Umm okay…

Deathgames are fine, but the main problem I see is that in this game, the characters don’t seem to have much agency.

At least not so far.

A seemingly random A or B choice question shows up on a screen, and the characters live or die.

I’m sure this didn’t get the umpth most requested anime adaptation for no reason though.

A few more episodes to really be able to judge this…

@rikka@ani.social

Hmm.

This beginning is a standard “I have a useless skill that I’ve practiced so much that it’s now overpowered” fantasy plot.

The MC is vanilla, with a very understated understanding of his ability, e.g. the title is “I Parry A Cow”, when he’s fighting a 12 foot tall minotaur, but the writing and direction feel sincere so far.

Will this deliver anything that we haven’t seen before?

Worth another episode.

@rikka@ani.social

That’s great, but did you run 20km, do 200 pushups, 200 situps, and 200 squats?

The direction was pretty good for a low-key story. I can see where they might have saved money going to cartoony action scenes for humor.

Not bad.

The MC seems a bit vanilla though, voicing nothing about her own desires and needs, instead serving as an axis for the two other characters to revolve around.

p.s. “kohai” means “junior”, it’s the opposite of “senpai”

Me too!

Still beaten by Plus Sized Elf tho…

The power of ecchi > boomers

Strong start for ToG in Japan! I thought Japanese were boycotting all manhwa adaptations, but this seems to have broken through…

QA Isekai #5 !!! The source material must get really good later…

Ecchi comedy with fat girls, nipples and jiggle, uncensored.

Notably very short episode length at 11m00s, including OP and ED.

Not particularly interesting, unless you’re really into this sort of thing.

@rikka@ani.social

Yeah, but you don’t cater to people with a fat-fetish by having the plot be basically “diet and work out so you can look good again”.

Unless it’s an excuse to put the fat girl in nekkid situations, and add more fat girl characters.

And have their clothes split and rip suggestively, as we saw in this episode.

I actually thought he was doing okay until he ran out of patience and threw his helmet at the explody drone.

It’s a good thing that Russian troops are so poorly trained.

Aw, yeeeeers!!!

Some good production value for a comedy show.

Wacky and surreal visuals and story atmosphere worked well, but I didn’t feel that it reached LOL levels of funny.

“Shikanoko” means “Deer girl”, from “shika” meaning deer

Holy moly, that got dark quickly…

Kadode went all Light Yagami with her first Doraemon Isobeyan gadget…

Who else was waiting for the question about her father, and why didn’t it come up before discussing employment?

Cute, but it seems pretty straightforward.

Maybe it wasn’t in the spirit of the source material to break the atmosphere by showing some dark undertones?

I want the writing to do a little more before I fully buy in on this, but it’s good enough to watch another episode.

@rikka@ani.social

Damn, I thought this was a Frieren spinoff…

Watched first episode of Quality Assurance Isekai episode 1, and jeez that was boring.

I’m not even motivated to request a discussion thread for it.

Interesting premise, but absolutely the most boring direction, and it took far, far too long to get to the twist.

Dripping vagina face dragon didn’t help either.

The thread for My Deer Friend Nokotan was not created. Its start date on Anilist was July 3rd, which is almost over.

I have manually requested the thread from @rikka@ani.social

edit: Got an error message from rikka in reply to my episode request:

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Funicular means there’s a counterbalance, usually a second car is used as a counterweight.

I have no idea how this particular system works, and there’s only one car.

Correction: Looked like a self propelled gun.

Currently looks like chunks of smoking debris.

The CLAMP face style is so different from today’s aesthetics…

It’s bothering me, this trend of remaking shows with higher budgets, but with less soul.

The Miburo were a real organization during the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The name is short for Mibu Ronin, after the village southwest of Kyoto where they were based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsengumi