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“isekai” is “another world”.

The protagonist ends up leaving our world and is transported/reincarnated in another – usually JRPG-like medieval fantasy themed – early in the show. The stereotypical mechanism is that the protagonist gets run over by a truck… Usually they end up in some sort of power fantasy story taking advantage of either their knowledge/technology from our world or special skills they got via the reincarnation or whatever.

There’s, uh, a lot of them… of varying quality.

Some popular examples are Konosuba, Re-Zero, and Mushoku Tensei. Which shows qualify as trash is, of course, a matter of taste. 🙃️

I recently finished rewatching Frieren S1 in preparation for (finally) watching S2.

…I started that rewatch back in January. Such is my life lately. 🤷️

“Dry humor” maybe, for the style?

Did some searching and one term that came up was the German word “Schmunzeln” which I hadn’t heard of before.

wiktionary describes it as:

to smile slightly, smirk (not smugly, but in an amused or contented way; e.g. when witnessing an amusing scene or conversation)

Not sure if that’s quite right or not, but might be what you’re looking for if you want a word to describe the reaction? (Maybe someone who actually speaks German can confirm…)

819MB currently, if anyone is curious.

I’ll watch Mushoku Tensei S3 most likely (not sure if I’ll follow as it airs or wait and just binge at the end; I usually prefer the later). Would like to try the new GITS but I have no enthusiasm for dealing with Amazon’s streaming.

OMG, how did you get a picture of me from 2008! 🙃️

non-action battle-shounen

The first thing that comes to mind when you say that is Yakitate Japan. Shokugeki comes to mind next as a newer take on the idea of cooking competitions. Let me know if I’m misunderstanding the wording though.

I usually prefer subs for serious works and dubs for comedy – assuming the dub doesn’t completely suck.

I know a graphics designer personally (from work) who used an AI generated video clip as part of a proposed background video for the landing page of a marketing-style website that was getting a refresh on one of our projects. That one ultimately didn’t end up getting used – not because it looked bad, but because of other branding considerations. Frankly, I’m glad that he didn’t have to put much effort into making something that ended up getting canned.

There’s a LOT of art out there that’s functional. Few people stop and pay attention to it as art in itself – and it rarely lasts more than a few years before getting swapped out for something else in rebranding – but someone with design sense still needs to make it or a product will be less appealing.

I’ve seen most of the older shows from the Studio Deen stuff up through the 13 episode Rail Zeppelin spin-off or thereabouts. Never got to most of the movies other than the old UBW adaptation. I’m aware of FGO, but my opinion of gacha can be summarized as “fuck that” so I’ve ignored it beyond what’s occasionally popped up via fan art posts.

If there’s something about the shows you want to talk about, I’d rather you just post threads here than start a new community.