Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (light novel)
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tetragramat said: youseiki said: Nah, even the famous Violet Garden is being thrashed by senseless hate to Kyo Ani, which is not even logical at all... Though the anime is not really good compared to the Web Novel especially the Art and the Sound which is chaotic during the incantations, but the Gaming Interface is attractive for me. I know people tend to get BS, but some of you guys who've read Death March were actually defending the Source Material which is the Web Novel, but not the Anime. I actually like the art style. It's different, but I like it. I feel like the art style suits DM. I believe sound during incarnations was sounding chaotic intentionaly, because if you look at the story, there is reason why the incarnation make such strange sounds and it may be even explained in this seanson after Sato starts learning magic. Which is being hated by people even with logica explanation because most of its explanation is still in th wn, I Guess I'll read DM from the start after I caught up in the latest chapters of Violet Garden. |
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| The OP was meh. But the ED is perfect \o/ |
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youseiki said: Grey-Zone said: Souma from Realist Kingdom is the personification of "The Prince", he can't stop talking, or rather monologueing, about that book anyway, so that's quite fitting. Roland from RTW is quite... "soft" for a Chinese (isekai) MC I have to say, but I guess from the outside view he is like that variable that none of the sides, be it the church, witch extremists, or prince/princess siblings in his new life, who came for the throne when everyone already counted him out in that hinterland Border Town. But he became a dark horse who at this point no one can ignore anymore - and he already got rid of one hostile factions anyway. Lyle Walt from Sevens... if only he had gotten Satou's advice (which was already mentioned in this thread once)... "Just conquering the world doesn't sound like a hard work, but I want absolutely nothing to do with the masochist game waiting at the end of the line, called reign." Satou is more like the ultimate puppet master instead, of course this anime, even if it was 2-cour, would never reach that far, unless it became Vanadis-level of rushing through the LN volumes, which I highly doubt... I mean even the LN version has only fairly recently reached this stage, while only the WN version is far ahead. SERIOUSLY???!!!! Let me picture how Death March is in this comparison Political Web Novel: Realist Hero Industrialization Web Novel: Release that Witch Constructing Empire Web Novel: Sevens Master Manipulator: Death March . . Seriously speaking, how do you explain Death March "ultimate puppet master" A: is it similar to Sevens Manipulative elements in politics and war? Controlling many countries and using underhanded strategies to defeat their enemies or to cleanse the higher ups through treachery? B: Since there's a guy that have mentioned that it wasn't about revolutionary politics, then is it limited to Freedom Diplomacy that lets Satou and his party roam every country they like C: the Highest Authorities have recognized his existence that they can't touch him but he doesn't want to rule and reign the world, so he's the master of every kings and queens but he's just a famous adventurer to people. Satou's map and scan skill is MUCH more broken than Lyle's. As you could see in this episode, he could actually see random people's names and levels (he can actually look at their entire status menue once he can see someone on the map) from far, far away, got a similar color-coding for detected presences on the map as Lyle as well. Also Satou is extremely OP. Keep these in mind. Now to answer the questions. Beware spoilers |
Grey-ZoneJan 11, 2018 6:01 PM
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| Since I don't have anything against this genre and OP MC, I'll keep watching it for now. |
| this wasn't out right awful but good Isekai is a rare breed when so much shit is pumped out this didn't turn me off like smartphone so i'll keep watching but it might end up as one of those low priority watches for me got slightly tilted at the Power leveling scene by nitpicking normally if it was meant as a new player fight you would turn off the exp gains for wiping out such a large amount of mobs not only that you would most likely hit a huge dip in exp after leveling twice their level so to hit 310 instantly seems a bit absurd,but i'm just gonna be pretend the world is as buggy as the game he was working on so none of those factored in lol. |
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| >saw the title with isekai content >skip without taking a look |
| I read some of the WN a year or so ago, and the only difference in the LN/anime that I really cared about was how Sato saves Sera (the blond girl at the end) as a first meeting. In the WN they just meet each other in town. She isn't a love interest of Sato, she doesn't even travel with him, so why the fuck did they feel the need to make her get saved by him? It's like how in the SAO WN Asuna killed Kuradeel, while Kirito saves her in the LN/anime. I know why changes like these are made, but how do authors/editors/etc. think it's a good idea? |
katsu044 said: got slightly tilted at the Power leveling scene by nitpicking normally if it was meant as a new player fight you would turn off the exp gains for wiping out such a large amount of mobs not only that you would most likely hit a huge dip in exp after leveling twice their level so to hit 310 instantly seems a bit absurd,but i'm just gonna be pretend the world is as buggy as the game he was working on so none of those factored in lol. It happened because of various reason which are explained in the later volumes of the WN. Welp, In any case.. So far, every complaint about the plot that I've seen in this thread are already touched upon and explained in the WN. Which is quite surprising |
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| I... honestly don't know what I expected. Everyone says this gets better, so I guess I'll give it a couple episodes, but wow this first impression is pretty bad and it's going to have to do a major 180 and quick to bring me around... |
| "EVERYBODY, CLAP YOUR HANDS!" "PLUS ULTRA!" |
| That’s an insane amount of work... Looking forward to another op dude in a isekai... I don’t have high expectations for this tbh |
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| The harem-isekai has been done to death at this point and is too popular for its own good. Everyone just keeps writing the same story to profit off that popularity... however, I'm going to reserve judgement on this one. I like that they actually spent time establishing Satou's character before sending him to the other world. Many isekai have a bad habit of throwing a character the audience knows nothing about straight into the action. The problem with this is the audience doesn't know what the character behaves like normally. There's no way to gauge if the protagonist's actions are in character or not, and it's hard to get invested in the character once the environment become more interesting than him. With this anime, I actually got a good sense for who Satou is before he got sucked into the game. Characters with absurd power they didn't earn is another pet peeve of mine, but I'm genuinely intrigued to see how this show will handle Satou's impossibly high level. I do think it's kind of stupid having him start out so strong, but I do find his lack of skill in actually utilizing a power he doesn't understand the mechanics of interesting. Maybe this won't be an issue in a couple episodes, but I do hope Satou continues to struggle with the game's glitches and user interface. Judging from chat, my other issues with Satou's age changing and leveling up too quickly are going to be addressed, so I'll sit quietly and see what happens. I don't have high hopes for this show, but I am excited to see the promise of something a bit different in a genre that's started growing stale. |
Shvanell said: AvidAnimeViewer said: I read some of the WN a year or so ago, and the only difference in the LN/anime that I really cared about was how Sato saves Sera (the blond girl at the end) as a first meeting. In the WN they just meet each other in town. She isn't a love interest of Sato, she doesn't even travel with him, so why the fuck did they feel the need to make her get saved by him? It's like how in the SAO WN Asuna killed Kuradeel, while Kirito saves her in the LN/anime. I know why changes like these are made, but how do authors/editors/etc. think it's a good idea? Honestly even though I do so prefer how the WN meeting was compared to this, I still do understand why they did it. Since if not Satou was just going to be totally alone all the way up till when the demon attack's, and people' attention span would have waned HARD with how slow it start's up. Now Zena can be used as a world lore dump and grounder for Satou. Also you might have been confused on the name's. Zena is the name of the girl here, Sera And yes Zena doesn't travel within him since she has her own duty's to attend to, and cant join him even if she wanted to. But Right, her name's Zena, I was close though. I dropped it like half a year ago and only got 10 chapters (7 vols) in, so I didn't know about what happens after. And I could tell she had a spark with Sato, but a lot of her embarrassment concerning him came from her friends teasing her. Anyways, this is obviously not the greatest isekai story, and when it comes to slice of life, which this technically is, it'll have a lot of competition this season. Yuru Camp, Mitsuboshi Colors, Gakuen Babysitters, and Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho (or is that adventure?) are all great shows so far, and Hakumei to Mikochi coming out tomorrow looks pretty good too. |
| Overall, I thought it was a fun intro. Really slow in the first half, though, but definitely got interesting. Animation though was really subpar- very little detail in the faces and such. Plot kinda meh so far and I don't like the idea of him being OP |
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| reallllllllllllllllllly hard time believing this could get better. Was drowsy level bored. MC couldn't be less interesting |
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Swagernator said: Lets look into this shall we ? 30 years old programer has shitty job and shitty life, so hes (probably) transported into fantasy world, here he gets ridiculously OP, and at the same time hes 16 years old (cuz self inserts you know), after that he get to rescuse some hot chick, and more chicks coming into his harem soon, all wrapped in "RPG" style cuz you know fans dig that. + Ugly CGI, lowest production value quality possible and its an Light Novel adaptation... Could this be an Isekai Anime ? Accurate as fuck to represent half assed Anime that used for advertising. It's probably another trash but enjoyable for some viewer who liked isekai and RPG stuff. Yep definitely going to binge this shit later. |
| I read the LN (both web(16) and paper(10)) I bought the Manga and here the impression of the anime. First of all about the animation: It is better than I expected it is acceptable, it probably won't affect the overview of the anime ( Consider Sliver link, wasn't a good studio but wasn't very bad either) But the opening songs and the sound when the character enchant spells WTF are you serious? I don't think I can found anything worst, the enchant really ruins it (I almost thought I was in 2.0x mode when they enchant spells) But overall it is ok and probably a better than smartphone one(the fighting animation of that one is not gd) I also have a question of why adding the lost little girl scenes and loli thing it doesn't mention in the LN or manga and that was waste of time that can make a better ending of the episode |
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Tokoya said: This wasn't half bad but I hated how the subbers didn't translate a lot of the in game stuff....Didn't they think that people would actually want to know what they say -_- Anyway, I enjoyed the IRL stuff more than the in game stuff but nonetheless I really liked both of them, however I wanna know how this dude got in the game exactly Seconded, I liked the IRL stuff way more than the second half. Pretty classic start to a pretty classic Isekai anime I guess. The only thing that kinda stands out is the full fledged game mechanics and that's cool I guess. Hopefully this'll be a lot more enjoyable than some of the other Isekai's out there. The best part of this show is that the OP is buy Run Girls, Run and the ED is by Wake Up, Girls! xD |
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tetragramat said: Thanks, I'm crossing my fingers.SkyLETV said: Disappointing. I feel cheated. Anyway, I like isekai and I really liked this first episode. Let's see how it continues. I think Arisa might satisfy you at least a little. (expected around 4-7. episode) |
| Well so far the MC's real-life is more interesting than the other world. Anyone else think the backgrounds were super dull? I get that they wanted a place where Meteor Storm could take place, but still. |
| yay! one of the best isekai WN i've ever read being animated. I hope anime will do more justice compared to the manga, so many detailed background stuff removed in manga. Good enough start tbh, but not that great. Prologue went far too long into half of the episode, 3D movement isnt that great and that chant isnt that good to listen. The scene he's running alone is good enough to feel the world he is in and great OST too. He isnt all smile in the anime compared to the manga version of him, theOP is ok enough to enjoy, while ED is great! Cant wait for the girls to be introduced! |
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| @Grey-Zone @tetragramat Thank you guys for answering my questions... I know that I want to be spoiled badly, but I can't trust myself and some random reviews since there's a divide on its reader, those are the people doesn't like it's cliche stuff(or because it was made in Japan) those who ignore the other elements(like what happened to Sevens), then the other ones are those who like it and can see the whole picture of the author's intention or those who just want to read with low expectation but got a decent content... but none of them has mentioned political stuff which is one of my favorite element in a story. After seeing your answers, now I know why DM has political tag, definitely deserves to be popular and definitely deserves to be read. |
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| Been waiting for this since the manga is my favorite. I haven't read the LN yet. Glad to see it get animated. Character design isn't good nor is it bad. But I kinda like the manga style better. But it takes getting used to. I'm wondering why half of the episode is about his Programming life. Felt like a waste. His OP like any other Isekai MC that I know. But the manga is enjoyable. Not sure how good will this adaptation be. |
GreenEmu said: As utterly predictable as expected. But hey, different strokes for different folks, if anybody enjoys the Isekai formula then more power to them. I just can't help groan and roll my eyes at these types of stories at this point. The whole "world has RPG game mechanics" aspect makes it worse too.  I play a lot MMORPG's and mostly leveling is irrelevant in most mmos. The most important thing is mastering the skills mostly. Not the level but the stats are too much for having still mastering so less skills. It makes so ridiclous. :D |
| WOW! JUST WOW! so many things to mention. 1st is the director is Oonuma Shin which is I already approve! then next is the OST is from MONACA <- high expectations! next is since i've seen quite a bit of Isekai shows (including the not so shit show Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. which is for me low class isekai and Re:Zero which is overhyped isekai) This one seems to be quite interesting! The RPG Hub screen was very game like I could feel it and the sound effects of every expand and collapse of the Hub on the screen was well done! And of course I won't forget to mention the RGR! the three mid school girls from WUG! haha they are an established group already same as what WUG has done! Basically Wake Up, Girls! -> disciple -> Run Girls, Run! 5/5! |
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| Hmmmm another story like Sword Art Online...Let's see if it will be good..so far is not bad...I'll watch 2 more ep and then decide if it is worth to watch till the end |
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| the prologue was waaaay longer than needed. Needed only 2 pages in the manga. The begining where employees slept at their desks doing overtime without going home, is way too relateable to me. Not nearly as good as it could have been, but I liked it overall. Although it sounds really stupid hearing his name is actually Satoo, and not Satou. I always thought his name was pronounced Sato-u, rather than Sa-tuu, sounding closer to the pokemon Xatu, whereas Satou sounds more like a real believable Japanese name someone could have. Oh well, guess I'll just have to get used to it. Wish they had translated the menu text and floating text as well, but I guess that would have been a much bigger and time-consuming job that would cut into making it in time for simulcasting. Hope they do it when doing an English release. Can't say I agree with the choice of spelling for certain things, like "salue", following none of the romanji conventions that would make it "Seiryuu or Serieu, and losing all conotation it had to dragons since the Earldom is next to the Dragon Valley, where they're known to hunt Wyverns. Speaking of wyverns. I fucking hate what they did to it. Looks like they changed the design from a realistic pterodactyl from the source material (both long established in the novels and manga), making it look like a ugly generic dragon that lost it's two front legs, instead of an actual wyvern in the truest sense. Didn't like the unessesary change at all. It goes deeper than that though, because wyverns are supposed to be seen as psuedo-dragons, not actual dragons. So the show making them look more like what dragons do, is a huge mistake as it screwed up the world-building a little. I'm surprised the original author, and character designer gave their consent to this change. So much for sticking to the source material. |
| Good episode !!! I loved it Unfortunately, Zena is not listed as MC in MAL !! SHe looks the best out of the girls |
| Ah... It's so bad. |
| Now that's a 3/10 show over the next few episodes they'll give the bland main character a harem and there'll be HILARIOUS shenanigans haha...ha...ha. As generic and poorly written as you'd expect from an isekai web novel. The anime's execution sucks ass on top of that. |
| Why is everyone giving us half-assed spoilers? If you are going to give us spoilers, we want proper spoilers, please. If he is not dead, what the fuck happened? I'm reluctant to waste my time if this is not half as good as Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, and that Isekai is just half good. |
monolithJan 12, 2018 2:33 AM
Anovry__ said: With this shit got an anime adaptation i hope Mushoku Tensei will get one too Mushoku tensei doesn't seem to me like something that would do too well in anime format, because it feels like the anime would end before the story really starts. |
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