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The first big thing for me is that this show is basically, actually not basically, it is exactly Talentless Nana, an anime that aired in Fall 2020. Except instead of subverting isekai, that show subverts hero shows, specifically My Hero AcademiaOn twitter.com
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- hero school/isekai world - friendly looking girl introduces Deku/Naofumi into this world - there's a bit of romantic tension - friendly looking girl kills hero - revealed to be working for a secret organization dedicated to wiping heroes off the mapPermalink On twitter.com
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And when I first watched Talentless Nana, I hard bounced because that last bit felt very genocidy to me. My fashy anime detectors were going off and I was convinced it couldn't end well and I was wrong. Because Nana really does interrogate itselfPermalink On twitter.com
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So to avoid being wrong a second time I want to take a wait-and-see with this show. Really get a good idea for what it wants to say about isekai, if anything. The isekai stuff could just be a gimmick and the show may well be about something else entirelyPermalink On twitter.com
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Other piece of context is that I have watched many, many anime claim to subvert the isekai genre. I have seen many shows hyped up that THIS is the show that breaks the cycle. And it never is the showPermalink On twitter.com
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Shield Hero, Re:Zero, Konosuba, Mushoku Tensei, fuckin what, Cautious Hero, they've all been presented to me as "the show that really does one in on traditional isekai" and it never is that show. It never is. SoPermalink On twitter.com
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So if this show wants to be the isekai undoer, that's fine. I will try my best to meet the show where it is. But you have to understand that I am coming in with an immense amount of skepticism based on my experience with the genre. It's not the show, it's mePermalink On twitter.com
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All this being said? I am cautiously optimistic. First of it's girls. And as I've said in other threads, girls are a weakness. If you do girls, you get a few points in my book as long as you do it rightPermalink On twitter.com
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The two big questions are how the isekai protagonists are going to be framed, and how the church is going to be framed. That'll make or break whether this is actually good and actually subversive to mePermalink On twitter.com
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This does seem like the perfect show to pair-watch Shield Hero with though, so, if for that alone I am on boardPermalink On twitter.com