Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (light novel)
| Its fantasy Isekai with male MC, of course this is a harem, don't be bothered by tags. |
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| He only looks at them like family because he's like 15 years older than them..... |
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| This might be kind of a spoiler, but of the 8 girls in that picture only 4 are romantically interested in him, while the other 4 are not, even up to the current Web Novel chapters. And later the protagonist is only really interested in 1 girl in particular and it's none of the ones you see on the picture. |
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Grey-Zone said: This might be kind of a spoiler, but of the 8 girls in that picture only 4 are romantically interested in him, while the other 4 are not, even up to the current Web Novel chapters. And later the protagonist is only really interested in 1 girl in particular and it's none of the ones you see on the picture. "only 4"? What do you think a harem is? |
Pie is delicious. |
Grey-Zone said: This might be kind of a spoiler, but of the 8 girls in that picture only 4 are romantically interested in him, while the other 4 are not, even up to the current Web Novel chapters. And later the protagonist is only really interested in 1 girl in particular and it's none of the ones you see on the picture. 'only' LMAO... that's 3 more than it should be :') |
| I swear, this nigga is 29 but watch he will still be every other harem protag out there. |
Quentinamobay said: I swear, this nigga is 29 but watch he will still be every other harem protag out there. No, he will not. V2Blast said: Grey-Zone said: This might be kind of a spoiler, but of the 8 girls in that picture only 4 are romantically interested in him, while the other 4 are not, even up to the current Web Novel chapters. And later the protagonist is only really interested in 1 girl in particular and it's none of the ones you see on the picture. "only 4"? What do you think a harem is? By default the ones who are not in love with him can be considered "original" characters. As normally girls in a "harem" story who aren't in love with the protagonist don't exist. And aside from that both the ones who fell in love with the protagonist and those who didn't have their unique characteristics that are unlike any other series. Also it's actually made understandable why those who love him actually love him. No such BS as you'd expect from generic harem series like the girls going "omg, you are so kind" being the sole reason for all of them falling in love. |
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Inorichi said: Grey-Zone said: No, he will not. By default the ones who are not in love with him can be considered "original" characters. As normally girls in a "harem" story who aren't in love with the protagonist don't exist. And aside from that both the ones who fell in love with the protagonist and those who didn't have their unique characteristics that are unlike any other series. Also it's actually made understandable why those who love him actually love him. No such BS as you'd expect from generic harem series like the girls going "omg, you are so kind" being the sole reason for all of them falling in love. I own and have read up to volume 3 of the light novels. Ignoring the fact that he's level 310? or 110? some number so unrealistically high I forgot it. I do have to say though, the author has some kind of magic way with foods. There's at least 1 very descriptive page or so about some delicious medieval food in each ln. Now as for generic or the isekai series of the season. On a yes it is, or no it's not. Death March probably falls under yes it is. God character: Satou? Yes Every character other than mc is a girl: Yes Teleported to another (fantasy) world: Check No set/clear motivation/reason: Yes Unclear goals: Yes (seems interested in the world, but also going home) Silver Link makes a lot of harem anime. I'm not to interested or even know many directors so I can't say this for sure, but this will most likely end up being the isekai harem. With (most likely) 12 episodes, it will probably cover up to ln 3, and imo that's not enough for this to have a serious story, or be a plot driven anime. Especially not with any major developments up to light novel 3. Partial spoiler: His 2 beast-folk / animal slaves - like him. (obv they're not old enough to be sexually attracted but when they do, they will most likely be part of his harem) Scale-folk slave - maybe the one excluded from his harem Arisa - Definitely likes him. Probably the same age or older than him in her previous life. Lala? Lulu? - 50-50 in ln 3 Miu? Mia? - Likes him for sure. Nana - not even human but he's already sexually harassed her. Most likely to be lover at ln3, friend girl in military with wind magic or what not: Definitely likes him. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed most, probably all of the "generic harem anime" that come out, but this will most likely be a "standard/generic" isekai harem. I'm somewhat concerned with the way his face is drawn in the cover art. It looks slightly, how do I put this. Low iq? He was pretty badass and aware of his harem in the light novels, just hoping Satou doesn't end up retarded in the anime. Your entire explanation for calling it "generic" is based on genre and settings. Isekai, escpacially slice-of-life harem isekai, as a genre is unfornately very hard to set up in an "original" way. You pretty much ALWAYS get - OP MC - harem (it's the genre after all), with most characters getting screentime being the girls, otherwise developing the characters in the "harem" would be hardly possible - isekai (it's the genre, again - and in the title) through teleportation, otherwise it would just be direct summoning or reincarnation though, so even if you make a distinction between summoning and teleporting, it would still be at most 3 for this genre - there are often unknown factors involved which can take a long time to be revealed, escpacially in a super-long and slow series like this one is - goals are not clear... of course they aren't, because they suddenly got thrown out of their usual life, it would actually be more abnormal to be overly obsessed with having a clear goal unless one either likes, or hates the previous and/or new life excessively So how about, instead of complaining about the genre being what it is, focus on actually makes it different from other isekai or non-isekai harem series? Things like: 1. The protagonist is NOT a "self-insert" high-school bullied loser kid, but rather a functioning adult member of society before coming to the other world. 2. He actually got preferences, both positive and negative, about the opposite sex in both body type as well as "inner values". 3. There is rarely any of the things you'd expect from a typical "doutei protagonist", i.e. even if there are a small amount of denseness and "misunderstandings", they usually either don't last long or get resolved in interesting ways. The protagonist is quite self-aware, as you already noted. 4. The "action" and "plot" part of the story. You said that there is no "seriousness" and that's correct, but not because it's bad writing, but rather that it's made blatantly clear that there isn't supposed to be any such thing in the first place. You should have noticed that "action" or "seriousness" would not be much of a thing in this LN when you saw what the protagonist (almost casually) used as a substitute for the holy sword he couldn't use due to the lacking hero title in the first arc. This series draws a clear line about whether or not you should expect any "tension", instead of forcing some tension in through bad writing like over-the-top "power creep", as many other isekai with OP MCs do. The series never showed-off any actual "plot-line", yes, but that's simply because the series has a very slow pace, almost enough so to call it semi-episodic, but it DOES move forward even if very slowly. But at it's core it's a slice-of-life series about sight-seeing and food and I think the LN/WN handles this part excellently. I take it that you didn't actually read many isekai LNs, else you couldn't possibly say something about being surprised about the author talking about food too much. Tons of isekai LNs/WNs have authors who seem to have some kind of food (with d, not t) fetish. So much infact that you could have actually added it to your list of "usual aspects of (slice-of-life) isekai-harems". Sorry if I come across as critisizing you personally, but it just irks me if of all possible LNs that are out there, one of the few where the above things I mentioned make it rather unique gets branded as "generic" by people. Really, I have read so many WNs out there which were TRULY generic, that there is just no way I can watch someone call Death March generic. Take Isekai Smartphone for example, THAT one is generic as hell: Protagonist whose primary defining characteristic being established as "being kind", girls acting cliché AND protagonist having cliché reactions and not just once or twice, but over and over again, the same stuff gets repeated with the exact same template, they even got the "embarrassed girl violently punches/slaps the protagonist" cliché, which already feels so damn outdated and overused by this point and don't even get me started about the scenes where the protagonist enters the flying fortress parts for the first times each and meets the asigned android girls and the resulting consequences... that repetitiveness and cliché overuse right there is probably the worst about that series. But compared to something truly generic like Isekai Smartphone I really feel like calling Death March cliché just because it's fulfilling what its genre says, feels quite inapprotiate, in comparison. I think you might have set the bar unreasonably high there. As for the Death March anime, the director is Oonuma Shin, and the only LN adaption I have seen from him of which I have seen the original LNs of is Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry (also Silverlink). For Rakudai I think the adaption was really great. I actually was dissatisfied about the way the first few episode of Rakudai were adapted (mainly due to unnecessary cliché "additions" and changes), but the director more than made up for it in later episodes and I almost suspect about the director intentionally has made the first few episodes badly to make the audience view this "improvement" to make the overall season and the whole work look better than if the quality had been kept at maximum from the beginning, but maybe I am just overthinking it. Well, considering it's one of the few anime I actually gave a 10/10 it might have actually worked on me ;) No, but seriously, I think it's OK, though possibly we'll see the same pattern for Death March as there was in Rakudai: starts off not so good, but has improved quality the further you go through the episodes. I'd rather worry about Arifureta's anime adaption in Spring 2018... the director for that one is actually the same one who did Kingdom Season 1, the show that feels like it's 90% CGI. |
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| Harem or not, I'm actually quite interested on how Oonuma will direct this one.. His latest work (Imouto sae Ireba Ii.) was extremely comfy. |
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| this looks like actual garbage, hope it's another konosuba. |
Edward Elric > your waifu  |
ImAWeebUwU said: Grey-Zone said: This might be kind of a spoiler, but of the 8 girls in that picture only 4 are romantically interested in him, while the other 4 are not, even up to the current Web Novel chapters. And later the protagonist is only really interested in 1 girl in particular and it's none of the ones you see on the picture. 'only' LMAO... that's 3 more than it should be :') Yes because it's unrealistic for more then one girl to like a guy at the same time. |
| Isekai: Check MC who looks dull and has no special talent and suddenly becomes the best: check More than 3 girls and all having different hair color: check It is going to be a harem for sure and the tsundere whoever it is will win. Guessing it is the green hair chick. |
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| For some mysterious reason MC attracts only lolis and he's not lolicon so no, this is not harem. |
Shvanell said: Mohammadalmannai said: Isekai: Check MC who looks dull and has no special talent and suddenly becomes the best: check More than 3 girls and all having different hair color: check It is going to be a harem for sure and the tsundere whoever it is will win. Guessing it is the green hair chick. "MC who look's dull" Literally is what he look's like when he was 15 years old. A normal person. "No special talent" Working class adult with life experince's stacked on top of each other, who use's them to full effect once he start's being proactive in his plan's and goal's. "Is going to be a harem" Many women do fall for him in his travel's for various reason's (Only 3, technically 4 of the girl's in the main picture does to give you a heads-up) but he only has his eye's on one. (None of the one's in the main picture.) "Tsundere will win, guessing it's a green hair check" Nope, Only one girl is a Tsundere in the entire story, and because of that personality it's an immediate deal break for Satou. Pls. Plz have you ever seen any other Isekai?!? Same scenario every single fricken time (other than konosuba) probs a NEET and because the MC who got transported cuz of his terrible life or programmer such as SAO suddenly becomes op and can save anyone and all the girls are like omg I love u etc Anyway I do get why people love isekai but I’ve read some of the novel and manga there is nothing new offered to the table. The ones that stand out are No game No life and Konosuba. I am not here to judge your taste, I am just pointing out that there’s nothing new. |
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| So sick of this trashy isekai garbage. C'mon japan |
| As someone who read the book, the MC is interested in girls his actual age (29), so he does sleep with some cortesians closer to his real age but never shows real interest in any of the girls he travels with. Though he constantly says he'd be interested in them in 10 years or so depending on the age of the girl he's referring to. But since almost everyone who travels with him likes him and he doesn't do shit about it, it really is just like any other harem. TLDR: Yeah it's a harem, except the MC is uninterested rather than oblivious. |
| So basically after all these comments, it's still a harem? Uh no. Though it was some good edgy action or some shit, due to having death in the title. |
Aardwolf94 said: So sick of this trashy isekai garbage. C'mon japan Then don't watch it some of us like it? |
| well it is one of the simplistic genres but if there are making it means it is popular right! |
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| I almost went to this, so thanks for asking OP because i was gonna ask too. I guess its bye for it because i wont be watching, I HATE HAREM SO MUCH! In fact f*ck Harem. |
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Nezperdian said: Funny that you said harem sold well (at least in anime form anyway) when the majority of them flopped so badly, especially this anime here that only sold around 1000 units per volume. The media where harem actually pulled in the numbers are either light novel or manga, and most harem anime such as Death March here served only as an expensive promotion for the original source, and would rarely received a second season unless the anime itself is fairy successful, in which case rarely happened. This trend just occurred because they're trying to find the next ReZero or Konosuba, but failed and stumbled a lot along the way because most of your average light novel bullshit couldn't even come to approach the sheer quality of the aforementioned title, and your usual dumbass writer couldn't wrote anything more than having their stupid little fantasies being fulfilled in the form of inserting themselves in the shoes of an overpowered fuck that lives in a world where all girls are cheap and couldn't think for themselves. Goddamn, harem is such a stupid as fuck genre, and shouldn't have ever existed. Very happy to see the top blu ray seller last season was either Yuru Camp, Sora Yori, Girls und punzer, Idolish 7 and even Idolmasters Side M, all of which isn't harem... |
| You have around 7 kawaii fappable lolis bound to you... If not harem, then what is it? By far, if I understood it correctly, it is the MC who doesn't want a harem. >I HATE HAREM SO MUCH! Ahhh, still doesn't change the fact that the anime is isekai. |
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