Trash Rating art by Aaron Schmit - twitter.com/theaaronschmit

@stupidbossman4389

2 жыл бұрын

Get tested nerd

@stupidbossman4389

2 жыл бұрын

Also in terms of books with good magic systems have you read the Kane Chronicles? It's a great trilogy of books written by the author of percy Jackson

@Charok1

2 жыл бұрын

The Mistborn 1-3 audiobooks are great. Mistborn 3-6 GraphicAudio version audiobooks are even more great. A lot of "Kiritos with harems" new shows happening lately.

@AwsOm3Fac3

2 жыл бұрын

Mother’s basement coming in again with another set of room temperature takes

@Trippleu27

2 жыл бұрын

Can we get a animelee on episode 17 of the new demon slayer season

"Ex-Arm could've learned a thing or two from this show" Bro Ex-Arm could've learned a thing or two about animation from still pictures...

@judaihyuga

2 жыл бұрын

Ex-Arm could've learned a thing or two from the stick figure scribble drawings of most toddlers...

@jy3n2

2 жыл бұрын

Ex-Arm could have learned a thing or two from a Langford image. And possibly saved everyone some suffering.

@anotherrandomtexan25

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh Ex arm could've learned a thing or two from caveman drawings

@ethanaurora9580

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh, Ex-Arm could've learned a thing or two from lines and dots

@juliusweiss5447

2 жыл бұрын

Ex- Arm could have learned a thing or two from a blank sheet of paper.

Not gonna lie tho, after dealing with COVID and getting newfound insomnia from it, these anime really came in clutch for me. Made me fall asleep in a matter of minutes, and it was the best.

@statesminds

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@aryadhole

2 жыл бұрын

Nice man.

@Hopper_Arts

2 жыл бұрын

More effective than sleep pills

@Seelenfresser51

2 жыл бұрын

Covid gave me omegaaids

@jfbeast

2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA 💀

So as far as I can tell, Geoff's "dumpster fire rating system" works along 3 axes: total bin volume, salaciousness of the items being burned, and intensity of the flames. I couldn't tell you what any of those axes correspond to though. Probably shouldn't think about it too hard.

@megatennepster3833

2 жыл бұрын

Quantity is how much there is to hate, salaciousness is how unironically enjoyable it is, and the intensity of the fire is how objectively bad it is, regardless of enjoyment value

@Ghi102

2 жыл бұрын

The items that are burning (or not burning) also represent what genre or feelings the anime is trying to emulate

@thatguydownthestreat

2 жыл бұрын

Im not sure about volume, but salaciousness tends to be more about how objectively harmfull, stupid, or terrible the themes and morals of the anime are, while the heat of fire is an attempt to quantify the idea of how "good" it is, based on the idea of "its so bad it's good"

@megatennepster3833

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatguydownthestreat I think the volume is the quality, or lack thereof, of the actual production. Animation and all that.

@WillowEpp

2 жыл бұрын

No, no, please think as much as possible about this extremely important topic.

"Strongest Kirito with the Weakest Tat" just feels like a worse "Misfit of Demon Academy". She says not knowing that the KZreadr will literally point that out 1 minute later

@bluespaceman7937

2 жыл бұрын

Never saw Misfit of Demon Academy but maybe I will.

@r3dp9

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluespaceman7937 I legitimately recommend Misfit of Demon Academy. It has very dry humor, to the point that it's impossible to say whether it's satire or not. I would consider it similar to JoJo in that respect.

@cybercery5271

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluespaceman7937 it's so bad it's good

@molybdaen11

2 жыл бұрын

@@bluespaceman7937 Imagine your average isekai shonen protagonist, but your author has gone gaga and removed every restraint on your power possible.

@Coramelimane

2 жыл бұрын

@@r3dp9 Good satire is that type of satire that makes you question if it's serious or not. It's like good puns, you're not sure if you should laugh or punch.

The fact I don't watch anime that much anymore and still watch mothers basement trash animes every season is a testament to how funny it is

@Vasco1001

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@carinadominguez22

2 жыл бұрын

Same. There's too much anime.

@monus782

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me, for the most part he is the only anituber left that I more or less watch consistently and I always look forward to the rant videos

@cheshire1

2 жыл бұрын

@@carinadominguez22 That's not a reason to watch less anime. well I guess having too many choices can sometimes feel uncomfortable, but it's such a waste to stop watching just because of that.

@DemoWarlock

2 жыл бұрын

TRU

Watching these videos with my mom is a delight. In order, her responses to the anime listed: "Date the mom!" "Look, his heart is in the right place. He's dumb but he means well, like a golden retriever." "Devillis is my new band name." (I pointed out she plays the harp and she just repeated, louder, "It's my band name.") Also from that same segment of the video: "The plot is dumb but I like the chandeliers." "I feel like I've seen this show before. I know I only started watching anime last year but I swear I've seen this before." "Are we sure it was supposed to look like that? Maybe they shipped it early." "Who is this for? No, really, who is this for? Who is into this? Is anyone?"

@AnimeSunglasses

2 жыл бұрын

.... Your mom is amazing, and I wish my parents were ever that fun.

@nebufabu

2 жыл бұрын

I mean Fantasy Knockout is doing well, or so I heard, so there's plenty of people who are OK with/like/love the concept... If the quality is there, which seems to be the problem.

@Silas_MN

2 жыл бұрын

more mom reactions please, these are gold

@zerofox641

2 жыл бұрын

Your mother is a gem. Mine just asks “Are you ok? Why are you watching this?” whenever she sees me watching anime

@beepbeeplettuce5890

2 жыл бұрын

Date your mom

It’s genuinely wild that the writer of Sage Pupil even arrived at “small bladder” as a major character trait for his protagonist let alone the idea that seemingly it’s a trait that’s supposed to be either endearing or “sexy” rather that flat-out vomit inducing.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

What I don't get is that... how? If she realizes she needs to go to the bathroom a lot more often because of a small bladder (and not because of a disease) wouldn't she just change her diet to keep it from happening. If you're such a smart sage you'd think that's the first idea to come up to correct the problem.

@civilengineer3349

2 жыл бұрын

She often looks like she needs to pee? Nice!

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

Out of all the problems I'd expect an old man stuck in a girl's body to have, that's not even the most significant one I'd expect to involve fluids coming out of his crotch.

@SecretIdentityStudio

2 жыл бұрын

Kiss X Sis flashbacks.

@Kwatcher100

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean Huh, that’s an image.

I remember reading the synopsis for Orient and thinking "Man, this really sounds like nationalist propaganda for 'traditional japanese culture need to expel foreign outsiders corrupting our culture'"

@KhayJayArt

2 жыл бұрын

Lol and weebs say that Japanese animation is apolitical!

@blueskylark9965

2 жыл бұрын

And that’s not even the most hamfisfed nationalist propaganda on this list! Like wow Rust armor, the making the conquistadors the bad guys when your country was notably not colonized by them, undercutting the experiences of countries that were! Holy cow is that tone deaf.

@davidbeauchemin1840

2 жыл бұрын

Not a recent anime, but never forget GATE. That shit was "Japan never did anything wrong" and "Everyone but japan is evil."

@benjaminbierley2074

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidbeauchemin1840 GATE was at least mildly charming, and to be fair given how heavily America jerks off the armed forces (looking at you Michael Bay) it's pretty tame...by comparison. That isn't to say having military propaganda in a work is bad, armed forces do deserve props for what they do, it's when it jumps the shark and establishes VASTLY unrealistic expectations or perceptions that it becomes bad IMO (YES still looking at you Michael "Never met an explosive I didn't like" Bay). By that metric GATE at least "tries" to keep itself grounded...most of the time.

@davidbeauchemin1840

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminbierley2074 IIRC The anime straight up denies the Rape of Nanking ever happening.

I'm giving your rating system a "chubby housecat basking in a sunbeam, waving it's paws lazily in the air to entice you to bury your face in it's belly." This is the highest rating conceivable.

@TheSlipperyNUwUdle

2 жыл бұрын

∩^ω^∩

@Falcodrin

2 жыл бұрын

It's a trap!

always blows me away how much the protagonists look exactly like kirito. This has to be an intentional grift at this point

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

It's a trope that's developed.

@creatorsfreedom6734

2 жыл бұрын

perhaps a OLDER Classic Cartoon/animation that has a similar Virus story would be Blue Gender - don't ask

@hypothalapotamus5293

2 жыл бұрын

It takes too long to write plot. These stories can be written with templates. That's what worked 20 years ago. That's what works today. 1:57- Then again, 20 years ago, the framerate was higher. Seriously, they could have done that in vector graphics in the same time it took to place those cells. 0_0

@Jikkuryuu

Жыл бұрын

Generic dark-haired male teen with a jacket wasn't exactly rare before Kirito, but some folks are definitely not hiding their inspirations.

@elvingearmasterirma7241

Жыл бұрын

@@Jikkuryuu it has however made even me, who isn't doing a manga, kind of hesitant to give my male protag who has black hair a coat. Even if he has long hair. _damn you sword art online_

Is anyone else gonna acknowledge how that bit about magic systems being more for character development and not fight choreography is genuinely great writing advice?

@jens3803

2 жыл бұрын

That's a huge focus of Brandon Sanderson the author Geoff mentioned. Sanderson has very strict magic systems with well defined abilities. And how the characters work around these rules is a big reason why his stories are so interesting.

@jardex2275

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing applies to superpowers. Early Action Comics would conveniently give Superman whatever power he needed to solve the issue's problem. It's only after other heroes were introduced that they gave him a defined set of abilities to work around. For Isekai specifically, the protagonist's power can make or break a show. If they can take an uncommon power and make it useful, it can be a great series. On the other hand, giving them the power to curb stomp all their foes from the start makes for something bland.

@AjaxGb

2 жыл бұрын

Geoff is referencing "Sanderson's Laws of Magic", a set of writing principles proposed by the author Brandon Sanderson: 1. An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic. 2. Limitations are more interesting than powers. 3. Expand on the rules you already have before adding something new.

@myself2noone

2 жыл бұрын

@@AjaxGb You know I kinda disagree with Sanderson on magic systems. What he dose works for him, but in my estamation I prefer a magic system that has the logic of a language to it. Not the decisively physical ones he tends to prefer.

@chaddaifouche536

2 жыл бұрын

@@myself2noone That's a matter of taste. There are soft magic systems that are quite amazing, though more often I would say stories that work with a soft magic system do so because they don't center around the system and maintain an air of secrecy while still implying heavily that there are strong limitations. So Sanderson's law still kinda apply (you can't use magic too much in your story because it's not well defined or understood by the reader, limitations are a necessity and you don't have lots of new magic system because you just don't have that much magic anyway). You don't have to like Sanderson's books to appreciate that his laws are an interesting guide for a fantasy writer.

That description of that dialogue-free montage in pupil is giving me weird vibes to a nightmare I had where Promised Neverland's sequel was shit and ended on an out of context powerpoint presentation. Whether or not Pupil's creators somehow has access to my unconscious mind, that bodes badly.

@GippyHappy

Жыл бұрын

Anime ideas running dry so they're taking inspiration from other people's dreams

@originaljoke4502

Жыл бұрын

we can only thank god that promised neverland 2 never came out haha

What I find so funny about the shitty worldbuilding of Strongest Sage is that there was already an explanation for why the common view of crests is so mistaken in the future, the MC himself. Given that the MC was the strongest being on the planet despite having the crest least suited for combat, it is understandable that many people would think that the crest he had was actually the strongest due to some hidden potential it had that only the MC managed to unlock. Many people with the same crest as the MC would be inspired by him, causing them to try to reach the level he did. This would artificially inflate the average strength of the people with the crest in comparison to the others, making it seem more powerful. Tactics that used the strengths of that crest would be expanded upon, leaving the others underdeveloped. This creates an feedback loop, where even after the records of the MC have been lost to time everyone is now so used to this new status quo that this misconception grows larger and larger. Granted, this explanation still doesn't really make much sense and the magic system still needs to have some balancing issues fixed, but it's still better than what the author wrote. If you want to keep the demons in, just have them exploit this in an effort to weaken the humans.

@yourtsar824

2 жыл бұрын

I only watched because I thought it was funny how they covered an entire tournament arc in one episode it left me wondering what else they would speedrun. Then they did an entire tournament arc in one episode again.

@TheZorginator1

2 жыл бұрын

But that would mean it was the protagonists fault and he'd have to deal with guilt or something for being responsible for the worlds decline. This means he couldn't be smug about how wrong everyone is which is just too dang difficult for dipshit authors to deal with.

@TheBloodswordsman

2 жыл бұрын

Damn bro. You ever thought of writing your own light novel? I mean seriously, you just about fixed that other one's plot - I'm sure you could make one that was even better.

@sdbzfan1

2 жыл бұрын

the author unironicly made the main characters previous life far more interesting given I wanna know how he managed to get so stronger with the objectively worst crest rather than I was strong in my last life and wanted to get stronger so I reset with all my skills and skill points at level 1 in a different class so I can smurf my way back to the top

@Gloomdrake

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheZorginator1 you can't just let a main character have _flaws!_ That would make them too believable

Orient being boring actually hurts my soul. Magi is in my top 3 favorite anime of all time, so I had some really high hopes for this one. Sure, I wasn't expecting it to be on quite the same level in terms of overall quality, but... this? I mean, if the show by some miracle does get substantially better down the road, then I'm all for it. But for now it pains me to say that its just a massive letdown.

@S-titik

2 жыл бұрын

Just read the manga(which is 30× better that anime)

@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034

2 жыл бұрын

Just read the manga anime is trash.

@jakey14344

2 жыл бұрын

When i realize that the studio behind Orient is the same studio that brought us the abyssmal Dies Irae adaptation, Freezing which is a rushed mess, and To Aru Accelerator which was fine (still better than Index 3 though), i think i'm skipping it, even if it had Rieri or the English VA of Sang Woo from Squid Game.

@The_Balance29

2 жыл бұрын

I know right. I was so hype for another anime made by the magi creator. I am disappointed

@notationmusical

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh, I'm not a fan of the Orient manga either. While I was slightly interested in the supposed politics, the characters weren't interesting and I found myself just annoyed at the protagonist (Kojiro?)

I feel like one of the most disappointing things I've encountered in the Hottest Trash series thus far is hearing the phrase "Alternate history Japan that was conquered by Spanish Conquistadors" and then learning that the result was the bad kind of garbage and that they did literally nothing with that particular Man in that particular High Castle.

@Mugruncher

7 ай бұрын

I understood that reference!

The decision to completely skip the inciting incident and have an unexplained, dialogue free segment of wandering the world last so long was truly baffling to me when I experienced it.

@karlnord1429

2 жыл бұрын

I liked it.

@mataneko4390

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was a good idea if more effort was put into it. Sadly nobody wants to see that after getting their eyes burned by the cgi trashfire.

@Zeiss120

2 жыл бұрын

I liked it. And if you go back all the people you see in the montage was introduced/was future introductions. IE you see the elf attendant getting ice cream right after Danblf gets it. When Danblf is eating the ice cream on the bench, you'll see the summoner mage cat eared girl walking behind her depressed etc etc

@Zeiss120

2 жыл бұрын

@@mataneko4390 yeah I'll agree here. the use of 3D in Anime in the last two decades has been god awful and it looks like its not getting cheaper/better.

The basic idea of "Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest" feels so bland and stupid. So there are four magic crests someone can be born with that determines their magical aptitude. The main character is a powerful sage, however he has the weakest of the four crests. So he just reincarnates as someone with the strongest crest right at the story's start and...that's it. It's the namesake of the story and yet almost all of it's depth(which is basically none) is fully explored in a single episode. Oh but apparently people in his new time period now view that particular crest as the new weakest crest. But they're wrong. That's it. It is still in fact the objective strongest crest, and the people of this time period aren't wrong for categorizing people's worth based on their crest, they're just wrong about which one is in fact the objective best. The main character is constantly "surprising" people with how strong he is, even though we as the audience already know that he is a legendary reincarnated mage from thousands of years ago who now possesses the objective best magic crest. This makes his constant shows of power to other characters completely meaningless and hollow to the audience, because we know that in reality he doesn't really have anything to prove and nothing to strive for.

@NikkiTheViolist

2 жыл бұрын

I could see the concept working, if the first episode actually explained what the crests did before the reincarnation, and there were legit strengths and drawbacks to each one and the main character seriously had to contend with the drawbacks (and not just the main character saying 'oh there's this drawback that i can't do but now watch me cleverly get around that drawback in a very tell-don't-show way' like happens in the show)

@shred1894

2 жыл бұрын

The manga is more fleshed out and way better than the anime. I dropped the anime though.

@OriginalPiMan

2 жыл бұрын

They mention two downsides of his crest. That it is not as good at enchantments, and that it can't do long range. The first problem disappears into irrelevance because he's just so much insanely better than everyone else at everything, that he's still better than everyone at the thing he's bad at. The second problem comes up once, I can't remember how he sidesteps it, and then the show promptly forgets it was ever a problem.

@duarpeto

2 жыл бұрын

I read the web novel of this (at least a good portion of it) a while back and while it was still sorta dumb it definitely felt like a more fleshed out idea than what was said in the video, I haven't watched the anime so I'm guessing it was pretty bad at properly conveying all that stuff. From what I remember the title calls his new crest the "strongest crest" but it's more like it's the most suitable crest for the MC and his objectives, the one he *feels* is the strongest. His previous crest was specifically the weakest for combat which was his true calling, so he really wanted to change, but pretty much all the other ones would have been fine. Each crest has its own suitability but in truth none are truly superior, he simply doesn't care much about the drawback of this one while the increased firepower is exactly what he wants, I would think because of his combat style. Iirc he even wants to train someone with his previous crest to do crafting for him because of how powerful that crest is at it, fulfilling an important role in magic combat that he now can't really do. He also specifically has the goal of wanting to fight monsters in space which he has apparently seen glimpses of but were way too powerful, so there is an end game of sorts but he needs to grow back at least to his previous strength before taking it on. The demon thing was also not as dumb, I remember it feeling like a mysterious thing that he himself with all his knowledge felt was ridiculous and never should have happened. Demons almost taking over the world and erasing the knowledge of proper magic while replacing it with inefficient and limited chanted casting so people would focus on the wrong thing, obfuscating the nature of crests and making the strongest for combat especially ineffective. The only reason humanity was still around was because the properly strong demons were still sealed from when the world eradicated them during the MC's previous life, so the demons just didn't have the forces to completely take over, settling for keeping the humans weak while waiting for the seals to break. I don't remember how early on it was but the MC fairly quickly notices signs that there was some kind of apocalyptic war while he was gone that allowed this to happen, in the style of a modern world full out nuclear war. There were other things weird with it too, potential interference from the whole space monsters thing. What put me off and eventually made me drop I think was the harem-ish stuff (though iirc there really wasn't much interest from the MC in any of it in the WN) and in general the characters just weren't very good, along with the whole feel of the demons, it felt like a bad copy of kenja no mago/wise man's grandchild which in itself already wasn't the best. The idea and world itself actually pulled me in and I was disappointed that it wasn't better written, I generally do like power fantasy stuff and underestimated characters as long as it's well written.

@CatOnACell

2 жыл бұрын

it's even more bland than you think. you would think an anime made to show off your magic system would at least have one major character with each of the 4 different pieces of the magic system... but they took the third slot and gave it to loli dragon so that they can add generic weirdo.

Between Geoff joining the Sanderson cult and Daniel Greene joining the One Piece cult I want a crossover between them now more than ever. They also both love Discworld so there’s that.

@shadowforce4

2 жыл бұрын

A crossover I didn't know I wanted but I would love the chaotic energy.

@marocat4749

2 жыл бұрын

And they found the discworld cult?! Nothing against that.

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, who doesn't love Discworld? (Aside from people unlucky enough to have never read a Discworld book, ofc).

@DemagogueBibleStudy

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean Psychopaths and Br*tish people

In defense of World's End Harem, I respect that man's commitment.

@teetheluchador

9 ай бұрын

i dont

@Mark-of-cain_2555

6 ай бұрын

I do not a lot of people can say that they were THAT faithful to their partners or their childhood best friends.

If Wise Man hadn't been another damn "Trapped in a VR MMO" story and had committed to the Sage succumbing to a mysterious transformation that also stripped his powers and memories...that might have been an interesting premise.

@Dr.Spatula

2 жыл бұрын

Except no one here seems to understand it's a "trapped in a VR MMO" story and act as if the world was real to begin with

@OrigamiShinigami

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like an Overlord/Log Horizon genre mashup where the game became real as opposed to SAO or .hack//. But the protagonist is a fucking creep.

@Zeiss120

2 жыл бұрын

@@OrigamiShinigami But the protagonist is a girl in real life that loves medieval fantasy mages like Gandalf....

I have to know, I really have to know: How do these shows get funding, start production, and no one chimes in to say what they are making is bad. There are so many small artists or popular artists that can't get anything yet these works get to be honored by airing on television?

@demecowen

2 жыл бұрын

Like all forms of art (picture, films, videogames, etc.), it is one half a good idea, and the second half everyone thinks their art is good until it is finished. You know the ones that make them believe they wrote a masterpiece essay, but when they have to read the paper aloud and just realize how bad it is and they only have one hour left to turn it in, or else they fail. Add in trouble production, budget cuts, other people's lousy opinion you get bad anime no matter how good the idea or intention was.

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

There are many reasons. Could be production problems beyond anyone's control, could be that management saw yen signs and ignored artistic merit, could be anything in between.

@hmalba7864

2 жыл бұрын

Because at the end of the day, there are people who will watch and like these shows, usually more than you'd think. The alternative of coming up with a legit good and creative show is much harder and cost inducing, so companies are pushed to go with trends and pander to what they know will get people watching.

@jardex2275

2 жыл бұрын

Same reason we get terrible sitcoms and dramas in Western TV. There's a point where they thought it was a good idea, and somewhere along the line they've invested so much that they can't back out.

@MikeKnight009

2 жыл бұрын

It's like when game corps make games that appeal to the easiest demographics with typical ideas, like EA with bf2042, except it's cheap isekais with tits&ass and easy tropes. Ever notice how, in most cases, the most popular anime out there doesn't rely on tropes and fan service all the time? Hopefully Japan starts to let that habit die soon, getting tired of sifting through the same garbage that never delivers.

It's worth noting that the light novel of She Proclaimed Herself the Pupil of the Wiseman spends about 50% of all narration on describing how unimaginably attracted to this 12 year old girl everyone in the entire world is.

@jardex2275

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of attraction? Like they want to dote on her like a cute little kid, or something else...

@eideticex

2 жыл бұрын

@@jardex2275 With anime and manga it's safe to assume every possible way, even magnetically.

@indumatipngtuber2790

Жыл бұрын

attracted? What, like an electromagnet? She must have the strongest magnetism powers since Magneto!

What pisses me off the most about Orient is that Musashi starts with a really unique weapon and fighting style, but after it breaks, he never uses a weapon like it again and that is really disappointing.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was my problem with it too. His first weapon seemed custom tailored for fighting huge, over the top enemies but then he downgrades to normal generic blade. Hell, his fighting style was interesting and I would have liked to see it expanded upon.

@aigargurjanov9105

2 жыл бұрын

That's one thing i hate about that type of anime, the mc is always using a generic blade that somehow has magic powers while everybody around the mc is using weapons that are way cooler and can be used way more creatively.

I saw four episodes of World End Harem, it's like a Hentai, but if nothing ever happens. What a strange circumstance of events that made this show possible.

@Science_Fiction13

2 жыл бұрын

If you read the manga, it's really messed up. It shows women can be as bad as men

@teetheluchador

9 ай бұрын

and even if you enjoy the hentai part the animation dies out half way through the show and thats not even enjoyable anymore

These videos are always exciting for me since I only watch a few shows every season. I don't go much deeper into the anime abyss of trashiness hell. Thank you for recording your findings.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

You basically get a general trash shows so that you don't have to suffer through them trying to find some good ones.

@MPerMinute

2 жыл бұрын

I only watch 3-4 anime a year, these trash round-ups are great.

I still can't believe no one has hopped onto calling Rusted Armors "Ex Armor" yet.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

The CG is bad in Rusted Armor, but not EX Arms level bad. But "Ex Armor" is still a funny thought.

@TheBloodswordsman

2 жыл бұрын

You just did and when someone else does, you have the honour of being able to say you were the first!

@senritsujumpsuit6021

2 жыл бұрын

The Intomitable is a pretty goofy and dope action series it's CG but lit AF

@zerofox641

2 жыл бұрын

They saw Ex-Arm and thought “Let’s make that but more rusty.”

@nebufabu

2 жыл бұрын

At least with Rusted Armor they knew how to cel shade, how to composit 3D models into 2D background and how to rig faces. So, instead of being actively unsettling and a crime against the art and craftsmanship that goes into animation, it's just, "eh, they did what they could with what they had, not a masterpiece, but not a career-ending disaster either."

"Weakest Crest" actually has a spin-off about what would have happened if he didn't reincarnate and while I would hesitate to call it good is actually much better than the original, the protagonist is still the strongest who can't be hurt by anything, but since it doesn't try to justify it by saying "everybody got weaker" is much more self aware about its premise, and instead of the protagonist being the only man in a team full of girls, which had been the norm for a while now, the team has the "bro" character, who is the (distant) second strongest person in the world and has good rapport with the others, which makes the team feel like an actual party instead of the protagonist's harem in waiting.

@Death_______

2 жыл бұрын

i like the spin-off better

@Simmie119

2 жыл бұрын

What is the story the spin off is based off of ?

That absolutely savage Jim Davis burn would have made the whole 26 minutes worth it by itself. That it was merely the cherry on top is...damn, you do good work.

@o76923

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda want to see a Jim Davis shonen manga now. Nothing insane, just have him write a single volume with the instruction "cat man kills god and his henchmen with hand lasers using the power of lasagna" and see what happens.

@FanOfMostEverything

2 жыл бұрын

@@o76923 "Why did you do it?" "To test my power, Jon."

@o76923

2 жыл бұрын

@@FanOfMostEverything the only real question is whether god is Odie or Nermal.

@RichardFleming

2 жыл бұрын

@@o76923 Well of course it starts off with the viewer thinking god is Nermal, but it is then revealed in the final chapter that it was Odie's master plan all along and he was testing Garfield to see if he was worthy.

@o76923

2 жыл бұрын

"In the beginning there was nothing and then you created light. What was that first light?" *shouts "Monday" while going super saiyan*

Sanderson's first law: your ability to solve actual parts of the plot with magic is directly proportional to how well your readers understand that magic.

The protagonist of World's End Harem is the Bizarro Peter Grill.

@zekiel2533

2 жыл бұрын

Lol the opposite? Interesting. Usually I'd hate on spinless protagonist however him existing in a world where most of the males are dead makes him more interesting to have such a personality.

@nelzelpher7158

2 жыл бұрын

@@zekiel2533 I see it as an MC with superior self control.

@alexisdogbo7958

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelzelpher7158 he is insanely selfish though.

@triggerfairy4070

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer the blonde guy. He seems to embrace his situation.

I’m a huge anime fan, a hobby my dad encouraged in my teenage years in the late 80s and early 90s. Lost my dad just over a year ago now. He left me a 69 mustang that we started restoring together around that same time, but life got in the way. It sat untouched for almost 20 years. After we lost him and with funds dropped in our laps from other family passing (lost 5 close relatives in the last 4 years, including a cousin my age to medical malpractice) I got really into finishing it. The Mustang I bring up because I’ve decided to combine my dads and I love of cars and “anime”, as dad even at 70 was a loyal crunchyroll subscriber. Also a speedracer fan which I’ve had an idea floating around I had planned on doing anyways if I ever got it. Making it into a Mach “1.5” tribute car. It’s now painted white and once the Covid shit passes I’ll be able to get the red interior finished like I planned. It was completely taken apart for repair and repaint. Not trying to bun you out as I’m in a much better place now. Thought this might be something you’d appreciate. Thanks for all the great content over the years.

For World's end harem, It should be noted that while he's holding out for said waifu, he's also one of the few who can help try and find a cure for said disease. He dedicates more time to that than being horny. Though the manga does explore a side where one of the male characters does what you'd expect. The catch is that the women he sleeps with are routinely rotated out once they get pregnant. The initial fantasy of being the "last man on earth" runs its course and he gets starved for romantic connections. Not to mention how he's the father to so many children but will probably never even meet them. Despite the initial premise and the expectations one would expect from it, I was surprised with what more it chose to do with its story than what it needed too.

@Axterix13

2 жыл бұрын

It is just a dumb concept. The world is so advanced in medical technology that they've cured most diseases. So, do you really think that the solution they'd pick would be for him to sleep with various women? Of course not. That's incredibly inefficient. Heck, they probably wouldn't let him have sex with anyone, because that would be a waste of sperm that could be used on thousands of women, rather than just one. At best, he'd get a helping hand to help fill that beaker.

@14112ido

2 жыл бұрын

The first guy who wakes up is such a bro and he deserves better honestly.

@14112ido

2 жыл бұрын

@@Axterix13 The manga explains that for some godforsaken reason artificial insemination doesn't work and the only way it works is by directly doing the deed, which I agree is a dumb premise, but hey man you gotta have a reason to have those SEGGGGSSS scenes in the manga.

@narutoqweavatar

2 жыл бұрын

I found that the manga could be interesting at times. It has some interesting things to say when it wants to

@frankwest5388

Жыл бұрын

@@14112ido at manga at least tried to explore the narrative possibilities of its weird setting. They have clearly put in more effort than they had to on the writing front. While I know that it was probably just the author trying to get over his issues from when he was a teen, the way the third man was being guided/forced into the Highschool, with nothing to do than… women, has weirdly left a dystopian impression on me, that many normal dystopias can’t manage

Rusted Armor’s live action travelogues actually looks like it’d be way more fun to watch than the actual show lmao.

@renatocorvaro6924

2 жыл бұрын

It *is* way more fun to watch than the actual show.

@ruefysh9576

2 жыл бұрын

The show is pretty bad ngl but the voice acting- Like you can tell they're putting their hearts into this, it's just like getter robo arc all over again, messy but passionate

12:32 The picture of Tifa with the Italian flag in the background made me double over laughing oh my god

@GodwynDi

2 жыл бұрын

I missed that. Its hilarious.

You know what annoys me even more about the Wiseman's Pupil? There was a neat story section of a character coming to realise that the game npcs had become real people, dealing with real pain and panic during a fight and then ended up teaching her and her entire town how to produce medicine and other things so they could become more self sustaining. The manga focused on this side story for a bit, which was surprisingly neat in the midst of the trashiness. Meanwhile the anime focused on it as much as my summary just now. So not only is it bad, it's somehow significantly worse than the original, which is trash to begin with. Also the running joke about "doing her business" is really giving me Mirai Nikki flashbacks. Man that garbage show was obsessed with that too.

20:51 I can't stop laughing they pulled the camera out so far during this battle that it just looks like ants 😂

@timothymclean

Жыл бұрын

Wait, that was a battle scene? I thought it was just smoke or insect swarms or something.

I read She Proclaimed Herself the Pupil of the Wiseman on light novel (because apparently, Book Walker doesn't bother putting anything on its shelves if it isn't going to be an anime in 2 years), and it's... OK. It notably skips nearly all the worldbuilding you were talking about in the early parts of the first novel and hasn't even named all the wisemen yet in the first couple volumes which have been translated. Also, the novel lacks shitty cell-shading for monsters or J-Pop songs. (The story starts with a short chapter about using the character customizer and then cuts to Mira mopping up some goblins in a paragraph with a summon before spending most of the chapter having Mira talking to the "strangely advanced NPCs" before concluding it was all real and not a "stealth update", which cuts out that 4 minutes of no speech that is apparently in the anime. That said, the illustration has Mira taking off her robes to do the customary "genderbender check" in front of the very flustered knights, which may be to or against your tastes...) I wouldn't put it on the list of things I'd be recommending people unless they were into genderbender VRMMO things, and it has that problem most of these have with the actually interesting part of a powerful protagonist (I.E. the part where they scramble up the power curve from nothing like So I'm A Spider) having already been done off-camera to leave only the boring "beats every fight with a sneeze" power levels, but it's also mostly about the main character being forced to put on frilly dresses against his will, so as long as it doesn't try to be an action story, it's fine. Also, the horny mage girl is bad in the novels, but not THAT bad and apparently, they changed the lines but kept the "she gets creepy" parts... and went from "wants to hug" to "humps her staff". Oh, and the creepy mage girl only appears in volume 2 and Mira has a different party in volume 3, looking at the preview, so at least she'll only be creepy for part of the story... yay?

@airplanes_aren.t_real

2 жыл бұрын

I've red a yuri doujins with a similar plot (even down to the pissing) but it was way better, even the magic system was more developed

@WraithMagus

2 жыл бұрын

@@airplanes_aren.t_real Well, if you have a name for it, that sounds like something to read (... besides the pissing...), but yeah, the best I could say about Pupil of the Wiseman is that it is a thing that is readable and passes the time. About the only thing notable is the gender-bending aspects, but even then it isn't explored that much in detail, and is mostly "Nooo, I don't wanna wear frilly dresses!" "You have to wear the frilly dress." "Fine, I'll wear the frilly dress." She then wears the frilly dress for the rest of the book without complaint or issue or it ever coming up again.

@Toberumono

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm: creepy mage girl just really wants a hug in the LN. Also, yeah, she’s not part of the recurring cast.

@airplanes_aren.t_real

2 жыл бұрын

@@WraithMagus look up "Becoming Princess knight and working at yuri brothel" by hinaki on nhentai They've just released the newest chapter last month

@jardex2275

2 жыл бұрын

The whole thing sounds like a bad mix of Log Horizon, Land of Leadale, and Saga of Tanya the Evil.

You mentioning Mistborn actually made my day. I *love* those books, thank you

@MetalGildarts

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Hadrian1616

2 жыл бұрын

Same

What I like about World's End Harem is that he does say he has those urges like any other guy, while other shows be like "Oh no! I hate titties!"

@zerotwosass3092

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@teetheluchador

9 ай бұрын

he still does that though

19:55 "They dont even have have a splash effect", a few seconds into the video later: *Water splash effect coming out of mouth*

"I just read the first Mistborn book, so I'm totally an expert on this now." lol

@zairaner1489

2 жыл бұрын

Great now I have to watch the entire video because of this one comment

What i got from this video: Avoid all these trash shows (which was fortunately my plan anyway) and go watch Inferno Cop again 😁

@faygoorangedrip4426

2 жыл бұрын

I picked up on "Don't watch these bad anime, go read Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson." As somebody who has read Mistborn, I approve this message.

i saw orient at a friends house the episode where they introduce Tsugumi and i was straight up shocked at how lazy her backstory was. like this is the type of shit someone would write if they were trying to parody anime

When I finished the Magi anime, I thought to myself, "I need more" and found Orient. That was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made in my life because of how high my expectations were. Immediately after reading my newly purchased volume 1-3 of Orient, I begrudgedly sold them off to a second hand bookstore. I should've just pirated the entire Magi manga from the get go

12:28 I don’t know why a random Italian senator is included in that drawing, but ok…

I love how disheveled Geoffe looks while explaining garbage anime

@BrotherMag

2 жыл бұрын

I just watched all 8 episodes of world's end harem. I'm watching Gravity Falls as a pallet cleanser. Sweet relief!

@mst3kharris

2 жыл бұрын

I figure it’s because he’s just clawed his way out of the dumpster.

Here's how I'd fix Pupil of the Wiseman- all the Sages are taken, except Danblf, who ends up depowered and is so ashamed of his failure to protect his friends that he goes into self-imposed exile. Instead of being a gender-flipped version of himself, Mira is a young female sage who is inspired by Danblf's legendary reputation that sets out to find him in order to become his pupil. Though initially reluctant, her relentless optimism wears him down and and they form a 'father-daughter'-style relationship. He ends ends up rediscovering his compassion and self-confidence while she discovers her power. They set out on a long, life-affirming quest to set the rescue the other Sages and set the world right.

It took me over a year to notice that one book which says "sussy baka" on it at around 25:02 burning brightly in the dumpsterfire and i had a chuckle

What threw me past the line for Sage more so than protag-kun oneshotting everything and the entire plot point nulling itself out was the fact that they recruited a dragon for the sole purpose of "convenient transportation", then the 2nd time they needed to travel beyond the school grounds they just forgot and was talking about how it would take days to get there? Like huh???

@thatnerdygaywerewolf9559

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, they did later mention that the dragon's wings were still healing (I don't remember if it was elaborated on, but probably due to the healing job being rushed/incomplete). Though it would have helped if they would have brought that up earlier, or showed the damage that then resulted in flying being banned.

@capezful

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatnerdygaywerewolf9559 ah, I kinda just alt f4'd 2 minutes in

@justinokraski3796

2 жыл бұрын

the dragon is the most interesting character, but that's not saying a lot when she's still fairly generic

Look, Y: the Last Man wasn't my favorite, but it did more interesting things with the premise than World's End Harem seems to be :/ Could've gotten an anime adaptation of that instead of FreakAngel. I do love attending your garbecues. Thanks, Geoff!

@o76923

2 жыл бұрын

Girl's Bravo did something more interesting with a very similar premise years ago. Why not just give that the Sailor Moon S or DBZ Kai treatment?

This is the first time I've actually been caught up enough on anime in a season to have sampled every single show, and I feel so validated that you also shit on every anime I watched one episode of and went, "Oh, this is gonna be a garbage fire."

"She Proclaimed Herself the Pupil of the Wiseman" its such a dumpsterfire adaptation. I have not read the LN but the manga adaptation did a way better job explaining everything, i know its not fair to put different media when each has advantages and disadvantages on the exposition part but goddamn those 4 minutes on the first episode its absolutely unacceptable but what can we expect from the director whos track record its sround 70% of butchering anime adaptations.

@azoth6641

2 жыл бұрын

OK, so I got curious about the director you're referring to. I checked out ANN and saw the name of veteran director Keitaro Motonaga attached to this anime, and judging by his filmography, I concede that he's a mixed bag at best, ranging from Katanagatari (arguably one of the best anime of White Fox, the original studio of Arifureta) to the Conception anime (currently Geoff's all-time worst isekai) and School "Nice Boat" Days, with the Date A Live series, Digimon Tri, Jormungand, LBX Girls (already a mention in Geoff's Winter 2021 Hottest Trash lineup), and the Rayearth OVA falling somewhere in between.

@demonoflight

2 жыл бұрын

@@azoth6641 Tri is at least two or three dumpster fires worth. They've spent every moment since it ended in 2018 trying to make up for that mess since most of the fans hated it and it lost them money.

@azoth6641

2 жыл бұрын

@@demonoflight So I guess that explains the 2020 reboot of the original anime.

@solomonbijou3150

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I didn't check it was, was considering it

@demonoflight

2 жыл бұрын

@@solomonbijou3150 I would recommend checking Digimon Ghost Game! 21 episodes in, it's shaping up to be an excellent Digimon series. And Last Evolution Kizuna is a really good movie, just gotta arm yourself with tissues.

The main character of World's End Harem deserves the award of sigma male of the milennium, holy shit!

@Ramsey276one

2 жыл бұрын

XD

Gonna be honest with that Freak Angels clip at the end... It was so easy to fix. Just stop the line when she said "Christ". I would have actually probably chucked if the line stopped there. Thinking about it a lot of that shows dialouge could actually have been made... acceptable if it had stopped earlier.

@bulbafett5001

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the Webcomic they're defiling to make this abomination. It pains my soul to see the trailer and what it's become now.

Great video as always, Geoff! Your harvest brings much kindling to the fire on these cold Canada nights. Though, I *am* obliged to jeer you a bit for the RWBY cheap shot. I know time has become a rough smear over the last half-decade for… VARIOUS reasons, but I’m just gonna stick my neck out and say season 4 on looks freaking *beautiful* compared to the garbage Armours is pumping out. Like, genuinely some of the best 3D animated media outside of like, Blame! Or Knights of Sidonia. And you using the eight year old (MAN time sucks) season 1 poster isn’t gonna hide that, mister. And you know it. But again, your stuff is great! And may the dumpsters never cease to burn, so long as you still rest at the edge of them, match and lighter fluid at the ready.

@TheThunderbirdRising

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, using RWBY as the cheap "haha 3d animation bad" joke hasn't really been valid since like, 2016 because it's become by far one of the best looking 3d animated shows on the market, besides like, Bestars

@bthsr7113

2 жыл бұрын

I'd go so far as to say that RWBY volume 1 looks better than some of what major platforms are adding to their libraries these days. Better integration of characters and background, better choreography, substantially better assets for monsters.... Why do so few even bother trying to pass that years old bar!?

@TheThunderbirdRising

2 жыл бұрын

@@bthsr7113 Yeah, the first couple volumes of RWBY are bad, but bad in a completely different way than most shows like it. I think most of it can be attributed to Monty Oum pulling the show's animation to higher levels by sheer talent alone, and then by the time he was no longer around to work on it, the show had enough budget, staff, and programs to make it look good on its own

@jardex2275

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheThunderbirdRising At the end of the day, RWBY was still a web series done by a small team of people using Poser. All things considered, they made it work. The music, storytelling, and choreography of the seasons hold up. I'd go so far to say that it surpasses the later seasons in everything except animation.

@PhenomsServant4

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah really that was low. If were being perfectly honest I always felt the animation of the first couple volumes was part of its charm in one of those "so bad its good" kind of ways. Its obviously improved for the better since they moved to using Maya, but I still have a soft spot for the first volumes.

With Magi being my absolute favorite anime to rewatch/reread, I was super hyped for the release of Orient because of how the first trailer depicted it (which was pretty vague). I do enjoy the concept of Orient, however the animation doesn't really do it as much justice as Magi. I've always wished for at least another season of Magi and would be happy to see it rise in popularity again, but I want to give Orient the benefit of the doubt and hope that I will like it enough to rewatch it once or twice.

4:28 garbecue, genius

Man, Orient's anime adaptation bummed me out so much. The manga does take a little bit to get going, sure, but once it gets started it does become pretty great. And the art is fantastic too. The art was probably the biggest thing going for it at first beyond the basic premise, honestly. But, the anime is just disappointing. The animation is just bland. It also censors the violence, which is really weird.

@larsnyman2455

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear the manga’s good, maybe I should check it out

This season was so cold, 4 of those weren't even on fire.

God, I always look forward to these trash round ups. I’m not watching much anime recently, but your takes on the worst of the season always puts a smile on my face.

I was about to drop Orient, but got curious to see how they'd deal with the girl's psychological abuse. Now I'm curious to see what's going on with Musashi. It's not even close to being a good anime, but it got me, so now I might as well keep going til the end.

@RutraNickers

2 жыл бұрын

when the car crash is so big you simply can't stop looking

@senritsujumpsuit6021

2 жыл бұрын

I only watched cause the monsters an blue dudes lol

@FantasmaNaranja

2 жыл бұрын

it may be worth reading the manga instead, seems like they messed up the anime plenty but the manga is alright (not Magi: labyrinths of magic good, but alright)

@amoycadaverine21

2 жыл бұрын

i only continue watching it for tsugumi, nothing else. i just took whatever happens with a grain of salt.

@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034

2 жыл бұрын

Go read the manga

I was so disappointed in She Professed Herself the Pupil of the Wiseman. Hopefully Skeleton Knight in Another World turns out better.

@boiyado6717

2 жыл бұрын

The light novel had one of my favorite quotes in it, "The most fantasy thing he had seen in this world was himself," I just find this quote really funny for some reason.

@exalteddjinn69

2 жыл бұрын

@@boiyado6717 I read manga, I don't bother with light novels.

@boiyado6717

2 жыл бұрын

@@exalteddjinn69 probably a good decision, at least with trash manga you can enjoy the visuals while a bad LN has nothing.

@kintamas4425

2 жыл бұрын

@@boiyado6717 I just recently figured out that Arifureta’s world should be a fiery ball of ash. With just base stats Hajime could hold down a behemoth so transmuting a whole tree into propane eventually should be possible. That means 360000 tanks worth of propane.

Geoff, I would like to inform you that The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest is really SO bad that I had to rewatch that section four times because my brain physically could not comprehend what you were explaining to me

Strongest mage with the weakest crest would’ve been so more interesting if the protag-kun’s crest REALLY was the weakest, and his intelligence and creativity with what he has is what made him so strong. Like think of a character like Mirio from MHA, like his quirk isn’t really suited for his chosen line of work, but because of his mastery of it and his creativity.

@justinokraski3796

2 жыл бұрын

well the irritating thing was that it went from "each crest is good at a different thing" to "the crest he was reborn with is the best except it kind of has a short range"

The fact that the genius prince's guide to raising a nation out of debt isn’t here makes me happy

@OriginalPiMan

2 жыл бұрын

Because that isn't trash. Heck, in this season of relatively slim pickings, it might make the list of best shows of the season.

@bluespaceman7937

2 жыл бұрын

It might be okay after all.

@AaronSiegel001

2 жыл бұрын

It will be on the "worst" soon.

Brandon Sanderson is an amazing author. I haven't read a book of his that I didn't enjoy. His ability to come up with unique magic systems that are internally logical and functional, while also being entertaining to see in use by the characters, is only matched by the quality of the characters and plots in those books. Mistborn is an excellent starting point for his works, although if you're looking for just a single novel experience instead of the first book of a series, try either Elantris or (my personal pick) Warbreaker, which is available for FREE on his website as an ebook. If you aren't in the mood for a trash anime after watching this fine video, then do yourself a favor and check Mr. Sanderson out.

@St33ldancer

2 жыл бұрын

I have a moral obligation to upvote and comment on this comment. Brandon Sanderson is the GOAT.

@civilengineer3349

2 жыл бұрын

Is this true or am I being tricked into something?

@danishraisham1697

2 жыл бұрын

This comment has similar vibes to the comments section of finance and stock/crypto YT comment sections shouting out random names who helped them make thousands of dollars within weeks. Edit: Don't take this seriously. I went and look around for his novels and synopsis and it looked like it was well thought out.

@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034

2 жыл бұрын

Go read The serial novels Worm, pact, twig, ward (sequel to worm), and Pale, all are amazing books with amazing battle systems made by the same dude in that order.

@Ephelle

2 жыл бұрын

@@civilengineer3349 Sanderson was the guy that was chosen to finish Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan passed away. He's the real deal.

I'm glad I skimmed this season and decided to catch up on my LN reading instead. I had the first two volumes of Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter in my backlog, and I immediently went out to buy the third once I finished those. It hits a good mix between reincarnation isekai, realist ideals, and worldbuilding tension. I really hope they adapt it at some point. Considering it's only 8 volumes, they could probably do the whole thing in 48 episodes.

Strongest Sage reminds me of a manhwa I tried reading only even dumber somehow. It's called "Star Martial God's Art" (at least the translation I found was) and the premise on the surface could have worked. The basic idea was that there are three different "God Arts": Dragon, Phoenix, and Star. Dragon Arts are the most common and focus on empowering the user (mostly their physical abilities), Phoenix is more magic based and grants greater range and versatility but less close-range advantage, and Star is the rarest and most versatile. The problem is Star is so rare that all masters of the art are long dead and all of the teachings have been lost to time. As a result, with no one to properly teach the users and no scrolls to learn from, the Star arts are rendered practically useless and the users themselves are looked down on. That's not an awful idea in and of itself, having to relearn lost arts and their uses could actually make for a really cool leveling system so to speak. The problem is, the MC (who has the star art obviously) learns too quickly. He wakes up one morning and, I shit you not, the gods themselves have granted him a scroll with the star arts techniques. Within a week he goes from being the weakest guy around to being so absurdly strong that he outclasses every supposed prodigy he comes across as well as people with literal years more practice and experience using their abilities than him. Hell at one point he joins a tournament to win the hand of the most "beautiful woman in the land" just so he can say he doesn't want to marry her in front of all of the important people gathered there (the scene has literally no baring on the plot whatsoever and just happens because she was kind of a bitch). It's so ludicrous in how it handles itself and how quickly he grows that it's can't even be funny after a bit. It's just silly. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, can pose even the most remote threat to the guy.

@parkerok4286

2 жыл бұрын

It's mahhua (chinese), not manhwa (korean). And you need to keep in mind that pacing of most manhuas is lightning fast, skiping shit ton of content from novel it's adapting from.

@judaihyuga

2 жыл бұрын

@@parkerok4286 That's no excuse. This is a series that's over 500 chapters long at this point and still going. It could have easily been better handled.

Mistborn is good and all, but Sanderson’s magic system in The Stormlight Archive is second to none and I recommend it over Mistborn. There’s a reason Brandon Sanderson is known as ‘the magic systems guy’ and he only gets better with each release. Seriously drop whatever you’re reading and pick up something from the Cosmere.

@MetalGildarts

2 жыл бұрын

Read Mistborn and Stormlight twice.

@klausgopfert

2 жыл бұрын

Ill admit that Stormlight is the better series, but Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy are waaaaaay more interesting than the Surges by the second trilogy. You cant tell me Miles 100 Lives isnt the most badass concept to grace the cosmere.

@faygoorangedrip4426

2 жыл бұрын

@@klausgopfert I don't know what Hemalurgy is because there are 50 books on my reading list before Well of Ascension, but I do think Allomancy and Feruchemy are BALLIN magic systems, and I don't care as much about surges.

@stephenthompson7362

2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the magic system for the most part; but I still wince every time they mention steel being one of the metals...since it's just iron, but mixed with carbon...a non-metallic 'impurity'...

@simonshephard3834

2 жыл бұрын

Well, Sanderson is kinda way too slow with the introduction of Surgebinders and a lot of established Surgebinders only ever really use one of their surges(Shallan and Jasnah are very obvious examples,).(The first two books really focus more on Shardbearer fights.) Era 2 Mistborn is argubly more interesting with the introduction of new metals and medallions.

Im so mad that Orient got a anime adaptation, but Magi never got a season 3. I got bored after episode 2 and havent watched it since. However im happy that Magi season 3 didnt get released if this is the animation quality it would have had.

@DKNguyen3.1415

9 ай бұрын

What's so good about magi? I've had people swear at me in real life when I said it wasnt very good lol. I remember almost nothing about it because it seemed so forgettable in a meandering aimless way if I recall. Is it just because I don't care about fights, super powers, or animation? I feel I watched like 5 episodes of it before it gave up

You know how in stories, no one ever goes to the bathroom? (This is because narratively it’s useless to waste time on something so irrelevant to the story) some writer heard that fact, and said “that’s completely unrealistic!” And that’s how she proclaimed herself pupil of the wiseman was made. It’s like the series is trying to be quirky and unique by breaking fundamental writing rules, without fully understanding why those rules exist in the first place

I love the addition of the face cam! It's good to shake up the formula sometimes, and I think this change works.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, seeing Geoff's physical reactions as he explains trash anime really brings to light just how they affect him.

Mistborn is awesome. Love it. But The Stormlight Archive is actually shonen - complete with dramatic mid-battle power ups that are actually baked into the system.

@FFKonoko

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grasslander If you like magic to be something that is based on a system, and not just "it does whatever I want", then you'll like that stuff. If you don't like magic systems, don't read brandon sanderson. He is phenomenal at them. Warbreaker for instance.

@Trixareforkidsvegeta

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the giant magic swords and the fact that personal revelations and becoming a better person literally makes you stronger. Man stormlight is good.

@spencerkirkham5952

2 жыл бұрын

Stormlight Archive needs to be an anime so badly. Not only is the story totally suited to anime like you said, but animation is the best way to capture spren and Shards and surges. Live action could never pull it off

@MetalGildarts

2 жыл бұрын

@@spencerkirkham5952 I concur. Shame Sanderson doesn’t share those sentiments.

@ardrej

2 жыл бұрын

@@Grasslander a magic system doesnt mean fireballs or abra kadabra spells is the set of abilities and rules of what a person can do with the establish lore, Narutos's ninjutsu is a magic system for example

Damn MissingNo, always blocking female body parts.

@Ephelle

2 жыл бұрын

I hate when that happens. Makes taking a shower annoying sometimes.

@Faelocke

2 жыл бұрын

It's your fault for booking it to Cinnibar without so much as a "Thank You" to that nice old man who taught you how to catch a Pokémon. Also for trying to break your game.

This season really is a rollercoaster. Like, you got AoT fucking dominating everything else with its massive hype factor, Reincarted as a Fantasy Knockout causing me to laugh my ass off each week and Miss Kuroitsi showing me just how much Japan really love their Super Sentai shows. And then you have all of the stuff that you talked about here. It doesn't help that Spring is going to have Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 3, who's light novel I have been enjoying thoroughly and binging religiously.

@o76923

2 жыл бұрын

Also, don't forget that the #3 top show on MAL for the season is a romcom so good that it caused a spike in sales of dolls that can cost upwards of $60,000.

@notationmusical

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I can't wait to see more of Myne.

@ardi08

2 жыл бұрын

AoT and Demon Slayer was about on the same hype, as Demon Slayer have finished now it's hyped down. I find Sabikui Bisco, Vanitas, Fantasy Bishoujo, and Leadale enjoyable as well

To be honest, the concept of the spanish conquistadors having taken over Japan is weird, as it'd be the Portuguese that were active there. But it honestly is an interesting premise. What if the Portuguese somehow managed to take over Japan? If actually handles somewhat seriously and properly it could make for a fun setting.

Why is there a cat person in the middle of the battlefield at 21:48? Why are they sneaking around? Were they a part of either massive army? Were they some kind of battle scavenger, taking the high level equipment the armies dropped and using them for themselves or selling them for a profit? Are they a player or an NPC? Why did nobody seem to care about them? Did they live? Did they die? Are they ever brought up again? Any single one of those questions would probably make a better story than whatever the rest of the anime is about. I, for one, would love to hear the story of a player trying to survive and get ahead while surrounded by high level players. That experience hits closer to home than someone starting out really good and only getting better.

Pupil of The Wise Man is such a disapointment. The manga isn't the best thing in the world, but it is a fun read with cool moments and would be perfect for a popcorn anime to just shut down your brain and have a really nice time with dumb fun. But they absolutely trashed it, butchered it, destroyed every inch of fun someone could have with it. Absolutely terrible adaptation.

Holy, your script this video was amazing. Incredibly funny and well delivered! Well done!

the saddest part of all these shows is that at least half of them showed promise and made us think they could be good

22:35 soooo... why is that protagonists 'ideal woman' not a woman yet?

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to take a look at his internet history.

"It's a step down from RWBY" Me, having chained against my will to it since the Red Trailer; "Jesus Christ! Even Itachi left a couple people alive from that family he killed, you didn't need to go that far Geoff!"

@squidrecluse2336

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that comment was a bit of an uncalled for low blow. Kinda reeks of someone who saw a few clips of the show from a youtube video of someone going out of their way to point out and amplify every minute flaw, and formed their entire opinion on the show from that.

@stormhawkdude

2 жыл бұрын

@@squidrecluse2336 I didn't say it was wrong. I may have said "chained against my will" but I have the key to the chains in my hands, it's just Stockholm now.

@DemagogueBibleStudy

2 жыл бұрын

@@squidrecluse2336 We all watched it, we all wanted to like it, but it just isn’t very good. After 9 years it’s ok to admit that. RIP Monty.

@Ephelle

2 жыл бұрын

@@squidrecluse2336 That's true. It's pretty easy to shit on RWBY without taking shots at the animation.

@notationmusical

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ephelle 3d animation is SUPER hard to do, but I do understand people hating on the animation.

Weakest Crest Sage... Thing was truly a mindboggling watch. Well, the first episode at least. If you want an entire power fantasy series hyper condensed into a single episode, its exactly that. They basically speedran a powerfantasy anime to get to somehow even more boring plot points.

bro really said "what will they think of next? and actually good isekai?" and 8 months later eminence in shadow aired. anime prophet confirmed

Kufa Vampir is a better super obvious name than Devilis.

I read the first volume of Pupil of the Wiseman. I am genuinely impressed they managed to make the anime even worse. I did not enjoy the light novel, but somehow the anime manages to be worse in every possible way.

@mataneko4390

2 жыл бұрын

you can try the manga. Novel with just words can be boring at time.

@LucidWeedy

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who actually likes the manga for pupil of the Wiseman, his description of the anime makes me never wanna watch it haha

I am so happy the quote from "FreakAngels" was here again. Thank you.

Another video for my sleep playlist! This is the best series of content you have made in years. Please keep it up :-)

Welcome to the Sanderson Cult, looking forward to your inevitable future anime analysis involving Hard and Soft magic systems

what to know the fun part of She Declared Herself Pupil of the WIse Man, almost all of that first episode was anime original but for the wordless bit which wasn't wordless in the web novel ;) (I mean I dropped it for what was totally not just the writer's "preference" going on in the novel but i still remember that.)

4:50 SIR! the way you delivered that line and the way it just kinda came out had me DYING XD XD XD

When you first mentioned World’s End Harem I thought it sounded quite familiar…then I had some memories come flooding back. I’ll say I never expected that to get an anime adaptation

"Garbeque" I'll be adding this word to my daily vocabulary. 🤣

5:56 My headcanon is that the dude is actually gay, and the promise ring that the (tragically oblivious) childhood friend gave him is just an excuse for him to not touch a woman.

Mom can we watch Amelia Watson, Hololive’s Number 1 Detective? Mom: no, we have Ame at home Ame at home: 10:54

Instead of Orient can we just get more magi? Please? My favourite "I expected this to be garbage but it isn't" is a genius Prince's guide to raising a nation out of debt. Which is if Realest hero and Kaguya sama had a bad fanfiction cross over and I kinda love it much more than Danbluff's Loli fantasy.

Honestly I was slightly excited for Orient when I heard it was from the Magi author but dam the anime makes a show about fighting giant demons boring. If it had started off with a bang with amazingly animated fight scenes than it would have been so much better. The amazing thing about Magi was that it choose such an interesting premise in a relatively unexplored mythology for anime. So we got Djinns and flying carpets as well as characters names us from the west should recognise like Sinbad and Aladdin. We also had an amazing magic system in Magi that felt cool and impactful. Orient though falls on the side of generic for a Japanese manga. Based in Japan with Demons that sort of feels like it's been done multiple times. The only way Orient (anime) was going to be a successful series was if it was full of bad ass demons and fight scenes as world building was not going to pull the weight of it forward. Magi could rely heavily on world building as it was in a truly interesting world and I wish we got another season for it. It goes to show how authors/magnaka's can go from amazing series to a generic series. I don't know if it's the pressure to release something and so they fall onto a generic theme that sort of sells well or if they just burn themselves out and can't think of a good premise but so many Mangaka's sort of end up as one hit wonders.

@notationmusical

2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting because all of the problems I had with the anime, besides the animation, stem from the manga as well. I was interested in the politics and the lore of the demons, but there was stuff that just broke my immersion, like why are there motorcycles? And now suddenly the Bushi have flying weapons that also make them fly. It's also kind of annoying how much the MR redhead gets away with winning and I do wish there was a limit to how much he could fight. The deuteragonist was more interesting in my opinion, but there were A lot of flashbacks to stuff we already knew. Idk if the manga gets better, but those are just my thoughts.

@MajorSmurf

2 жыл бұрын

@@notationmusical I feel like that's a problem with a lot of heroes versus demon manga/anime where they start introducing more and more wacky stuff that breaks you out of the world. I feel like Orient could have gone two ways where one is more focused on the demon politics and turned into less of a battle manga or one that goes balls to walls with action and cool characters with amazing abilities whereas it feels like it's trying to do both and not doing either one justice. I haven't read the Manga so I don't know if it improves and my points are only based on watching the anime.

@vnolwen_art

2 жыл бұрын

So, I only started a few chapters of Orient's manga and I stopped after a specific chapter that I will talk later, but... Worldbuidling isn't the worst part of this story, in my opinion. The difference between Magi and Orient is more of the basic lore that Shinobu used. In Magi, you have a *ton* of sources and it's relatively easy to find more about Arabic mythology ! Thus she made a lot of research, while Orient felt like an attempt to mix some Japanese myth with Chinese influences (those flying weapons you mentioned later ? Yep, inspired by the most recent Chinese stories !) and post-apocalyptic vibes (that's the only reason why they could have bikes). She really tried to do something, and she is kind of good in worldbuilding ! Also, the fights in the manga looks way cooler, but it's pretty common within adaptation. The place where I find she falls short... are the characters. She did not try to change and falls into kind of the same trope she used in Magi, especially the protagonists. While those tropes were fine when she wrote Magi, it wasn't anymore when writing Orient. Typically, the only feminine protagonist. You see Morgiana ? Basically the same but even... weaker ? In some way ? She tried to make a new "strong female character" but somehow failed. They were not perfect either in Magi, but there was something. I don't know if it changes later in the manga, but she basically has to re-learn everything with the 2 boys she's with. The worst part are for me how she writes relationships with those characters. I noticed later on that she did the same thing in Magi, and a friend of mine who read the very first manga she created, it was just as bad since the very beginning. The reason I dropped the manga is because of one specific chapter, wich I don't know made it to the anime... but it's a chapter where we basically learn about the protagonists' s**uality. It may just be me, but it was really uncomfortable to read that kind of things about minors. And after re-reading Magi (because I decided to make a DnD campaign based of it!), I realized it was always there. Hopefuly she stopped doing that later in the manga, but I'll be honest, I'm not really interested in reading it again. I do realize that I've become a bit more picky with the anime/manga I watch/read, but it always hit hard when you see one of your favorite author "failing" their next work.

@rosietales

2 жыл бұрын

@@vnolwen_art It is really disappointing when that happens and I wonder if being in a rush to release something kills the joy they had in their previous works. I do wonder as well if Shinobu was just thinking of everything she wanted to put into her work while doing her research and that's how we got Orient but the characters feel flat most of the time.

@vnolwen_art

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosietales This is a very good question, especially when you know how hard being a mangaka can be. I want to check on the Magi's spin off about Sinbad to see if it was already getting bad back then (well, Magi's ending was definitively bad in my opinion, but who knows).

For World's End Harem... it actually makes sense, because he's working on _curing_ the virus, which would dramatically increase the variability of the species _far_ beyond what it would otherwise be, had he just done the sex.

@andrewowens4421

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad that's not the focus of the premise. Then again if he just said that outright the story wouldn't go very far.

@Stinkoman87

2 жыл бұрын

And if it was just 'searching for the cure' versus 'producing the material for artificial insemination', then the show would have enough class to be respectable. but its 'search for the cure' versus' have sex with women, and we're going to force you to share a bed with a different woman every night', and its clear how the audience is supposed to feel about the situation.

@0th_Law

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stinkoman87 Supposedly, the virus prevents artificial insemination. For... some reason. ...Although... I guess you could explain it by saying that the virus integrates specifically into the Y-Chromosome. But that doesn't make sense, assuming the immune individuals would also have immune sperm cells. Unless it's not a direct chromosmal defense, but rather something like a restriction enzyme, which is _unlikely_ in eukaryotes such as ourselves given our significantly more complex DNA... Long story short, it's complicated. And the mangaka _probably_ doesn't have a sufficiently extensive biology background.

@Stinkoman87

2 жыл бұрын

@@0th_Law it's complicated because the author designed a world for the specific purpose of making it so everyone in the all woman cast wants to have sex with the main character. All the world building is in support of that goal.

“Rusted Armor” Better known as Ex-Arm 2.0