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They'll do the animation according to the source material...!! how can you expect only fights man ...?
yeah first 2 eps r brilliant and amazing

@SoloNecromancer i realise that but I was expecting this be the next mushoku tensai. But it clearly isn't

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@___pewpew__ yes like I expected so much starting from the op i thought it's going to be like mushoku tensai, reincarnated as a slime but felt like robbed. I don't want to expect anything from anymore.

Sep 15, 6:28 AM

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Yea, pretty much- it's getting too boring to watch it.

Sep 15, 7:01 AM

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It doesn’t even feel like Ryou is the MC of this show. It feels like the side characters have a bigger role in the story than he does.

Sep 15, 7:14 AM

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You're just going to be disappointed if you're just going to compare it to the most beloved isekai's mushoko tensei, Re:zero, and so on when you watch an isekai. Most isekais don't stray off from the typical experience. For every unique one that is out there, there are many more generic ones. With this one tending to be on the generic side.

Sep 15, 7:39 AM

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Jiya18622 said:
@SoloNecromancer i realise that but I was expecting this be the next mushoku tensai. But it clearly isn't

comparing this to midhoku midsai 🥀

Sep 15, 8:01 AM

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@SoloNecromancer i realise that but I was expecting this be the next mushoku tensai. But it clearly isn't

And there's the problem. Not trying to be rude but every day I see ppl complaining that whatever anime is horrible because it's not as good as (insert extremely popular anime from super good studio) 😭

If you're gonna compare everything you watch to some super high budget anime then you're gonna think everything else is trash and poorly animated.

Sep 15, 8:04 AM

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They'll do the animation according to the source material...!! how can you expect only fights man ...?
yeah first 2 eps r brilliant and amazing

@SoloNecromancer

I mean if this is the source material, then these criticisms are also toward the source material. Isekai live and die by their power fantasies. The power fantasy can be portrayed in numerous ways, from fights, to building a city, to making your own home, earning wealth, building a reputation, getting a harem or any combination of those ways. But the pacing of this one is terrible, there's been like 3 slightly memorable fights if I'm being charitable and only one of them didn't end in seconds. And the reputation of him being a powerful mage angle keeps stopping and starting. One second he's being noticed for his power and the next, he's a side character in his own anime again.

He earns money but it's never relevant enough to gain any catharsis from. And the same can be said about him living alone at the start, it had a hint of catharsis building up from living off the fat of the land but it lost almost all of its relevance. After he left his home in the wilderness it had zero relevance to the story beyond being a backdrop where he learned his powers (which is fine as a backdrop, but handling it that way causes any and all homesteading fantasy to deflate into a footnote that didn't mean anything). At that point with all these escapist fantasies being kneecapped and glossed over, the only thing the entire show has going for it are the fights and the potential the world might possibly give the strongest mage they have ever seen some form of reaction beyond "huh, that's neat, anyway".

If anything the show is too mundane and realistic. Imagine you saved some low ranking government official Like the head of the Health department of your government, and the biggest reaction you get to that is your mayor throwing a dinner party in your honor and that's it. That's not the fantasy of being born in another world, that's being dropped off in the real world but in a fantasy setting and barely any intrigue.

Sep 15, 8:23 AM

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@Liental I mean, beyond just the biggest Isekai I've watched a LOT of average and bad ones, and this is one of the most boring I've ever seen after episode 3. The pacing is so damn slow. The power fantasy is hardly even in the show at all. This story is treating the main character like he's Saitama from One Punch Man and all the other characters are the real main characters that have epic adventures and struggles until he finally shows up! But their struggles are nowhere near interesting enough to carry the entire show at this pacing and his moments of finally showing up are cool, but again nowhere near cool enough to carry aa turnover of an entire 3 episode rising action to a climax of a few seconds to minutes.

I wouldn't say it's bad compared to "Mushoko Tensei" or "Re:zero". I'd say it's bad compared to "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord" or "In Another World With My Smartphone" It's not the "worst" but I've found it so far to be the most "boring", I've seen. I'm actively watching at 2x speed at parts to try to get through it.

Sep 15, 8:38 AM

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Yeah, it feels boring and dull — but that’s kind of the point. Ryo is probably the most passive isekai protagonist ever. Look back at all the mini-arcs: meeting Abel was just a random shipwreck, moving into town was by chance, fighting the dragon girl happened by chance (during the eclipse), and meeting the elf was also pure chance. The story isn’t about grand direction — it’s about drifting through life and letting things happen.

Don’t forget, Ryo is immortal. He literally spent 20 years in that log cabin basically doing Vinland Saga season 2 on repeat. That slow, quiet pacing is intentional it only feels boring cuz in the past episodes they’ve done nothing that expands what the usual formula for Isekai is which is expanding the “legend” of the protagonist.

So you’ve gone this far. Just tank the visual decline. Were near the end.

Sep 15, 8:56 AM

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bro i think you need to enjoy as it goes i think. don't give too much thought about these Isekai's cuz they only made to feel good cuz in our world there's nothing we haven't heard of seen, so it's good to see as the other world through tht character perspective, i recommend just go with the story you'll enjoy these adventure shows, they only made to give free and careless life compare to us living in this world with lot's of complications and rules n regln's. and also it's not a power fantasy to have lot's of fights but thing is it's kinda sub adventure power fantasy . plus these aren't mainstream shows.

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Sep 15, 10:23 AM

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@Dragonwaz If you're 2x speeding an anime, why are you still watching it? You clearly don't like it if you need to resort to that. I'm taking the show as a slice of life with some action not a huge deal.

Sounds like the same crowd that says S2 Vinland Saga is bad over slow pacing.

I know what a mid isekai is, this show ain't it. It's generic, but its not mid.

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Sep 15, 11:27 AM

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@SoloNecromancer It is a power fantasy. Like I said all Isekai are power fantasies. There would be zero point to beginning life in another world if you were suddenly less potentially "powerful" and trapped more than you were in your previous life (unless the entire point is breaking free of those restrictions). Power isn't just combat, it's power over your own life. So the power in power fantasy can be combat strength but it's also being able to do other things you always wanted to do that the real world prevents you from doing.

That is exactly why I'm saying this is so bad. Out of all the potential ways a story can explore the idea of having a better life than someone pre-isekai the ONLY fantasies it is actively portraying that I can see are combat and social status but the combat parts are extremely few and far between for what's amounting to a single season anime show and the social status part has some cognitive dissonance type issue where in any other story Ryo would be getting more of a reaction from people but not only is Ryo a passive protagonist but the side characters are also very passive towards Ryo except for like two exceptions and those were the only good parts of the story after episode three so far.

Sep 15, 11:45 AM

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it's rather meh to me and the animation sucks cheeks.

Sep 15, 11:56 AM

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@Liental I don't 2X the entire show, just the parts that drag on. And I wouldn't even say this is a good slice of life. I don't know anything about Vinland Saga to judge it. I know tons about Isekai though. I've seen over 50 of them. I've seen better and worse. There are flashes of 7 out of 10 potential here but it's in a fog of 3 out of 10 time wasting scenes. The only reason I am still watching is because I know there is going to be at least one more 7 out of 10 moment in the next 2 episodes and I'm hoping against hope there might be two. Heck I've seen shows paced this slow have to force a prolonged climax in the last 2 episodes as they rush to finish the material because the suddenly realize they don't have 10 more episodes to waffle on.

I'm fine with other people liking it, I just really felt like venting my frustration with how boring and slow it's been going when I saw that other people were also feeling the same.

Sep 15, 1:04 PM

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I agree the episode before this had me really hyped but nothing happened after

Sep 15, 1:27 PM

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The first few episodes were interesting and fun but then I think they ran out of budget or something. Everything was okay before they got to the city, maybe the last episode in the mountains was also on the edge but it was still fine. Then they got to the city and nothing has any backstory, events just happen without any buildup and there’s no follow up. There are a lot of empty scenes too.
The fight with the demon prince was like 10 seconds, 64 water jets and poof he’s gone.
I wish I knew why Abel is popular because he hasn’t done anything extraordinary so far.
Who were those people in the dungeon before Abel’s group, when did they get there, and what happened to them during and after the escape? No answers to anything.

Sep 15, 3:45 PM

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Idk, it screamed SoL more so than action. I like it just as much as it first released. Sorry about that

The right mindset when watching an anime is hoping that it will break your top 10

Sep 15, 5:34 PM

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The only thing dull and boring is the endless stream of threads complaining about an anime being imperfect. There’s 60+ seasonal shows going on, find one you like!

Sep 15, 6:07 PM

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@Liental I don't 2X the entire show, just the parts that drag on. And I wouldn't even say this is a good slice of life. I don't know anything about Vinland Saga to judge it. I know tons about Isekai though. I've seen over 50 of them. I've seen better and worse. There are flashes of 7 out of 10 potential here but it's in a fog of 3 out of 10 time wasting scenes. The only reason I am still watching is because I know there is going to be at least one more 7 out of 10 moment in the next 2 episodes and I'm hoping against hope there might be two. Heck I've seen shows paced this slow have to force a prolonged climax in the last 2 episodes as they rush to finish the material because the suddenly realize they don't have 10 more episodes to waffle on.

I'm fine with other people liking it, I just really felt like venting my frustration with how boring and slow it's been going when I saw that other people were also feeling the same.

Watching anything at increased speed isn’t watching it, you are just getting through it as fast as you can and that’s not the point of entertainment. You might as well drop it and tell people you watched it, would hardly be any difference

Sep 15, 6:12 PM

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The only thing dull and boring is the endless stream of threads complaining about an anime being imperfect. There’s 60+ seasonal shows going on, find one you like!

This.

I don’t get why people would waste their time on something they don’t like and then have this urge to tell everyone they don’t like it.

Sep 15, 6:35 PM

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The only thing dull and boring is the endless stream of threads complaining about an anime being imperfect. There’s 60+ seasonal shows going on, find one you like!

This.

I don’t get why people would waste their time on something they don’t like and then have this urge to tell everyone they don’t like it.

@Todday Ironic considering you don't like our opinion, yet you seem to "have this urge to tell everyone you don’t like it"

When a house fire happens, firefighters don't just put it out and go home. When someone seemingly healthy person just falls dead it's not just dropped, an autopsy is performed to figure out what part of the body failed.

Also, as to your other comment quoting me "Watching anything at increased speed isn’t watching it" I heavily disagree. I can fully comprehend every sentence spoken and action taken. I regularly listen to books on tape and my normal comfortable comprehension speed is 540 words a minute. Considering this anime at 2X speed is 308 words a minute, not including the long quiet pauses, just counting the slow pointless conversations I can perfectly comprehend everything going on.

The first minute of episode 10 is literally just a conversation about the group that they just now named room 10 taking their first quest, (despite having just completed a quest as a group) to escort people to another city. The entire conversation is explaining the anime is going to fast travel to a new location, the journey isn't even a footnote, they go from talking about going there to being there from one scene to the next. The people they were guarding aren't even named that's how unimportant they are to the plot.

Sep 15, 6:43 PM

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___pewpew__ said:
Yeah, it’s turning into a very cliché isekai. If not something revolutionary, I at least expected it to be somewhat on par with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Especially in the last few episodes, I feel like there’s been no real progression.

on par with Tensura? surely you weren't that delusional, no offense.

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@SoloNecromancer i realise that but I was expecting this be the next mushoku tensai. But it clearly isn't

next Mushoku Tensei?😂😂

Sep 15, 7:26 PM

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@SoloNecromancer i realise that but I was expecting this be the next mushoku tensai. But it clearly isn't

@Mommyyyy i didn't say I compared with the goat isekai anime like mushoku tensai, reincarnated as a slime. I said I expected the story and animation is going to be like them. I thought "oh this will be a unique one like the og isekai" where like different from generic isekai but clearly it doesn't

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They'll do the animation according to the source material...!! how can you expect only fights man ...?
yeah first 2 eps r brilliant and amazing

@SoloNecromancer I was going to read the manga rather than watching the anime but if the source is like that too let me pass on that shit.

Sep 15, 9:53 PM

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pacing of the 2nd half of the season is such a tragedy.

Sep 16, 7:40 PM

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@Dragonwaz
Part 1:

1. "I don't 2X the entire show, just the parts that drag on. And I wouldn't even say this is a good slice of life"

It's like saying "I 2x parts of the first 3 episodes of Frieren since the pacing is slow." It was intended that way by the studio. Doing so you fail to understand the message the show is trying to give you. It doesn't make sense to do it, since shows are curated for you to watch it at normal speed. I don't just 2x That time i got reincarted as a slime S3 when the second half was just about diplomacy with no action or S3 of Shield Hero where its just a build up arc with no weight behind it. I havent even done it for shows I dislike.

Justifying it, is either a failure on the anime to maintain you're attention. Or an issue with attention span.

Slice of life is inherently boring by its nature since it's just you seeing characters live out their lives whether it be mundane or not. With you stating as such for this show. Its the focal point of this genre.

"If anything the show is too mundane and realistic. "

"this is one of the most boring I've ever seen after episode 3"

2. "When someone seemingly healthy person just falls dead it's not just dropped, an autopsy is performed to figure out what part of the body failed."

Yet the body is still alive while the autopsy is being performed. People couldn't even wait for the show to at least finish to have all episodes in to make an informed opinion before airing out their two cents and criticisms with the show.

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Part 2:

3. I wouldn't say it's bad compared to "Mushoko Tensei" or "Re:zero". I'd say it's bad compared to "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord" or "In Another World With My Smartphone".

You're off base with this comparison. It's closer to:
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Black Summoner
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Skeleton Knight in Another World
Handyman Saitou in Another World
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles

At least for actual comparisons that are similar, settings wise and atmosphere. Compare it to something actually similar to it. My point with people comparing it to shows that are 1 out 50 isekai/fantasy show's made, is unfounded since you don't comb through shows under the lens of the most beloved shows of their genre unless you just never want to enjoy anything at all and be disappointed.

People thinking they got hoodwinked from this show just from the opening have a long way to go. Isekai/fantasy shows have been getting better animation and more shows from this genre have been getting green light to be getting adaptations more than ever yet all people want to expect is the next Overlord, Tensei Shitara Slime, Mushuko Tensei, Re:zero, Frieren.

Wistoria: Wand and Sword solves the pain points I've been seeing from this thread and what people wanted to get out of this show.

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@Liental "Slice of life is inherently boring" They are NOT inherently boring. Slice of life anime are power fantasies for people who live boring lives or have little to no friends. They keep attention by having interesting interactions between characters or ridiculous shenanigans.

And you're comparing apples to oranges trying to use the pacing in Frieren as a gacha. I know the difference between an intentional slow pace and a we're trying to save budget slow pace.

"Skeleton Knight in Another World" is a great generic isekai and it's 4 times better than episodes 4 to 10 of this anime. So yes this show is bad compared to that show.

"similar, settings wise and atmosphere. Compare it to something actually similar to it" Also I was comparing quality not setting, but even if I was comparing setting, both "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord" or "In Another World With My Smartphone" are generic fantasy setting Isekai, the only difference in setting is anthro animal people

"what people wanted to get out of this show." You really can't see the major quality dip this show took from the beginning to the end? I did not expect the next Overlord, Tensei Shitara Slime, Mushuko Tensei, Re:zero, Frieren. Every criticism I am making is entirely based off the quality I saw in the first few episodes and how it has so far dropped in quality from that. The only reason I've been bringing up other anime is to point out the low quality of how this anime handles the tropes that are part of the genre. Since you brought it up, "Skeleton Knight in Another World" has way better power fantasy in fights and character interactions. It's not even close.

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@Dragonwaz I don't know why you're dissing people who like slice of life for no reason. Alright first of all I said slice of life is inherently boring since it's wholesome. Someone is not gonna die, or having tense scenes. Plus slice of life is not just in Isekai or fantasy for you to say its just a power fantasy.

Secondly, I used Frieren's slow pace as an example to cater, to what you said you know. I couldn't care less of a stupid gacha in an argument. The argument still stands since I would've just used a different anime. You liked to boast how much isekai you watched, while I watched more than you. It's not like I can talk about other animes from different genres that you don't know to reference more. Budget slow pace doesn't make sense since you would save on budget by cutting parts of the first three episodes and letting the animation go to shit if budget was huge issue or it was just intended that way by the source material.

Third, I listed similar anime's that are the same in setting, themes, and quality while you just listed harem anime's which is different. Just because you think it's a generic isekai doesn't mean it's the same.

Fourth, low quality is what everyone's been saying for it not having more action in it or initiative from Ryo. Like I said I've seen worse so it's not that big of a deal. Which I gave an anime that answers that pain point. Tropes not being as profound in this anime is not a sign of low quality for its genre. It's just different, it is its own show. It just means you're looking for a certain type of isekai that does cater to that.

Fifth, I said people not you specifically in restating my point for people expecting the best isekai. In criticizing the show though you are part of the crowd to criticize something without having watched all of it. I'm not into it since it may make a comeback which makes your criticisms less valid or not in which case I would find your criticisms more valid after the show aired. I have the show currently in the same ball park as the ones I listed. We'll see with the last 2 episodes where it remains.

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well, if you are just finding a fight, this is not for you. Some time in all exciting things, this kind of slow paced shows are important. Boring not but a little slow paced storyline

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@Liental "Slice of life is inherently boring" They are NOT inherently boring. Slice of life anime are power fantasies for people who live boring lives or have little to no friends. They keep attention by having interesting interactions between characters or ridiculous shenanigans.

And you're comparing apples to oranges trying to use the pacing in Frieren as a gacha. I know the difference between an intentional slow pace and a we're trying to save budget slow pace.

"Skeleton Knight in Another World" is a great generic isekai and it's 4 times better than episodes 4 to 10 of this anime. So yes this show is bad compared to that show.

"similar, settings wise and atmosphere. Compare it to something actually similar to it" Also I was comparing quality not setting, but even if I was comparing setting, both "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord" or "In Another World With My Smartphone" are generic fantasy setting Isekai, the only difference in setting is anthro animal people

"what people wanted to get out of this show." You really can't see the major quality dip this show took from the beginning to the end? I did not expect the next Overlord, Tensei Shitara Slime, Mushuko Tensei, Re:zero, Frieren. Every criticism I am making is entirely based off the quality I saw in the first few episodes and how it has so far dropped in quality from that. The only reason I've been bringing up other anime is to point out the low quality of how this anime handles the tropes that are part of the genre. Since you brought it up, "Skeleton Knight in Another World" has way better power fantasy in fights and character interactions. It's not even close.

One thing I understood from the logic you gave. You are too busy to just compare things rather than just enjoying or leaving. Either enjoy the story or Ta ta. if the stroy is bad or wrongly presented that is one thing but here the storyline is just slow paced, which is never wrong

Sep 17, 3:19 AM

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it became cliche and boring the moment they got to the city and it became just like every other isekai. I liked the idea of a boy in the wild going on an exploration adventure

Sep 17, 7:17 AM

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Liental said:
You're just going to be disappointed if you're just going to compare it to the most beloved isekai's mushoko tensei, Re:zero, and so on when you watch an isekai. Most isekais don't stray off from the typical experience. For every unique one that is out there, there are many more generic ones. With this one tending to be on the generic side.

bro really said mushoku tenshit is one of the most beloved isekais lolololol. you might as well say redo is healer is one of the most beloved fantasies with that logic

Sep 17, 8:38 AM

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@Serfort30 My brother in christ, it's one the most viewed shows in its genre. With people citing its world building as a selling point with animation being second. Also slated for a 4th season. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean this isn't a reality. Probably just rage bait who knows.

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^

crap like "world building" and "grandfather of isekai" are just cope mt fans like to use make that piece of trash seem better than it actually is. it's nothing but a trash show with trash characters and a disgusting pedo groomer mc who touched himself to his own goddamn niece. calling it "beloved" is same as saying boku no pico is a 10/10 anime. if anything the ones who put that shit as the same league as rezero and slime are the real ragebaiters

Also slated for a 4th season

which means jack shit since even fking rent a gf of all things has that many seasons. go ahead also call it a "beloved" romcom why dont you?

Sep 17, 1:39 PM

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