show now

>>160849717
>Wait, I don't remember this one being a isekai.
You're right. Those guys tend to lump together their praise of those series together though, I guess because of the game-like elements. They'd probably have liked Accel World too if it wasn't for the fact that they didn't start watching anime until "SAO invented isekai and made anime popular". I seriously need better friends.

Come to think of it, Re-Life isn't isekai either.

>>160849717
which one is the most annoying or bland character for you?

>
More or less meme. He don't want to release the 12 vol and keeps on advertising oregairu merch.

The hell kek. Buy these keychains!!! Fucking pathethic, what the fuck.

Also, sasuga has such a goddamn punchable face for me, his smirk laugh pisses me off so much fuck he makes me angry

>>160849899
Just a fair warning, OP's description of that episode is pretty much EXACTLY how it went down.

>>160837939
why is his fashion sense so goddamn gay?

Is it on purpose?
Do they think it is cool? What is that frilly shit?

>>160850129
It's sasuga!

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>>160849974
>SAO invented isekai

What about twelve kingdoms or Elves hunters?

>>160849974
>I seriously need better friends.

I would offer, but I now sure if I can be a good enough friend for you.

>>160849983
>he hell kek. Buy these keychains!!! Fucking pathethic, what the fuck.

I' more upset because there were a couple of times were the vol was advertised (like in april this year) just to be taken down a couple of week later.
He either don't want to release it or the editor don't want him to release it.
Worst (in my case) the discussion of the series went to analysis of characters and dialogue to be dead or waifu wars.
Also, would be funny to change the protag of this for 8man.

>>160848032
Holy shit, man. I rarely browse /a/, but every time ive done so in the last 10 years ive seen your posts.

>>160850202
He has this unexplainable smug, like he fucking stares at you with blank eyes thinking absolutely nothing as he grins away. One of those people that has an easy going nature at first that you want to fucking strangle.

His fucking face enrages me so much. That fucking smile as he stares through you...

>>160850256
>What about twelve kingdoms or Elves hunters?
The guys I'm referring to are supercasuals. If it wasn't for the massive amount of youtube videos telling them to not like SAO they probably would claim to like it too. I'm pretty sure they still do in secret, they just won't say so because youtube told them not to.

>I would offer, but I now sure if I can be a good enough friend for you.
You know how once you've watched enough anime your standards tend to lower, so that even if you recognize that a series isn't that good you can still watch it and have a good time doing so, because you need anime to watch anyways and there isn't enough legitimately good stuff to go around? Yeah, I'm in that sort of place with friends.

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>>160850437

Do you like oranges and big titied anime girls? That's all I need to know to consider you a friend.

>>160850256
It's got a release date again. This time sometime in September.

>>160850437
> even if you recognize that a series isn't that good you can still watch it and have a good time doing so
Don't waste your breath, they won't understand that.
Most of the people who visit /a/ these days are either normalfags or underage tards, as well as 'ironic weebs' who want to play anime experts and state the obvious shit while thinking they're saying something smart.

>>160850639
I'm actually okay with a variety of chest sizes depending on the character. I tend to like medium-sized the most though, and if I had to lean towards small or large I'd pick large. I just don't like when the nipple color doesn't match well with the breast color.

I have an orange tree in the backyard that was there since before the house was built. It gives me like a hundred seedless oranges every year, it's pretty awesome.

>>160850437
Have you succeeded in watching Clannad? the only show i ever dropped.

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>>160850800
Won't you become my friend?

>>160850833
Gods, I laughed a little with that. Then I got that it was supposed to be sad.

>>160850671
I don't believe until I see the cover released at the very least.

>>160850833
I've only ever dropped three (not Clannad), and the only one I dropped at episode 1 was Mekakucity Actors because the art grated on my eyes.

>>160850924
>Won't you become my friend?
Do you have discord? I'm usually on there.

>>160850924
>Then I got that it was supposed to be sad.


Yeah, that derp sure is sad. Especially those bug eyed monsters. They keep looking somewhere in the distance with half open mouths looking like quite the... "special" kids...

>>160849250
Drifters was boring. It had way too many unfunny asides between the Japanese characters that I gave up on it. This is after I got hooked on the cool Shimazu fight at the start.

>>160851322
It was the kanno intro that got me, getting pissed at a guy riding a dragon for no other reason than because he was riding a dragon.

>>160849250

Well, I was asking more what specific things in those shows they thought were witty and creative.

Ok, like Re-Life, but your description is a bit different.

>>160851512
But the sad music was the best haha. Like, they make these fucked up faces while speaking in high pitched voices while sad violins can be heard in the background.

>>160851509
Oh, okay. They were just generally praising every aspect of the plot premise, the character's personality and design, their decision making, the well-made cast, the unique powers, the plot progression, anything you can think of they get wowed over like it was their first time at disney world or something.

>>160851789

A bit too effusive there. That just sounds like they're people who don't know how to say anything except "That's great" when asked about anything.

>>160852439
Well it's more like I was trying to be brief, because they'd talk in-depth about any aspect of those series. An off-hand example was how the NPCs in Overlord started acting like their character descriptions once the world became real, and then they got in a debate over whether it would've been possible to effectively "power-up" their NPCs to god-tier by simply writing them that way, citing how the flavor text in Log Horizon did similar things. They correctly noted that that was only possible in LH because that world was actually created by an outside force who acted like a god in the sense that they created an entire world, using the game they played as a foundational basis. They basically agreed to put off the discussion until they knew more about the details of why Overlord's world became real as well.

They can go on for hours about any of this kind of stuff though.

I started out absolutely detesting this show, now it's slowly starting to grow on me. I have yet to decide if I'm genuinely starting to enjoy it or if this is stockholm syndrome.

>>160853255
It's cute, anon. Cuteness eases all weariness.

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MC got an oyakodon

>>160838148
its good desu

>>160841864
Wonder if we will get Kino's rifle this season.

>>160852779

Brevity doesn't really help when you're trying to understand something, but now I think we've lost track of what we were discussing they were saying, since you're now going off on a bit of a different tangent.

That's just trying to figure out the dynamics of a particular paradigm, but we were talking about witty and creative things that they wouldn't have thought up.

Not that the above isn't interesting, but a bit off track from what I was trying to go down.

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Is this one of these "so bad it's good" shows?

>>160846288
well for one, she didn't spot the evil nobleman plotting to poison her dad and usurp his throne...

>>160854126
read the whole post before replying

>>160844225
Scumbag MCs are the best MCs.

I tried /a/, I tried to enjoy this show, but the MC is literally overpowered to the point its not funny anymore.
The girls are not even memorable nor special and they are bland as fuck.
It was funny for the first 2 chapters, but I cant enjoy this shit anymore. I mean, its boring when the MC is literally jesus on earth.

>>160854055
I had trouble enjoying that way. It is literally a parade of lucky breaks happening to a bland dude.
It's not funny the same way Mahouka is funny.

>>160840597
Pimp coat

>>160848889
I read up to volume 4, the girls are just as undeveloped as they were at the start while the writing gets worse.

>>160837939
Why does this run of the mill seasonal 5.5/10 attract so many armchair psychologist pretentious wannabe litfags who think pointing out lie hanging fruit flaws somehow makes them seem insightful? How can you be such a raging faggot?

>>160837939
How the fuck did this get an anime? Of all the money to waste on, it's absolutely shit.

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>>160837939
>Desu Vult
My fucking sides.

>>160854581
you're new is how

>>160854527
I guess some youtuber made a video about it
And now its followers are shitting on it

>>160854581
Name 5 popular isekai LNs right now that don't have (or will have) an anime that would be better than this.

>>160854678
Not even and you can't say I'm wrong about it being shit.

>>160854709
Fuck that. We only need Dungeon Defense.

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When did people start forgetting that fun things are fun?

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>>160854511
I like my girls underdeveloped

>>160837939
I bet it's one of those weird times when the taste of the japanese overpowers common sense and they unironically love it or something.

Or it could be a shitty cash grab. Anyway, it is forgettable. Also, strangely annoying, the girls especially. Also, the gay cloak apparently boosts magic aptitude or some shit - literally pimp wear with stat boosts.

>>160854709
what are some good light novels? Is Grimgar good? I keep trying to read it but when the "Silver girl" appears it makes me feel embarassed for reading such crap.

>>160854823
when they started letting anime youtubers form their opinions for them

>>160854816
>Dungeon Defense
my nigga

I'd settle for some OSO or kumo-chan though

>>160854915
Of course they unironically like it. Otaku look for very different things in their shows. This isn't the west where the 3 new cartoons that come out every year are trying their hardest to be fucking subversive philosophical abstract works of art. We're literally talking about a media world that values anti-creativity for various reasons

>>160854823
/a/ is full of wannabe anime critics nowadays. May their Youtube channels grow popular one day.

People say this isn't creative but are there really that many shows with MCs as shamelessly OP as him? I find it refreshing.

>>160855588
> that values anti-creativity for various reasons

Maybe these types of shows are japan's accepted version of soap operas for teens?

>>160855662
If it was a parody it would be pretty great. Since it's not i just wonder how frustrated the creator must be in his daily life...

>>160855761
What makes you think it's not a parody? It sounds very parodyish to me.

>>160855761
No, he just wanted to have fun. An alien concept, I know, but some people are somehow capable of it.

>>160855822
Nah, konosuba is a proper parody. This one i think is like the creator going fuck it, but not intentionally lel.

>>160837939
A pure power fantasy. No challenge. They better start taking blind left turns or this shit will be forgotten like... something that was forgotten.

>>160855898
So it's a parody if you say so and not if you say it's not.
I see.

>this level of post quality
>these images
>people are even circlejerking and posting discord shit
So this is the kind of person who hates this show. Interesting stuff.

>>160855963
The hell do i know, just guessing how this clusterfuck was made like any other person? Honestly, i can't comprehend it. If i treat it seriously, i get annoyed. If i think it is a parody i think the author is brilliant - but then i wonder if that is the actual intention.

In the end, i have no idea and end up somewhat confused.

Well, the author sure tricked me i guess?

>>160855588
Partially, but it's also that anime is so self referential and 'meme' based that it's fun and comforting living in that familiar world with all the signifiers you're used to. That's why you inexplicably start to enjoy these ultra derivative shows the more you watch them, because you're able to enjoy inhabiting that ultra dense second layer of 'narrative'. That's also where the whole 'I like it but I don't know why' thing comes from, because our western view of media screams at us that it's derivative bullshit that shouldn't exist, but now we're enjoying it for totally different reasons

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>>160837939
An awful thread for an awful show, fitting.

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I say this anime is a masterpiece.

>>160856548
>300 short OVAs
grats

>>160856701
That would still be over 300 series, which is 30 times more than you.

>>160837939
It's a Isekai anime dude.What exactly did you expect?

Im kind of glad we have Knights and magic and isekai shokodou airing this season. This shit is magnitudes of fucking awful.

>>160858165
what about re:creators? its slow, sure, but still decent

>>160858165
shokodou is fucking garbage though. The whole show is literally about wasting time on people you don't give a shit about

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>tfw to stupid for non-isekai non-wish-fulfillment shows

>>160854709
Kumo
Shield-bro
Kumo
Kumo
Kumo

>>160854126
>this politician's inner character is not that of a nice guy
Reveal of the fucking century.

>>160858758
i like shield bro but let's be honest. that shit is just as much wish fulfillment bullshit as this series. except shield bro is full of edge-lord self righteous antics where everything goes wrong for the MC (whereas this series has an emotionless vanilla nice guy card board cut out MC who has everything go right for him)

>>160858758
shieldbro is getting an anime

>>160859005
to be fair, she didn't have any reason to look at that disgusting old man in the first place so from her perspective he may as well have been invisible as air

>>160840597
Hairy coat gives him +10 to "isekai MC" stat

>>160837939
Is this the Emoji Movie of anime? It's not just a retarded idea, it's like a parody of a retarded idea.

>>160859310
it's not even that, it's taken parody so far deep that it went full-circle and became a series played straight again, but still preserving the ideas that a parody would use

>>160859387
shut the fuck up dude

>>160842578
He eventually does, he ends up having 9 waifus and they all get along peacefully.

>>160859758
But do they fuck?

>>160854709
Infinite Dendrogram would be pretty ace.

Too bad HJ Bunko's too piss poor to afford proper action animation(as we can see from Smartphone.)

>>160859804
Does this seem like the type of series that would have sex in it?

>>160859804
He is said to have 9 children, one from each waifu but nothing lewd in the story.

>>160859934
>only one child each
What a fag. Everyone knows women can't truly be happy mothers if they've had less than 3 kids. Does he not want his wives to be happy?

>>160860017
He was actually told he was gonna have 9 waifus and 9 children from a genius professor who died 5000 years ago who could see into the future. He found all his waifus but is refusing to sex them till they are 18.

>>160837939
It's isekai anon, stop using your brain.

>>160858492
What garbage taste must you have to unironicaly watch this shit instead

>>160862067
I'm watching both, and this is better. Shokudo decided to just shaft the main characters in favour of a string of dumb cunts

Watching this and buying the merchandise. Fuck anime youtubers.

the only thing that could improve this show is bigger tits

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>>160843550
The poster is only ironically off-site

>>160841911

Don't pretend shit like this is standard for anime it is fucking NOT. This is entirely on a new fucking level.

>>160864955
>This is entirely on a new fucking level.
Not really. The only thing particularly bad about this show is the animation. The rest is just bland.

>>160865377
>The rest is just bland.
This. All the people acting like this is the worst show ever created must not have seen more than a dozen anime.

Will this reach Glasslip levels of absolute shittiness? Or, dare I even say...

Mars of Destruction

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>>160865377
>the animation is bad
Not really.

>>160854709
The animes are pretty much a high budget Drama CD, they are made specifically to sell more LNs.

>>160838044
You seriously don't get it?

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>>160862109
So you prefer bland awful characters. Right then.

>>160858758
Kumo gets boring after she becomes a literal god
Shieldbro shits the bed hard after the the island arc.

>>160858186
Nice premise ruined by shitty infodumps every episode

This show is so fucking stupid. Even sao wasnt this awful.

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>>160865377
>bland
Yes, it's bland, boring and pathetically stupid.
It's not Isuca/that_blandest_battle_harem_ever_I_keep_forgetting_the_name_of bad but it's pretty bad.

>>160860099
>He found all his waifus but is refusing to sex them till they are 18.
Moralfags were a mistake. It's perfectly legal there (and medieval children developed quicker than they do nowadays in our pampered society) so why the fuck does he have to be a faggot?

>>160837939
Do you guys think you're insightful for pointing out blatant flaws aggressively like you're a 100k sub anime youtuber? Do you think you're the only one who notices parts of a show that maybe aren't great? Are you that ignorant and arrogant that you truly believe that the people who enjoy this show aren't 100% aware of the kinds of tropes and flaws we've seen a billion times that come with the territory in these types of anime, but see the value in other aspects of it? Are you honestly that fucking retarded? You're not smart because you can greentext a bunch of flaws about a show. You're just a sad fucking faggot.

>>160868231
How does that image relate to my comment you utter fucking retard?

>>160850256
>What about twelve kingdoms or Elves hunters?
What about Mark Twain?

>>160872999
He just doesn't want sex outside marriage since he's a good christian man.

he's preparing for the wedding in the latest arc noe

>>160854823
It's boring though.

>>160837939
Nice bait thread, faggot. This is also bait. Now give me some (you)s

>160873282
No

>>160854823
When everyone decided that they'd get out of their parents' house by getting 20k subs on youtube

@160873282
Nah.

>>160873359
Kinda ironic because that basement cunt and his band of leeches were pretty lenient on this show. One of them actually liked it.

>>160862931
No, being too lewd would ruin the comfyness

>>160873664
kill yourself

>>160873752
Having them all walk home happy after being called cute is a trillion times better than bigger tits

>>160873752
After you, pig

>>160870667
Did they guy summon elder god demon bane or something i wouldnt be surprised.

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>>160874450

>>160873166
christian shintoist mind you.

>>160862109
>shaft the main characters in favour of a string of dumb cunts
But the main characters are never being more relevant than 15% in the LN to begin with.

>>160874710
Yeah it's boring because he has no personality whatsoever.

>>160873795
Yeah but they've eventually gotta have sex or it's as bad. The most badass person alive has five girls lusting after him, and we're expected that nothing happens for whatever length the series goes?

>>160874826
Although he can be improved but you don't watch that for the supportive characters.

>>160875111
For the over-marketed trite food then?

>>160837939
I'm not sure what it is but it feels like self insert bait where MC is always God-tier

>>160865377
Bland is worse than a pure trainwreck.

>>160857267
Even for Isekai this is garbage.

But why do the Japs eat this shit up?
You'd think stuff like this would bomb hard, but here you have it.

This is one of the only shows I'm watching this season because it's one of the few shows this season that aren't full of homosexuality.

>>160875379
It's so shameless and pure wish fulfillment it's fun.

I miss when the worst anime of each season were stuff like Hidan no Aria, Clannad or Deadman Wonderland. At least those series had their own gimmicks.

Isekai Smartphone opens up a completely new bottom-of-the-barrel layer of shit. How is this completely generic TRASH in a sea of incredibly similar isekai even got funded and animated? There's tens of thousands of manga better than this which will never be animated, hell, there's even hundreds of isekai better than it.

I'm legit shocked japan resorted to animating stuff that isn't even highly-rated by Shousetsuka ni Narou's own already subterranean standards.

>>160875968
It's adapted because it's the top dog in HJ Bunko.

>>160875476
This. The things mc does got so ridiculously i just stop caring and its actually really chill.

>>160874450
They built that. Touya made the engineers watch mecha anime on his smartphone for ideas. The engineers along with Sue got addicted to mecha animes and that is the result. Each of the heroines get a custom mech, along with the protagonist.

>>160876071
>They built that. Touya made the engineers watch mecha anime on his smartphone for ideas. The engineers along with Sue got addicted to mecha animes and that is the result. Each of the heroines get a custom mech, along with the protagonist.

This is so godawful.

>>160876204
It's fun.

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>>160876243
No.

>>160838148
It's AOTS

>>160876264
Suit yourself. It's still FUN.

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I haven't watched the anime yet, but the opening is pure garbage.

>>160874465
>hardness of diamond
>only hardness of diamond
>implying we don't have better already

I thought this was a parody

>>160876458
Dead wrong. Straighter than an arrow, more wish-fulfilment than Naruto fanfiction on Gaia.

>>160873046
I really hate the culture on /a/ where lampooning flaws is fetishized. Discussions of 'flaws' are fine, but I'd rather be the anon who understands them and enjoys stuff anyway than the guy who understands them just as much but doesn't enjoy what they're watching. The difference is that the latter guy finds value in working out whether or not a show is 'good' or not, while the former guy just finds value in the show itself. Even in the dodgiest piece of garbage you can actively choose to enjoy it by finding what's valuable and concentrating on that. You can later evaluate the show and say 'yeah, it's terrible', but you had more fun than the guy who made 'yeah, it's terrible' the focal point of their viewing experience.

>>160876458
It is a tongue-in-cheek parody. Only retards think it isn't. The shitty detective conan part should clue you in. Though I'm not sure why the anime made it totally serious.

>>160876458
>>160876490
>>160876584
they're literally shoving it in our faces >>160843157

>>160876071
Okay, that's enough, thanks for telling that because now I know I can drop this without any regrets.
Stories where there isnt any trouble for the MC are boring as hell, it's okay to make some wish-fulfillment anime, but this is too much.

>>160876711
Great. Now fuck off

>>160876711
>Stories where there isnt any trouble for the MC are boring as hell
I'm not sure how you can infer that from my post. The MC do get in a pinch multiple times in the story. He's neither the strongest nor the smartest, not by a long shot. His only claim to fame is his massive MP pool.

And while the mechas started as a joke, their enemies are totally serious.

The only people who dislike this are the faggot underage little kiddie shitposters who think they fought in the "SAO War" by spamming its threads.

Isekai Smartphone is a relaxing good time. People like >>160876490 are the cancer that needs to go.

new ep soon

>>160878350
When ?

>>160878637
in like an hour on at-x

I just started watching and caught up today because I saw OP and it looked like comedy gold, and it is.

I don't get why you guys are all riled up over a LN adaptation being an LN adaptation. It's ok to turn your brain off and enjoy the retardation sometimes.

t. 9999 animus super-otaku

5 mins

get in here niggas

>>160879687
Stream where?

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>>160879746
neet

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>>160879750
>>160879760

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Oh neat, this episode isn't in the WN

>>160879891
It was in the LN version.

>>160872999
>and medieval children developed quicker than they do nowadays

Actually it's the opposite - thanks to higher levels of protein, vitamins, and all kinds of additives girls usually hit puberty at 14 or even 13 these days. Research also showed girls have their periods sooner today. You can see big tittied 14 year olds today, not possible in the past unless it was some peasant girl that kept chugging milk or whatever.

>>160854511
implying the girls are underdevellopped when their devellopment is mostly during the side stories

you didn't read the side stories , did you ?

>>160875379
Have you tried watching Knights and magic? The MC in the first goddamn episode is proven to be a genius, skips introductory classes as a little kid after making a display of power that leaves everyone speechless, then goes on being EVEN BETTER. Fuck, it made me mad. Such potential! They never tone down this "You are the chosen one! bullshit.

http://i.imgur.com/CsnZ4jg.gif

The smartphone is next to pointless. Nigger, use the fucking phone jesus christ.

>>160880209
Now this QoL magic

>>160880298
He used them for peeping and GPS literally this episode.

>>160880065
Christ that cheek.

>>160880005
>I am cum

>>160880221
>gloss over or skip pretty much all the shopping and selection for Elze's new magic gauntlets.
>Include everything about her goth loli dress.
The anime production staff certainly have their priorities in the right place.

>>160880298
It gets so fricking op that the author has to introduce a bunch of anti-magic bulllshit, if not he would just nuke everything miles away.

>>160880166
Obviously talking about mental development, you idiot. That's the reason for such a high consent age after all.

>>160880988
Mental development is affected by hormonal changes, meaning that today's teens are still more "advanced" than in the past. The average IQ also has increased so no, it actually really is the opposite no matter how strange it sounds.

Unless you think a medieval peasant girl that had almost no proteine other than milk and eggs and fish, can compete with your average teen that eats proteine all day long without the threat of starving.

>That's the reason for such a high consent age after all.

The reason for a high consent of age is the fact that life expectancy has doubled, and the women's suffrage movement which increased it to 18.

If you were a peasant, better marry fast.

>>160881075
>oday's teens are still more "advanced" than in the past
No, just see how quickly poos and niggers are forced to become responsible vs eternal children in western societies.

>>160881119
>>160881075
cont
>>160881075
I think you misunderstood quicker development for higher IQ.

>>160881162
Are you seriously claiming medieval peasants had a higher IQ than today's teens?

Even in that, today's teens are more advanced. Even in maturity today's teens are more advanced. So, NO, it is not possible for there to be any chance maturity was reached sooner without

> proper nutrients

It's not hard to comprehend you know.

If life expectancy was 50.

>>160881265
>Are you seriously claiming medieval peasants had a higher IQ than today's teens?
No, see>>160881162

>>160880143
I can literally here the Ha~wawa from the pic.. please dont disappoint

>>160881280
It still remains the same. Even in medieval ages, the stages of puberty were the same. There was research that some native societies completely lacked the societal issues of adaptation from puberty.

They were still kids forced into an adult world, nothing else, kinda like those street urchin kids, of course they married earlier because there was no industrialization of labor. That field aint gonna farm itself. So, manual labor.

>>160881334
>They were still kids forced into an adult world
Or maybe now we have adults had back from adult world until they are ~30 years old

Maybe it's like Kojima with the Metal Gear Series. They're making it so ridiculous that no one will stand the show, only to find another horde of weebs already loving it and asking for a sequel.
Thus they end up condemned to a life of endless isekai animes.

>>160881384
No.

You married early because there were

>no vaccines
>no nutrients
>no industrial division of labour
>no defence against plagues, viruses, famines, droughts


So in response, a forced division of labor occured with men on the field, women in the house, and a communal lifestyle with a head of the house. This is basic history.

So you needed large families. In order to have them you marry off the women to another family so it's not your problem as you need more boys to work the fields. Quite simple.

>>160881479
How quickly people developed mentally is a different (but connected) issue from the reasons why they married quicker.
Nice moving of goalposts though.

>>160881527
>is a different (but connected) issue

Except it's not at all. You don't marry, you become a burden on the family and that's it.

Research showed every single society that industrializes itself raises it's age of marriage.

Unless teen marriage is common in, say Japan and USA, and not in Afghanistan or Sudan, which is retarded.

Or you could claim an average Afghani at 13 is more advanced than an 18 year old western teen which is even more retarded.

>>160881595
Yes, harsh living conditions force you to become adult more quickly.
I'm 25 years old but I'm still an immature kid because I got pampered by the society.

subs are out

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>>160881645
>harsh living conditions force you to become adult more quickly.

EXACTLY. BECAUSE THERE IS TECHNOLOGY. SO YOU DONT HAVE TO MARRY AT A YOUNG AGE.

FUCK, are you pretending to be dense or what?

SOCIETAL PRESSURE is not the same as an advancement at biological development - BOYS IN MIDDLE AGES DID NOT GROW BEARDS AT 14. Yet today there are 6ft tall teens.

They did not become an "adult" they were forced to do adult work AS TEENS. Fuck!

>>160881722
No, that's what I've been saying from the start but you've been misunderstanding me.

>>160881799
NO.
Fucking NO.

You dense motherfucker.

First you claim a BIOLOGICAL difference in maturity, reflected in PSYCHOLOGICAL maturity, then you confuse it with SOCIETAL PRESSURE. You dense, dense cocksucker.

NO. They did NOT marry earlier because they were BIOLOGICALLY more predisposed to achiever puberty earlier - they were NOT more psychologically advanced, they were FORCED DUE TO LACK OF INDUSTRIAL LABOR.

Learn to differentiate. Goddamn. This is pointless. Goodbye.

>>160881872
>BIOLOGICAL
Quote?

>>160876071
does he get them to make an idol group too?

I mean we all know after nip food and mecha every nip loves their idol groups. So turning his harem into an idol group, or adding to the harem by making an idol group seems like the only thing left for this gary stu.

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>no smug fairy this episode

>>160882084
His 9th waifu is really good at singing and he thought about it for a while, but he doesn't bring much of the music stuff over to this world, mostly recreation, food.

>>160882310
sounds like a plot line the author plans to expand upon in the future then.

>>160882084
If authors want idols in their isekai's why not just make a series about idols who got isekai'd? Make it about them traveling the world performing their songs.

>>160882844
please don't give them ideas. that said I think it's highly likely this has already been done in glorious nippon, just we haven't heard about it yet.

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Wow what the fuck? it's not like it was his fault or anything

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>>160854709
kumo desu ga, nani ka

>>160854866
I think it is a different kind of underdeveloped from what you are thinking bear-kun

>>160882984
Elize is a shitty violent tsundere

>>160859056
>naofumi
>self-righteous
He doesn't even remotely act like a paragon of virtue (like he should) and everyone knows it.

>>160868795
Did you read the LN to make this judgement

I just want my 'MC likes a certain genre, dies, goes to the complete opposite of prefered genre world' Isekai.
Could you imagine?
>I LOVE me some fantasy. I know every single fantasy element.
>What The Fuck I'm in space? What are they talking about? Particle Accelerator engines?
or
>I sure love slice of life. I wish I could have a cozy life like that
>OH GOD THE ENTIRE WORLD IS BASICALLY GOTHAM MIXED WITH CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE AND ELM STREET! THIS IS NOT COZY AT ALL! GUESS I BETTER GET INTO POWER ARMOR

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Isekai wh40k batman?