Anime/Manga/Light Novel Thread

My weebery has faded in recent times
I havent really watched much lately
I'm reading the konosuba light novel but thats about it
I havent even done my yearly rewatches of the random romcoms i like to rewatch (kaichou wa maid sama, rereading chibi vampire etc)
I think the last time I really read or watched a lot was about a year ago i binge read all the isekai manga that was out at the time, very formulaic.
I did watch the second season of classroom of the elite and that was alright, just been busy doing other bits and not much has caught my eye
ive been told I have to read umineko and fate's VNs so theyre on my radar when i feel up for it

gingermilk
Yeah I cant tell how much of it is me getting older and 'maturing' and how much is just burn out from when i was a teen lol
I didnt recognise the name, but i hadnt Solanin in, well years. i never read it but used to see pictures of it on sites way back when.

How do you find a lot of the chinese adaptations of stuff, im assuming you've seen what we had in the english countries with the 4kids stuff, how faithful is translations in that tongue?

yeah the anime for umineko is considered really bad, I liked the OP tho, so theres that at least lol

gingermilk
ohhh okay, i'll have to look it up, not that i'll be able to tell much xd

yeah for sure, i know there was some controversy over a translation of ffiv recently I think, removed some of the 'gendered' stuff or something, might have been a redo of an old translation tho so slightly different
i getcha tho, at least the 4kids censorship was kind of funny in how they changed things

I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about anime (notice I'm the only non-anime pfp here) as many, but there was an online Japanese Film Festival not too long ago where I had the opportunity to watch two movies: Time of Eve (2010) and Patema Inverted (2013).

The former is a scif-fi drama about the interactions between humans and machines, most events happen inside a cafe where you're not allowed to ask anyone whether they're human or an android. The latter is about two kids from different worlds where gravity is opposite to one another, for one it pushes down, for the other it pulls up. I really liked some of the visuals on this one.

I liked and recommend them both specially because they're movies so the time investment is not too much, though I must admit I'm a simple guy with easily met standards.

I have been embracing isekai more and more. It's a stupid but fun genre. I was reading the Overlord LNs last summer, but stopped because I got verybusy... or maybe because I got burned out at the lizard sex part. I also liked the Kumo desu ga, nani ka? manga and anime so I wanted to read that LN, but haven't started.

Call me a normie, but I actually like One Punch Man for what it is.

Haven't watched much anime at all since Yuyushiki (where my name and avi sake comes from) was airing, but I will watch something if I hear that it is fun.

Oddly, I used to like anime that I thought seemed 'deep' when I was younger, but now I just like the stuff that is fun...

I also like Kaiji and _Akagi. _

I also like other SOL stuff

gingermilk Just finished reading the latest chapter of a random little manga I saw on fedi called "The Dragon, the Hero, and the Courier". It's fine, basically a comedy about the struggle between mages and the government. Nothing special, but it's fun enough.

As for recommendations, I'd like to recommend two mangas I read somewhat recently. Both them are from the same author, "Matsumoto Jiro", a guy who really likes to write 'dirty' stories. Basically he likes lots of sex, violence, drugs and shitty people.

First one is "Freesia", a story about 'literally me'. He's a paranoid schizophrenic with some sort of pseudo-superpower to blend into his environment, and he uses that power to carry out his duty as the country's best female police officer. This one's great and I think everyone in this thread will at least find it to be "Alright, but not my thing". It's a little long, but it has that kind of mainstream appeal that everyone seems to be drawn to so much. I actually didn't like it as much as I thought I would, but overall I think it was a great read.
Give it a try, you'll like it.
Second one's "Joshikouhei" and holy shit is this one great. Well, it starts off really badly and I dropped it twice within the first 15 chapters, but it progressively gets better as the story progresses and by the end I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see how it'll end. It made me feel something very few mangas or animes made me feel, a genuine anticipation of what will happen next. Besides that, the visuals are very creative and a certain rape scene made me genuinely laugh because of how fucking ridiculous the dialogue was. This one's not for everyone though, I wouldn't blame you if you dropped it after a few chapters and wrote it off as boring and slow or silly and pretentious. If you stick with it though, you'll get your money's worth.

histoire

Oh yeah, I also watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners, which will leave me a emotional wreck for a week or so

gingermilk I knew nothing about Mahjong when I started reading Akagi and I don't really know anything now, but as I read I would read up on rules enough to understand the mahjong jargon and what plays were good and which were bad, which you kind of get from the exaggerated introspective moments.

histoire I think the idea of taking a person from the "normal" world and planting them in a fantasy world is one of the easiest ways to do fantasy and world building, because the protag is learning about the world as you are. Also exposition can be done more naturally.

Isekai just works as an easy way to build a fanatsy story. Also most Isekai use the language of JRPGs and MMOs to make it easier for the reader to understand what is going on.

Basically Isekai is a vehicle that allows for the writer to focus on writing fantasy rather than having to do the legwork on having a believable world. In isekai the world is not believable and doesn't need to be. Everything works because its like muh vidya and sheeit.

yukarihinata
Those are excellent points. Not a new genre either, as much as I've seen some people pretend that to be the case.

I think most of the hate comes from the low quality stuff that pops up, but it's not like that's any different than any other medium or genre. 90% rule and all that.

And that's also not to say that you can't have detailed world building in such a setting, because you absolutely can. I've seen worlds with ideas completely novel or old ideas told in a different twist that really stuck with me.

histoire yukarihinata
for sure you're both onto it entirely
its far easier to write a story when you can have your protag needing to learn all the things you do as a reader. Hell I remember a manga from when i was like 8-9ish called MAR: Marchen Awakens Romance, probably one of the earliest isekai's that I know of. Kid is in class and a random door opens in front of him, think it asks a question and he goes in, then he falls from the sky and meets the heroine (she was very cute, a bit of a tsun tho)
was a very good manga/anime

Lumeinshin
Here's some more early ones for you

notably the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Peter Pan (1904) and The Chronicles of Narnia (1950)

I'd also add Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The oldest is apparently Urashimako from the 8th century.

histoire I think its a generational thing. Fantasy type things are normal in a videogame, so the extraordinary can be described in a familiar way.

You would think that it would be a hindrance to creativity to describe things like a video game, but I think it opens the door to making things that wiuld otherwise suspend disbelief seem briliant.

That almost sounds like a slight, but it is exactly why I like Overlord so much apart from the neat characters