/a/ - Anime & Manga

>>1243997

>Interestingly I think this kind of thing (a work being an admixture of its influences with some sort of original twist or style by the author) isn't as prevalent as it used to be at all,

I'd be inclined to agree with this. It's pretty easy to take a lot of the stuff that got popular in the otaku world in the late 90s / early 2000s and trace it back: You can say, Jun Maeda was heavily inspired by YU-NO, which was big part of what led to both his pre- and early-Key works, which were all part of a general shift in how "VNs" were approached that inspired Type-Moon to produce Tsukihime (and later Fate), which directly inspired 07th Expansion's Higurashi (Key can be cited there, too), and you can keep expanding out from different points from there. But the key part is that the things that people saw what worked, and then were inspired to go do the "next step" from there.

But if you look at something like the "isekai LN" market you don't really see "next steps" so much as repetitions of the same basic formula with maybe a "twist" or "gimmick" that almost invariably gets dropped once the author runs out of steam. And sometimes those variations are enough to produce something that's a bit better than average. And this becomes all the more noticeable in anime specifically when it's paired with the fact that the anime market on the whole is heavily saturated with adaptations of these works, and having "anime original" series that actually trace their origins along "anime" lines doesn't happen nearly as much as it really should. To go with OP as an example: A "few" years back we had Back Arrow, written and directed by two vets from Gurren Laggan (among other Gainax/Trigger works) and Code Geass, respectively, that took a lot of inspiration from both of those, and it was pretty dumb fun. But it also didn't exactly do anything groundbreaking that would launch the next wave. Nearly everything feels that way. It's almost as if sometime in the mid-2000s there was a cultural inflection point where we tapped out on new ideas, and the rate has gotten worse and worse ever since (and I can only imagine the WN/LN side of things is going to get even worse with the addition of LLMs to the mix, to say nothing of having to deal wiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1244007

Your wish is granted. Western infostructure requires Western birthrates, which don't exist. Collapse will be within a generation.

I hope they get to stay friends.

What a twist, the kind sister was the doppelganger all along, I wonder what fiendish scheme Haumea has in store for these two naked maidens.

I'm glad the despair loving faggot Fairy is deader than dead, no doppelganger to be seen here.

Just like a real hero, Shinra arrives just in the nick of time to kick the moon and save the day, now there is only the climactic final battle in Adolla left.

Most of those pictures were definitely real, I think you could even find them on wikipedia, but this one seems to be AI generated. I at least have a hard time making sense of that tank, and the person laying on it also seems to be somehow off.

Haumea has pretty eyes.

She then proceeds to give us a theology lesson, and makes Inca extra crispy.

Turns out that everyone wants death at the end of the day.

No, not the cute sister, and especially no to Obi getting salvation.

Haumea is going to get herself a real good kick for this one.

Unfortunately for us all, Shinra's rage has caused the end of the world, so no kicks for Haumea, everyone is dead.

The End.

But when the world despairs, the Knight King answers.

Yay more hags.

>>1244048

American's will take any opportunity to fight aliens.

Nothing can stop the strongest mothers from taking the spotlight in every episode they are in.

These single maidens are also really fun, I'd get blackout drunk with them.

>>1240894

Yes they do, Aqua pee amounts to 90% of church earnings.

I wish I had a teasing, tsundere kind of relationship with Aqua, but then when things get down to it I would protect her like this. She would think

Wah, I-I never realized how strong his hands could be…

Then she would probably be a bit awkward and blushy for a few hours/the night. Repeat until I impregnate her multiple times.

Caught up to the anime. Still enjoying the action so far, and we finally have our final squad mate appearing in the show. He seems pretty psychotic but still loves to fight for humanity. We also finally got the idea on why the coexisters wanted to ally themselves with demons, basically each noble would be an overseer where demons don't attack them and they'll get to rule forever. Pretty generic plot I guess, we'll just have to one final confrontation with Kvia's uncle as to why he keeps doing all this.

Xylo is an actual yuusha now…Sasuga. Pretty good action for the episode as usual, but it's a shame we only have one episode left, this feels like it deserves 2 cours. I wanted to see more Rhyno shenanigans, and the Spriggan feels like it's a setup for the next season.

>>1243947

>Eisen once survived without breathing for an entire week. Heiter was mortified.

After watching him stand on one finger for months at a time out of boredom, I'd believe it.

Seems like we'll end the season with the party reuniting with Denken at the golden city given the two hints in this episode to it.

I enjoyed that Stark knows how to play katamari damacy with dragons, not really sure how it works, but I enjoyed it all the same. I'm still a teensy bit confused how getting bit on the head by a dragon doesn't cause more problems for him, I mean, Eisen had a helmet, but Stark just has his hair?

>>1244072

>but Stark just has his hair?

He has a thick skull.

I enjoyed the cozy locations this episode brought us.

The mountain hut in the rain was made really cozy with the fire, but my favorite was waiting out winter in a cozy mountain village.

>Wiping off Frieren

I wish this was me.

Frieren flipping the empty pages was strangely heartwarming.

I'm sure Frieren has a water breathing while being flung around by a kraken spell, so she's perfectly fine, no hurry.

Bit late. Losing sleep, gaining ground. I love my wife. I keep her warm at night, she keeps me cooled. It's the law of equivalent relationship.

>>1243839

Nothing like twintails for a late twintails day.

Happy birthday to Towa.

>>1242617

>There's no law that you have to post every week!

That is good, for I have missed a few weeks.

No comm updates but that's expected, it's not due until the end of the month. Pretty ordinary week despite all the goings-on in the world. Something a bit cuter today too.

>>1243839

I don't know much about the creative stuff but there is a certain pattern to writing different poems and how it sounds out. I wouldn't worry if your earnest attempts are a bit clumsy though. You're writing to profess love after all.

>>1243993

Happy birthday, to her, and glad you're still about. You doing alright?

All is alright for now. Enjoying life with wife until the soon-to-come end of the world.

>>1243993

Hapiba!

Past: I didn't check the day. Present: Wow… Future: !!!

9th episode down, the tone is getting strangely darker than at the beginning.

>>1243961

Well, I don't know if I'm the weird one or you are, but hope you can still enjoy it despite the gremlin.

>>1244019

Huh!

I can't believe Niea is finally fucking dead.

Dramatic changes are afoot! This week most of the scenes are too misty to see, pyjama loli gets new pyjamas and the foot fansa returns. In other news, Flum hallucinates her way through the first half as though trying to escape the dismal reality of this show. It turns out that rumors of Dein's death were overstated and rumors of Sara's peril cliffhanger were forgotten. Instead we got a load of suggestions about what might have happened: Sara has been excommunicated for demon worship. That so unfair, she only had one scene with sexy demon oneesan and hardly had any time to bond with her. Furthermore, sexy demon oneesan is missing from Maou-loli's mansion and is rumored to be doing things with humans. This can only mean that the two of them have run away to start their own onee-loli doujin circle. See you at Comiket.

Back at the harem house, I'm-pretty-sure-it's-Aqua casually reveals that Pyjama loli has no heartbeat. That was very cruel after pyjama loli did her emotional backstory scene. Then the show decides to follow Dein's lead by killing off more major characters in the hope of ending early. Red Honcho has mysteriously disappeared after she got a better offer from an isekai. You-can't-fool-us-Aqua heard of another Konosuba movie and took the first shinkansen back to Kadokawa. Meanwhile Milkit joins in the fansa by getting soaked until she too vanishes after a sudden Cease & Desist notice from Re:Zero. With no cast members left to talk to Flum has no choice but to rehearse saying Milkit's name and run around like an idiot. Then she remembers everyone's favorite pyjama loli and goes back home for a dramatic reveal. Yes, pyjama loli is another one of those spiral faced church monsters like in ep3. What's more she's the one behind the metama manifestations! Oh the irony etc. The blind girl has eyes everywhere.

It felt like we flicked through multiple chapters of the manga to get to Ink's bakemono reveal. I'll give the director some credit; he uses arty shit as a way to hide the exhausted budget. All that murk, mist and the reused cloudy background saved anybody from having to draw anything properly.

Bonus screencaps because I took too many.

In a truly terrible episode of mist and murk, pyjama loli is suddenly cured of her eye-popping disease by the power of friendship but Flum immediately ruins everything by telling her that she's an monster, to which pyjama loli flees only to get caught by Dein. He's after stealing the best character without whom the show will surely have to end. Then Flum gets surrounded by a cloud of mist and a mob of zombie mob characters, all of whom want her dead so they can leave early. Just when it looked tedious, some guy from the Mage's party shows up and the two wield their huge cliché swords to victory. But dramatic twist! There are plenty more pyjama lolis where pyjama loli came from. The party guy is left battling a blue one but not before he implies that Sara is still alive which, unfortunately for her, means she's still under contract to this show.

With the highlight of the episode already over, Dein draws Flum to a badly drawn mansion for a long exposition battle. Things are looking so shounen that Flum cuts her own leg off in a desperate attempt to get in some foot fansa. However, her boot grows back after an outsource-animation powerup. She's ready to finally kill Dein but pauses for some womanly emotional drama before the coup de grace. Thus Dein fulfills his dream of being written out. Good for him.

It sucked. Next week Flum has to find all our favorite characters in a basement dungeon. I can guarantee that anything exploitative or titilatory will be implied or invisible.

Oh my God, I can't believe Sawatari lost to his cool and dragged the top three down to almost last place.

An unlikely pairing, or is it?

Kanata and Beckenbauer working together, activating the eurobeat, and slowly overtaking towards the top spot so they can have a proper battle of the stick shifts.

And Nozomi joined in on the fun as well, nice to see her again.

Poor Kyoko, spending summer break shitting her brains out, but at least she got thinner.

It was fortunate for us viewers that Kanata went down a couple of places, because now he can do sweet overtakes all race long.

I was a bit concerned when we got a skipped ED, and this being the twelfth episode, that this would be the end of the season.

Thankfully, there is still more episodes to go, with no episodes count in sight.