I'm 5 episodes in but basically the premise is it's OP'S favorite brand of slop, an isekai, where a woman works herself to death and gets reincarnated as the daughter of a magical artificer. She ends up learning artificery from him and invents things like a hair dryer and waterproof fabric (i.e. 'plastic' but from slimes). She ends up engaged to her fellow apprentice, who immediately turns into a total tool, telling her she's "too tall" with heels on, criticizing her hair, her glasses, etc. Fuck this guy, what a nerd. Then he has the audacity to have an affair and leave her- but that's okay, he sucked anyway and she's got a sick ass artificer's tower to live in. He had to pay her reparations, lol get fucked loser!

Also she meets a cute knight guy who actually doesn't suck, except he's all "😌 i could just be her friend for eternity 😌" so you know it's going to be a long and arduous journey until they fuckin kiss already (unless they don't and i've just been trolling myself)

Im giving it 4 out of 5 slop stars so far

It's happened to me a few times that I see the original title of an anime compared to its English title, and I just think that the original title is so weak compared to the translated title that it feels like the translated title actually "came first": that the translated title uses alliteration, rhythm and rhyme, brevity, and wordplay so well that the original title feels "phoned in" by comparison.

...Yet I can't actually remember for certain which anime I've had this thought for, so I want to ask here if anyone else has any examples of this that they can recall.

It's slop, but it's good slop, IMO. Basically the premise of the show is one of your lightly-DnD based fantasy worlds where there's Skills and dungeons and such. The protagonist, Noor, wants to be an adventurer more than anything, so that he can travel and experience life and be useful to people. But after going through the implied-to-be-rigorous three month courses for every possible skill (which seems to be paid for by the state, btw! just sayin', big ups) he never manages to acquire a skill other than the most basic possible for every branch. To be licensed as an adventurer, you need "at least two useful skills." So he's denied, travels back home, and does the anime thing of training each and every one of those skills intensely for the next fifteen years.

So, although he can't use an attack skill, he ends up able to parry over ten thousand swords simultaneously with a single breath. His "tiny flame," a magic barely even useful to conjure a candlelight, can summon a basketball sized orb of fire.

Despite his prodigious ability with these skills, he ends up registered as a mere F rank adventurer, as a symbol of charity, basically. Calling him an adventurer while he's mostly a shit-shoveler (the subs call it mud, but, I mean...)

Even after the Plot Happens, it turns out our MC is a 100% himbo that is entirely locked into his mentality of not being worthy. He defeats a minotaur, in this world a demon from the Abyss, but thinks it was "just a cow." He fights a Goblin Emperor, implied to be a magical bioweapon that could destroy a nation, thinking it's just your basic goblin. "A single goblin causes me this much trouble, I'm really not ready" he thinks. Numerous members of the royal family are in awe of his abilities, but he basically seems to not know what "royal family" means, lol.

His opinion of his abilities are so low that when offered basically any reward he can think of, he says he's good, he doesn't need anything because he didn't really do much, making the king basically think he's a selfless saint

Anyway, I have a low bar for entertainment, it really is some slop, but it's been real fun.

Also although I'm only 5 episodes in if you're worried about it being grossly oversexualized or whatever it's got none of that nonsense, just a man learning to parry harder than anyone's ever parried before

Since I'm a mecha head I would have added Getter Robo and Mazinger Z and their respective movies. I think american kids would have been responsive to super robot shows like this since Gundam Wing cleaned house when it debuted on the programing block.

I wonder if the 2002 Hunter x Hunter series could have been brought over too.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more magical girls, and so, we’re going to start what is arguably the most acclaimed magical-girl anime of all time, Revoutionary Girl Utena (1997). Think Sailor Moon, but a bit more highbrow, and a bit more gay. Episodes 25 through 30 tonight.

After that is Felidae (1994), a gritty, R-rated German film-noir murder mystery. The twist is that it is animated and centers on talking cats. Someone has been going around the neighborhood and killing cats in horrifyingly grotesque ways, and one brave feline decides to investigate. Drama ensues, along with a whole lot of blood and gore. Many reviews compare this to Ralph Bakshi’s work. It is the magnum opus of German animator Michael Schaack, who is not known for much otherwise.

We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena: https://letterboxd.com/film/revolutionary-girl-utena/
• Felidae: https://letterboxd.com/film/felidae/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11039
• Felidae: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9585

CWs for Revolutionary Girl Utena:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Felidae:

• Animal abandonment.
• Female character brutalized for spectacle.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Drunkenness.
• Deaths of animals.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Death of pet.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Decapitation.
• Body horror.
• Seizure.
• Torture.
• Blood and gore.
• Fetuses.
• Suicide.
• Disembowelment.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Ghosts.
• Razors.
• Electrotherapy.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Cancer.
• PTSD.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill character.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Stillbirth.
• Abortion.
• Death of pregnant character.
• Discussion of religion.
• Sex.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Terminal illness.

Links to movies:

• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 25: https://tankie.tube/w/3sgQv4vrFTkd8qH55AmahW
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 26: https://tankie.tube/w/5EP9WCLd6yFW4C86zetvWQ
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 27: https://tankie.tube/w/8ttt3Kr3Cpfp1tKD9rU6gc
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 28: https://tankie.tube/w/8kLkKbamLyb42UNuv9xmor
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 29: https://tankie.tube/w/upZqbVdkEGDeC7i16dq4Su
• Revolutionary Girl Utena ep. 30: https://tankie.tube/w/ugJPQPptPm3HieUGi5q7NQ
• Felidae: https://tankie.tube/w/eAjix9ov8Lt2F19rYDrSW4

Me: Daughter, isn't it weird how every Guild member, when they get the upper hand on a member of the Port Mafia or Agency, they remark how they're only fighting because it's a job, and without their job they'd be dead or on the streets? It's very similar to how in the real world, people take on and stay at unfulfilling jobs, or even jobs that are detrimental to society as a whole, instead of doing what they really want to do. People are forced into these situations and they can find themselves performing morally questionable deeds because the alternative means losing their job, losing the means to support themselves, and could even lead to them losing their lives.

The Guild characters in part represent the modern alienated worker, and in this way offer a critique of the western capitalist mode of production, namely its reliance and insistence on worker alienation and precarity...

Her: Hey Dad, aren't Chuuya and Dazai so cute and gay together?

Me: Yes.

The show really has something for everyone.

Now someone needs to make a compilation of Sakura going "ho-e~"

In any case we love this kaiju don't we

Cuz it seems pretty gey

In this chapter Nami and Usopp run away

What did you think of this week's chapter?

One Piece is on break next week

By Mossa

Folks, folks, the feds they're no good! More and more people are saying it. You've got these bourgeoisie elite living the life of luxury on earth while they ship out the poor to space, bad deal. Believe me, I've made hundreds, no, thousands of deals in my lifetime - and none as rough as this. So what do we do? We declare independence. That's right, that's right! We're the Principality Of Zeon now, bye bye Earth Federation, you were always a loser. And we have mobile suits, folks, the best mobile suits, the zaku and ace pilots like Char. Oh we love Char don't we? Where is he? [looks to the crowd] There he is! I love you so much, you're the best. Loyal guy folks. Loyal as they come, he'd never betray us.