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From the show’s lore, beastmen are:

1. Effectively immortal, they stay young forever.
2. At least twice as strong and agile as normie humans on average.
3. Can have children with humans, children are always beastmen.
4. Have built-in poison resistance, since neither Yani Neko nor Aru Neko are dead yet from organ failure.
5. A whole lot of humans have beastmen kink.

And they are heavily discrimonated against, and are not allowed to work skilled jobs.

Someone has to out-adult Goku

Characters behaving like mature adults, without pointless drama.

In that sense, yes, Dragon Ball Z is a cozy anime.

It’s a deliberate cinematography technique - you make your characters dumber, so when they discover an obvious solution to the plot, it’s described like a genius move.

Amd yeah, I would expect the moment of flexing on the old Ruche’s party to produce some gmod-grade facial expressions, but eh, they were quite restrained.

I’m here just to watch silly 3D-stretched facial expressions.

I gotta say, this anime has better art quality than random TF2 GMod videos on Youtube, on the other hand TF2 videos have significantly higher concentration of plot per minute, and less filler.

youtube.com/watch?v=g3lb4JoThho

Magic circles are all started in 13th century with Kabbalah, and then every kind of text on demon summoning featured esoteric letters arranged into a circle. What’s interesting is that the historical alchemy did not use magic circles, but invented a crap-ton of new symbols, subsequentlly adopted in texts on demon summoning.

Surprisingly, DnD does not mention magic circles at all, and in the old fantasy literature (Tolkien, Zelazny, Le Guin etc) the magic is more like voice commands to your Google Assistant, or instinctive abilities like breathing fire - no circles are necessary.

And I guess anime draws magic circles because they look good on screen. Overlord even stacks several circles for an impactful magical sphere.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_of_Solomon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon

Jinshi has seen better days. Maomao bleached her hair, and Maomao the cat has turned into a goat.

It’s only like 50 years between Tanya’s Japan and magical not-Germany. She’s way more grounded in her knowledge, it’s all basically the end-of-WW2 military doctrine, and she cannot ‘invent’ better guns or tanks because there’s no technology to produce them yet, and much bigger challenge is not modernizing guns but producing enough shells for them.

That yodeling was a divine spell in a long forgotten but still widely used angelic language (Bavarian), according to the worldbuilding.

You know shit’s going down when angels singing divine hymns start yodeling.

This trope drives me insane in generic isekai.

There’s also a scurvy epidemic, which the healers can do nothing about but MC solves woth a proper diet. I’ve read at least three novels with this plot.