Butareba -The Story of a Man Who Turned into a Pig- https://myanimelist.net/anime/50583/Buta_no_Liver_wa_Kanetsu_Shiro Synopsis An unappealing otaku awakens in the body of a pig after he passes out while eating raw pig liver. The pig finds himself in the company of Jess, an innocent girl who can read people's minds, and she accepts him despite his boorish thoughts... although she does plan to eat him. When Jess is in danger of succumbing to a dark destiny, can Pig save her using only his quick wits, wisdom, and refined sense of smell? Information Type: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Currently Airing Aired: Oct 8, 2023 to ? Premiered: Fall 2023 Broadcast: Sundays at 00:30 (JST) Producers: Aniplex, BS11, Kadokawa Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Project No.9 Source: Light novel Genres: Comedy, Fantasy Theme: Isekai Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Weird, but surprisingly good so far. Obviously way more thought went into this then you would expect. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 1 This just comes across as creepy. Jess can read this piggy's mind, and he can't hide his thoughts from her. At least Jess doesn't appear to be a sadist unlike that lady in Dog and Scissors. In any case, this show isn't winning me over as I don't get the sense that things are going in the right direction. |
| She is weirdly subservient to a random pig she found. This show could go to terrible places. |
| I'm waiting for the show where the main character gets reincarnated as a cat. Seems Dog,Pig,Sword and Vending Machine are how they test the water. |
| Hmm...will this be like "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius? |
| Episode 2 Having this pig around sure came in handy as Jess desperately needed to buy a black rista, and was nearly ripped off by that scammer. She only had 200 and that thing costs 600, so there was no way haggling was going to work as while he might have sold it to her had she paid 500, there's no way 200 was going to get it. So she instead tries to sell the pig and the pig goes full-on DDR to convince the shop owner that this pig is different. And now, the pig just needs to escape after the festival, which is going to be easier said than done, but that was some crazy gambit that the pig is taking. |
| This is still just....weird. |
| Well, that's a good place to quit. The show just hasn't appealed to me. The MC died, show over. Now I'm in the mood for some pork ramen. |
| I'm still enjoying this. It's weird, but so far it has more thought put into it than most isekai and fantasy shows. I can appreciate that at least. Kind of obvious how he'll survive though. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| YOu'd think if the Capital expects the Yethema to come offer themselves for whatever and very few of them are making it then they would be cracking down on these Yethema hunters....also displaying the collar of one you supposedly loved on the wall like a trophy doesn't exactly seem like the right thing to do. |
Reply to HOOfan_1
YOu'd think if the Capital expects the Yethema to come offer themselves for whatever and very few of them are making it then they would be cracking down on these Yethema hunters....also displaying the collar of one you supposedly loved on the wall like a trophy doesn't exactly seem like the right thing to do.
| @HOOfan_1 They may consider it a sort of trial just to get there. What happens in the capital stays in the capital. Different world different values. The pig had the same kind of reaction. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Display her collar on the wall and use her bones as knife handles...that's just grim. We really need more info on Yathema...how do they get the collars? What happens if they just cut them off? Can they breed with humans? |
HOOfan_1 said: Yeah I'm wondering some of the same things. Are they born or are they made by putting the collars on them? And the most important question: Are they all cute girls? We really need more info on Yathema...how do they get the collars? What happens if they just cut them off? Can they breed with humans? |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Well that explains why they would put the collar up on the wall. It's a sign that the place is a welcoming to yethma since a collar can only be preserved by someone who cared about the yethma it came from. We also finally got some background info on yethma and where they come from. I suspected that they were all female. I was confused when they said the yethma collars disintegrate when they're removed unless taken care of since they said the collars were sold. But they didn't say how long the collars take to deteriorate so I'm guessing they must survive long enough for the magic in them to somehow be harnessed/harvested. marklebid said: They did say that even yethma body parts were sold off by the hunters so they may hold some kind of magic in them. By the time Naught found the people that killed that other yethma she may have already been, uh, stripped for parts, so it wasn't like he was the one who chopped her up. Though, like I said before, different world, so different ideas about how they would honor dead loved ones.Use every part of the Yethma. Waste not want not. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Yethema can't ride in vehicles...weird rule. NO raping a Yethma...does that mean they can't have sex at all, or just no rape..also they almost made it seem like the Yethema could be executed for being raped...but not sure if I just got that vibe wrong. Why not make a rule against hunting them? The entire part about the guy being a pig seems to be just a weird story telling device for the actual plot about Yethema |
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Just started watching this, better than I thought it would be. Imagined it would be just silly comedy given the set up, much better that it is not.
| @MenchiK1 Yeah I've been liking this. It's the best of the new isekai this season imo, but the competition isn't exactly tough. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
Reply to MenchiK1
Oof well that answered that question. Knew what happened to her was gonna be rough but not that rough :( This show is even darker than I imagined.
Starting to get the impression the whole story they tell these girls is just a lie to perpetuate a slave trade, if they all die at 16 all these places have to buy new girls. Plus they get to make money on a fake "magic" organ trade.
Or it's their way of keeping the only girls who are magic useres numbers low so they don't pose a threat.
Starting to get the impression the whole story they tell these girls is just a lie to perpetuate a slave trade, if they all die at 16 all these places have to buy new girls. Plus they get to make money on a fake "magic" organ trade.
Or it's their way of keeping the only girls who are magic useres numbers low so they don't pose a threat.
MenchiK1 said: Or it's their way of keeping the only girls who are magic useres numbers low so they don't pose a threat. Or it's some kind of sorting system, like only the strongest make it to the capital |
| I'm guessing it was Blaise's uterus that was cut out...still not sure how she could survive that. |
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@HOOfan_1
I mean they crudely sewed her back up, and its not like that will kill you (hysterectomies are pretty common). I have to think they cut out more than that though, thus why she couldn't eat.
I mean they crudely sewed her back up, and its not like that will kill you (hysterectomies are pretty common). I have to think they cut out more than that though, thus why she couldn't eat.
MenchiK1 said: they crudely sewed her back up Did they? I thought it looked like she just had a massive hole in her abdomen. That weird creature with the bug eyes must have something to do with the hunters too. |
| Yeah the animation for this one was pretty rough. Even simple things like Blaise falling over looked awful. It's too bad a better studio didn't make this. Maybe we'll get lucky and a better studio will pick it up later like what's happened with Bookworm. I don't think Blaise had a hole in her. I think the wound they left on her probably became infected so it got pretty nasty looking. MenchiK1 said: Maybe they came from downwind?How does a wolf and pig with their smell and hearing get snuck up on by guys on horses? Also wasn't the guy who stabbed Blaise taken out by the dog/wolf?, his feet were frozen and he screamed as it attacked him? It looked to me like he managed to break free and run off. He still had a weapon and he had armor on too so I can understand why the dog would have been cautious. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Looked up the manga and her scar is much clearer. They really changed it a lot (the pic is at an angle because he sleeps in the bed and she climbs in with him so is laying down when she reveals the scar as opposed to being outside) also the fight is much different with her sacrificing herself at the beginning to save Jess from the ninja guy (he thows a bolo with spikes and it wraps around her stabbing hee in multiple places) also the fight is much clearer with limbs and heads flying and the dog actually ripping a guys neck out. |
| Project 9 has 3 anime going this season Girl and her Guard Dog has the worst animation I've seen since My Sister My Writer Vexation of a hut-in Vampire Princes fairly decent Butareba inconsistent at best. |
| So the Yethema are essentially like Eldians in Attack on Titan. They are being repressed to keep from creating war in the world and in the end it is their own people repressing them. I guess all Yethema are born in the capital, males are all aborted and females are all sold into slavery and forced to come back to the capital, presumably the king is actually encouraging Yethema hunters to kill them. He blames humans for turning them to slaves, but seems pretty apparent he is the one selling them. He is the one who makes rules about giving them rides, having sex with them and forcing them back to the capital. So seems like the entire culture of Yethema repression and murder all comes by his orders. It would be pretty cool if Jess and Buta could convince the King's grandson and Wyss to turn on the king and kill him. |
HOOfan_1Dec 23, 2023 2:58 PM
| well...looks like the last episode is up on Crunchyroll |
| That ending kind of reminds me of something like "The Never Ending Story" or "The Wizard of Oz". Certainly open ended, and kind of made it seem like maybe the Yethema might be freed. Were all of those people in the capital Yethma? It wouldn't make sense that the entire population of Yethma were born to the royal family, but at the same time, they made it seem that male Yethma were all aborted. So perhaps the men are regular humans and some of the women are Yethma. I wonder if the women who aren't accepted into the royal family are forced to keep their collars though, so they can't object to their male children being aborted, and the females being sold into slavery. This show definitely had some animation problems, and the pig design was odd. Heck the entire premise was odd to begin with, but the story was actually pretty good. I give it an 8/10 just for defying my expectations of what it would actually be about. |
HOOfan_1Feb 5, 2024 12:53 PM
| Wasn't really expecting it to take that direction, but I'm not upset by it. A better studio definitely could have done more with it but, I'd say an 8/10 for being genuinely different and having a pretty good story. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
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