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@firstlast7510 I never care for what this "basic weeb" thinks about anime. I actually watch this for the opposite of the title. To fins something new to try. His reviews are the CNN of anime review.
@@stormhawkdude and it's kinda funny because I legitimately like Amelia as a character and think she's pretty sweet and not your usual annoying tsundere (she even herself admitted that she hated being a tsundere lol). Some have even being calling her best girl in the series lol.
My favourite thing about Akiba Maid War is that it wouldn't be half as fun if it didn't deliver its bizarre carnage with a completely and totally straight face. The ED for the show is literally one of the maid girls singing a slow jazz ballad about how she - and I quote - "goes to the pigsty to get my moe moe kyun". The crucial thing is that as far as the characters in the show, and the show itself for that matter, are concerned, NONE of it is played for laughs, and all of the comedy is on the viewer. It pretty much gaslights you into believing that there's an underground war of cute maid girls by presenting it to you like you're a fly on the wall, and I cannot stress enough how much that adds to how hilarious and bizarre the show is.
You know what it makes me think of?? When Animal House was being made, John Landis went to the great composer Elmer Bernstein, to compose the music for it, and asked him to go with a serious dramatic score as if it wasn't a comedy. And it works So Damn Well that way. Even the theme for the college sounds like it belongs in a movie with the Late John Houseman and Cate Blanchett as faculty members
"I am ATOMIC" is simply one of the best quotes I have ever heard. That powerful whisper, the pizazz he puts on it, and the beautiful purple lights dancing across the screen with increasing intensity really make it amazing. But the thing that makes it so perfect is the surprise aspect. I was almost 100% sure he was going to say "powrar" again, so when he delicately whispered that beautifully pronounced "atomique" in my ear, I could not help myself from laughing in surprise. Great anime.
It both gave me chills at how well the studio executed the scene and caused me to snort with laughter because of how over the top it was. The show is such a great parody of the some of our favorite tropes.
What I love about this anime is that he's an absolute weeb and the author knows and just has fun LARPING it up. It's unapologetically bad in the best way possible.
What some people might miss about Akiba Maid War is it's specifically a yakuza fiction parody. People who are familiar with the tropes of yakuza fiction would recognize that everything is mapped from yakuza fiction, they just replace "yakuza" with "maid." For example, the scene in the first episode where the main characters are given money to eat ramen before sending a message to a rival group office, it's a specific yakuza trope of a goon given money for last meal before being sent to their death attacking a rival group's office. How each maid cafe is under a publishing group is how Yakuza families are part of specific yakuza group with certain hierarchies. That kind of thing.
Basically, it's parodying a specific thing, more than just "mobster story." It's like the difference between "parodying musical movie" and "parodying bollywood musical movie", there's a specific things and expectations that's being parodied here.
At this point it's not even a parody, it's just a really solid yakuza drama with a surreal Akiba maid café backdrop and an appropriately warped sense of humour. (Also, Aya Hirano voices a key side character in the latest episode and her performance is fucking haunting.)
I LOVE The Eminence in Shadow. So many good screencaps from the manga. "The chuuni protag's delusions are actually real and he thinks he's just gaslighting everyone" is just an amazing concept. Asshole protagonists are hard to get right but this one 100% does just that.
@@Zergonapal I think it was firmly established he was totally insane as soon as it was divulged he was dedicating his entire life to training for his chuuni fantasies, only to die because he got delirium from beating his head against a tree too much (from training), which happened at the very start.
The best part of Shinobi no Ittoki was that it inspired me to finally watch the entire first season of Spy X Family so that I could feel something again.
Akiba maid war seems like it's going to run it's joke of "what if mobster underworld stuff but they're all dressed like maids" dry pretty fast. However, then you come to realize the critical factor that you didn't really understand in the first episode or two. This factor being that the entire protagonist cast are complete dipshits, being just streetwise enough to get themselves into trouble but nowhere near smart or competent enough to get themselves anywhere but *further* into trouble. It's beautiful every time.
When by episode 2 they nearly get trafficked an then proceed to kill off multiple important other people nearly losing their insides in the process The MC is indeed the biggest bruh just leave
Or... realize it is just a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun Gang-turf show only... based in 1999 Akiba Maid Land. >.< That's not going to run dry at any point soon. >.> Kind of like how Gran Budapest Hotel is one of the most 'Shadowrun' movies that have come out lately, only in the 1920s or whatever. >.>
Honestly I would still love Maid War if every episode just ended in a ridiculous shootout with best maid Ranko killing everyone that moves. It will never stop being stupid, which is why it will stay good.
Tried that drinking game with eromanga sensei once, we manage to episode 3 tho one guy quit the moment a 12 year old loli knocked on de dor to say how much she loves D^#*
Someone made a joke about alcohol suicide cult by demanding everyone take a shot every time the words "He Man" were said during the 68 second into song. It was 28 times. That's basically a shot every other second for over a minute.
"I Am Atomic!" must be the coolest and also the cringyest catch phrase I've ever heard in anime. But he always says it during the coolest times in the webnovel, I've fallen in love with it.
The madlad wanted to be able to defeat an atom bomb by becoming one himself. He then proceeded to one up himself by becoming an atom bomb, but harder. Truly inspirational.
@@SupaDanteX Poe's Law, although it's less about *good* satire than satire which fails to make its nature evident. I think that Love Flops is to some extent trying to be a parody or a satire of visual novel clichés, but it's just really badly executed across the board. The harem shenanigans are rancid, the post-twist episodes were listless and dull, and the wannabe heartstring-pulling climax (hurr hurr) has been utterly catastrophic. Truly, we have reached Peak Trash with that and the almost mesmerisingly dreadful adaptation of The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer earlier this year.
@@rickchakraborty2087 I mean the point of these videos is precisely to find the most entertaining trash there is. Difference is that eminence in the shadow is doing it intentionally and very well.
The ironic thing about Beast Tamer is that you can occasionally see how a writer with less wish-fuliment tendencies could have taken the same setting/charecters and made a really solid shonen battle story out of it.
yeah i was thinking about that listening to the description. I mean you can make the beast regular beast, cut the power boast beyond slowly able to control more and more power beast as he progress. Have him relied on ability to spy on his quest so he can set the field and best put his beast in the right position to overwhelm his target. I mean beast taming can be overpower very easily depending on the quality of beast you tame. Half the story could be just him trying to catch them but then we have a pokemon ripe off if we are not careful :P
The story would be much more interesting if he had to rely on the skills he does have. Namely, scouting and supply management. Plus, imagine if he could tame a bear, or a pack of wolves. Then he'd definitely be useful in a fight.
@@MarverynI’m thinking if the protag was more like like a no game no life type protag where they use like game theory and take the logic of the universe to the extreme to beat enemies then it could be really interesting Like it could just be a Pokémon rip off but each Pokémon battle is like a mini jojo battle but at much lower stakes
@@Marveryn tbh you could even have some of the beast girls hanging around him just give them personalities beyond affection for protag kun and not have him literally tame them. Just understand them very well because he gets their beast nature
I wish it was a series with the worldbuilding chops to make plausible ninja accounting plotlines. Is that a weird reaction to the phrase "high-stakes ninja accounting trick"?
Basically they did the same as Boruto. They modernized every weapon and costume and turned them in to unrecognizable scifi tropes just to call it ninja tec™. What people like about ninjas is the mystery, the mystic and the well made acrobatics, with an exception being Naruto for being more of a ninja themed battle shonen than a proper ninja story and it even nailed at the cultural and action aspects.
@@henriquebecker4453 wouldn't really go that far considering there's plenty of high tech ninjas people enjoy, and Naruto still had technological discrepancies.
@@fightingmedialounge519 this is because the author wanted to mix modern culture with traditional Japanese mysticism to create a more unique theme, something that wasn't so common at the time, not to mention that the vast majority of the fantastic technologies of the original and Shippuden are more magical gadgets powered by chakra than futuristic cyfi technologies.
Total honesty I do enjoy ittoki actually its not so bland as to be unbearable Plus at least the Characters have very good approximations of personality
That second anime started off so promising when you started describing the concept, of how being kind and selfless will get you way further in the long run than just being focused on strength and power. Cause all of that concept seemed to be really watered down to "my old party may have been stronger than me, but I will become stronger thanks to convenient buffs handed to me on a silver platter"
Plus, tell me it wouldntve have been sick to see a Disney princess fight the generic hero party fighting off wizards with birds, that would’ve been sick as hell
If you haven't seen it, Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside might be up your alley. It's not harem, but it kept me hooked (don't ask me how, it's more slice of life than my usual lol) all the way through.
The writers really went "Hey, you know how our protag has a neat ability that could be useful but his team is too stupid to utilize it?" "Yeah we could totally do something fu--" "How about we give him magic and a group of anime girls and cool magical powers and--" ". . . dude what are you on about?" *"TOO LATE, THE EXECS ARE EATING IT UP! SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!"* _"Well at least we tried to be creative."_
@@Baiswith I second this. Not really into the whole slice of life thing, but it has enough action and world building to keep you entertained. It was way better than I expected, and I recommend it for a nice "feel good" anime.
The fact that all the gratuitous violence of Maid War doesn't need a drop of censoring, but you can never tell if you've put enough censoring for even the slightest of ranchy anime scenes, says so much about what advertisers think is viewer friendly.
is like feauturing the 1940's and 1950's looney tunes cartoons sure the racial stereotypes will get you instant BAN, but you can put the "them shooting guns" scenes as much as you want without problem
@@ianr.navahuber2195 The racial stereotypes won't get anyone banned. Someone will make a comment about them being insensitive, and then Tucker Carlson will be on Fox News in 12 hours talking about how woke culture is trying to cancel Bugs Bunny.
Watching YT reviews of mature 90s action OVAs is exhausting. You'll be subjected raw to buckets of painstakingly animated gore, but then - _aah!_ why'd she take her shirt off??? Those nipples will traumatize the audience! _Quick,_ keyframe a jpg over it!
Renai flops went off the fucking rails. It's amazing. Eminence in shadow is also absurd. I'm not sure if it's actually self-aware or not, but it's pretty great. I feel like I am the only person not watching Chainsaw Man. Been waiting for the season to end before I watch it and mob psycho 3 all at once.
Not gonna lie Renai Flops is just your harem anime but some actual idk, funny comedy to its characters. Eminence of the Shadow, while good action but man I can not stand the MC in that anime! because he is just so jerk and stand-offish all the while pulling off his greatest fantasies but he almost never connects with his family like say his only sister or almost any of the characters because he just doesn't want to deal with the hassle. Which I can understand if not relate, but there is nothing to make me emotionally invested in the characters or almost any of the characters at all.
@@puppymonkey I think people play up the parody aspects of the show. It takes itself more seriously than fans would like to admit. That goes for the source material too, though it's worse in the anime. Not gonna go into a whole ass review, but if it actually tried to be parody/self aware at heart, it does it pretty badly. It's like, "isn't this thing isekai stories does pretty dumb? We think so too! But we're still gonna execute it completely unironically and faithfully."
@@Axterix13 I (un)fortunately had the (dis)pleasure of watching it. After every other scene I start picturing scenes of a knight squadron using guerilla tactics against the demon king army and then go "Damn, why wasn't that a thing, I'd rather watch that instead of whatever this is"
I do like how this is less about "hey these shows are all rubbish and you shouldn't watch" and more "they are for a certain kind of fan, some will love, others will just laugh at"
Ok but if Love Flops actually goes the matrix route and is in a simulation, it’d be pretty sick. Update: Holy shit it actually did go the Matrix Route.
I fully expect there to be some kind of twist. I haven't seen the show, and never heard of it until this video, but...I mean its just TOO on the nose with every single tripe possible for there not to be a shoe that drops by the end, right?
I laughed way too hard about the love flops one. A girl treated like a trash and the guy literally deflowered TWICE by a dog lmao how crazy does it gets x'D
"the one from the thumbnail" God that is the best and most perfect chapter I've ever seen on a RU-vid video. And it's exactly what I was looking for thank you
Love Flops is the kind of harem where the makers said, "Let's just have some fun, screw making any basic sense." They took known tropes and ran with them to their logical conclusion. And as bad as it is, it'd be one of those anime you watch just to see what crazy and stupid thing they'll do next.
They put in all the different genres they could think off, it's like they can't decide the target audience for the show. It feels like they want to appeal to a huge variety of audience.
The show is the perfect definition for "so bad but so good". The way they just didn't give a shit and decided to double down on the stupid plot was astounding
It's actually the good type of trash, tbh I've been watching it mostly as a turn-your-brain-off ecchi guilty pleasure of the week, but the show actually has more to it than meets the eye. There's definitely a plot twist coming soon.
And even when it gets serious, is still so ridiculous. It really reminds me why I started watching anime, just to see stuff I would never thought about in the dumbest or more over the top ways possible
Akiba Maid War feels like classic era comedy where none of the characters realize they’re in a comedy (Airplane/ Naked Gun). This shit is so serious but they always punctuate their hardcore lines with “moe moe kyun” and I just die laughing
the manga for eminance in shadow is actually incredibly entertaining, without too much lewd stuff. Its actually funny, stll has good action, and has a surprisingly decent plot with a whole bunch of Irony. The whole series is based off the idea that "if you act like you know what you are doing, people will think you know what you are doing."
My mom's thoughts as we watched this together: During the ad: "Am I too old to get into video games? I like Animal Crossing and Doom." First anime: "Why are harems always straight? I know I'm not a wibble-" "You mean a weeb?" "Yeah, that. I know I'm not a wibble, but surely there's some bi people in Japan. Also, why aren't there every any interesting animal people? I'm tired of cats. An iguana now and again would be nice, you know?" Second anime: She paused the video and squealed at 7:36 because of the bear with a backpack, then went, "I want this guy's powers! And he seems like a nice guy. I hope he gets married, has a wonderful cottage on the outskirts of the village and lives happily ever after." Third anime: "This entire plot could be resolved with a threeway marriage between him, the girl he likes and someone from the ninja clan trying to kill him. But I guess that'd ruin the fun fight scenes." Fourth anime: "Did a fourteen year old write this? This feels like something I'd find in your computer history from when you were that age." "MOM!" "What? It's fine, I read VC Andrews books when I was that age." Later: "Ilya needs a hug. And therapy. I know I'm not licensed to practice in Japan, but she could just come here. Poor kid." Fifth anime: "Oooh. This anime is pretty. And I like the army being mostly women. That's nice. Um, not sure about the suicide bit, though. That's... well, I guess that lands differently in Japan. But if there's a psychologist he can find in his new universe, he might want to talk to them for a bit." Sixth anime: "This anime looks like being sleep deprived and anxious feels. Which makes sense. That was what the 90's were all like for me." "Mom, that's super concerning." "No, that's just college." PSA: "That sounds like a 90's riot grrrl band whose lead singer is a prettier boy than actual boys."
Akiba Maid War is my pleasant surprise of the season. I never in a million years would have thought an anime that mapped yakuza media plots/tropes/characters one for one to maids would exist, much less be this good. Plus the OP and the ED are delicious icings on the cake.
I was really wowed initially by the one trick but sadly it got pretty old after the first few episodes. It feels sort of like getting Rembrandt to paint your hobby-horse. Like yeah, in a certain way it's masterpiece but at the end of the day it's just a hobby-horse.
At the Start, I was right there with you on "eminence in shadow". However, I got carried away and started reading the manga. In so doing, I discovered its fatal flaw. When the running gag hits its expiration date, it goes from funny to rage inducing real quick. At that point, it also turns super depressing with how bad you start feeling for the shadow garden girls. In summery, I have now reached a point where any mention of this series makes me moan in emotionally induced nausea. So, for those of you who like this show, please be on the lookout for this threshold, and run the moment you reach it.
I mean, the leader doesn't get that everything is real, but he at least acts as though it is and is always ends up right via Deus Ex Machina, so they don't have it too bad methinks. but yeah I can see how following a whole manga with one gag as the crux of it's design could get more stale than bread left outside on a dry summer's day.
I started watching Love Flops just because I wanted some fun garbage show to enjoy. & then the beach episode happened & I realized… *oh no* *I’m invested*
Okay, I love how the ninja one pushed me from grossed out when you started, to “okay wait that actually sounds kinda funny”mana the premise got more ridiculous, to “nope never mind” when it got to the ninja school, to “wait oh my god I’m actually curious” once you got to ninja supply chains and the ninja economy.
I want to see a ninja story with ninja accounting and ninja supply chains, written by someone who both understands all that dry economic stuff and is willing to embrace the absurdity of a ninja-based economy.
@@timothymclean god damnit it’s four in the morning and now I’ve got “I wonder if there’s any good Spice and Wolf/Naruto fanfic out there” planted in my head.
Everyone's all like "ninja ninja ninja". But I want to be a pirate! I want to be ME! and no pink haired tart and an old woman who smells of formaldehyde is gonna tell me otherwise!
First exposed to Eminence in Shadow through the manga, I was quietly disappointed that the anime (which is unfortunately adapting the source light novels) wasn't as over-exaggerated as the manga. The anime does a satisfactory job but the manga truly elevates the ridiculousness to a whole new level whilst keeping the tension of the franchise's more serious moments. If anyone was mesmerized by this relatively unique show and doesn't mind looking at still pictures, I would personally recommend checking the manga out as a fresh medium to experience this show.
And even then the manga is missing some key pieces from the LN(which isn’t a slight against it, cut content is standard in these situations and it’s still great), so I’d recommend that as well for maximum stupidity lmao
I haven't read the manga but I read the LN. I'm also a little bit disappointed because a lot of the comedy in the LN comes from Cid's monologue in his head and how that contrasts with everyone else's perceptions. But a lot of the internal monologue is not adapted in the anime, so the scenes are just played straight without that comedic contrast. I think it gives off a different impression in the anime about who Cid really is, whether it's the normie or edgelord version. In the LN, Cid's thoughts show that for both personas he is deliberately acting (or attempting to act) in a way that best fits the role, while everyone else thinks it's real. But in the anime I think it can make it seem like he is being completely genuine as a mob or Shadow. Overall it's a pretty good adaptation though.
@@himanbam It's a BIT unusual how TRotSH, Overlord AND EiS all rely on character monologues differing from the perspectives of the people around them for comedy and nuance... I'm starting to notice a trend here.
@@bodaciouschad Idrk what you mean about the rising of the shield hero. And yeah the gag in overlord is pretty similar to eminance in shadow. Idk what your point is though. Also tbf they do bring a bunch of the inner monologue to the anime. There's just some scenes that seem a bit weird without it. For an example, there are some things he does as shadow where his actual thought process is like "heh that'll sound really cool and mysterious if I say that" and then everyone else takes it at face value (humorous). But the anime just shows him saying it, so at that point it's not really a joke, it's just being an edgelord.
So I kinda binged Love Flops for... research. Episode 7 took it from extremely horny to 'WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON' in less than 15 minutes. I am actually interested what's gonna happen
The show was fk'ing incredible. It's sad so many reviewers out there pretend to have watched it, then pass it off as a generic harem show......it's as generic harem as Madoka is generic magical girl.
Coming here after watching the most recent episodes of Love Flops. I started watching this show expecting hot garbage, as MB implies by putting it on this list - and it 100% starts out that way. But if you've ever seen what happens in Doki-Doki Literature Club, you might want to check out this anime as well.
No kidding, I did not have this show suddenly pulling tropes from the BSG prequel "Caprica" the last two episodes... Plus introduce a grown up Rio Futaba from Bunny Girl Senpai
Me too,it's a suprise to me that it was in this list,i thought it was mediocre but fun,i understand that some people would not enjoy it and i fine with it,over all it May be trash but it's at least a good trash
Call it generic, at least it isn't exactly boring or bland, not my top 5, but there's much worse stuff in the same genre that came out this year *I'm looking at you Cheat Pharmacist*
Love Flops' ending got me, man. Some of it is just so insane (the magic girl familiar got me and I seriously questioned my life choices) but it pulls your heartstrings like a ventriloquist.
Now that Love Flops episode 7 and 8 is out, I would like to suggest pushing it away from this list because now episode 1-6 makes so much sense it's depressing
Also Nagomi and Ranko are such a fantastic comedic duo. One is full of bright-eyed naive youth, while the other one doesn't bat an eye as she guns down enemies and fails at wooing customers.
The Eminence in Shadow is such a great show. It reminds me so much of The Misfit at Demon King Academy and frankly, thats a good book to take a page or 3 out of
@@bodaciouschad The best part about both of them is that you can answer that question with another question: "does it really matter which it is, though?", because they're equally fun whether seen as a parody or a straight telling of a comedy story.
Kinda reminds me of Overlord to be honest. Everyone body thinks the protagonist is smart but in reality, his subordinates are the ones who are plotting the scheme and it just so happens to happen that way.
He should've waited to make this video, but if I am being honest I completely understand why it made this list at the time it was posted. The show DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime up until the most recent episodes and now it has become a hidden gem for me too.
@@ThePhanpyMeister "DID NOT look like it was going to be anything other than a silly harem anime" umm, were we watching the same show? There were so many hints and foreshadowings since episode 1 that the show had more to it than meets the eye. Like, they weren't even subtle about it. Not to mention it was an anime original too, at that. It was all so bizarre most of us even called that this is all just a simulation. It was obvious they were building up for some plot twist.
When you just fucking dropped that whatever studio made Tears to Tiara I literally jumped and screamed. I have been looking for that fucking anime ever since middle school when I first watched it. No I don’t remember anything about the fucking plot I just wanted to listen the opening a million times again. It’s insane how I just randomly stumbled upon it now after 10-11 years with no luck and no idea of how to find it. God bless you. Anyways gonna finish watching the video jow
*Regarding Shinobi no Ittoki* It made no sense for the mom to leave her son in the dark about being the heir to the ninja clan. Her terrible decision left him utterly uninformed, untrained, and unprepared, leaving him at a complete disadvantage against any and all opposing clans that she knew that he inevitably had to face.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Yeah she was cute, but other than that, I didn't like her; she constantly gave him an attitude, and other than defending him against enemies, hardly even helped him in terms of progressing as a ninja.
A lot of people seems to overly hate the MC, who had no idea about anything ninja related and was literally thrown into the fire. Like he ain't my favorite, but its not his fault the people around him are idiots.
I suppose it plays into the fantasy that a normal guy discovers he is actually part of an awesome secret world. Like Harry Potter discovering he is actually a wizard. It does fall apart pretty quickly here though as somebody absolutely should have told the guy that he was the heir to a very important ninja clan. Something like that requires lots of training/preparation and is not something to be shoved onto a person at the last minute. It would have made some sense if the Mom was trying to get out of the ninja business altogether only for them to be forced back in, but it looks like their whole family is still very involved in the ninja life so not telling him until they have absolutely no choice really seems like a dick move.
@@toddclawson3619 This series at its core relies heavily on this part of the premise, but it doesn't work and is left being seen as a glaring and detrimental plot contrivance.
His Eminence in Shadow and Maid War look like they could be actually fun I got to say. An isekai that proved surprisingly decent this season is Reincarnated as a Sword. I did not expect much of it but it turned out to be a pretty good watch so far.
The trick to Eminence in Shadow is to realize the MC is actually insane and totally ignores the existence of the Cult even when they are like- "hey we are from the Cult" and his followers are equally crazy for thinking he is a thousand steps ahead of everyone.
If Reincarnated is getting 1 cour for the show it seems like they're on track to end the season with the Dungeon Test arc, which is gonna do a lot for even further character building. The manga is a great read - I started it after the anime started airing and haven't read the LNs, but the show is p faithful to both as far as I can tell!
you know, when he said "If a pretty girl invites you back to her room on the first date, you probably aren't the first guy to be there, and there's probably still other guys hanging around." I assumed he meant that the protag was getting non-consentually pulled into a couple's cuckhold fantasy. Not that there were ninjas hiding under the bed waiting to kill him. 15:38 idk I think that custodial robot is probably onto something. It has malfunctioned in such a way that it has managed to pull back the veil, realize that it is in a shitty harem anime and has correctly identified that the love interests are, shocker, garbage. Its random bullshit like this that makes me constantly come back to the hottest trash videos despite the fact that I neither watch nor care about anime anymore.
If only that robot would be an MC. Imagine it going around, putting a stop to cringy plot lines by plucking trash characters. For example, after witnessing a typical "tsundere physically and verbally abuses MC", the robot would tow away that tsundere.
As the first original series done by Troyca since Re:Creators, I was incredibly disappointed by "Not a ninja learns ninja things while everybody shows him how to be a ninja using ninja tools". Luckily, Akiba Maid War was the next thing I decided to check out. Holy hell, that first episode did not disappoint.
I will never stop stanning Akiba Maid War. It is legitimately one of the best things airing in a stacked season with only Chainsaw Man as its true rival, and like, Chainsaw Man is literally a cinema-quality production, so that ought to tell you something about how I feel about this deeply strange little show. It's also Chainsaw Man's only rival this season in terms of raw emotional gut punches, which… also says something if you know anything about Chainsaw Man.
I forget the name of the show, but there’s an anime from I think 2016 or 2017 that was a pastiche “inside story” about an anime production studio that made a show that bombed spectacularly. I’d love for Geoff to do a clinical dive into stories about anime that had everything going for it, but some factor like direction, budgeting, marketing, or just plain not finding an audience, led to its downfall on the market.
Ya know Jeff ... Every season I watch a ton of anime and I try to figure out ahead of time if it's one that will appear on this list. I have been right exactly 0 times. Your pervasive skills at find and outlining what is the hottest trash is mind boggling and impressive. I look forward to this each season and then indulge is these anime. Thank you for your time and effort.
Man I wish the third ones pitch stopped before the ninjas. it sounded like a legitamitly amazing concept about a kid wanting to experience being a high schooler, like imagine this really amazing popular kid who has perfect grades and dodges trucks but is severly naive because he’s never gotten to do normal teenage things fumbling trying to date this girl he’s never talked to before. I could see a really good romance coming of age anime anime there
the thing that annoys me the most in shonibi no ittoki is that they expect a kid that didn't know ninjas existed to be able to do ninja stuff, his childhood friend litteraly ignores him when he asks for help with his equipment, because he should naturally know how to use it, somehow. It made me feel pain every time he would screw something up because i knew the whole situation could have been avoided if his clan just taught him all the stuff he needed, like every other clan did.
I appreciate you acknowledging just how wholesome Beast Tamer is. Sometimes we just need something nice that isn't groundbreaking but still fun/enjoyable and there's nothing wrong with that.
"the only point he got wrong is that the girls have demon blood, not hero blood" All i can say about this is HAHAHAHAHA Also Futoku no guild has some surprisingly good animation scenes for some fucking reason
@@Flint_the_uhhh that Tokishiko licking Kikuru scene was, I'm happy to declare, even more spicy in the anime than the manga. The way they directed the scene my dirty mind started thinking she was giving him head.
As if anyone is capable of outrunning Truck Kun, if Truck Kun wants you dead he'll run you over even if you're fleeing the galaxy at a thousand times the speed of light.
Yo, Renai Flops just finished and I gotta say, when _that_ moment happened in one of the prior eps, I was actually pretty thrown for a loop. No spoilers, but it actually ended up being pretty good. Well played on the writers, honestly.
This get better and better. You are slowly merging “hottest trash” and “roast of” in places and I am here for it! (Though you owe me the cleaning bill for my shirt after I laugh/cough/choked/spat out my tea during the Ninja Hogwarts bit). A tip of the cap and a like button pressed for you my good man
Honestly, even more so than headphones girl, the teacher is arguably the worst girl in that series (an impressive feat!) but we don't need to get into it…
The absolute glory and complete lack of irony that the team tackling 'Eminence in Shadow' approaches everything they present is pure gold. I'm glad the dumpsters are golden and I'm glad you recommended the show early in the season.
I love Beast Tamer. Except the part where the main character "tames" sentient creatures. The girls all love him because he's the sweetest guy, and forming contracts with powerful creatures is an Isekai trope (see Moonlit Fantasy), but it still seems wrong. Fortunately it's so clean and wholesome that a few dirty jokes by one of the fairy twins is enough to make everyone blush. It's reminiscent of "Banished from the Hero's party" except that the entire party bad mouths Rein, whereas Gideon just had the crazy mage. What they did with the "hero" in Beast Tamer is fairly unique, too. My biggest problem with BT is not that Rein is OP, it's that he keeps pulling powers out of his butt. Not the borrowed abilities of his ultimate friends but new Beast Tamer abilities. First it was just that he's able to form temporary contracts with multiple creatures. Then he can also tame insects, then he can project his mind into one of his creatures, he can overwrite another's tamer's bond, and so on and so forth. Every new episode, he keeps breaking the rules of his class. If the writers wanted him to be able to do these things, they should have led into it, instead of just revealing it when it's needed. Anyway.... Beast Tamer is not trash, it's just another harem anime with some writing problems.
Trash from Geoff’s videos don’t mean bad per se. It’s like junk food. Like two of my favorite isekais I got from his last Trash video and they’re both my fav (Black Summoner and My Isekai Life)
We need an isekai anime about truck-kun dying in a terrible accident with a tractor trailer then coming back as a handsome protagonist-kun who keeps having to dodge being hit by cars due to karma. Of course, he’d accumulate a harem of girls who are mechanics and don’t realize they love him because he used to be a vehicle and they all love engines.
No lie, what caught my attention about Beast Tamer was that the catgirl’s panties remained unseen no matter how many flip kicks she did. Honestly refreshing.
I checked out the manga of The Eminence in Shadow and they were right, the director of the anime played everything completly straight but it is supposed to be a parody of edgy isekai mc's
Actually they are adapting from the LN. It was just the manga adaptation which took more liberties with the comedy. But I actually do wish they used the manga as a reference when it came to the comedy scenes, cuz the comedy in the manga is definitely the way to go.
@@rickchakraborty2087 Reading the web novel back in the day was quite the ride for me because it reads like it is written completely straight, and when I read it like that, it wasn't very good. It took me some 70 chapters, iirc, before I realized that it's not supposed to be read straight. It is a comedy. Once I changed my approach to it, the series became great.
Eminence in Shadow is one of my favorite manga still in production. I cant get enough of its intentionally over-the-top plot twists and action scenes, cut with pure distilled edgelording.
If you like the manga adaptation you should read the source material being the Light Novels, as the manga changes some things and leaves out some jokes/content from the LNs, the LNs are also farther ahead.
I'd love to get your take on Stronger Farmer. At times I SWEAR the makers are self-aware that they're making trash and absolutely run with it. PC status screens despite NOT being a game isekai, horrible names, characters walking and talking without moving their mouths. And of course the multiple times Orcs try to rape farmer-kun. I just finished ep.12 and am stunned/LMAO at the fact that they end it on a quasi-cliffhanger... as if more is n be made.
The thing I don't get about "protagonist is kicked out of the hero's party for being weak only to become extremely overpowered within the next five minutes" is that it completely invalidates the entire plot. I remember one story had a guy get kicked out because a curse was causing him to become weaker over time meaning that he was actually becoming a burden to the party. The very next chapter he runs into a girl that cures his curse and he becomes super powerful again. You could have had an interesting story of a guy going on a desperate adventure to lift his curse with him becoming increasingly weaker and how he overcomes that with even a decent explanation on why the protagonist would suddenly get a massive powerup at the climax as his curse is lifted. Instead the plot is completely resolved within the first couple of chapters and it becomes a generic power-fantasy. In the case of this beast tamer anime it is even dumber. As you pointed out, the tamer has a wide range of abilities that make him an extremely useful in supporting the main fighters so the idea that the rest of the hero's party wouldn't realize that is ridiculous. There is also the question of how he even got recruited into the party in the first place if all the heroes value is combat ability. The cursed guy at least made sense as he started out very strong and would have eventually reached a point where he was a liability as his main method of contributing became more and more diminished. The only time I ever saw a story (I don't remember the name) use this plot in a mildly interesting way was a comedy. The two main characters were kicked out of the hero's party for not being strong enough so they swear to get revenge by becoming strong enough to overshadow the hero. The plot actually revolves around this as each fight is specifically seen as a way for the two characters to become stronger. The hero is also very strong as he is shown to be soloing monsters that would easily beat the characters at their current strength making him an actual goal and measuring stick for the protagonists to compare themselves to.
I would imagine Beast Tamer uses this as a commentary on the kind of TTRPG and MMORPG players who are all about the DPS and see no value in support classes.