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The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide

It's a system, she tells him, whereby depressed people are hit with the Truck and sent to fantasy worlds.

Oh, they never say that the "sensei" we're following is Dazai, but the title alludes to one of his best-known works, No Longer Human, and his character design bears more than a passing resemblance to photos of the man.

and the look of the truck and the sedative Sensei tries to OD with once he's in the other world, Calmotin, are both in line with the late 1940s.

I can understand wanting more anime made that targets other demographics. (Note that the manga industry seems to have decided that they get a better financial return from adapting shojo and josei as live action rather than anime, especially if both Japanese and South Korean versions are made.) But that is very different from getting miffed at the shows that get adapted for preteen and teen boys containing elements that preteen and teen boys like. What else are they supposed to do? While entertainment that doesn't cater to what the target audience likes can succeed, it won't consistently AND requires other elements that drives up costs. Yes, we all loved Mob Psycho 100 with its absence of fanservice and subversion of masculine power fantasies. Great, now go produce 20 shows like it a year, most with a fraction of the budget and little of the elite talent. And for all the awards and glowing reviews that Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken justifiably earned, a mediocrity like Plunderer garnered bigger audience while airing the very same season, while also boosting manga sales. Our Last Crusade Or Rise of the New World? Bigger audience than Golden Kamuy almost solely because of the looks of the female protagonist, and the same was true of Banished From The Heroes Party vs Restaurant To Another World.

Anyway, the gimmick this time is that he finds a pair of five-year-old twins out in the woods, who he names Alan and Elena (matching names! My favorite! *barf*).

I don't know what to think about Elusive Samurai. It looked great for sure, and the story and characters were good, but man, you can't just go from showing us the raped, mangled and murdered body of a child and then make goofy jokes about the funny priest. And then have that child goofing off in the ending with the rest of the cast! The guy who's at fault is DJ'ing! Also the subitles on crunchyroll are awful. They constantly use character's first name when they say the last name and they did what I consider a sin, they anglosized the order of ancient Japanese names! That's annoying enough when it happens usually but there seems to be some sort of rule that old japanese names are left in the correct order (you never see nobunaga refered to as Nobunaga Oda for example) but here everyone's names are reversed

I hesitated to get into The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies at first. The creator, Cocoa Fujiwara, tragically passed away in 2015 before the manga could be completed.

smurky turkey wrote:

Jabootu wrote: This isn't an attempt at an "I'm right, you're wrong" thingie, I'm just asking: Am I the only one who liked Dungeon People rather more than the reviewers? It's not a modern classic, but I really enjoyed it. I liked it a lot too due to the simple but charming look and the concept of seeing how dungeons tick. That said, I am a huge fan of fantasy dungeons so I may be an outlier.

I haven't caught up to this one yet, but I can say that the manga is charming and funny so if the anime is able to capture those qualities it will be a light, breezy, fun little show

My friend recommended No Long Allowed... (manga) to me a while back and I tried reading it but it just made me too uncomfortable. I enjoyed Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei so I'm not against suicide jokes sometimes but like the reviewers, the real life factor was too much. Same reason why I only gave Bungou Stray Dogs one episode, I didn't want to see more jokes about a guy committing suicide when that guy existed irl and attempted suicide heaps of times and finally succeeded less than 100 years ago.
It's a shame because there were some fun ideas in the manga but I just couldn't get past the protagonist issue... If it had been a completely original character I probably still would've felt vaguely uncomfortable but not enough to stop reading.

There’s like a 90% chance that the MC of Zetsubou sensei was also based on Dazai, though it’s probably easier to disconnect when they use a different name

Also, when I read this part of Caitlin Moore's review:

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Anyway, the gimmick this time is that he finds a pair of five-year-old twins out in the woods, who he names Alan and Elena (matching names! My favorite! *barf*).

I couldn't help but think "Really? Of all the things to get annoyed by you choose that? Grow up." Many twins or cousins have similar or matching names such as Oshi No Ko's Ruby and Aquamarine Hoshino, Ben 10's Ben and Gwen Tennyson and The Asterisk War's Li Shenyun and Li Shenhua, so I honestly really don't see the problem here. I won't deny the show isn't perfect, but to me that just felt like a case of "looking for problems where none exist" rather than a legitimate criticism.

I would say main difference is that Zetsubou Sensei actually explores mental problems, mental illness and neurodivergence and even being (dark) comedy, it shows respect to its characters and their problems.

No Longer Allowed In Another World doesn't, it treats it character as fodder for cheap gag and without respect.