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  • @googlycoffeemea@beehaw.org
    6•1 year ago

    There are many but a few that come to mind that I’ve been browsing a lot recently are:

    • r/KumoDesu : The final volume (volume 16) is coming out on the 20th and I’ve started rereading the series. I actually finished reading the WN a couple of days ago (I love this series so much asdfaklmsv).
    • r/IsekaiOjisan : Just plain fun
    • r/Mashle : Not small but still one of my favourites. I don’t watch shonen a lot but this is a great manga.

    I’ve considered hosting a couple of fediverse (and nextcloud) servers before but servers are expensive 😞
    I mainly want an exact alternative to r/Anime and r/Manga for the episode discussions and I also want r/WritingPrompts and r/Animemes because those are my gotos to kill time.

    • Lvxferre
      4•1 year ago

      I follow the first two, too. Kumo is one of the few isekai series that “gets” a few things right, such as the grind to the top. (I fucking love the fight against Araba, it’s on DanMachi Bell vs. Minotaur’s levels of awesome.)

      I feel glad to find other isekai watchers/readers here because I’m considering to create an alternative to r/isekai, mostly to discuss less popular manga series (lv2 kara cheat, slow pig, The One Within the Villainess, stuff like this - people talk a lot about MT and Re: Zero and those kind of fall on the background). Sadly hosting is not viable in my situation either.

    • @rothaine@beehaw.org
      3•1 year ago

      I’ve been meaning to check out Kumo for a while. I’m a big fan of Honzuki no Gekokujou and apparently there’s a lot of overlap in the fan base.

      • @googlycoffeemea@beehaw.org
        3•1 year ago

        I watched a little over one season of Honzuki no Gekokujou and I didn’t find too interesting tbh (I only watched that many episodes because I was really bored at the time). It just felt like a “base building game” (I can’t think of any other analogy for some reason). Is there something I’m missing, like the anime not adapting the source material well? Because I see a lot of people who like but I can’t seem to understand why. To be clear, I don’t think it’s that bad but it seems more popular than it should be.

        • @rothaine@beehaw.org
          3•1 year ago

          The beginning is a bit slow, I will admit, but the first season is a very good adaptation overall (later seasons skip a lot). So maybe it’s just not your cup of tea. I don’t think I follow the base-building analogy 🤔

          As for its popularity, I think it does a lot of things really well, better than most other series, and the sum of it is superb.

          • Characterization: there are almost no 1-dimensional characters. Even random side characters, or seemingly comic relief characters, have their own motivations and goings-on outside of what Myne (the unreliable narrator) sees. These are often revealed to the reader in side stories, and can recontextualize a lot of what’s happening.
          • World building: we start with a straightforward medieval city. Then a small bit of magic is introduced. Then we find out about a bit how the country is governed, then more about how magic works, histories, politics…all in a satisfying way, because Kazuki-sensei planned the whole story from the beginning. Which brings me to:
          • Foreshadowing: EVERYTHING is a Chekov’s gun. There’s a lot of stuff to find on a re-read, and the theorycrafting people come up with in the weekly chapter releases is a lot of fun too.
          • Themes: this series does not shy away from serious themes. Poverty, children starving, sexual assault, the ramifications of a strict caste system, slavery…There’s a lot that sucked about medieval times. But also:
          • Humor: absolutely great comedic moments. It’s rare for a book to make me laugh out loud. For example, there’s a scene where Myne hosts what is essentially a J-Pop concert and it’s just nuts.

          I could go on…tl;dr it’s a great series!

          • @googlycoffeemea@beehaw.org
            3•1 year ago

            Looking back I’m not sure what I meant by base building game here. I usually use that to describe Tensura (I don’t like it personally. I dropped it after 1 season. It felt like there wasn’t any threat or anything interesting to work towards in the plot).

            In the case of Honzuki I think the reason I felt bored was because the goal of the plot felt too vague. But maybe I’ll give it another try because apart from that, I 100% agree with all your points.