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Bringing a classic up to date for its 2 year anniversary (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In 2023 - it’s Harem in the Labrynth in another world or Worlds end harem.

Possibly Shield Hero.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Possibly Shield Hero.

In some versions of that incel power fantasy trash, the false rape accuser character is (CW: extreme sexual violence)

spoilerraped to death and dismembered before a cheering crowd and it's presented as poetic justice.

:agony-4horsemen:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I stopped during the first episode.

It seemed like it could have been okay with the multi-verse.

But then the false rape accusations followed by slavery, I just couldn’t.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It gets worse. So much worse. And of course the slavery is presented as justified and a good thing that makes the slaves happy as long as the master is mediocre enough to be not too cruel to his slaves.

Some good stories came from "isekai" concepts (Visions of Escaflowne, and in non-anime/manga, The Neverending Story) but it's being strip mined as a genre into spank bank power fantasies with :freeze-gamer: characteristics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again now. :pathetic:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I miss how the OG isekai involving mainly schoolgirls were just far better because they didn't pander as though their audience were just grungy r@pe gremlins, Miyazaki was right anime was a big fucking mistake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah. Yeah. I’ve met fans of these shows at anime groups.

There are 2 types -

The kind who have no media literacy on this because they just like seeing cool fireballs and are somewhere on the spectrum (normally mentioned early on)

The guys who really like that shit, but they mostly try to talk at cis-women about it and don’t take mild suggestions as topics try and shift. They tend to get banned soon after as a hazard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I usually hear "IN THE LORE" as an excuse for everything, or even "THAT IS EMPOWERING ACTUALLY BECAUSE SHE GETS POWERFUL WHEN SHE FIGHTS FOR SENPAI" and other :kombucha-disgust: arguments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love when the lore simply is and had no human write it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thermian arguments intensify :so-true:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ulysses please leave Robespierre out of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is some nerd kind of joke, really appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the year 2040, Reito Mizuhara is a young man who is put into cryostasis while awaiting for a life-saving treatment to be developed in order to cure the rare disease he suffers. Five years later in the year 2045, Reito awakens to discover that, in this period of time, an extremely lethal and contagious virus called the MK (Man Killer) has emerged, which mysteriously affects only males, causing the death of about 99.9% of the world's male population except for approximately one million survivors who were put into cryostasis before being infected. Much to his surprise, Reito also learns that he is one of five men in Japan who somehow developed immunity to the MK Virus and, as a result, is required to participate in a breeding program by impregnating as many women as possible so that their children can replenish the world's population. While Reito investigates the secrets surrounding the MK Virus and the mysterious disappearance of his childhood friend Elisa Tachibana, the series also shows the perspective of the other men who have developed immunity to the MK Virus, each with their own circumstances.[4]

THIS FUCKING TRASH :agony-4horsemen:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Harem in the Labrynth in another world or Worlds end harem

These are actual mask-off names for incel slop now. :agony-4horsemen:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Anime has “advanced “ past Goblin Slayer and into full on jerk off while having a power fantasy shows. That get simulcast in the US streaming. So some poor fuckers scramble to get out subtitles on these shows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep hearing how there's "plenty" of non-cryptofascist incel pandering slop in the industry, but it rarely gets funding, attention, or for that matter reach compared to the cryptofascist incel pandering slop coming out at the same time more and more year after year. :doomer:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The biggest shows last year were: Demon slayer (plz don't confuse, this one is about 1 good boy empathetically killing rich people allegories), Kaguya-sama: love is war, spyxfamily, Lycoris recoil, chainsaw man, bocchi the rock! and Gundam: Witch from Mercury.

Chainsaw man and Gundam have heavy leftist themes. Lycoris recoil is gay, and along with demon slayer are heavily action oriented shows. The rest are cute comedies aimed at normal people. Bocchi was a word-of-mouth smash hit, but the rest of these shows had marketing budgets that probably dwarfed the entire production budget of something like World's end harem.

All the thinly veiled far right isekai stories usually originate from studios desperate to adapt self-published webnovels in the chase for that sweet sweet sword art online money (goblin slayer, shield hero), but they're finding that well to be dry cos those stories only got "popular" because only terminally online Nazi's read them, and the mainstream continues to be dominated by Weekly Shone Jump adaptations because WSJ has editors.

And even in that web novel space there's push-back-we just had an isekai where the protagonist does the radical action of... Killing slavers and emancipating slaves. (reincarnated as a sword) edit: So I wouldn't get all doomer about anime just yet. Until something like goblin slayer gets into WSJ, things haven't gotten that bad.