TokyoCaramel

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I'm going to be blunt. A Silent Voice is great. A Sign of Affection...doesn't do anything for me. I only watched a few eps. MC is too infantilized IMO. "Be shy and cute and multiple attractive dudes will put in massive amounts of effort to get to know you, overcome your special needs and be your crutch"

I love the depiction in Silent Voice where MC doesn't speak fluently but kind of grunts. But in A Sign of Affection her inner voice has perfect diction and that IMO completely takes away from the depiction of deafness. The anime director could have been more creative in how to express her inner "voice", if an inner dialogue was needed at all

Thanks for the detailed reply! That story sounds longer than I expected, and interesting that it's faithful to the game without much filler, maybe I'll keep an eye on the manga then.

(Apologies if this is slightly off-topic as I'm not up to date on this manga)

I played a bit of the gacha game for this and read a small handful of the early manga chapters. I loved the character and clothing designs, leaning heavily on "cool" and "badass" more than sex appeal. Not that I dislike the latter at all, just refreshing to get a different aesthetic sometimes. The game was also impressive for a phone gacha game.

So my question: Is it worth following the manga, especially if I no longer play the gacha game? Does the story feel like it's leading to a conclusion, or is it going to be drawn out forever, as a perpetual promo for the game?

Ohh good stuff. I definitely prefer regular food over magical food, in a food show. The worldbuilding here is fantastic.

This is the first time they cared about the medicinal value of food. It worked in a fantastical way reviving Marcille so quickly. I'd only thought about the food as regular food until now. I suppose it makes sense mystical monster meat can have exaggerated nutritional value.

Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai by Yoko Hikasa - Attack on Titan ED1. The melody is a startling contrast from the anime itself. Unlike the action packed and destructive anime, the song is gentle and pure, sad and foreboding, but with a measure of strength. Like someone (namely Mikasa, featured in the video) desperately fighting to hold on to something that will inevitably escape their grasp.

I love the Oshi no Ko OP so much. YOASOBI are awesome!

Uncle from Another World / Isekai Ojisan is so, so good

My theory is Anne did care for Senshi, but his beard had gotten too gross since last time they met. Same reason Marcille's water walk magic couldn't support his weight. So he sank the kelpie, which made her distrust him and then attack him.

Loved that beard washing montage!

Yeah! Chocolate coins! I'm late to the episode but after the Lunar new year I was able to appreciate the coins better.

The holy water on ghosts was amazing. Love how it made ice cream after passing through enough of those ectothermic bodies. Marcille's happy swinging feet got a lot of screen time 😆

I love Uncle from Another World (Isekai Ojisan) because it does isekai satire so well. I'm seriously laughing out loud every episode. Watching it slow so I can savor it

It's basically what I thought Eminence in Shadow would be. EiS is self aware and pokes fun at isekai, but taking a step back... it's still a standard isekai. To be fair I haven't finished S1 of EiS yet so I may be too quick to judge. But to me it feels like they stuck in as many isekai tropes as they could, and an edgy sarcastic MC, and called it satire... I mean it kind of is, but idk

So to answer the question: basically the overpowered MC, the slave harem, the weak attempt at blending in so nobody can guess MC's real identity as a god-tier warrior. How MC outsmarts all the natural denizens of the isekai and instantly understands how their world works and how to game it.

I also dislike when MCs basically completely forget their old world, they never stop to reminisce. I get that that's kind of the point of isekai, escapism and not thinking about real life... but it's unnatural to me. They bring their memories with them but throw them away.

Of course some of the better isekai do talk about both worlds. Like Re:Zero comes to mind, and ofc the ones where the isekai is a literal video game, and they travel back and forth.