This board is full of illiterate goons who talk about stuff with as few words as possible then throw a tantrum when people don't understand them.
So if you wanna go on a long-winded spiel about a series you like (or hate) take this thread as an excuse!
Review: Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru
Analysis: Endearing contrasts of surrounding falling in love. Strength vs. Weakness in one area of love with juxtaposition in the opposite out of love. The game of Shoji being a symbol of how the battle to get to that perfect state and moment where a relationship can start. It is very sweet and often funny albeit emotionally manipulative to the viewer and pandering to outcasts of societal youth who are stunted and fearful likely due to atypical characteristics.
I recommend, but I recommend being cautious as well regarding how emotional stories endanger and weaken the psyche.
Any series? Manga? Anime? Hentai?
Iruma-kun is pretty underrated.
To best summarise it: It definitely feels like it's inspired by Harry Potter:
Harry Potter is about a boy raised by his extremely abusive aunt and uncle until he's invited to a magic school, where his life massively improves and he quickly makes a name for himself. But watch out! The wizarding world is in a precarious situation, due to a faction of evil wizards that are starting to take action.
Iruma-kun is about a boy with extremely abusive parents who sell him to a demon, and he then attends a school in the demon world, where his life massively improves and he quickly makes a name for himself. But watch out! The demonic world is in a precarious situation, due to a faction of evil demons that are starting to take action.
I feel like Iruma-kun executes a lot of the concepts better though, as well as being generally much more fun, knowing when to take itself seriously and when to be comedic.
Harry Potter has a very childish take on good and evil. The author pretty much directly tells you how to feel about characters. Everyone in Gryffindor is good, everyone in Slytherin is bad. The villains are just there to be evil, as their motives don't even make any sense. They're quite literally just Nazi wizards.
Iruma-kun portrays evil in a very different way. While the villains seem cartoonishly evil from a human perspective, their "evil" traits are present to some extent in even "good" characters. It's made pretty clear that it's a world with a different set of norms and values, so someone who wants to turn the world into a violent anarchist hellscape isn't necessarily a pure villain who just exists for the protagonist to defeat.
And that's another thing! Harry Potter just shows the wizarding world as a secret society, Iruma-kun shows a radically different culture. It really is far more interesting.
Pretty much
It's the opposite.
People don't have the attention span to read lots of words.
Have to keep things short even in a professional setting.
I've thought a lot about the connection between Warau Arsnotoria Sun!'s episode 5 and Umineko. Specifically episode 5.
It occurred to me that during the whole episode I kind of zoned out and then thought, "wait, where's Abra?" The rest of the gang kind of went their ways and found a group or did something. I found myself writing everyone's alibi when walking across the academy. I think it follows a similar structure to Umineko arcs.
>The practical magic of Abramelin ... centres around a set of talismans composed of magic word squares.
It seemed Abra just went to the library to find a book but then dozed off. She was then found by Mel who decided to play hide-and-seek on a whim in a short scene which leads the scene where they all meet in a hall all of a sudden and it seems Tori found everyone. This is like meeting each other at the Golden Land at the end? Tori then is the witch? Abramelin is performed using magic squares which is like the epitaph? Abra saying she was going to get a book and go home but the alibi was wrong since they found Abra in the halls? I'm sure there's a connection.
That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime
If you want a Lord of the Rings level of worldbuilding in an anime, this is for you.
It's an isekai and follows a lot of the usual tropes, but rather than feeling like a generic RPG setting it's a world that actually feels lived-in: It expands on those tropes so much that they actually become interesting.
The humans have intelligently adapted to their circumstances.
You know the "we summoned you from another world to be our hero" isekai trope? Humanity has been spamming that move as often as possible, plus some people just cross worlds by accident, so there's probably thousands of otherworlders.
And although humanity appears to be at a renaissance level of technology, it's not like they're ignorant and need otherworlders to tell them what to do, because that level of technology has been enforced by angels for thousands of years.
The demon lords, rather than being simply villains to be defeated, are actually a fascinating and diverse cast:
>a demon appointed by god to be a villain and keep humanity in check
>the daughter of god, but due to a series of unfortunate events she's an orphaned vagabond and also permanently a young teen
>a tiny weakling fairy
>a vampire who humanity believes is god
>a giant who guards heaven
>a sleepy NEET
>the king of monstergirls
>the harpy queen
>a gentlemanly fellow who was slowly corrupted into madness and tyranny
>a likely-autistic hero who somehow wound up becoming a demon lord instead
It's definitely a world that doesn't feel like it exists merely for the protagonist to conquer, unlike a lot of isekai stories with similar settings. It's got tonnes of depth to it, and the protag has to take a lot of care to make sure he doesn't get snuffed out by the higher powers that he inevitably attracts the attention of.
based, I love Iruma-kun and you summed it up perfectly
too long, didn’t read