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This Week in Anime - What Went Wrong in Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody?

how does she feel about her sister in this world having canonically been raped by their past masters

Utsuro no Hako wrote:

How I long for the days of wholesome anime fetishes ... like tentacles.

Soon they will be enslaved tentacles.

Pochi and Tama are actually Humanfolk born with Bestfolk's attribute , and that's why they were abandonned at birth, it was also said in the LN that there was no others case of such mutation aside them

On the slavery issue: It's kind of a sad comment on the topic when the "best" (which here means "*least* blatantly insulting") approach to the problem comes from the infamous _Paladin of Shadows_ novels by John Ringo[*]: "Buy the slaves; bring them back to the base; get them Actual Educations in Business, or Law, or the sciences; then get them hired into jobs in those fields". Compared to that, this series -- if there was an anime equivalent to the Nuremberg Trials, this series would be in the dock....

You say that like Free wasn’t criticized by some male fans for not appealing to them, and I remember the flack Yuri on Ice got from some after it won last year’s anime awards because it featured a gay couple.

Plus Re:Zero was in the top 5 of three reviewers on this site for 2016, two of which were women. The main reason that stuff on the level of Death March is poorly regarded is clearly quality.

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In Another World With My Smartphone questioned whether or not anime should still be allowed to exist.

I larfed. I will not defend Death March's many flaws but I will say I continue to watch it, unironically. Bizarrely, the mundane stuff like "dealing with a real estate" agent is the stuff I enjoy most. Don't ask me why. And I adore the loli slave girls.

Look, I like dom women as much as the next guy, but it'd be nice if they weren't 11, you know?

ower over a human being that he's never experienced in his home world. The protagonist often ends up owning slaves himself, and just as often they willingly want to remain as his slaves.

@Shay Guy: your link is a nice explanation to the slave-ownership trope.

From that link:

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ower over a human being that he's never experienced in his home world. The protagonist often ends up owning slaves himself, and just as often they willingly want to remain as his slaves.

Some people forget that sometimes a real slave may do this even if their master seeks to have that slave freed. Yes, that slave could be well aware of the human rights issues with slavery and lack of legal consequences for the owner that mistreats them. However, they might still choose to be a slave girl

The above link could have similar applications to the harem genre. In the defense of harems, the lead guy is often beat up when he acts pervy. Also, the girls sometimes could always live him in-story if they wanted to.

also what make both series likeable is that both MC's are anything but the uber shy/girl phobic & dense/oblivious types ala the masaki brothers , ichika orimura from IS , danmachi's bell & index/raiulgun's touma kamajo , nor are they super perverts ala dxd's issei or trinity seven's arata. so at least both series have THAT going for them.

Nothing makes my eyes roll faster than the complaint about the MC's thought about the tavern owner being his type if she was slimmer. It was his actual THOUGHT not spoken word. It appears men can no longer have their own preferences in whom they're attracted to without being called a dick. -_-

Richmyster84 wrote:

Nothing makes my eyes roll faster than the complaint about the MC's thought about the tavern owner being his type if she was slimmer. It was his actual THOUGHT not spoken word. It appears men can no longer have their own preferences in whom they're attracted to without being called a dick. -_-

That's fair, but it's also fair to wonder why the writers included that line in his inner monologue.--to make him more relatable to the audience, to develop his character in some way, or to make him seem like a jerk?

@Yune Amagiri: In the "pure" sense, "isekai" simply means "other world," and there are lots of variations as noted, like KonoSuba and Youjo Senki, but also there's unique stuff like No Game No Life, Accel World, Hataraku Maou-sama, even Western shows like King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (YEAAAHHH EARLY 90S SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!!).

However, I would say the "isekai hate" is specifically aimed at the glut of "isekai medieval fantasy JRPG world with superpowerful protagonists." Where KonoSuba is satirical and Re:Zero deconstructive, more "typical" examples like SAO, Death March, Overlord, Log Horizon, Shield Hero, Smart Phone, and many more are all variations on the same theme: character(s) from our contemporary reality are somehow transported/trapped in a medieval fantasy world that either is a game, resembles a game, or somehow has a lot of game-like functions. Grancrest Senki is a straight fantasy that still uses Crests in a pretty game-like manner. DanMachi doesn't even try to pretend and just has a straight up character sheet and leveling system.

It's just the current "thing." A few years ago, the fad was "the most unique power while enrolled in a special powers high school (and sometimes the only male in an all-female school)," popular ones being Zero no Tsukaima, Index, Mahouka, Asterisk, Soul Eater, Infinite Stratos, but also lots of "meh" shows or dregs, such as Absolute Duo, Hundred, Unlimited Fafnir, Sky Wizards Academy, etc.

After isekai dies down we'll just be waiting for the next anime schtick.

However, I would say the "isekai hate" is specifically aimed at the glut of "isekai medieval fantasy JRPG world with superpowerful protagonists."

That's fair, but it's also fair to wonder why the writers included that line in his inner monologue.--to make him more relatable to the audience, to develop his character in some way, or to make him seem like a jerk?

I really liked Log Horizon and can rewatch it over and over again, but I can barely stand SAO or it's other look-a-likes that it spawned, and while I can't find a good way to separate out Log Horizon from the list, it just doesn't feel like it belongs there.

After all, the triggering image comes from the second episode. In the first episode there was a segment where he puts his lunch aside to help a lost little girl. After the girl's mother mother appears that segment ends with his thinking the mother was "pretty hot". How many times do they have to demonstrate this to make that aspect of his character clear?