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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
- Comment on The true ending we’re all waiting for 4 months ago:
So that’s what made Emilia into the witch of envy!* Rem might as well not leave the coma now.
Congratulations Patrasche, Barusu!(*inb4 that’s fan speculation, not spoilers)
- Comment on 7 Forgotten 2000s Anime With Better Worldbuilding Than Most Isekai 4 months ago:
While Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles has its own rich lore, it is made even more enticing by its connection to the series xxxHOLiC. Both series were developed by Clamp and are set in the same multiverse. Characters are shared between the two series, and the interdimensional witch Yūko Ichihara plays an important role in both stories.
This. So much this.
You can enjoy them individually, but once you enjoy them together, both become far richer. It isn’t just about the TRC gang visiting the witch, everything is connected.
Two examples (heavy TRC+xxxHolic spoilers)
1. TRC’s main antagonist Fei Wang Reed was created by Clow Reed. Who apparently was a lover of Yuuko, the witch of xxxHolic; or at least really close to her. Fei Wang wants the feathers for the power to revive Yuuko, who’s not-quite-alive-or-dead, her time was frozen by Clow. 2. xxxHolic Watanuki is an alternate existence for the Syaoran who you see travelling in TRC. He had to go back in time to save the Sakura you also see travelling; but he needed to leave “someone” to take his place in the world, so Watanuki was born. In fact everything in xxxHolic boils down to giving that alternate existence of Syaoran some place in the world, so he doesn’t disappear and fuck with causality.
Mushishi and Hellsing also have great worldbuilding, but TRC/xxxHolic is more like a fractal of worlds tied together.
Can’t say about the other series, as I didn’t watch them.
With that out of the way, for people who want an isekai series with good worldbuilding, I’d recommend Log Horizon. AFAIK it was one of the first “trapped in a game” isekai series, and it goes great lengths to explore how game logic interacts with reality. Such as food only having a taste when made by people with a cooking skill, or where the money from loot comes from, or what it means to “die” in the world, etc.
And if you don’t want isekai, there’s The Ancient Magus’ Bride. Sure, younger than things mentioned in the list (the first season is from 2013), but worldbuilding is top notch.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 10 months ago:
Frefox? Freefox? Wait, that’s actually a good name (unlike, say… Clbri).
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 10 months ago:
Yeah, nah.
It’s already bad enough that they waste dev time with this shite instead of, you know… improving the browser for the users. Bloody slopbrowser, your only redeeming quality is to not be Chromium.
- Comment on "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon" Season 3 Announced with New Visual 1 year ago:
I’ll probably watch it but it lost the shine from s1.
- Comment on Chrono Cross, a bad sequel but good game 2 years ago:
Yup! Frankly it isn’t a really great visual novel, but the soundtrack is fire.
- Comment on Chrono Cross, a bad sequel but good game 2 years ago:
Every time that people talk about Chrono Cross’s soundtrack (it’s great by the way, I agree with you), this reminds me a little SNES game called Radical Dreamers. The soundtrack - largely shared with Chrono Cross - is perhaps its biggest selling point.