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Guardian Box said:
It basically pioneered the magical girl genre
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That's gonna be a nope on SM pioneering the genre. That honor goes to Sally the Witch back in 1966. Naoko Takeuchi took tropes and conceits from the old magical girl paradigm ( which was the "magical girl gets sent to Earth as a test/to further their education and growth/promote peace/insert reverse isekai excuse here, shenanigans/slice of life/adventure ensues"), combined it with her other interests, particularly tokusatsu, and created a new magical girl subgenre that replaced the old paradigm, the magical warrior girl. You'll notice that parodies all the way up to the 00s of magical girls like Pretty Sammy or Dai Mahou Toge tend to fall more on the old-school Sally the Witch style magical girls than Sailor Moon, that's how deep the old-school magical girl's cultural penetration is in Japan.
 
bintananth said:
Those Who Hunt Elves is an interesting take. The three isekai'd characters are dropped into a swords-and-sorcery(ish) fantasy world without gaining any superpowers. They want to go home and the locals want to be rid of them.

It runs on "rule of funny".
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they have possessed tank with infinite ammo.I count it as superpower.
And,considering that they always must undress some pretty elven lady,I think that it run on "rule of hentaji"
 
ATP said:
they have possessed tank with infinite ammo.I count it as superpower.
And,considering that they always must undress some pretty elven lady,I think that it run on "rule of hentaji"
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The thank is posessed by a cat spirit. It's an otherwise normal Mitsubishi Type 74.

Plus, you'd think "rule of hentai" from the premise, but no, it's "rule of funny". There's so little nudity and fanservice on display that the show is rated PG in the US ... for violence.
 
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bintananth said:
The thank is posessed by a cat spirit. It's an otherwise normal Mitsubishi Type 74.

Plus, you'd think "rule of hentai" from the premise, but no, it's "rule of funny". There's so little nudity and fanservice on display that the show is rated PG in the US ... for violence.
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Infinite ammo and fuel still count as superpower.And cat spirit,too.
True about nudity.
 
Carrot of Truth said:
Bleach isn't that bad especially if you skip all the shitty filler
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Dunno, for me it was a gateway animu, and I saw bits of it maybe a decade ago.

First season was ok-ish, then they took out the main antagonist and boom, another, and another, and Ichigo just got a bigger and more pwoerful sword every fucking time IIRC.

thanks but no thanks, too stretched out.

Anyways, on the topic of newer anime, anyone seen Oshi no Ko?

That thing is great, it is like a mix of some of the better crime anime, isekai and idol stuff, all rolled into one.

I saw a few episodes today, I was not sold when I first read the summary, but it turned out excellent.
 
Agent23 said:
Anyways, on the topic of newer anime, anyone seen Oshi no Ko?

That thing is great, it is like a mix of some of the better crime anime, isekai and idol stuff, all rolled into one.

I saw a few episodes today, I was not sold when I first read the summary, but it turned out excellent.
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Personally, I don't intend on ever giving the show a chance to impress me. The whole thing just reeks of daytime soap opera drama, which I have no interest in whatsoever, and the "isekai" reincarnation angle is just a setup gimmick that doesn't amount to anything from what I've heard from readers manga; who also said that the story completely falls apart after the first few arcs anyways, with Ai herself being pretty much the only thing that's noteworthy about it (which is kind of a problem, considering what happens in the prologue).
 
Terthna said:
Personally, I don't intend on ever giving the show a chance to impress me. The whole thing just reeks of daytime soap opera drama, which I have no interest in whatsoever, and the "isekai" reincarnation angle is just a setup gimmick that doesn't amount to anything from what I've heard from readers manga; who also said that the story completely falls apart after the first few arcs anyways, with Ai herself being pretty much the only thing that's noteworthy about it (which is kind of a problem, considering what happens in the prologue).
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Suit yourself.
 
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