Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (light novel)
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Welp, this is what I had expected from Death March. It started with Suzuki's real lifestyle. Pretty typical guy tbh and he helps out a little girl when she's crying. Honestly, I find the first half of the episode to be really dull. However, it did eventually get to the fantasy parts and Satou (his other world characer) There's definitely RPG themes from this episode so far with the content. Not impressed with the visual quality so far though. First episode is pretty much an introductory so I expect the others to be introduced soon enough. |
Stark700Jan 11, 2018 6:53 AM
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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. |
| Well the manga is good haven't tried the LN yet but the thing that i have to ask is why did they wasted half the episode on his programming job? Other that that it was ok just that they wasted half the episode in my opinion. |
| Well, I figured the beginning would be the worst part anyway. Need to get on to that slice of life goodness. I'm here because I had a great time watching Smartphone. Just after it started airing, July 2017: jkfoolz said: nDroae said: I read that there's very little tension/drama/conflict at all in this story, it's a harem slice of life in another world. So if you're going to recommend something else, what are some other shows like that? I don't need it to be funny or unique. The best example I know of is Desumachi aka Death March Rhapsody to a parallel world. twintiger12 said: A few series I have read having MCs become OP from the beginning, and they are mainly SOL adventure. Guess it is becoming trend now. When Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody comes out, I guess it will get a lot of hate. nDroae said: Well, that's nice. I'm not so much a fan of harems compared to when I was a teenager, but if I'm going to watch one then OP MC is definitely my preference. Obviously he's going to come off as a "Gary Stu," Tenchi was a perfect boy to an obscene extreme and defeated the final boss in one hit, that's expected. Having a flawed or weaker MC doesn't interest me at all. If I want to experience The Hero's Journey, I'll rewatch, say, LotR / Star Wars / Spider-Man 2 / The Incredibles / The Lion King / Batman Begins. Not anime. None of my favorite anime characters are male. ...Except Vampire Hunter D. :D And Monmon the water spider, but he's a spider. |
| The cgi and action scenes are a bit jarring, but other than that a better first episode then I was expecting. Still not an amazing show, but could maybe be solid for its runtime |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| 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 ? |
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| Glad to see wish fulfillment anime has started to enter it's ultimate form. Doesn't get much more by the numbers and mind numbing than this. |
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| They could've come up with some slightly less asspully reason for making the MC OP as shit from the start, no? :s The whole RL part also felt rather disconnected from the sudden isekai transportation and the animation isn't great either. The overused premise aside I'm not very impressed regardless |
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| This was a decent first episode. Suzuki has quite the lifestyle. He's constantly working on fixing bugs for various games. The moment he went to sleep, he got transported into a game. He leveled up very quickly. The visuals looked weird. |
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| Im pissed, but then again silver link was bound to ruin this, anyway the thing that pissed me off most was how the wyvern looked, the wyvern has clearly been described in the Novel and shown in the manga to look like a pterodactyl but this just looked like a dragon, god i hate silver link, another amazing novel these fucks ruined |
BlackFIFA19Jan 11, 2018 10:15 AM
lordzeru said: Glad to see wish fulfillment anime has started to enter it's ultimate form. Doesn't get much more by the numbers and mind numbing than this. LOL, as a guy who's used to these kind of setting, Arifureta and Shield Hero takes it on another level, I bet those two anime will be the next generation of Sword Art Online and Re:Zero, though I'm expecting Death March as the second SAO (similar looks, harem(LOLI HAREM) and OPness) BlackFIFA19 said: Im pissed, but then again silver link was bound to ruin this, anyway the thing that pissed me off most was how the wyvern looked, the wyvern has clearly been described in the Novel and shown in the manga to look like a pterodactyl but this just looked like a dragon, god i hate silver link, another amazing novel these fucks ruined So you've read the novel... but wyvern looks like dragon, not a dinosaur, so Silver Link is correct on changing that one. |
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youseiki said: BlackFIFA19 said: Im pissed, but then again silver link was bound to ruin this, anyway the thing that pissed me off most was how the wyvern looked, the wyvern has clearly been described in the Novel and shown in the manga to look like a pterodactyl but this just looked like a dragon, god i hate silver link, another amazing novel these fucks ruined So you've read the novel... but wyvern looks like dragon, not a dinosaur, so Silver Link is correct on changing that one. Ofcourse i have its been one of the best reads ive ever done! its not about that, its about sticking to detail of the original source..... |
tetragramat said: I read whole web novel and partialy manga too. So I think I'm knowledgeable enought to answer some of your questions. First part of irl is actualy important part of the story, but you will not find out untill maybe second or third seanson, where those informations will became important to know what is hapening. It may look like harem anime, but it is rather more like family than harem. Reason to MC beign so OP from the start has reason too and was managed by character that may appear firstime in second seanson. Why that character did that? That would be too big spoiler. btw. where I reference to second or other seansons, I mean If that seanson will ever exist, then it should be there. WOW, reading 551 chapters is an amazing feat, I'm only reading it on the Manga Version(and I even stopped, got bored), I tried the novel but it's hard to visualize it on my mind, but I'm more interested if it has a political element since the tags in NU have mentioned it also some of the of its tags that I bold |
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BlackFIFA19 said: Is that supposed to be a wyvern? WTFIm pissed, but then again silver link was bound to ruin this, anyway the thing that pissed me off most was how the wyvern looked, the wyvern has clearly been described in the Novel and shown in the manga to look like a pterodactyl but this just looked like a dragon, god i hate silver link, another amazing novel these fucks ruined Disappointing. I feel cheated. Anyway, I like isekai and I really liked this first episode. Let's see how it continues. |
SkyLETVJan 11, 2018 10:34 AM
BlackFIFA19 said: youseiki said: So you've read the novel... but wyvern looks like dragon, not a dinosaur, so Silver Link is correct on changing that one. Ofcourse i have its been one of the best reads ive ever done! its not about that, its about sticking to detail of the original source..... I'm still curious on how it was tagged as Conspiracies, Industrialization, Kingdoms, Knights, Nobles, Politics, Royalty, Scheming... These are the most common tags being used to complicated or high level stories political intrigued and war strategy centered theme light novels such as Sevens, Maoyuu Yuusha, Emblem of the Branded, Grancrest Senki or even famous Legend of the Galactic Heroes? |
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| Well... It wasn't terrible but I'm afraid it will try to be. After so many crappy self insert power fantasies for losers it's just impossible to expect it to be anything but horrible. Too bad they will never run out of source material for series like that. Would be nice to see decent adaptation of Dungeon Defence instead. Or at least something that had any thought put into it. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
tetragramat said: Yes, it has political element, but if we expect one seanson has 13 episodes, then we can expect first political elements in second or third seanson. This seanson will be more like introduction of the world to the MC and collectiong base companions. Reading whole web novels take me about 4-5 months. I do not like manga, it has edits with I do not like, but anime is adaption based on light novel, so same as manga. SERIOUSLY??? is it similar to "Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki"(How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom) If you haven't read it SYNOPSIS: “O, Hero!” With that cliched line, Kazuya Souma found himself summoned to another world and his adventure–-did not begin. After he presents his plan to strengthen the country economically and militarily, the king cedes the throne to him and Souma finds himself saddled with ruling the nation! What’s more, he’s betrothed to the king’s daughter now…?! In order to get the country back on its feet, Souma calls the wise, the talented, and the gifted to his side. Five people gather before the newly crowned Souma. Just what are the many talents and abilities they possess…?! What path will his outlook as a realist take Souma and the people of his country down? A revolutionary transferred-to-another-world administrative fantasy series starts here! Something like that, like in the synopsis. |
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youseiki said: BlackFIFA19 said: Ofcourse i have its been one of the best reads ive ever done! its not about that, its about sticking to detail of the original source..... I'm still curious on how it was tagged as Conspiracies, Industrialization, Kingdoms, Knights, Nobles, Politics, Royalty, Scheming... These are the most common tags being used to complicated or high level stories political intrigued and war strategy centered theme light novels such as Sevens, Maoyuu Yuusha, Emblem of the Branded, Grancrest Senki or even famous Legend of the Galactic Heroes? You dont have to worry about that since if my predictions of how much itll adapt are correct you'll see almost none of that..... |
| Love the LN but this first episode was just good enough. I felt it a bit rushed, although I can understand that is hard to make an animation with the same level of detail that the books has. In any case I think it will get better from now on. Also seems that the lack of a good fansub version is an important hit to the experience (at least for the first, world building episodes) because Crunchyroll and the like doesn't translate everything and ahead there will be many details lost if the interface windows aren't properly taken care of (like titles and such). Satou should have earned a very important title with the meteor storm but it was probably lost in Crunchyroll's subs. Later on the skills and game window specifics doesn't matter at all because is all about the interaction between characters but at the beginning they do since are the way the MC starts understanding the world. That is only if the animation sticks to the novel, but I may be wrong if they solved this in a different way. |
| tetragramat said: It may look like harem anime, but it is rather more like family than harem. Perfect. That's the most tolerable kind of harem :) Even Monster Musume is at its best when the girls calm down and play house, the more mature ones homeschool the lolis, etc. lordzeru said: Glad to see wish fulfillment anime has started to enter it's ultimate form. Doesn't get much more by the numbers and mind numbing than this. Not that wish fulfillment itself necessarily dooms a show, I mean, even this one was essentially wish fulfillment for Japan, wasn't it? (Disclaimer, Yamato is one of my all time favorites) I'd actually say that Smartphone was even worse than this, though the difference is like comparing a 1 to a 2. Smartphone had bizarre, awkward direction, which actually increased my enjoyment. :D |
| These menus popping up constantly is annoying. Be at least like Overlord, for christ sake. The MC voice is also annoying as hell. Antanaru said: Well... It wasn't terrible but I'm afraid it will try to be. After so many crappy self insert power fantasies for losers it's just impossible to expect it to be anything but horrible. Too bad they will never run out of source material for series like that. Would be nice to see decent adaptation of Dungeon Defence instead. Or at least something that had any thought put into it. The quality of this story seems as low as Isekai Smartphone, without that annoying 3 min interruption with chibi characters. |
AdrianRubinskyJan 11, 2018 11:20 AM
| Nice that hey spend more time on his real world self and not go immediately into the meteor and fight scenes. Antanaru said: Well... It wasn't terrible but I'm afraid it will try to be. After so many crappy self insert power fantasies for losers it's just impossible to expect it to be anything but horrible.Would be nice to see decent adaptation of Dungeon Defence instead. Dungeon Defense is even worse, don't fool yourself. Death march is better written than that garbage. |
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| Yet another Isekai anime that we can't get enough of according to the anime industry. Art is pretty crappy in most of the scenes, very cliched, feels like an exact copy of everything that came before it. I don't even know why I'm watching this but they really should stop making more "loser transported to fantasy MMORPG and became broken" anime |
| Two things that are bugging me: 1. You can't just keep his design and not make him younger in this world? 2. The pop ups are not translated. Other than that, i enjoyed this. The heavy game-mechanic focus is pretty cool and while the CGI is obviously due to reasons we know by now, it actually fits in this anime IMO. This looks to be a low-budget game with some weird bugs (we got the idea that there were problems with debugging beforehand), that's how he got OP like this. CGI + low-budget game = adding up nicely. Overall better than i expected. |
| I don't expect anything from this tbh, I just want to watch a fantasy anime this season. But yea it wasn't anything impressive but it wasn't boring either. Will probably keep watching this, it seems to be better than the last couple of isekais at least |
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ichii_1 said: I don't think so. At least after initial pointless RPG bullshit MC in DD isn't OP because author said so but because he has certain knowledge and is an amazingly rotten scumbag. LN's in Japan got so bad you don't need much improvement to have something look good in comparison. Nice that hey spend more time on his real world self and not go immediately into the meteor and fight scenes. Antanaru said: Well... It wasn't terrible but I'm afraid it will try to be. After so many crappy self insert power fantasies for losers it's just impossible to expect it to be anything but horrible.Would be nice to see decent adaptation of Dungeon Defence instead. Dungeon Defense is even worse, don't fool yourself. Death march is better written than that garbage. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| Killing 100 Lizardmen at levels of ~50, gets him up to level 310? |
Woks said: Alex said: I dont want to spoil anything but you're far fromnthe truth.Killing 100 Lizardmen at levels of ~50, gets him up to level 310? Ye i know, I've read the manga, just never noticed that was how it was portrayed |
| Thats some really long the normal world scene. Anyways the first thing i notice from the "gameplay" are ITS BETTER than SAO's game mechanic. I hope this turn out to be more like Log Horizon. |
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