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Shelf Life - Grimoire of Zero

Oreimo may be the modern standard-bearer for "little sister" shows, but the genre goes back at least as far as [Sister Princess]. We don't have any formal reviews for this season, but it does factor into a feature article on this romantic comedy niche.

As Overlord Season 2 has shown, lizard-men protagonists are where it's at

Do you by any chance know when the home release is going to be for that?

Don't know for sure, but i'm certain Funimation will be releasing that like they did the first season. I think maybe there was a year between the first season streaming and the bluray release? (and here i'm still waiting on a Konosuba bluray release here in the states, lol)

belvadeer wrote:

Do you by any chance know when the home release is going to be for that?

Don't know for sure, but i'm certain Funimation will be releasing that like they did the first season. I think maybe there was a year between the first season streaming and the bluray release? (and here i'm still waiting on a Konosuba bluray release here in the states, lol)

zztop wrote:

Grimoire's anime only covered the 1st volume of its source light novel. The 11th LN, which debuted in Dec 2017, appears to be the last of the series. Most of the LNs are written as fairly episodic adventures, where 1 volume - story of the week. Its author stated it was not easy to sell the concept of a beastman MC to his publishers; he claims it was only after much wrangling with them that they finally approved it. For a while it seemed he would have been forced to use a normal human MC per editorial request.

Japan seems to be rather anti-beastman with a lot of their anime and game productions these days. "Kemono" characters are only ever allowed to be supporting characters, not protagonists, which seems rather stupid, and they tend to get killed off after a while. Human protagonists have gotten incredibly stale and boring after so many decades of them, so a change to someone nonhuman would make it more interesting (too bad they never see it that way). The only type of beastman character that always gets a free pass in this case is, naturally, the catgirl.

The author said he purposely wanted a full-on kemono protagonist as a response to their general status as supporters/villians in Japanese fantasy works.

The editors' preference for catgirls/boys, I think has to do with a combination of risk-averseness and fantrends there. The Japanese trend for protag demihumans usually tends to be like catgirls/boys - a few animal bits like ears/tails/eyes, but otherwise human-looking in every way. Full-on animal-person like Mercenary is considered too risky to sell to the local fans.

Things I am sick to my goddamn stomachs of in these otaku-written LN series:

Fetishization of slavery. It’s beyond gross. Stop it.

Sexualization of children. It’s even worse than beyond gross. Stop it.

Jokes about pedophilia. What the hell is wrong with these people?

This is what happens when media is created by otaku who have only ever been exposed to media created by other otaku. Their world becomes so insular, so reliant on increasingly unpleasant tropes, that they don’t even realize how utterly isolated they are from the rest of the world.

And yes, I realize that y’all who only consume otaku media yourselves are going to get angry at me for saying as much, and that’s part of the problem.