Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri (only season 1)
showed promise but didn't live up to it
GATE is a anime about a dimensional gate that connects the real world with a typical isekai world, and the isekai world decides to lead an invasion to the real world, which then fails and the humans send a counteroffensive
the 3 first episodes or so are actually quite good IMO, it's edited in a very frenetic way, the tone is serious, and it actually made me believe that they were actually going to touch some interesting subjects, for example, the civilians of the fantasy world were afraid that they were going to rape the women like it has happened in many real world wars before, the most relevant for this anime is the japanese invasion of korea, however, this didn't last, as it turned out they didn't just mention rape as an actual topic to handle, they did it out of fanservice
The protagonist is an otaku, which is fine, there are a lot of otaku in anime unsurprisingly, works as a bit of a comedic relief, thing is, that otaku element slowly takes main stage, the characters when joining the fantasy world goes like "woahhhhhh I for sure want to fuck so many fantasy species" and it turns out that a few chapters later he has formed a harem
The war that was initially pretty well written starts making less and less sense, like, why keep pushing with the counteroffensive having lots of lots of casulties when it's clear you have total and utter techonological superiority and by just placing a watchpost at the gate you could prevent any harm done to our world?, why do the fantasy civilians keep talking about magic when that isn't something that really shows up in the anime?
it just becomes a very bland, self-insert fantasy type of anime, which is sad because it started great.
Placed in D tier
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started guardian's crusade, so far, it plays better than I initially thought seeing the screenshots
next: Carandiru
showed promise but didn't live up to it
GATE is a anime about a dimensional gate that connects the real world with a typical isekai world, and the isekai world decides to lead an invasion to the real world, which then fails and the humans send a counteroffensive
the 3 first episodes or so are actually quite good IMO, it's edited in a very frenetic way, the tone is serious, and it actually made me believe that they were actually going to touch some interesting subjects, for example, the civilians of the fantasy world were afraid that they were going to rape the women like it has happened in many real world wars before, the most relevant for this anime is the japanese invasion of korea, however, this didn't last, as it turned out they didn't just mention rape as an actual topic to handle, they did it out of fanservice
The protagonist is an otaku, which is fine, there are a lot of otaku in anime unsurprisingly, works as a bit of a comedic relief, thing is, that otaku element slowly takes main stage, the characters when joining the fantasy world goes like "woahhhhhh I for sure want to fuck so many fantasy species" and it turns out that a few chapters later he has formed a harem
The war that was initially pretty well written starts making less and less sense, like, why keep pushing with the counteroffensive having lots of lots of casulties when it's clear you have total and utter techonological superiority and by just placing a watchpost at the gate you could prevent any harm done to our world?, why do the fantasy civilians keep talking about magic when that isn't something that really shows up in the anime?
it just becomes a very bland, self-insert fantasy type of anime, which is sad because it started great.
Placed in D tier
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started guardian's crusade, so far, it plays better than I initially thought seeing the screenshots
next: Carandiru