Kind of love the confidence of that one spy girl referring to herself and her spy friends as "us seven hotties." I plan to begin referring to myself and my spy friends in a similar fashion.
@@rickchakraborty2087 To get to that wholesome, you DO have to go through a 26 year old man accidentally showing off his ero-manga to a middleschooler...and many more of "The Writer's barely disguised fetish" moments. I read the manga because of this video, thinking it was just an okay Saiki K-like manga with just a smidge of bullshit... I learned god was well and truly dead by the hot tub chapter.
The Unfortunate problem with Spy Classroom is that it's first volume (and most important volume) is basically impossible to adapt without changing what makes it work so well. In the first volume we actually know about Erina by chapter two (Episode 4 of the anime). Most of the other girls are only referenced by their hair color. If you as a reader are paying attention you can see the "twist" coming from a mile away. The "twist" isn't really supposed to be a gotcha moment for the reader it's supposed to be the proper introduction for the girls (excluding Lily and Erina who had been named prior). This is basically ruined in the anime since you have to hide one of the girls for the "twist" to even work and Erina was the easiest to hide. This unfortunately means that the entirety of chapter 2 has to be moved removing almost the entirety of the training which then throws off the pacing of the story.
Thanks for explaining it. I thought from the beginning that it was going to be a Spy version of Assassination Classroom. Then suddenly we are doing the impossible mission and though it would move on to something else. Once we flashed back, I was pretty much done with it. Nice to know it is a bad adaptation.
@@jbirzer I wouldn't say it's a bad adaptation (it's not great to be fair. Its characterization of Lily is pretty flat.). It's more that the way Volume 1 is written basically forces any visual adaptation to have to sacrifice something. I do think the anime went with the best possible option, but it's still sacrificing something.
I haven't read the source but this is my thought as well. They had the twist wanted to execute it but it left the pacing and story a mess. They have to back track to develop the characters only making things worse. If they played it chronologically the mission just falls flat and gets even goofier. So it is a tough spot to be in. I can't fault them for the effort. It isn't the stupidity of Peach Boy just a tough spot to be in that they didn't handle all that well.
@@MrGksarathy the fact the series has over 100 chapters and only recently he's been able to turn back into a boy says everything about the type of series this is
I'm enjoying the manga for what it is. It's nothing amazing, but at least it's extremely self-aware and doesn't take itself too seriously. It's boobs with a surface-level story, and that's all it's trying to be so I can appreciate that. I do get why people don't like it though lmao, you need to be in a certain mindset for it absolutely.
I've been keeping up with it just to see whatever new stupid shit they can add every chapter. Most of the time it's fetish bait with 1 of three jokes the author knows how to tell, but it's funny for how incompetent it is a lot of the time.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that Reborn to Master the Blade has a surprisingly solid story about the destructive evils of colonialism that feels wildly out of place given how enjoyably stupid it is in all other regards.
Would be cool if anime and media tackle sexism, misogyny, and abuse in it's many way not just some asshole guy who force himself in a girl in a ally because that not the only way its happens and it's also happens to guy especially when you get called names when you refuse a women your not interested in because it's expected of you to sleep with a women when she in the nude Also women can enforce patriarchy not just men or men on the Internet telling you how to be a real men and also women still suffer form sexism and misogyny their not free of their problem can be form the pink tax to the way some guy treat women when they dress less feminine or more revealing and get asked for sexual favors and when they refused get told why your dress that way shaming women for dress the way they like and not have sex with random dudes beyond the way they dress their dude with sexiest attitude just like that still around look at how many guy especially teenagers who fall for shit that Andrew Tates or Jordan Peterson sell them
That reminds me of how the best (in my opinion) short out of Star Wars: Visions was the one with the bunny girl because of its cutting and nuanced light on imperialism and colonialism that would never normally be made by an American studio's adaptation of Star Wars.
@@undeniablySomeGuy I mean, Andor had an Imperial Officer bragging about how they completely dismantled a native culture so they could more easily use their people as cheap labor and exploit their land, but I guess that doesn't count.
My mom watching Geoff regularly is a weird experience, but even though I'm away at college, we Zoomed in order to be able to watch this Trash video together, as is our tradition. Here are her comments, in order of anime appearance: "Maybe the cat monster found out the girl is trans and just gave her a new body." "Mom, that is very obviously not what happened." "I like my idea better." Later on: "Why doesn't the rival go to therapy if being touched freaks him out? Poor kid. Anxiety disorders are hard." "Turning someone into a middle schooler sounds like a revenge fantasy. I hated middle school. Poor kid." "Mom, you can't adopt him." "I can do whatever I want, I'm old." "His hair is great. Maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline." "That's everyone in anime, mom." Later: "The good at guns one reminds me of your Aunt Judy." "I'm not watching this. It killed a cat, I'm done." "Mom, it probably died of old age." "I don't need that in fiction! I hate that in real life!" Later: "If humans are getting along enough to have just one government in the world, that's more ridiculous than the androids, honestly." "I swear I've watched these before." "You haven't. They're new." "But I feel like they're not." "I'm watching this. It's cute." Later, the second Geoff mentioned the backstory: "Oh. He's just a baby." "Mom, he has magic." "Baby magic." "What does that even MEAN-" "As a psychologist, I want to sit down and talk with the writers for this. You know, just to make sure they're okay." "You would've liked this when you were 12." "Mom!" "Am I wrong?" "...no."
I thought people were only memeing about Karen wanting to sleep with her dog, but then I saw the show and... Yeah, she REALLY likes her dog. A lot. As in, too much.
I don't like the fact that Karen let something like her dog dying made her into such a bitch to everyone she meets. Like, I know that something of that nature impacts people to a very large scale, but I still feel like she should've acted better. But then again, the show/manga is basically softcore p*rn, so what're you going to do
As someone who watches very little anime nowadays, but reads a TON of manga, it is always a little surreal coming across a trash manga randomly in the wild then coming across the anime for that manga months later on this show XD
I told a friend of mine who's very keyed into the manga circuit that I knew about Inukai-san (through Yazy's video on it) and she was actually taken aback not only that anyone else had heard of this deeply cursed work of fiction but that *anyone* would adapt it into a television anime.
The amount of times I’ve read a manga and then the anime is announced and people are hyped and I’m just sitting there like yeah I droped it because I didn’t like it… and then once the show comes out I never hear about it again.
I mean, I watched episode 1 and once I saw the type of trash it was I read the manga and got caught up on it because every time I thought it couldn't get trashier it did. before I knew it I was riding the train just to see how trashy it would get. Also Miké best girl.
I love ONIMAI’s take on “an outcast’s societal reintegration” because Mahiru’s growth is from his new outlook on life based on his gender. He’s more sympathetic to his little sister because he’s become a little sister lol
@@aquaonyt9035 Uh no this is false. There is plenty of fanservice even in the manga. The onsen chapters are some of the raunchiest you can get without being a full hentai manga lol. The gender type jokes are a core part of the series and there's constant fanservice with those. Also the running gag that Mahiro is giving "service" shots to the two boys that like her. The anime just stands out more because of how beautifully animated it is but it's literally still just adapting the same fanservice from the manga.
I feel bad for Spyroom, it's a very fun novel, some very well written moments and NOT a harem at all. The problem is that most of the things only works in a book medium, they rushed the first volume to get the first twist out of they way but they just messed up everything in the process, everything is just boring and looks very poorly written, while it's not peak writing, major issues could be solved by just not rushing the first volume. Yes there's a lot of "anime bs" on it but somehow it works for the novel because it's fun, has fun characters and fun interactions. It's just a very weird adaption, it would be a lot better if they just ignored the first book and made some original content, but hey, gotta make that money and sell the novels.
Angel Next Door and Spy Classroom had the highest source material sales but this woke cuck are acting like they are failures. But MagiRevo 🤮. No, that is the best selling anime of the season (which is a load of shit)
@@MusicoftheDamned it’s the cry from the anime. All the Regis got this inhuman cry that can be both creepy & uncomfortable in context or just hysterical when ppl point out how funny it sounds
@@ma.2089 Yeah, I just learned that from Know Your Meme of all places, which explains why I never knew of it since I haven't paid attention to the anime since like...Orange Islands? [/senescence] Thanks though.
My jaw LITERALLY DROPPED when he mentioned the dog one. My jaw has never dropped? I thought this was mostly an exagération. I knew that kind of stuff was a THING … but seeing it animated. A team of people work on it apparently…. Wow
Given that weird fetishy anime and especially manga are by no means uncommon, that there are at least a few particularly rancid specimens in evidence shouldn't be that shocking, but that it appears to air on TV does give me pause, as this is typically an OVA/ONA situation.
I saw it from Gigguk watching the trailer and I saw the manga just to see what happened. And wow the boy left supposed best girl for the dog fucker. The dog fucker isn't even interested in him as a person, she only loves him cause he was a dog and because he looked just like her dead one. Even if we overlook the dog part the relationship is still toxic cause she only wants her old "love" back.
At no point did anyone working in this stop and go, "Hey. This is weird, right? This is not a normal story, right? Maybe we should do a different kind story? Is that Vending Machine story still available?"
Onimai is the one that makes me so mad. It’s SO GOOD. Animation, direction, adaptation pacing, music, it’s so good! And it has some really tender writing. And then it gets really creepy for thirty seconds before moving back on to cute stuff.
I was legit going to watch it, I thought that "hey maybe it's just bad on the first ep, I can skip those scenes" but no, he says it just keeps going so fuck that
@@airplanes_aren.t_real shows that do that make me even more angry than if the show was just bad MiA wouldn't make me as upset if it was just *bad*; it just had to be really good in some aspects Onimai is apparently the same?
@@elipticalecliptic481 my guess on why is happens is that they think fan service sells On the case of MiA my guess is that at least one person in the production pipeline is a pedo The worst part about it is that you could probably keep all the weird naked/piss/scat stuff if you just changed the context and angle but they Openly choose to make it as obvious as possible
The best part of The Angel Next Door is when you realize how much of the show takes place on that damn couch you’ll never be able to not notice it. The couch gets more screen time than anyone besides the two leads lol
@@yarion4774 Funnily enough, the Light Novel calls her out on the cushion thing and at one point has the cushion become a permanent addition to the couch just so it can stop mentioning her bringing it with her things...
One subversion that iceblade went with that actually got my notice. The usual "protag-kun walks in on changing girl on accident" didn't result in him getting flustered or hit. He was just like, "oh, sorry" and moved the £¥¢€ on like an adult. It almost makes me forgive that half his dialogue was written by a sentient fedora. Laughing at that happening in a setting that such lines would probably be novel, and that he was probably raised how to compliment women based on what his mentor would want to hear or some questionable tales from the soldiers he was raised among... I'm genuinely to the point to thinking that this man has either actually had a relatively comfortable sexual relationship with a woman before or is just not interested at all because in either case that response flies in the face of the usual target audience for this kind of show. A part of me hopes him and roomie just have a happy ending together.
I use this anime, especially Ray as a detector to determine if a person is a virgin in the way of chads or on the path. Virgins:"The MC compliments girls to get a harem." Chads:"The MC compliments people to encourage them to be their bests versions, because he wishes to make the world a better place." Also Alium is a great example of Ray's influence (growing from acknowledging own's weakness). I enjoy the chad aspect of this show so much, that I even made a video about it.
When you buy sex toys or binders they usually package them discreetly, and i just thought to myself “i wonder if gamersups has discreet packaging”. like buying something called “gamersups” could be as damaging and embarrassing as outing you or showing your landlord that you use dildos.
If I had a nickel for every Anituber who's girlfriend talks about porn I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice.
Like a good portion of this comment section is like “It’s real weird fanservice but everything else is great” and I’m sitting here thinking that it could be the greatest show since Cowboy Bebop and you couldn’t pay me to watch it if it has loli fanservice.
@@Borodalf Thank you, I thought I was the only one who thought that, granted I'm kind of a hypocrite since I've also watched made in abyss but I'm glad someone's mentioning it
Imagine agreeing with this comment condemning people for liking certain FICTIONAL ANIMATED works then admitting you like made in abyss. Literally zero self awareness.
@@bonbon4016uh oh the police caught us we can’t criticize media while still enjoying it and condemn people for thinking the freaky stuff is completely normal
"my life as Inukai's dog" is about the weirdest thing I've ever, I thought this would be a wholesome manga, but now that I've read it and now realized it had an anime, I would like to erase my memories now
@@onesmileybaldy8303 for real when I read the plot synopsis before I started watching all the shows the season it kind of pissed me off from the description how this guy seem like a total loser who couldn’t take care of himself or do basic house work or cook or clean and while a part of me still thinks that is correct I’ve gone from that to yelling “STOP BEING SO CUTE” to the both of them every episode. The gestures of gratitude that they give each other have been genuinely heartwarming.
Everyone has their own tastes and you shouldn't feel bad about enjoying something that a youtuber doesn't like. I personally watch tenshi sama aswell, but just because im starved of romcoms. Been really disappointed with this show so far, but maybe it will become better
@@emrys2619I was also expecting that, and when those low expectations were surpassed due to the male lead being kind in small, but believable ways and sort of pulling his weight in their arrangement, I warmed up to it. It certainly helps that his parents got it going on.
I wanted to enjoy the show and had hoped it would be like Tonikawa but the dialogues are just so cringe and poorly written. They talk like 4 year olds and get embarrassed over the most ridiculous things. I can look past a silly premise (again Tonikawa) but when the show is dull and poorly written it's really hard to enjoy.
Someone needs to rewatch ore monogatari until they remember that Takeo is a GODDAMN catch and it's totally natural for Rinko to be putting in effort to try to win him over, even if it's not necessary.
Yeah, it's also shoujo, so it's definitely not aiming for the audience to see Takeo as purely a self-insert. The audience is supposed to find him charming and romantic (because he is!) and identify with Rinko as well. For example, him punching the guy in the face for victim blaming Rinko? That is pretty clearly catharsis aimed at a female audience who have either been or know they could be in Rinko's place. So it's a weird comparison.
What I loved about that show is that not only was the romance great, but it had one of the greatest bromances I've ever seen. The dynamic between Takeo and Suna was so much fun to watch and it legitimately made me smile. The episode where Takeo cut his date with Rinko short because of Suna's dad's surgery was better showing of friendship than anything I saw in Fairy Tail
@@owenmaleski2203 weirdly that also makes him more appealing romantically. A guy who supports his friends is gonna be a good guy whether or not he's attracted to you. It's nice.
Onimai is definitely a contender for the most conflicted I've ever felt on an anime. There's so much to love and yet there's simultaneously so much that makes me wonder if I even actually like the show in the first place
I've been in this place before, and generally I land on the side of preferring to just admit to myself that I do in fact love a deeply flawed work which has aspects which severely rub me the wrong way than to dismiss something which genuinely speaks to me.
The premise is fine, in fact it'll speak super hard to a lot of trans folks and maybe crack some eggs, but much of the fanservice is actually just a detriment to the story. I hear that the manga is a lot more restrained, but I haven't checked it out yet.
"Angel Next Door" is secretly a dark Co-dependency anime, but you would probably need to have been in a relationship just like theirs (which I have, complete with the met on a Friday and were basically living together by Monday part) to see it. This anime has my anxiety on a 10 waiting for Amane to say the wrong thing that breaks her overinflated depiction of him in her mind as her emotional savior, leading to her having a nervous breakdown and hurting him or herself, or ghosting him for 6 months...but that's all subtext.
@@mollytovxx4181 If they have, it would be a Domestic Kanojo-Love Scum-School Days type of dumpster fire. Which in an entertainment sense, a good show.
You know, I felt that there should be some kinda of gotcha twist in there as well. But so far, it doesn't seem so problemativ to me. But as they are both traumatised teens that have their first actual romantic experience, things are bound to go wrong, maybe not as dark as you described it. But than again, I don't really see it.
I find it weird how I immediately got stuck on the heart and star patterns _Onimai_ subtly slaps on all its backgrounds, but never noticed _Overmind's_ wayward heat haze triangles
I like angel next door and it got some great points to it. Like how the protagonist's interaction with his friends is fairly realistic (compared to other anime)
Like, it's a warm fuzzies delivery system and I understand that, but I need that in my life sometimes, dammit. And as far as the execution of that goes, Angel is very very good, especially in its source material. Is it fine art? Eh, not really. But not every meal needs to be from a Michelin star restaurant, sometimes I just want some fast food. And I'd argue Angel's execution makes it Five Guys or Whataburger tier fast food, at least
@@johnkelso3252Yeah, I watch it because it delivers warm fuzzies all around, not just with Mahiru, and considering I tried it and Tomo-chan at the same time, I honestly preferred this one for having no bullshit conflict. Is it wish-fulfilley? Absolutely, but it's sweet.
>As close as anime will ever get to that question And at some dark corner of a dark animation studio, a mummified finger on a monkey's paw unfurls. Remember this moment guys.
It's worth emphasizing that Ice Blade Sorcerer leans into to trashiness at times, most obviously the closing credits feature the four main girls half naked and suggestively poised. On the other end just how much they show Ray White, his room mate and the muscle club stripped down to there underwear flexing is leaning into a completely different genre of trashiness. The fact that Ray White is also a member of the flower club is cute and funny and reminds me of Kenichi the Mightiest disciple. Like it seems sort of self aware and playing with how trashy it is, but still actually is generic and trashy...
I still think that it's kind of weird how a lot of people seem weirdly ok with animes that show blatant underage sexualization if the writers are aware of it
Spy Classroom has the problem that it was very hard to put into anime form without spoiling the twist if the first volume beforehand. The reason they put some parts of the story after the impossible mission is that they couldn't show them before without showing Erna. In the LN this works out because you don't *see* the girls, and they don't talk to each other using names - which is weird but makes sense after you know the twist - just like the guys listening in on the bugged mansion. I do question if it would have really been necessary to include some of the side stories afterwards instead of getting on with volume 2, which would have been better imo. One thing Spy Classroom is *not* is a harem, though - at least not by volume 4 which is as far as I have read so far.
My brain interpreted the leash in the thumbnail as an oldschool naval officer's sword with red and silver sides that could bend and stretch like a whip. I wish that's what it actually was.
That would be pretty bad ass actually, like an anime about an high-school girl with super strength fighting bad guys while trying to maintain her every day life
Kind of sad that Quad, who also made the janky but heartfelt and immensely endearing Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department last year, are the ones who got saddled with producing Inukai-san's Dog, as it indicates that they are likely on the path to doing more of the latter rather than improving on charmingly quirky fare like the former.
@@ConvincingPeople would be interesting to see what route they go considering how new the studio is. Will they go down the path of Passione and start making more ecchi in the future? Lol
Really surprised by Angel Next Door on here. I never really thought about it as a self insert fantasy, but more-so as an exploration on how a relationship from two damaged people can still mature despite past trauma. It doesn't really have comedy to fall back on like most other anime romances, so the way it handles character development in an organic way felt very refreshing to me.
Agreed, I like the relative lack of comedy and forced comedic conflict. Additionally, I think it's a bit early to judge it, since they've only just started exploring Mahiru's and Amane's traumas.
it's not a good exploration of damage, though! It's really sugarcoated. Neither the writer nor the director have much experience with shoujo manga and it shows! Shoujo manga's been doing 'two damaged people mature past their trauma as they fall in love' for decades with great success. This just uses that as window dressing!
@@dvillines26 I mean, it's fine if you feel that way, but that's not my experience watching it. It's still pretty early, but I'm not judging whether it's good or not from the authors previous experiences, I'm just enjoying seeing the characters actually change and grow as they get to know each other even though they've both got reasons to keep people at a distance
Same, I have only seen the anime until episode 6, so I don't know what the characters went through, but I still enjoy it because I think the romance is well executed, I feel chemistry between the characters (what is a result of a good balance between similarities and differences between the characters) and the romance execution is gradual and subtle, what I consider to be qualities here as it helps to build the relationship of the characters in a more believable manner. Also, the lack of fanservice is a bonus to me. It's the romance genre in its purest form and a well executed one.
@@justcommenting5117 true. its a meme among the community that you need insulin shots after every episode because of the show being so sweet it gives diabetes. sure, its not the best romcom of all time, but for me it ranks pretty high up there. its so refreshing to see characters interact by themselves and be relatively honest about how they feel about each other. Horimia does that too, but I feel like I enjoy seeing ANDSMR a bit more
It is a known fact that all mangaka are deviants with Pixiv favourites pages which are some degree of Cursed, the only question being *how* Cursed. One suspects that this also applies to members of anime adaptation production committees.
@@ShotterGames I mean, even Fujiko Fujio drew H-manga at one point. Hell, Osamu Tezuka's doodle collection contained furry transformation smut. It's a grand old tradition at this point.
I love your description of Onimai. It really is like…. Dragon Maid on steroids in terms of “yabai as fuck, but also really sweet and heartwarming somehow??”.
Which is honestly pretty accurate to the experience of transitioning: When you're on HRT, you're essentially going through puberty all over again, which can be weird and kinda gross, but also you finally start feeling like your real self for the first time in your whole life, and you get to experience being that person out in the world. Wholesome and life-affirming, but occasionally extremely yabai.
@@ConvincingPeople "Occasionally" There are like four different shots in a row in the intro that are focused on sexual parts on the protagonists' barely-pubescent body, half of which are in a fetish outfit (school swimsuit).
if you thought "the angel next door spoils me rotten" was bad just look at this manga called "I'm A Shy and Poor Otaku but This Beautiful Rich Young Lady is Obsessed with Me"
Yes, there is an element of wish fulfillment in Angel Next Door, but there was in Horimiya too (I love both shows). For me the person I relate to more in the story is not the boy, it's the girl. Latching onto any speck of kindness like that when you are at your lowest can, and does, happen. She is just lucky the person she attached herself to was truly kind. I think the story is realistic in its pacing for such deeply embedded trauma. Mahiru (the angel) hardly knows what normal is, only that she isn't. Amane gives her a safe place to relax and find out who she is without fawning over her. It's a type of kindness she's never had. We are learning about them and their history as they feel comfortable telling each other about it. I really like this style of slow burn story telling. I want to see them grow and get better together.
Well put. It's my go to sunday morning anime I watch with a friend just for the fluffiness and the refreshing gentleness of the show. I compare it to "More than lovers less than a couple" but in wholesome and not with those overly anime drama, ecchi and comedy bits. Also it's a show that simply shows stuff and doesn't tell you about it. Or drops information super natural into the flow of conversation like Itsuki's relationship to his father. My biggest complaint is the very generic nature of the premise and the drop in production quality with the animation and direction.
If you like the show, good for you, like the show. Don't let some pretentious ani-tuber who thinks his tastes in anime are S-tier dictate to you what's good or not
@@MHChang2014Thank you for saying that, I really like Angel next door spoils me rotten but when he said bad things about it, I was really sad because I haven't found anything problematic there except it doesn't happen in real life
I don't think so. The manga is boring and uses the same unfunny punchline over and over and over again. I'll admit i was interested enough to read the first 70 chapters, but they just kept escalating whenever a bad guy was defeated by saying "actually, he was only an underling of 6. now you have to defeat those AND their boss" and then when the boss is defeated they do it all over again. I just had to give up even if i had invested so much time into reading it.
@@neptunite5973 I liked it when there was some character interaction but when they went into that battle thingy it just got really boring and became just a gag-fight manga with no plot it seems
10:21 I want to thank you for that reference. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't immediately forget about Phineas and Ferb's less popular little brother when it was canceled.
18:44-18:56 That's literally Yu Narukami and Ren Akiyama lol Hell, Yu even had to cross-dress for a cross-dressing pageant at his school festival and awakening a persona in P5 causes the part of the face where the mask was to bleed after ripping it off.
There isn't any anime about being reincarnated as a toilet seat, but there is one about being reincarnated as a hot spring. I just felt like mentioning that.
Re: Angel Next Door's "conflict-free warm-and-fuzzies", I'm slightly disappointed this season's Kubo-san Won't Let Me Be Invisible didn't get a namecheck. The manga is delightful, and so far the anime's been delivering the same sweet, low-stakes romance that I fell in love with on the page.
@@demondownload it would! it's not trash, there's definitely more realism behind their encounters then just a young girl playing house for a guy who bought her hand cream.
For a second, I thought "The World's Greatest Excorscist is Reincarnated in Another World and Reborn to Master the Blade: from Hero King to Extraordinary Squire" was the title of one show. (15:40)
What happened to that anime where famous military leaders from Feudal Japan reincarnate into pets? Are we ever getting a second season? That house-pet reincarnation show was pretty great!
yeah it should be here, it's premium trash. it deserves some kind of award for the MC actually marrying the girl midway through the season, then there's a timeskip and they have a kid. any other generic garbage fantasy do that? I DON'T THINK SO. It's the 30-year old difference. Dude is too old to be noncommital when a girl is throwing herself at him (literally, back-breakingly) constantly. He locks it down. you have to respect that.
@@dvillines26 Farming in another life also has the MC have babies with his main two wives pretty early on, (He gets more kids later), though the anime is pretty slow compared to the manga, so I have my doubts they reach that part. Also, the kids barely get enough screen time to the point.
So glad Geoff talked about Tenshi-sama, I thought I was going crazy when seeing it as one of the highest rated on MAL when it is progressing soooo slowly that it's hampering the initial charm of the show
I think the inclusion Onimai in this video was a huge misstep. A letdown. The show obviously sexualizes a pre-pubescent child that will call the wrong audience to the channel - its genuinely disheartening to see a creator I like and respect wave away CP because it “may have merits”.
Watched/watching Onimai on your recommendation - I pretty much agree with your conclusions. Wonderful animation, great themes and questions, seemingly desperate to pretend it's utter garbage. Maybe there's some "what'll sell" from the execs at play...? How good the character development is / whether or not it has anything to actually say seems hit or miss episode to episode, though. Maybe due to being split over two different writers?
Thanks for explaining my feelings about "The Angel Next Door" I'm only 2 or 3 episodes in and while I found it inoffensive and not bad enough for me to drop, I couldn't shake the feeling of "I know EXACTLY what kind of person this is appealing to and how this show is playing to their wants"
I don't know man I'm married and I love this show because it makes me feel like I can see their relationship growing the same way mine did years ago. It feels like a great natural relationship that has unrealistic aspects but overall is very nice and refreshing to watch. And honestly a good romance without forced ecchi feels very good after finishing more than a married couple but not quite lovers
Wait- Onimai and Mushoku are done by the same studio? *Raises an eyebrow* Ain't it more than a little weird that its happened TWICE with the same studio?
I mean, there was that period when Doga Kobo did Wataten, Uzamaid and Senko-san all in the same year. Granted, in isolation Senko-san has some plausible deniability, but that's an *interesting* streak right there.
It is funny how this season have technically very great line up of anime that even the well-written ones are included to the list of trash shows. I'm actually surprised how well-written Onimai is. I can't say it is a favorite of mine this season, but something I could recommend despite the mentioned flaws (on weird fanservice). Angel Next Door anime might look like a wish fulfillment anime but honestly, it delivers a fine story, not best as what some of the fans pointed out, but not as worse as how Jeff tried to call it out. Even how much unrealistic the set up of the plot sounds, a story like this actually happened in real life (with my friend's experience, and I am just an eye witness, TOO BAD THEY STILL BREAK UP). Though a show doesn't need an overarching plot, overly dramatic story nor a high comedic charm to be a good anime. Some anime watchers enjoys an anime that can give them break from those highly complicated plots of highly recognized anime, and this so-called "trash fluff anime" delivers a very well diversion from those.
Ah, yes, the-guy-at-the-magic-school-who-isn't-really-good-at-magic-but-turns-out-he-secretly-has-the-best-magic-or-best-muscles-genre-you-might-not-even-know-it's-a-genre, I was talking about it with some friends yesterday
You're dead-on right about Onimai. It's presented in a way that's sure to make some folks uncomfortable, but the identity-exploring aspect is fantastic. It feels so genuine! ...I'm starting to think, the gratuitous nature of it actually enables it to tell its story in a way that's more sincere than other gender-identity-related series I've seen--so far almost all the questionable things it's shown have been true to my own big questions, thoughts, and feelings at that age, at least--and also allows it to be lighthearted instead of angsty and depressing, which are honestly aspects I've grown to revile about stories concerning gender identity and growing up. I've had enough of this "being trans needs to be traumatic" bullshit I see so often. Let us have fun, happy stories to relate to, damn it. ...It's wonderful to watch the main character grow and thrive, and most importantly, find joy in this new identity. It's so sweet. Making friends, finding self-expression, being empowered. Thought I'd probably hate this anime but I gave it a shot, and wow, I'm sure glad I did.
I mean, the Anime (And to a smaller degree the manga) could have achieved the same thing without any of the more questionable stuff... The trans joy perspective and reliving of a childhood lost is wonderful though. The genuine and wholesome story underneath the anime bs and at times crude writing devices is truly refreshing and wonderful.
It actually adds to something I've been suspecting since I've started watching/reading more trans centered stories is that eastern rep is focused in "bad trans rep", like characters that are stereotypical, promiscuous and look like they were adapted from an 1980s cartoon about a transvestite but they are well handled enough to not be offensive (if you're willing to give them a chance) like Hana from Tokyo godfathers, a trans woman that used to work in an adult bar, punches people who misgender her, tries to date/flirt with most guys that she comes in contact with and literally stole a baby in order to fulfill her desire to be a mother and yet is one of the best trans character I've ever seen in film thanks to the thought put into making the audience understand and even relate to her experience which a breath of fresh air from the typical overly perfect and polished western trans character who's only flaw is that they aren't trans enough or that the world doesn't accept them(not saying that it's all bad but it's nice to have variety)
Honestly I could argue that Mahiro is already traumatized; it's rather telling that one of his first reactions to meeting Kaede was _sheer terror_ at the idea of her reaction if she should ever learn that he was at one point a boy. But one of the things that makes Onimai so beautiful is that Mahiro's new lifestyle is consistently treated as something that helps him _overcome_ the trauma he was already living with. At the start of the series, Mahiro had to be literally dragged kicking and screaming just to get out of the house for some light exercise, but over time he becomes able to leave the house to run errands (if begrudgingly, after losing a bet), then willingly leave the house for personal gain (to buy limited edition goods), and finally, willingly leave the house to fulfill a societal obligation (attending school). All of this was _only_ possible because his new identity let him develop the self-esteem and loving support network that he never had as a boy. Living as a girl comes with its own share of hardships and difficulties that he would have never encountered otherwise, but the overall effect on his psyche is _overwhelmingly_ positive.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real Haruhi's "dad" (not sure what the appropriate terminology is in this case) in Ouran High School Host Club of all things is another example. Queer person, almost certainly not cis, who fell madly in love with a straight(-passing) woman but wound up forsaking any attempt to present as masculine in society after she died. She's not an especially major character but she's handled really well and is genuinely interesting when you actually think about her character.
Iceblade is so earnest in its genericness I can't help but love it. Is it good? Probably not. But who cares about something being good? I like it and that's all that matters. Meanwhile I have no idea why I'm still watching Inukai-san's Dog. I absolutely hate it but I can't look away. I will say that it's pretty cool that a series is animated almost entirely from a single character's point of view. I just wish that character was looking at...something else...
I watch Iceblade for chad moments (mostly from Ray). Also some great life lessons - "growing from acknowledging own's weakness" (to Alium). And somewhat exploring PTSD of a child soldier.
Boy oh boy, I sure do love me some completely valueless trash like Onimai. Gotta love that one girl’s huge knockers swaying around. (OMG that episode where Mahiro learns how to bake cookies and tries his hardest to make what he thinks is Mihari’s favorite, but feels too awkward to come out and say how he feels so he tries to play it off as some minor thing, but his sister knows darn well what it means and she’s tearing up as she bites into one and mentally says it’s just perfect. MY HEART!)
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I give this thrash a rating of 5 moldy issues of monthly shown jump that came with the blue eyes ultimate dragon out of 5
Serious question, Geoff: Tiddy Milk or Guil-tea Pleasure?
I love your videos Geoff, but "mild" and "rich" aren't synonyms....
oh fuck, they really are sending it to my lost corner of europe hahaha
mb is 🤮 and 4 cucks
Spy Classroom is about John Spy who says "watch out I'm gonna spy!" right before he spies all over the place
Truly deserving of selling a spyzillion BDs.
I really liked the part where the Spy Man says "it's spyin' time!" and then got out his spy gadgets and spied everywhere
Truly one of the spy animes ever made
Spy Classroom sounds like Assassination Classroom if all the girl students wanted to fuck Korosensei (and not just Nagisa).
That whole bit reminded me of the "swim-puku" joke from "50% Off!"
I'm terrified that editing this put myself and Adam on multiple lists somewhere
Your already on the FBI watchlist for some reason. Watching Date A Live will get you off it.
A small sacrifice for my enterainment
“Ya’ll are nasty” - the FBI agent monitoring your search history
too funny dude😂😂
Being subscribed to this channel
properly has you on a few lists already.
Kind of love the confidence of that one spy girl referring to herself and her spy friends as "us seven hotties." I plan to begin referring to myself and my spy friends in a similar fashion.
"the worst harry potter fanfiction you can imagine"
The Cursed Child, got it
I still refuse to believe that they didn't spend 17 hours reading HP slashfics, pick the worst and put them in a word blender to get that script.
Hot take: Cursed Child is not that bad. I liked it.
@@andrewlevin7586 your take is bad and you should feel bad
cursed child was literally "cram presentations, fight, and more Harry Potter Suffering (tm) in a book"
My immortal
There's nothing that tops the degeneracy of that story.
"If you can look past the nude underaged girls, this anime is actually good" is a sentence I would unfollow most people for
Onimai is wholesome. There I said it.
Anime booba
@@rickchakraborty2087 To get to that wholesome, you DO have to go through a 26 year old man accidentally showing off his ero-manga to a middleschooler...and many more of "The Writer's barely disguised fetish" moments. I read the manga because of this video, thinking it was just an okay Saiki K-like manga with just a smidge of bullshit... I learned god was well and truly dead by the hot tub chapter.
@@Ijustusethistocommentstuff had the same experience with made in abyss, coincidentally it was also recommended by this channel
@@airplanes_aren.t_real I am having SEVERE worries about MB's taste in anime.
“They learn what it means to be human by watching a cat die.”
…pardon?
“They watch Rob the robot shove him in a vat of molten lava.”
…double pardon?
Technoroid Overmind is, to my understanding (and going by my impression of the first episode), just kind of Like That, yeah.
the cat was their unofficial pet that they try to save. the lava part is just robot-human conflict building in the background.
I kinda want to watch the android idol garbage but the cat death is causing my some hesitation. I do not handle cat deaths well.
@@thekatwarriorarti can't handle any animal deaths well, it's why i still haven't finished that one zombie apocalypse anime
@@thekatwarriorart "I can excuse robots shoving people into molten metal, but I draw the line at watching a cat die!"
I'm really just happy to see an anime say that says Eugenics are bad
That was my first thought lol
Agreed. We need to hear this more often, even from trash.
Extremely low bar but they cleared 😭
Now if only they'd also do that with Incest.
@@ThatOneGuy7550 Yup, and our society as a whole still hasn't fully cleared it.
The Unfortunate problem with Spy Classroom is that it's first volume (and most important volume) is basically impossible to adapt without changing what makes it work so well.
In the first volume we actually know about Erina by chapter two (Episode 4 of the anime). Most of the other girls are only referenced by their hair color. If you as a reader are paying attention you can see the "twist" coming from a mile away. The "twist" isn't really supposed to be a gotcha moment for the reader it's supposed to be the proper introduction for the girls (excluding Lily and Erina who had been named prior).
This is basically ruined in the anime since you have to hide one of the girls for the "twist" to even work and Erina was the easiest to hide. This unfortunately means that the entirety of chapter 2 has to be moved removing almost the entirety of the training which then throws off the pacing of the story.
Thanks for explaining it. I thought from the beginning that it was going to be a Spy version of Assassination Classroom. Then suddenly we are doing the impossible mission and though it would move on to something else. Once we flashed back, I was pretty much done with it. Nice to know it is a bad adaptation.
@@jbirzer I wouldn't say it's a bad adaptation (it's not great to be fair. Its characterization of Lily is pretty flat.). It's more that the way Volume 1 is written basically forces any visual adaptation to have to sacrifice something. I do think the anime went with the best possible option, but it's still sacrificing something.
@Max465 What you mean with flat characterization?
I might give it a read
I haven't read the source but this is my thought as well. They had the twist wanted to execute it but it left the pacing and story a mess. They have to back track to develop the characters only making things worse. If they played it chronologically the mission just falls flat and gets even goofier. So it is a tough spot to be in. I can't fault them for the effort. It isn't the stupidity of Peach Boy just a tough spot to be in that they didn't handle all that well.
Just a reminder that Ayakashi Triangle started off in good ol' Shonen Jump before being moved elsewhere for its... everything.
I remember reading the first 1-3 chapters and noping out real quick upon realizing the kind of gender bending shenanigans we were getting.
@@MrGksarathy the fact the series has over 100 chapters and only recently he's been able to turn back into a boy says everything about the type of series this is
@@sdbzfan1 Yup. Not surprised in the least.
I'm enjoying the manga for what it is. It's nothing amazing, but at least it's extremely self-aware and doesn't take itself too seriously. It's boobs with a surface-level story, and that's all it's trying to be so I can appreciate that. I do get why people don't like it though lmao, you need to be in a certain mindset for it absolutely.
I've been keeping up with it just to see whatever new stupid shit they can add every chapter. Most of the time it's fetish bait with 1 of three jokes the author knows how to tell, but it's funny for how incompetent it is a lot of the time.
I feel like it's worth mentioning that Reborn to Master the Blade has a surprisingly solid story about the destructive evils of colonialism that feels wildly out of place given how enjoyably stupid it is in all other regards.
Would be cool if anime and media tackle sexism, misogyny, and abuse in it's many way not just some asshole guy who force himself in a girl in a ally because that not the only way its happens and it's also happens to guy especially when you get called names when you refuse a women your not interested in because it's expected of you to sleep with a women when she in the nude
Also women can enforce patriarchy not just men or men on the Internet telling you how to be a real men and also women still suffer form sexism and misogyny their not free of their problem can be form the pink tax to the way some guy treat women when they dress less feminine or more revealing and get asked for sexual favors and when they refused get told why your dress that way shaming women for dress the way they like and not have sex with random dudes beyond the way they dress their dude with sexiest attitude just like that still around look at how many guy especially teenagers who fall for shit that Andrew Tates or Jordan Peterson sell them
That reminds me of how the best (in my opinion) short out of Star Wars: Visions was the one with the bunny girl because of its cutting and nuanced light on imperialism and colonialism that would never normally be made by an American studio's adaptation of Star Wars.
The animation is absolutely terrible to me, I had to drop it
Yeah the dissonance between those two halves was what led me to drop it.
@@undeniablySomeGuy I mean, Andor had an Imperial Officer bragging about how they completely dismantled a native culture so they could more easily use their people as cheap labor and exploit their land, but I guess that doesn't count.
My mom watching Geoff regularly is a weird experience, but even though I'm away at college, we Zoomed in order to be able to watch this Trash video together, as is our tradition. Here are her comments, in order of anime appearance:
"Maybe the cat monster found out the girl is trans and just gave her a new body." "Mom, that is very obviously not what happened." "I like my idea better." Later on: "Why doesn't the rival go to therapy if being touched freaks him out? Poor kid. Anxiety disorders are hard."
"Turning someone into a middle schooler sounds like a revenge fantasy. I hated middle school. Poor kid." "Mom, you can't adopt him." "I can do whatever I want, I'm old."
"His hair is great. Maybe he's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline." "That's everyone in anime, mom." Later: "The good at guns one reminds me of your Aunt Judy."
"I'm not watching this. It killed a cat, I'm done." "Mom, it probably died of old age." "I don't need that in fiction! I hate that in real life!" Later: "If humans are getting along enough to have just one government in the world, that's more ridiculous than the androids, honestly."
"I swear I've watched these before." "You haven't. They're new." "But I feel like they're not."
"I'm watching this. It's cute." Later, the second Geoff mentioned the backstory: "Oh. He's just a baby." "Mom, he has magic." "Baby magic." "What does that even MEAN-"
"As a psychologist, I want to sit down and talk with the writers for this. You know, just to make sure they're okay."
"You would've liked this when you were 12." "Mom!" "Am I wrong?" "...no."
Your mom sounds hilarious
Your mom is right about pet death being used for cheap emotional quotas. Tell her she’s right.
"I swear I've watched these before." "No, they're new." I 💀
State of the industry in a sentence right there
I fully agree with your mother on needing to meet with and understand the writers of the 'girl horny for a dog' anime.
Damn thats a fun loving mom :) great relationship between you too.
I thought people were only memeing about Karen wanting to sleep with her dog, but then I saw the show and...
Yeah, she REALLY likes her dog. A lot. As in, too much.
Inukai needs to be jailed for life for cruelty to animals.
ameranth moment
I don't like the fact that Karen let something like her dog dying made her into such a bitch to everyone she meets. Like, I know that something of that nature impacts people to a very large scale, but I still feel like she should've acted better. But then again, the show/manga is basically softcore p*rn, so what're you going to do
@@Luffy-su1ho I mean, Considering how she treated that dog........
the premise is basically nothing but internet weirdos screeching "DOGPILL" from undearneath their rocks
As someone who watches very little anime nowadays, but reads a TON of manga, it is always a little surreal coming across a trash manga randomly in the wild then coming across the anime for that manga months later on this show XD
Yeah 😅
It's the same with light novels
I told a friend of mine who's very keyed into the manga circuit that I knew about Inukai-san (through Yazy's video on it) and she was actually taken aback not only that anyone else had heard of this deeply cursed work of fiction but that *anyone* would adapt it into a television anime.
The amount of times I’ve read a manga and then the anime is announced and people are hyped and I’m just sitting there like yeah I droped it because I didn’t like it… and then once the show comes out I never hear about it again.
100% same
"If you thought Kimi ni Todoke was too fast" is such a good line.
Such a sick burn.
It's so accurate, I honestly have no clue how I even finished both seasons whilst adhd had a firm grip on my brain as an 11 year old
The fact that Inukai-sans dog went popular because of Chainsaw Man's popularity
Pochita got rizz now
WHAT
I mean, I watched episode 1 and once I saw the type of trash it was I read the manga and got caught up on it because every time I thought it couldn't get trashier it did. before I knew it I was riding the train just to see how trashy it would get. Also Miké best girl.
Kinda upset how much toned down the anime is compared to the manga. There's a few trashy, really spicy scenes that the anime completely skipped.
Yes indeed a rip off deja vu in my mind
I love ONIMAI’s take on “an outcast’s societal reintegration” because Mahiru’s growth is from his new outlook on life based on his gender. He’s more sympathetic to his little sister because he’s become a little sister lol
If you don't like the anime cus of the fan service read the manga it is just as good and has little to no fan service.
@@aquaonyt9035 I'll check it out later
Makes me wonder how many people you could pull out of the "societal outcast" status by just doing what his sister did
@@aquaonyt9035thanks for commenting this !! The fan service was my reason to avoid it, but I’ll definitely check out the manga!
@@aquaonyt9035 Uh no this is false. There is plenty of fanservice even in the manga. The onsen chapters are some of the raunchiest you can get without being a full hentai manga lol. The gender type jokes are a core part of the series and there's constant fanservice with those. Also the running gag that Mahiro is giving "service" shots to the two boys that like her. The anime just stands out more because of how beautifully animated it is but it's literally still just adapting the same fanservice from the manga.
I feel bad for Spyroom, it's a very fun novel, some very well written moments and NOT a harem at all. The problem is that most of the things only works in a book medium, they rushed the first volume to get the first twist out of they way but they just messed up everything in the process, everything is just boring and looks very poorly written, while it's not peak writing, major issues could be solved by just not rushing the first volume. Yes there's a lot of "anime bs" on it but somehow it works for the novel because it's fun, has fun characters and fun interactions.
It's just a very weird adaption, it would be a lot better if they just ignored the first book and made some original content, but hey, gotta make that money and sell the novels.
Probably some magirevo and yuri pigs salty that no one in Japan is watching 🤮 yuri so they hate spy room, angel next door, tokyo revengers
@@clarksmith8830 The hell did Yuri fans do to you?
Angel Next Door and Spy Classroom had the highest source material sales but this woke cuck are acting like they are failures. But MagiRevo 🤮. No, that is the best selling anime of the season (which is a load of shit)
@@GideonMadu just try criticizing lyco reco and that man hating yuri without the sjws ripping your throat out and getting you banned.
@Clark Smith if no one in japan liked yuri they wouldnt make yuri anime idiot
The regirock joke was the best thing you ever did.
What about his Super Nintendo Chalmers impression?
ÜN ÜN ÜN ÜN ÜN fortunately
...Huh. Despite being somewhat into _Pokemon_ still, I legitimately didn't get the joke until I did a Google search. Never knew that was its cry.
@@MusicoftheDamned it’s the cry from the anime. All the Regis got this inhuman cry that can be both creepy & uncomfortable in context or just hysterical when ppl point out how funny it sounds
@@ma.2089 Yeah, I just learned that from Know Your Meme of all places, which explains why I never knew of it since I haven't paid attention to the anime since like...Orange Islands? [/senescence] Thanks though.
My jaw LITERALLY DROPPED when he mentioned the dog one. My jaw has never dropped? I thought this was mostly an exagération. I knew that kind of stuff was a THING … but seeing it animated. A team of people work on it apparently…. Wow
First time in anime? ✌️
Given that weird fetishy anime and especially manga are by no means uncommon, that there are at least a few particularly rancid specimens in evidence shouldn't be that shocking, but that it appears to air on TV does give me pause, as this is typically an OVA/ONA situation.
I saw it from Gigguk watching the trailer and I saw the manga just to see what happened.
And wow the boy left supposed best girl for the dog fucker. The dog fucker isn't even interested in him as a person, she only loves him cause he was a dog and because he looked just like her dead one. Even if we overlook the dog part the relationship is still toxic cause she only wants her old "love" back.
At no point did anyone working in this stop and go, "Hey. This is weird, right? This is not a normal story, right? Maybe we should do a different kind story? Is that Vending Machine story still available?"
You must be new around these parts
Onimai is the one that makes me so mad. It’s SO GOOD. Animation, direction, adaptation pacing, music, it’s so good! And it has some really tender writing. And then it gets really creepy for thirty seconds before moving back on to cute stuff.
I was legit going to watch it, I thought that "hey maybe it's just bad on the first ep, I can skip those scenes" but no, he says it just keeps going so fuck that
Welcome to the made in abyss fan experience
Run while you can
@@airplanes_aren.t_real shows that do that make me even more angry than if the show was just bad
MiA wouldn't make me as upset if it was just *bad*; it just had to be really good in some aspects
Onimai is apparently the same?
@@elipticalecliptic481 my guess on why is happens is that they think fan service sells
On the case of MiA my guess is that at least one person in the production pipeline is a pedo
The worst part about it is that you could probably keep all the weird naked/piss/scat stuff if you just changed the context and angle but they Openly choose to make it as obvious as possible
@@airplanes_aren.t_real for MiA, the pedo is likely the original mangaka, the manga was *worse* about that stuff
The best part of The Angel Next Door is when you realize how much of the show takes place on that damn couch you’ll never be able to not notice it. The couch gets more screen time than anyone besides the two leads lol
Also, when those two split at any point, Mahiru has to get that cushion. It's been her most trusted companion.
@@yarion4774 Funnily enough, the Light Novel calls her out on the cushion thing and at one point has the cushion become a permanent addition to the couch just so it can stop mentioning her bringing it with her things...
@@nigeld-d8753 That's amazing. xD
One subversion that iceblade went with that actually got my notice.
The usual "protag-kun walks in on changing girl on accident" didn't result in him getting flustered or hit.
He was just like, "oh, sorry" and moved the £¥¢€ on like an adult.
It almost makes me forgive that half his dialogue was written by a sentient fedora. Laughing at that happening in a setting that such lines would probably be novel, and that he was probably raised how to compliment women based on what his mentor would want to hear or some questionable tales from the soldiers he was raised among...
I'm genuinely to the point to thinking that this man has either actually had a relatively comfortable sexual relationship with a woman before or is just not interested at all because in either case that response flies in the face of the usual target audience for this kind of show.
A part of me hopes him and roomie just have a happy ending together.
I use this anime, especially Ray as a detector to determine if a person is a virgin in the way of chads or on the path. Virgins:"The MC compliments girls to get a harem." Chads:"The MC compliments people to encourage them to be their bests versions, because he wishes to make the world a better place." Also Alium is a great example of Ray's influence (growing from acknowledging own's weakness). I enjoy the chad aspect of this show so much, that I even made a video about it.
The most unrealistic thing about Tenshi-sama is that both main characters live in ginormous apartments by themselves.
Well their parents are rich
I initially thought so as well, but I sort of lived like this in college because my parents paid my rent and other expenses.
How about denji
@@corvuscorax9028 Denji is actually struggling to pay for Makima's apartment, the dogs, and Nayuta.
The same can be said of basically every show (animated or live action) that mostly takes place in someone's home.
When you buy sex toys or binders they usually package them discreetly, and i just thought to myself “i wonder if gamersups has discreet packaging”. like buying something called “gamersups” could be as damaging and embarrassing as outing you or showing your landlord that you use dildos.
I laughed uncontrollably for 5 straight minutes at the Kimi ni Todoke line.
Literally how many hours of "PLease... Bruh. Please."
If I had a nickel for every Anituber who's girlfriend talks about porn I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice.
not that weird, not just anyone would date an anituber
@@toonpik7 agreed. That itself is an incredible skill.
Is the other one Sydsnap? isn't she also a VTuber?
it's 3 if we count Joey and Aki
@@hirokokueh3541 Two more and he can make a phone call!
“Body pillows soaked in chloroform” had me dying laughing haha
I think you can have a story that's artistic and have important themes WITHOUT the added CP for *titillations*. I kinda don't think that's a big ask.
Like a good portion of this comment section is like “It’s real weird fanservice but everything else is great” and I’m sitting here thinking that it could be the greatest show since Cowboy Bebop and you couldn’t pay me to watch it if it has loli fanservice.
@@Borodalf Thank you, I thought I was the only one who thought that, granted I'm kind of a hypocrite since I've also watched made in abyss but I'm glad someone's mentioning it
Imagine agreeing with this comment condemning people for liking certain FICTIONAL ANIMATED works then admitting you like made in abyss. Literally zero self awareness.
@@bonbon4016uh oh the police caught us we can’t criticize media while still enjoying it and condemn people for thinking the freaky stuff is completely normal
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Badass
I see you on Vaush and Xanderhal videos, you do get around, I approve too
"my life as Inukai's dog" is about the weirdest thing I've ever, I thought this would be a wholesome manga, but now that I've read it and now realized it had an anime, I would like to erase my memories now
You might like Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga if you haven't watched slash read it already
I'm surprised Tucker Carlson hasn't done an "Anime's Gone Woke!" Fox News segment because of all the gender swapping going on this season.
He'll get there. Matt Walsh has already railed against anime, and that stuff usually goes up the conservative pipeline.
Why are there even conservative-leaning anime fans, big conservatives have always hated it...
Probably because forcing someone to be a girl just because he is biologically one isn't really woke.
Im sure he’ll get there eventually
Been woke since Ranma :)
Bodypillows soaked in chloroform is like the perfect one sentence horror story
It baffles me to my core but the Angel next-door spoils me rotten has been a show I’ve really been enjoying
Nothing wrong with it,I’m fully aware of how unrealistic and pure wish fulfillment it is but I’m still enjoying it a lot
@@onesmileybaldy8303 for real when I read the plot synopsis before I started watching all the shows the season it kind of pissed me off from the description how this guy seem like a total loser who couldn’t take care of himself or do basic house work or cook or clean and while a part of me still thinks that is correct I’ve gone from that to yelling “STOP BEING SO CUTE” to the both of them every episode. The gestures of gratitude that they give each other have been genuinely heartwarming.
Everyone has their own tastes and you shouldn't feel bad about enjoying something that a youtuber doesn't like.
I personally watch tenshi sama aswell, but just because im starved of romcoms. Been really disappointed with this show so far, but maybe it will become better
@@emrys2619I was also expecting that, and when those low expectations were surpassed due to the male lead being kind in small, but believable ways and sort of pulling his weight in their arrangement, I warmed up to it.
It certainly helps that his parents got it going on.
I wanted to enjoy the show and had hoped it would be like Tonikawa but the dialogues are just so cringe and poorly written. They talk like 4 year olds and get embarrassed over the most ridiculous things. I can look past a silly premise (again Tonikawa) but when the show is dull and poorly written it's really hard to enjoy.
Someone needs to rewatch ore monogatari until they remember that Takeo is a GODDAMN catch and it's totally natural for Rinko to be putting in effort to try to win him over, even if it's not necessary.
Yeah, it's also shoujo, so it's definitely not aiming for the audience to see Takeo as purely a self-insert. The audience is supposed to find him charming and romantic (because he is!) and identify with Rinko as well. For example, him punching the guy in the face for victim blaming Rinko? That is pretty clearly catharsis aimed at a female audience who have either been or know they could be in Rinko's place. So it's a weird comparison.
What I loved about that show is that not only was the romance great, but it had one of the greatest bromances I've ever seen. The dynamic between Takeo and Suna was so much fun to watch and it legitimately made me smile. The episode where Takeo cut his date with Rinko short because of Suna's dad's surgery was better showing of friendship than anything I saw in Fairy Tail
@@owenmaleski2203 weirdly that also makes him more appealing romantically. A guy who supports his friends is gonna be a good guy whether or not he's attracted to you. It's nice.
Onimai is definitely a contender for the most conflicted I've ever felt on an anime. There's so much to love and yet there's simultaneously so much that makes me wonder if I even actually like the show in the first place
Its kinda like dragon maid
You love it and are just to scared to make a commitment.
I've been in this place before, and generally I land on the side of preferring to just admit to myself that I do in fact love a deeply flawed work which has aspects which severely rub me the wrong way than to dismiss something which genuinely speaks to me.
This review has convinced me I should watch it, though I dropped the manga like a sriracha and hornet sandwich.
The premise is fine, in fact it'll speak super hard to a lot of trans folks and maybe crack some eggs, but much of the fanservice is actually just a detriment to the story. I hear that the manga is a lot more restrained, but I haven't checked it out yet.
"Angel Next Door" is secretly a dark Co-dependency anime, but you would probably need to have been in a relationship just like theirs (which I have, complete with the met on a Friday and were basically living together by Monday part) to see it. This anime has my anxiety on a 10 waiting for Amane to say the wrong thing that breaks her overinflated depiction of him in her mind as her emotional savior, leading to her having a nervous breakdown and hurting him or herself, or ghosting him for 6 months...but that's all subtext.
Damn you’re right. They don’t have a relationship they have free emotional support.
That show doesn't have the balls to go there.
@@mollytovxx4181 If they have, it would be a Domestic Kanojo-Love Scum-School Days type of dumpster fire.
Which in an entertainment sense, a good show.
Doubt it would go there but it would be interesting.
You know, I felt that there should be some kinda of gotcha twist in there as well. But so far, it doesn't seem so problemativ to me. But as they are both traumatised teens that have their first actual romantic experience, things are bound to go wrong, maybe not as dark as you described it.
But than again, I don't really see it.
I find it weird how I immediately got stuck on the heart and star patterns _Onimai_ subtly slaps on all its backgrounds, but never noticed _Overmind's_ wayward heat haze triangles
I like angel next door and it got some great points to it. Like how the protagonist's interaction with his friends is fairly realistic (compared to other anime)
Like, it's a warm fuzzies delivery system and I understand that, but I need that in my life sometimes, dammit. And as far as the execution of that goes, Angel is very very good, especially in its source material.
Is it fine art? Eh, not really. But not every meal needs to be from a Michelin star restaurant, sometimes I just want some fast food. And I'd argue Angel's execution makes it Five Guys or Whataburger tier fast food, at least
@@johnkelso3252Yeah, I watch it because it delivers warm fuzzies all around, not just with Mahiru, and considering I tried it and Tomo-chan at the same time, I honestly preferred this one for having no bullshit conflict.
Is it wish-fulfilley? Absolutely, but it's sweet.
For me it's just perfect and just what I need.
LN is a lot better, it got a bad adaption imo compared to the source material
@@aedruxHow so? We're only 10 episodes in, so...
>As close as anime will ever get to that question
And at some dark corner of a dark animation studio, a mummified finger on a monkey's paw unfurls.
Remember this moment guys.
Still waiting for the anime adaptation of "Reincarnated as a Hot Spring".
The regirock coming out the corner made me laugh way too much.
I still feel so much pain about the fact that the dog manga got an anime adaptation.. It makes me feel a despair so bad it makes Junko Enoshima blush.
Why does it exist?!!
It's worth emphasizing that Ice Blade Sorcerer leans into to trashiness at times, most obviously the closing credits feature the four main girls half naked and suggestively poised. On the other end just how much they show Ray White, his room mate and the muscle club stripped down to there underwear flexing is leaning into a completely different genre of trashiness.
The fact that Ray White is also a member of the flower club is cute and funny and reminds me of Kenichi the Mightiest disciple.
Like it seems sort of self aware and playing with how trashy it is, but still actually is generic and trashy...
I would love for there to be another season of Kenichi
It’s trashy but on purpose, so it’s good trashy? It’s definitely the worst show I will not drop because it’s feckin hilarious.
It's a Horrendous Adaptation
I think Ray White's harem is just gonna be everyone.
I still think that it's kind of weird how a lot of people seem weirdly ok with animes that show blatant underage sexualization if the writers are aware of it
Spy Classroom has the problem that it was very hard to put into anime form without spoiling the twist if the first volume beforehand.
The reason they put some parts of the story after the impossible mission is that they couldn't show them before without showing Erna. In the LN this works out because you don't *see* the girls, and they don't talk to each other using names - which is weird but makes sense after you know the twist - just like the guys listening in on the bugged mansion.
I do question if it would have really been necessary to include some of the side stories afterwards instead of getting on with volume 2, which would have been better imo.
One thing Spy Classroom is *not* is a harem, though - at least not by volume 4 which is as far as I have read so far.
Yeah, if anything at least isn't harem. Guy isn't interested in any girl.
@@ExtremeMadnessX And seven... okay, maybe six of the girls are not interested in him.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Yeah, minor spoiler, but dude is canonically aromantic and possibly also asexual.
"I'm not uncensoring this one" is an A+ gag.
My brain interpreted the leash in the thumbnail as an oldschool naval officer's sword with red and silver sides that could bend and stretch like a whip. I wish that's what it actually was.
That would be pretty bad ass actually, like an anime about an high-school girl with super strength fighting bad guys while trying to maintain her every day life
I remember when Yazzy talked about Inukai-san's Dog on her channel and I still can't believe they adapted that manga.
Kind of sad that Quad, who also made the janky but heartfelt and immensely endearing Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department last year, are the ones who got saddled with producing Inukai-san's Dog, as it indicates that they are likely on the path to doing more of the latter rather than improving on charmingly quirky fare like the former.
The anime has cut some spicy scenes from the manga. They are toning down the degeneracy.
@@ConvincingPeople would be interesting to see what route they go considering how new the studio is. Will they go down the path of Passione and start making more ecchi in the future? Lol
@@rickchakraborty2087So it's basically hentai?
@@ExtremeMadnessX not really. Degenerate, yes, but not hentai.
The day I read 20 chapters of Inukai-san's dog is the day I stopped feeling emotions, because something inside me died.
Really surprised by Angel Next Door on here. I never really thought about it as a self insert fantasy, but more-so as an exploration on how a relationship from two damaged people can still mature despite past trauma. It doesn't really have comedy to fall back on like most other anime romances, so the way it handles character development in an organic way felt very refreshing to me.
Agreed, I like the relative lack of comedy and forced comedic conflict. Additionally, I think it's a bit early to judge it, since they've only just started exploring Mahiru's and Amane's traumas.
it's not a good exploration of damage, though! It's really sugarcoated. Neither the writer nor the director have much experience with shoujo manga and it shows! Shoujo manga's been doing 'two damaged people mature past their trauma as they fall in love' for decades with great success. This just uses that as window dressing!
@@dvillines26 I mean, it's fine if you feel that way, but that's not my experience watching it. It's still pretty early, but I'm not judging whether it's good or not from the authors previous experiences, I'm just enjoying seeing the characters actually change and grow as they get to know each other even though they've both got reasons to keep people at a distance
Same, I have only seen the anime until episode 6, so I don't know what the characters went through, but I still enjoy it because I think the romance is well executed, I feel chemistry between the characters (what is a result of a good balance between similarities and differences between the characters) and the romance execution is gradual and subtle, what I consider to be qualities here as it helps to build the relationship of the characters in a more believable manner. Also, the lack of fanservice is a bonus to me. It's the romance genre in its purest form and a well executed one.
@@justcommenting5117 true. its a meme among the community that you need insulin shots after every episode because of the show being so sweet it gives diabetes. sure, its not the best romcom of all time, but for me it ranks pretty high up there. its so refreshing to see characters interact by themselves and be relatively honest about how they feel about each other. Horimia does that too, but I feel like I enjoy seeing ANDSMR a bit more
Maybe a producer was blackmailed into funding My Life as Inuki San's Dog?
That, or he's got some night-terror inducing fetishes.
It is a known fact that all mangaka are deviants with Pixiv favourites pages which are some degree of Cursed, the only question being *how* Cursed. One suspects that this also applies to members of anime adaptation production committees.
Well the anime is already toning down the degeneracy from the manga.
What could they possibly done worse than bring this monstrosity out into the light of day.
@@ConvincingPeople The good old rule that if they are mangaka they probably drew +18 doujins before
@@ShotterGames I mean, even Fujiko Fujio drew H-manga at one point. Hell, Osamu Tezuka's doodle collection contained furry transformation smut. It's a grand old tradition at this point.
I love your description of Onimai. It really is like…. Dragon Maid on steroids in terms of “yabai as fuck, but also really sweet and heartwarming somehow??”.
Which is honestly pretty accurate to the experience of transitioning: When you're on HRT, you're essentially going through puberty all over again, which can be weird and kinda gross, but also you finally start feeling like your real self for the first time in your whole life, and you get to experience being that person out in the world. Wholesome and life-affirming, but occasionally extremely yabai.
@@ConvincingPeople "Occasionally"
There are like four different shots in a row in the intro that are focused on sexual parts on the protagonists' barely-pubescent body, half of which are in a fetish outfit (school swimsuit).
@@42Fossy Oh, I meant real life there. Anime has a way of… intensifying things in questionable ways, for sure.
@@ConvincingPeople character isn't trans, and they were turned into a girl by a pill.
@@ErikaBernLambda Doesn't change the fact that the story speaks directly to the trans experience on multiple levels.
I usually quite enjoy your hottest trash videos, but the steamed hams reference is truly what earned my like.
mb videos are pure garbage that is true
Steamed hams, but it's Eugenics
if you thought "the angel next door spoils me rotten" was bad just look at this manga called "I'm A Shy and Poor Otaku but This Beautiful Rich Young Lady is Obsessed with Me"
That whole spy classroom bit was my favorite of this video, because it really happened like that.
Yes, there is an element of wish fulfillment in Angel Next Door, but there was in Horimiya too (I love both shows). For me the person I relate to more in the story is not the boy, it's the girl. Latching onto any speck of kindness like that when you are at your lowest can, and does, happen. She is just lucky the person she attached herself to was truly kind. I think the story is realistic in its pacing for such deeply embedded trauma. Mahiru (the angel) hardly knows what normal is, only that she isn't. Amane gives her a safe place to relax and find out who she is without fawning over her. It's a type of kindness she's never had. We are learning about them and their history as they feel comfortable telling each other about it. I really like this style of slow burn story telling. I want to see them grow and get better together.
Well put. It's my go to sunday morning anime I watch with a friend just for the fluffiness and the refreshing gentleness of the show. I compare it to "More than lovers less than a couple" but in wholesome and not with those overly anime drama, ecchi and comedy bits.
Also it's a show that simply shows stuff and doesn't tell you about it. Or drops information super natural into the flow of conversation like Itsuki's relationship to his father.
My biggest complaint is the very generic nature of the premise and the drop in production quality with the animation and direction.
If you like the show, good for you, like the show. Don't let some pretentious ani-tuber who thinks his tastes in anime are S-tier dictate to you what's good or not
@@MHChang2014Thank you for saying that, I really like Angel next door spoils me rotten but when he said bad things about it, I was really sad because I haven't found anything problematic there except it doesn't happen in real life
i’m so scared of this getting demonetized lmao
Me too
"We have Malfoy at home" Absolutely sent me.
I can’t hear Ayakashi without thinking about Kekaishi. The one with the boxes that disintegrated stuff. Good show.
Great show, very underrated!
I wish it got either another season or a manga accurate remake
What a coincidence - I was watching the same part and thought, "Kekkaishi, but with ninjas" xD!
17:37 I just want to clarify that Mashle: Muscles and Magic absolutely slaps as a manga and totally deserves more attention.
I don't think so. The manga is boring and uses the same unfunny punchline over and over and over again. I'll admit i was interested enough to read the first 70 chapters, but they just kept escalating whenever a bad guy was defeated by saying "actually, he was only an underling of 6. now you have to defeat those AND their boss" and then when the boss is defeated they do it all over again. I just had to give up even if i had invested so much time into reading it.
@@neptunite5973 yeah I knew it was generic fantasy manga going in lol just reading it now for the art tbh
@@neptunite5973 I liked it when there was some character interaction but when they went into that battle thingy it just got really boring and became just a gag-fight manga with no plot it seems
10:21 I want to thank you for that reference. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't immediately forget about Phineas and Ferb's less popular little brother when it was canceled.
18:44-18:56 That's literally Yu Narukami and Ren Akiyama lol
Hell, Yu even had to cross-dress for a cross-dressing pageant at his school festival and awakening a persona in P5 causes the part of the face where the mask was to bleed after ripping it off.
I almost started a riot when I saw Onimai appear
Irregular at Glass Reflection High School got me. Appreciate that you always add some humour to the chapter titles.
There isn't any anime about being reincarnated as a toilet seat, but there is one about being reincarnated as a hot spring. I just felt like mentioning that.
Give it time.
Yeah, and I want it to get an anime adaptation. Preferably by a studio like Passione.
Vending machine is coming
I loo, forward to people reactions on that one
I love watching “uncensored version on patreon” for 25 minutes, this is just a full length ad for your patreon
Been waiting for this one to drop!
Re: Angel Next Door's "conflict-free warm-and-fuzzies", I'm slightly disappointed this season's Kubo-san Won't Let Me Be Invisible didn't get a namecheck. The manga is delightful, and so far the anime's been delivering the same sweet, low-stakes romance that I fell in love with on the page.
I believe it was already in the ones to watch
@@nathanaelwaters2509 It was, but another mention couldn't hurt.
@@demondownload it would! it's not trash, there's definitely more realism behind their encounters then just a young girl playing house for a guy who bought her hand cream.
@@demondownload why would you want that anime mentioned in the video about “trash anime”?!
Kubo is not trash, not great, just good. It won’t make any lists by being comfortably in the upper-middle.
I did not expect some studio to actually animate that manga but that magna existing at all should've proven my expectations wrong
Well the anime is toned down compared to the manga.
For a second, I thought "The World's Greatest Excorscist is Reincarnated in Another World and Reborn to Master the Blade: from Hero King to Extraordinary Squire" was the title of one show. (15:40)
YES, this is the real seasonal series I follow this channel for.
What happened to that anime where famous military leaders from Feudal Japan reincarnate into pets?
Are we ever getting a second season?
That house-pet reincarnation show was pretty great!
I… think… I remember that…
I want to watch that!
You mean Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga? Damn, that show was something else indeed lol
The Angel next door is reminding me strongly of the plot-free slice-of-life sections of Ah My Goddess
Im surprised that “chilling in my 30’s after getting fired from the demon kings army” wasn’t listed. It’s funny but also super fan service
Agreed this one is pretty bad.
Maybe bcs the MC is Sugita Tomokazu but lite
yeah it should be here, it's premium trash. it deserves some kind of award for the MC actually marrying the girl midway through the season, then there's a timeskip and they have a kid. any other generic garbage fantasy do that? I DON'T THINK SO. It's the 30-year old difference. Dude is too old to be noncommital when a girl is throwing herself at him (literally, back-breakingly) constantly. He locks it down. you have to respect that.
Eh, the fan service is super toned down and censored compared to the manga. Bilibili sucks.
@@dvillines26 Farming in another life also has the MC have babies with his main two wives pretty early on, (He gets more kids later), though the anime is pretty slow compared to the manga, so I have my doubts they reach that part. Also, the kids barely get enough screen time to the point.
You were so good at shilling for gfuel that the schlatt man himself bought you out from under them. Now that's impressive
the Regirock joke got me laughfing
did't expect that at all
Can you explain the joke to me? I didnt get it
Thank you for the Regirock around 10:40. I kept thinking about it every time the script used that bit and it paid off in spades.
22:15 Oh my god, she has two right feet !
Dropped doing my taxes for this one 💪🏾
not me just about to go watch my weekly dose of "angel"😭😭😭
I was quite surprised when the definitely not irregular at magic high had a protagonist worth noting as a character in and of himself
So glad Geoff talked about Tenshi-sama, I thought I was going crazy when seeing it as one of the highest rated on MAL when it is progressing soooo slowly that it's hampering the initial charm of the show
I silently screamed in joy when I opened up my sub box and saw this here! I always love these videos.
I think the inclusion Onimai in this video was a huge misstep. A letdown. The show obviously sexualizes a pre-pubescent child that will call the wrong audience to the channel - its genuinely disheartening to see a creator I like and respect wave away CP because it “may have merits”.
Watched/watching Onimai on your recommendation - I pretty much agree with your conclusions. Wonderful animation, great themes and questions, seemingly desperate to pretend it's utter garbage. Maybe there's some "what'll sell" from the execs at play...?
How good the character development is / whether or not it has anything to actually say seems hit or miss episode to episode, though. Maybe due to being split over two different writers?
Thanks for explaining my feelings about "The Angel Next Door" I'm only 2 or 3 episodes in and while I found it inoffensive and not bad enough for me to drop, I couldn't shake the feeling of "I know EXACTLY what kind of person this is appealing to and how this show is playing to their wants"
I don't know man I'm married and I love this show because it makes me feel like I can see their relationship growing the same way mine did years ago. It feels like a great natural relationship that has unrealistic aspects but overall is very nice and refreshing to watch. And honestly a good romance without forced ecchi feels very good after finishing more than a married couple but not quite lovers
Thank you for putting it into words
Wait- Onimai and Mushoku are done by the same studio?
*Raises an eyebrow*
Ain't it more than a little weird that its happened TWICE with the same studio?
I mean, there was that period when Doga Kobo did Wataten, Uzamaid and Senko-san all in the same year. Granted, in isolation Senko-san has some plausible deniability, but that's an *interesting* streak right there.
It is funny how this season have technically very great line up of anime that even the well-written ones are included to the list of trash shows. I'm actually surprised how well-written Onimai is. I can't say it is a favorite of mine this season, but something I could recommend despite the mentioned flaws (on weird fanservice). Angel Next Door anime might look like a wish fulfillment anime but honestly, it delivers a fine story, not best as what some of the fans pointed out, but not as worse as how Jeff tried to call it out. Even how much unrealistic the set up of the plot sounds, a story like this actually happened in real life (with my friend's experience, and I am just an eye witness, TOO BAD THEY STILL BREAK UP). Though a show doesn't need an overarching plot, overly dramatic story nor a high comedic charm to be a good anime. Some anime watchers enjoys an anime that can give them break from those highly complicated plots of highly recognized anime, and this so-called "trash fluff anime" delivers a very well diversion from those.
Ah, yes, the-guy-at-the-magic-school-who-isn't-really-good-at-magic-but-turns-out-he-secretly-has-the-best-magic-or-best-muscles-genre-you-might-not-even-know-it's-a-genre, I was talking about it with some friends yesterday
You're dead-on right about Onimai. It's presented in a way that's sure to make some folks uncomfortable, but the identity-exploring aspect is fantastic. It feels so genuine! ...I'm starting to think, the gratuitous nature of it actually enables it to tell its story in a way that's more sincere than other gender-identity-related series I've seen--so far almost all the questionable things it's shown have been true to my own big questions, thoughts, and feelings at that age, at least--and also allows it to be lighthearted instead of angsty and depressing, which are honestly aspects I've grown to revile about stories concerning gender identity and growing up. I've had enough of this "being trans needs to be traumatic" bullshit I see so often. Let us have fun, happy stories to relate to, damn it.
...It's wonderful to watch the main character grow and thrive, and most importantly, find joy in this new identity. It's so sweet. Making friends, finding self-expression, being empowered. Thought I'd probably hate this anime but I gave it a shot, and wow, I'm sure glad I did.
I mean, the Anime (And to a smaller degree the manga) could have achieved the same thing without any of the more questionable stuff...
The trans joy perspective and reliving of a childhood lost is wonderful though. The genuine and wholesome story underneath the anime bs and at times crude writing devices is truly refreshing and wonderful.
It actually adds to something I've been suspecting since I've started watching/reading more trans centered stories is that eastern rep is focused in "bad trans rep", like characters that are stereotypical, promiscuous and look like they were adapted from an 1980s cartoon about a transvestite but they are well handled enough to not be offensive (if you're willing to give them a chance) like Hana from Tokyo godfathers, a trans woman that used to work in an adult bar, punches people who misgender her, tries to date/flirt with most guys that she comes in contact with and literally stole a baby in order to fulfill her desire to be a mother and yet is one of the best trans character I've ever seen in film thanks to the thought put into making the audience understand and even relate to her experience which a breath of fresh air from the typical overly perfect and polished western trans character who's only flaw is that they aren't trans enough or that the world doesn't accept them(not saying that it's all bad but it's nice to have variety)
Honestly I could argue that Mahiro is already traumatized; it's rather telling that one of his first reactions to meeting Kaede was _sheer terror_ at the idea of her reaction if she should ever learn that he was at one point a boy. But one of the things that makes Onimai so beautiful is that Mahiro's new lifestyle is consistently treated as something that helps him _overcome_ the trauma he was already living with. At the start of the series, Mahiro had to be literally dragged kicking and screaming just to get out of the house for some light exercise, but over time he becomes able to leave the house to run errands (if begrudgingly, after losing a bet), then willingly leave the house for personal gain (to buy limited edition goods), and finally, willingly leave the house to fulfill a societal obligation (attending school). All of this was _only_ possible because his new identity let him develop the self-esteem and loving support network that he never had as a boy. Living as a girl comes with its own share of hardships and difficulties that he would have never encountered otherwise, but the overall effect on his psyche is _overwhelmingly_ positive.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real Haruhi's "dad" (not sure what the appropriate terminology is in this case) in Ouran High School Host Club of all things is another example. Queer person, almost certainly not cis, who fell madly in love with a straight(-passing) woman but wound up forsaking any attempt to present as masculine in society after she died. She's not an especially major character but she's handled really well and is genuinely interesting when you actually think about her character.
I was absolutely shocked how enjoyable Onimai's story was. And the buttery smooth animation is the cherry on top. Great show
I can’t believe “The Authorities Have Been Notified” has gotten another season!
The Authorities Have Been Notified will never *not* have a new season as long as the animation bubble lasts and AT-X is still on the air. :P
I knew you were gonna talk about the dog one lmao!
Iceblade is so earnest in its genericness I can't help but love it. Is it good? Probably not. But who cares about something being good? I like it and that's all that matters.
Meanwhile I have no idea why I'm still watching Inukai-san's Dog. I absolutely hate it but I can't look away. I will say that it's pretty cool that a series is animated almost entirely from a single character's point of view. I just wish that character was looking at...something else...
I watch Iceblade for chad moments (mostly from Ray). Also some great life lessons - "growing from acknowledging own's weakness" (to Alium). And somewhat exploring PTSD of a child soldier.
The Regirock bit with the spy anime was hilarious 😂
14:57 Now I can't unsee it.
Oni Mai having some egg moments is so heartwarming
@@loturzelrestaurant Amazing how you can make anything sound bad if you frame it badly enough.
Fan service with high schoolers is already bad, but with middle schoolers it’s even creepier
20:24 It's always nice to see a Steamed Hams meme in current year.
22:53 cmon man i enjoyed it 😭
Boy oh boy, I sure do love me some completely valueless trash like Onimai. Gotta love that one girl’s huge knockers swaying around.
(OMG that episode where Mahiro learns how to bake cookies and tries his hardest to make what he thinks is Mihari’s favorite, but feels too awkward to come out and say how he feels so he tries to play it off as some minor thing, but his sister knows darn well what it means and she’s tearing up as she bites into one and mentally says it’s just perfect. MY HEART!)