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Gina Szanboti
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When I think of Slime, the first color that I envision isn't a gorgeous aqua blue, but a phlegmy green. So that's a point in its favor, not having to look at an ugly color the whole series. From the OP/ED we won't even have to look at slime for the whole series. Anyway, the first episode was fun enough, and I liked the dragon, so I'll put this one in my pocket for the time being.
Double Decker is also a keeper. I have a feeling Kirill is going to get a new code-name every week. He's had 3 already. I also think we're going to see a lot of that same 3/4 profile closeup shot of Boss. I liked Kirill's purple outfit better than the white one with the stupid collar. Maybe he can get new outfits each week too. 
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Greed1914
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It surprised me to see that on my Facebook feed. I was thinking, "A dub already? But the Preview Guide hasn't even started." I didn't even know about this show until the cast for the dub was announced, so having it show up quickly was an added bonus. |
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meiam
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Oh I read the manga, I'm just worried the adaptation will focus massively on the boring overpowered human character over the spider who slowly earn her strength just in order to have an overpowered main character (or worse change the story so the spider just straight start overpowered). |
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 Posts: 18426 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Oh I read the manga, I'm just worried the adaptation will focus massively on the boring overpowered human character over the spider who slowly earn her strength just in order to have an overpowered main character (or worse change the story so the spider just straight start overpowered).[/quote] Then it would be a totally different series. Honestly, I think you're worried for nothing. The story worked well enough in novel form to earn the anime series, so why drastically change something that has already proven successful? |
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Izanagi009
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And Thunderbolt Fantasy is back with the crazy over the top puppetry delivered straight. I love the first season so much I had someone review though Patreon. Good to have it back
The slime anime was interesting both for the drastic tonal shift from the first few minutes and for the surreal animation at times. I’m looking forward to it though I do agree sinewhat with Mr. Creamer about the odd dialogue related to powers |
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gedata
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Reminder to watch Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death if you've only seen the 1st season.
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Koda89
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So far the debuts I've seen have been Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 2, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and Run with the Wind.
Thunderbolt Fantasy is more Thunderbolt Fantasy so far. They did have to spend a bit more of this episode setting up this season, so it wasn't just straight to balls out action like the first episode of the first season, but what action and good old Thunderbolt Fantasy goofiness we got was great. And speaking of great, the new puppets look phenomenal! The Princess of Cruelty has one of my favorite weapon designs in the entire series. I need that sword with a scorpion crossguard she has. Slime is pretty amusing and fun. I'll stick with it for now, but I always am a little wary of these kind of isekai shows that load up a bunch of abilities on their main character. At least the MC isn't insufferable(yet) like so many of his brethren are. Run with the Wind is something I didn't expect at all. That was under the radar even for me, and so far I am liking what I am seeing. This could potentially be one of the big surprises of the season. |
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Zin5ki
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I am hoping, perhaps in vain, that Double Decker will eventually include a reference to buses or nougat-based chocolate bars. Not to do so would be a lamentable waste of its name.
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kotomikun
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I don't know if there's an exact official definition of "isekai," but I take that to mean "one protagonist from our normal world somehow ends up in a fantasy alternate world." Grimgar, the similar-concept Log Horizon, the spider one, SAO, and a few others all involve a whole bunch of people thrown into a new world; sometimes the entire population is fishes-out-of-water. Having one character become both the primary character and absurdly powerful is a much less natural conclusion in that situation--one person completely dominating everyone else feels less plausible if other "real" people are involved--so many (but not all...) of them avoid it. When only one character is a transdimensional newcomer, though, they almost always end up running the place, in some sense or another. Overlord literally transplants the main character into his insurmountably-powerful video game avatar, and the popularity of that show has kinda cemented the idea that this is the only possible use for this concept. |
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Sailor Sedna
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I don't really think there's anything that interests me this time, this season.
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BlueAlf
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I don't know about you people, and I do agree that the production values aren't strong, but IMO Xuan Yuan Sword was way more interesting than I imagined it to be.
Thunderbolt Fantasy is still as good as ever though. |
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teferi
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Based off the trailer the main problem I'd have after having read the manga is the use of the LN character design for the spider. Aoi Yuki voicing that role kind of makes up for it though. |
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Kadmos1
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Most places I have seen translate "isekai" as "another world". Let's not forget that sometimes the transported to another world routine involves being run over by Truck-kun or Train-kun. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Well, it's already had a few shots of double-decker buses, so not so in vain. The chocolate bars might be out of reach though.
I am really excited now for Run Like the Wind. That was a great first episode. I liked all the characters (college age!), and there was a good assortment of personalities, nicely revealed in their expressive faces. Moreover it just has a really interesting ambience to it, and the musical choices are no small part of that. I hope other anime will take note and use their running sequences as a template for how to animate runners. It's so nice to see people run without their elbows horizontal to the ground! 
I didn't realize Jingai-san was a short form. That's disappointing, since I was really looking forward to this from the descriptions. It was too short to say whether I liked it or not, since there was only about 2 minutes of content and about 4 lines of dialog. Half of that was the MC preparing for and walking to school.
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Megiddo
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Whew, at least one reviewer took the power-fantasy isekai to task in terms of actual criticism. There is some slight hope yet.
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